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The best leaders are avid and life-long learners. We hope you enjoy this list of books. Fortunately, there is no shortage of good authors to learn from. We also provided reading excerpts for some of our favorites. Happy reading!

Currently Reading…

Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger

Loren B. Belker, Jim McCormick & Gary S. Topchik – The First-Time Manager – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
Warren Bennis – On Becoming A Leader – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Warren Bennis & Joan Goldsmith – Learning To Lead: A Workbook on Becoming A Leader
Jonah Berger – Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Warren Berger – A More Beautiful Question – The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough ideas
Peter Bevelin – Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
Keki Bhote – Beyond Customer Satisfaction to Customer Loyalty – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
Leo Bottary & Leon Shapiro – The Power of Peers
F. Leigh Branham – Keeping The People Who Keep You In Business – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
W. Steven Brown – The 13 Fatal Errors That Manager’s Make and How You Can Avoid Them
Marcus Buckingham – First, Break All The Rules
Marcus Buckingham – Now, Discover Your Strengths
Bo Burlingham – Small Giants – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Jim Canfield and Kraig Kramers – CEO Tools 2.0
Ole Carlson – Beneath the Armor – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Rick Carson – Taming Your Gremlins
Lorna Catford and Michael Ray – The Path of the Everyday Hero
Shirzad Chamine – Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential – Read Ed’s Excerpts
James Champy & Nitin Nohria – The Arc of Ambition: Defining The Leadership Journey
Robert Cialdini – Influence – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Donald O. Clifton – Soar With Your Strengths
Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho –Life: Selected Quotations
Paulo Coelho –Manuscript Found in Accra – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Allan R. Cohen and David L. Bradford – Influence Without Authority
Jim Collins – Built To Last – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
Jim Collins – Good To Great – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
Jim Collins – How The Mighty Fall – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Mickey Connelly – Communication Catalyst
Daniel Coyle – The Culture Code – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and The Making of Meaning
Ray Dalio –Principles: Life and Work
Mihir A. Desai – How Finance Works
Richard Dowis – The Lost Art of Great Speech
Peter Drucker –The Essential Drucker
Peter Drucker – The New Realities
Angela Duckworth – Grit
Charles Duhigg – The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg – Smarter Faster Better – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Will and Ariel Durant – The Lessons of History
T. Harv Ecker – Secrets of The Millionaire Mind
Tim Ferriss – Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss – Tribe of Mentors
P.M. Forni – The Thinking Life – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Viktor E. Frankl – Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl – Yes To Life: In Spite of Everything – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Mo Gawdat – Solve For Happy – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Robert G. Gift & Catherine F. Kinney – Today’s Management Methods
Malcolm Gladwell – Blink
Malcolm Gladwell – David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfit, and the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell – Talking To Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell – The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell – What The Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Judith Glaser – Creating We
Daniel Goleman – Emotional Intelligence
J. Barry Griswell & Bob Jennings – The Adversity Paradox
Stephen Grosz – The Examined Life
Peter Guzzardi – Emeralds Of Oz – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Gary Hamel – Leading The Revolution: How To Thrive In Turbulent Times By Making Innovation A Way Of Life – Review Ed’s PowerPoint
Charles Handy – Beyond Certainty: The Changing Worlds of Organizations
Charles Handy – The Elephant and The Flea – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Charles Handy – Gods of Management
Daniel Harkavy – Becoming A Coaching Leader
Jim Harris – Getting Employees To Fall In Love With Your Company – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
Arnoldo C. Hax and Nicolas S. Majluf – The Strategy Concept & Process
Robert Heller – Business Masterminds: Peter Drucker – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
Bryce G. Hoffman – American Icon: Alan Mulally and The Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
Robert Iger – The Ride of A Lifetime
Susan Jeffers – Feel The Fear…And Do It Anyway – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Brian Johnson – A Philosopher’s Notes
William Joyce, Nitin Nohira, and Bruce Roberson – What Really Works
Gary Keller – The One Thing – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Daniel Kahneman – Thinking, Fast and Slow
Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton – The Strategy Focused Organization
Jon R. Katzenbach – Peak Performance: Aligning The Hearts and Minds Of Your Employees – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
Daniel Klein – Every Time I Find The Meaning of Life, They Change It – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Stanley Kogelman and Barbara R. Heller – The Only Math Book You’ll Ever Need
Randy Komisar – The Monk and The Riddle
Phillip Kotler – Kotler on Marketing
Philip Kotler – Corporate Social Responsibility
John Kotter – Leading Change
John Kotter – The Heart of Change
John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do

