Leadership
Great leaders shape the world from bustling boardrooms to quiet moments of personal reflection, and these books capture their hard-won wisdom and transformative approaches. Whether you're seeking time-tested principles of influence, innovative management strategies, or inspiring stories of organizational transformation, you'll find guidance for your own leadership journey.
Leadership Book Summaries
Dale Carnegie's Lifetime Plan for Success
How to Win Friends and Influence People & How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Self Help
Business
Psychology
The Power of Positive Leadership
How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the World
Leadership
Business
Self Help
Get A Grip
An Entrepreneurial Fable . . . Your Journey to Get Real, Get Simple, and Get Results
Business
Leadership
Entrepreneurship
School Culture Rewired
How to Define Assess and Transform It
Education
Leadership
Teaching
3-D Negotiation
Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals
Business
Psychology
Communication
The Grid
Business
Self Help
Management
Project to Product
How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework
Business
Management
Technology
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People
Business
Leadership
Management
The 3rd Alternative
Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems
Self Help
Business
Leadership
Family Wisdom from the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Self Help
Family
Parenting
Humble Inquiry
The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
Business
Leadership
Communication
Outcomes Over Output
Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success
Business
Design
Management
Move Fast and Fix Things
The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems
Business
Leadership
Management
The Mediation Process
Practical Strategies for Resolving Conflict
School
Leadership
Business
Presentation Zen
Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery
Business
Design
Communication
Net Positive
How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
Business
Sustainability
Environment
HBR At 100
The Most Influential and Innovative Articles from Harvard Business Review's First Century
Business
Leadership
Management
Leadership Strategy and Tactics
Field Manual
Leadership
Business
Self Help
Straight-Line Leadership
Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times
Business
Leadership
Productivity
QBQ! The Question Behind the Question
Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life
Business
Leadership
Self Help
Infectious Generosity
The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
Self Help
Philosophy
Psychology
Your First 100 Million
Business
Leadership
Finance
Silos, Politics and Turf Wars
A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors
Business
Leadership
Management
Leadership on the Line
Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading
Leadership
Business
Management
The Seven Levels of Communication
Go from Relationships to Referrals
Business
Communication
Self Help
The Path of Least Resistance for Managers
Designing Organizations to Succeed
Business
Management
Leadership
Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success
Building Blocks for a Better Life
Leadership
Sports
Self Help
The Nordstrom Way
The Inside Story of America's #1 Customer Service Company
Business
Management
Leadership
Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln
21 Powerful Secrets of History's Greatest Speakers
Business
Self Help
Leadership
The Employee Experience Advantage
How to Win the War for Talent by Giving Employees the Workspaces they Want, the Tools they Need, and a Culture They Can Celebrate
Business
Historical Romance
Leadership
The Ten Faces of Innovation
IDEO's Strategies for Beating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
Business
Design
Leadership
Humor, Seriously
Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life
Business
Humor
Self Help
Boundaries for Leaders
Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge
Leadership
Business
Self Help
A Whack on the Side of the Head
How You Can Be More Creative
Self Help
Psychology
Writing
Master of Change
How to Excel When Everything Is Changing, Including You; Embracing Life’s Instability with Rugged Flexibility―a Practical Model for Resilience
Self Help
Psychology
Personal Development
The Dichotomy of Leadership
Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
Leadership
Business
Self Help
Big Potential
How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being
Self Help
Business
Leadership
The Invincible Company
How to Constantly Reinvent Your Organization with Inspiration From the World's Best Business Models
Business
Entrepreneurship
Management
The Anxious Achiever
Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower
Self Help
Leadership
Business
The Software Engineer's Guidebook
Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups
Technology
Programming
Software
The 80/20 CEO
Take Command of Your Business in 100 Days
Leadership
Business
Management
Trust Matters
Leadership for Successful Schools
Education
Leadership
The Heart of Business
Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism
Business
Leadership
Management
Understanding The Purpose And Power Of Men
Christian
Spirituality
Self Help
Balanced Scorecard
Business
Management
Leadership
The Influential Mind
What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
Psychology
Self Help
Science
The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women
Self Help
Business
Feminism
Change
How to Make Big Things Happen
Psychology
Business
Sociology
Fighting Shadows
Overcoming 7 Lies That Keep Men From Becoming Fully Alive
Christian
Faith
Christian Living
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Collaboration
Business
Leadership
Management
