Additional Leadership Resources

Books

Although we do not formally recommend books, here is a list of popular and award-winning work:

• Amazon's 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime
• CMI book of the year

 These are also popular books:

• A Team of Leaders: Empowering Every Member to Take Ownership, Demonstrate Initiative, and Deliver Results - Paul Gustavson, Stewart Liff
• Carrots and Sticks Don't Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of RESPECT - Paul Marciano
• Dare to Lead - Brene Brown
• Drive - Daniel Pink
• Employee Engagement 2.0: How to Motivate Your Team for High Performance - Kevin Kruse
• Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently - John Maxwell
• Flat Army - Dan Pontefract
• Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership - John Maxwell
• Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice - Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana
• HBR Guide to Leading Teams - Mary Shapiro
• HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence - Harvard Business Review
• HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership - Harvard Business Review
• How Successful People Lead: Taking Your Influence to the Next Level - John Maxwell
• How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
• Inner Game - Tim Galway
• Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results -  Victor Prince, Mike Figliuolo
• Leading Change - John P Kotter
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Nell Scovell and Sheryl Sandberg
• Mindsight - Daniel Siegal
• Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis
• Speak Up - Megan Reitz and John Higgins
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Simon Sinek
• Switch - Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You - John Maxwell, Stephen Covey
• The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential - John Maxwell
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change - Stephen Covey
• The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
• The Coaching Habit - Stanier Michael
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni
• The Inside-Out Revolution - Michael Neill
• The one Minute Manager – Kenneth Blanchard 
• The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
• What Makes a Leader: Why Emotional Intelligence Matters - Daniel Goleman 

Websites

• All About Leadership
• American Management Association
• BusinessBalls.com
• Center for Creative Leadership
• Chartered Management Institute
• Dale Carnegie
• DDI
• Franklin Covey
• Harvard Business Review  
• Institute of Leadership and Management
• Kotter International
• Leadership Toolbox
• McKinsey & Company 
• Mind Tools