James Kouzes and Barry Posner – The Leadership Challenge
James Kouzes and Barry Posner – Learning Leadership – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Pat Lencioni – The Five Temptations of a CEO – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
Pat Lencioni – The Four Obsessions of An Extraordinary Executive – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
Pat Lencioni – The Five Dysfunctions of A Team
Pat Lencioni – Death By Meeting – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
Pat Lencioni – Silos, Politics and Turf Wars
Larry G. Linne – Make The Noise Go Away
Mary Lore – Managing Thought
James Lucas – Fatal Illusions – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
Mark Lutterman – Abe’s Final Masterpiece
Larry G. Linne – Make The Noise Go Away
Og Mandino – The Greatest Miracle In The World
Og Mandino – The Greatest Salesman In the World
Og Mandino – The Greatest Secret In The World
Jean-Francois Manzoni & Jean-Louis Barsoux – The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome
Garold L. Markle – Catalytic Coaching: The End Of The Performance Review
Bernard Marr – Key Performance Indicators
Don R. Marshall – The Four Elements of Successful Management – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
John C. Maxwell – Leadershift: The 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Make
John Medina – Brain Rules – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Roland Merullo – Breakfast with Buddha
Danny Meyer – Setting The Table
Patrick Morley – The Man In The Mirror: Solving The 24 Problems Men Face
Philip Mudd – The Head Game
Kate Murphy – You’re Not Listening
Earl Nightingale – Lead The Field
Eugene O’Kelly –Chasing Daylight
Richard Olivier – Transformational Leadership
Mukul Pandya – Lasting Leadership
Mark Parrott – Meta-Trends And The Next Economy
Randy Pausch – The Last Lecture
M. Scott Peck – The Road Less Traveled – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Krishna Pendyala – Beyond The PIG and the APE: Realizing Success and True Happiness
Jordan B. Peterson – 12 Rules for Life – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Donald T. Phillips – Lincoln on Leadership – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Donald T. Phillips – Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership
Donald T. Phillips – Founding Fathers on Leadership – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
Tom Rath – Are You Fully Charged?
Tom Rath – Strengthsfinder 2.0
Tom Rath – Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements
Andrew Roberts – Leadership In War – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Ed Robinson – On Leader and Business
Ed Robinson – Reflections On Life and Leading
Tony Robbins – MONEY: Master The Game
William J. Rothwell – Effective Succession Planning – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
David M. Rubenstein – How To Lead
Elizabeth D. Samet – Leadership: Essential Writings By Our Greatest Thinkers – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Eric Schmidt – Trillion Dollar Coach– Read Ed’s Excerpts
Susan Scott – Fierce Conversations
Tom Searcy – Whale Hunting
Gillian Zoe Segal – Getting There: A Book of Mentors
Tal Ben-Shahar – Choose The Life You Want
Tal Ben-Shahar – Happier – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Tal Ben-Shahar – The Pursuit of Perfect
Simon Sinek – The Infinite Game
Simon Sinek – Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek – Start With Why
Robert Skrob – Retention Point
Rob Slee – Time Really is Money – Read Ed’s Excerpts
Jack Stack – The Great Game of Business
Michael Bungay Stanier – The Coaching Habit
Admiral James Stavridis – The Leader’s Bookshelf
Tony Stoltzfus – Coaching Questions: A Coach’s Guide To Powerful Asking Skills
William Strauss and Neil Howe – The Fourth Turning
Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Skin In The Game
Richard Templar – The Rules Of Life
Daniel Tobin – Transformational Learning – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
Jack Trout and Steve Rivkin – Differentiate or Die – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
Key Management Models – Marcel van Assen, Gerben van den Berg, & Paul Pietersma
Chris Voss – Never Split The Difference
Craig Weber – Conversational Capacity
Jack Welch – Straight From the Gut – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary
Jack Welch – Winning
John Whitmore – Coaching for Performance
Richard Wiseman – 59 Seconds: Change Your Life In Under A Minute
David Whyte – Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
David Whyte – The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
David Whyte – The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self & Relationship
Geno Wickman – Traction: Get A Grip On Your Business
Don Yaeger – Great Teams: 16 Things High Performing Organizations Do Differently – Review Ed’s PowerPoint Summary

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