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Leadership book summaries

39 books summarized.

How to Win Friends and Influence People cover

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

4-min read

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People cover

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey

6-min read

The Art of War cover

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

3-min read

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future cover

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

4-min read

Steve Jobs cover

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

3-min read

The Prince cover

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

5-min read

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future cover

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Ashlee Vance

4-min read

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action cover

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Simon Sinek

2-min read

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking cover

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain

3-min read

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike cover

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight

3-min read

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers cover

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Ben Horowitz

4-min read

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America cover

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson

5-min read

Leaders Eat Last cover

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek

5-min read

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster cover

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

Jon Krakauer

5-min read

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't cover

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

Jim Collins

3-min read

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us cover

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Daniel H. Pink

3-min read

Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. cover

Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

Brené Brown

5-min read

Principles: Life and Work cover

Principles: Life and Work

Ray Dalio

5-min read

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win cover

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Gene Kim

5-min read

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win cover

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

4-min read

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies cover

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

Jim Collins

5-min read

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done cover

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

Peter F. Drucker

6-min read

High Output Management cover

High Output Management

Andrew S. Grove

4-min read

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters cover

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

Richard Rumelt

5-min read

Radical Candor cover

Radical Candor

Kim Malone Scott

4-min read

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead cover

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Sheryl Sandberg

3-min read

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco cover

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Bryan Burrough and John Helyar

5-min read

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups cover

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

Daniel Coyle

5-min read

The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter cover

The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter

Michael D. Watkins

5-min read

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon cover

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Brad Stone

3-min read

Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire cover

Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

Dan Martell

5-min read

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable cover

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

5-min read

Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect cover

Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

Will Guidara

5-min read

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism cover

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Sarah Wynn-Williams

9-min read

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals cover

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

Chris McChesney, Sean Covey and Jim Huling

5-min read

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World cover

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

Stanley McChrystal

5-min read

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business cover

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

Gino Wickman

5-min read

Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork cover

Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork

Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy

5-min read

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs cover

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

John Doerr

5-min read