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Below you'll find the leadership and management
books we recommend during our seminars
and keynote presentations.
These books are listed in alphabetical order by title.
Motivational
speaker Harry K. Jones has written more
than 200 book reviews. Please click on the graphic of Harry
to read his book review. The links on the books will direct
you to Amazon.com.
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The
3 Keys to Empowerment
by Ken Blanchard, John P. Carlos, and Alan Randolph

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The
12 Simple Secrets of Microsoft Management
by David Thielen
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21st
Century Leadership
by Lynne Joy McFarland
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The
21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
by John C. Maxwell

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50
Companies That Changed the World
by Howard Rothman
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The
75 Greatest Management Decisions Ever Made ... and 21 of the
Worst!
by Stuart Crainer
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The 100 Best Business Books of All Time
by Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten
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The
100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success
by Brian Tracy
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The
108 Skills of Natural Born Leaders
by Warren Blank
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1001
Ways to Take Initiative at Work
by Bob Nelson
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Apples Are Square
by Dr. Susan Smith Kuczmarski and Thomas Kuczmarski
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Army
of Entrepreneurs
by Jennifer Prosek
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Best Practices
by Barry J. Gibbons

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Be
the Leader: Make the Difference
by Paula B. Thornton
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Billion-Dollar Lessons
by Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui
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Blue's
Clues for Success
by Diane Tracy
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Blue Ocean Strategy
by W. Chan Kin and Renee Mauborgne
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Broken Windows, Broken Business
by Michael Levine
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Business
Masterminds
by Robert Heller

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Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
by Brian Tracy
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The
Circle of Innovation
by Tom Peters
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Control
Your Destiny or Someone Else Will
by Noel M. Tichy and Stratford Sherman
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Create
Your Own Future
by Brian Tracy
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The Daily Drucker
by Peter F. Drucker with Joseph A. Maciariello
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Developing
the Leader Within You
by John C. Maxwell
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Developing
the Leaders Around You
by John C. Maxwell
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Dig
Your Well Before You're Thirsty
by Harvey Mackay
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Don't
Fire Them, Fire Them Up
by Frank Pacetta

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Drive Your People Wild Without Driving Them Crazy
by Jennifer White
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Driving
Fear out of the Workplace
by Kathleen D. Ryan and Daniel Oestreich
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The Education of an Accidental CEO
by David Novak and John Boswell
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The
8th Habit
by Stephen R. Covey
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Everyone
a Leader
by Horst Bergmann, Kathleen Hurson, and Darlene Russ-Eft
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Everything I Know About Business I Learned at McDonald's
by Paul Facella
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Execution
by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
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Executive Warfare
by David F. D'Alessandro and Michele Owens
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Fast Company's Greatest Hits
Edited by Mark N. Vamos and David Lidsky
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The
Fifth Discipline
by Peter M. Senge
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The First 90 Days
by Michael Watkins
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First
Things First
by Stephen R. Covey
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The
Five Temptations of a CEO
by Patrick Lencioni

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Forbes
Great Success Stories
by Alan Farnham
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Fun
Works
by Leslie Yerks
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The
Future of Leadership
by Warren Bennis, Gretchen Spreitzer, and Thomas Cummins
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Geeks
& Geezers
by Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas
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Getting
Things Done When You Are Not in Charge
by Geoffrey M. Bellman
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Glorious
Accidents
by Michael Glauser
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Good
to Great
by Jim Collins

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The Google Story
by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed
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Great
by Choice
by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen
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Great
Leaders See the Future First Series
by Carolyn Corbin
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Gung
Ho!
by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles

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The Guru Guide
by Joseph Boyett and Jimmie Boyett

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GUTS
by Robert A. Lutz
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How
They Achieved
by Lucinda Watson

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How the Mighty Fall
by Jim Collins
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How
to Succeed in Business Without Working So Damn Hard
by Robert Kriegel
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How Would You Move Mount Fuji?
by William Poundstone
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Hug Your Customers
by Jack Mitchell
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If
It's Broken, You Can Fix It
by Tom E. Jones
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If You Don't Make Waves, You'll Drown
by Dave Anderson
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If You Want to Make God Really Laugh, Show Him Your Business
Plan
by Barry J. Gibbons
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Inside Steve's Brain
by Leander Kahney
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In
Search of Excellence
by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman
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In the Words of Great Business Leaders
by Julie M. Fenster

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Jack
Welch and the GE Way
by Robert Slater
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Jacked Up
by Bill Lane
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The Janitor
by Todd Hopkins and Ray Hilbert
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Journey
to the Emerald City
by Roger Connors and Tom Smith

