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Below are curated lists of recent books that discuss leadership.
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Selected Books on Leadership
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The SAGE Handbook of Leadership
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023A comprehensive review of current leadership studies and future trends. It features new chapters from global scholars, discussing key debates, emerging issues, and innovative structures in leadership. -
The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023In the latest edition of "The Leadership Challenge," bestselling authors James Kouzes and Barry Posner offer a strategic playbook for effective leadership. Grounded in robust research and workplace insights, this edition emphasizes leadership as a nurtured skill. -
Leadership and Charisma: A Cultural-Evolutionary Perspective
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022This book explores the universal and cultural foundations of leadership dynamics. It asks why we are attracted to leaders, why certain leaders are perceived as charismatic, and why this perception changes over time. -
A History of Leadership
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019This book explores the leader-follower relationship, where contest and collaboration occur. This comprehensive history provides students, scholars, and practitioners with an empirical base to test their ideas and experiences. -
Leadership, Communication, and Social Influence
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019In an age of polarized ideologies, engaging in critical self-reflection on social influence dynamics is crucial. Ruben and Gigliotti challenge readers to understand communication and social influence in leadership.
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Handbook of Global Leadership and Followership: Integrating the Best Leadership Theory and Practice
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023This handbook bridges leadership and followership theories and practices from around the world to address global challenges. -
Leadership Theory and Research: A Critical Approach to New and Existing Paradigms
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2017This book provides a concise yet comprehensive literature review on leadership. As well as offering critical insight into leadership research, the author addresses emerging paradigms and identifies new approaches. -
Servant Leadership in Action
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018"Servant Leadership in Action," edited by Ken Blanchard and Renee Broadwell, brings together insights from renowned leadership experts and practitioners, including business executives, bestselling authors, and spiritual leaders. -
Charismatic Leadership: The Skills You Can Learn to Motivate High Performance in Others
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2020Charisma is a deep-rooted power that drives incredible results. In this book, you'll discover how to cultivate this skill through specific behaviors that not only enhance how others perceive you but also empower them to change behaviors and achieve success. -
Your Life Is Your Message: Discovering the Core of Transformational Leadership
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019This book invites you on a transformative leadership journey to align your life's message with the legacy you wish to leave behind.
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The Prepared Leader: Emerge from Any Crisis More Resilient Than Before
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022Crisis experts James and Wooten emphasize constant preparedness for unforeseen challenges. Drawing from two decades of research, they provide actionable tools and frameworks to navigate crises effectively. -
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022Learn key principles like vision, influence, responsibility, and commitment, and discover ways to set goals while maintaining emotional balance. -
The Power of Project Leadership: 7 Keys to Help You Transform from Project Manager to Project Leader
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019This comprehensive guide provides strategies to prevent project failures and inspire teams to deliver exceptional results. Essential for project managers navigating today's complex projects, it equips them with the skills needed to excel in project leadership. -
Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Art of Launching New Ventures, Inspiring Others, and Running Stuff
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2020Peterson, an executive mentor, emphasizes moving beyond traditional management to entrepreneurial leadership, focusing on creating durable enterprises. -
Poised for Excellence: Fundamental Principles of Effective Leadership in the Boardroom and Beyond
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018This book is an invaluable resource for leaders at all levels and industries, offering 40 principles that impact performance.
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The Leadership Skills Handbook: 100 Essential Skills You Need to Be a Leader
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024Offers 100 essential tools for becoming an effective leader, grounded in real-world application. Drawing on research from over a thousand global leaders across various sectors, it covers practical skills for success. -
The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023In the latest edition of "The Leadership Challenge," bestselling authors James Kouzes and Barry Posner offer a strategic playbook for effective leadership. Grounded in robust research and workplace insights, this edition emphasizes leadership as a nurtured skill.
