Marcus Buckingham

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1. Marcus Buckingham

   Author of Now, Discover your Strengths, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently, Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance

2. Stephen R. Covey

   Author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

3. Patrick Lencioni

   Author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable

4. Tom Rath

   Author of How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life, Strengths-Based Leadership, Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without

5. James C. Collins

   Author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

6. John C. Maxwell

   Author of Developing the Leader Within You, Developing The Leaders Around You, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

7. Kerry Patterson

   Author of Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything

8. Peter F. Drucker

   Author of The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done, The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management

9. Ram Charan

   Author of Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't, What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works

10. David Allen

    Author of Getting Things Done: The Art Of Stress-Free Productivity, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life, Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life

11. John P. Kotter

    Author of Leading Change, The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations, Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management

12. Ken Blanchard

    Author of The One Minute Manager, Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization, Leadership by the Book : Tools to Transform Your Workplace

13. Larry Bossidy

    Author of Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

14. Peter Michael Senge

    Author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

15. Daniel Goleman

    Author of Emotional Intelligence, Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence

16. James M. Kouzes

    Author of The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition

17. Rodd Wagner

    Author of 12: The Elements of Great Managing

18. W. Chan Kim

    Author of Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant

19. Jim Loehr

    Author of The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

20. Marshall Goldsmith

    Author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful