Books

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

Follow Them and People Will Follow You

John C. Maxwell

What would happen if a leadership expert were willing to distill everything he’s learned in his 30+ years of experience into a handful of life-changing principles just for you? It would change your life. Internationally-recognized leadership expert and bestselling author John C. Maxwell wrote his million-seller The 21 Laws of Leadership over ten years ago. Now, this expanded and updated edition of one of the most trusted and referenced leadership books features revised content that is fundamental to any leader. Maxwell provides new learnings that makes his original bestseller bigger and better including: Sharpening and updating every Law of Leadership Seventeen new leadership stories Two new Laws of Leadership New evaluation tool revealing your leadership strengths and weaknesses New application exercises in every chapter that help you grow The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership features insights learned from Maxwell’s 30-plus years of leadership successes and mistakes with observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, religion, and military conflict. The result is a revealing study of leadership delivered as only a communicator like Maxwell can. Follow these laws of leadership and people will follow you.

The Good Book on Leadership

Case Studies from the Bible

John Borek, Danny Lovett, Elmer L. Towns

Biblical personalities examined include Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, Samson, Saul, David, Solomon, Ezra, Nehemiah, Jesus, Peter, Paul, and many others.

A Very Short Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Leadership

Brad Jackson, Ken Parry

The first edition of this popular and acclaimed book quickly became a favourite among students for the engaging way in which it guided them through the cacophony of competing perspectives and models of leadership. This new edition includes an expanded discussion of hot topics like followership, gender, ethics, authenticity and leadership and the arts set against the backdrop of the global financial crisis. In teaching you how to critically appraise and work with leadership theories rather than faithfully accept them, this book will not merely make you a better student of leadership; it could make you a better leader too.

The Leadership Challenge Practice Book

James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner

Practice Makes Perfect...or at Least Better In their bestselling book, The Leadership Challenge, authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner present a practical, accessible, and evidence-based leadership model with a simple, yet profound, principle at its core: leadership is a measurable and learnable set of behaviors. Embodied in the book's foundation model, The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, is the notion that leadership is not an event, but a process that requires ongoing and deliberate practice. This new leadership development tool, The Leadership Challenge Practice Book, serves as a practical daily support resource for leaders looking to extend their Leadership Challenge journey. Incorporating the 30 behaviors from the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), The Leadership Challenge Practice Book presents daily practice routines and activities to help leaders become more effective by increasing the frequency with which they exhibit The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. It is intended to be used as a daily, ongoing practice guide. The book's five sections follow a Monday through Friday format, with each day offering a different LPI behavior focus and supporting practice activities. Monthly and quarterly practice activities are offered at the end of each section along with a quick progress checklist called Make It a Daily Habit. The Leadership Challenge Practice Book includes everything you need to reinforce a powerful learning experience and enables you to put your leadership skills into action, advancing the projects and people that matter most to you and your work.

The Leadership Challenge Vision Book

James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner

An Innovative Tool for Enhancing Vision Skills Throughout 25 years of leadership research, bestselling Leadership Challenge authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have consistently found that Inspire a Shared Vision is the practice that differentiates leaders from other credible people. They've also found that, for most leaders, it is the toughest practice. Vision is one of those words that evokes ridicule and awe, cynicism and mystery, confusion and inspiration. It's one of the most misunderstood words in the leadership lexicon. In The Leadership Challenge, vision is defined as: An IDEAL and UNIQUE IMAGE of the FUTURE for the COMMON GOOD This hands-on workbook is designed to help you get more comfortable and stronger at Inspiring a Shared Vision. It will guide you through the process of developing a clearer picture of that ideal future, and then it will help you to communicate it more effectively to those who can help you implement it. In addition, the workbook contains sections that will enable you to make your team a more forward-thinking group and your organization a more visionary place. And because visions are co-created and shared, there is a section on how to build visionary skills in others. Following the step-by-step process outlined in the book you will be able to: Draft an effective vision statement Craft a persuasive vision presentation Test the presentation Create different versions of the presentation to suit the audience/situation Seek feedback from your audience and evaluate your vision effectiveness Each section contains activities to help you focus on the skills needed to become more adept at looking ahead and creating the workplace and the world you would like to see.

