What great leaders are made of? Learn from the people who have more to offer in the realm of leadership than just words. 

Management & Leadership

What if everything you knew about corporate growth was wrong? James M. Kilts lays down the harsh truth and a practical path forward. In “Doing What Matters,” the celebrated CEO who revived Gillette and Nabisco dismantles myths about endless growth and reveals the real keys to success: relentless cost control, performance over effort, and fearless leadership. Packed with powerful lessons on decision-making, team building, and confronting reality, Kilts’ revolutionary “old-school” approach is a must-read for managers hungry to deliver meaningful, lasting results in today’s consumer products world.

Doing What Matters

Ever felt the urge to speak up when things go awry but hesitated, thinking, "Who am I to make a difference?" If you've ever doubted your ability to create change, this book speaks to you!
Pastor Clay Scroggins shares practical strategies in his bestseller, addressing the American evangelical audience. Learn how to lead in God's name, following Jesus's example. It's not about authority but cultivating influence by speaking truth, challenging norms, and offering hope and healing to touch hearts.

How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge

Based on a rigorous five-year research study analyzing 1,435 Fortune 500 companies, Collins and his team identified 11 companies that transitioned from being merely good to outperforming the market by at least three times over a 15-year period. The book investigates what set these companies apart from others that remained average or declined. At the heart of the book is Collins’ belief that "good is the enemy of great"—many companies settle for being good and never strive for more. He argues that greatness is not a matter of luck or circumstance but of conscious choice and discipline.

Good to Great

“Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence” offers a transformative perspective on leadership in the modern world. In this seminal work, Goleman redefines leadership excellence by emphasizing the critical role of emotional intelligence in guiding effective leadership practices. As the world evolves rapidly, traditional leadership paradigms no longer suffice. Goleman argues that leadership success hinges on understanding and mastering emotions, both in oneself and others. The book underscores that emotional intelligence is far more important than conventional technical skills or strategic acumen in fostering effective leadership.

Leadership

Robin Sharma's “The Leader Who Had No Title” is a modern business fable designed to inspire individuals to awaken their inner leader, regardless of their official role or title in life. The book's premise is simple yet profound: leadership is not confined to those with formal authority or high positions, but is a quality that anyone can embody at any level of an organization. Sharma's message encourages us to recognize that personal leadership can be demonstrated in every action, no matter our position, by focusing on self-improvement, service to others, and the pursuit of excellence, in everything we do.

The Leader Who Had No Title

In “Coaching for Performance,” Sir John Whitmore and performance consultants outline a powerful framework for using coaching as a tool for leadership and organizational growth. The book promotes building high-performance cultures that prioritize both results and individual well-being. It challenges traditional management by shifting from control-based methods to coaching that encourages self-awareness, responsibility, and personal growth. Whitmore emphasizes that sustainable change arises when individuals become aware of their behaviors and take ownership of their development. This human-centered approach helps unlock potential, remove inner obstacles, and drive better performance by placing accountability in the hands of the coachee.

Coaching for Performance

Multipliers is a book about leadership in which the author identifies two groups of leaders: multiplying leadership, which seeks to raise the potential and intelligence of the group, and diminishing leadership, which lowers the potential and puts down the people they lead on their own terms. This book brings attention to the results that can be achieved by leaders who seek to develop others rather than their inner self, as such leaders inspire extraordinary outcomes that promote generative thinking and, a sense of ownership and enhance productivity in their organizations. 

Multipliers

David Marquet introduces transformation leaders principles that challenged formal hierarchical structures, focusing on empowering individuals and fostering an assimilation of shared responsibility. He emphasizes using bequest for aspiration and guiding principles for decision making as foundational strategies to make lasting touch inside an organization. He advocates for leading to weave this bequest into the frame of daily operations as well as ensuring that the composition's values proceed applicative and inspiring crossway generations.

Turn the Ship Around!

"Don't Wait, Lead Now" by Jim Lord is an engaging exploration of leadership, blending real-life stories, personal experiences, and insightful lessons to offer readers a guide to becoming effective leaders. Drawing from his own journey and growth as a man, son, brother, husband, father, and business leader, Lord presents a collection of relatable and practical stories aimed at those who seek to enhance their leadership skills.

Don’t Wait, Lead Now

"Your Strategy Needs a Strategy" is a contemporary guide to navigating the complex and ever-changing corporate landscape. It highlights the significance of adapting techniques to different circumstances rather than using a one-size-fits-all strategy. Based on extensive research and the authors' Strategy Palette approach, the book assists leaders in identifying their business environment and selecting the most effective strategy. It helps to carry out solutions corresponding to company goals in the face of uncertainty by providing practical insights and resources. With a focus on rigorous analysis and real-world examples, this book offers readers the knowledge and confidence they need to prosper in today's rapidly changing business climate.

