New books on leadership seem to appear almost daily and many of them have useful insights, but Epic Change: How to Lead Change in the Global Age by Timothy R Clark is one of the best I’ve read.
Clark left Oxford to find an academic position in the US, but instead spent eight years as a plant manager before the company closed its doors—a victim of global competition.
Considering that the average tenure of CEOs is 44 months and that the primary reasons are lack of vision and inability to deal with change the book is of paramount importance because of its …read more

 
All this talk about wasting time with unproductive meetings brought to mind one of my favorite books:  Death by Meeting, by Patrick M. Lencioni.
From Publishers Weekly: 
Lencioni’s message comes across loud and clear—meetings should be interactive, not passive, and they should be structured (i.e., issues of immediate importance should be discussed in “weekly tactical” meetings, and issues that will fundamentally affect the business should be addressed in “monthly strategic” meetings).
The book is a quick read.  The ridiculous meeting situations would be funny — if they weren’t so true.  I gave the book as a gift to a friend after hearing …read more

“Stop Telling… Start Leading! The Art of Managing People by Asking Questions” (ISBN 0-9774056-1-3) by Frank D. Kanu is a new business management book that provides leadership skills and training.
Kanu has based his management system on the methods of Socrates, who taught his students by asking questions. It worked in the fifth century B.C. and Kanu says the method is as valid today as it was then.
“Stop Telling… Start Leading” is designed to be used as a work book. It offers many open-ended questions to the manager, offering ways to evaluate and find the right course of action that leads …read more