All Time Best Leadership Books

And a brief summary of what I learned from each

The Classics - Our leadership team reads these in our leadership course. I keep copies of these close by.

(book tree compliments of Jeff Russell’s office)

I’ve listed all the books I’ve read and the main thing I learned from each - in no particular order.

• Raving Fans - Ken Blanchard - Learned: the concept of +1, taking your service to the next level

• 5 Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni - Learned the trust is the foundation of any healthy or high performing team - everything hinges on trust.

• Traction - Gino Wickman - Learned the difference between and integrator and visionary and that I’m very much in the integrator camp (Scott A. thats for you)

• How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie - Learned that if you want to have an impact you have to focus and understand that it’s about the other person - not you.

• The 4 disciplines of execution - Sean Covey (et al) - Learned to focus on the wildly important and to keep a cadence of accountability.

Notables that have made an impact on me:

• Good to Great - Jim Collins - I Learned about level 5 leadership and the lasting impact you can have on an organization if you put your ego aside.

• 5 Languages of Appreciation at Work: Management by Appreciation - Gary Chapman, Paul White - I learned that speaking someone’s language of love or appreciation can have a DRAMATIC impact on them (and you).

• The Infinite Game - Simon Sinek - I learned that winning the game means you get to keep playing the game, not that you bested an opponent. No one wins being healthy.

• Outbound Air: Levels of Work in Organization Structure - Tom Foster - Total perception shift. I learned that levels of work are based on the time frame in which you view the work that you do (weekly, monthly, annually).