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Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better Choices
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022Drawing from extensive behavioral science research, Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman present a research-driven playbook that challenges traditional perceptions of leadership. -
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Third Edition
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Location: Online and Alumni Medical Library Professional Development Collection BF 637.C45 C955 2022Publication Date: 2021This business classic equips you with essential skills to handle any conversation effectively, especially challenging ones. -
The Emotionally Intelligent Leader
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019Master Emotional Intelligence (EI) to enhance leadership skills with insights from Daniel Goleman's "The Emotionally Intelligent Leader." This compilation of Goleman's Harvard Business Review articles underscores EI's importance in effective leadership.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
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Location: Online and Pardee Stacks BF637.S8 C37 2022Publication Date: 2022This new edition of the business classic has been updated under the care of Dale's daughter, Donna, introducing changes that keep the book fresh for today's readers. Carnegie's rock-solid, experience-tested advice has remained relevant for generations because he addresses timeless questions about the art of getting along with people. -
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2020The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has inspired readers for nearly three decades, transforming lives across generations and professions. This 30th anniversary edition revitalizes Covey's timeless wisdom for today's leaders. -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Lifelong Learning (with Bonus Article the Right Mindset for Success with Carol Dweck)
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Location: Online and Mugar Stacks HD58.82 .H394 2021Publication Date: 2021Explore and sustain a culture of continuous learning with this curated collection of Harvard Business Review articles. Featuring insights from top experts, this book equips you to keep skills sharp, foster growth mindsets, and drive team improvement. -
Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021Learn the art of gaining and maintaining power in any situation with "Power, for All," a groundbreaking exploration into the nature of power and its positive potential. -
Humble Inquiry, Second Edition: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021Edgar and Peter Schein argue that our culture of "telling" often impedes genuine connection, particularly between superiors and subordinates. "Humble Inquiry" promotes honest interactions, stimulates creativity, and prevents costly errors.
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Handbook of Research on Gender and Leadership
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024Presents the latest research on women in leadership, offering theoretical and practical solutions to enhance their impact globally. It provides an overview of women's current leadership status, explores relevant theories, and examines factors influencing women's motivations to lead. -
Data-Driven DEI: The Tools and Metrics You Need to Measure, Analyze, and Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023This book provides a step-by-step process to assess, analyze, and improve your DEI efforts using data-driven methods. It includes tools to evaluate personal and organizational DEI, strategies to mitigate bias, foster innovation, and promote inclusive leadership. -
Cultures of Belonging: Building Inclusive Organizations That Last
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022Discover clear, actionable steps to build values, experiences, and perspectives into your organizational culture, enhancing diversity, inclusion, and belonging. -
Beyond D&I Leading Diversity with Purpose and Inclusiveness
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021Kay Formanek leverages over twenty years of experience to integrate diversity and inclusion into your organization's strategy. Whether you're a leader, HR practitioner, or employee, this book provides tools to develop a strategic case for diversity. -
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021An accessible guide to being an informed ally to disabled people. It provides actionable steps on what to say and do (and what not to do) to foster inclusivity.
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Cases on Critical Leadership Skills
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024It is crucial for leaders to learn and apply good leadership principles. This book offers real-world, inspiring cases by experts and top executives demonstrating essential leadership skills. -
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024Through virtuoso interpretations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Ella Baker, this book shows how we have the power to be the heroes that our democracy so desperately requires. -
21st Century Business Icons: The Leaders Who Are Changing Our World
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Uncovers the fascinating success stories behind some of the world's most innovative business leaders. These figures - while they may be divisive, controversial or polarizing - each of them offers fascinating insights into business and society. -
Betsy Ann Plank: The Making of a Public Relations Icon
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022In 1973, Betsy Ann Plank became the first woman to chair the Public Relations Society of America in its twenty-five-year history. Plank, with her strong moral compass and positive vision for the future, offers a symbol of hope to future generations navigating tumultuous times. -
How to Be a Bad Emperor: An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2020Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars, perhaps the greatest negative leadership book of all time. Josiah Osgood's translation provides both a gleeful romp through Roman history and a perceptive account of leadership gone awry.
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Understanding Organizational Culture: Innovation, Transparency, Leadership, Community
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023This book explores the evolution of organizational studies amid recent economic and social changes, emphasizing diverse organizing models essential for firms' survival in a complex, globalized world. -
Ambidextrous Leadership: How leaders unlock innovation through ambidexterity
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021This book equips leaders for fundamental organizational changes, emphasizing ambidexterity as a crucial skill for global companies during radical changes and crises. Learn to become an ambidextrous leader and turn trade-offs into a balancing act. -
Leadership in Disruptive Times
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2020Effective leadership is critical for organizations to thrive in this volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment. This book delves into disruptive leadership, highlighting key success factors for digital transformation during the Fourth Industrial Revolution. -
Co-Innovation Platforms: A Playbook for Enabling Innovation and Ecosystem Growth
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021Innovation depends on collaboration. This book guides you in developing a co-innovation platform to accelerate and sustain ecosystem growth. -
Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Art of Launching New Ventures, Inspiring Others, and Running Stuff
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2020Make a lasting impact by launching initiatives, inspiring others, and championing innovative approaches with this guide by executive mentor and leadership expert Joel Peterson.
