Best leadership book?

[Narkos]

Getting ready to embark of some added responsibility and authority....any good leadership books to recommend?

[wellstone dem]

1. Hands down , best leadership book

"Servant Leadership" by Robert Greenleaf.

"The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions…The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types. Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature."

http://www.greenleaf.org/

[Narkos]

4. Awesome.....checked it out on Amazon

Will add it to my list...thanks

[SharonAnn]

7. THough I believe this, today's corporate management doesn't. It could get you fired.

[wellstone dem]

8. Toro Company uses this model

as does Festival Foods, a supermarket chain in Wisconsin--to name just a few.

[Motown_Johnny]

2. "Mein Kampf" if you are actually posting here as a conservative troll

[Narkos]

3. You're joking, right?

[wellstone dem]

5. A few others

Bolman, L and Deal, T. 2001. Leading with Soul, 2nd ed. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco CA, 40.

"Leadership is an Art" Max Depree

I had to look these up in a bibliography on a paper I wrote.

[Narkos]

11. Thanks very much

Looking those up right now

[FSogol]

6. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

[Narkos]

12. True true!!

[WinkyDink]

9. "Henry V".

[applegrove]

10. "The Seven Habits of Highly Affective People" is a good old standard.