Recommended Reading List for Leaders:

Leadership

  • The Leadership Challenge (Kouzes & Posner)

  • The 9 Types of Leadership (Chestnut)

  • It’s Your Ship (Abrashoff)

  • Good to Great (Collins)

  • Lincoln on Leadership (Phillips)

  • Theory R Management (Alderson)

  • The Way of the Shepherd (Leman & Pentak)

  • The Servant as Leader (Greenleaf)

  • Dare to Lead (Brown)

  • Crucial Accountability (Patterson et al.)

  • Influencer: The New Science Behind Leading Change (Patterson et al.)

  • Principle Centered Leadership (Covey)

  • Speed of Trust (Covey)

  • Extreme Ownership (Willink)

  • Leading Change (Kotter)

  • Good Leaders Ask Great Questions (Maxwell)

  • Primal Leadership (Goleman)

  • The Door Holder (Gee)

Communication

  • Walking Through Anger (Conte)

  • Never Split the Difference (Voss)

  • De-escalate (Noll)

  • Crucial Conversations (Patterson et al.)

  • What Every Body is Saying (Navarro)

Emotional intelligence

  • Emotional Intelligence (Goleman)

  • Working with Emotional Intelligence (Goleman)

  • Emotions Revealed (Eckman)

  • Descartes’ Error (Damasio)

Personal Development

  • Atomic Habits (Clear)

  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Covey)

  • Man’s Search for Meaning (Frankl)

  • Who Moved my Cheese? (Johnson)

  • The Art of Possibility (Zander)

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie)

  • How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Carnegie)