Books like Nuts! by Kevin Freiberg

A groundbreaking guide to embracing vulnerability and courage.

A groundbreaking study by Jim Collins on how good companies become truly great, revealing the key leadership traits, cultural mindset, and technological accelerators that make the difference between mediocre and exceptional performance.

Clayton Christensen explains why leading firms can fail when they follow the right strategy, and offers rules for exploiting disruptive innovation to avoid losing market leadership.

Leaders Eat Last explains how leaders who prioritize the safety and well‑being of their teams build trust, loyalty and high performance in modern organizations.

John Kotter’s Leading Change outlines an eight‑step process that leaders must follow to guide organizations through lasting transformation, emphasizing the crucial role of behavior change and effective leadership in modern business success.

Simon Sinek’s Start with Why explores how leaders and organizations that answer the fundamental question of purpose drive lasting success.

Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors, this book is the dynamic product of an extraordinary partnership. It combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for designing innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment. The authors' harmoniously interwoven perspectives provide a deep sense of the powerful role that the notion of possibility can play in every aspect of life. Through uplifting stories, parables, and personal anecdotes, the authors invite readers to become passionate communicators, leaders, and performers whose lives radiate possibility into the world.

In an industry that regularly loses billions of dollars, Southwest Airlines has an unbroken string of 31 consecutive years of profitability. How do they do it? In The Southwest Airlines Way, you’ll learn the key to Southwest’s success—high performance relationships based on shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect among all levels of management, employees, and suppliers.This in-depth profile, based on eight years of field research on the airline industry, reveals 10 practices that Southwest Airlines uses to build high performance relationships, and how they can be implemented in any organization—with dramatic results. You’ll learn how to implement Southwest-style management practices while learning from the successes and failures of American, United, Continental, and other airlines as they have struggled to adopt Southwest’s practices.Why is Southwest Airlines valued higher than all other major U.S. passenger air carriers combined?How, in the wake of September 11, could Southwest keep all of its employees working and continue its unblemished record of growth and profitability as other airlines laid off thousands, begged Congress for money, and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection?Can the now-legendary “Southwest effect” be applied successfully in other industries?In The Southwest Airlines Way, you’ll find the answers to these questions and more.