 | The Powers to Lead by Joseph S. Nye
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $14.72 Top individual book, both scholarly and pragmatic, for any aspiring leader or "old style" leader wanting to learn "new styles of leadership."
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 | How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition by David Bornstein
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $7.35 A miraculous book, at the edge wherre leadership and collective intelligence from social networks come face to face for the good of all.
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 | The leadership of civilization building: Administrative and civilization theory, symbolic dialogue, and citizen skills for the 21st century by Richard J Spady
Buy used from: $0.95 Recommended to me by the founder of Reuniting America (110 million strong cutting across all political divides), I found this book to be so very good as to warrant its being added at the top of the list.
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| The Knowledge Executive by Harlan Cleveland
Buy used from: $1.90 Best in class, hunt it down, a classic that compellingly defines the lifelong learning that must be the standard for great leaders.
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 | Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time by Margaret J Wheatley
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.58 One of the best modern treatments. As with all of these books, I recommend you read my full review of each.
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 | The Source of Leadership: Eight Drivers of the High-impact Leader by David M. Traversi
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $6.91 Highly recommended, see my full review for a list of the eight drivers and their implications.
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 | Transforming Leadership by James MacGregor Burns
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.98 "Overwhelmed by crisis, the world calls out for the vision and force of transforming leaders."
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 | Leading Minds: An Anatomy Of Leadership by Howard Gardner
Buy new: $21.00 / Used from: $0.84 This is a truly superb collage of chapters about great leaders across all disciplines from education to the military.
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 | Leadership by James M. Burns
Buy new: $16.20 / Used from: $3.00 The gold standard in the field. Could take you all summer to finish. Take notes as you go.
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 | The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization by John C. Maxwell
Buy used from: $7.94 Most continue to resist the concept of 360 degree leadership evaluations, meaning that you are evaluated by your peers and subordinates as well as your superiors. This author is focused on influence, not evaluation, good focus.
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 | Where Have All the Leaders Gone? by Lee Iacocca
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $3.42 Quite a remarkable venting of frustration that speaks for all of us. None of those now running for President are qualified, nor are they willing to form a transpartisan Cabinet in advance of election. All losers.
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 | Leadership Lessons of Jesus by Bob Briner
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.40 Sold in the Special Operations Command bookstore. I bought it solely because of that, and liked it. See my full review.
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| Battle Leadership by Adolf Von Schell
Priceless small book, given to me as a young Marine lieutenant, best in class of its kind and worthy of reflection regardless of your domain.
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 | Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency by Lou Dubose
Buy used from: $11.67 In exquisite detail, the categorization and chronicling of the last truly great leader of the now dead American Empire. You can all do better with ethics, integrity, and morality. Jack Welsh, he is not.
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 | The Pathology of Power - A Challenge to Human Freedom and Safety by Norman Cousins
Buy used from: $4.95 Helps to understand Dick Cheney.
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 | The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead by David Callahan
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $1.50 Why Dick Cheney gets away with it.
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 | Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin by Larry Beinhart
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $1.35 Why Dick Cheney gets away with it.
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 | Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq by Sheldon Rampton
Buy new: $10.16 / Used from: $0.01 HOW Dick Cheney does it.
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 | A Power Governments Cannot Suppress by Howard Zinn
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $9.56 Good-Bye Dick Cheney Part I. See my full reviews of all of these books--they provide the context for why you MUST be ethical and NOT be Dick Cheney.
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 | The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All by Tom Atlee
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.49 Part II
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 | Escaping the Matrix: How We the People can change the world by Richard Moore
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $6.95 Part III
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 | All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (BK Currents (Hardcover)) by Robert W Fuller
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $1.64 Part IV
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 | A Complaint Free World: How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted by Will Bowen
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.85 This book is serious, see my longer review. I'd love to see a CEO of a Fortune 500 take this challenge. I bet it will add 10% to his stock value.
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 | The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, Public, & Political--Citizen's Action Handbook for Fighting Terrorism, Genocide, Disease, Toxic Bombs, & Corruption by Robert David Steele
Buy new: $34.95 / Used from: $20.18 Part V. We pray and give thanks to God for Dick Cheney. None of the Democratic bozos could have shocked We the People out of our apathy. Dick Cheney woke the dead, and that is a good thing.
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