Below are seven leadership books every modern leader could add to his or her library. SlideShare prepared by Avery Eisenreich.

1. 7 Leadership Books Every Modern
Leader Needs to Read
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Below are seven leadership books every modern leader
could add to his or her library.

2. 1. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a
must-read business and self-help book. In
it, Stephen Covey presents an approach to
effectively attaining goals by aligning
oneself to what he calls "true north"
principles of a character ethic. The 'Seven
Habits' are a remarkable set of inspirational
standards for leaders who seek to live a full,
purposeful and good life, and are applicable
today more than ever.
Stephen R. Covey

3. 2. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make
the Leap... And Other’s Don’t
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What does it take to make a great company,
and what traits will young leaders need to
drive them? In this book, Jim Collins
establishes new rigidity to the evaluation of
business leadership with a research team
reviewing “6,000 articles and generating
2,000 pages of interview transcripts.” The
result is a systematic treatise on making a
company great, with particularly
interesting findings around what Collins
calls “Level 5 Leadership”.
Jim Collins

4. 3. Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader
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In the book Herminia Ibarra argues that
today's rapid pace of change has a vast
impact on leaders and, as a result, on the
business they run. All too often, she also
argues that leaders get stuck in outdated
mindsets and modes of operating, even
after their employees have suggested the
need for change. To her, leaders need to
learn to pivot even when there are no
obvious signals guiding their way. She
includes great advice about networking,
authenticity and storytelling, areas that in
other hands can seem like hopeless fads.
Herminia Ibarra

5. 4. The Leader Who Had No Title
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The reason why this book is so powerful is
because it gets down to the nitty gritty by
exploring the easily overlooked qualities of
leaders: modesty, consideration and
empathy. Sharma argues that when you
start to live out your values and get
employees to follow and believe in the work
you do, you become a leader without a title.
Actions speak louder than words!
Robin Sharma

6. 5. Drive
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In his book, Daniel H. Pink emphasizes the
importance of motivation in good
leadership. He argues that the use of
rewards and punishments to control our
employees’ work habits is becoming
obsolete. To maximize employees’
enjoyment and productivity for the work
they do, he argues that leaders need to
upgrade their thinking to include autonomy,
mastery and purpose. Drive is a worthwhile
read that will get you to think and inspire
you to act.
Daniel Pink

7. 6. Daring Greatly
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Daring Greatly is an excellent book for
young readers to read. It explores and
advises against the danger of pursuing
certainty and control above all. Instead,
Brown offers all of us a priceless guide to
the real reward of vulnerability: courage.
Brené Brown

8. 7. Tribes: We Need You to lead Us
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Best Selling Author & Motivational Speaker
Seth Godin argues that lasting and
substantive change can be made possible
with the creation of tribes: a group of
people connected to each other, to a leader
and to an idea. All one has to do is find or
assemble a movement of similarly minded
individuals and get them excited by the
idea. If you are seeking innovative ways to
inspire others to follow, help get noticed
and leave a legacy, this is the book for you.
Seth Godin

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