Hello listmembers,
Here is a question to raise on a Friday - together with colleagues from the ecumenical/Church of England group 'MODEM', a 'hub for leadership, management, and ministry' [more details here:
http://www.modem-uk.org/], I've been working to choose the best leadership books of the 21st century/since 2000, in two categories: 'general' and 'Christian'.
The results of the panels' discussions are below, and a pdf with more information is attached - it's worth noting one thing, the strongly Euro- and US-centric nature of the choices.
Hope you have as much fun with it as we did. [And I'd also like to provide a personal minority report - my own nomination, Amanda Sinclair's 'Leadership for the Disillusioned: Moving beyond myths and heroes to leading that liberates' (Allen & Unwin, 2008) was sadly not successful - still a wonderful book, though....].
General Leadership
Joseph L Badaracco Leading Quietly, Harvard Business School Press, 2002.
George Binney Gerhard Wilke & Colin Williams, Living Leadership, FT-Prentice Hall.
Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman First, Break All the Rules, Simon & Schuster.
Jim Collins, Good to Great, Random House.
Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee, The New Leaders, Little, Brown.
Keith Grint, Leadership: Limits and Possibilities, Palgrave MacMillan.
Ronald A Heifetz & Marty Linsky, Leadership on the Line, Harvard Business School.
Brad Jackson & Ken Parry, A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Leadership, Sage.
Art Kleiner, Who Really Matters, Doubleday.
Margaret J Wheatley, Finding Our Way, Berrett-Koehler.
Christian Leadership
Mike Bonem & Roger Patterson, Leading from the Second Chair, Jossey-Bass.
Stephen Cottrell, Hit the Ground Kneeling, Church House Publishing.
Bill Easum, Leadership on the OtherSide, Abingdon.
Edwin H Friedman, A Failure of Nerve, Seabury.
Bill Hybels, Courageous Leadership, Zondervan.
Joseph R Myers, Organic Community, Baker.
Alan J Roxburgh & Bill Romanuk, The Missional Leader, Jossey-Bass.
Alan Smith & Peter Shaw, The Reflective Leader, Canterbury.
Simon P Walker, Leading Out of Who You Are, Piquant.
Walter C Wright, Relational Leadership, Paternoster.
All good wishes, scott
Scott Taylor (Dr), senior lecturer in leadership studies
Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter Business School, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4PU, UK
scott.taylor@exeter.ac.uk; +44 (0)1392 722569
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