5 Best Leadership Books (100% Honest Reviews & Reader’s Guide)

The New One Minute Manager

By Ken Blanchard

The best leadership book that tops my list. A classic in its field that every aspiring leader should have, I have ‘The New One Minute Manager’ by Ken Blanchard.

For the past four decades, this management and leadership book has helped millions to achieve more success in both their professional and personal lives. It is a classic management book that every manager and leader should read.

If you have read the previous ‘The One Minute Manager’ by Kenneth, Ph.D. & co, this book will definitely be a must-read!

While the principles of ‘One Minute Management’ is the same. Our world has changed a lot in the past four decades since the book’s publication.

The rise of the digital age and the power of instant communication have changed the world into something that is totally unheard of decades ago.

Pressure are on the workforce to do more with less.

The revolutionizing of the world allows corporate to perform and completed a task that previously requires a huge amount of resources, funding, and staff can now be completed with a simple click.

Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson have written The New One Minute Manager to help us. We who are leaders or aspired to be one will be equipped with this book’s powerful, important lessons to lead the new generations.

Three simple but important secrets about leading others, the lesson you need to become better leaders.

What you can learn from this book is not only from some of the most inspiring managers but also from one of the best teachers of management.

The book teaches a priceless lesson you will always remember.

Arguably one of the best leadership books for all leaders and managers.

My Testimonial 

One of the Best Leadership Books that every leader and manager of people should read! A book that in my opinion a classic in the future years to come.

The Power of Positive Leadership

By Jon Gordon

Do you know who are the people whom you spend most of your waking hours with?

Give you a hint.

It is not your friends, your other half, or your kids.

If you have guessed, it is your colleagues.

Yes, you spend at least 8 hours a day with your colleagues, but are you having the time of your life?

Or have you always heard people rant about how their work ‘sucks’ and the boss is ‘shitty’?

Since we spend most of our waking hours with our colleagues it is our responsibility as the leader to make it a great experience.

Not only it will make your employee become more motivated for work, but it will also improve the productivity of your company or department.

Being positive is not because that life is easy. As a leader, you will face hundreds of obstacles, tests, and negativity in your way. This is just reality.

Positive leadership is the way to lead, if you want to build a great culture, unite your organization so that you may face and overcome adversity you may meet.

Developing a connected and committed team is the way to superior results.

Jon Gordon the author of The Energy Bus, has documented the success of leaders of our time who have transformed their companies, organizations, and schools.

This book will journey us through history and discovered our paths to success. A framework of positive leadership with proven principles, compelling stories, and practical ideas that will make you a positive leader.

The power of this book may just be what you need to motivate your team for success.

My Testimonial 

A life-changing book to leadership success. A book that every leader should have in their library of exceptional books.

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

By John C. Maxwell

Do you know your strength?

Do you know what is your weakness?

Do you want a guidebook on leadership that will help you to guide your team to success?

This expanded version of the classic best-seller leadership book “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” by Dr. Maxwell shows you the 21 rules that every leader should follow.

In this book, an exercise shall be performed in every chapter that will help you grow and succeed.

Equip with state-of-the-art evaluation tools that will help will reveal your leadership strengths and weaknesses so you can now understand yourself. And by doing so, you shall grow into one of the most successful leaders of all time that people will look up to.

The author John C. Maxwell is an internationally recognized leadership expert and speaker.

He is an expert in coaching leaders who lead organizations and huge corporations to lead effectively.

Illustrated in different short stories in this book “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”. He will teach you 21 important lessons that will make you come out at the top.

You shall be the leader well-respected.

My Testimonial 

An essential book for the leadership team to have. A classic leader’s rule book helps leaders who want to avoid the many pitfalls that other leaders face. 

Leaders Eat Last

By Simon Sinek

Do you drag your feet to work every day? Or do you tap dance to work like Warren Buffett?

Do you want to feel trusted and fulfilled at your workplace?

Have you ever dreamed that one day you will be so excited and inspired to go to work?

This is not a dream, in fact, great leaders can create such culture and environments.

A workplace where people are motivated to work as the dream team to do remarkable things and produce great results.

Do you want to build such a workplace?

Simon Sinek the author of New York Best Seller ‘START WITH WHY’ is a renowned TED Talk speaker and business consultant who started a movement to help people become inspired at what they do and how they do it. Which in turn inspires their colleagues and customers.

With more than 28 million who’ve watched his TED Talk based on ‘START WITH WHY’, he has inspired millions of entrepreneurs and business leaders.

In his new book ‘Leaders Eat Last’, he answers why some workplaces where no matter what incentives are offered, are doomed to infighting, fragmentation, and failure. While other organizations have teams that trust each other so deeply that they would put their lives on the line for each other.

The answer:

Great leaders sacrifice their own comfort for the good of those in their care.

But what exactly does it means? and why?

With the concept of the “Circle of Safety” separates the security inside the team from the challenges outside. Simon Sinek shall illustrate his ideas with some of the most interesting true stories that range from the arm forces to big corporations, from the government to private sectors.

My Testimonial 

Leaders Eat Last beautifully articulated the idea where the difference between a Leader of Man who is well respected and a boss who was just given authority. The difference between a team who will succeed and one which will fail.

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss

By Kim Scott

What is the difference between a terminator and a leader?

Are you loved as a leader or feared as the one who shout at your employees and make them cry?

Do you think your employee likes you?

Do you want to be liked by your employee?

If you want to well-respected and well loved, ‘Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity’ is just the book you will need!

Kim Scott  the author of Radical Candor have pack this fun reading leadership book with truths, insightful advice paired with practical suggestions in stories that will make you smile.

Experiences the likes of Apple, Google, and some of the most interesting start-ups in our lifetime.

Radical Candor is the idea of ‘To be a good boss, you have to Care and at the same time that you Challenge’.

Challenging without caring is aggression; Care without challenging is not leadership.

Simple framework that can help you build better relationships with your peers and employees.

This books will show you how to fulfill your three key responsibilities as a leader:

• To create a culture of feedback (praise and criticism)
• To building a cohesive team
• To achieve results you will be proud of

A guide book for managers like you on how to be a kick-ass boss while retaining your humanity.

But to understanding how habits works allows us, to exercise regularly and not stopping after just a week, to be more productive and not just for a few days.

Duhigg shows, by harnessing The Power of Habit, we can transform our businesses, and even our lives.

A book not only for startup entrepreneurs but for all who want success.

My Testimonial 

One of the best book to read out there that every leaders of companies should read.

Leaders who are not loved will have a hard time dealing with challenges. A motivated team is the only way to overcome challenges. As an kick-ass boss you can lead your team to success.

Reader’s Guide

How should I choose?

These are just a few of the best leadership books that every leaders should read.

Books that can changed into actionable step for a leaders who wants to grow. Hidden in each books are the concepts that can change the course of your team and how you should lead your team to success.

These books helps you to avoid pitfalls and take the proven path where successful leaders have took. Some can even change your life and the life of your loved ones.

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Reading all of them will take a while and most of us don’t have that much time to spare. We have a team to lead, money to earn and people to inspire.

Why not I suggest you just start with one.

Read the one that interest you most, the one that you feel that is talking closet to your heart. Let your feeling be your guide.

And from there you can check out the second book and maybe a third one.

Click on the questions below will bring you to the book that maybe the possible answer to your question. So what questions do you want to answer to guide you in this life changing experience?

1. Are you spending too much time in managing your direct reports or employee? How about the idea of just 1 minute a day sounds?
2. Is your working environment toxic and the people are dreaded in coming to work each day? Want to change that?
3. Do you want the books that says ‘How to be a Leader 101‘, the book that will guide you in your leadership journey?
4. Do you want to build a team where each team member are willing to do more and sacrifice for each other? A team that will overcome all challenge and emerge as victorious after each challenge?
5. Or simple you want to be a Kick-Ass Boss!

There is no absolute right or wrong which to read first. The choice is yours.

“People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.” By Michelle Obama.

A good start is your first step to being a successful leader. And a good start can be achieved through knowledge learn from mentors who have achieve what you are aspiring for.

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