Healthy Growing Leaders Reading List | Essential Books for Christian Leaders & Pastors
UNDERSTANDING YOURSELF AND OTHERS AS YOU LEAD:
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5 Gears—by Jeremie Kubicek, et.al.
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A Perfect Mess—Abrahamson & Freedman
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Adapt: Why success always starts with failure—Tim Harford
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Atomic Habits—James Clear
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Better Decisions Fewer Regrets—Andy Stanley
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Brain Chains—Theo Compernolle
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Coaching for Emotional Intelligence—Bob Wall
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Cultural Mapping—Erin Meyers
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Deep Change—Robert Quinn
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Deep Work—Cal Newport
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Einstein—Walter Isaacson
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Emotional Intelligence for Dummies—Steven Stein
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A Field Guide to Spiritual Gifts—Greg Wiens
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Focus—Daniel Goleman
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How To Make the World Add Up—Tim Harford
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I Hear You—Michael Sorensen
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Iconoclast—Gregory Bern
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Irresistible—Andy Stanley
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Leadership and Self Deception—The Arbinger Group
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Let your Life Speak—Parker Palmer
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Lost Connections—Johann Hari
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Mindset—Carol Dweck
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Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes—O’Brien & Richards
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More—Todd Wilson
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Multipliers—Liz Wiseman
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Originals—Adam Grant
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Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett
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Social Intelligence—Daniel Goleman
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Stuck—Terry Walling
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Surfing for God—Michael Cusick
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The Body Keeps the Score—Bessel Van der Kolk
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The Brain That Changes Itself—Doidge
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The Culture Map—Erin Meyer
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The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die—John Izzo
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The Advantage: why organizational health trumps everything—Patrick Lencioni
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The Art of Assessing People—Wiens
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The Art of Gathering—Parker
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The Gift of Being yourself—David Benner
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The Laws of Lifetime Growth—Sullivan & Nomura
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The Making of a Leader—Robert Clinton
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The Organized Mind—Daniel Levitin
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The Practicing Mind—Thomas Sterner
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Unedited—Charity Walker
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You are not your Brain—Schwartz and Gladding
LEADERSHIP:
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A Failure of Nerve—Edwin Freidman
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Breaking all of the Rules—Buckingham
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Building the Bridge as you Walk on it—Robert Quinn
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How Great Leaders Think: The art of reframing—Bolman & Deal
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Leaders Eat Last—Simon Sinek
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Leadership on the Line—Ron Heifetz
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Loonshots—Safi Baahcall
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Masterful Leadership—Blanchard, Ortberg, Blackaby—Audible
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Mission Drift: The unspoken crises facing leaders—Peter Greer
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Originals—Adam Grant
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Reality Based Leadership—Cy Wakeman
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Replenish—Lance Will
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Rework—Jason Fried
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The E-Myth Revisited—Michael Gerber
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The One Thing—Gary Keller, et. al.
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The Speed of Trust—Stephen Covey
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Transforming Leadership—MacGregor Burns
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Tribal Leadership—David Logan, et. al.
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Tribes: you need to lead us—Seth Godin
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Winning on Purpose—John Kaiser
CHURCH MISSION:
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Becoming a Disciplemaker—Harrington & Wiens
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Becoming a Level 5 Multiplying Church
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Deep & Wide—Andy Stanley
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Dying to Restart—Wiens & Turner
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Everywhere You Look—Tim Soerens
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God Space—Doug Polluck
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How God is in Business—Willard
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Shaped by God’s Heart—Minatrea
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Spirituality and Fundraising—Henry Nouwen
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The Allure of Gentleness—Dallas Willard
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The Art of Neighboring—Pathak and Runyon
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The Disciplemakers Handbook—Bobby Harrington
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The Invitational Life—Steve Carter
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The Lost Art of Disciplemaking—Leroy Eims
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The New Parrish—Paul Sparks, et.al.
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Toxic Charity—Lupton
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When Helping Hurts—Corbett
SPIRITUAL FORMATION:
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A Long Obedience in the Same Direction—Eugene Peterson
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Broken Dreams—Larry Crabb
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Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Place—Eugene Peterson
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Contrarians Guide to Knowing God—Larry Osborne
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Critical Journey of Faith—Janet Hagberg and Robert Guilech
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How People Grow—Cloud and Townsend
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How to Read the Bible for All its Worth—Fee & Stewart
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Integrity—Henry Cloud
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Life without Lack—Dallas Willard
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Ordering your Private World—Gordon MacDonald
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Preparing for Heaven—Gary Black
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Renovation of the Heart—Dallas Willard
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Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice—Willard & Johnson
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Simplify—Bill Hybels
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Simply Christian—NT Wright
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Soul Keeping—John Ortberg
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Spirit of the Disciplines—Dallas Willard
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The Critical Journey of Faith—Hagberg and Guelich
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The Divine Conspiracy—Dallas Willard
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The Sacred Romance—Curtis & Eldridge
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The Way to Power and Poise—E. Stanley Jones
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The Way—E. Stanley Jones
MANAGING CONFLICT AND CHANGE
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Anatomy of Peace—The Arbinger Group
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Crucial Conversations—Grenny, et. al.
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Leading Change—Kotter
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Managing Transitions—William Bridges
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Necessary Endings—Henry Cloud
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The Lost Art of Listening—Michael Nichols
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Think Again—Adam Grant
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Unoffendable—Brant Hansen
Additional:
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The Art of Scientific Investigation by W. I. B. Beverage
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The Five Laws of Medicine by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Lincolns—Epstein
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry—Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Beyond Weird—Philip Ball
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Maybe you should talk to Someone, a Therapist—Lori Gottlieb
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Saint Thomas Aquinas, the Dumb Ox—G. K. Chesterton
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Steve Jobs—Walter Isaacson
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The Pleasure of Finding Things—Richard Feynman
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Virtues of Aging—Jimmy Carter