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
Own the Room
Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence
Business
Leadership
Management
Conversational Intelligence
How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results
Leadership
Business
Communication
Positive Intelligence
Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and How You Can Achieve Yours
Business
Self Help
Psychology
How Successful People Think
Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Business
Self Help
Leadership
Mandela's Way
Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage
Biography
History
Self Help
Presentations in Action
80 Memorable Presentation Lessons from the Masters
Business
Reference
Self Help
Gemba Kaizen
A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management
Business
Management
Leadership
Leadership and Self-Deception
Getting Out of the Box
Leadership
Business
Self Help
Positivity
Groundbreaking Research Reveals How to Embrace the Hidden Strength of Positive Emotions, Overcome Negativity, and Thrive
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
Managing the Millennials
Discover the Core Competencies for Managing Today's Workforce
Business
Leadership
Management
The Founder's Dilemmas
Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
The Startup Playbook
Secrets of the Fastest-Growing Startups from Their Founding Entrepreneurs
Business
Entrepreneurship
Buisness
Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers
The People Skills You Need to Achieve Outstanding Results
Management
Psychology
Business
Eleven Rings
The Soul of Success
Sports
Biography
Leadership
Compelling People
The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential
Psychology
Business
Self Help
Like a Virgin
Secrets They Won't Teach You at Business School
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
The Art of Speeches and Presentations
The Secrets of Making People Remember What You Say
Self Help
Business
Leadership
Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business
How to Launch and Grow a Business from Concept to Cash
Business
Entrepreneurship
Economics
Leading the Starbucks Way
5 Principles for Connecting with Your Customers, Your Products and Your People
Business
Leadership
Better Than Good
Creating a Life You Can't Wait to Live
Self Help
Business
Personal Development
The Ten Faces of Innovation
IDEO's Strategies for Beating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
Business
Design
Leadership
Youtility
Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype
Business
Social Media
Leadership
Pour Your Heart Into It
How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
Business
Biography
Leadership
Platform
Get Noticed in a Noisy World
Business
Writing
Leadership
Yes!
50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
Psychology
Business
Self Help
Flat Army
Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization
Business
Leadership
Management
The Goal
A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Business
Management
Leadership
Paid to Think
A Leader's Toolkit for Redefining Your Future
Business
Leadership
Management
People Follow You
The Real Secret to What Matters Most in Leadership
Business
Self Help
Leadership
The Art of Manliness
Manvotionals
Self Help
Philosophy
Personal Development
Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions
A Tactical Playbook for Managers and Executives
Business
Management
Leadership
The Heart and the Fist
The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
Military Fiction
Biography
Memoir
The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs
Business
Biography
Management
The Way of the Champion
Lessons from Sun Tzu's the Art of War and Other Tao Wisdom for Sports & Life
Self Help
Sports
Personal Development
How to Influence People
Make a Difference in Your World
Leadership
Self Help
Business
Built to Last
Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Business
Leadership
Management
Managing the Unexpected
Resilient Performance in an Age of Uncertainty
Business
Leadership
Management
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Creating Innovators
The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
Education
Parenting
Teaching
A Practical Guide to Emotional Intelligence
Get Smart about Emotion
Psychology
Self Help
Business
Small Move, Big Change
Using Microresolutions to Transform Your Life Permanently
Self Help
Psychology
Personal Development
The Next America
Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
Politics
Sociology
Economics
The Peter Principle
Business
Psychology
Management
Pitch Perfect
How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time
Business
Communication
Self Help
The Outsiders
Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
Business
Finance
Leadership
A More Beautiful Question
The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
Business
Leadership
Psychology
100 Ways To Motivate Others
How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy
Leadership
Business
Self Help
Practical Wisdom
The Right Way To Do the Right Thing
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Take the Stairs
7 Steps to Achieving True Success
Business
Self Help
Personal Development
Daring Greatly
How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Self Help
Psychology
Personal Development