The Director’s Bookshelf: Must-Reads for Strategic Leadership

Explore our expertly curated director reading list on strategic insights and practices - handpicked by our distinguished faculty.

These essential selections are designed to inspire and inform board members and executives, offering powerful perspectives to elevate your leadership journey.

The first prescriptive, innovative guide to seeing inflection points before they happen—and how to harness these disruptive influences to give your company a strategic advantage. Find out more.
This book offers a practical framework for strategic thinking, emphasizing logical coherence between resources, context, and goals. Through visualization, formalization, and argumentation, it helps leaders craft effective strategies, illustrated with real-world examples from companies like Apple and Walmart. Find out more.
This book explores Sir Ernest Shackleton’s extraordinary Antarctic expedition and his unmatched leadership that saved all 27 crew members. Blending gripping survival narrative with leadership lessons, it offers timeless insights for anyone seeking to lead through crisis and uncertainty. Find out more.
Richard Rumelt exposes the flaws of vague, buzzword-driven strategies and defines good strategy as coherent action rooted in insight. Using diverse examples, he offers practical tools to identify challenges, craft effective responses, and achieve meaningful results across sectors. Find out more.