A List of Good Books To Read For Leaders
Reading has helped me be who I am today.
This is a list of some of the books that have inspired me and helped me grow as a person.
Self-Development and Understanding
The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
Development of others
The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company
The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age
Healthy Teams and Organisations
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Scale, Growth, Culture
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth
Facilitation
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rule-breakers, and Changemakers
Training from the Back of the Room!: 65 Ways to Step Aside and Let Them Learn
Transformation and Change
Execution in Organisations
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results
Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success
Lean and Agile
The Goal A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
Making Work Visible : Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow
Strategy
Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Smart Business: What Alibaba's Success Reveals about the Future of Strategy