Leadership Top Ten

1. Kim Cameron: Positive Leadership. This is short impressive book that brings together the results of positive organizational scholarship from the point of view of leadership.
2. Peter Senge: The Fifth Discipline. Peter's classic is perhaps the best overall framework from which to view leadership.
3. Sumatra Ghoshal: "Bad Management Theories are Destroying Good Managerial Practices", Academy of Management Learning and Education 2005, vol. 4, no.1, 75-91. Link.
4. Marcial Losada: "The Role of Positivity and Connectivity in the Performance of Business Teams", American Behavioral Scientist vol 47, Feb. 2004. Link to Marcial's insights.
5. Joseph S. Nye Jr. The Powers to Lead.  Crystal clear, multidimensional, wide and insightful.
6. Howard Gardner: Leading Minds. A classic that brings out the subjective dimension of leadership through well-chosen examples.
7. Keith Grint: Leadership. Limits and Possibilies. The best writer to combine scholarly depth with the understanding of leadership as an art-like activity.
8. James MacGregor: Leaderhip. The major, major classic.
9. Abraham H. Maslow: Maslow on Management. Maslow's thoughs are relevant forever.
10. Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt, eds.: Great Minds in Management. A thick sourcebook.

My own key text:

"Philosophy for Managers", published in Philosophy of Management Vol. 7 (2008) Supplement. Pdf.