The reason why leadership became such an important subject these days is due to the fact that people realize the following: when you become a leader, your hole life changes. Everything goes up and down with leadership and the world becomes a better place when people become better leaders. Your development as a leader has the power to change everything about you: you will become more effective, your weak points will improve, and your impact will be amplified exponentially. Developing the Leader Within You (we are reviewing the updated 2.0 version released in 2018), cited by many to be the best book you can read at the beginning of your leadership career, revolutionized the way leaders are made and in the process sold more than one million copies. Twenty-five years after its original release, the author returns to his classic text to include the leadership insights and practices he’s learned in the decades since the book first appeared. Thoroughly revised and with two completely new chapters, this new edition updates the foundational principles for transformative leadership that Maxwell has used as a leader for more than 40 years. No matter what arena you are called to–family, church, business, nonprofit–the principles…
Progress Rating: 5/5
Category: Management (Software Industry)
Why leaders should read it: Management in the software industry presents distinct challanges. From how to approach recruiting to how the office should be built in order to boost productivity, Peopleware presents a complete overview of the entire software management process. The book is written as a series of essays on the various ways that software companies and projects go right and wrong. Each chapter has some prescriptive advice that could be used in order to begin a sensible reconstruction of a project, a division, or a whole organization.
Progress Rating: 3/5
Category: Personal Development (Teaching humility and modesty)
Why leaders should read it: It teaches leaders why modesty is more important today than ever and what advantages a quiet leader has in our interconected world. We are also presented with a lot of history tales about how successful and unsuccessful leaders managed their ego.
‘Ego Is The Enemy’ is a valuable book for leaders. There is a lot to learn for someone who is at the beginning of his leadership journey, and this book can help with setting up a good mindset and shaping a healthy way of thinking about this position before being influenced by other unfair events or people with their own agenda. But also, during every leader’s career, there will be times when things are not going so well and times when everything seems to be working perfectly. Both of this cases are turning points during which great leaders think and act in the best way possible in order to keep the motivation and raise the happiness of their teams and companies.