Books, articles, podcasts on leadership

Whether you are looking at developing your leadership skills in regards to leading yourself, your family, others, departments, or organizations, these resources can help you as a leader.  For those of you that lead groups, it may be good to go back and review some of the resources on the New Leaders page.

Audio Leadership Resources

Recommended Books to Read

Leading Self

  • Developing the Leader Within You John Maxwell
  • Integrity Henry Cloud
  • Who Are You When No One Is Looking? Bill Hybels

Leading Family

  • DNA Relationships Gary Smally
  • Five Love Languages Gray Chapman
  • Choosing to Cheat Andy Stanley
  • The Three Big Questions for Frantic Family Patrick Lencioni
  • Boundaries with Kids Henry Cloud
  • Raising Great Kids Henry Cloud
  • Love Languages for Children Gary Chapman

Leading Others/Groups

  • Developing the Leaders Around You John Maxwell
  • Holy Discontent Bill Hybels
  • Crucial Conversations Kerry Patterson
  • Next Generation Leader Andy Stanley
  • Making  Small Groups Work Henry Cloud

Leading Departments

  • Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni
  • 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork John Maxwell
  • Death by Meeting Patrick Lencioni

Leading Organizations

  • 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership John Maxwell
  • Everyone Communicates, Few Connect John Maxwell
  • Good To Great Jim Collins
  • Flight of Buffalo James Belasco
  • Crucial Confrontations Kerry Patterson
  • Death by Meeting Patrick Lencioni
  • You Are In Charge Now What? Thomas Neff
  • What Got You here Won’t get You There Marshall Goldsmith
  • Execution Ram Charan & Larry Bossidy
  • 9 Things a Leader Must Do Henry Cloud
  • The Contrarian Leader Steve Sample
  • How the Mighty Fall Jim Collins
  • Truth North Bill George
  • Axiom Bill Hybels
  • Getting Things Done David Allen

Group Leadership Training Articles and Podcasts:

  1. Leadership Essentials: The Leader’s Key Practices.
  2. Creating and Crafting Effective Meetings.
  3. Intro to Boundaries
  4. Am I Listening Well.
  5.  Leadership Development.
  6. Guidelines for Reading the Bible Together.
  7. Serving as a Group.
  8. Sacred Pathways.
  9. The Leaders Role.
  10. The Leaders Relationships.
  11. The One Anothers.
  12. The Principles of Making Disciples.
  13. The Art and Practice of Discernment.
  14. Celebrating Life-Change in Community.
  15. Turning Common Practices into Holy Moments.
  16. Battling Burnout.
  17. Church Discipline.


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