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
Split the Pie
A Radical New Way to Negotiate
Business
Psychology
Self Help
Glue
How Project Leaders Create Cohesive, Engaged, High-Performing Teams
Leadership
Business
Winning Through Intimidation
Business
Psychology
Self Help
Cracking the Sales Management Code
The Secrets to Measuring and Managing Sales Performance
Business
Management
Leadership
CEO Excellence
The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest
Business
Leadership
Management
Free Time
Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business
Business
Self Help
Leadership
HBR At 100
The Most Influential and Innovative Articles from Harvard Business Review's First Century
Business
Leadership
Management
Zero to IPO
Over $1 Trillion Worth of Advice from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs
Business
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Love + Work
How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life
Business
Self Help
Leadership
A New Way To Think
Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness
Business
Leadership
Management
Build
An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
How to F*ck Up Your Startup
The Science Behind Why 90% of Companies Fail — and How You Can Avoid It
Business
Entrepreneurship
Management
Creating Magic
Business
Leadership
Self Help
Value Stream Mapping
How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
Business
Management
Leadership
Do Hard Things
Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
Self Help
Psychology
Personal Development
Think Simple
How Smart Leaders Defeat Complexity
Business
Leadership
Self Help
The Purpose Driven Church
Every Church Is Big in God's Eyes
Christian
Church
Leadership
If Disney Ran Your Hospital
9 1/2 Things You Would Do Differently
Business
Health Care
Leadership
25 Hours a Day
Going One More to Get What You Want
Self Help
Personal Development
Biography
Teaching to Change Lives
Seven Proven Ways to Make Your Teaching Come Alive
Teaching
Education
Leadership
The Peacemaker
A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict
Christian
Counselling
Christian Living
Deep and Wide
Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend
Leadership
Church
Christian
EQ Applied
The Real-World Guide to Emotional Intelligence
Psychology
Business
Self Help
The 12 Week Year Field Guide
Get More Done In 12 Weeks Than Others Do In 12 Months
Self Help
Productivity
Business
Good Arguments
How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard
Psychology
Communication
Self Help
Burn Your Goals
The Counter Cultural Approach to Achieving your Greatest Potential
Personal Development
Self Help
Productivity
HBR Guide to Project Management
Business
Management
Leadership
The Lightmaker's Manifesto
How to Work for Change without Losing Your Joy
Self Help
Social Justice
Activism
The Pursuit of Excellence
The Uncommon Behaviors of the World's Most Productive Achievers
Personal Development
Leadership
Business
Surrounded by Setbacks
Turning Obstacles into Success
Self Help
Psychology
Business
High Performance
Lessons from the Best on Becoming Your Best
Self Help
Business
Personal Development
The Dance of Change
The challenges to sustaining momentum in a learning organization
Business
Management
Leadership
Lead Like It Matters
7 Leadership Principles for a Church That Lasts
Leadership
Christian
Church
Talent
How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
Business
Psychology
Management
Great CEOs Are Lazy
Business
Self Help
Leadership
The Staff Engineer's Path
A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
Technology
Leadership
Software
Good Authority
How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For
Leadership
Business
Management
Street Data
A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation
Education
Teaching
Leadership
Amplify Your Influence
Transform How You Communicate and Lead
Leadership
Self Help
Business
7 Rules of Power
Surprising — but True--Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career
Business
Leadership
Management
Never Enough
A Navy SEAL Commander on Living a Life of Excellence, Agility, and Meaning
Business
Leadership
Military Fiction
The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias
How To Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams
Leadership
Business
Psychology
Your Students, My Students, Our Students
Rethinking Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms
Education
Teaching
Leadership
People Strategy
How to Invest in People and Make Culture Your Competitive Advantage
Business
Leadership
Historical Romance
Negotiating the Impossible
How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts
Business
Psychology
Communication
Great Leaders Grow
Becoming a Leader for Life
Leadership
Business
Self Help
The Power of Vulnerability
How to Create a Team of Leaders by Shifting INward
Business
Self Help
Leadership
Nuance
Why Some Leaders Succeed and Others Fail
Education
Leadership
The Remix
How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace
Leadership
Business
Self Help
212 the Extra Degree
How to Achieve Results Beyond Your Wildest Expectations
Business
Self Help
Leadership