My 'Highly Recommended' book list to consider to read for learning/improving leadership skills/behaviors/attributes by Dr. Brian Willett (8/14/19)
Highly Recommended books in the areas of Research & Product Development, Management, Leadership, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Innovation & Creativity, Technical & Project Management, Teams and Team Dynamics, Workplace Culture & Cognitive Psychology (understanding people's motivations and biases), Business Strategy, Personal Improvement, Trust, Six Sigma, Future Forecasting, Mentoring and Communication Skills for Leadership learning/improvement/understanding suggested by Dr. Brian Willett (Updated thru 8/14/19) for technical leaders and employees to read (in my opinion).
[Title Author(s) date published]
Leadership: Types, Skills, Behaviors and Attributes
Leadershift: the 11 essential changes every leader must embrace by John Maxwell 2019
Flex: the art and science of leadership in a changing world by Jeffrey Hull 2019
The 100X leader: How to become someone worth following by Jerome Kubicek and Steve Cockran 2019
Strategic Doing: Ten skills for agile leadership by Edward Morrison 2019
Engagement Magic: Five keys to engaging people, leaders and organizations by Tracy Maylett 2019
Great leaders have no rules by Kerin Krause and Travis Bradberry 2019
Learning to lead by Ron Williams and Karl Weber 2019
EQ applied: the real world guide to Emotional Intelligence by Justin Barlso 2018
Leading at a higher level by Ken Blanchard 2018
When Leadership Improves by John Keyser 2018
Brave Leadership: Unleash your most confident, powerful and authentic self by Kimberly Davis 2018
Dare to Lead by Brené Brown 2018
The meaning revolution: The power of transcendant leadership by Fred Kofman and Reid Hoffman 2018
Great at Work by Morten Hansen 2018
Herding Tigers by Todd Henry 2018
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Women and Leadership by Harvard Business Review 2018
Leading with emotional courage by Peter Bregman 2018
The High Potentials Advantage: get noticed, impress your boss and become a top leader by Jay Conger and Allen Church 2018
Einstein’s Boss: 10 rules for leading genius by Robert Hromas 2018
Athena Rising: How and Why men should mentor women by W Brad Johnson and David Smith 2018
Disrupters: Success strategies from women who break the mold by Patti Fletcher 2018
Build your dream team: Leadership based on a passion for people by Candela Iglesias 2017
Leading Gracefully by MoniqueTallon 2016
Conversational Intelligence: How great leaders build trust and get extraordinary results by Judith Glaser 2016
Language and the pursuit of leadership excellence by Chalmers Brothers et al 2015
Leading Continuous Change by Bill Pasmore 2015
The Power of Noticing: What the best leaders saw by Max Bazerman 2015
The Future of Work: Attract new talent, build better leaders and create a competative organization by Jacob Morgan 2014
Leader Evolution: From technical expertise to strategic leadership by Alan Patterson 2014
Leadership Blind Spots by Robert Shaw 2014
The First 90 days by Michael Watkins 2013
Lean In by Sheryl Sanberg 2013
How Remarkable Women Lead by Joanna Barsh and Susie Granston 2011
Start with Why by Simon Sinek 2011
The Stress Effect: Why smart leaders make dumb decisions - and what to do about it by Henry Thompson 2010
Fierce Leadership by Susan Scott 2009
Social Intelligence: The new science of human relationships by Daniel Goleman 2007
21 Irrefutable laws of leadership (10th ed) by John Maxwell 2007
Resonant leadership by Richard Boyatzis and Anniew McKee 2005
The Finer point of leadership by Michael Feiner 2005
Understanding Management and the Role of Managers
Managing Up by Mary Abbajay 2018
Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio 2018
Suddenly in charge 2nd ed by Roberta Matuson 2017
Influence without Authority by Allen Cohen and David Bradford 2017
Winning Well: A managers guide to getting results by Kevin Hurt and David Dye 2016
Under New Management by David Burkus 2016
Emotional Intelligence for project managers: the people skills you need to achieve outstanding results by Anthony Mersino 2013
The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker 2008
The future of management by Gary Hamel 2007
The emotionally intelligent manager by David Caruso and Peter Salovey 2004
Understanding Teams and Team Dynamics
Power your tribe by Christine Comaford 2018
Find Your Why by Simon Sinek et al 2017
Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to make groups smarter by Cass R. Sunstein and Reid Hastie 2015
Teaming: How Organizations learn to innovate and compete in the knowledge economy by Amy Edmonds 2014
Smart leaders, smarter teams by Roger Schwarz 2013
A Managers Guide to Virtual Teams by Yael Zofi 2011
How to Improve yourself and become a better leader
