Chapter 2: Leadership
Inspiration. Challenge. Courage. Change.
Leadership is this seemingly unidentifiable quality we all wish for in politicians, chief executive officers, and—whether we admit it or not—parents. These books prove their is nothing elusive about what it takes to lead people. All of these authors take different routes to the same destination: everyone wants a leader to define what the future will be and take them there.
On Becoming a Leader (-20th Anniversary, Revised, Updated)
Warren G Bennis
Products / Basic Books
The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All
Michael Useem
Products / Crown Currency.
The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations
James M Kouzes, Barry Z Posner
Products / Jossey-Bass
Leadership Is an Art
Max de Pree
Products / Crown Currency
Radical Leap Cultivate Love, Generate Energy, Inspire Audacity, Provide Proof
Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will (Revised)
Analysis of John P. Kotter's Leading Change
Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature
Joseph L Badaracco
Products / Harvard Business Review Press
Story Factor Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion Through the Art of Storytelling
Lean in: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg
Products / Knopf Publishing Group