Reading List

CORE READERS

Understanding Leadership, Allan Bukusi with Anthony Gitonga

This book investigates the essentials of leadership making reference to over 250 current and historic texts on leadership principles, process and practice. The book equips next generation leaders with a global interpretation of leadership as an urgently needed corporate and social competence today. The book equips readers with a framework to overcome the “inward flaw”, handle the “leadership challenge” and become effective leaders.

How to lead corporate transformation, Allan Bukusi

A researched text that draws on the authors corporate experience in the African context, the author details how to transform organizations into service leaders by focusing on the customer and transforming organizations to meet their evolving demands. He draws two insightful case studies from that celebrated transformation of a government organization (KWS) and a private company (CIC) by two transformational corporate leaders.    

OTHERS

1.       WORLD LEADERS

A review of the character and courage of political, moral and spiritual  leaders who have made it to the world stage.

• Abraham Lincoln, Team of Rivals, DK Goodwin, 2005
•  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, This child will be great, EJ Sirleaf, 2010
•  Martin Luther King Jnr, The Autobiography, 2007
•  Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, N Mandela 1994
•  Mahatma Gandhi, The Life of Mahatma Ghandi, L Fischer, 1997
•  Kofi Annan, Interventions; A life of War and Peace, K Annan with N Mousavizadeh, 2012
• Wangari Maathai, Unbowed One Woman’s Story, W Maathi, 2007
• Steve Jobs, The man who thought different, K Blumenthal, 2012
• Jesus, The Bible
• Mohamed , The Koran
• Freedom Fighters, A Williams, V Head, 2007

2.       THE CEO

A contextual study of the role of the chief executive officer and the effect they have on the success of institutions.

• How to Think like a CEO, DA Benton, 1999
• What the CEO wants you to know, R Charan, 2001
• The Education of an accidental CEO, D Novak, 2007
• Walking in Kenyatta Struggles my story; D Ndegwa, 2006
• Collin L Powel, My American Journey CL Powel with J Persico, 1996
• Condeleezza Rice, No Higher Honor, C Rice 2011

3.       THE ENTREPRENEUR

A study of the entrepreneur and how entrepreneurs build corporations

•  Beyond Expectations; From charcoal to Gold, N Karume with M Gethoi, 2009
•  Business stripped bare; adventures of a global entrepreneur, R Branson, 2008
• The Snowball; Warren Buffet and the Business of Life, A. Schroeder, 2009
•  How to Succeed as your own boss, Pete Ondeng, 1991
•  Start-Up Nation, D Senor S Singer, 2009

4.       LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHY

How does the fundamental understanding of leadership affect the practice of leadership?

• Understanding Leadership, A Bukusi. 2015
•  Leadership; Trilogy on Leadership and Effective Management, A D’Souza, 1989
•  Results based leadership, D Ulrich J Zenger, N Smallwood, 1999
•  Leadership, JM Burns, 1978
•  Character centered leadership, M Amukobole, 2012
•  Servant leadership; RK Greenleaf, 2003
•  Principle Centered Leadership, SR Covey, 1991

5.       BECOMING A LEADER

Making the transition to leader

•  On becoming a leader, W Bennis, 2003.
•  Becoming a leader, M Munroe, 2009
•  Leader’s Resource Kit, D Kadalie, 2006
• The 21 Indispensable qualities of a leader, JC Maxwell, 2000
• So many leaders So little leadership, JW Stanko, 2007

6.       CORPORATE LEADERSHIP

Examining the keys to leading corporations to success

• The strategist; Montgomery. Be the leader your business needs, CA Montgomery, 2012
• In search of excellence, T. Peters & H. Waterman, 1982
• Built to last, J Collins & JI Porras, 2005
• Re-engineering the corporation, M Hammer J Champy, 2003
•  Leading change, JP Kotter, 1996
• Transformational corporate leadership, A Barine & D. Minja. 2010

7.       LEADERSHIP IN AFRICA

Perspectives of leadership in Africa in recent times

• Thinking Leadership in Africa, A Bukusi, 2004
• The Scramble For Africa 1876-1912, T Pakenham, 1991
• The State of Africa, M Meredith, 2006
• Cultural gap & Economic Crisis in Africa, P. Onyango, 2010
• Leading Transformation in Africa, D. Adadevoh, 2007
• A Vision for a Bright Africa; facing the challenges of development, G Kinoti, P. Kimiyu eds, 1997
• Black Star, A view of the life and times of Kwame Nkurumah, B. Davidson, 1973
• The Leadership Dilemma; An African Perspective R Monyoncho, 2014

8.       FOUNDATIONS

Building blocks of successful leadership.

• Ethics, the heart of leadership, JC Ciulla ed, 2004
• The Speed of Trust, SMR Covey with RR Merril, 2006
• 48 Laws of power, R Greene, 1998
• A-Z steps to leadership, AGA Barrie, 1997
• God Has a dream a vision of hope for our, D Tutu, 2004
• Made for Greatness, A Gitonga, 2009
• Emotional intelligence, D Goleman, 1996
• The power of Positive thinking, NV Peale, 1953
• Transform your thinking, B. Winston, 2008
• Timeless Values, H Exley, 2002

9.       TRANSFORMATION

How leaders can bring about transformation in a nation and corporation

• From Third world to First; the Singapore story 1965-2000, LK Yew, 2000
• How to lead corporate transformation, A Bukusi, 2013
• Good to Great, J Collins,2001

10.   TEAMWORK

The principles of establishing teamwork in corporate organizations

• Effective Team leadership, D Page 2008
• The Performance Factor, P MacMillan, 2001
• Teamwork Makes The Dream Work, R Archer, 2011.
• Effective Teambuilding, J. Adair, 1986.
• Developing the leaders around you, JC Maxwell. 1995
• Effective Teams, A Bukusi, 2003

11.   MANAGEMENT APPROACHES

The value addition of management processes in business development.

• Essentials Total quality management, R L. Williams, 1994
• Mobilizing & Managing Resources, M Kiiru, 2010
• Managing for the future, PF Drucker, 1992
• Gemba Kaizen, M Imai, 2012
• Balanced Scorecard, RS Kaplan DP Norton, 1996

12.   HISTORY & GOVERNMENT

The foundations history has laid on which leadership is built.

• A very short History of the World, G Blainey, 2004
• When we ruled, R Walker, 2006
• The origins of Political order, F Fukuyama, 2012
• The end of History and the last man, F Fukuyama, 2006
• The Constitution (Kenya), 2010

13.   TEACHERS

Contemporary teachers of  leadership

• Robin Sharma, Leadership Wisdom, 1998
• John C Maxwell, Leadership 101
• Myles Munroe; The Spirit of Leadership, 2005