 | The Nature of Leadership by John Antonakis
Buy new: £40.84 / Used from: £35.87 Contributions by top scholars (Warren Bennis, for one). Great handbook and textbook with chapters that are an easy read.
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 | The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell
Buy used from: £1.65 Other stuff....Interesting read and very helpful. The advice is pretty good; however, the book could have been better researched.
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 | The Leadership Challenge (The Leadership Practices Inventory) by James M. Kouzes
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £1.65 A classic. Well research. Very easy to read (as long as you ignore the appendixes on the factor analysis). Useful for managers and researchers.
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 | Leadership by Rudolph W. Giuliani
Buy used from: £0.01 Other stuff....should have led the nation, as he did NY, out of hell. Should send a copy to George W?
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 | Leadership: Theory and Practice
Buy used from: £17.95 Popular textbook. Very useful for practitioners too; dotted with applications and still strong on the theory
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 | Geeks and Geezers: How Era, Values and Defining Moments Shape Leaders by Warren G. Bennis
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £5.07 Other stuff....Bennis never ceases to amaze--a really GREAT book.
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 | Handbook of Leadership: A Survey of Theory and Research by R.M. Stogdill
Buy used from: £48.21 Leadership bible for scholars. Buy it if you are doing research on leadership. This book is inimitable.
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 | The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (JB Lencioni Series) by Patrick Lencioni
Buy new: £10.55 / Used from: £7.75 Other stuff....Nice story. The White House could use a copy!
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 | Leadership in Organizations by Gary A. Yukl
Buy used from: £18.65 Serious textbook. Used by many professors. A bit dry at times; however, well worth the money it costs.
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 | Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss by David Cottrell
Buy used from: £1.37 Other stuff....Nice, simple, with good advice.
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 | Organizational Culture and Leadership (Joint Publication in the Jossey-Bass Management Series and t) by Edgar H. Schein
Buy used from: £3.60 A classic work on leadership and culture and the role of leaders in terms of creating, shaping, and redirecting culture
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 | Principle-Centered Leadership: Strategies for Pers Personal & Professional Effectiveness (Paper Only) by Covey
Buy new: £9.45 / Used from: £0.01 Other stuff....Covey is good, even on a bad day. This is not his best stuff but worth reading.
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 | Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies
Buy new: £90.25 / Used from: £106.32 Robert House is the most respected scholar of leadership and this book's a gem.
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 | The Future of Leadership: Todays Top Leadership and Thinkers Speak to Tomorrow's Leaders (Jossey-Bass Business & Management)
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £3.89 Other stuff....As you can tell, I like Bennis
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 | Full Leadership Development: Building the Vital Forces in Organizations (Advanced Topics in Organizational Behavior series) by Bruce J Avolio
Buy new: £28.49 / Used from: £13.98 Focused on full-range transformational leadership. Serious and funny too.
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 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't by Jim Collins
Buy new: £27.50 / Used from: £5.61 Other stuff.....interesting perspective about what makes companies great. I am quite skeptical of how the results were derived and it's link to leadership, which does appear to matter a lot.
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 | The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company by Ram Charan
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £9.84 Other stuff....Nice advice but a bit hollow at times.
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 | Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf
Buy used from: £3.26 Leadership from another angle, that of one who is there to serve the greater good
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 | Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters (Leadership for the Common Good) by Barbara Kellerman
Buy new: £18.67 / Used from: £16.12 Other stuff....this will become a classic. Not enough has been done to study bad leaders and how they influence followers
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 | On Becoming a Leader: The Leadership Classic by Warren G. Bennis
Buy used from: £1.44 Other stuff....Bennis at his best.
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 | The Nature of Organizational Leadership: Understanding the Performance Imperatives Confronting Today's Leaders (JB US nonFranchise Leadership)
Buy new: £36.13 / Used from: £24.00 Nicely edited book on leadership issues from a variety of perspectives
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 | Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business by Patrick Lencioni
Buy new: £10.14 / Used from: £7.54 Other stuff.....Nice, simple stories about how to make meetings more productive. Looks at some of the practical sides of leadership that are often forgotten.
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 | The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians--and How We Can Survive Them by Jean Lipman-Blumen
Buy used from: £4.68 Other stuff.....this will become a classic. Interesting perspective on followership
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 | Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by Arbinger Institute
Buy used from: £1.68 Other stuff.....interesting book looking at self-awareness issues. Again, like many of the popular works it would benefit from some hard science behind it. An interesting read that won't hurt.
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 | On Leadership by John W. Gardner
Buy used from: £2.81 Other stuff.....now here's a really good popular press book. I highly recommend it.
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