TOM'S LEADERSHIP BOOK LIST
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Spiritual Leadership
Authentic Leadership
Built To Last
Good to Great
Leading with Heart
Next Generation Leader
In Search of Excellence
How The Mighty Fall
The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership
Drive
Necessary Endings
Oswald Sanders
Bill George
Jim Collins
Jim Collins
Mike Krzyzewski
Andy Stanley
Tom Peters
Jim Collins
Steve Sample
Daniel Pink
Henry Cloud
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Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance
Tough Choices
Loving Monday
Mastering Monday
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
The Five Temptations of a CEO
Death By Meeting
Mastering the Rockefeller Habits
Leadership The Challenge
When Professionals Have to Lead
Leadership is an Art
HBR on Leadership
Leadership & The New Science
True North
The Congruent Life
Making Meetings Work
Servant Leadership
Understanding Leadership
The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader
Attitude 101
The Romance of Tata Steel
A Passion for Excellence
Thriving on Chaos
What Leaders Really Do
Managing The Professional Service Firm
Talent Is Overrated
Emotion Intelligence
Louis Gerstner
Carly Fiorina
John Beckett
John Beckett
Patrick Lencioni
Patrick Lencioni
Patrick Lencioni
Verne Harnish
Kouzes & Posner
DeLong, Gabarro & Lee
Max DePree
Margaret Wheatley
Bill George
Michael Thompson
Tropman
Robert Greenleaf
Tom Marshall
John Maxwell
John Maxwell
R.M. Lala
Tom Peters
Tom Peters
John Kotter
David Maister
Geoff Colvin
Daniel Goleman
Business Leaders - continued
28. Senior Leadership Teams
29. The Effective Executive
30. First, Break All The Rules
31. Winning
32. Enough
33. The Peter Principle
34. On The Brink
35. Dr. Deming
36. Leadership
37. Thou Shall Prosper
38. Even Happier: A Gratitude Journal
39. Onward
40. Succession Transition
41. From Values to Action
42. The Art of War
43. The One-Life Solution
44. When We Are Free
45. Disciplined Dreaming
46. Start With Why
47. Ownership Thinking
48. Wealth: Is It Worth It?
49. Standout
50. The Advantage
51. American Icon
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Ruth Wageman
Peter Drucker
Marcus Buckingham
Jack Welch
John Bogle
Lawrence Peter
Henry Paulson, Jr.
Rafael Aguago
Rudolph Giuliani
Daniel Lapin
Tal Ben-Shahar
Howard Schultz
Bill Hermann & Gordon Krater,
Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr.
Sun Tzu
Henry Cloud
Tim Nash
Josh Linkner
Simon Sinek
Brad Hams
Truett Cathy
Marcus Buckingham
Patrick Lencioni
Bryce Hoffman
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Sacred Honor
The Spiritual Growth of a Public Man
Abraham Lincoln – A Spiritual Biography
Lincoln on Leadership
God’s Leader for a Nation – Abraham Lincoln
Washington’s Secret War
1776
John Adams
When Character Was King – Ronald Reagan
Thirteen Days
Eyewitness To Power
Team of Rivals
No Higher Honor
Colin Powell
McDonald & Trueblood
Elton Trueblood
Donald Phillips
David Collins
Thomas Fleming
David McCullough
David McCullough
Peggy Noonan
Robert F. Kennedy
David Gergen
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Condoleezza Ric
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Purpose Driven Life
Discovering Your Giftedness
Courageous Leadership
Your Work Matters to God
Calling Christian Leaders
The Workaholic & His Family
The Servant Leader
Leadership by the Book
The Dream Giver
The Life You’ve Always Wanted
Descending Into Greatness
The Leadership Secrets of Jesus
World Shapers – Quotes from Great Missionaries
Men in Leadership – Daily Devotional
Choosing to Cheat
Moses – A Man of Selfless Dedication
Joseph – A Man of Integrity & Forgiveness
David – A Man of Passion & Destiny
Taking the Lead
The Call
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Simple Path
Gifted To Lead – The Art of Leading as a Woman
Axiom
The Principle of the Path
Spiritual Leadership
EntreLeadership
Action Trumps Everything
Rick Warren
Mels Carbonell
Bill Hybels
Sherman & Hendricks
John Stott
Minirth & Meier
Blanchard & Hodges
Blanchard, Hybels & Hodges
Bruce Wilkinson
John Ortberg
Bill Hybels
Mike Murdock
Vinita Hampton
Bob Briner
Andy Stanley
Chuck Swindoll
Chuck Swindoll
Chuck Swindoll
Ron Jenson
Os Guinness
Marshall Frady
Mother Teresa
Nancy Beach
Bill Hybels
Andy Stanley
Henry & Richard Blackaby
Dave Ramsey
Charles Kiefer
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Bo’s Lasting Lessons
Tom Landry
Quiet Strength – Tony Dungy
From Ashes to Glory – Bill McCartney
The Lombardi Rules
The Miracle of St. Anthony
Coach Wooden’ s Pyramid of Success
Uncommon
The Score Takes Care of Itself
Seasons of Life
The Long Snapper
The Mentor Leader
Third & Out: Rich Rodriguez
John Bacon
Greg Lewis
Nathan Whitaker
Dave Diles
Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Adrian Wojnarowski
Wooden & Carty
Tony Dungy
Bill Walsh
Jeffrey Marx
Jeffrey Marx
Tony Dungy
John Bacon
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The Starfish & The Spider
Morph!
