What great leaders are made of? Learn from the people who have more to offer in the realm of leadership than just words. 

Management & Leadership

What if everything you knew about corporate growth was wrong? James M. Kilts lays down the harsh truth and a practical path forward. In “Doing What Matters,” the celebrated CEO who revived Gillette and Nabisco dismantles myths about endless growth and reveals the real keys to success: relentless cost control, performance over effort, and fearless leadership. Packed with powerful lessons on decision-making, team building, and confronting reality, Kilts’ revolutionary “old-school” approach is a must-read for managers hungry to deliver meaningful, lasting results in today’s consumer products world.

Doing What Matters

Ever felt the urge to speak up when things go awry but hesitated, thinking, "Who am I to make a difference?" If you've ever doubted your ability to create change, this book speaks to you!
Pastor Clay Scroggins shares practical strategies in his bestseller, addressing the American evangelical audience. Learn how to lead in God's name, following Jesus's example. It's not about authority but cultivating influence by speaking truth, challenging norms, and offering hope and healing to touch hearts.

How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge

Based on a rigorous five-year research study analyzing 1,435 Fortune 500 companies, Collins and his team identified 11 companies that transitioned from being merely good to outperforming the market by at least three times over a 15-year period. The book investigates what set these companies apart from others that remained average or declined. At the heart of the book is Collins’ belief that "good is the enemy of great"—many companies settle for being good and never strive for more. He argues that greatness is not a matter of luck or circumstance but of conscious choice and discipline.

Good to Great

“Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence” offers a transformative perspective on leadership in the modern world. In this seminal work, Goleman redefines leadership excellence by emphasizing the critical role of emotional intelligence in guiding effective leadership practices. As the world evolves rapidly, traditional leadership paradigms no longer suffice. Goleman argues that leadership success hinges on understanding and mastering emotions, both in oneself and others. The book underscores that emotional intelligence is far more important than conventional technical skills or strategic acumen in fostering effective leadership.

Leadership

Robin Sharma's “The Leader Who Had No Title” is a modern business fable designed to inspire individuals to awaken their inner leader, regardless of their official role or title in life. The book's premise is simple yet profound: leadership is not confined to those with formal authority or high positions, but is a quality that anyone can embody at any level of an organization. Sharma's message encourages us to recognize that personal leadership can be demonstrated in every action, no matter our position, by focusing on self-improvement, service to others, and the pursuit of excellence, in everything we do.

The Leader Who Had No Title

In “Coaching for Performance,” Sir John Whitmore and performance consultants outline a powerful framework for using coaching as a tool for leadership and organizational growth. The book promotes building high-performance cultures that prioritize both results and individual well-being. It challenges traditional management by shifting from control-based methods to coaching that encourages self-awareness, responsibility, and personal growth. Whitmore emphasizes that sustainable change arises when individuals become aware of their behaviors and take ownership of their development. This human-centered approach helps unlock potential, remove inner obstacles, and drive better performance by placing accountability in the hands of the coachee.

Coaching for Performance

Multipliers is a book about leadership in which the author identifies two groups of leaders: multiplying leadership, which seeks to raise the potential and intelligence of the group, and diminishing leadership, which lowers the potential and puts down the people they lead on their own terms. This book brings attention to the results that can be achieved by leaders who seek to develop others rather than their inner self, as such leaders inspire extraordinary outcomes that promote generative thinking and, a sense of ownership and enhance productivity in their organizations. 

Multipliers

David Marquet introduces transformation leaders principles that challenged formal hierarchical structures, focusing on empowering individuals and fostering an assimilation of shared responsibility. He emphasizes using bequest for aspiration and guiding principles for decision making as foundational strategies to make lasting touch inside an organization. He advocates for leading to weave this bequest into the frame of daily operations as well as ensuring that the composition's values proceed applicative and inspiring crossway generations.

Turn the Ship Around!

"Don't Wait, Lead Now" by Jim Lord is an engaging exploration of leadership, blending real-life stories, personal experiences, and insightful lessons to offer readers a guide to becoming effective leaders. Drawing from his own journey and growth as a man, son, brother, husband, father, and business leader, Lord presents a collection of relatable and practical stories aimed at those who seek to enhance their leadership skills.

