1

Books on Leadership 2022

Books - The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. Dr Seuss, I can read with my eyes

In my quest to better understand what it means to be a good leader, I have sought the insights of many who have researched and written about the subject. Many of these books on leadership I’ve consumed more than once. Of the books I consume in my quest, I believe the books below are of particular value to a Talent Whisperer or anyone interested in continually transforming and growing.

Why Audio Books?
For me, it’s because in a busy day, it’s often hard to find time to read. However, for those of us that commute or travel or workout or do chores or yard-work where our minds can absorb audio, there is a unique opportunity to expand our horizons. With time, it’s also possible to consume them at higher speeds now that they’ve gotten better at compressing audio. Reading at 3x to 4x speeds on an hour’s commute each way provides for the equivalent of 6-8 hours of learning each workday.

Books on Leadership


Web3 - The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights Series)

Only the Paranoid Survive -
How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

Creativity, Inc. - Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0) - Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company

The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Simon Sinek - Leaders Eat Last Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Dont

Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox - The Goal - A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Trillion Dollar Coach

Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Goleman - Social Intelligence The New Science of Human Relationships

High Output Management - By: Andrew S. Grove

Peak - By: Robert Pool, Anders Ericsson

Eleven Rings - By: Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty

Change by Design, Revised and Updated - By: Tim Brown

The Toyota Way (Second Edition) - By: Jeffrey Liker

Marty Cagan - Inspired How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

The Upstarts

Emotional Intelligence














Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox - The Goal - A Process of Ongoing Improvement


Radical Candor by Kim Scott

Principles by Ray Dalio

Start with Why by Simon Sinek

The Phoenix Project

Good to Great

The Confidence Code

Crucial Conversations

Blink

Outliers

The Tipping Point

Fooled by Randomness

Good to Great

The Five Most Important Questions by Peter Drucker









Berkshire Beyond Buffett - The Enduring Value of Values

What Got You Here Won't Get You There - How Successful People Become Even More Successful

Berkshire Beyond Buffett - The Enduring Value of Values - By Lawrence A. Cunningham

Servant Leadership in Action


The Leadership Pipeline

Emotional Intelligence What Makes a Leader

Find Your Why - By: Simon Sinek, David Mead, Peter Docker”
title=

Unapologetically Ambitious - By: Shellye Archambeau, Ben Horowitz – foreword”
title=

First Principles - By: Thomas E. Ricks”
title=

Think Again - By: Adam Grant”
title=

Dear Founder - By: Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler, Howard Schultz – foreword”
title=

Modern Monopolies - By: Nicholas L. Johnson, Alex Moazed”
title=

Holacracy - By: Brian J. Robertson”
title=

Platform Revolution By Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall”
title=

Range By David Epstein”
title=

The Effective Executive - By: Peter F. Drucker”
title=

Lead from the Outside - By: Stacey Abrams”
title=

The Coaching Habit – By Michael Bungay Stanier”
title=

Difficult Conversations - By Douglas Stone”
title=

What Got You Here Won't Get You There - By Marshall Goldsmith”
title=

The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded - By Michael Watkins”
title=

The Adversity Advantage – By Paul G. Stoltz Ph.D. ”
title=

The 10 Laws of Trust - By Joel Peterson”
title=

Quiet - By Susan Cain”
title=

Harvard Business Review - Leverage Your Best People”
title=

Made to Stick - By Chip Heath”
title=

AI Superpowers - By Kai-Fu Lee”
title=

Scaling Up Excellence - By Robert I. Sutton”
title=

Secrets of Sand Hill Road - By Scott Kupor”
title=

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind - By T. Harv Eker”
title=

Reinventing organizations - By Frederic Laloux”
title=

Robotic Process Automation Tools, Process Automation and Their Benefits: Understanding Rpa and Intelligent Automation - By Srikanth Merianda”
title=

Flat Army - By Dan Pontefract”
title=

Thinking in Systems - By Donella H. Meadows”
title=

The Culture Map - By Erin Meyer”
title=

The Ride of a Lifetime - By Robert Iger”
title=

The Power of Vulnerability - By Brené Brown PhD”
title=

Flow - By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Ph.D. ”
title=

The Corporate Culture Survival Guide - By: Edgar H. Schein, Peter Schein”
title=

The Mindful Athlete - By: George Mumford, Phil Jackson – foreword”
title=

The Influential Mind - By: Tali Sharot”
title=

The Gift of Fear - By: Gavin de Becker”
title=

Good People By: Anthony Tjan”
title=

So You Want to Talk About Race - By: Ijeoma Oluo”
title=

The Sacred Enneagram - By: Christopher L. Heuertz”
title=

Master Your Next Move - By: Michael D. Watkins”
title=

Digital Body Language - By: Erica Dhawan”
title=

Daniel Pink - A Whole New Mind - Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

Humilitas - A Lost Key to Life, Love, and Leadership

Multipliers by Liz Wiseman

Mindset - The New Psychology of Success

What Having a Growth Mindset Actually Means - By: Carol Dweck

I prefer hearing the author in their own voice with full depth explore their topic; however, not everyone’s curiosity or commute allows them the time to consume books the way I do. The books and specific subject matter of the authors above can often also be found represented in content on the authors’ websites, in TED talks, in blog posts, etc.

Spirit Guides

The books below are on “spiritual” leadership and/or they may serve to help leaders ground themselves.

Miscellaneous

While note directly on leadership, the books below to help to expand the mind and make for leaders of more diverse makeup.