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The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
by Michael Watkins
An invaluable guide to handling the challenges of the manager/leader taking on a new role.
Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence
by Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee et
al
Situational leadership from an emotional intelligence perspective - as always with Goleman, backed up by research
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Tribes
by
Seth Godin
Seth Godin once more puts his unique spin on 21st century marketing
Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Find, Develop, and Deliver Stories to Communicate with Power and Impact
by
Annette Simmons
An accessible guide to storytelling which guides you through the process of crafting stories that make an impact
Leading Change
by
John Kotter
Essential reading for any leader involved in driving change. Kotter gives very practical and well researched advice through his eight stage process.
Leadership and Organizational Climate (Prentice Hall Series in Organizational Development)
by Robert Stringer is a book for those that want
to get more detail into the research on how leadership
impacts organisational climate and how to measure and
manage this.First, Break All The Rules
by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
People join companies but they leave managers. A research and evidence based approach that demonstrates what great managers do.
Now, Discover Your Strengths: How to Develop Your Talents and Those of the People You Manage
by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton
The follow on from First Break All The Rules. We have lots of words for weaknesses and very few for strengths. This book includes a password to the strengthsfinder website where you can carry out an online questionnaire that identifies your top five strengths
Getting Things Done: How to Achieve Stress-free Productivity
by David Allen
Probably the most practical guide to becoming more organised and productive - very useful for MBTI 'perceiving' types
Leadership and the One Minute Manager
by Kenneth H. Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi, and Drea
Zigarmi
An essential read for any people manager, a good introduction to this essential leadership model.
The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey (One Minute Manager)
Another One Minute Manager book that describes a simple but brilliantly effective tool for even better delegation
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey
A book that has been around a long time but still gives a good grounding in personal empowerment and achievement.
Managing at the Speed of Change
by Daryl R. Conner
Excellent grounding in change management.
Tao of Coaching: Boost Your Effectiveness at Work by Inspiring and Developing Those Around You
by Max Landsberg
Max's books are all short, engaging and really easy to read. They use the story of his character Alex to illustrate the lessons to be learnt in each are, interleaving story and theory to keep your interest.
The Tao of Motivation: Inspire Yourself and Others
by Max Landsberg
In which Alex learns the techniques of motivation.
The Tools of Leadership: Vision, Inspiration, Momentum
by Max Landsberg
In which Alex has to shift from managing a team to leading an organisation.
Coaching For Performance: Growing People, Performance and Purpose
by John Whitmore
The quickest, easiest and simplest book on coaching I've come across by one of Europe's leading coaches. The challenge is putting it into action.
The Inner Game of Work: Focus, Learning, Pleasure, and Mobility in the Workplace
by Timothy Gallwey
Ostensibly the person who taught John Whitmore, this is Gallwey's interpretation of his Inner Game techniques for business and build on his 'sport' books (I'd recommend all of them - the Inner Game of Tennis, Golf, skiing and Music.
Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement
by Aubrey Daniels
Whilst I don't agree with his 'this is the only way' attitude behavioural based motivation, this is an absolute must read for anybody interested in motivating and influencing.
NLP at Work: The Difference that Makes a Difference in Business
by Sue Knight
Probably the most popular NLP book in the UK - this is an accessible summary of NLP techniques useable in business.
Influencing With Integrity: Management Skills For Communication And Negotiation (Revised Edition): Management Skills for Communication and Negotiation
by Genie Z. Laborde
Sub-titled 'Management Skills for Communication and Negotiation', this is a much more focussed book than NLP at Work, using NLP in the context of communication and influencing.