Leadership: Must Read Book List | Human Resources | BYU-Idaho

# Leadership: Must Read Book List

Discover must-read books on leadership and management to inspire personal growth, enhance team dynamics, and achieve professional excellence.

****Guide to Workplace Law (American Bar Association)**** 
A clear and concise guide to all work-related law for employees and employers.

****Counseling with Our Councils (M. Russell Ballard)**** 
Elder Ballard explains how councils help to plan for success. Learn how to conduct effective council meetings.

****The Flight of the Buffalo (James Belasco)**** 
Using different metaphors for leadership, the authors challenge leaders to lead with team-based management.

****Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (Larry Bossidy)**** 
Focuses on essential qualities for a team to get things done by illustrating the value of execution and its building blocks.

****How to Say No without Feeling Guilty (Patti Breitman)**** 
Teaches practical skills for time and resource management by embracing what's important.

****How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)**** 
This landmark book explores how to understand and value others and influence others by improving your behavior.

****The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen Covey)**** 
BYU professor Stephen Covey explores seven timeless and universal character ethics that generate success.

****The Fine Art of Small Talk (Debra Fine)**** 
Effective communication techniques and strategies to help you feel more comfortable in any type of social situation.

****Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence (Daniel Goleman)**** 
A book that coined "emotional intelligence" into the workplace, and how to become resonant in a complex world.

****Stepping Up to Supervisor (Marion Haynes)**** 
Introduces the reader to basic supervisory tasks, managing many personalities, and working with groups.

****The Balanced Scorecard (Robert Kaplan and David Norton)**** 
Explores four performance measures: financial, customer knowledge, internal processes, and learning and growth.

****The 80/20 Principle (Richard Koch)**** 
Explains how 80% of your results come from 20% of your effort. Reveals how to identify the 20% to influence the 80%.

****Leading Change (John Kotter)**** 
An eight-step process to achieve goals and practical counsel about how to be successful in the face of change.

****The Leadership Challenge (James Kouzes and Barry Posner)**** 
Develop leadership skills to help you to become an impactful leader who aspires, inspires, and achieves more.

****Maslow on Management (Abraham Maslow)**** 
Renowned psychologist explores how human psychology affects business management.

****Everyone Communicates, Few Connect (John Maxwell)**** 
Explores how the most effective leaders know how to connect with people.

****The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (John Maxwell)**** 
Outlines core leadership principles that will make leaders more effective, influential, and successful.

****Supervisory Management (Donald Mosley)**** 
Employs practical knowledge and skills to help supervisors become effective leaders.

****The Power of Positive Confrontation (Barbara Pachter)**** 
Teaches skills and strategies to handle effectively confrontational situations with confidence and assurance.

****Crucial Conversations (Kerry Patterson)**** 
Teaches how to improve your life by improving the quality your dialogues and conversations.

****Difficult Conversations (Douglas Stone)**** 
Learn how to turn difficult conversations into positive, problem-solving experiences