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy

“Competing in the Age of AI” is a book by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how businesses work. The authors, professors at Harvard Business School, explore how AI affects strategy and leadership in both new and old companies. They use examples to show how businesses need to adapt to stay competitive in the AI era. The book suggests that companies should focus on using data, digital networks, and AI to make decisions and operate more efficiently. It also discusses the challenges and ethical issues that come with these changes.

Competing In The Age Of AI

Some women follow the established rules, but some women write their own rules. Such women are aware that those who dare to challenge the status quo are the ones who leave a lasting impact and have the potential to change the world. In the narrative voiced by Shellye Archambeau, a resilient young black woman, this book reveals the harsh realities integral to genuine success. It sheds light on the trials that shape careers, from confronting challenges head-on to navigating economic downturns. Dare to dive into Archambeau's remarkable journey to get precious wisdom.

Unapologetically Ambitious

Written by a famous engineer and entrepreneur Tony Fadell, ‘’Build’’ is a blend of memoir and career guide - through personal stories about his rises and falls, he answers some of the crucial career questions such as what profession you should choose, how to deal with failure, be a good manager and leader, know if an idea is good, and many more. 

Build

New products, new technologies. See the future with the eyes of ingenuity.

Technology & Innovation

Thanks to all the advancements in technology, extensive collaboration and user participation has profoundly altered the relationship between leaders and employers; so much so, in fact, that the very traits that made leaders great in the past have come to be considered liabilities. In “LeaderShift,” Emmanuel Gobillot explains why, and shows leaders how to best prepare their collaborative minds.

LeaderShift

Give life and voice to your product. The right place to learn to sell and promote!

Marketing & Sales

“The Ultimate Sales Machine” by the late great sales guru Chet Holmes is rooted in a simple premise: that mastery isn’t about doing 4,000 things, but about doing 12 things 4,000 times. Hence, it’s no surprise that Holmes’ wonderful little book is dedicated to 12 key business strategies, each of which is exhaustively examined and resourcefully relayed in step-by-step guides.

The Ultimate Sales Machine

Tim Cook once praised Apple for its ability to say “no” to great ideas. In “The 4 Disciplines of Execution,” Sean Covey, Chris McChesney and Jim Huling explain how much wisdom there’s behind this counterintuitive claim and why it is the actual foundation of focus – the first step toward proper strategic execution. The other three of the title are: clarity, engagement, and accountability.


The 4 Disciplines of Execution

First published in 1987 – and progressively revised and updated through six editions – “The Leadership Challenge” is one of the classic evidence-based, research-backed guides for effective leadership. It is, according to its authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, a book “about the practices leaders use to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, separateness into solidarity, and risks into rewards.”

The Leadership Challenge

Take a sneak-peek into the private lives of people who left a mark in world history.

Biographies & Memoirs

Part memoir, part “blueprint for forward-thinking business leaders and managers,” “Trillion Dollar Coach” tells the story of Bill Campbell, perhaps the most influential and least known mentor of many Silicon Valley visionaries. Written by Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, the book goes beyond being a touching and tender memoir, as it extrapolates more than 30 principles and ideas straight from Campbell’s never-written leadership playbook.

Trillion Dollar Coach

 Learn the methods of effective communication, and understand what drives corporate culture. 

Corporate Culture & Communication

Blending history and management theory, as well as leadership and culture studies, “What You Do Is Who You Are” by Ben Horowitz explores the importance of business culture, and rummages through the lives and ideals of a few great figures from the past (Genghis Khan, Toussaint Louverture, and the samurai) to extract valuable lessons on how should one build a culture best suited to their business.

What You Do Is Who You Are

In “What the CEO Wants You To Know,” Indian-American business consultant Ram Charan looks at the theory of business. What does it take to become a successful business leader? According to Charan, all you need is business acumen and people skills. “What the CEO Wants You To Know” introduces business acumen (the knowledge of the basic building blocks of business) as one of the central aspects of leadership.

What the CEO Wants You To Know

“Business @ the Speed of Thought” focuses on how companies can adapt to the Information Age. Written in the late 1990s, it looks at the possibilities of the internet and stresses the importance of a free flow of information within your company. Bill Gates stresses the significance of establishing a digital nervous system in your company - an internal communication system to coordinate actions at all levels.

Business @ the Speed of Thought

Originally published under the title “Minority Leader,” “Lead from the Outside” by Stacey Abrams is a handbook for outsiders who dream of becoming the leaders of tomorrow. Combining snippets of autobiography with some hard-earned advice on succeeding in a world built for white males, Abrams’ book expounds how one can use their differences to their benefit and create a lasting change.

Lead from the Outside

From Steve Jobs to Jack Ma. Understand what great entrepreneurs have in common, and what pitfalls you need to be wary of!

Entrepreneurship

The best microbooks on Emotional Intelligence to make you overcome obstacles in your personal and professional life.

Emotional Intelligence

What does it take to become a successful leader in business? CEOs and entrepreneurs alike need to learn to think five moves ahead. Knowing yourself, planning in advance and staying calm in the face of problems are the hallmarks of a successful business person. “Your Next Five Moves” provides you with tools and tales for how to lead a company to success.