Five-Star Leadership

The Art and Strategy of Creating Leaders at Every Level

Patrick L. Townsend, Joan E. Gebhardt

"All veterans know that leadership, at its best, is never autocratic, abusive, or arbitrary. Rather, it relies on commitment, communication, and character. To anyone interested in what the pros have to say about leadership, I highly recommend this readable and well-researched book."--Robert A. Lutz former President and COO, Chrysler Corporation. "This book is unlike any other on leadership that I have read. Citing helpful examples, including those from the rich literature of the military, this book sounds a clear call for us to get on with the important work of building broadly based leadership that will enrich both business and individual lives."--Dr. Curt W. Reimann, former Director, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. "A handbook for leaders that transcends all barriers. Everyone from a CEO of a corporation to middle managers to administrative assistants can glean valuable insights on leadership issues from this comprehensive work."--General C. C. Krulak, USMC Commandant, United States Marine Corps. "Both men and women will find this book inspirational and practical. Its message is that the best way to be a better leader is to encourage leadership in others--and it tells you how to go about it."--Gay Culverhouse, Ph.D. Chair, Center for Opportunities and Outcomes for People with Disabilities Teachers College, Columbia University.

The Leadership Trajectory - E-Book

Developing Legacy Leaders-Ship

Patricia S. Yoder-Wise, Karren Kowalski, Susan Sportsman

Designed to help nurses excel at every stage of your leadership path, The Leadership Trajectory: Developing Legacy Leaders-Ship, 2nd Edition, follows a five-element framework that addresses the core attributes of a leader — character, commitment, connectedness, compassion and confidence. This unique and practical text offers strategic guidance on the actions you need to take to become more influential in any environment to move yourself and your team to greater contributions. Nurses will learn how to develop the skills, mindset, and aptitude to succeed regardless of where you are in your position, setting or education journey.The authors are pleased to donate all royalty proceeds to the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, to further its mission of providing resources that create opportunities to bridge science and practice to shape the future of nursing leadership. - Five-element framework throughout the text explores the core attributes of an effective leader — character, commitment, connectedness, compassion, and confidence - Success Tips boxes within most chapters offer practical strategies for successfully using key chapter concepts in practice - Reflection Questions at the end of each chapter emphasize the importance of the topic covered as a strategy for growth - Legacy Leadership (LL) Alert boxes cite examples of actions and statements to avoid - Legacy Leadership (LL) Lineup summaries conclude each chapter to help you create an action plan related to the topic - NEW! What is Leadership? chapter explores what the future might be like for nurse leaders - Updated virtual communication coverage addresses the effects of remote and hybrid work on the leadership profession, and how nurse managers can lead effectively in these environments - Introduction to AI technology discusses how nurse leaders can collaborate with nurse informaticists, ethicists, engineers and other stakeholders when AI implementation is considered - Peer-review comments in the opening chapters expand on the Trajectory Model and its use - Coverage of the nursing bailout examines its ongoing effect on the nursing leadership profession

10 Mindframes for Leaders

The Visible Learning Approach to School Success

John Hattie, Raymond Smith

It’s not what you do, it’s how you think about what you do. Mindframes—your internal set of beliefs about your role as school leader—determine the high-impact leadership practices you choose to implement. In other words, how you think about the impact of the actions you take has more effect on student achievement than your leadership practices themselves. Building on over twenty-five years of Visible Learning research and girded by a theory of action that ensures school leaders have the expertise to select, implement, and evaluate high impact interventions, 10 Mindframes for Leaders: The VISIBLE LEARNING® Approach to School Success brings the mindframes of ten world-renowned educators to life. Ten chapters, each written by a different thought leader, detail a mindframe at the heart of successful school leadership, along with the high probability influences that make each mindframe visible. A must-have resource for any educator working toward student achievement at ever-higher levels, each chapter includes: • The most current, up-to-date findings from the Visible Learning research, including the factors from Visible Learning that support each mindframe • Practical ideas for leaders to implement high-impact strategies in classrooms and schools • Vignettes, questions, insights, and exercises to help educators clarify and refine their own mindframes Lead your school to reform from the inside out. Cultivate these ways of thinking, and you’re more likely to have major impacts on the learning lives of those students entrusted to your care. Includes Contributions From...John Hattie, Peter DeWitt, Raymond L. Smith, Doug Fisher, Janet Clinton, Nancy Frey, Dylan Wiliam, Dominique Smith, Jenni Donohoo, Laura Link, Michael Fullan, Sugata Mitra, Zaretta Hammond, Jim Knight

