First compiling the list Feb 24 2010
Last updated/revised  Dec. 26  2013
Leadership reading list:

(1) Mastering your way to the top
                 Joe Girrad with Robert Casemore

(2) What the best CEOs know,  
7 Exceptional Leaders and their lessons for transforming any business 
by Jeffray A. Kramer

(3) LEADING at a Higher Level
by Ken Blanchard and associates

(4) The Ten Commandments for Business Failure  
       by Donald R. Keough

    Quit Taking Risks
    Be Inflexible
    Isolate Yourself
    Assume Infallibility
    Play the game Close to the Foul Line
    Don't take Time to Think
    Put all Your Faith in Experts and Outside Consultants
    Love Your Bureaucracy
    Send Mixed Message
    Be Afraid of the Future
    Lose Your Passion for Work -- for Life

(5) The leader in you : how to win friends, influence people, and succeed in a changing world
   by Levine, Stuart R.    and Michael Crom           658.4092 LE

            * Finding the leader in you
            * Starting to communicate
            * Motivating people
            * Express genuine interest in others
            * Seeingthing from the other person's point of view
            * Listening to learn
            * Teaming up fot tomorrow
            * Respecting the dignity of others
            * Recognition, praise, and Rewards
            * Handling mistakes, Complaints, and Criticism
            * Setting goals
            * Focus and Discipline
            * Achieving Balance
            *Creating a positive mental attitude
            * Learning not to worry
            * The Power of enthusiam
            * Making it happen

(6) Where have all the leaders gone?
      by Lee Icaccca

(7) A conservation with Bill Gates Warren Buffett and other economic leaders
     by Michael Kinsley

(8) Secrets of entrepreneurial leadership : building top performance through trust & teamwork
     by Nicholas, Ted,          1934- 658.421 NI
            * Trust -- The glue that binds
            * Setting the stage for top performance
            * Agreeing on a Mission Builds strength
            * Contracting for Commitment
            * Keeping Score
            * Sharing Positive Power
            * How Active is your Listening?
            * Diffusing Our difference
            * Participation
            * Creativity and Innovation
            * Time -- How to Make it work for you
            * Motivation
            * Reward
            * Nobody is Perfect
            * Building a Positive Culture
            * Putting it into Practice

(9) The Leadership Factor
     by John P. Kotter  (Harvard Business School)
            (1) The Changing Business Environment: Why Effective Leadership is Increasingly Important Today.
            (2) Leadre in Action: What Effective Leadership Means within the Context of the Modern Corportion
            (3) Leader in Profile: The Personal Requirements Needed to Provide Effective Leadership Today.
            (4) The "West Product" Case: An Examination of a firm with Insufficient Leadership
            (5) Roots of the problem: A Summary of Why Firms like "West" have Weak Management
            (6) Assessing the extent of Problem: How Rare is the "West" Case?
            (7) Firms with a superior Leadership Capacity: Practices that create Better-than-average Management teams
            (8) The forces behind the practices: What it takes to mitigate short-term economic pressures and porochial politics
            (9) Increasing the quality and quantity of leadership: What is being Done today.
            (10) Increasing the quality and quantity of leadership: What else is Needed.

(10) The future of leadership : riding the corporate rapids into the 21st century
    by White, Randall P.     658.4092 WH
            * The pursuit of Certainty
                The kind of creativity
                Beyand the best way
                Facing a multitude of objectives
                From one dimension to three
                Forget the revolution
                Build on the past -- don't recreate it
            * Seeking out uncertainty
                Making it up as you go
                The uncertainty gap
                From profusion to Confusion
                The unknowable future
                Thriving on conflict
                Beyond the pressure to perform
            * The New Leadership Fundamentals
                Role models
                Leveraging organizational learning
               
Leveraging personal learning
            * Five skills for white water leadership
                Difficult learning
                Maximizing energy   
                Resonant simpilicity
                Multiple focus
                Master inner sense
            * Making Uncertainty Work   
                The retailing revoluting
               

