Top 5 Great Leadership Books 

Reading fosters empathy and critical thinking — two qualities that are essential in a good leader. It’s no wonder, then, that being an avid reader and an effective leader are often two things that intersect. Barack Obama reportedly read for an hour every night at the White House, and to this day releases his favorite reads yearly. Bill Gates, meanwhile, is reported to read at an incredible speed of 150 pages an hour.

If you’re trying to cultivate your leadership skills through books, there are tons out there written by experienced leaders around the world who have provided insight into how they’ve reached their achievements. Here are five books that can help you.

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‘Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull together and Others Don’t’

by Simon Sinek

‘Leaders Eat Last’ is a book on getting people to work behind your organizational ideas. In it, Simon Sinek emphasizes creating a safe workspace that fosters a sense of belonging, shared values, and empathy to drive cooperation and problem-solving. He instructs readers on how to bridge gaps between differences in perspectives and backgrounds to motivate positive cooperation. As such, leaders can understand how a supportive environment is critical to productivity and efficiency in the workplace.

‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’

by Daniel Kahneman

In ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’, Nobel Prize-winning author Daniel Kahneman explains the two systems of thinking. System 1 is oriented towards the more intuitive and emotional, while System 2 is primarily correlated with slow, deliberative, and logical thinking.

Kahneman explains how, for leaders, it’s important to overcome the tendency to default to intuitive biases and behaviors. Instead, he asserts that slow thinking will allow you to bypass cognitive faults in the thinking process that often lead to faulty decisions in the workplace.

 

‘Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from The World of Wall Street’

by John Brooks

‘Business Adventures’ chronicles twelve narrative-like Wall Street stories full of business insights. Though published in 1969, its timelessness has appealed to renowned leaders like Warren Buffet who have a shared love for it.

Brooks imbues each story with intrigue and drama, leaving the reader free to form their own assessments of the case. He lays down events and narrates their intricacies and complications, showing leaders how moments like these can be defining — and how to overcome them.

‘Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter’

by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown

In this book, the authors cleverly use the image of “multipliers” — leaders who use their own skills to amplify their own team’s skillset. It’s a masterclass in unlocking your team’s potential so you can raise their performance overall. Ultimately, Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown’s message is that the best leader isn’t necessarily the most capable. Instead, the best leader is the one who can get everyone to work better and smarter together, which the book teaches you how to do.


As a leader, you’ll need to be prepared for every possible scenario. Fortunately, books are a gateway to every insight you could ever need as a leader. By reading from those who’ve already succeeded, you can learn more about how to best conduct yourself and your team to reach your goals.

If you’re running a startup, you can also check out our article ‘Read to Increase Your Success in Startup Industry’ to see which books can help you!

‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’

by Dale Carnegie

Daniel Carnegie was born the son of a farmer and went on to become a bestselling author, lecturer, actor, and the founder of the Dale Carnegie Institute. His book, ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’, shares how building genuine relationships and facilitating sincere interactions will attract good people to work with you.

The book’s advice remains as relevant today as it ever has been. In order to work with a team, we have to develop a sincere interest in their wellbeing and ideas. For leaders, this can become the foundation for forming genuine connections within your team to achieve greater heights together.

 

Article written by Rita Janice
Exclusively submitted to clubglobals.com

Tony Robbins presents in The World Government Summit

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Tony Robbins is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, philanthropist, and the nation`s #1 life and business strategist. More than 50 million people have enjoyed the warmth, humor, and transformational power of his business and personal development events for years. He gave an amazing speech on the topic of  “The Evolution of Leadership and Meaning” at The World Government Summit.  He mentioned about the future of Artificial Intelligence, Ending World Hunger, and Working Together Toward Solutions for the Some of Our World`s Biggest Challenges in The World Government Summit. As GLOBALS, we are very honored to have been met with Tony Robbins and learned from him.

Oracle OpenWorld Dubai

Oracle Open World states that success today requires resiliency, reinvention and thinking ahead. It was an amazing opportunity for us to gain expertise in the topic of enterprise and start-up world from experts.  Retail, manufacturing, financial services, technology, and the public sector were the main sectors of Oracle Open World.

Wisdom always wins and knowledge is the heart of the business. Moreover, people who use their knowledge gain competitive advantage. Success` keyword is a data-driven culture. The achievement also requires leveraging a later generation infrastructure and explanations to make that vision a reality.

The future is always self-governing. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are the main sectors change many things in the business world, and society as general. The organizations that take advantages of the power of technologies nowadays will make a difference in the future.

Speed is also very important to make you noticeable in the business world. The faster people learn, the faster they achieve. As GLOBALS, we are so happy to discover how to accelerate our business to increase agility and out-innovate the competition. We have already begun to explore our future today. Are you ready to discover your future?

Mario Paladini has also been in various events when he was in Dubai. Let`s see the other events he has attended: Start Alliance Dubai, Startupnight Dubai featured AiRelo, and World Government Summit.

Read to Increase Your Success in Startup Industry

 

Are you working on a startup or  you want to become an entrepreneur but you have no idea how to begin or what your next step is going to be? We can help you!

Here is our Top 5 books for when your feeling a bit -if not very- lost. These books contain a lot of tips, tricks, information, and stories from nowadays very successful entrepeneurs.

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How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses.

The Lean Startup is about learning what your customers really want. It’s about testing your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting before it’s too late.

“If you are an entrepreneur, read this book. If you are thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, read this book. If you are just curious about entrepreneurship, read this book” ― Randy Komisar, founding director of TiVo

Dale Carnegie’s rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. One of the most groundbreaking and timeless bestsellers of all time, How to Win Friends & Influence People will teach you:

-Six ways to make people like you
-Twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking
-Nine ways to change people without arousing resentment

Rare Insights from 15 Successful Startup Founders.

In her incisive one-on-one interviews with 15 ambitious founders from India, including Girish Mathrubootham, Nithin Kamath, Jaydeep Barman, Gaurav Munjal and Tarun Mehta among others, Nistha uncovers the decisions and insights that led these start-up founders to find their unique roadmap to success.

Going insider to insider with unprecedented access, New York Times bestselling author and Clickable CEO, David Kidder, shares the hard-hitting experiences of some of the world’s most influential entrepreneurs and CEOs, revealing their most closely held advice. Face-to-face interviews with 40 founders give readers key insights into what it took to build  many household names. The Startup Playbook is the go-to for entrepreneurs big and small.