Leadership, Gender, and Organization

Mollie Painter, Patricia H. Werhane

In this collection, the editors again bring together papers that either exemplify the crossing of disciplinary boundaries, or that allow us to do so in and through the conversations they create. The chapters were chosen based on their relevance to similar themes as were discussed in the first volume. By reviewing historical developments in the literature around gender and organization, and by drawing on recent scholarship that disrupts the traditional masculine imaginaries that plague leadership constructs, this book challenges us to radically revise our gendered thinking about leading in organizations. The authors included in this volume offer alternative, interdisciplinary perspectives on the gender constructs that inform the organizing that takes place in business and society. The book delves deeply into how ‘relationality’, as concept and practice, can help us frame a more inclusive approach to gender within contemporary organizations.

The Leadership Training Activity Book

50 Exercises for Building Effective Leaders

Lois Borland Hart, Charlotte S. Waisman

"Leadership development is self-development. The quest for leadership is first an inner quest to discover who you are. That is clearly the premise of this wonderful collection of developmental activities. They guide learners on that fascinating journey of self-awareness and self-confidence that can only come from experiencing something in themselves for themselves."-- from the foreword by James M. Kouzes, co-author, The Leadership Challenge When it comes to preparing a new generation of leaders, trainers have their work cut out for them. In addition to being a critical competency in itself, the task of leadership necessarily involves mastering a whole host of other skills . . . and it's up to you as a trainer to keep participants engaged and active throughout the learning process. The Leadership Training Activity Book is a collection of engaging, sure-fire exercises based on the best, most up-to-date learning theory for preparing the leaders of tomorrow. The book features easily adaptable modules designed for beginning to advanced skill levels, short or long sessions, and large or small groups. You'll find the perfect training exercises to help new and experienced leaders improve their understanding of crucial topics such as: trust * values * networking * conflict resolution * diversity * negotiation * listening skills * mentoring * vision * communication * and more. The Leadership Training Activity Book provides trainers with a wide range of activities to help teach and apply the most critical leadership competencies participants need, enabling you to develop and liberate the leadership qualities learners already have within themselves. It is a unique collection of proven exercises that will elicit the best from those who wish to lead.

The Leadership Handbook

26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs

John C. Maxwell

The most effective leaders across a wide variety of spectrums have achieved their success by beginning their journey with a question few bother to ask: How do I lead myself? As New York Times bestselling author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell says, “A leader never has to recover from a good start.” So when a leader takes root by firmly establishing themselves in their field of expertise, preparing for every risk and failure imaginable, the fruit of their endeavors will spread throughout their career and impact profoundly those in whom they invest.In The Leadership Handbook, Maxwell presents 26 insights intended to help build the leader within not only those aspiring to new positions of leadership but also those veterans who aim to improve upon the steps that led them to the front of the line. Readers will enjoy and benefit immensely from Maxwell’s highly relatable principles, such as:• The Best Leaders Are Listeners• Keep Your Mind on the Main Thing• Don’t Manage Your Time--Manage Your Life• Keep Learning to Keep Leading• People Quit People, Not Companies• And many more!With application exercises and a “Mentoring Moment” to accompany each chapter, The Leadership Handbook presents a road map for a path many may cross but few choose to follow.

