Moomkin.com continues to receive numerous inquiries to provide our readers with more resources on a continuous development of leadership skills. Whether it is to do with leading a small group, or a whole organization, doing it effectively and successfully at the same time, is a business skill worth developing and educating yourself on throughout your business career.
Most of us have witnessed some negative aspects of an ineffective leadership and the consequences of bad management. As a result, that organization is bound to face profit losses, low employee morale, and unavoidable layoffs, pay cuts, and downsizing, to name a few. Those of us in all echelons of management need to continue educating and utilizing our best practices in order not to fall into the category of leaders that everyone despises and avoids. Moreover, to be become a successful leader we choose to be responsible for the fate of the whole company in the global marketplace.
Here are the 5 effective books on leadership skills that we think are worth dedicating your time to:
1. “What To Do When You Become The Boss” By Bob Selden
‘Training of new managers can be a great boost to organizations that are keen to improve their bottom line. Not only are good managers more productive than their counterparts, but an effective manager who also shows good leadership skills, can have a major impact on both their direct reports and indeed their peers.’
2. “Why Your Boss is Programmed to be a Dictator” By Chetan Dhruve
This piece ‘takes an extra step back from similar books that look at the problems of bad bosses, looking at the bigger picture and giving thoughtful, articulate insight into the root causes of why such negative working environments and behaviors exist.’ The author ‘approaches these problems using “Systems Thinking” – the idea that the component parts of any system will behave differently when isolated from its environment, and that the environment itself effects those components.’
3. “Total Leadership: How to Inspire and Motivate for Personal and Team Effectiveness” by Jim Barrett
‘Focusing on the individual’s relationship with those around him, Barrett looks at how the hierarchical structure of some organizations can hinder productivity. Through personal awareness, team building, influencing, decision making and personal agenda setting, each individual within an organization can learn to act as a leader, taking responsibility for their own tasks and relationships. This improves not only personal performance and enjoyment at work, but is enormously beneficial for the organization as a whole.’
4. “Lead Well and Prosper” By Nick McCormick
‘McCormick, a veteran manager in the information technology sector, argues that management is in a state of crisis. With this compact read he offers a solution to the crisis, giving managers of any level the direction necessary to become good managers.’
5. “Beyond Authority: Leadership in a Changing World” By Julia Middleton
‘This is a book for anyone who wants to reach out beyond their little cubby hole in life. There is another world of leadership. What happens when you step outside the chain of established authority? Suddenly the authority of the office falls away. A new influence needs to be built. In meeting after meeting across the country “Common Purpose” has brought together business leaders, local politicians, regional police forces or hospitals or universities and said: “get together, lead together, and, by being involved in each other’s affairs, build together a stronger civil society.”
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Article written by Kamilla Kay, PMP. Check out her Personal Blog for similar thoughts and ideas.
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