Leadership

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley’s most respected entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup....

When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power....

Widely used in classes, as well as sold to people operating successfully in the business world, the eagerly awaited revision of Influence reminds the listener of the power of persuasion....

The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts is the first book in The Great Mental Models series designed to upgrade your thinking with the best, most useful and powerful tools so you always have the right one on hand....

In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact....

One of the most important works ever written on investment theory, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits lays out the fundamental principles of intelligent investing...

Two U.S. Navy SEAL officers demonstrate how to apply powerful battlefield leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.

In her famed TED talk, Sheryl Sandberg described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which has been viewed more than eleven million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto....

In The Outsiders, you'll learn the traits and methods striking for their consistency and relentless rationality that helped these unique leaders achieve such exceptional performance....

The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done". This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked....

From the author of the phenomenal best seller The Coaching Habit comes a book of advice...on how to give less advice.....

In keeping with the parable style, Patrick Lencioni begins by telling the fable of a woman who...

Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result....

Many companies are stuck with digital transformations that are not moving the needle. There are no quick fixes but there is a playbook. The answer is in rewiring your business so hundreds, thousands, of teams can harness technology....

In iLeadership, Jay Elliot gives the listener the opportunity of seeing Steve Jobs as only his closest associates have ever seen him....

For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the industry well—or the engineer....

There are laws of nature, so why shouldn’t there be laws of marketing....

Presenting 12 breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors, The Art of Possibility is the product of an extraordinary partnership....

Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to - and approach for - overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect....

Whether you're on the management or individual contributor track, you need to develop strong leadership skills. This practical book shows you how to become a well-rounded and resilient engineering leader.

Since taking over TED in the early 2000s, Chris Anderson has shown how carefully crafted short talks can be the key to unlocking empathy....

Staff Engineer is your guide to building your career towards a staff engineering role, receiving the title, and succeeding within the role....

A powerful story of grit and determination, passion and resilience, A.M. Naik: The Man Who Built Tomorrow presents a rare look at the person behind the leader and the many worlds he inhabits—from business and industry to nation-building and philanthropy.

Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, The Innovator's Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation.

Award-winning, bestselling author Scott Mautz defines mental strength as the ability to self-regulate emotions, thoughts, and behaviors to achieve exceptional outcomes, despite adversity. It's the leadership superpower of our times.

HBR Daily Leader provides 365 days' worth of insights and inspiration, an easy and enjoyable way to make your professional development a regular habit. Throughout the book, you'll find insights to spark your thinking, quotes to inspire you, and questions to reflect on. And each day presents you with an opportunity to take on topics such as communicating effectively, managing your time, expanding your influence, and cultivating new skills.

Cultivating a positive outlook can help you and your team embrace strengths, see opportunities instead of problems, and even feel more engaged in routine tasks. This book provides insights on how to create an environment where everyone can flourish and grow. You'll learn about the effects of emotional contagion; how gratitude, feedback, and perspective matter; and how to establish an optimistic and innovative team culture.

Leadership expert and New York Times–bestselling author John Maxwell offers powerful principles for connecting with others so you can lead them well. This practical guide to fostering relationships in all areas of life equips you to tap into the most precious resource of all: people.

Dan Rooney was one of the most influential sports executives of his generation—the man who transformed the Pittsburgh Steelers into one of the National Football League's greatest dynasties and premiere franchises. Some of Dan Rooney’s most important achievements, however, took place off the playing field as he sought to bring about equity in the league's hiring practices and peace in his ancestral homeland of Ireland. In A Different Way to Win, Jim Rooney takes listeners behind the scenes and share stories of Dan Rooney’s life and achievements.

The book provides tools for tackling the unique psychological and external challenges that everyday leaders face, and offers principles that they can adapt to their own situations. Dr. Ahron Friedberg, who regularly advises leaders and would-be leaders, emphasizes the social aspect of leadership, and explores how those who are new to leadership—and those in established positions—can leverage their support networks and thrive in their roles.

In the latest, freshly updated edition of Make the Right Choice: Lead with Passion, Elevate Your Team, and Unleash the Fun at Work, renowned keynote speaker, improv actor, and comedian Joel Zeff delivers a unique, interactive, humorous, and highly entertaining blueprint to create a new approach to work that is inspiring, fun, and infinitely more effective.

Renowned international speaker and human resources thought leader Pat Wadors delivers a powerful discussion of the lessons we can draw from some of the most well-known stories in the world. In each chapter, she introduces a different fable or folktale and reflects on the "moral of the story" and how we can apply it to help us meet contemporary challenges at work and in life. You'll discover the power of storytelling as you inspire, motivate, and drive positive change in yourself and the people around you.

In this audiobook, you will discover how you can increase your leadership strengths and develop additional skills to shore up your areas of weakness. There's no reason you can't become a true leader. All it takes is time, effort, constant learning, and the willingness to take responsibility for your good choices on the behalf of others.

Internationally acclaimed author and entrepreneurial mindset expert Gary G. Schoeniger combines insights gleaned from hundreds of everyday entrepreneurs with cutting-edge research to create a practical how-to guide that not only shows us how to be more innovative and entrepreneurial in our own lives but also how to unlock the untapped entrepreneurial potential in others.

In this audiobook, you will discover tested advice, effective strategies and ideas for developing a great team. Discover tactics for effective recruiting maximizing your team's effectiveness so you can win when it counts! To win in today's competitive world, you need to do all you can to ensure your team's success. A healthy, effective, united team is just a listen away.

Renowned disruption thinker and bestselling author Terence Mauri delivers a compelling set of mindset shifts for today's unique leadership challenges. In the book, you'll find the future-ready insights and tools you need to lead for today and prepare your organization for tomorrow. The author explains why so many of us continually overestimate the risks of bold decisions while underestimating the downsides of standing still for too long in an increasingly complex and volatile world.

This is a different book about leadership. Leadership where mistakes are made. Leadership where mistakes are learnt from. Over a period, Allan Sicard developed a leadership style that created a workplace and a community where people do their best because they know they are trusted, included, supported, and cared for.

In Your Values-Based Legacy, you are invited on a journey of introspection and exploration to discover how you can help make the world a better place. As a former chairman and CEO of a multi-billion-dollar global healthcare company and now a professor of management and strategy at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Kraemer shares first-hand accounts from dozens of individuals who are building legacies by tackling some of the planet's biggest challenges, including poverty, hunger, inequality, climate change, education, and leadership development.

You’ve probably heard people sing the praises of mindfulness in all areas—health, work, relationships. But how does mindfulness apply to leadership? This book, from the experts at Pryor Learning, the prestigious management and leadership firm, shows you how to be a mindful leader. Above all else, that means leading people. Although most executives would say that their greatest asset is their people, they don’t always act that way. This concise but densely packed book shows leaders at all levels how to manage, foster, sustain, develop, and promote employees for optimal success.

For more than 25 years, organizational psychologist and management consultant Dr. Tim Irwin has worked with thousands of leaders in well-known global companies. He knows most leaders work for recognition and advancement and they want more challenge and responsibility. He's also found this to be true: Most of us want to make a positive difference through our work and to have our lives count for something more than simply making a living. We want to make an impact.