Ipek’s List of Top 25 Leadership Book
There are many lists floating around about people’s favorite leadership books. As many of you know I have a unique perspective about this topic. Given my belief that leaders need greater relational and creative capacities to navigate in today’s world, I decided to join the ranks and create a list myself.
As you’ll notice, this is not a typical leadership book list. But these are not typical times. This list includes those books with ideas most relevant to a new kind of leadership that we need in today’s conceptual era. This is an age where each day can bring unimaginable circumstances, where our previous experience and analytic prowess no longer suffice in meeting current and future demands. We need leaders with different capacities than were needed in the knowledge era or the industrial era. We need leaders who can draw out the best in themselves and others, who can be creative and see paths invisible to conventional thinking, and who can cultivate collective intelligence.
The Unfolding Now by A.H. Almaas
Leading with Kindness by William Baker & Michael O’Malley
The Everyday Work of Art by Eric Booth
Resonant Leadership by Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee
Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Leadership is an Art by Max DePree
The Values of Belonging by Carol Lee Flinders
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Power vs. Force by David Hawkins
The Tao of Leadership by John Heider
Conscious Business by Fred Kofman
Solving Tough Problems by Adam Kahane
A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini & Richard Lannon
The Sacred Art of Listening by Kay Lindahl
Leading with Questions by Michael Marquardt
Creating with Others by Shaun McNiff
The Active Life by Parker Palmer
Leadership Can Be Taught by Sharon Daloz Parks
A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
Out of our Minds by Ken Robinson
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
Inspire! by Lance Secretan
Leadership for the Disillusioned by Amanda Sinclair
The Ethic of Care and Empathy by Michael Slote
The Tending Instinct by Shelley Taylor