Doescher Advisors Book List

Top Picks (Recommendations)

1. Spiritual Leadership, Oswald Sanders
2. Authentic Leadership, Bill George
3. Built to Last, Jim Collins
4. Good to Great, Jim Collins
5. Leading with the Heart, Mike Krzyzewski
6. Next Generation Leader, Andy Stanley
7. In Search of Excellence, Tom Peters
8. How the Mighty Fall, Jim Collins
9. The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership, Steven Sample
10. Drive, Daniel Pink
11. Necessary Endings, Henry Cloud
12. Integrity, Henry Cloud
13. The Three Signs of a Miserable Job, Patrick Lencioni
14. Crucial Conversations, Patterson, Grenny, McMillan & Switzler
15. Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, Liz Wiseman
16. The Ideal Team Player, Patrick Lencioni

The following are books we have read and have categorized to make it easier for you to find something you may enjoy. We would not necessarily recommend every book to every person. If you are interested, we offer a complimentary one-on-one session where we can tailor our suggestions to your interests and needs.

• Business Leaders
• Presidents or Military Leaders
• Christian Leaders
• Sports Team Coaches
• Other Business Books
• Other Books

Business Leaders

1. Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?, Louis Gerstner
2. Tough Choices, Carly Fiorina
3. Loving Monday, John Beckett
4. Mastering Monday, John Beckett
5. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni
6. The Five Temptations of a CEO, Patrick Lencioni
7. Death by Meeting, Patrick Lencioni
8. Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Verne Harnish
9. The Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes & Barry Posner
10. When Professionals Have to Lead, Thomas DeLong, John Gabarro & Robert Lees
11. Leadership is an Art, Max DePree
12. HBR on Leadership, Harvard Business Review
13. Leadership and the New Science, Margaret Wheatley
14. True North, Bill George
15. The Congruent Life, Michael Thompson
16. Making Meetings Work, John Tropman
17. Servant Leadership, Robert Greenleaf
18. Understanding Leadership, Tom Marshall
19. The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader, John Maxwell
20. Attitude 101, John Maxwell
21. The Romance of Tata Steel, R.M. Lala
22. A Passion for Excellence, Tom Peters
23. Thriving on Chaos, Tom Peters
24. What Leaders Really Do, John Kotter
25. Managing the Professional Service Firm, David Maister
26. Talent is Overrated, Geoff Colvin
27. Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
28. Senior Leadership Teams, Ruth Wageman
29. The Effective Executive, Peter Drucker
30. First, Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham
31. Winning, Jack Welch
32. Enough, John Bogle
33. The Peter Principle, Laurence Peters
34. On the Brink, Henry Paulson, Jr.
35. Dr. Deming, Rafael Aguayo
36. Leadership, Rudolph Giuliani
37. Thou Shall Prosper, Daniel Lapin
38. Even Happier: A Gratitude Journal, Tal Ben-Shahar
39. Onward, Howard Schultz
40. Succession Transition, Bill Hermann & Gordon Krater
41. From Values to Action, Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr.
42. The One-Life Solution, Henry Cloud
43. When We Are Free, Timothy Nash
44. Disciplined Dreaming, Josh Linkner
45. Start with Why, Simon Sinek
46. Ownership Thinking, Brad Hams
47. Wealth: Is It Worth It?, Truett Cathy
48. The Advantage, Patrick Lencioni
49. American Icon, Bryce Hoffman
50. Great By Choice, Jim Collins
51. Make It In America, Andrew Liveris
52. Narcissistic Leader, Michael Maccoby
53. The New Leader’s 100 – Day Action Plan, Bradt, Check & Pedraza
54. American Drive: How Manufacturing Will Save Our Country, Dick Dauch
55. Remarkable, Dr. Randy Ross & David Salyers
56. Daring Greatly, Dr. Brene Brown
57. Quiet: The Power of Introverts, Susan Cain
58. How To Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie
59. How I Raised Myself From Failure To Successes in Selling, Frank Bettger
60. Make The Noise Go Away – The Power of An Effective Second in Command, Larry Linne
61. Crucial accountability, Patterson, Grenny, Maxfield, McMillan
62. Like A Virgin, Richard Branson
63. Lead with LUV, Ken Blanchard & Colleen Barrett
64. Zero To One, Peter Thiel
65. Love Works, Joel Manby
66. Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg
67. Elon Musk, Renaissance Man
68. Right Away, All At Once, Greg Brenneman
69. The Power of the Other, Henry Cloud
70. Tribal Leadership, Logan, King & Fischer-Wright
71. Option B, Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant
72. The Deal Maker, Axel Madsen
73. The Coaching Questions, Mike Tattersall
74. Work Rules – Insights from Inside Google, Laszlo Bock
75. Intentional Living, John Maxwell
76. Strengths Leadership, Tom Rath
77. Rocket Fuel, Gino Wickman & Mark Winters
78. Execution, Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
79. Fair Shot, Chris Hughes
80. The Capitalist Comeback, Andrew Puzder
81. Elon Musk, Ashlee Vance
82. The Great Game of Business, Jack Stack
83. Setting the Table, Danny Meyer
84. Principles, Ray Dalio
85. The Billionaire Who Wasn’t, Conor O’Cleary
86. The Power of Your Potential, John Maxwell
87. Servant Leadership in Action, Ken Blanchard & Renee Broadwell
88. The Culture Solution, Matthew Kelly
89. Radical Candor, Kim Scott
90. Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
91. Strategize To Win, Carla Harris
92. Ninja Future, Gary Shapiro
93. Delivering Happiness, Tony Hsieh
94. Developing the Leader Within You 2.0, John Maxwell

