Years ago when I started my leadership and management blog, I posted the question “ What’s The First Leadership Book You Would Give To a New Manager ?” within a leadership discussion forum on LinkedIn. That question generated 603 comments and 690 book recommendations. Some people suggested more than one book. Some during the course of the 18 months of the active discussion made the same book recommendations a couple times. And here are the results : · 412 different/unique books were recommended. · The Top 20 recommended books, collectively, received 250 of the total recommendations. · Two authors – Stephen R. Covey and John C. Maxwell each have two books in the Top 20. · Discussion members recommended other things instead of giving a book about leadership to a new manager, such as: o Interviewing everyone in the company ...
Sharing tips, ideas, techniques and book reviews for leaders and managers for the past 17 years.