Companion Reading to Leadership for Lawyers Programs
Leadership
The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations
James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
https://amzn.to/3Bm1ldq
Leadership is an Art
Max DePree
https://amzn.to/3BnlSy4
Leadership Jazz: Essential Elements of a Great Leader
Max De Pree
https://amzn.to/3xrU1L9
The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders
Ira Chaleff
https://amzn.to/3x4hLog
The Leading Lawyer: A Guide to Practicing Law and Leadership
Robert Cullen
https://amzn.to/3TRa9z1
Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at at Time
Jeffrey Pfeffer
https://amzn.to/3AWlwx7
The Practice of Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders
Jay Conger and Ronald Riggio
https://amzn.to/3QoKuec
Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader
Barry Z. Posner and James Kouzes
https://amzn.to/3cXqceb
Leadership U: Accelerating Through the Crisis Curve
Gary Burnison
https://amzn.to/3RLyrIY
Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success
Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch
https://amzn.to/3D6j0ad
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts
Brené Brown
https://amzn.to/3L1U0D1
Change & Leading Change
Leading Change
John P. Kotter
https://amzn.to/3Rpi7hv
Leading Continuous Change: Navigating Churn in the Real World
Bill Pasmore
https://amzn.to/3RrxUMu
Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization (Leadership for the Common Good)
Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey
https://amzn.to/3ez8oq0
Collaboration
Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos
Heidi Gardner, Ph.D.
https://amzn.to/3KSOqTi
Smarter Collaboration
Heidi Gardner, Ph.D. – coming Fall 2022
Communication
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan et al
https://amzn.to/3BjJPXk
You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why it Matters
Kate Murphy
https://amzn.to/3TNuG7R
The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation in Any Situation
Debra Fine
https://amzn.to/3QmSQTF
Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean
Kim Scott
https://amzn.to/3BlNtQj
How to be Heard: Secrets for Powerful Speaking and Listening
Julian Treasure
https://amzn.to/3QqUfJ1
Decision Making
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
https://amzn.to/3KTKqlv
How We Decide
Jonah Lehrer
https://amzn.to/3evqo4R
Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems
Barry Johnson
https://amzn.to/3RETX22
Delegation and Management
The New One Minute Manager
Ken Blanchard, PhD. and Spencer Johnson, MD.
https://amzn.to/3TRSiIw
Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increased Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership II
Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi, and Drea Zigarmi
https://amzn.to/3D1PDpC
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One that Isn’t
Robert Sutton
https://amzn.to/3RKiDpX
The Knowing Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge Into Action
Robert Sutton and Jeffrey Pfeffer
https://amzn.to/3TNEZst
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence Based Management
Robert Sutton and Jeffrey Pfeffer
https://amzn.to/3Rq9XFw
Be The Boss Everyone Wants to Work For: A Guide for New Leaders
William Gentry, Ph.D.
https://amzn.to/3AYEkfh
First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently
Marcus Buckingham
https://amzn.to/3AZup96
Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
Patrick Lencioni
https://amzn.to/3Rp8LSP
Encouragement
Encouraging the Heart: A Leader’s Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others
James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
https://amzn.to/3KUzcNK
Engagement and Retention
The Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership
Fred Kofman
https://amzn.to/3eAwPnm
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to Performance and Personal Renewal
Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
https://amzn.to/3KSfq5A
Solve the People Puzzle: How High-Growth Companies Attract and Retain Talent
Kathleen Quinn Votaw
https://amzn.to/3BjNapi
Feedback
Feedback Revolution: Building Relationships & Boosting Results
Marjorie Mauldin
https://amzn.to/3QxHNaw
How to Say Anything to Anyone: A Guide to Building Business Relationships That Really Work
Shari Harley
https://amzn.to/3ATZEm5
Followership
The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders in Organizations
Ron Riggio, Ira Chaleff, Jean Lipman-Blumen
https://amzn.to/3ekaDNU
Generational Differences
You Raised Us, Now Work With Us: Millennials, Career Success and Building Strong Workplace Teams
Lauren Stiller Rikleen