Don’t Wait, Lead Now

"Your Strategy Needs a Strategy" is a contemporary guide to navigating the complex and ever-changing corporate landscape. It highlights the significance of adapting techniques to different circumstances rather than using a one-size-fits-all strategy. Based on extensive research and the authors' Strategy Palette approach, the book assists leaders in identifying their business environment and selecting the most effective strategy. It helps to carry out solutions corresponding to company goals in the face of uncertainty by providing practical insights and resources. With a focus on rigorous analysis and real-world examples, this book offers readers the knowledge and confidence they need to prosper in today's rapidly changing business climate.

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy

Personal Development

Simon Sinek points out that decisions are not always based on real knowledge, but often rest on false assumptions. “Start with Why” guides by offering the golden circle analysis – Why does your organization do what it does? How does it do it? What does it do? – This approach will not only improve your cognitive abilities but will also increase your leadership skills.

Start with Why

It’s time to start making good investments and learn how to manage your money better. 

Investing & Finance

In “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind,” Canadian multimillionaire T. Harv Eker examines the differences between how rich, middle-class, and poor people think, and provides 17 attitudes and actions to take, which should lead to permanent changes in the readers’ financial lives.

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

Build a solid career, learn how to run your business and inspire other people to do the same.

Career & Business

“The Coaching Habit” by Michael Bungay Stanier suggests that traditional coaching, grounded in advice-giving and fix-it practices, is counterproductive since it creates overdependent employees. As an antidote, it advocates for a more interactive question-based training method which emphasizes the importance of saying less in a conversation, and distills the essentials of coaching to seven core questions.

The Coaching Habit

From Steve Jobs to Jack Ma. Understand what great entrepreneurs have in common, and what pitfalls you need to be wary of!

Entrepreneurship

 Learn the methods of effective communication, and understand what drives corporate culture. 

Corporate Culture & Communication

You should have already received an AOL CD ROM to access the Internet at your home, right? If so, you'll enjoy knowing that this microbook is based on a book by Steve Case, the founder of America Online. In "The Third Wave," he explains that we are entering the third wave of the internet, a time when entrepreneurs will transform sectors such as health, education, transportation and energy, and with it, our lives. To succeed in this new era of the internet, you need to develop some unusual skills. This microbook explains what these skills are and helps you understand what you need to do to be a pioneer in this third Internet era. If you want to succeed in an entirely connected world, come read that microbook with 12min!

The Third Wave

In “What the CEO Wants You To Know,” Indian-American business consultant Ram Charan looks at the theory of business. What does it take to become a successful business leader? According to Charan, all you need is business acumen and people skills. “What the CEO Wants You To Know” introduces business acumen (the knowledge of the basic building blocks of business) as one of the central aspects of leadership.

What the CEO Wants You To Know

Bosses are supposed to guide teams to achieve results, which makes building trusting relationships the essence of being a good leader. Former Silicon Valley executive Kim Scott has learned that the best way to build such relationships is through personal care and readiness to challenge people directly. She calls this framework “radical candor” and elucidates it in some detail in this same-titled 2017 bestseller.

Radical Candor

Give life and voice to your product. The right place to learn to sell and promote!

Marketing & Sales

“The Ultimate Sales Machine” by the late great sales guru Chet Holmes is rooted in a simple premise: that mastery isn’t about doing 4,000 things, but about doing 12 things 4,000 times. Hence, it’s no surprise that Holmes’ wonderful little book is dedicated to 12 key business strategies, each of which is exhaustively examined and resourcefully relayed in step-by-step guides.

The Ultimate Sales Machine

Successfully managing a company is no easy feat, as Andrew Grove, former CEO of Intel, can attest. There are, however, ways to simplify the task and “High Output Management” will help you get there. Each of us has the potential to become a great manager, since we are already managers of our own lives. While sharing the secrets of Intel’s success, Grove wittily explains the principles of being a successful manager.

Management & Leadership

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