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Kmart's
Ten Deadly Sins
by Marcia Layton Turner
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The
Knowing-Doing Gap
by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
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Know-How
by Ram Charan
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Leadership
A to Z
by James O'Toole
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The
Leadership Challenge
by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
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Leadership Gold
by John C. Maxwell
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The
Leadership Pill
by Ken Blanchard and Marc Muchnick
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The
Leadership Pipeline
by Ram Charan, Steve Drotter, and Jim Noel
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The
Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell
by Oren Harari
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The
Learning Edge
by Calhoun W. Wick
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Learning
Journeys
by Marshall Goldsmith, Beverly L. Kaye, and Ken Shelton

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Lessons
from the Top
by Thomas J. Neff and James M. Citrin

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Liberation
Management
by Tom Peters
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The
Little BIG Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence
by Tom Peters
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Longaberger
by Dave Longaberger
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The
Luck Factor
by Richard Wiseman
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Management
Challenges for the 21st Century
by Peter F. Drucker
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The Management Gurus
by Chris Lauer and the Editors at Soundview Executive Book Summaries
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The Milkshake Moment
by Steven S. Little
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The
Mind of the CEO
by Jeffrey E. Garten

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Mission
Possible
by Ken Blanchard and Terry Waghorn

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The Monster Under the Bed
by Stan Davis and Jim Botkin

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The
Myth of Excellence
by Fred Crawford and Ryan Mathews
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Never
Fry Bacon in the Nude (And Other Lessons from the Quick and
the Dead)
by Stone Payton
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New Ideas from Dead CEOs
by Todd G. Buchholz
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A
New Paradigm of Leadership
by Ken Shelton
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NUTS!
by Kevin and Jackie Freiberg
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The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
by Patrick Lencioni
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Oh, the Places You'll Go!
by Dr. Seuss
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On
Becoming a Leader
by Warren Bennis
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The One Minute Entrepreneur
by Ken Blanchard, Don Hutson, and Ethan Willis
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Only
the Paranoid Survive
by Andrew S. Grove
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The
Open-Book Experience
by John Case
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The Other Side of the Card
by Mike Morrison
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The
Oz Principle
by Roger Connors, Tom Smith, and Craig Hickman

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A
Passion for Excellence
by Tom Peters and Nancy Austin
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Please
Don't Just Do What I Tell You, Do What Needs to Be Done
by Bob Nelson
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Pour Your Heart into It
by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang
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The
Power of Alignment
by George Labovitz and Victor Rosansky
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The
Power of Focus
by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Lew Hewitt
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Practice What You Preach
by David H. Maister
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Profiles
of Genius: Thirteen Creative Men Who Changed the World
by Gene N. Landrum
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The
Pursuit of Wow!
by Tom Peters
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The
Rule of Three
by Jagdish Sheth and Rajendra Sisodia
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The Rules of Business
by FAST COMPANY's Editors and Writers
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Seduced by Success
by Robert J. Herbold
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The Self-destructive Habits of Good Companies
by Jagdish N. Sheth
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The
Seven Habits of Highly-Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey
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Six Disciplines Execution Revolution
by Gary Harpst
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The SPEED of Trust
by Stephen M. R. Covey
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The
Southwest Airlines Way
by Jody Hoffer Gittell
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The
Stuff of Heroes
by William A. Cohen
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Talent Is Never Enough
by John C. Maxwell
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The
Tao of Warren Buffett
by Mary Buffett and David Clark
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The Three Signs of a Miserable Job
by Patrick Lencioni
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Thinking for a Change
by John C. Maxwell
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Thriving
on Chaos
by Tom Peters
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The
Tom Peters Seminar
by Tom Peters
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Tom Peters Trilogy: The Reinventing Work Series
The
Brand You 50
by Tom Peters
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Tom Peters Trilogy: The Reinventing Work Series
The
Professional Service Firm 50
by Tom Peters
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Topgrading
by Bradford D. Smart, Ph.D.
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Toy Box Leadership
by Ron Hunter, Jr. and Michael E. Waddell
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The
Ultimate Business Library
by Stuart Crainer
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Uncommon
Sense
by Stephen George
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Walk
the Talk
by Eric Harvey and Alexander Lucia
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The Wal-Mart Decade
by Robert Slater
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Whale
Done!
by Ken Blanchard
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What
the Best CEOs Know
by Jeffrey A. Krames
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What
Made jack welch JACK WELCH
by Steven H. Baum with Dave Conti
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What Really Works
by William F. Joyce and Nitin Nohria
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Where
Have All the Leaders Gone?
by Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney
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Winning
by Jack Welch with Suzy Welch
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ZAPP!
by W.C. Byham
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