The Best Leadership Books Of All Time
by Gaurav Jain
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” — Margaret Fuller
Books about Entrepreneurship:
Zero to One — Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz
The Lean Startup — Eric Ries
Shoe Dog — Phil Knight
Be Obsessed or Be Average — Grant Cardone
BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0) — Jim Collins and Bill Lazier
Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
Books about Business Strategy & Decision-Making:
Good to Great — Jim Collins
The Infinite Game — Simon Sinek
Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
Start With Why — Simon Sinek
Clear Thinking — Shane Parrish
Sun Tzu and The Art of Business — Mark McNeilly
Diary of a CEO — Steven Bartlett
Built to Last — Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
Principles — Ray Dalio
The Art of War — Sun Tzu
Walmart — Bryan Roberts and Natalie Berg
Good Strategy Bad Strategy — Richard Rumelt
Your Next Five Moves — Patrick Bet-David
Books about Team Leadership & Culture:
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team — Patrick Lencioni
Leaders Eat Last — Simon Sinek
Multipliers — Liz Wiseman
Tribal Leadership — Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright
The Making of a Manager — Julie Zhuo
The Coaching Habit — Michael Bungay Stanier
Coaching for Performance — Sir John Whitmore
The Culture Code — Daniel Coyle
The Manager’s Path — Camille Fournier
First, Break All The Rules — Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
Elevate — Robert Glazer
Team Topologies — Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
The First-Time Manager — Loren B. Belker, Jim McCormick, and Gary S. Topchik
Books about Innovation & Creative Thinking:
The Innovator’s Dilemma — Clayton Christensen
Six Thinking Hats — Edward de Bono
Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace
Made to Stick — Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Books about Leadership Development:
Developing the Leader Within You — John C. Maxwell
The 5 Levels of Leadership — John C. Maxwell
Mindset — Carol S. Dweck
Dare to Lead — Brené Brown
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — John C. Maxwell
Winning — Jack Welch with Suzy Welch
Primal Leadership — Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee
Surrounded by Idiots — Thomas Erikson
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us — Daniel H. Pink
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking — Malcolm Gladwell
Books about Productivity & Operational Efficiency:
Deep Work — Cal Newport
Essentialism — Greg McKeown
Measure What Matters — John Doerr
The Goal — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The Checklist Manifesto — Atul Gawande
High Output Management — Andrew S. Grove
Focus — Daniel Goleman
Team of Teams — General Stanley McChrystal with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell
Books about Communication:
Good Leaders Ask Great Questions — John C. Maxwell
The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication — John C. Maxwell
Leadership is Language — David Marquet
Radical Candor — Kim Scott
Difficult Conversations — Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking — Susan Cain
Books about Influence & Negotiation:
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion — Robert B. Cialdini
Never Split the Difference — Chris Voss with Tahl Raz
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High — Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
Give and Take — Adam Grant
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In — Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton
How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie
The 48 Laws of Power — Robert Greene
Books about Sales:
To Sell Is Human — Daniel H. Pink
Fanatical Prospecting — Jeb Blount
The Challenger Sale — Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
SPIN Selling — Neil Rackham
$100M Offers: How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No — Alex Hormozi
by Gaurav Jain
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” — Margaret Fuller
Books about Entrepreneurship:
Zero to One — Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz
The Lean Startup — Eric Ries
Shoe Dog — Phil Knight
Be Obsessed or Be Average — Grant Cardone
BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0) — Jim Collins and Bill Lazier
Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
Books about Business Strategy & Decision-Making:
Good to Great — Jim Collins
The Infinite Game — Simon Sinek
Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
Start With Why — Simon Sinek
Clear Thinking — Shane Parrish
Sun Tzu and The Art of Business — Mark McNeilly
Diary of a CEO — Steven Bartlett
Built to Last — Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
Principles — Ray Dalio
The Art of War — Sun Tzu
Walmart — Bryan Roberts and Natalie Berg
Good Strategy Bad Strategy — Richard Rumelt
Your Next Five Moves — Patrick Bet-David
Books about Team Leadership & Culture:
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team — Patrick Lencioni
Leaders Eat Last — Simon Sinek
Multipliers — Liz Wiseman
Tribal Leadership — Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright
The Making of a Manager — Julie Zhuo
The Coaching Habit — Michael Bungay Stanier
Coaching for Performance — Sir John Whitmore
The Culture Code — Daniel Coyle
The Manager’s Path — Camille Fournier
First, Break All The Rules — Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
Elevate — Robert Glazer
Team Topologies — Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
The First-Time Manager — Loren B. Belker, Jim McCormick, and Gary S. Topchik
Books about Innovation & Creative Thinking:
The Innovator’s Dilemma — Clayton Christensen
Six Thinking Hats — Edward de Bono
Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace
Made to Stick — Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Books about Leadership Development:
Developing the Leader Within You — John C. Maxwell
The 5 Levels of Leadership — John C. Maxwell
Mindset — Carol S. Dweck
Dare to Lead — Brené Brown
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — John C. Maxwell
Winning — Jack Welch with Suzy Welch
Primal Leadership — Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee
Surrounded by Idiots — Thomas Erikson
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us — Daniel H. Pink
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking — Malcolm Gladwell
Books about Productivity & Operational Efficiency:
Deep Work — Cal Newport
Essentialism — Greg McKeown
Measure What Matters — John Doerr
The Goal — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The Checklist Manifesto — Atul Gawande
High Output Management — Andrew S. Grove
Focus — Daniel Goleman
Team of Teams — General Stanley McChrystal with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell
Books about Communication:
Good Leaders Ask Great Questions — John C. Maxwell
The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication — John C. Maxwell
Leadership is Language — David Marquet
Radical Candor — Kim Scott
Difficult Conversations — Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking — Susan Cain
Books about Influence & Negotiation:
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion — Robert B. Cialdini
Never Split the Difference — Chris Voss with Tahl Raz
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High — Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
Give and Take — Adam Grant
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In — Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton
How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie
The 48 Laws of Power — Robert Greene
Books about Sales:
To Sell Is Human — Daniel H. Pink
Fanatical Prospecting — Jeb Blount
The Challenger Sale — Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
SPIN Selling — Neil Rackham
$100M Offers: How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No — Alex Hormozi