A Guide to Great Leadership Books

If you’re anything like me, you love learning through reading but are slightly overwhelmed by choice of brilliant books out there.

Life is short and there are too many books to read. How can you know that your precious time will be rewarded with something that will truly add value and make a difference to your life and leadership?

Perhaps I can help by making things a little simpler? Let me suggest books to address specific needs. If you’d like to know more about any of them, just search for the review on my website.

Enjoy!!

Books about being better at giving feedback
📕 The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard
📗 Radical Candor by Kim Scott
📘 Listen by Kathryn Mannix

Books about leading with values
📕 Anchored, Aligned, Accountable by Aiko Bethea
📗 Strong Ground by Brené Brown
📘 The Score That Matters by Ryan Hawk

Books about shifting perspective
📕 Where The Light Gets In by Ben Crowe
📗 Wild Courage by Jenny Wood
📘 Chop Wood, Carry Water by Joshua Medcalf

Books about creating belonging
📕 Mattering by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
📗 Legacy by James Kerr
📘 Belonging by Owen Eastwood

Books about how to lead creatively
📕 Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara
📗 The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
📘 Work Like A Woman by Mary Portas

Books about being the best leader
📕 The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
📗 Leader as Healer by Nicholas Janni
📘 The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer

Books about managing your time
📕 Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
📗 Atomic Habits by James Clear
📘 The One Thing by Gary Keller

Books about coach-like leadership
📕 Principled by Gill Kelly and Matt Hall
📗 Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
📘 How to Know a Person by David Brooks

Books about getting the balance right
📕 Time to Think by Nancy Kline
📗 Play by Stuart Brown
📘 The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware

Books about thinking differently
📕 Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed
📗 Multipliers by Liz Wiseman
📘 Think Again by Adam Grant