Range: Why generalists triumph in a specialized world by David Epstein 2019
How Women Rise by Sally Halgesen and Marshall Goldsmith 2018
Atomic Habits by James Clear 2018
Presence: Bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges by Amy Cuddy 2018
The Confidence code by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman 2018
Insight by Tasha Eurich 2018
Peak Performance by Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness 2017
Originals by Adam Grant 2017
Emotional Agility by Susan David 2016
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg 2014
Integrity: The courage to meet the demands of reality by Henry Cloud 2009
The Talent Code by Daniel Coyne 2009
Your brain at work by David Rock 2009
The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch 1999
Improving Your Critical Thinking, Decision Making and Problem Solving Capabilities
Super Thinking: the big book of mental models by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCans 2019
Labyrinth: The art of decision making by Pawel Motyl 2019
Unlocking creativity by Michael Roberto 2019
Thinking in Bets: Making smarter decisions when you don't have al the facts by Anne Duke 2019
Fearless Growth by Amanda Satile 2018
Meltdown: Why our systems fail and what we can do about it by Chris Clearfield and Andrea Telcink 2018
Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio 2018
The Model Thinker by Scott Page 2018
Disrupt You by Jay Saint 2015
Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less by Greg McKeown 2014
Workplace Culture
The Fearless Organization by Amy C. Edmondson 2018
The myth of the nice girl by Fran Hauser 2018
That's what she said: What men and women need to know about working together by Joanne Lipman 2018
Work Inspired: How to build an organizations where everyone loves to work by Aron Ain 2018
Born to build by Jim Clifton and Sangeeta Badal 2018
The Future Workplace Experience by Jeanne Meister and Karen Mulcahy 2017
What works: Gender equality by design by Iris Bohnet 2016
The Best Place to Work by Ron Friedman 2015
Gender intelligence by Barbara Annid and Keith Merron 2014
The idea driven organization: Unlocking the power of bottom up ideas by Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder 2014
Innovation and Creativity
Disrupt it yourself by Simone Ahuja 2019
Innovating innovation: Leadership tools to make revolutionary change happen to you and your business by David Morey 2019
Designing the Future: How Ford, Toyota, and other World-Class Organizations Use Lean Product Development to Drive Innovation and Transform Their Business by James M. Morgan and Jeffrey K. Liker 2018
Contagious: Why things catch on by Jonah Berger 2016
Monetizing Innovation by Madhaven Ramanujam 2014
Innovation as usual by Paddy Miller 2013
The Innovator's Solution by Clayton Christiansen and Michael Raynor 2013
Tinkertoys: a handbook of creative thinking techniques (2nd ed) by Michael Michalko 2006
Communication Skills
Pursuadable by Al Pettampalli 2016
Pre-suasion: A revolutionary way to influence and persuade by Robert Caldini 2016
Simply said: communicating better at work and beyond by Jay Sullivan 2016
Methods of Persuation: Use psychology to influence human behavior by Nick Kolenda 2013
Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman 2000
Understanding People, Their Biases & Motivations and How They Think
Biased: Uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think and do by Jennifer Eberhardt 2019
Truth: How the many sides of every story shape our reality by Hector MacDonald 2018
Barking up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science behind why everything you know about success is (mostly) wrong by Eric Barker 2017
Brain Rules by John Medina 2014
The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli 2014
Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain 2013
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 2013
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely 2010
Nudge by Richard Thaler and Sass Sunstein 2009
Sway: the Irresistable pull of irrational behavior by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafaran 2000
Business Strategy
Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick by Chris Bradley et al 2018
Work Inspired: How to Build an Organization Where Everyone Loves to Work by Aron Ain 2018
Blue Ocean strategy by W Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgue 2015
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt 2011
The art of strategy: A game theorist's guide to success in business and life by Avinash Dixit and Berry Nalebuff 2010
Product Development
The inevitable: Understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our future by Kevin Kelly 2017
Universal principles of design by William Lidwell et al 2010
Flirting with disaster by Mark Gerstein and Michael Ellsberg 2008