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Jack: Straight From the Gut
Introduction Straight from the Gut is Jack Welch’s candid and deeply personal account of his journey from a young engineer to one…
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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!
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Winning
In Winning, Jack Welch shares hard-earned lessons about competition, strategy, people management, and organizational culture. Rather than offering abstract frameworks, he answers…
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Coaching for Performance, Fifth Edition (25th Anniversary Updated Edition): The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership
Coaching for Performance by Sir John Whitmore is a timeless and transformational guide to leadership excellence. Its emphasis on awareness, responsibility, and…
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59 Seconds: Change Your Life In Under A Minute
This book is essential because it equips leaders with quick, research-proven tools that can be applied immediately in high-pressure environments. Business owners…
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Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
Crossing the Unknown Sea is a rare and powerful book that bridges poetry, leadership, and the human experience of work. David Whyte…
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The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
For owners and executives, this book is a reminder that the inner life of a leader is not a private matter. It…
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The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self & Relationship
Those marriages are to your work, your relationships, and your self. When one dominates, the others don’t disappear—they fracture. Whyte doesn’t offer…
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Traction: Get A Grip On Your Business
At the center of Traction is the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), a practical framework designed to help leadership teams align around what…
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Leadership: Essential Writings By Our Greatest Thinkers
For leaders who want more than surface-level guidance, this anthology provokes reflection: What does it mean to lead in the face of…
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Trillion Dollar Coach
For founders, executives, and senior leaders, Trillion Dollar Coach reframes leadership as a daily practice of presence: showing up, asking hard questions,…
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Fierce Conversations
Fierce Conversations is built on a simple, uncomfortable truth: the conversation you’re avoiding is often the one that will change everything. Susan…
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Whale Hunting
Tom Searcy’s central argument is simple: instead of chasing dozens of small, transactional deals, you identify and pursue a handful of “whales”—large,…
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Getting There: A Book of Mentors
Gillian Zoe Segal compiles conversations with high achievers—Warren Buffett, Sara Blakely, Anderson Cooper, Michael Bloomberg, and others—and what you see, over and…
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Choose The Life You Want
Choose the Life You Want –— Tal Ben-Shahar 101 Ways to Create Your Own Road to Happiness Most people treat happiness like…
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Happier
Happiness is not the outcome. It’s the input. And when you get that right, everything else starts to move.
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The Pursuit of Perfect
Perfectionists fear failure. Optimalists use it. Ben-Shahar is clear: growth requires mistakes. You don’t get better by avoiding them—you get better by…
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The Infinite Game
Business isn’t finite. It’s infinite. There is no finish line. No final victory. No permanent winner. There is only staying in the…
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Leaders Eat Last
Leaders Eat Last — Simon Sinek Why this book matters Most people think leadership is about authority, strategy, or results. Sinek makes…
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Start With Why
Start With Why – Simon Sinek Why this book matters Most leaders know what they do. Many know how they do it.…
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Retention Point
The Retention Point – Robert Skrob Why this book matters Most businesses think growth is the game. More leads. More sales. More…
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Time Really is Money
Slee’s core argument is simple: time is the medium through which value gets created, and most people waste too much of it…
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The Great Game of Business
Most companies say they want engaged employees. Very few are willing to run the business in a way that actually creates engagement.
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The Coaching Habit
If you take one thing from this book, it’s this: “Tell less. Ask more.” Most leaders move to action too fast. They…
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The Leader’s Bookshelf
The Leader’s Bookshelf – James Stavridis & R. Manning Ancell Why this book matters Most leaders read. Very few read with intention.…
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Coaching Questions: A Coach’s Guide To Powerful Asking Skills
Coaching Questions – Tony Stoltzfus Why this book matters Most leaders underestimate the power of a good question. They think progress comes…
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The Fourth Turning
It’s a bold, pattern-driven view of history—one that argues societies don’t move randomly. They move in cycles. Predictable ones. Roughly every 80–100…
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Skin In The Game
Taleb’s central point is clear: People should have something to lose. Not abstractly. Directly. When someone makes decisions that affect others—but carries…
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The Rules Of Life
The Rules of Life: A Personal Code for Living a Better, Happier, More Successful Life Richard Templar Most people want a better…
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Chasing Daylight
Chasing Daylight – Eugene O’Kelly There are books that inform you. And then there are books that stop you. Chasing Daylight does…
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Inspirational Leadership: Timeless Lessons for Leaders from Shakespeare’s Henry V
At its core, this book argues that inspirational leadership is not theater. It is character under pressure. Purpose made visible. Words backed…