Presidents or Military Leaders

1. Sacred Honor: Colin Powell, David Roth
2. Abraham Lincoln: The Spiritual Growth of a Public Man, Elton Trueblood
3. Abraham Lincoln: A Spiritual Biography, Elton Trueblood
4. Lincoln on Leadership, Donald Phillips
5. God’s Leader for a Nation: Abraham Lincoln, David Collins
6. Washington’s Secret War, Thomas Fleming
7. 1776, David McCullough
8. John Adams, David McCullough
9. When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan, Peggy Noonan
10. Thirteen Days, Robert F. Kennedy
11. Eyewitness to Power, David Gergen
12. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
13. No Higher Honor, Condoleezza Rice
14. The Forgotten Man, Amity Schlaes
15. It Worked for Me, Colin Powell
16. Special Trust, Robert McFarlane
17. The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
18. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
19. Iliad, Homer
20. Trump: The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump
21. Killing Reagan, Bill O’Reilly
22. Killing the Rising Sun, Bill O’Reilly
23. Turn the Ship Around, David Marquet
24. Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
25. A Pope and A President, Paul Kengor
26. Rules For Radicals, Saul Alinsky
27. The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis
28. Like War, Singer & Brooking
29. Win Bigly, Scott Adams

Christian Leaders

1. The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren
2. Discover Your Giftedness, Mels Carbonell
3. Courageous Leadership, Bill Hybels
4. Your Work Matters to God, Doug Sherman & William Hendricks
5. Calling Christian Leaders, John Stott
6. The Workaholic and His Family, Frank Minirth, Paul Meier, Frank Wichern, Bill Brewer & States Skipper
7. The Servant Leader, Ken Blanchard & Phil Hodges
8. Leadership by the Book, Ken Blanchard, Bill Hybels & Phil Hodges
9. The Dream Giver, Bruce Wilkinson
10. The Life You’ve Always Wanted, John Ortberg
11. Descending Into Greatness, Bill Hybels
12. The Leadership Secrets of Jesus, Mike Murdock
13. World Shapers – A Treasury of Quotes from Great Missionaries, Vinita Hampton & Carol Plueddmann
14. Men in Leadership: One Minute Bible, Bob Briner
15. Choosing to Cheat, Andy Stanley
16. Moses: A Man of Selfless Dedication, Chuck Swindoll
17. Joseph: A Man of Integrity and Forgiveness, Chuck Swindoll
18. David: A Man of Passion and Destiny, Chuck Swindoll
19. Taking the Lead, Dr. Ron Jenson
20. The Call, Os Guinness
21. Martin Luther King Jr., Marshall Frady
22. A Simple Path, Mother Teresa
23. Gifted to Lead: The Art of Leading as a Woman in the Church, Nancy Beach
24. Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs, Bill Hybels
25. The Principle of the Path, Andy Stanley
26. Spiritual Leadership, Henry & Richard Blackaby
27. EntreLeadership, Dave Ramsey
28. Action Trumps Everything, Charles Kiefer
29. Wealth: Is It Worth It?, Truett Cathy
30. Ordering Your Private World, Gordon MacDonald
31. Heroic Leadership, Chris Lowery
32. simplify., Bill Hybels
33. Teach Us to Number Our Days, David Roper
34. A Beautiful Mess, Danielle Strickland
35. Present over Perfect, Shauna Niequist
36. Stay the Course, Choco De Jesus
37. God Will Use This For Good, Max Lucado
38. Resisting Happiness, Matthew Kelly
39. Heaven Starts Now, Father John Ricardo
40. The Enneagram – A Christian Perspective, Richard Rohr
41. Seven Prayers, Stormie Omartian
42. Rainbow Man, Richard Rockman, Jr.
43. Choosing A Life That Matters, Dennis Rainey
44. The Light Entrusted to You, Dr. John Wood
45. Defending The Free Market, The Rev. Robert Sirico
46. Hope in the Dark, Craig Groeschel
47. The Last Arrow, Erwin McManus

Sports Team Coaches

1. Bo’s Lasting Lessons, Bo Schembechler & John Bacon
2. Tom Landry, Tom Landry & Gregg Lewis
3. Quiet Strength, Tony Dungy & Nathan Whitaker
4. From Ashes to Glory, Bill McCartney & Dave Diles
5. The Lombardi Rules, Vince Lombardi Jr.
6. The Miracle of St. Anthony, Adrian Wojnarowski
7. Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success, John Wooden & Jay Carty
8. Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance, Tony Dungy & Nathan Whitaker
9. The Score Takes Care of Itself, Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison & Craig Walsh
10. Season of Life, Jeffrey Marx
11. The Long Snapper, Jeffrey Marx
12. The Mentor Leader, Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell & Nathan Whitaker
13. Three and Out: Rich Rodriguez, John Bacon
14. Destination Unstoppable, Maureen Electa Monte
15. Imperfect: An Improbable Life, Jim Abbott and Tim Brown
16. Motivated to Dream Big, Linnell Jones-McKenney
17. Bleachers, John Grisham

