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Business Leadership Books
 As a business leader, keeping your knowledge and skills up to date is essential if you are to fully realise your career potential.
Unfortunately, not only has the time you can dedicate to this become a more and more valuable asset, but also the number of books written on business leadership has mushroomed in recent years. Not surprisingly, that growing wealth of choice has not necessarily been accompanied by a corresponding level of quality.
In order to help you wade through this mass of choice and sift out the essential, we regularly publish articles on this site giving you access to key management ideas and concepts. In addition, you will also find a range of tools, models and links to many other useful organisations.
Sometimes, however, it is worth going to the source, taking time to understand the ideas of key thinkers on business leadership, investing in your future and broadening your mind. It is then that you are confronted with the second challenge: how to choose. To help with this problem, and to help save hours of wading through glossily produced but indifferent material, we have published here summaries and reviews of key books on business leadership that we think are worthy of your attention. If the content of the summary is of value and interest to you, we would then strongly advise that you go to the source. A little time each week invested in this way will pay you back many times over.
Keep returning to this page from time to time, because new reviews are constantly being added.
 Simply Strategy: The shortest route to the best strategy, by R Koch and P Nieuwenhuizen, Prentice Hall, 2006
For those of us who are not privileged to guide huge corporations, but do want to know how to sustainable boost the long term income generation and profitability of our business unit, Simply Strategy is one of the best strategy books on the market. It is robust and up to date, but practical, and, most importantly, it is aimed at the level of business that most of us have a chance of making an impact upon: the business unit or SME.  more |
|  Living Leadership: A practical guide for ordinary heroes, by G Binney, G Wilke and C Williams, FT Prentice Hall, 2005
Between 1999 and 2003, nine researchers from Ashridge Business School in the UK and HEC in France lived alongside leaders and followers in major organisations across Europe.
They observed them as they worked on a day to day basis in order to arrive at a description of what real leaders actually do and what it is about what they do that makes a difference.
Their work was grounded on objective observation rather than academic theories.
What they ended up with after spending four years working with a total of over 700 leaders is written up in their book “Living Leadership”. It is an account of leadership in action with all its anxiety, uncertainty and expectation. The book gives real insights about the constraints and realities of leadership and what it takes to make things happen in the real world. more |
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