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
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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unsorted below this line:
* 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