The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow77 reviews John C. Maxwell Thomas Nelson, 1999 Maxwell Is On Time, On Target + Leader + A must read. + Excellent resource with action steps to put into practice now             Becoming a Successful Manager : How to Make a Smooth Transition from Managing Yourself to Managing Others6 reviews Jack H. Grossman, J. Robert Parkinson McGraw-Hill, 2001 Great Book for New Managers! + A good book + A must for any manager... + Bec oming a Successful Manager             Leadership Made Simple: Practical Solutions to Your Greatest Management Challenges3 reviews Ed Oakley And Doug Krug Enlightened Leadership Publications, 2006 Readers ought to examine the Leaders + Leadership Made Simple + Leadership-Real Answers If you want to know the quality of a book, it is useful to look first at the author. So, a book on leadership ought to come from a good leader. Right? Ed Oakley is such a person. I've known him as a colleague for decades and I've seen him in a variety of situations. He is a person worthy of your ...             Leading Leaders: How to Manage Smart, Talented, Rich, and Powerful People4 reviews Jeswald W. Salacuse AMACOM, 2005 practical books for those who lead boards and professional service firms + Refreshing little book on leadership + Valuable New Perspectives for Today's Leaders Jeswald Salacuse is Professor of Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. From 1986-1994, Professor Salacuse served as The Fletcher School's Dean. He also served as Dean of the School of Law at Southern Methodist University. In addition to his role as a higher ...             Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions By Knowing What To Ask6 reviews Michael J. Marquardt Jossey-Bass, 2005 You can't obtain the right answers unless you ask the right questions. + Leading with Questions . . . . . . . In several of my most recent reviews, I have quoted an observation of Peter Drucker's from an article he wrote for the Harvard Business Review (in 1963) and it seems especially relevant to Michael Marquardt's most recently published book, Leading with Questions: "There is surely nothing quite so ...             Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach22 reviews Dandridge M. Malone Presidio Press, 1983 Well written + Small Unit Leadership + excellent book even for non-military types + Gets to the point             Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World3 reviews Sharon Daloz Parks Harvard Business School Press, 2005 Another GREAT TAKE on Heifetz & Adaptive Leadership + Leadership as artistry: Great insights how PAL is taught, and how to think differently about leadership + Leadership For The New Commons Ron Heifetz is clearly one of the seminal leadership scholars, practitioners, and teachers in the field today. This superb volume, by Sharon Daloz Parks, takes off from where his two previous books ("Leadership Without Easy Answers" and "Leadership On the Line") leave off. "Leadership Can be ...             The Art of Managing People9 reviews Tony Alessandra, Phillip L. Hunsaker Free Press, 1986 How to Be a More Effective Person and to Live a Better Life + Easy To Follow Concepts + Shelf Help For years I used to treat people in more or less a consistent way in my interpersonal interactions or in managing projects. After first reading this book about four years ago, this approach changed and I have now a much greater awareness of different personalities and how people are most ...             The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All17 reviews Michael Useem Three Rivers Press, 1999 Great leadership stories! + Warren Bennis is right: "It's one helluva read." + A Different Approach to Self-Help + Good leadership examples             The Leadership Pill: The Missing Ingredient in Motivating People Today41 reviews Ken Blanchard, Marc Muchnick Free Press, 2003 A complex metaphor that makes an excellent point + If it were only so simple that a pill would do!! + Very Good Quick Read! While it is all a complex metaphor for many of the problems leading to incompetent business management, the leadership pill is an idea where the point is well understood and is an excellent one. The premise is that all of the qualities that make a good manager have been discovered and concentrated ...             30 Ways Managers Shoot Themselves In The Foot: And How to Avoid Them5 reviews Bill Lee New Oxford Publishing Corporation, 2006 Highly reccomended + You definitely need to get this book! + Great Read + Excellent Management Tips! + This is a terrific manager's resource.             The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company21 reviews Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, ... Jossey-Bass, 2000 A thoughtful and helpful look at the upward transitions + This book is awesome - not just theory! + manangement guidance + Use this book to Develop Yourself             Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know25 reviews John C. Maxwell Thomas Nelson, 2002 Leadership 101 + Great Gift idea! + Quick and Useful Read This book provided an easy and interesting read. Handy to carry in your purse for those few moments when you must wait! I truly enjoy this author's technique.             Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't703 reviews Jim Collins Collins Business, 2001 Worth for its price + A good look at what companies can do to manage talent + Good to Great + Good to Great review             Human Resources Management: All the Information You Need to Manage Your Staff and Meet Your Business ... Patricia Buhler Adams Media, 2002             Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have27 reviews Justin Menkes Collins Business, 2005 Great book for assessing yourself and your bosses + A rigorous and eloquent examination of "the single biggest driver of executive performance" + Good information for building a team + Executive Intelligence + Executive Intelligence             Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Self Leadership16 reviews Ken Blanchard, Susan Fowler, ... William Morrow, 2005 No more excuses... + good book! + good concept but.... + Eliminating Victimization + Simply Amazing!             13 fatal errors managers make and how you can avoid them12 reviews W. Steven Brown Berkley, 1987 "Outlines The Thirteen Most Common Errors Managers At All Levels Make And Whows Why...How + 13 Fatal But Common Errors + Good Common Sense Ideas + Good Common Sense with a Few Gems             The Prepared Mind of a Leader: Eight Skills Leaders Use to Innovate, Make Decisions, and Solve Problems3 reviews Bill Welter, Jean Egmon Jossey-Bass, 2005 Here's Something New + Prepared Leader + Thought provoking and a real call to action! Most corporate training teaches you what to think. This book teaches you how to think. And how important a skill it is these days, with change coming at breakneck speed and uncertainty at a decades-long high. Above all, "The Prepared Mind" outlines a systematic approach to thinking, even ...             Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value (J-B Warren Bennis Series)34 reviews Bill George Jossey-Bass, 2004 A Compelling Invitation + A Lot to Think About + One of the Best Leadership Books I've Read All Year! + Leadership with Integrity + Insightful!