Picking Up the Ten Top Leadership Books by CIO

Just when you think you're caught up with required reading, somebody like CIO magazine comes in out of left field with a bunch of books on leadership that demolishes your dwindling discretionary time . While I'm dialing up Amazon on FireFox to order a few, here's the new required reading list:

--It's not enough to make a bucket of money, but now in quasi-retirement, former Medtronic chief Bill George ponies up five must-have themes in Authentic Leadership-Rediscovering Secrets to Creating Lasting Value

--Fire up your public library online reservations: marathon inspirational writers Warren Bennis and Noel M. Ticity have another one out -- Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls

--I have a seriously dog-eared copy of this one in my business library, and try not to recommend it because clients would read it and put me out of business. One flaw, it hasn't been updated since 1996, so there's nothing of value in here about the incredible impact the Internet, blogs (like this one) and other online media have dramatically made on public perceptions and how people get information. Run, do not walk, to buy this one by Harvard guru John P. Kotter: Leading Change

--Michael Ussem shows us just how serious publishing requirements are for university tenure at the Wharton School of Business by serving up this long-winded title (take a deep breath): The Leadership Moment-Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for All of Us

--Speaking of tenure, our next tome takes us out West, where Stanford professor of everything Jeffrey Pfeffer gives us What Were They Thinking? Unconventional Wisdom about Management

--Authors David Dotlich, James Noel and Norman Walker know full well that there's nothing we humans like better than voyeuristic conflict, especially among the rich and powerful, so they penned: Leadership Passages - The Personal and Professional Transitions that Make or Break a Leader

--Evidently the future didn't quite work out the way they originally envisioned, so authors Michael Hammer and James Champy have re-engineered their earlier work Re-Engineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution

--If someone had asked Peter Drucker if he planned on speaking from the grave, the response might have been an incredulous "Was?" Nonetheless, the good folks at Collins Business have apparently pulled it off by issuing a revised 2006 version of Drucker's renowned The Practice of Management

--What do you do if you have a best-selling business book? As a quick follow up you write a "field guide" of course, and Patrick Lencioi has done just that with Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers and Facilitators

--To wrap up the CIO guide, another follow-up tome to a best seller (The Leadership Challenge) appears in the form of A Leader's Legacy

If you want more information about the guide, go here (and happy reading): http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Books/10-Insightful-Leadership-Books/?kc=CIOMINUTE10272008CIOA

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