What reading (listening) do you recommend for a leadership program?

June 24, 2009 · Posted in Questions 

glassesMy library has a leadership program and we were asked to recommend

  • books,
  • journals
  • articles
  • blogs
  • blogposts
  • podcasts
  • whatever

with an annotation preferably, on any topic relevant to leadership, management, customers service or other topic we think would be helpful to participants.  I went through my favorites of the last couple of years and came up with these:

What do you recommend?

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Comments

  • suzi w.
    From Good to Great. It's a leadership book disguised as a business book. I listen to it on audio at least 1x a year. Jim Collins rocks!!
  • a few more from Twitter

    pausch's "the last lecture" although not Lib based general lessons can be learned. At "R u a tigger or an eeyore?"

    also "what to say to a porcupine" by gallagher for customer service - lots of anecdotes which can be tweaked for libs
  • a good perspective:
    Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
    by Danny Meyer
  • thanks! I've added this to my personal to-read list!
  • some great suggestions from Twitter, just to have everything together

    The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work

    Phlip Zimbardo on the nature of evil TED talk http://tinyurl.com/aw8zez

    Emporers of Chocolate http://tinyurl.com/ml5rgb Amazing contrast in two different styles of highly successful entrepreneurs

    True North by Bill George. It's not your typical leadership gobbledy goop. http://www.truenorthleaders.com/
  • A classic: Kouzes and Posner's The Leadership Challenge. It's a timeless book on leadership (in my humble opinion!) :)
  • I haven't read that one, I'm putting it on my list right now.
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