This was the seminal book that introduced the ageless principles and values of Servant Leadership to the business domain.

As it turns out, us humans have a neuroscientific need to play and innovate. Cable does an excellent job providing compelling evidence of that, helps us build playful and innovative teams, and explains what happens when we do that…and when we don’t. If leaders needs evidence to compel them to create vibrant and highly engaged teams, this book is an excellent resource.

By now, most business leaders have been enlightened on the role of culture within a high performing organization. In this book, Coyle gives several specific things a leader can do to create strong and healthy cultures based on scientific experiments conducted at MIT and other reputable institutions.

This book is dripping with humility and agility and is the quintessential book that vaporizes any remaining arguments for autocratic, dictatorial leadership in our increasingly complex world.
Easily among the best books I’ve read in the last 20 years!

This book and others by Brene Brown have been incredible and equipping inspirations to me. Brown does a masterful job of articulating what leadership styles and methods work, which fail, and why. Candid, brutally transparent, refreshingly practical, and courageous. In other words, classic Brene!

"Whatever you do, please don’t write another book on Strategy. We have those books coming out of our ears. We need to know how to improve our Execution.”
So was the challenge given to a consulting firm by executive customers.

I love this book! Cy Wakeman, a former family therapist turned business leaders, documents her fresh and often hilarious take on many sacred cows of the business domain…hitting them head-on with brutal pragmatism and straightforward solutions.
Practical Servant Leaders need to be equipped to cut through corporate drama, politics, and wasteful swirl that they have precious little time for. This book does an excellent job of defining the problem, cutting through encumbrances, and equipping us to be great in the midst of it all.

All human relationships – whether personal or professional – have trust at their core. When trust is damaged, so do business results. When trust is strong, results accelerate. In this book, Covey provides time-testing, practical guidance on how to build, strengthen, and repair trust within the context of business.

One of my all-time favorite videos is called “Greatness” by David Marquet. This book explains how Nuclear Submarine Captain David Marquet turned a submarine full of followers into a team of leaders by using just a few simple and immediately useful leadership tactics.

In this book, John Maxwell does an outstanding job carving out distinct principles and traits of a genuine leader. See if you recognize yourself in any of them and keep this handy for inspiration in your Practical Servant Leadership journey.

In true Lencioni form, this book reads like a novel and shows us key toxic elements of teams and how to mitigate them.

Reis calls himself a “Silicon Valley failure” because of the millions in Venture Capital funds he helped burned through with little to show for it. As a result, he knew there had to be a better way to innovate in a way that reduced risk and ensured decisions were based on empirical data. This book stands on the shoulders of Lean and Agile and provides a simple, intuitive framework that teams can use to manage innovation. Practical Servant Leaders can immediately leverage this framework with their teams to encourage innovation and strengthen their connection with their team. The Lean Startup scales from tiny startups to Fortune 100 companies, many of which have embraced it and infused it into their operations.

Before reading this book, I always thought that Edison merely invented stuff. Was I ever wrong! He actually created and used a 5-step process to ensure his inventions got traction in the market and successfully scaled. Practical Servant Leaders create and nurture innovative teams. This book would be a great start for any leader wanting to light the innovative fire and feed it to burn brightly to terrorize their competition.