Books like The Extraordinary Leader

01

Good to Great

Jim Collins · Business

Good to Great is Jim Collins's attempt to answer a deceptively simple question: why do some good companies make the leap to sustained greatness while most don't?

A kindred business read.

02

Multipliers

Liz Wiseman · Business

Multipliers is Liz Wiseman's exploration of a striking leadership pattern: some leaders make the people around them smarter, more capable, and more engaged, while other leaders — often equally intelligent and well-intentioned — make the people around them dumber, more dependent, and less confident.

A kindred business read.

03

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek · Business

Leaders Eat Last is Simon Sinek's argument that the best organizations run on a feeling he calls the Circle of Safety — an environment where people trust that the people above them in the hierarchy have their interests at heart.

A kindred business read.

04

The Leadership Challenge

James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner · Business

The Leadership Challenge is James Kouzes and Barry Posner's evidence-based framework for what leaders actually do when they're at their best, drawn from decades of survey research and thousands of case studies.

A kindred business read.

05

An Everyone Culture

Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey · Business

An Everyone Culture introduces what Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey call the Deliberately Developmental Organization — a company designed around the idea that the work of personal growth and the work of business performance are not separate activities but the same thing.

Both dig into leadership development.

06

Co-Active Coaching

Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl, and Laura Whitworth · Business

Co-Active Coaching presents the model developed at the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), which has trained more professional coaches than any other organization in the world.

Both dig into leadership development.

07

First, Break All the Rules

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman · Business

First, Break All the Rules is the result of Gallup's analysis of interviews with more than 80,000 managers across a variety of industries, aimed at identifying what distinguishes the best managers from the rest.

Both dig into strengths.

08

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback

Harvard Business Review · Business

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback is an anthology collecting some of the most cited Harvard Business Review articles on feedback, including pieces by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen, and others.

Both dig into feedback.

09

Nine Lies About Work

Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall · Business

Nine Lies About Work challenges nine assumptions that dominate how organizations are designed and managed — assumptions Buckingham and Goodall argue are not just wrong but actively harmful.

Both dig into strengths.

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Now, Discover Your Strengths

Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton · Business

Now, Discover Your Strengths is Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton's argument that most organizations and individuals invest the majority of their development energy in the wrong place — fixing weaknesses rather than amplifying strengths.

Both dig into strengths.

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Radical Candor

Kim Scott · Business

Radical Candor is Kim Scott's framework for the central management challenge: how to tell people what they need to hear without damaging the relationship.

Both dig into feedback.

12

Resonant Leadership

Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee · Business

Resonant Leadership is a follow-up to Primal Leadership, the 2002 book where Boyatzis and McKee (with Daniel Goleman) introduced the concept of resonant and dissonant leadership.

Both dig into leadership development.