Who recommended Leadership?

8 people have recommended Leadership in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Bill Gates, Ryan Holiday, Kobe Bryant and Bill Clinton. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is Leadership worth reading?

8 people we track recommend it. It is best for: a mid-career nonprofit director steering an organization through a public crisis who wants full-length historical examples to compare moral tradeoffs and decision cycles; an executive running an internal leadership seminar who needs vivid, story-driven anecdotes to prompt discussion rather than bullet-point tactics; a graduate student drafting a comparative paper on leadership development who needs narrative case material and extended sequences to cite and critique. It may not suit: you'll likely put it down when chapters linger on archival minutiae and the same personality themes repeat—those long detours are a common drop-off point; annoying if you prefer brisk, actionable advice or modern corporate case studies instead of long political biographies; lose interest if you want hands-on exercises or clear step-by-step methods—this lacks hands-on exercises and reads as narrative first.

What books are like Leadership?

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Leadership by Doris Kearns Goodwin: Recommended by 8 People

Name: Leadership
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Are leaders born or made Where does ambition come from How does adversity affect the growth of leadership Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader In Leadership, Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely?Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil ri...