Summer Reading List for Managers and Leaders

July 14, 2013, by Stephanie Messier | Performance Management

What’s better than spending a day at the beach with a good book?  Okay, the weather hasn’t exactly been beach friendly lately and these are not beach novels, but rather business topics.   In one of our previous blogs we had mentioned that managers should try and read at least one new business book per quarter.  Here’s what’s made our list of business books we have either read or are planning to read:

• The Power of Simplicity – by Jack Trout
• Good to Great – by Jim Collins
• Why CEOs Fail – David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo
• Egonomics – David Marcum and Stephen B. Smith
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – Marshall Goldsmith and David Reiter
• The E-Myth:  Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to do  About It – by Michael Gerber
• The Speed of Trust – by Stephen Covey
• The 4 Disciplines of Execution – by Stephen Covey and Chris McChesney
• Have a Nice Conflict – by Tim Scudder, Michael Patterson, Kent Mitchell
• Drive – by Daniel Pink
• The Complete Guide to Coaching at Work – by Perry Zeus and Suzanne Skiffington
• Who Moved My Cheese? – by Spencer Johnson M.D.
• The Goal:  A Process of Ongoing Improvement – by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
• Jack:  Straight from the Gut – by John A. Byrne (about previous GE CEO Jack Welch)
• Leadership is an Art – by Max DuPree
• Leading Change – by John P. Kotter

What’s on your reading list?