The Best 20 Books on Leadership (10 more)
In my post yesterday I have listed my favorite 10 books on leadership. These other 10 book have also taught me valuable principles of leadership. They are not necessarily in order.
The Best 10 Books on Leadership (that I have read)
This is a list of 10 of the best book about leadership that I have actually read.
Top 45 Best Quotes from Grit by Angela Lee Duckworth
Grit is the combination of passion and perseverance. Angela Duckworth found grit to be a stronger predictor of high-achievement than intelligence, talent and other personality traits.
Top 41 Best Quotes from Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
The title and the message of the book by Brené Brown Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, are inspired by a speech given by Teddy Roosevelt in 1910
Top 40 Best Quotes from The Gift of Imperfection by Brené Brown
The Gift of Imperfection is more than a self-help book, it is a motivational and inspiring guide to what she called “wholehearted” living.
Top 26 Quotes from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Steve Covey organizes his book in a series of habits, showing them as a progression from dependence through independence on to interdependence.
Top 23 Best Quotes from “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs is in some ways another Jobs’ carefully crafted product, and these are my favorite 23 quotes from the book
Top 25 Best Quotes From The Lean Startup by Eric Reis
Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses is a book by Eric Reis that presents a method for developing and managing startups or new ventures in bigger organizations.
Top 25 Best Quotes from Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
The argument of this book is that a series of shared properties and patterns recur again and again in unusually fertile environments … The more we embrace these patterns — in our private work habits and hobbies, in our office environments, in the design of new software tools — the better we will be at tapping our extraordinary capacity for innovative thinking.
Top 23 Best Quotes from Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Zero to One : Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a book written by Peter Thiel. Taken on its own merits, Zero to One is a well-written and provoking book. But it is a read that requires an open mind, because it challenges many common opinions. Improving...
Top 20 Best Quotes from Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull is a great inspirational book, one of the best books ever written about creative business and creative leadership. Ed Catmull, is co-founder with Steve...Top 12 Best Quotes From The Innovator’s Solution by Clayton M. Christensen
In The Innovator’s Solution, Clayton M. Christensen explains that innovation is not as unpredictable as most managers have come to believe. Although the process of innovations may seem random, if business leaders understand and properly manage the variables that influence the process, they can learn to create truly disruptive growth.
Top 15 Best Quotes From the Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
The Innovator’s Dilemma explains the power of disruption, why market leaders are often set up to fail as technologies and industries change and what incumbents can do to secure their market leadership for a long time.
Top 10 Best Books on Innovation
The Webster’s Dictionary defines innovation as “the introduction of something new.” Peter Drucker, the famous management consultant and author said “Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship… the act that endows resources with a new capacity...David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell (2)
This is the second part of the post about the book by Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell: Book Review
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell is about the advantages of disadvantages — and the disadvantages of seeming advantages.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2)
In Blink Gladwell discusses how people’s subconscious strongly influence their decisions. We like to believe that we make decisions based on reason, but more often than we think, our decisions are based on snap judgments.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink explores the connection between psychological and neurological research and human intuition. In Blink Gladwell discuss how people’s subconscious strongly influence their decisions.
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Law of Respect (#7)
The Law of Respect states that people naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Law of Solid Ground (# 6)
The Law of Solid Ground states that trust is the foundation of leadership. This is the is the 6th of John Maxwell’s 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Law of E. F. Hutton (#5)
The Law of E. F. Hutton is the fifth law in book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell The name of this law may be a little problematic, if one doesn’t know who this Mr. Hutton is. The name of the law comes from an old television commercial whose...
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Law of Navigation (#4)
The Law of Navigation is the 4th of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell. It is about the importance of planning ahead and control direction.
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Law of Buy-In (#14)
Often people think that a worthy cause is all that is needed to rally people and motivate them, but people buy into the leader first, then the leader’s vision.
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: The Law of Process (#3)
The Law of Process is for me this is one of the best and more inspiring chapters in the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by author John Maxwell The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: The Law of Process You don’t make your fortune in a single day,...The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: The Law of Influence (#2)
The true measure of leadership is influence—nothing more, nothing less.
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: The Law of the Lid (#1)
Leadership ability is the lid that determines a person’s level of effectiveness. The lower an individual’s ability to lead, the lower the lid on his potential. The higher the individual’s ability to lead, the higher the lid on his potential.
Getting to Yes: Book Review
What is the best way to deal with differences? “Like it or not, you are a negotiator. Negotiation is a fact of life. Everyone negotiates something every day. Negotiating is a basic means of getting what you want from others.” Getting to Yes: Negotiating...The Lean Startup by Eric Ries: Book Review
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries: Book Review The Lean Startup by Eric Ries is an excellent introduction to the lean startup concepts and movement. I have been involved in a few very small startups, nothing that ever made or will ever made the headlines, but I enjoyed...Start with Why by Simon Sinek: Book Review
Why certain leaders or companies are successful, and others are not? Because “people don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it.”
Book Review: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell, is a fascinating book. It was first mentioned to me by a coworker and I decided to read it. After reading the Tipping Point, I then went ahead and read also two other Gladwell’s book, Blink...Follow & like
