The Regional Leadership Forum (RLF) is an intensive, nine-month leadership development program presented by the Society for Information Management, focused on creating authentic leaders.
This is their 2008 book list, which I re-publish with the disclaimer that I like book lists, even though – as with their 2007 list – some of these choices would not be mine…
- Adler: How to Read a Book
- Boyatzis & McKee: Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others through Mindfulness, Hope and Compassion
- Kotter: Heart of Change
- Canton: The Extreme Future
- Buckingham: First Break all the Rules
- Dotlich, Noel and Walker: Leadership Passages
- Heather & Heath: Made to Stick
- DePree: Leadership is an Art
- Frankl: Man’s Search for Meaning
- Friedman: The World is Flat
- George: Authentic Leadership
- Nair: A Higher Standard of Leadership: Lessons from the Life of Gandhi
- Goleman: Working with Emotional Intelligence
- Hammerschlag: The Theft of the Spirit
- Jamison: Nibble Theory
- Lencioni: Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- Lencioni: Death by Meeting: A Leadership Problem about Solving the most Painful Problem in Business
- Machiavelli: The Prince
- Mackenzie: Orbiting the Giant Hairball
- Bridges: Managing Transitions
- O’Toole: Creating the Good Life
- Patterson: Crucial Conversations
- Useem: Leadership Moment
- Shafir: The Zen of Listening
- Jaworski, Synchronicity
- Kouzes and Postner: A Leader’s Legacy
- Wallis: Two Old Women
- Whyte: The Heart Aroused
- Smith: Penguin State of the World Atlas
- Hall: Speed Lead