Great leaders are lifelong learners. Great leaders learn lessons from others’ successes, challenges and, sometimes, failures. Being a lifelong learner helps us to be more effective leaders and is key to our overall personal and professional development. In addition to Steve Adubato’s “Lessons in Leadership” here are 12 Leadership Books for YOUR Leadership Library:
1. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
2. Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence
by Daniel Goleman
3. Off Balance
by Matthew Kelly
4. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t
by Jim Collins
5. Lean In
by Sheryl Sandberg
6. Attitude is Everything
by Keith Harrell
7.Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback
by Doug Stone and Sheila Heen
8. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when the Stakes are High
by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan and Switzler
9. Change Your Questions, Change Your Life
by Marilee Adams
10. Who Moved my Cheese? An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
by Spencer Johnson
11. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
by Richard Carlson
12. Leadership in Turbulent Times
by Doris Kearns Goodwin