Are you interested in developing leadership in your organization?
Are leaders born or made? Able leadership is too important to be
taken for granted. Leadership skills can be learned and natural talent
enhanced through use of the resources below.
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America: Our Next Chapter: Tough Questions, Straight Answers by Chuck Hagel with Peter Kaminsky. 2008. (973.93 HAG).
Senator Hagel examines the state of the nation regarding health care, debt, climate change, social programs and the Iraq war and provides proposals to guide the U.S. to a better future. |
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Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership by Madeleine Albright. 2008. (327.73 ALB).
Former Secretary of State, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and advisor in four presidential transitions, Madeleine Albright makes suggestions for future administrations to revive American commitment to founding ideals. |
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Leading at a Higher Level by Ken Blanchard Companies. 2007. (658.409 BLA).
Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager and associates on leadership and on creating high performing organizations. |
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Five Minds for the Future by Howard Gardner. 2006. (001 GAR).
Renowned for his theory of multiple intelligences, Harvard Professor Gardner describes new ways of learning and thinking based on his definitions of the disciplinary, synthesizing, creating, respectful and ethical mind. |
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Executive
Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have by Justin Menkes. 2005. (658.409 MEN).
After eight years of research about intelligence testing and
cognitive skills, the author identifies of a set of aptitudes
that are shared by true leaders. An expert in managerial assessment
who has created the "Executive Intellligence Evaluation," Menkes
also writes about how to break down and evaluate managerial work. |
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by
Doris Kearns Goodwin.
2005. (B LINCOLN).
How Lincoln won the respect of his opponents, placed them in his cabinet, and took advantage of their talents. The Pulitzer Prize winning author documents Lincoln's rise from obscure prairie lawyer to the presidency. |
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Be-Know-Do by Frances Hesselbein and General Eric K. Shinseki. 2004. (658.409 BE). Adapted from the official Army Leadership Manual to make information available for civilian leaders in business, nonprofits and government. Identifies three levels of leadership: direct, organizational, and strategic. Contains discussion of “Situational Leadership” techniques and means for evaluating your organization to determine if it is “high performing.” |
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Predictable Surprises : The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them by Max H. Bazerman and Michael D.
Watkins. 2004. (363.347 BAZ).
Cognitive,
organizational, and political biases
are examined to enable organizations to see how looming crises
can be averted. |
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78 Important Questions Every Leader Should Ask and Answer by Chris Clarke-Epstein. 2002. (658.409 CLA). Contains questions leaders need to ask themselves, their organizations and their customers. Encourages managers to be quick with a question and challenges the belief that leaders must be quick with the answer. |
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Geeks & Geezers
: How Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders by
Warren G.Bennis and Robert J. Thomas. 2002. (303.34 BEN).
In interviews with
extraordinary
under thirty-five year olds and over seventy year olds, the authors
demonstrate the critical qualities shared by those they describe
as “true leaders.” See also other titles
by this author. |
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Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage by Robin Gerber. 2002. (B ROOSEVELT) Guidance for women desiring to develop leadership skills from a labor lawyer who is also a senior fellow at the Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland. Illustrations come from the lives of the first lady, the author herself and other role models. |
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Leading
for Innovation and Organizing for Results by Frances Hesselbein,
Marshall Goldsmith, and Iain Somerville, eds.
2002. (658.409 LEA).
Twenty-seven experts, including Howard Gardner and Rosabeth
Moss Kanter, contributed to this volume that offers practical guidance for leaders with
the goal of making their organizations high performing and innovative. |
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Primal
Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence by
Daniel Goleman. 2002. (658.409 GOL).
Based on decades
of analysis, six leadership styles are described, and the role
of emotional intelligence in leadership is explored. |
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Servant
Leadership : A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power
and Greatness by Robert K. Greenleaf.
2002. (303.34 GRE).
The author, a retired
AT&T
executive, proposes that service should be the distinguishing
characteristic
of leadership. His paradigm also defines the leader as a seeker
who is open, listening and ready for new developments. |
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The 108 Skills of Natural Born Leaders by Warren Blank. 2001. (658.409 ADA) It is the author’s belief that leaders display qualities that exist in all people and may be developed as a set of skills. He is President of the Leadership Group which consults with Fortune 500 companies and government. |
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eLeadership: Proven Techniques for Creating an Environment of Speed and Flexibility in the Digital Economy by Susan Annunzio. 2001. (658.406 ANN).
An authority in global management uses real-world examples of eLeadership in the electronic world and demonstrates the five critical steps to “heroic leadership.” |
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Side by Side Leadership: Achieving Outstanding Results Together by
Dennis A. Romig.
2001. (658.409 ROM).
Stresses teamwork over top-down leadership. |
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The
Art of Leadership by Sun Tzu : A New Millennium Translation
of Sun Tzu's Art of War by Sun-Tzu. 2000.
(355.02 SUN).
In this new bilingual edition, translated
and annotated by David H. Li, MBA, PhD, the emphasis is on the
relevance of this work from the sixth century b.c. to contemporary
leadership. Annotations include 26 case studies from ancient
and modern sources. |
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Eyewitness
to Power : The Essence of Leadership: Nixon to Clinton by
David Gergen.
2000. (973.92 GER).
The adviser to four presidents, Republican
and Democratic, draws key lessons for future leaders. |
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Lives
of Moral Leadership by Robert Coles. 2000. (170.9
COL). A portrait of moral leadership is created
through the stories of people who have inspired the author, including
teachers of every level, a bus driver, Robert Kennedy, Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, Dorothea Day, and others. |
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Martin
Luther King, Jr. on Leadership : Inspiration & Wisdom for
Challenging Times by Donald T. Phillips.
1999. (323.1196 PHI).
An examination of the leadership
of Dr. King that shows potential leaders how to form coalitions,
obtain information and keep communication open, handle crises
and setbacks, and train the next generation. |
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The
Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. 1999 printing. (Reading
List).
Treatise on
practical leadership from a successful statesman of the Italian
Renaissance. |
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Personal
Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant. 1995. (B GRANT).
Mark Twain described this president’s
memoirs as the “best of any general’s
since Caesar.” |
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Leadership
without Easy Answers by Ronald A.Heifetz.
1994. (303.34 HEI).
Theory and practice combine to form a strategy for leaders in
any situation. Examples given from the experiences of Lyndon
Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, officers and soldiers,
doctors, patients, students, and civic groups. |