Other Business Books

1. The Starfish and the Spider, Ori Brafman & Rod Beckstrom
2. Morph: The Texture of Leadership, Ron Martoia
3. Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne
4. Margin, Richard Swenson, M.D.
5. Understanding Yourself, William Menninger
6. Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson & Kenneth Blanchard
7. The Victory of Reason, Rodney Stark
8. The Man in the Mirror, Patrick Morley
9. Blur, Stan Davis & Christopher Meyer
10. Claiming Your Place at the Fire, Richard Leider & David Shapiro
11. The Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck
12. Finding a Job You Can Love, Ralph Mattson & Arthur Miller Jr.
13. Second Acts, Stephen Pollan & Mark Levine
14. The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss
15. The Treasure Principle, Randy Alcorn
16. Now, Discover Your Strengths, Donald Clifton & Marcus Buckingham
17. The Profit Zone, Adrian Slywotzky
18. Clients for Life, Jagdish Sheth & Andrew Sobel
19. A Whack on the Side of the Head, Roger von Oech
20. Power Up Your Profits, Troy Waugh
21. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell
22. The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
23. Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman
24. Cradle to Cradle, McDonough & Braungart
25. Marketing Myopia (HBR article), Theodore Levitt
26. Kotler on Marketing, Philip Kotler
27. Competitive Strategy, Michael Porter
28. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
29. Switch, Dan & Chip Heath
30. The Big Short, Michael Lewis
31. Liars Poker, Michael Lewis
32. Made to Stick, Chip & Dan Heath
33. Socialnomics, Erik Qualman
34. What Got You Here Won’t Get you There, Marshall Goldsmith
35. Too Big to Fail, Andrew Sorkin
36. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
37. Mindset-The New Psychology of Success, Carol Dweck
38. Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It, Cali Ressler
39. Overhaul, Steven Rattner
40. Making Ripples, Mike Breaux
41. Islands of Profit In a Sea of Red Ink, Jonathan Byrnes
42. The Happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt
43. Car Guys vs. Bean Counters, Bob Lutz
44. The E Myth Manager, Michael Gerber
45. The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch
46. Getting Naked, Patrick Lencioni
47. Purple Cow, Seth Godin
48. American Wheels Chinese Roads, Michael J. Dunne
49. The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
50. The Ultimate Sales Machine, Chet Holmes
51. Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
52. Multiple Intelligences, Howard Gardner
53. The Israel Test, George Gilder
54. Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore
55. Tribes, Seth Godin
56. The Art of Choosing, Sheena Iyengar
57. Anxiety Free, Robert Leahy
58. The Coming Jobs War, Jim Clifton
59. Bridge Builder, Walther Leisler Kiep
60. Getting to Yes – Negotiating Agreement w/o Giving In, Bill Ury
61. Fire Your Excuses, Bill Dyment & Marcus Dayhoff
62. Start With No, Jim Camp
63. Reckless Endangerment, Morgensen & Rosner
64. Standout, Marcus Buckingham
65. This Time Is Different, Reinhart & Rogoff
66. Aftershock, Robert Reich
67. Eat The Rich, P.J. O’Rourke
68. David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell
69. To Sell Is Human, Daniel Pink
70. The Hunter, David Farbman
71. Freeing Yourself from the Narcissist in your Life, Linda Martinez
72. The Other Side of Innovation, Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble
73. Free Agent Nation – The Future of Working for Yourself, Daniel Pink
74. Give and Take, Adam Grant
75. Factory Man, James E. Harbour
76. The Smartest Guys In The Room, Bethany McLean & Peter Elkins
77. Getting Things Done, David Allen
78. The Challenger Sale, Matthew Dixon & Brent Adamson