Empires of the mind : lessons to lead and succeed in a knowledge-based world
    by , Denis
Waitley,           658.4092 WA
            (1) Self- Leadership and Change
            (2)
Self- Leadership and Responsibility
            (3) Self- Leadership and Benchmarking: Your navigarional satellite
            (4)
Self- Leadership and Integrity: Your absolute bottom line
            (5) Self- Leadership and Core Values:Your diamond mine
            (6)
Self- Leadership and Vision: Your Virtual Reality
            (7) Self- Leadership and Attitude: Your self-fulfilling prophecy
            (8)
Self- Leadership and Passion: Your purpose in action
            (9) Self- Leadership and Power: Your invisible force
            (10)
Self- Leadership and Knowledge: Your Informed Touch
            (11) Self- Leadership and Skill:Your winning (and Losing) habits
            (12)
Self- Leadership and Resilience: Misfortune's Master
            (13) Self- Leadership and Love: Your Greatest Gift
            (14)
Self- Leadership and Service: Your road best traveled


Influence without authority
  by Cohen, Allan R.    and David L. Bradford          658.409 CO


Management Challenges for the 21th Century
      by Peter F. Drucker  


Only the paranoid survive : how to exploit the crisis points that challenge every company and career
   by Grove, Andrew S.             658.406 GR

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Excellentr leadership materials over Internet

25 Lessons from Jack Welch

Twelve Tips for Team Building: How to Build Successful Work Teams

The Top 10 Things a Good CEO Should Be Doing

What is a CEO's JOB by Stever Robbins

What a Good CEO Does: Three Things

What are the qualities a good manager requires to become a CEO?


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*  Six disciplines execution revolution :
 solving the one business problem that makes solving all other problems easier
658.401 HA    by  Harpst, Gary.

* The new age of innovation :
 driving cocreated value through global networks
658.4012 PR by Prahalad, C. K.
     
* The everything grant writing book
658.15224 TR Tremore, Judy.
   
* The E-commerce question and answer book :
 a survival guide for business managers
658.800285 RO   by Rosen, Anita.
   
* Successful proposal strategies for small business :
 using knowledge management to win government, private sector, and international contracts
658.804 FR by Frey, Robert S.
   
* How to dotcom : [a step-by-step guide to e-commerce]
658.84 MA   by McGarvey, Robert.
   
* Successful independent consulting : turn your career experience into a consulting business
658.46 FL    by Florzak, Douglas.
   
*  The complete guide to getting a grant : how to turn your ideas into dollars
361.70681 BL   by  Blum, Laurie.
   
* How to write a business plan : make your business a success
658.1522 MA by   McKeever, Mike P.
   
*  E-profit : high payoff strategies for capturing the e-commerce edge
658.800285 CO   by Cohan, Peter S., 1957-
 
* Getting things done when you are not in charge : how to succeed from a support position
658.402 BE   by Bellman, Geoffrey M., 1938-
     
*  Putting total quality management to work :
 what TQM means, how to use it & how to sustain it over the long run
658.562 SA    by  Sashkin, Marshall, 1944
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Business operation reading list:

Start your own business in thirty days
      by Grappo, Gary Joseph.   658.421 GR

Successful proposal strategies for small business : using knowledge management to win government, private sector, and international contracts
      by Frey, Robert S.              658.804 FR

The zen of Proposal Writing, An expert's stress-free path to winning proposals
     by Kitta Reeds

How to DotCom, a step-by-step guide to e-commerce
     by  Robert McGarvey

Getting business to come to you : everything you need to know about advertising, public relations, direct mail, and sales promotion to attract all the business you can handle
   by Paul and Sarah Edwards,  Laura Campitt, 1940       658.8 ED

Successful independent consulting : turn your career experience into a consulting business
   by Florzak, Douglas.            658.46 FL


The everything GRANT WRITING Book
Nancy Burke Smith and Judy Tremore
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Personal efficientness and 
productivity:

How to get your point across in 30 seconds-or less
   by Frank, Milo O., 1928      658.45 FR

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Career path and transition

Rites of passage at $100,000+ : the insider's guide to absolutely everything about executive job-changing
  by Lucht, John, 1933-                     658.409 LU