What Are Your Top Books On Leadership And Why?

DRIVING AND LEADING THROUGH CHANGE are critical leadership capabilities. Some of my current favorite books include:

• Influencer, The New Science of Leading Change: Find vital behaviors that drive change, measure, and influence to motivate for changed behaviors.
• Execution, The Discipline of Getting Things Done: Establish beliefs to influence behaviors directly linked to goals.
• Leading the Lean Enterprise Transformation: Transform through Lean and Six Sigma to make room for efficient growth.
• Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement: Working smarter trumps working harder long-term.
• The Leadership Pipeline, How to Build the Leadership Powered Company: Cultivate change in leaders transitioning to new roles.
• Positivity: Foster heartfelt positivity to increase openness to new possibilities.
• 7 habits of Highly Effective People: My periodic “go-to” for reflection and reinvigoration of personal change; a perfect refresher to start the New Year.

CHARLENE BANARD
Charlene is SVP of global quality and technical operations at Shire Pharmaceutical and is accountable for global GMP and GDP quality functions.