Leadership Without Easy Answers

 
By Ronald Heifetz
Published on: 1998-07-22
Here are the good points from the book:
p.20 We should focus on leadership as an activity- the activity of a citizen mobalizing people to do something. Leading is more likely to produce socially useful outcomes by setting goals that meet needs of both leader and follower.
p.21 Defining leadership as formal authority [...]

The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done

By Peter F. Drucker
Published on: 2004-10-26
Revered management thinker Peter F. Drucker is our trusted guide in this thoughtful, day-by-day companion that offers his penetrating and practical wisdom. Amid the multiple pressures of our daily work lives, The Daily Drucker provides the inspiration and advice to meet the many challenges we face. With his trademark clarity, [...]

Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don’t

 
By Ram Charan
Published on: 2007-01-02
Charan’s insights take you into the heart of effective leadership. He provides the reader with eight essential skills that are needed for success in the new century.

These 8 essential skills include the following:

Positioning and Repositioning the business
Pinpointing External Change
Leading The Social System
Judging People
Molding A Team
Setting [...]

Leadership: Theory and Practice

 
By Peter G. Northouse
Published on: 2006-10-26
Leadership Skills are the tools and traits acquired to facilitate guiding or a directing a group, most commonly toward a shared goal.
This book offers a full coverage of contemporary notions of leadership, including traditional theories, salient models, and new domains. The chapters on women in leadership, culture, and team [...]

Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised

 
By Napoleon Hill
Published on: 2004-10-01
70 years after the book” Think and Grow Rich” was written, it is still a highly respected and read book. It has sold millions of copies and is a “Bible” for people who are searching financial freedom. The essence of the book is Napoleon Hill’s famous statement: “Everything your mind can [...]

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition

 
By Edward R. Tufte
Published on: 2001-05
“The century’s best book on statistical graphics.” COMPUTING REVIEWS
“One of the best books you will ever see.” DATAMATION
“Best 100 books of the 20th century.”
“The most important contribution
so far to the study of the graph.”
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN
STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
AMAZON.COM
The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory [...]

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It

 
By Michael E. Gerber
Published on: 1995-04-12
In this first new and totally revised edition of the 150,000-copy underground bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a [...]

The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition

 
By James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
Published on: 2007-08-03
The Leadership Challenge, one of the best-selling leadership books of all time, is considered by many as the most trusted source on becoming a better leader. With this fourth edition, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner celebrate 25 years of leadership excellence with a plethora of [...]

Jack Welch on Leadership

 
By Robert Slater
Published on: 2004-03-01
Jack Welch on Leadership distills the bestselling Jack Welch and the GE Way into 23 of Welch’s leadership secrets and traits, and provides Welch devotees across the nation and around the globe with a rare glimpse into the mind and methods of the man Tom Brokaw dubbed “the smartest boss I [...]

The Little Book That Beats the Market

The author: Joel Greenblatt
The date of publishing: 2005-11-19
Two years in MBA school won’t teach you how to double the market’s return. Two hours with The Little Book That Beats the Market will.
Greenblatt has an entertaining and humorous writing style that makes each page fun to read. And, like most great teachers, he has a knack [...]