Leaders’ Bookshelf – Full List

4i Leaders’ Bookshelf

This is a full list of all titles which we recommend (yes having read them!) for leaders interested in developing their ability and the leadership capability of those around them.  These titles are made available to 4i Leadership Coaching program participants.

List last updated August 2018.

Most recent title added – Rebel Talent by Francesca Gino.

(sorted by Themes, list by Title, Author & Publication Date)

Productivity

• Deep Work – Cal Newport (2016)

Creativity/Innovation

• The Design of Business, Roger Martin (2009)
• Ideas with Legs, Nils Vesk (2011)
• The Medici Effect, Frans Johansson (2004)
• The Innovation Formula, Amantha Imber (2016)
• The Creativity Formula, Amantha Imber (2009)

Leadership styles

• Rebel Talent, Francesca Gino (2018)
• Why should anyone be led by you?, Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones (2015)
• The Coaching Habit, Michael Bungay Stanier (2016)
• Quiet Leadership, David Rock (2006)

Strategy & Future Leadership Challenges

• The Decision Book, Krogerus & Tschappeler (2008)
• When China Rules the World, Martin Jacques (2009)
• The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
• Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, Richard Rumelt (2011)
• The Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford (2015)

Self-awareness/development

• Mindset, Carol S. Dweck (2006)
• Thinking, Fast & Slow, Daniel Kahneman (2011)
• Neuroscience for Leadership, Sward, Chrisholm & Brown (2015)
• Brain Rules, John Medina (2008)
• The Subtle Art of not giving a f*ck, Mark Manson (2016)
• Identically Different (Why you can Change your genes), Tim Spector (2012)

Wellbeing

• Happy Brain, Happy Life, Wendy Suzuki (2015)
• Power Foods for the Brain, Neal D. Barnard (2013)
• Sleep Smarter, Shaun Stevenson (2016)
• The Sleep Revolution, Arianna Huffington (2016)
• Sleep, Nick Littlehales (2016)
• Run Fast, East Slow, Shalane Flanagan & Elyse Kopecku (2017)
• The Energy Book, Libby Weaver (2017)