The leadership reading list

This is a list of the books that every leader or aspiring leader should have on their bookshelves to help them perfect their leadership attributes.

Anderson, Chris (2006) The Long Tail: Why the future of business is selling less of more. New York: Hyperion.

Bennis, Warren (2009) On Becoming a Leader. New York: Basic Books.

Bossidy, Larry, Charam, Ram and Buck, Charles (2002) Execution: The discipline of getting things done. New York: Crown Business.

Buzan, Tony and Barry (1996) The Mind Map Book: How to use radiant thinking to maximize your brain’s untapped potential. New York: Plume.

Camus, Albert (1955) The Myth of Sisyphus. London: Hamish Hamilton.

Carnegie, Dale (2009) How To Win Friends and Influence People. London: Simon & Schuster.

Collins, Jim (2001) Good to Great: Why some companies make the leap and … others don’t. London: Harper Business.

Covey, Stephen (2004) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. New York: Free Press.

Franklin, D. and Andrew, John (2012) Megachange: The world in 2050. Chichester: The Economist and Wiley.

Drucker, Peter (1992) Managing for the Future: The 1990s and beyond. New York: Dutton Adult.

Drucker, Peter (1993) Managing in Turbulent Times. London: Harper Business.

Evans, Vaughan (2012) Key Strategy Tools: The 80+ tools for every manager to build a winning strategy. Harlow: FT Publishing.

Gladwell, Malcolm (2002)The Tipping Point: How little things can make a big difference. New York: Back Bay Books.

Goleman, Daniel (2006) Emotional Intelligence (10th Anniversary Edition): Why it can matter more than IQ. New York: Bantam.

Greenleaf, Robert and Spears, Larry (2002) Servant Leadership: A journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness (25th Anniversary Edition). Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press.

Moss Kanter, Rosabeth (1985) Change Masters. New York: Free Press.

Kessel, Joseph (1958) The Horsemen. Worthing, Sussex: Little Hampton Book Services.

Kafka, Franz (2012) The Metamorphis. New York: Tribeca Books.

Kotter, John P. (1996) Leading Change. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Kotter, John P. and Cohen, Dan S. (2002) The Heart of Change: Real life stories of how people change their organization. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Lencioni, Patrick (2002) The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A leadership fable. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Machiavelli, Nicolo (2012) The Prince. Hollywood, FL: Simon & Brown.

Martin, Roger (2009) Opposable Mind: Winning through integrative thinking. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press.

Peters, Tom and Waterman, Robert (2004) In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s best-run companies. London: Collins Business Essentials.

Purkins, John and Royston-Lee, David (2012) Brand You: Turn your winning talents into a winning formula. Harlow: Pearson.

Rumelt, Richard (2011) Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters. London: Profile Books.

Tzu, Sun (Giles, L., trans.) (2009) The Art of War. El Paso, TX: El Paso Norte Press.

Zook, Chris (2004) Beyond the Core: Expand your market without abandoning your roots. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press.

Zweig, Stéfan (1935) Joseph Fouché: The portrait of a politician. Indiana University, IN: Blue Ribbon Books.