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Leadership Books We Love

Great leaders never stop learning. Even with a full schedule, investing time to grow your skills and broaden your perspective pays off. Here are top book recommendations from the SANS fellows, executive team, and Cybersecurity Leadership faculty.

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Recommended Reading for Modern CISOs

Curated selections to deepen your expertise and elevate your impact as a cybersecurity executive.

Strategic Planning

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

Ahead in the Cloud: Best Practices for Navigating the Future of Enterprise IT

Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?

Business Made Simple

Finish

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

Know What You're FOR: A Growth Strategy for Work, An Even Better Strategy for Life

Living Forward

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

Predictable Success

Profit First

That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Leadership & Management

Action Inquiry - The secret of timely and transforming leadership

Blink - The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Don't Hire Anyone Without Me

Ego Free Leadership

EntreLeadership

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

First, break all the rules

Free to Focus

Good Leaders ask Great Questions

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

Leadershift: 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

Leading Change

Meetings Suck: Turning One of the Most Loathed Elements of Business Into One of the Most Valuable

No Fail Meetings

Quiet Leadership - Help people think better - Don't tell them what to do!

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Switch - How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

The Infinite Game

The Leadership Moment: 9 True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All

The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell

The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership

The Vision Driven Leader

Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership: Executive Lessons from the Bully Pulpit

Thinking Fast and Slow

Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Turn the Ship Around: True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

Virtuous Leadership: An Agenda for Personal Excellence

We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill

What Leaders Really Do

Why Great Leaders Don't Take YES for an Answer

Communication & Relationship Management

Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication

Conversational Capacity: The Secret to Building Successful Teams That Perform When the Pressure Is On

Creating a Storybrand

Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

Emotional Intelligence 2.0

How to Win Friends and Influence People

How to Work with Jerks

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Influence Redefined

Made to Stick

Never Eat Alone

Never Split the Difference

Nudge - Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking

Radical Candor

Talking to Strangers

The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

Writing & Presenting

Elements of Style

On Writing Well

Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences

slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

Talk Like TED - The 9 Public Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience

Inspirational & Memoirs

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Everybody Always

How Will You Measure Your Own Life

It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

Known and Unknown

The Book of Five Rings

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

The Medici Effect: What Elephants & Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation