The Making of an Agile Leader

Appendix A. 15 Classic “Must Reads” for Servant Leaders

1. Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People (reprinted by Pocket Books, 2008).

2. Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting Things Done (HarperCollins, 1967).

3. Sun Tzu, The Art of War (Shambhala Press, 1988).

4. Clayton M. Christensen, The Innovator’s Dilemma (HarperBusiness, 1997).

5. Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr., In Search of Excellence (HarperCollins, 1982.)

6. Andrew S. Grove, High Output Management (reprinted by Vintage, 1995).

7. Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently (Simon & Schuster, 1999).

8. Tom Peters, The Circle of Innovation (Vintage, 1997).

9. John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You (HarperCollins, 1993).

10. Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Free Press, 2004).

11. Warren G. Bennis, On Becoming a Leader (Addison-Wesley, 1989).

12. W. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crisis (MIT Press, 1982).

13. Max De Pree, Leadership Jazz (Doubleday Business, 1992).

14. Martin Linsky and Ronald L. Heifetz, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading (revised edition; Harvard Business Review Press, 2017).

15. Frederick W. Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management (Harper and Brothers Publishing, 1911).