Leadership reading list

A collection of essential books that meaningfully affected our team

The team here at Range are notorious book worms and we regularly get asked for recommendations.

Below I’ve shared some of our favorites, intended for people interested in becoming a better leader, improving team effectiveness, and learning how to make work more humane.

Leadership is its own craft, not simply an extension of other crafts. While every situation will provide a unique combination of challenges, there are commonalities that every leader will struggle through. These books provide a great starting point.

I’m loathe to use sports analogies, but I think this one’s worth it: Do you want to be more of a golf team or a basketball team? A golf team is a collection of people who each play their own game, then add their scores together at the end. On a basketball team, everyone plays the same game. They may have different roles, but they work in concert, utilizing each other’s strengths, to achieve an outcome.

The latter is usually what people imagine when they think about high-performing teams at work, but building teams like this is hard. These books touch on theory while offering a bunch of practical advice.

It may sound obvious, but companies are made up of people, and therefore leaders should seek to understand the needs and drives of themselves and others. There’s a wealth of pop-psychology books out there, we’ve found the following most useful.

Modern workforces are complex networks, a far cry from the production lines of the industrial revolution. Yet many organizations use practices carried over from the scientific management of the last century. These three books will help you understand this changing nature of work and provide alternative approaches to organizing your people.

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