79. The New Strategic Selling, Robert Miller & Stephen Heiman
80. Hope Is Not A Strategy, Rick Page
81. The Go-Giver, Burg & Mann
82. The Road To Reinvention, Josh Linkner
83. Rookie Smarts, Liz Wiseman
84. Creativity, Inc., Ed Catmull
85. Thanks for the Feedback, Stone & Heen
86. The No A__Hole Rule, Robert Sutton
87. Traction, Gino Wickman
88. iWoz, Steve Wozniak
89. Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed & The Fall of Arthur Andersen, Barbara Toffler
90. Humble Inquiry, Edgar Schein
91. The Art of Why, Steve Lucenbach
92. Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Bradberry & Greaves
93. The Lean Manager, Michael &Freddy Balle
94. Built in Detroit, Bob Morris
95. Seizing The White Space, Mark Johnson
96. Good Boss, Bad Boss, Robert Sutton
97. The Trusted Advisor, David Maister
98. Difficult Conversations, Stone, Patton, Heen
99. The Millionaire Next Door, Stanley & Danko
100. Conscious Business, Fred Kofman
101. Rich Habits, Thomas Corley
102. Winning From Within, Erica Ariel Fox
103. The Behavior Gap, Carl Richards
104. Business Adventures, John Brooks
105. The 4 Disciplines of Execution, McChesney, Covey, Huling
106. You Can’t Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar, David Sandler
107. the Culture Map, Erin Meyer
108. Grit, The Power of Passion & Perseverance, Angela Duckworth
109. Change Your Habits, Change Your Life, Tom Corley
110. An Enneagram Journey To Self-Discovery, Cron & Stabile
111. Playbook-For Your Extraordinary Life, Elaine Seat
112. Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
113. Your Money or Your Life, Robin & Dominguez
114. Remembering Flint Michigan, Gary Flinn
115. 8 Keys To Eliminating Passive – Aggressiveness, Andrea Brandt
116. Good Work, E.F. Schumacher
117. Overcoming Passive-Aggression, Murphy & Oberlin
118. Mastering Bitcoin for Dummies, Alan Norman
119. Raving Fans!, Ken Blanchard & Sheldon Bowles
120. Fish! Tales, Lundin, Christenson, Paul & Strand
121. Mastering Civility,Christine Porath
122. The Confidence Code, Katty Kay & Claire Shipman
123. Positively Outrageous Service, T. Scott Gross
124. Switch On Your Brain, Dr. Caroline Leaf
125. It’s Not What You Sell, It’s What You Stand For, Roy Spence, Jr.
126. The Slight Edge, Jeff Olson
127. The Charge, Brendon Burchard
128. The School of Greatness, Lewis Howes
129. Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
130. The Speed of Trust, Stephen M.R. Covey
131. Master Your Brain, Phillip Adcock
132. Open-Book Management, John Case
133. Scaling Up, Verne Harnish
134. Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely
135. Change to Strange, Daniel Cable
136. Storytelling as Best Practice, Andy Goodman
137. Alive At Work, Daniel Cable
138. How I Turned $1,000 into Five Million in Real Estate, William Nickerson
139. Average Is Over, Tyler Cowen
140. The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek
141. The Asking Formula, John Baker
142. Emotional Intelligence, Dr. David Walton
143. Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek
144. Riding Shotgun – The Role of the COO, Bennett & Miles
145. The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis
146. Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics & Biases, Tversky & Kahneman
147. Freakonomics, Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
148. Built To Sell, John Warrillow
149. Don’t Just Give It Away, Renata Rafferty
150. The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
151. Driven By Difference, David Livermore
152. Managing a Private Foundation, Paul Rhoads
153. The Policy Governance Model, John Carver
154. The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, Dan Ariely
155. Profit First, Mike Michalowicz
156. Blind Spot, Mahzarin Banaji & Anthony Greenwald

