The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni
In this leadership fable, Patrick Lencioni shines the light on the foundational elements of teamwork and the impact it has on the whole organization. While simple in concept, this book offers some pragmatic practices that will help shape any team.

The Unfinished Leader:
Balancing Contradictory Answers to Unsolvable Problems
David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo and Cade Cowan
While managers typically deal with problems that have clear answers, leaders must guide organizations through gnarly issues that often have no apparent, clean-cut solutions. In their book, Dotlich, Cairo and Cowan, provide the mindsets and tools to recognize such paradoxes, understand competing demands, and help leaders take action.

Leaders Make the Future:
Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World
Bob Johansen
Based on research from his workshops, futurist Bob Johansen, outlines how society is evolving into a VUCA world – volatile, uncertain and ambiguous. He provides emergent insights and opportunities, as well as critical skills leaders will need to ‘listen to the future’ and ultimately be successful.

The Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation
Vijay Govindarajan
The future is now. In order to get to the future, you need to begin today. Vijay Govindarajan shares a simple model involving three boxes to help manage the paradox of balancing the present, and yet getting ready for the future.
 

The First 90 Days:
Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter
Michael D. Watkins
A pivotal moment for any leader is the transition into that new role. Missteps during those first three months can put a career’s worth of work at risk. The updated and expanded version of this book is a staple for any leader’s library.

The Leadership Pipeline –
How to Build The Leadership-Powered Company
Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter and James Noel
A requisite for business success is having strong and ready leaders at all levels. Grounded by interviews with more than 100 international companies, the Leadership Pipeline model serves as a good framework to give clarity around the core and common leadership ‘passages’ all leaders must go through. It helps organizations systematically select, develop and assess based on specific responsibilities at each leader level. Good desktop tool for all leaders.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t
Jim Collins
Good to Great remains one of my favorite foundational business books. From the author of Built to Last, Good to Great outlines an approach for turning a good, average or even mediocre company into a great one. After much research, Jim Collins has assembled a list of ‘good to great companies’ in order to discern what separates the elite from the rest.

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
The Arbinger Institute

Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust
Edgar H Schein   |   Peter A Schein

Executive Presence, Second Edition: The Art of Commanding Respect Like a CEO
Harrison Monarth