Think Like a Leader

Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling

Edgar H. Schein · 2013

Ask what you do not know, of the person who knows it, and let them see that you need the answer.

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek

Leadership becomes real when the person with the most power chooses to carry the first cost.

Negotiation Hacks

Simon Rycraft

The strongest negotiator is not the loudest person in the room. It is the person with the clearest map of what everyone can trade.

Scaling Up Excellence

Robert I. Sutton, Huggy Rao

The best organizations do not grow by getting louder. They grow by making excellence easier to copy and mediocrity harder to hide.

Scrum

Jeff Sutherland

Scrum is not the art of going faster. It is the discipline of learning fast enough to stop wasting the team's life.

Start, Stay, or Leave

Trey Gowdy

A good decision is not the loudest instinct. It is the choice that survives evidence, motive, consequence, and time.

The 80/20 CEO

Bill Canady

The CEO's most valuable decision is the quiet refusal to spend elite attention on ordinary work.

The Diary of a CEO

Steven Bartlett

Your life compounds in the direction of the truths you are willing to make visible.

The Effective Executive

Peter F. Drucker

Effective executives do not start with their tasks. They start with their time, their contribution, and the few decisions that make performance possible.

The Great CEO Within

Matt Mochary

The best CEO is not the person holding everything together. It is the person building the system that no longer needs them as glue.

Good to Great

Jim Collins · 2001

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni · 2002

Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell · 2005

A first impression is useful when it becomes a question before it becomes a verdict.

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Adam M. Grant · 2021

The mark of intelligence is not defending a belief forever. It is knowing when the belief has stopped earning its place.

The E-Myth Revisited

Michael E. Gerber · 1995

Your business is nothing more than a distinct reflection of who you are. So if your business is to change, you must change first.

The One Minute Manager

Kenneth H. Blanchard · 1982

People work better when expectations are clear and feedback arrives while the moment is still alive.

The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce

Heather E. McGowan & Chris Shipley · 2023

Lead like the guide on the rope, not the general on the hill: the team goes up together, or not at all.

$100M Offers

Alex Hormozi

The best offer makes the buying decision feel smaller than the cost of staying the same.

The Art of Active Listening: How People at Work Feel Heard, Valued, and Understood

Heather R. Younger · 2023

People do not remember that you listened. They remember what happened next, and whether you told them.

How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

John C. Maxwell · 2009

Better thinking is not luck. It is a scheduled discipline.

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

John C. Maxwell · 1998

Leadership is measured by the capacity it creates in others.