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
Setting the Table
The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
Food
Leadership
Biography
The 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back
Overcoming the Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead
Self Help
Business
Personal Development
The First 90 Days
Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Business
Leadership
Management
Well-Designed
How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love
Design
Business
Leadership
Who Owns the Ice House?
Eight Life Lessons from an Unlikely Entrepreneur
Business
Entrepreneurship
Biography
Personal Development for Smart People
The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
Personal Development
Self Help
Business
Go Pro - 7 Steps to Becoming a Network Marketing Professional
Business
Personal Development
Self Help
How to Develop Your Personal Mission Statement
Self Help
Personal Development
Leadership
The Art of Client Service
58 Things Every Advertising & Marketing Professional Should Know
Business
Design
Entrepreneurship
How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job
Self Help
Personal Development
Business
Mental Models
30 Thinking Tools that Separate the Average From the Exceptional. Improved Decision-Making, Logical Analysis, and Problem-Solving.
Psychology
Business
Self Help
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
A Leadership Fable
Business
Leadership
Management
The Three Signs of a Miserable Job
A Fable For Managers
Business
Leadership
Management
The Five Temptations of a CEO
A Leadership Fable
Business
Leadership
Management
Ego vs. EQ
Leadership
Business
Personal Development
Team Topologies
Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
Business
Management
Leadership
The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning
Reconceiving Roles for Planning, Plans and Planners
Business
Management
Leadership
Designed for Digital
How to Architect Your Business for Sustained Success
Business
Technology
Management
What You Do Is Who You Are
How to Create Your Business Culture
Business
Leadership
Management
War and Peace and IT
Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age
Business
Leadership
Technology
The Likeability Trap
How to Break Free and Succeed As You Are
Self Help
Business
Leadership
The Unicorn Project
Business
Technology
Management
The Real-Life MBA
Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career
Business
Leadership
Management
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Leadership
Business
Management
HBR Emotional Intelligence Ultimate Boxed Set (14 Books)
Management
Psychology
Leadership
Sense and Respond
How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously
Business
Design
Management
Outcomes Over Output
Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success
Business
Design
Management
Leadership Strategy and Tactics
Field Manual
Leadership
Business
Self Help
Leadership is Language
The Hidden Power of What You Say — and What You Don't
Leadership
Business
Communication
The Ones We've Been Waiting for
How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
Politics
History
Leadership
The Algorithmic Leader
How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You
Business
Leadership
Artificial Intelligence
Superconnector
Stop Networking and Start Building Business Relationships that Matter
Business
Communication
Leadership
The 10X Rule
The Only Difference Between Success and Failure
Business
Self Help
Personal Development
Influence
The Psychology of Persuasion
Psychology
Business
Self Help
Cascades
How to Create a Movement that Drives Transformational Change
Leadership
Business
Activism
Welcome to Management
How to Grow from Top Performer to Excellent Leader
Leadership
Management
Business
Clearer, Closer, Better
How Successful People See the World
Psychology
Self Help
Leadership
Designing Experiences
Business
Design
Psychology
Ego Free Leadership
Ending the Unconscious Habits that Hijack Your Business
Business
Leadership
Psychology
Divine Direction
7 Decisions That Will Change Your Life
Christian
Leadership
Self Help
The Starfish and the Spider
The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
Business
Leadership
Management
Developing the Leader Within You
Leadership
Business
Self Help
The Way We're Working Isn't Working
The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance
Business
Productivity
Leadership
The Signals Are Talking
Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream
Business
Technology
Cultural
Competing in the Age of AI
Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World
Business
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
How Do You Kill 11 Million People? Why The Truth Matters More Than You Think
History
Politics
Philosophy
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership
Leadership
Business
Management
Never Go Back
Self Help
Christian
Psychology
The Innovation Stack
Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Becoming Bulletproof
Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly
Self Help
Psychology
Personal Development