Hbr's 10 Must Reads on Leadership (with Featured Article What Makes an Effective Executive, by Peter F. Drucker)

Go from being a good manager to being an extraordinary leader. If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on leadership and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your own and your organization's performance. This book will inspire you to: motivate others to excel; build your team's self-confidence; provoke positive change; set direction; encourage smart risk-taking; manage with tough empathy; credit others for your success; increase self-awareness; draw strength from adversity.

1. What Makes a Leader? Daniel Goleman
2. What Makes an Effective Executive Peter F. Drucker
3. What Leaders Really Do John P. Kotter
4. The Work of Leadership Heifetz, Ronald A. and Laurie, Donald L.
5. Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? Goffee, Robert and Jones, Gareth
6. Crucibles of Leadership Bennis, Warren G. and Thomas, Robert J.
7. Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve Collins, Jim
8. Seven Transformations of Leadership Rooke, David and Torbert, William R.
9. Discovering Your Authentic Leadership Bill George, Peter Sims, Andrew N. McLean, and Diana Mayer
10. In Praise of the Incomplete Leader Deborah Ancona, Thomas W. Malone, Wanda J. Orlikowski, and Peter M. Senge