Your Next Five Moves

Currently in its third edition, “Leadership and Self-Deception” is a business fable that explores the damaging effects of self-betrayal. It tells an entertaining story concerning a young employee and his soon-to-be new boss – the former a regular guy with a problem so big he cannot even see it, the latter an experienced sage in the subtlest matters of the heart and organizational culture.

Leadership and Self-Deception

Bosses are supposed to guide teams to achieve results, which makes building trusting relationships the essence of being a good leader. Former Silicon Valley executive Kim Scott has learned that the best way to build such relationships is through personal care and readiness to challenge people directly. She calls this framework “radical candor” and elucidates it in some detail in this same-titled 2017 bestseller.

Radical Candor

Personal Development

Simon Sinek points out that decisions are not always based on real knowledge, but often rest on false assumptions. “Start with Why” guides by offering the golden circle analysis – Why does your organization do what it does? How does it do it? What does it do? – This approach will not only improve your cognitive abilities but will also increase your leadership skills.

Start with Why

It’s time to start making good investments and learn how to manage your money better. 

Investing & Finance

In “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind,” Canadian multimillionaire T. Harv Eker examines the differences between how rich, middle-class, and poor people think, and provides 17 attitudes and actions to take, which should lead to permanent changes in the readers’ financial lives.

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

Build a solid career, learn how to run your business and inspire other people to do the same.

Career & Business

“The Coaching Habit” by Michael Bungay Stanier suggests that traditional coaching, grounded in advice-giving and fix-it practices, is counterproductive since it creates overdependent employees. As an antidote, it advocates for a more interactive question-based training method which emphasizes the importance of saying less in a conversation, and distills the essentials of coaching to seven core questions.

The Coaching Habit

You should have already received an AOL CD ROM to access the Internet at your home, right? If so, you'll enjoy knowing that this microbook is based on a book by Steve Case, the founder of America Online. In "The Third Wave," he explains that we are entering the third wave of the internet, a time when entrepreneurs will transform sectors such as health, education, transportation and energy, and with it, our lives. To succeed in this new era of the internet, you need to develop some unusual skills. This microbook explains what these skills are and helps you understand what you need to do to be a pioneer in this third Internet era. If you want to succeed in an entirely connected world, come read that microbook with 12min!

The Third Wave

Successfully managing a company is no easy feat, as Andrew Grove, former CEO of Intel, can attest. There are, however, ways to simplify the task and “High Output Management” will help you get there. Each of us has the potential to become a great manager, since we are already managers of our own lives. While sharing the secrets of Intel’s success, Grove wittily explains the principles of being a successful manager.

High Output Management

Patrick Lencioni’s best-known leadership fable, “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,” explores the five main issues a team can face on its way to greatness: absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results. It also teaches leaders how to tackle these issues so they can turn the “I’s” of their employees into a collective “we.”

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

It's time to learn about the main pillars of society, world politics, and different cultures. 

Society & Politics

Thirty years after women have become 50% of the academic population in the United States, men still occupy the vast majority of leadership positions, both in public and private sectors. That means the feminist voices are still not being heard in an egalitarian manner regarding decisions that affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg, the most powerful woman on Facebook and one of the 50 most powerful woman in the world according to Forbes magazine, explores the main motives by which this distortion still occurs and offers practical tips for women who want to use their potential to conquer the world.

Lean In

Why do so few people say "I love my job!"? For many people, to like what you do is almost like winning the lottery. Few have a chance to be truly valued for their work and feel part of something bigger. That is because today's leaders do not understand how people seek purpose in their work. Ever wanted to become a leader and did not know where to start? If the answer is yes, the Leaders Eat Last book by Simon Sinek is a full plate for you (pardon the pun). In it, Sinek explores themes such as the origin of the hierarchy, its role in our contemporary society, and how to become a truly admired leader. Let's go together on this journey to understand what motivates people and create a better work environment? Stick with us!

Leaders Eat Last

Explore the work-ethic of productive people and get a glimpse into the techniques that helped them reach a high level of success.

Productivity & Time Management

In this 5-step manual for multiplying time, “Procrastinate on Purpose,” Rory Vaden shares an action plan in which the central idea is to start making deliberate choices regarding the tasks, goals, and aspirations that receive your attention. Prioritize properly to invest in what really matters: eliminate, automate, delegate, procrastinate, and concentrate.

Procrastinate on Purpose

An easy-to-read business fable, “The New One Minute Manager” is a minor update of “The One Minute Manager,” the bestselling management book of the 20th century. Just like the original, it uses a simple parable to present and illustrate the three secrets of one-minute management: one-minute goals, one-minute praisings, and one-minute redirects.

The New One Minute Manager

Written by decorated Navy SEAL officers Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, “Extreme Ownership” elucidates, through compelling narratives, the principles that enable elite military units to emerge victorious from vicious armed conflicts – and demonstrates how to apply them in a regular business environment.