Learning Leadership

The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader

James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner

Uncover the extraordinary leader in you with straightforward exercises and advice from two of the world’s foremost leadership experts From the bestselling authors of The Leadership Challenge and over a dozen award-winning leadership books comes a new book that examines a question of fundamental importance: How do people learn to become leaders? Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader is a comprehensive guide to unleashing the inner leader in us all and to building a solid foundation for a lifetime of leadership growth and mastery. The book offers a concrete framework to help individuals of all levels, functions, and backgrounds take charge of their own leadership development and become the best leaders they can be. Arguing that all individuals are born with the capacity to lead, bestselling authors Kouzes and Posner provide readers with a practical series of actions and specific coaching tips for harnessing that capacity and creating a context in which they can excel. Supported by over 30 years of research, from over seventy countries, and with examples from real-world leaders, Learning Leadership is a clarion call to unleash the leadership potential that is already present in society today. Learning Leadership provides readers with evidence-based strategies to ignite the habit of continuous improvement and the mindset of becoming the best leaders they can be. Emerging leaders, as well as leadership developers, internal and external coaches and trainers, and other human resource professionals will learn from first-hand stories and practical examples so that they can deeply understand and apply the fundamentals for becoming the best leaders they can be. Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader is divided into digestible bite-sized chapters that encourage daily actions to becoming a better leader. Key takeaways from the book include: Believe in Yourself. Believing in oneself is the essential first step in developing leadership competencies. The best leaders are learners, and they can’t achieve mastery until and unless they truly decide that inside them there is a person who can make and difference and learn to be a better leader than they are right now. Aspire to Excel. To become an exemplary leader, people must determine what they care most about and why they want to lead. Leaders with values-based motivations are the most likely to excel. They also must have a clear image of the kind of leader they want to be in the future—and the legacy they want to leave for others. Challenge Yourself. Challenging oneself is critical to learning leadership. Leaders must seek new experiences and test themselves. There will be inevitable setbacks and failures along the way that require curiosity, grit, courage, and resilience to persist in learning and becoming the best. Engage Support. One can’t lead alone, and one can’t learn alone. It is essential to get support and coaching on the path to achieving excellence. Whether it’s family, managers at work, or professional coaches, leaders need the advice, feedback, care, and support of others. Practice Deliberately. No one gets better at anything without continuous practice. Exemplary leaders spend more time practicing than ordinary leaders. Simply being in the role of a leader is insufficient. To achieve mastery, leaders must set improvement goals, participate in designed learning experiences, ask for feedback, and get coaching. They also put in the time every day and make learning leadership a daily habit. Kouzes and Posner offer unrivaled insights into what it means to become an exemplary leader in today’s world with their original research and over 30 years of experience studying the practices of extraordinary leadership. They show that anyone can become a better leader if they believe in themselves, aspire to excel, challenge themselves to grow, engage the support of others, and practice deliberately. Learning Leadership challenges readers to do the meaningful and disciplined work necessary to becoming the best they can, using a new mindset and toolkit that can make extraordinary things happen. It’s not the once-in-a-while transformational acts that demonstrate leadership. It’s the little things that one does day in and day out that pave the path to greatness.

The Leadership Challenge

How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations

James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner

The 25th anniversary edition of the bestselling business classic, completely revised and updated For more than 25 years, The Leadership Challenge has been the most trusted source on becoming a better leader, selling more than 2 million copies in over 20 languages since its first publication. Based on Kouzes and Posner's extensive research, this all-new edition casts their enduring work in context for today's world, proving how leadership is a relationship that must be nurtured, and most importantly, that it can be learned. Features over 100 all-new case studies and examples, which show The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership in action around the world Focuses on the toughest organizational challenges leaders face today Addresses changes in how people work and what people want from their work An indispensable resource for leaders at all levels, this anniversary edition is a landmark update and must-read.

The English Catalogue of Books

Sampson Low

Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

The Leadership Bus

How to be a Truly Effective and Successful Leader

Ted Corcoran

Today, leadership skills are vital in every field and, consequently, are in much demand. Successful leaders must have a clear vision of what they want to achieve. They must also be able to persuade everyone on their team to join with them in achieving their goals. From there on, it is necessary to continue working very hard to keep the team united and totally task focused until the goals are achieved. An excellent analogy is to liken the leader to a bus driver who knows the desired destination. The two vital tasks, then, are to persuade everyone, whose assistance is needed to get there, to board the bus, and, having done so, ensure they all stay on board, until the destination is reached. This book explains what leadership is, which leadership style is your predominant one, what you need to do to get your people on your bus and, finally, how to keep them there until your goals are achieved. In summary, you will learn how to be a truly effective and successful leader.

Building Leadership Capacity in Schools

Linda Lambert

When schools are being hit with staff turnover, budget cuts, and changing priorities, how do you ensure that improvements stick, educators keep learning, and student performance continues to advance? In this follow-up to her ASCD best-seller Building Leadership Capacity in Schools, Linda Lambert answers that question and explains how to sustain a learning community where everyone takes ownership of improvement efforts and acts with a shared sense of purpose. Use the charts and action steps to analyze your school's leadership capacity, spot the participation patterns in your community, and identify new professional development opportunities for building leadership. Real-life examples from schools with high leadership capacities offer tips on how to overcome the resistance to change, find time for teacher collaboration, and encourage parents to take on leadership responsibilities. Handy rubrics and surveys help you assess and guide the leadership capacity of any school.

