📚 Leadership

The quality everyone wants and no one has pinned down: what leaders actually do, what the evidence says about it, and where the myth begins.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject leadership in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The 48 Laws of Power	Robert Greene	1998	51
	Leadership and Self Deception	The Arbinger Institute	2000	33
	Leadership Wisdom from the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari	Robin S. Sharma	1998	22
	Principle-Centered Leadership	Stephen R. Covey	1989	21
	The leader who had no title	Robin S. Sharma	2010	21
	The Leader in You	Dale Carnegie	1993	20
	Start with why	Simon Sinek	2009	17
	嫌われる勇気	Ichirō Kishimi	2013	17
	The 33 Strategies of War	Robert Greene	1998	15
	Snapshots of great leadership	Jon P. Howell	2012	15
	The Tao of leadership	John Heider	1985	14
	The SPEED of Trust	Stephen M. R. Covey	2006	14
	Dilemmas of leadership	Tudor Rickards	2005	13
	Leadership	Simon Western	2007	13
	The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership	John C. Maxwell	1998	12
	The Compound effect	Darren Hardy	2010	12
	Leadership	Elesa Zehndorfer	2013	12
	Developing the Leader Within You	John C. Maxwell	1993	11
	Leadership secrets of Attila the Hun	Wess Roberts	1985	9
	Level Three Leadership	James G. Clawson	1998	9
	Transformational Leadership	Bernard M. Bass	2005	9
	No excuses!	Brian Tracy	2010	9
	The dictator's handbook	Bruce Bueno de Mesquita	2011	9
	Spiritual leadership	J. Oswald Sanders	1967	8
	Leadership	Peter G. Northouse	2000	8
	The introverted leader	Jennifer B. Kahnweiler	2009	8
	Introduction to management	W. Richard Plunkett	1983	7
	Leadership and the one minute manager	Kenneth H. Blanchard	1985	7
	Leadership Is an Art	Max DePree	1989	7
	Leadership	Michael Z. Hackman	1991	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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