Books about leadership

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As the forum focuses on work on the individual, we have to not lose focus on how to work/behave in a group as well. The following books shines a flashlight on the roles of leadership and as well exposes the fallacies that persists among the leaders.

Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer
_https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-BS-Fixing-Workplaces-Careers/dp/0062383167/

The author of Power, Stanford business school professor, and a leading management thinker offers a hard-hitting dissection of the leadership industry and ways to make workplaces and careers work better.
The leadership enterprise is enormous, with billions of dollars, thousands of books, and hundreds of thousands of blogs and talks focused on improving leaders. But what we see worldwide is employee disengagement, high levels of leader turnover and career derailment, and failed leadership development efforts.
In Leadership BS, Jeffrey Pfeffer shines a bright light on the leadership industry, showing why it’s failing and how it might be remade. He sets the record straight on the oft-made prescriptions for leaders to be honest, authentic, and modest, tell the truth, build trust, and take care of others. By calling BS on so many of the stories and myths of leadership, he gives people a more scientific look at the evidence and better information to guide their careers.
Rooted in social science, and will practical examples and advice for improving management, Leadership BS encourages readers to accept the truth and then use facts to change themselves and the world for the better.

The book gives you some insights why the CEOs/leaders around the world fail most of the time. Also they cannot tell the truth because of the group they lead.

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The Elephant in the Boardroom: How Leaders Use and Manage Conflict to Reach Greater Levels of Success by Edgar Papke
_https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Boardroom-Leaders-Conflict-Greater/dp/1632650150/

"When leaders fail to confront conflict, they become the 'biggest elephant' in the room."

In a survey of more than 4,000 CEOs, executives, and managers, more than 90 percent admitted they were uncomfortable confronting or engaging in conflict.

Yet leaders must realize that every conflict presents an opportunity to reach higher levels of performance. In The Elephant in the Boardroom, award-winning leadership psychologist Edgar Papke explores the unique and challenging relationship that leaders have with conflict, and offers the know-how needed to use conflict as the engine of innovation and creativity. As a result, you will learn how to act courageously and be better equipped to lead and win in today's complex and turbulent world.

The Elephant in the Boardroom will help you:

• Better understand the unique relationship leaders have with conflict.
• Gain the self-knowledge required to confront conflict and attain higher levels of leadership performance.
• Learn how to foster cultures of openness and higher accountability.
• Identify the sources of dysfunctional conflict to create constructive change effectively.
• Learn to use a proven, seven-step model for effectively managing and leveraging conflict.
  
  Are you ready to confront the "big elephant in the room," and manage the elephants living and thriving in your organization?

The book is very good, and can help also with conflict in family or relationship.

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[Approaching Infinity]

Can't forget Phillip Barlag's "The Leadership Genius of Julius Caesar".

https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Genius-Julius-Caesar-Lessons/dp/1626566933

Leaders are always trying to get better, which is why there is an enormous and growing collection of literature offering the latest leadership paradigm or process. But sometimes the best way to move forward is to look back. Philip Barlag shows us that Julius Caesar is one of the most compelling leaders of the past to study—a man whose approach was surprisingly modern and extraordinarily effective.

History is littered with leaders hopelessly out of touch with their people and ruthlessly pursuing their own ambitions or hedonistic whims. But Caesar, who rose from impoverished beginnings, proved by his words and deeds that he never saw himself as being above the average Roman citizen. And he had an amazing ability to generate loyalty, to turn enemies into allies and allies into devoted followers.

Barlag uses dramatic and colorful incidents from Caesar’s career—being held hostage by pirates, charging headlong alone into enemy lines, pardoning people he knew wanted him dead—to illustrate what Caesar can teach leaders today. Central to Barlag’s argument is the distinction between force and power. Caesar avoided using brute force on his followers, understanding that fear never generates genuine loyalty. He exercised a power deeply rooted in his demonstrated personal integrity and his intuitive understanding of people’s deepest needs and motivations. His supporters followed him because they wanted to, not because they were compelled to. Over 2,000 years after Caesar’s death, this is still the kind of loyalty every leader wants to inspire. Barlag shows how anyone can learn to lead like Caesar.