https://amzn.to/3TPcLgS
Millennials Who Manage
Chip Espinoza
https://amzn.to/3x70fQm
What Millennials Want from Work: How to Maximize Engagement in Today’s Workforce
Jennifer Deal and Alex Levenson
https://amzn.to/3QtXoro
Mindset
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol Dweck
https://amzn.to/3TT989Z
Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work
Liz Wiseman
https://amzn.to/3AUmuKs
Motivation
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel Pink
https://amzn.to/3TP87iW
Myers Briggs Type Indicator
Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers and Peter Myers
https://amzn.to/3x72ZwZ
Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types (Myers Briggs)
David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates
https://amzn.to/3qkEPvc
Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character and Intelligence (Myers Briggs)
David Keirsey
https://amzn.to/3eycsXT
Network Strategy
Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships in a Hyper-Connected World
J. Kelly Hoey
https://amzn.to/3BlNgwv
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz
https://amzn.to/3Rob08Q
Neuroleadership
Brain Rules: Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home and School
John Medina
https://amzn.to/3D57USV
Your Brain At Work: Strategies of Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
David Rock
https://amzn.to/3TSrU0S
Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work
David Rock
https://amzn.to/3BkRq7N
Persuasion and Influence
Start With Why
Simon Sinek
https://amzn.to/3qjY2Nr
The Necessary Art of Persuasion
Jay A. Conger
https://amzn.to/3AUhCVG
To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth about Moving Others
Daniel Pink
https://amzn.to/3TOn4lw
Leading Without Authority: How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams, and Reinvent Collaboration
Keith Ferazzi and Noel Weyrich
https://amzn.to/3cYu8v5
Personal Leadership
The Only Way to Win: How Building Character Drives Higher Achievement and Greater Fulfillment in Business and Life
Jim Loehr
https://amzn.to/3Bowv41
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Susan Cain
https://amzn.to/3KUuj7m
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
James Clear
https://amzn.to/3RMz9pg
Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow
Tom Rath and Barry Conchie
https://amzn.to/3x3vITk
Power
Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don’t
Jeffrey Pfeffer
https://amzn.to/3TPJ6UX
Project Management/Process Improvement
Project Management for Dummies
Stanley Portny
https://amzn.to/3ROr3wJ
Legal Project Management, Pricing and Alternative Fee Arrangements
Jim Hassett
https://amzn.to/3KYw7wi
Legal Six Sigma for Law Firms
Catherine Macdonagh
https://amzn.to/3KYw7wi
Strategy
The Wise Advocate: The Inner Voice of Strategic Leadership
Josie Thomson, Jeffrey Schwarz, and Art Kleiner
https://amzn.to/3Qp1FfP
Stress, Resiliency and Addition
Work Without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success
Derek Roger, Nick Petrie
https://amzn.to/3QpRaZq
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth
https://amzn.to/3cXXmdN
Coming Clean: A Memoir (Addition Recovery)
Kimberly Rae Miller
https://amzn.to/3Roq1HH
Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir (Addition Recovery)
Lisa F. Smith
https://amzn.to/3QsW9sq
A Lawyer’s Guide to Healing: Solutions for Addiction and Depression
Don Carroll, J.D.
https://amzn.to/3D6mxoZ
Storytelling
The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and Life
Jim Loehr
https://amzn.to/3qkhU2Z
The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative
Stephen Denning
https://amzn.to/3RKvkB7
Teams, High Performing
The Wisdom of Teams
Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith
https://amzn.to/3x3xzHM
Cultivating Excellence: The Art, Science and Grit of High Performance
Darryl Cross, William Cross
https://amzn.to/3RMxbFo
The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Leet People Help
Amanda Palmer
https://amzn.to/3RqyiuV
Six Thinking Hats
Edward de Bono
https://amzn.to/3RqlmFk
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni
https://amzn.to/3qkO7r6
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Other’s Don’t
Simon Sinek
https://amzn.to/3x1DehK
Business Development
Getting Clients: For Lawyers Starting Out or Starting Over
Merrilyn Astin Tarlton
https://amzn.to/3ejjBej
The Ultimate Law Firm Associate’s Marketing Checklist
Ross Fishman, JD
https://amzn.to/3cOAk9f
Retirement/Succession Planning
Retirement by Design: A Guided Workbook for Creating a Happy and Purposeful Future
Ida Abbott, JD
https://amzn.to/3BkNhAQ
Updated September 2022
