Chapter 2: Leadership
Inspiration. Challenge. Courage. Change.
Leadership is this seemingly unidentifiable quality we all wish for in politicians, chief executive officers, and—whether we admit it or not—parents. These books prove their is nothing elusive about what it takes to lead people. All of these authors take different routes to the same destination: everyone wants a leader to define what the future will be and take them there.
On Becoming a Leader
Warren Bennis
Basic Books
The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All (Revised)
Michael Useem
Crown Business
The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations
James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
Jossey-Bass
Leadership Is an Art
Max DePree
Crown Business
Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership
Steve Farber
Mission Boulevard Press
Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will (Revised)
Noel M Tichy, Stratford Sherman
HarperBusiness
An Analysis of John P. Kotter's Leading Change
Yaamina Salman, Nick Broten
Macat Library
Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature
Badaracco Joseph L
Harvard Business Review Press
The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion Through the Art of Storytelling
Annette Simmons
Basic Books
Lean in: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg
Knopf Publishing Group
