The Best Leadership Books
"The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development” - John Maxwell
DJ Kochhar, 4/5/2022
Leaders can make or break an organization so it is important we get it right. Leaders, scholars, speakers and celebrities write books to teach people how to become an extraordinary leader. Hundreds of leadership books are available in the market that makes it hard for people to choose the right one to read. Diljot Kochhar carried out a study to evaluate the best thirty leadership books. He used two criteria for this evaluation endeavor, the number of reviews available on Google Reviews, Good Reads and Amazon, and the overall ratings of 4.5 stars and higher. Below is the list of the top 29 leadership books based on his evaluation.
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Start with Why
- Good to Great
- The One Minute Manager
- Drive
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- Dare to Lead
- Extreme Ownership
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- Delivering Happiness
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
- Leaders Eat Last
- First, Break All the Rules
- What Got You Here Won't Get You There
- The First 90 Days
- Execution
- The Coaching Habit
- Developing the Leader Within You
- Leading Change
- Turn this ship around! A true story of turning followers into leaders
- The Leadership Challenge
- Primal Leadership
- The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership
- 5 levels of leadership
- Lean In
- Reinventing Organizations
- Wooden on Leadership
- True North
- The Power of Positive Leadership
This study is a part of the leadership competency project that seeks an automatic solution of leadership competency modeling with machine learning techniques. This project is conducted by Dr. Xiaowen Chen and her machine learning team (Chen-Chillas).
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