Until you’ve consumed all of the best Leadership books, can you even claim to be a true fan?
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t (2017)
- Leadership: In Turbulent Times (2019)
- Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box (2018)
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Follow Them and People Will Follow You (2007)
- The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential (2013)
- Leadership: Theory and Practice (2018)
- H3 Leadership: Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle. (2016)
- The Future of Leadership: Elevate your influence. Navigate disruption. Bring out their best. (2019)
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (2011)
- Leadership: Theory and Practice, 7th Edition (2015)
- Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer (Sanders Spiritual Growth Series) (2017)
- Rare Leadership: 4 Uncommon Habits For Increasing Trust, Joy, and Engagement in the People You Lead (2016)
- Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times (1993)
- The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success (2015)
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t (2017)
Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work, feels trusted and valued during the day, then returns home feeling fulfilled. This is not a crazy, idealized notion. Today, in many successful organizations, great leaders create environments in which people naturally work together to do remarkable things.
Leadership: In Turbulent Times (2019)
“After five decades of magisterial output, Doris Kearns Goodwin leads the league of presidential historians” (USA TODAY). In her “inspiring” (The Christian Science Monitor) Leadership, Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B.
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box (2018)
Since its original publication in 2000, Leadership and Self-Deception has become an international word-of-mouth phenomenon. Rather than tapering off, it sells more copies every year.
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Follow Them and People Will Follow You (2007)
What would happen if a top expert with more than 40 years of leadership experience were willing to distill everything he had learned about leadership into a handful of life-changing principles just for you? It would change your life.John C. Maxwell has done exactly that in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.
The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential (2013)
#1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell explains how true leadership works and makes it accessible to everyone. Leadership does not come from your title. In fact, being named to a position is only the first and lowest of the five levels every effective leader achieves.
Leadership: Theory and Practice (2018)
In this fully updated Eight Edition of Leadership: Theory and Practice, a new chapter on Followership examines the central role followers play in the leadership process and unpacks the characteristics of both effective and ineffective followers.
H3 Leadership: Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle. (2016)
From spending more than two decades alongside thought leaders such as Jim Collins and Malcolm Gladwell, as well as countless Fortune 500 CEOs and start-up entrepreneurs, leadership consultant Brad Lomenick has created a practical road map for helping anyone implement and live out the twenty transformational habits that he discovered to be common among the world’s most innovative leaders.
The Future of Leadership: Elevate your influence. Navigate disruption. Bring out their best. (2019)
The world is changing faster and faster because of the internet and technology. The rigid models of leadership and long-standing rules of engagement and power we’ve come to count upon for generations are no longer reliable in this new hyper-connected and digitally-charged world we find ourselves in. This world is being fueled by openness, connection, transparency and shared power.
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (2011)
In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, including more than 28 million who’ve watched his TED Talk based on START WITH WHY — the third most popular TED video of all time.
Leadership: Theory and Practice, 7th Edition (2015)
2016 Recipient of the McGuffey Longevity Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA) Translated into 12 different languages and used in 89 countries, this market leading text successfully combines an academically robust account of the major theories and models of leadership with an accessible style and practical examples that help students apply what they learn. Peter G.
Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer (Sanders Spiritual Growth Series) (2017)
The need for talented, vigorous leaders in the church cannot be overemphasized. Such times demand active service of men and women who are guided by and devoted to Jesus Christ.With more than 1 million copies sold, Spiritual Leadership stands as a proven classic for developing such leadership. J.
Rare Leadership: 4 Uncommon Habits For Increasing Trust, Joy, and Engagement in the People You Lead (2016)
Healthy teams begin with healthy leaders, and at the heart of this dynamic is emotional maturity—the quality the greatest leaders possess. Combining solid theology, cutting-edge brain science, and decades of counseling and consulting experience, Rare Leadership shows you how to take your leadership and team to the next level.
Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times (1993)
You think you have it rough?Only ten days before Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office in 1861, the Confederate States of America seceded from the Union, taking all Federal agencies, forts, and arenas within their territory.
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success (2015)
You’ll never see leadership the same way again after reading this book.These fifteen commitments are a distillation of decades of work with CEOs and other leaders. They are radical or provocative for many. They have been game changers for us and for our clients.
Best Leadership Books that Should be on Your Bookshelf
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some leadership books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform Canada - Maintaining Leadership Through Innovation.
Author(s): OECD
ID: 2147450, Publisher: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, Year: Set. 2002, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
Changing fortunes: the world's money and the threat to American leadership /
Author(s): Paul A. Volcker, Toyoo Gyohten.
ID: 2983660, Publisher: Times Books,, Year: c1992., Size: 905 Kb, Format: epub
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable
Author(s): Patrick M. Lencioni
ID: 2391940, Publisher: Jossey-Bass, Year: 7 Feb 2008, Size: 1 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are really hot items according to The New York Times, others are composed by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.