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Warren Bennis On Becoming a Leader,
Perseus Publishing, 2003
Updated version of this classic text by one of the world's leaders in leadership.
Timeless insights into what makes a great leader.
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Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith,
Learning to Lead,
Perseus Publishing, 2003
Practical things you can actually do, rather than the broader generalizations that most leadership books cover. Very useful for the aspiring leader too. |
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Jim Collins, Good to
Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't,
HarperBusiness, 2001
Collins started looking for companies that went from average to consistently high performance and found a new type of leader (the Level 5 leader).
In this excellent book he lays out what these very successful people do.
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Conger, J. A., and R. N.
Kanungo (Eds), Charismatic Leadership in Organizations. Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998
A definitive book on charisma in leadership, though being academic in content it is
best suitable for those who appreciate such detail.
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Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee, Primal Leadership, HBS Press, 2004
A well-researched book on leadership from the Emotional Intelligence angle by Mr. EI himself
and his famous friends. Very relevant for today's leaders. (Published as
'The New Leaders' in the UK) |
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Hersey, P. and Blanchard, K. H, Leadership and
the One Minute Manager, William Morrow, 1999
A simple on Situational Leadership from Hersey and Blanchard. Slim, chatty and apparently simplistic. Yet hugely influential with both managers and academics. |
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Kouzes and Posner, The Leadership Challenge, Jossey Bass, 2002
The
results of a long study of leadership involving more than a million people
who were asked to 'describe the best leader you had'. See also the
review of this book. |
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Seán Ruth, Leadership and
Liberation, Routledge, 2006
A refreshingly original viewpoint on leadership from Organizational
Psychologist Seán Ruth. This is not a lightweight rehash -- it is written
from an academic frame, though still retains readability for the serious
practitioner. See the
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Peter Northouse, Leadership: Theory and Practice (3rd edition), Sage, 2003
Solid and
clear academic textbook (rather than practitioner manual) covering all the
leadership theory you may need on a university course.
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Gary Yukl, Leadership in Organizations (6th Edition),
Prentice Hall, 2005
An excellent academic text on leadership, covering all of the main styles and more. Great for students. |
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