Books about leadership and developing your soft skills

Holly Davis
2 min readMar 26, 2021

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I recently tweeted this

Can anyone recommend any books which focus on the soft skills/behaviours required of someone in a senior / leadership position?

I had so many replies with lots of interesting books and resources so I thought I would collate all the responses in one place for others to benefit from too.

Books

Dare to Lead — Brene Brown

Radical candor — Kim Scott’s

Primal Leadership — Daniel Goleman

Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You — Francis X.Frei

Turn the ship around — L David Marquet

Leaders Eat Last — Simon Sinek

Leading well from within — Daniel Friedland MD

Workaches the neuroscience between serving and thriving at work — Deborah Robin Winograd PhD

Becoming an Agile Leader — Victoria Swisher

Evolvagility — Michael Hamman

The decision to trust — Robert F.Hurley

Inviting leadershipDaniel Mezick

Leading beyond the ego — Daniel Grant

How to Work with People … and Enjoy It! — Jenny Bird

The Speed of Trust — Stephen M. R. Covey

Quiet Leadership — David Rock.

Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling- Edgar H. Schein

What you do is who you are — Ben Horowitz

Power of Love Leadership — Sarah Higgins

Women and leadershipBarbara Kellerman

Leadership Challenge — Kouves and Posner

Never Split The Difference — Chris Voss

Why Should Anyone Be Led By You? -Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones

Managing humans — Michael Loop

The Trust Triangle — Matthew Davies

Mindset — Carol Dweck.

Other resources

The SCARF model — David Rock

Leadership singularity by the AcornOak

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Holly Davis
Holly Davis

Written by Holly Davis

Principal Delivery Manager at Torchbox

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