Blue Ocean Strategy
Margin
Understanding Yourself
Who Moved My Cheese?
The Victory of Reason
The Man in the Mirror
Blur
Claiming Your Place at the Fire
The Road Less Traveled
Finding a Job You Can Love
Second Acts
The 4 – Hour Work – Week
The Prince
The Treasure Principle
Now, Discover Your Strengths
The Profit Zone
Clients for Life
A Whack on the Side of the Head
Power Up Your Profits
Blink
The World is Flat
Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Cradle to Cradle
Marketing Myopia (HBR article)
Kotler on Marketing
Competitive Strategy
Outliers
Switch
The Big Short
Liars Poker
Made to Stick
Socialnomics
What Got You Here Won’t Get you There
Too Big to Fail
The Last Lecture
Mindset-The New Psychology of Success
Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It
Overhaul
Making Ripples
Islands of Profit In a Sea of Red Ink
The Happiness Hypothesis
Car Guys vs. Bean Counters
The E Myth Manager
The 80/20 Principle
Brafman & Beckstrom
Ron Martoia
Kim & Mauborgne
Dr. Swenson
William Menninger
Spencer Johnson
Rodney Stark
Patrick Morley
David Meyer
Leider & Shapiro
Scott Peck
Ralph Mattson
Stephan Pollan
Timothy Ferriss
Niccolo Machiavelli
Randy Alcorn
Marcus Buckingham
Adrian Slywotzky
Sheth & Sobel
Roger von Oech
Troy Waugh
Malcolm Gladwell
Thomas L. Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman
McDonough & Braungart
Theodore Levitt
Philip Kotler
Michael Porter
Malcolm Gladwell
Dan & Chip Heath
Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis
Chip & Dan Heath
Erik Qualman
Marshall Goldsmith
Andrew Sorkin
Randy Pausch
Carol Dweck
Cali Ressler
Steven Rattner
Mike Breaux
Jonathan Byrnes
Jonathan Haidt
Bob Lutz
Michael Gerber
Richard Koch
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Other Business Books
47. Getting Naked
48. Purple Cow
49. American Wheels Chinese Roads
50. The Lean Startup
51. The Ultimate Sales Machine
52. Steve Jobs
53. Multiple Intelligences
54. The Israel Test
55. Crossing the Chasm
56. Tribes
57. The Art of Choosing
58. Anxiety Free
59. The Coming Jobs War
60. Bridge Builder
61. Getting to Yes - Negotiating Agreement w/o Giving In
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Patrick Lencioni
Seth Godin
Michael J. Dunne
Eric Ries
Chet Holmes
Walter Isaacson
Howard Gardner
George Gilder
Geoffrey Moore
Seth Godin
Sheena Iyengar
Robert Leahy
Jim Clifton
Walther Leisler Kiep
Bill Ury
Other Books
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Good to Great in God’s Eyes
The White Man’s Burden
Serving with Eyes Wide Open
Ministering Cross-Culturally
How Churches and Leaders Can Get It
A Resilient Life
Rediscovering God in America
The Hole in Our Gospel
Whose Land? Whose Promise?
My Business My Mission
Lone Survivor
Reboot!
Detroit (A Biography)
Chip Ingram
William Easterly
David Livermore
Lingenfelter and Mayers
Craig Groeschel
Gordon MacDonald
Newt Gingrich
Richard Stearns
Gary Burge
Doug Seebeck/Timothy Stoner
Marcus Luttrell
Phil Burgess
Scott Martelle
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