Books like StandOut by Marcus Buckingham

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.

Radical Candor explains how leaders can combine caring personally with challenging directly to create a culture of honest feedback, cohesive teams, and sustainable results.

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.

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.

The Outsiders: Eight Unlikely CEOs Who Built Their Firms and Their Fates.

Mark Victor Hansen explains how mastering focus can unlock personal, business, and financial success.

It is a very interesting and useful book

"In the years since publication of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, millions have had the simple but powerful realization that to get the most out of people you must build on their strengths. And yet, as Marcus Buckingham astutely points out, even though the strengths-based approach is now conventional wisdom, the tools and systems inside organizations-performance appraisals, training programs, and succession planning systems-remain stubbornly remedial, exclusively focused on measuring skills, finding gaps, and attempting to plug them. It's a crisis for individuals and organizations, with management ideas and management practice utterly out of sync. That's about to change. StandOut 2.0 is a revolutionary book and tool that enables you to identify your strengths, and those of your team, and to act on them. The original StandOut provided top-notch management insights from one of the world's foremost authorities on strengths, as well as access to a powerful, cutting edge online assessment tool. Now, in addition to a much more powerful assessment, and a robust report on your most dominant strengths, StandOut 2.0 provides: - A StandOut profile, easily customized and exported, that you can use to present the very best of yourself to your team, and your company - Your own Personalized Strengths Channel, which, after taking the 15 minute assessment, will send you a weekly tip, insight, or technique, to help you do your best work this week - For team leaders, the ability to create a team dashboard including each member's StandOut profile, to help you make the right moves - Access to an entire strengths-based performance management system, including a check-in tool to capture priorities and track engagement; a survey tool to help you gauge what your team is thinking and feeling; and an evaluation tool to help reveal real-time performance levels of every single team member StandOut 2.0 is your indispensable guide and tool for building on your strengths to further your career, and to help your team and organization win"--

Far from a treatise on giving employees the axe, Fire Someone Today uses four categories -- People, Leadership, Finance, and Operations -- to cover a wide range of issues unique to the more than 20 million small business owners in the United States. Filled with hands-on advice and practical examples from real businesses, the book takes a no-nonsense approach to the uncomfortable decisions and actions that every manager, business owner, or entrepreneur must face. In this book, you'll read what Pritchett has discovered through his years of experience as an entrepreneur and small business owner. It is a book about what to do, what not to do, and why. - Publisher.