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Data-Driven DEI: The Tools and Metrics You Need to Measure, Analyze, and Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023This book provides a step-by-step process to assess, analyze, and improve your DEI efforts using data-driven methods. It includes tools to evaluate personal and organizational DEI, strategies to mitigate bias, foster innovation, and promote inclusive leadership.
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Digital Solutions: Reframing Leadership
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022This book serves as a quick-access resource on the challenges and opportunities of digital-age organizational leadership. Balanced and comprehensive, it is useful for professionals and practitioners. -
Leadership Through a Screen: A Definitive Guide to Leading a Remote, Virtual Team
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019This book provides the tools, knowledge, and potential solutions that modern management leaders can use to forge successful and productive virtual teams. -
Leading Virtual Project Teams: Adapting Leadership Theories and Communications Techniques to 21st Century Organizations
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021Addresses the unique challenges of virtual project management, highlighting the need for different leadership and communication styles. It offers e-leadership techniques, virtual meeting strategies, and inclusive language tips. -
Evolving Digital Leadership: How to Be a Digital Leader in Tomorrow’s Disruptive World
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018This book provides a framework and tools to help you understand yourself, your teams, and stakeholders deeply. Learn to embrace adversity, drive disruption, and unlock your full leadership potential through a powerful four-step process.
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Establishing Workplace Integrity: Six Lessons in Values-Based Leadership
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024Good ethics is good business. Readers will explore the pitfalls of bad ethical practices and learn how to be Values-based Leaders. -
The Challenge of Leading an Ethical and Successful Organization
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022This book explains why leaders can't rely solely on laws and organizational policies to make moral decisions. They argue for establishing firm ethical baselines and offer systematic methods to do so. -
Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopher. -
Ethics Training for Managers: Best Practice Techniques
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2020Four organizational psychologists translate insights based on decades of scientific research into ethics leadership. This book offers a road map for designing ethics training programs that work for every organization. -
The Dark Side of Leadership: An Institutional Perspective
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019Drawing on empirical and theoretical analysis, the author examines immorality within leadership and the underlying causes behind this behavior.
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Leadership Action and Intervention in Health, Business, Education, and Technology
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024Addresses the interconnected challenges in healthcare, social sciences, and technology. It provides a cohesive resource for scholars seeking understanding and innovative solutions. -
Educational Leadership in Times of Crisis: Insights from Great Figures in History
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023This book aims to fill the gap in our knowledge about crisis management in schools, its particular characteristics, and strategies from a historical point of view. -
Leadership as Loving One Another: Agapao and Agape Love in the Organization
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024This volume explores leadership as a form of loving one's employees, centering on the Christian biblical concepts of Agapao and Agape. -
Police Leadership: Changing Landscapes
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019This book explores contemporary debates in police leadership, covering ethics, integrity, professionalism, workforce diversity, legitimacy, and accountability, examining how leadership has evolved over time. -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership for Healthcare (with Bonus Article by Thomas H. Lee, MD, and Toby Cosgrove, MD)
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018Elevate your healthcare leadership with essential insights from top experts to help you and your team excel, maximize performance, and fulfill your mission.
Getting Items Not Available at BU Libraries
Even if BU Libraries doesn't own something you need for your studies, we can get it for you pretty quickly from another library.
- Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Interlibrary Loan is a service that allows current BU students, faculty, and staff to request books, articles, book chapters, and other materials from other libraries. Visit our Interlibrary Loan page to find forms to request items.
- BU Libraries Search and WorldCat Discovery. You can look an item up on BU Libraries Search or you can use an external search, like WorldCat Discovery, which will offer you a link to "Find@BU" and this will bring you to BU Libraries Search. When you log in to request the item, some of the item's information will pre-populate in the ILL form for you.
Want to borrow an item in person?
- Books from Boston College, Northeastern, and Brandeis. Books can be borrowed from the libraries of these three institutions using your Terrier card.
- Boston Library Consortium (BLC) Cards. A BLC Card allows you to borrow circulating material from member libraries, just as you would from BU Libraries. Boston University faculty, staff, and students on the Charles River Campus may obtain a Consortium Card by filling out an application form. Medical Campus affiliates should apply at the Alumni Medical Library.
