Book recommendations

Food for thought on responsible leadership and sustainable organizations

Are you looking for new input and content to help you on your learning journey? Do you feel lost in the mass of international bestsellers, guidebooks, and (popular) scientific works? Are you generally interested in the topics of ethical leadership and sustainability, but don't know where to start reading?

Then our book recommendations can help you! Here you will find our selection of books and specialist articles worth reading on a wide range of topics relating to responsible leadership and sustainable organizations.

Feel free to browse through the different categories! These are based on the competence areas of the True Leadership CAPACITY MODEL and allow you to filter according to your interests and personal needs.

Our short summaries will help you to understand in a few lines what exactly the respective book is about. Has your interest been aroused? Then click on the book cover to be forwarded directly to our partner bookshop where you can order the book conveniently*.

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  • L'arte del talento
  • Die Achse der Autokraten
  • The Corona Chronicles
  • The Value of Everything Making and Taking in the Global Economy
  • Prosocial: Using evolutionary science to build productive, equitable, and col-laborative groups
  • Green Swans
  • Team Human
  • Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
  • Sustainable Companies
  • Thank You for Being Late
  • How to Change the World – Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
  • Drawdown
  • Purpose Driven Organizations
  • 21 Lessons for the 21st century
  • Designing Regenerative Cultures
  • Beyond the triple bottom line
  • Organize for Complexity
  • Crash Communication
  • The Leading Brain
  • Future Viability, Business Models, and Values
  • Values Cockpits: Measuring and Steering Corporate Cultures
  • Reframing Economic Ethics
  • Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility
  • Connectography - Mapping the future of global civilization
  • The Open Organization – Igniting Passion and Performance
  • Das anständige Unternehmen - Was richtige Führung ausmacht und was sie weglässt
  • The Integrated Reporting Movement
  • The Breakthrough Challenge
  • The Purpose Economy
  • This Changes Everything – Capitalism vs the Climate
  • Zero To One
  • The Green Paradox
  • The EQ Edge: Emotional intelligence and your success, 3rd Edition
  • The Sustainable MBA
  • Humanistic Management in Practice
  • Giving Voice To Values
  • Business Model Generation
  • The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything
  • Saving The World At Work
  • Finding Your True North
  • Beyond HR
  • What Got You Here Won't Get You There
  • A Better Way to Think About Business
  • The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team