 John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States of America, said if your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, or do more and become more, you are a leader. The world is in dire need of effective leadership, leadership which inspires and motivates greatness in the followers and empowers the followers to accomplish goals and grow. Authentic leadership takes time and intentional moves of growth. Also, reading is one way which supports and notches growth. It is productive for everyone, but much more so for present and future leaders. Harry Truman, the 33rd president of the United States of America, said, not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. Truman's words are supported by that of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, who said, Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who will move the world. Studies have managed to create a list of 15 notable leadership books for current and future leaders. These books are favorites of known leaders over decades and have the most impact in inspiring leaders to do more. The book's listings is from the latest published to the earliest published. 1. 7. Leadership in Action How you can achieve great relationships and results? This book featured 44 renowned leadership experts and practitioners and was co-edited by Ken Blanchard and Rene Broadwell. This book teaches to serve first and then lead, six to eliminate the wrong definition and view about leadership, power and control. Seventh leadership in action also shares how the right guidance can get results-oriented outcomes and still maintain excellent relationships with followers. 2. Permission to Screw Up How I learned to lead by doing almost everything wrong. Christine Hadid wrote this book. Even in an open and frank expository method, the author shares her inspiring journey of starting and running her business and how she made mistakes and learned from them, promoting the need for realness and action instead of pretense and merely thinking. Permission to screw up shows how growth happens and the lessons needed to move from inept to good. 3. The Servant Leader Five powerful actions to transform your team, business and community. Ken Jennings and John Stahl Wirt wrote this book. Coming with a challenge for its readers to examine their purposes and principles, it promotes strong leadership coming from the heart. It transforms leadership into a teachable way which applies to different forms of leadership. The Servant Leader teaches leaders to rethink and shows them how to engage the strengths of followers, helping them attain greatness to the benefit of society. 4. Leaders Eat Last Why some teams pull together and others don't. Simon Sinek wrote this book. This book, which was written to both enthusiasm for their work within its readers, inspires people to realize their worth in their work output and also help others understand theirs. It promotes team building by showing the leaders the need to care for the followers. Leaders Eat Last shows that creating the right environment is essential to the team's efficiency and if done right would keep the followers energized and fulfilled with their work. Friendship and trust and cooperation and what the author calls a circle of safety. 5. Delivering Happiness A path to profits, passion and purpose. Tony Hasey wrote this book. This book details the life of the author and shares about creating a great, happier culture for your business, making it more profitable. It also talks about helping employees grow professionally and personally. The author of Delivering Happiness is in a fast-paced way reveals that by building the happiness of others around you, you indirectly build yours too. He also shows that changing the world starts with changing your immediate world. 6. Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership Practicing the wisdom of leading by serving. James W. Sype and Don M. Frick wrote this book. Exposing how leadership affects every other thing, the book shares seven leadership strategies which apply to every aspect of leadership. The tip offered in the book are concrete and functional, leaving the readers enlightened. Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership helps the readers apply the tips uniquely to their different situations, birthing in them an ideal vision of leadership. 7. It's Not About The Coffee Lessons and Putting People Thirst from A Life at Starbucks Howard Behar wrote this book. The book teaches one how to succeed in every area as a leader and not just in business. Readers describe it as down-to-earth, straightforward and honed in reality. In It's Not About The Coffee, the author shares how profitable it is to build trust and tell the truth and also see the employees as humans and not just laborers. The employees, he reveals, will produce amazing results in the company. 8. The Case For Seventh Leadership Kent M. Keat wrote this book. The writer argues that seventh leadership is the best model of leadership as opposed to the power model of leadership. It shows that the rewards of the seventh leadership model profits both the leaders and the followers. In The Case For Seventh Leadership, Kent shared that using the right model of leadership provides personal meaning that will feed your spirit and your soul and give you deep happiness. 9. The Servant Leader How to Build a Creative Team Develop Great Moral and Improve Bottom Line Performance James A. Autry wrote this book. This book teaches how to manage right using respect, spirituality, love and honesty. Kent shares that such effective management helps leaders, followers and employees answer the calling of seventh leadership. In The Servant Leader, the author shares tools which are ideals and skills which would help grow the servant leader's business. These tools too are to help nurture the goals of the followers and yields a more productive and successful organization. 10. The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle How to Become a Servant Leader James Hunter wrote this book. This book, which is a follow-up to the seventh, relays that character development is the same as leadership. Acknowledging that the process of character development is painstaking and tough, the author provides practical tips on how effective leadership through servant leadership can be achieved. The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle shares that to be the leader is not the same as being the boss. It states that to lead is to serve. 11. Leadership is an Art Max D. Prey wrote this book. Sharing a way to achieve success by developing a generous spirit, this book provides insights and guidelines for every leader in every sector. The book according to the author is a kind of stewardship. The book, Leadership is an Art, opines that the art of leadership involves liberating people so they can do what they should in the best, most effective and human way possible. 12. Servant Leadership A journey into the nature of legitimate power and greatness. Robert K. Greenleaf wrote this book and Larry C. Spears edited this edition. This book is a classic work on leadership for anyone in positions of authority. This book will enlighten anyone who gets the opportunity to lead as it reveals the need for leadership virtues like responsibility, love and growth. The 25th anniversary edition of Servant Leadership will undoubtedly influence leaders to serve better as it teaches that those who serve and respect those they lead are more likely to get good results. 13. Good to Great Why some companies make the leap and others don't. James C. James Collins wrote this book. This book reveals that good is the enemy of great. Using the research of about five years, the experimental journey shared in the book shows how to make good companies great and explains why some companies never make this transition. It's a great teaches that a combination of a culture of discipline and an ethic of entrepreneurship leads to great results, which turns good companies into great ones. 14. The Servant A simple story about the true essence of leadership. James Hunter wrote this book. Weaving the timeless principles of leadership into an absorbing tale of a businessman, John Daly. This book takes the reader into a journey where they watch the life of the character unfold and also learn the lessons he learns. Using storytelling, the servant teaches about the different leadership roles the character holds, husband, father, boss and coach, dishing out leadership insights which apply to these roles. 15. Making the grass greener on your side A CEO's journey to leading by-serving Ken Melrose wrote this book. The book is an enjoyable read, which shares the true life story about the author, showing how he adopted a new philosophy of leading, leading by-serving and how it changed everything. Making the grass greener on your side promotes a principal center based on where the leader works for and serves the rest of the organization. It also shows the applied leadership strategies analyzing why each worked. Many of the above-listed books focus on the servant leadership model, a model which is highly effective. In this list is something for every leader and every level of leadership. These books build authentic leaders, leaders who develop people, build communities and value their followers. If you want to be an effective leader, you should read these books.