Other Books

1. Good to Great in God’s Eyes, Chip Ingram
2. The White Man’s Burden, William Easterly
3. Serving with Eyes Wide Open, David Livermore
4. Ministering Cross-Culturally, Lingenfelter and Mayers
5. How Churches and Leaders Can Get It, Craig Groeschel
6. A Resilient Life, Gordon MacDonald
7. Rediscovering God in America, Newt Gingrich
8. The Hole in Our Gospel, Richard Stearns
9. Whose Land? Whose Promise?, Gary Burge
10. My Business My Mission, Doug Seebeck/Timothy Stoner
11. Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell
12. Reboot!, Phil Burgess
13. Detroit (A Biography), Scott Martelle
14. When Helping Hurts, Steve Corbett
15. The Peacemaker: Handling Conflict, Sande and Johnson
16. High Strung: Borg, McEnroe & the Untold Story, Stephen Tignor
17. Why Nations Fail, Acemoglu & Robinson
18. The Seven Daughters of Eve, Bryan Sykes
19. Love Does, Bob Goff
20. Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now, Maya Angelou
21. reconcile, John Paul Lederach
22. The Noticer, Andy Andrews
23. Same Kind of Different As Me, Ron Hall
24. The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
25. Take Control of Your Aging, William Malarkey, M.D.
26. Antifragile, Nassim Talbe
27. Interpersonal Neurobiology, Daniel Siegel
28. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, John Gottman
29. Government Zero, Michael Savage
30. Left to Tell, Immaculate Ilibagiza
31. Just Courage, Gary Haugen
32. Chase The Lion, Mark Batterson
33. Proof of Heaven, Eben Alexander, M.D.
34. More of the Holy Spirit, Sr. Ann Shields
35. When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Harold Kushner
36. The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle
37. The Magic, Rhonda Byrne
38. Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay, Daniel Mattson
39. Younger Next Year, Chris Crowley & Henry Lodge, M.D.
40. Spring Chicken – Stay Young Forever (Or Die Trying), Bill Gifford
41. The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand
42. Play On: The New Science of Elite Performance at Any Age, Jeff Bercovici
43. The Sexual State, Jennifer Roback Morse
44. The Hero’s Journey, Joseph Campbell
45. The Final Quest, Rick Joyner