The Coaching Habit
Seven essential questions that help managers coach in ten minutes or less, by saying less and asking more.
Leadership
Leadership is about people: earning trust, setting direction and creating conditions where others do their best work. These books cover leading teams, taking ownership and influencing without force.
They're useful whether you manage people, run a business, coach a team or simply want more influence in your work.
- 52 books
- 8 authors
- 3 reading paths
The Culture Code
Great groups build safety, share vulnerability and establish purpose. How strong team culture really works.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
A business fable that explains the five problems that hold teams back, and how to fix them.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Honest advice on the hardest parts of running a company: layoffs, crises and leading when there are no easy answers.
The Leadership Challenge
Decades of research on what leaders do at their best, distilled into five practices anyone can learn.
Traction
The Entrepreneurial Operating System: six components to run a small business with clarity and accountability.
Turn the Ship Around!
A submarine captain stopped giving orders and turned his crew from followers into leaders.
Built to Last
What made some companies endure for decades: core values, big goals and a culture that preserves the core while…
Crucial Accountability
How to hold people accountable for broken promises without damaging the relationship.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
A short, practical guide to the four skills of emotional intelligence, with strategies for each.
Fierce Conversations
The conversation is the relationship. How to have honest, engaged conversations that create real change.
Good to Great
What turned good companies into great ones? A research team's influential, and debated, findings.
Leaders Eat Last
Great leaders make people feel safe, and teams thrive because of it.
Mastery
The path from apprentice to master, told through the lives of historical figures. A long, inspiring study of skill and…
Measure What Matters
The goal-setting system behind Google's growth: Objectives and Key Results, explained by the investor who brought it…
Multipliers
Some leaders drain intelligence from their teams; others multiply it. How to become a multiplier.
Noise
Beyond bias lies noise: unwanted variability in judgments that should be the same.
Outliers
Success isn't only about talent. Opportunity, timing, culture and practice shape who gets ahead.
Primal Leadership
A leader's most important job is emotional: creating resonance. Emotional intelligence applied to leadership.
Principles
The founder of Bridgewater Associates shares the principles he used for life, decisions and management.
Talent Is Overrated
Great performance comes from deliberate practice, not innate gifts. A business journalist explains the research.
Talk Like TED
What makes great talks great: passion, stories, novelty and practice.
Team of Teams
A retired general explains how a rigid military command transformed into a fast, networked 'team of teams'.
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Leadership is influence. Twenty-one principles from one of the most prolific writers on the subject.
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Build Unbreakable Discipline
Turn good intentions into dependable daily action, even on the days motivation disappears.
Become a Better Leader
Lead with purpose, build trust and help the people around you do their best work.
Improve Confidence
Build steady self-belief by acting despite fear and treating yourself with kindness.
Other categories
- Habits and Discipline 41
- Productivity and Focus 37
- Mindset and Psychology 54
- Confidence and Self-Esteem 26
- Entrepreneurship 31
- Money and Financial Literacy 29
- Relationships 35
- Communication 35
- Emotional Intelligence 46
- Motivation 34
- Personal Growth 77
- Purpose and Meaning 53
- Creativity 25
- Decision-Making 39
- Health and Wellbeing 47