Top 82 books to read if you want to become the president. Best books on leadership
Best books on leadership. Top 82 books on leadership to read if you want to become the president
Recommended by Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Nelson Mandela, Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, etc
Evidence from history has shown that anybody born in a particular country can become the head of state of that country. It means that you too can become the president of your country one day. It has little or nothing to do with your family background because many people from poor family background have sometimes become leaders or president of their country. This is why I want to introduce you to books on leadership, which you need to read to learn how to become a leader.
The books I am about to show you were recommended by such leaders themselves when asked by journalists to mention the books that motivated them to become leaders. In this list, former US president, Bill Clinton recommended eight books, Donald Trump recommended three books, Barack Obama recommended ten books, Vladimir Putin recommended four books. There are many other past and present leaders from around the world who recommended one or two books.
Find below the top books on leadership to read if you want to become a leader, minister, governor or president of your country. Some of the books lap with how to lead large multinational organizations.
Here we go!
1. Meditations- Marcus Aurelius
2. Man’s Search for Meaning- Viktor Frank
3. The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream- Paulo Coelho
4. The Truth about Leadership: The No-fads, Heart-of-the-Matter Facts You Need to Know- James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
5. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t- Jim Collins
6. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People- Steven R. Covey
7. Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose- Tony Hsieh
8. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)- Clayton Christensen
9. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us- Seth Godin
10. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us- Daniel H. Pink
11. How to Win Friends and Influence People- Dale Carnegie
12. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln- Doris Kearns Goodwin
13. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage- Alfred Lansing
14. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead- Brené Brown
15. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles- Steve Pressfield
16. The Art Of War- Sun Tzu
17. Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare- Kwame Nkrumah
18. On Becoming a Leader- Warren Bennis
19. Wooden on Leadership- John Wooden & Steve Jamison
20. Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence- Daniel Goleman & Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee
21. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change- Stephen R. Covey
22. The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations- James Kouzes & Barry Posner
23. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action- Simon Sinek
24. First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently- Marcus Buckingham & Jim Harter
25. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done- Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
26. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ- Daniel Goleman
27. Leading Change- John Kotter
28. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses- Eric Ries
29. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done- Peter Drucker
30. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You- John C. Maxwell
31. The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter- Michael Watkins
32. The One Minute Manager- Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
33. True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership- Bill George
34. Thinking, Fast and Slow- Daniel Kahneman
35. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win- Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
36. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable- Patrick Lencioni
37. Learning to Lead: The Journey to Leading Yourself, Leading Others, and Leading an Organization- Ron Williams with Karl Weber
38. Developing the Leader Within You 2.0- John C. Maxwell
39. Leadershift: The 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace - John C. Maxwell
40. Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust- Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein
41. Disrupt-It-Yourself: Eight Ways to Hack a Better Business–Before the Competition Does- Simone Bhan Ahuja
42. Excellence Wins: A No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best in a World of Compromise- Horst Schulze & Dean Merrill
43. The Fifth Risk- MichaelL ewis
44. Leadership is an Art- Max DePree
45. The Truth About Employee Engagement- Patrick M. Lencioni
46. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition- Joseph Grenny
47. Beyond the Wall of Resistance (Revised Edition): Why 70% of All Changes Still Fail-- And What You Can Do About It- Rick Maurer
48. The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking . . . Because People Do Business with People They Like- Michelle Tillis Lederman
49. Conscious Business: How to Build Value through Values- Fred Kofman
50. Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution- Geoffrey A. Moore
51. How to Be an Anti-Racist- Ibram X. Kendi
52. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game- Michael Lewis
53. Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't- Simon Sinek
54. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead- Sheryl Sandberg
55. Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts- Brené Brown
56. The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently- Tony Dungy
57. Minority Leader: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change- Stacey Abrahms
58. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers- Ben Horowitz
59. Leadership: In Turbulent Times- Doris Kearns Goodwin
60. Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity Through Business- John Mackey & Steve Mcintosh & Carter Phipps
61. Leadership: Theory and Practice- Peter G. Northouse
62. How to Lead: Wisdom from the World’s Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers- David M. Rubenstein
63. Legacy: What the all blacks can teach us about the business of life- James Kerr
64. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You- Julie Zhuo
65. Long Walk to Freedom- Nelson Mandela
66. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less- Greg McKeown
67. The Four Fixations of a Brilliant Leader- Alan J. Sears
68. Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do- Jennifer L. Eberhardt
69. The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength- Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
70. Seeing Around Corners- Rita McGrath
71. How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking- Viv Groskop
72. If I Could Tell You Just One Thing- Richard Reed
73. High Output Management- Andrew Grove
74. Mental Models: 30 Thinking Tools that Separate the Average From the Exceptional. Improved Decision-Making, Logical Analysis, and Problem-Solving- Peter Hollins
75. Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project- Leslie R. Groves
76. Becoming- Michelle Obama
77. More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)- Elaine Welteroth
78. The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company- Robert Iger
79. How to Be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact- Jane E. Dutton & Gretchen M. Spreitzer
80. We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
81. How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In- Jim Collins
82. Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track--and Keeping It There- Les McKeown
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