5 Great Leadership Books to Read This Year
By: Edward Schinik If you’re looking for a book that will inspire and bring out the leader in you, here are 5 great leadership books to read this year. These books will make you rethink your ideas of what makes a great leader.
1. Mans Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl One of the great questions of the universe is what is the meaning of life? In this book the author attempts to answer that question from a unique perspective. As a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Victor Frankl went on to become a successful Austrian psychiatrist. Not only does the author talk about his time in Auschwitz, but he discusses what kept him going to be able to survive the ordeal. Mans Search for Meaning is an indepth look at what motivates us to overcome the unthinkable.
2. The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Stanier Learn how to ask the questions that inspire people to give their best. The Coaching Habit is designed to get responses from seven direct questions that will make you think
about why you respond in certain ways. This book will help you draw the best out of not just your team, but out of yourself as well.
3. Leaders Eat Last by Simon Senek Leaders Eat Last is based on the idea of what can happen when leaders sacrifice their own comforts for the sake of others. This book describes how setting an example can lead followers to conduct themselves in the same manner, producing positive results that carries on through generations. Originally released in 2017, the updated edition discusses the art of leading millennials. The author is a self-described optimist who has seen his work inspire many people, including U.S. politicians and foreign ambassadors.
4. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene How do great leaders maintain their power? Examining the history of leadership over 3,000 years, the author discusses how great leaders create a dynamic between themselves and their team. The 48 Laws of Power talks about overcoming aggressive power tactics as well as how leaders maintain control. Distilled from the leadership skills of people like Henry Kissinger, Carl Von Clausewitz, and Sun Tzu, the 48 Laws of Power discusses how all 48 laws culminate into one single trait, the common denominator of total domination.
5. Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink Based on the cutting edge idea of throwing out motivation by incentives and instead creating a sense of purpose, the author has dared the financial world to change the way they look at motivating people. As a New York Times Bestseller, Drive gets to the heart of what it takes to bring out the best in people and inspire them to do great things. Publications like the Financial Times have referred to Daniel Pink as an international guru who is changing the thinking of many business leaders.