The First 14 of 75 Best Books for Managers and Leaders
By David Zinger on Nov 12, 2008 in Employee Engagement
Are you into the business or reading? Have you read the “best” books for managers and leaders? If you had to guess how many of the top 75 books do you think you have read?
Jurgen Appelo is Chief Information Officer at ISM eCompany (www.ism.nl), recently rated as the #1 fastest growing technology company in The Netherlands. He took the time to create a list of the top 100 best books for managers, leaders, and humans. Here is the first 14 books:
| 1 | The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer (personal growth, self-help, success, achievement, coaching) |
| 2 | The Elements of Style: 50th Anniversary Edition William Strunk, E. B. White (style, writers reference, writing) |
| 3 | How to Win Friends & Influence People Dale Carnegie (personal development, communication skills, self improvement) |
| 4 | Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die Chip Heath, Dan Heath (marketing, communication, ideas, persuasion, business) |
| 5 | Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Second Edition) Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister (management, project management, software development) |
| 6 | Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Robert B. Cialdini (persuasion, psychology, influence, marketing, sales) |
| 7 | What Got You Here Won’t Get You There Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter (leadership development, executive coaching, leadership) |
| 8 | Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras (business, management, leadership development, leadership) |
| 9 | Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery Garr Reynolds (presentations, communication, public speaking) |
| 10 | Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity David Allen (management, productivity, time management) |
| 11 | The Magic of Thinking Big David Schwartz (positive thinking, personal development, self improvement) |
| 12 | Leading Change John P. Kotter (change management, leadership, organizational behavior) |
| 13 | The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (theory of constraints, professional development, operations) |
| 14 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t Jim Collins (business, leadership, management, success, excellence) |
Click here to find out about the other 61 books Jurgen listed. If you want to know the top 100 you have to request a PDF version of the list directly from Jurgen (I was okay with just the first 75). I have either read or looked at about 53 of the books on the list and I found a few books that I was unaware of that I will now seek out.
