Chapter 2: Leadership
Inspiration. Challenge. Courage. Change.
Leadership is this seemingly unidentifiable quality we all wish for in politicians, chief executive officers, and—whether we admit it or not—parents. These books prove their is nothing elusive about what it takes to lead people. All of these authors take different routes to the same destination: everyone wants a leader to define what the future will be and take them there.
On Becoming a Leader: The Leadership Classic (Updated and Expanded)
Warren Bennis
Products / Perseus Publishing
The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All (Revised)
Michael Useem
Products / Currency
The Leadership Challenge
James M Kouzes, Barry Z Posner
Products / Jossey-Bass
Leadership Is an Art
Max de Pree
Products / Currency
Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will (Revised)
Noel M Tichy, Stratford Sherman
Products / HarperBusiness
Leading Change
John P Kotter
Products / Harvard Business Review Press
Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature
Joseph L Badaracco
Products / Harvard Business Review Press
The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion Through the Art of Storytelling (Revised)
Annette Simmons
Products / Basic Books
Lean in: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg
Products / Knopf Publishing Group