Longest Leadership Lessons

The Essential Foundations Every Leader Must Know for Success

Peter Adeleke

The Leadership Book By the Guinness World Records Holder for the Longest Leadership Lesson. What if your leadership journey felt like a road trip rather than a rulebook? Longest Leadership Lessons: The Essential Foundations Every Leader Must Know for Success by Peter Adeleke is a powerful memoir of endurance, growth, and discovery. Born out of a Guinness World Record-breaking 28-hour teaching experience, this book draws on the insights of Harvard alumnus Peter Adeleke and takes you behind the scenes of a leader who pushed beyond limits and returned with lessons that matter. Longest Leadership Lesson by Peter Adeleke is a groundbreaking leadership framework and structured curriculum that redefines how leadership is taught, learned, and practiced. It is designed to raise a new generation of leaders and teachers who can think clearly and lead effectively in a rapidly changing world. Through personal stories, reflective moments, and real world insights, you travel through the landscapes of leadership, from uncertainty to clarity, from vision to impact. Each page reveals how leadership is built through experience, discipline, and human connection. The Longest Leadership Lessons by Peter Adeleke is a comprehensive and structured leadership curriculum designed to equip both emerging and established leaders with the knowledge and practical skills required for lasting impact. Unlike traditional leadership books that focus primarily on inspiration, this work presents leadership as a teachable discipline with a progressive academic framework. It is a journey you walk with the author. Perfect for readers who enjoy non-fiction, this book invites you to discover your voice, lead with purpose, and grow into the leader you are meant to become. Through clear principles, real stories, and proven frameworks, you will learn how to build influence, align teams, and create lasting impact. This is not just motivation. It is a step by step pathway to becoming a confident, ethical, and effective leader. Perfect for students, professionals, teachers, managers, business owners, political leaders, and aspiring change makers, this book equips you with the mindset and tools to lead in any environment and shape the future with clarity and confidence. The book was written by Peter Adeleke, widely known as Peter Trailblazer, a Guinness World Record Holder for the Longest Leadership Lesson. He is a leadership coach and global speaker. Peter is an alumnus of Harvard University, USA where he studied Organizational Leadership and also holds a Master's degree in Leadership in Canada. Peter equips leaders to embrace transformational and secure base leadership.

Ignite the Brilliance of Many

A Leadership Journey: Spark - Ignite - Possibility - Thrive

Judy Cloo

Ignite the Brilliance of Many is a leadership book built on a deceptively simple premise: the most transformative thing a leader can do is believe in the brilliance of the person in front of them - before that person believes it themselves. Drawing on the science of fireflies and the principles of the Shingo Model for enterprise excellence, author Judy Cloo offers a framework for the kind of leadership that does not merely perform - it multiplies. The firefly, it turns out, is a precise metaphor for organizational life: its most important work happens underground, invisible, long before the glow. So does the work of building a culture where people thrive. Organized around four words - Spark. Ignite. Possibility. Thrive. - this book traces the full arc of leadership that creates lasting cultural change. Spark explores the conditions that make possibility visible in a single person. Ignite examines how that possibility spreads - through systems, through trust, through the deliberate, deeply human work of culture-building. And Thrive addresses what most leadership books skip entirely: how to sustain a culture of excellence so that it outlasts any single leader's presence. At its center is a dedicated exploration of Possibility itself - not as motivation or metaphor, but as a subject worthy of serious, multidimensional inquiry. What does it mean to live in possibility personally, professionally, and ideally? What does a leader who holds that question for others actually do? Rooted in Lean and continuous improvement principles and grounded in decades of organizational consulting, Ignite the Brilliance of Many speaks to two readers who often arrive at the same conversation by different paths: the leader already working within the Shingo ecosystem, and the leader who has not yet encountered it but has already begun to do its work intuitively. This is a book about potential - and what becomes possible when a leader chooses to name it, stretch it, and refuse to stop believing in it. For the leader who has ever been a spark for someone else. And for the one who is ready to become one.