Books on Leadership

Corporate America spends more than $10 billion a year on leadership training, and executive offices are jam-packed with books on the topic.

The author draws on her experience as an international consultant and trainer, as well as her academic research and study of creativity, to develop powerful tools and insights for improving creative results at work.

An essential reference for professionals in organizational psychology, management, and human resources. This volume brings together the latest research on how the MBTI personality inventory can be used in leadership and management development.

An ideal resource for principles, teachers, superintendents, and those involved with leadership in schools. Differentiated School Leadership demostrates how an understanding of personality and leadership styles can help individuals and team members work together more effectively.

Roger Pearman, author of the dynamic Hardwired Leadership, offers another powerful tool for business people. By linking type and leadership behaviors, this guide provides practical suggestions for executives, managers, and supervisors who want to increase their effectiveness in motivating others, improve productivity and job satisfaction, and refine awareness of their leadership style while discovering self-imposed barriers to development.

This timely book presents practical, leading-edge views by experienced executive coaches and senior human resource managers on what is quickly becoming the service of choice for enhancing the performance and development of leaders.

Responding to the growing demand for leadership that is both competent and principled, leadership development expert Antony Bell offers an easy-to-grasp, workable framework that gets to the heart of what defines greatness: knowledge, skills, and talents combined with the inner qualities of a leader that drive noble actions.

Hardwired Leadership provides the tools and step-by-step guidance needed to evaluate strengths, identify blind spots, and plan courses of action for mastering leadership in the twenty-first century.

Change affects people in many different ways. Introduction to Type and Change offers readers an understanding of how type preference can play a critical role in designing, implementing, and participating in change.

This practical type resource, designed as a planning tool and guide for anyone involved in employee development, is a comprehensive source of information about type and development that can be used with all members of an organizational team, including staff, management, or executives.

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is a term used to describe our ability to control impulses, show empathy, and persist in the face of obstacles with resilience and flexibility.

Introduction to Type® and Leadership offers a unique Leadership Map that helps leaders chart their own course to becoming even more effective.

The Introduction to Type® Library is wonderful reference for professionals who work with type and for students exploring the applications of the MBTI® instrument.

Some entrepreneurs feel at home with a loyal and industrious team while others seek to shine on their own; some are action oriented while others are good planners; some calculate risks carefully while others thrive on uncertainty.

Author David Hulings has spent the last twenty years as a motivational performance coach, and his book tells a story every leader should read, bringing to life the archetypes of Carl Jung into the real world of leadership style.

The KGI® Manual provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to the development, validation, use, and interpretation of the Klein Group Instrument® for Effective Leadership and Participation in Teams.

This book serves as an outstanding resource guide for consultants and trainers concerned with leadership development for managers.

Leadership, Type and Culture explores within each country featured the use and expansion of the MBTI instrument. The authors subscribe to the hypothesis that by using the Indicator as a universal tool, a common bond can be built across political, ethnic, and religious boundaries.

Remember the saying two heads are better than one? Well, a team brings together a diversity of talent and experience and can have better flexibility than individuals working on their own.

If you find that as a leader you are interested in something more than the bottom line, then the work of Bolman and Deal will resonate with you.

If you are familiar with Daniel Goleman's theories on emotional intelligence (EI), then you know his ideas have substantially changed our understanding of what it means to be smart.

In Resonant Leadership authors Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee offer a holistic view of management, just as they did when they collaborated with Daniel Goleman in Primal Leadership.

The best-selling author of Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive offers another compelling leadership fable with a deceptively simple yet powerful message for those who strive to be exceptional team leaders.

Move beyond one-size-fits-all management approaches by using this practical method to redirect your actions as a leader in a focused and purposeful way.

Utilize the expertise of Roger Pearman in this ready-to-go leadership program for corporate trainers, developers, and HR professionals.

A book that addresses how to balance management styles for situational leadership demands and provides a manageable, systematic foundation for building critical people skills.

Promotion to an executive position brings new challenges and greater responsibilities. This unfamiliar territory typically requires learning new strategies and retiring old ones that no longer apply.

Add a little TLC to your workplace with ideas from award-winning author and consultant, Donna Dunning. Her comprehensive book, TLC at Work, is full of hands-on, interactive tools that make workplace development and business performance improvements a fun and exciting venture.

Learn what the "X-Factor" can do for you and your business. Successful leaders know how to effectively handle three primary responsibilities: raise awareness, generate options, and plan for success.

The complex and elusive concept of “leadership” has spawned a dizzying array of leadership myths. To separate leadership facts from fiction, Dr.

Success in business today demands more than a tough, no-nonsense management style or enthusiastic, inspirational cheerleading.

Although this book focuses on women, it is, in fact, a primer for anyone wishing to become a stronger leader and to excel in any competitive environment.

No matter how good people are at what they do, no matter how talented, skilled, or knowledgeable they are, the most important factor—and often the most frustrating challenge—in determining their success and satisfaction in the workplace is their ability to forge effective relationships at work.

Type experts Jean M. Kummerow and Naomi L. Quenk, authors of the MBTI® Step II Reports, offer detailed information for MBTI® administrators and trainers to teach understanding and appreciation of 20 facets of the 16 personality types.