Must Read Leadership Books and the Lessons Learned
Win Make Give with Ben Kinney
Ben Kinney Training
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The Win Make Give podcast, hosted by Ben Kinney with co-hosts Chad Hyams and Bob Stewart, explores the top leadership books to elevate your influence and effectiveness. Featuring insights from renowned authors like Andrew Grove, Joe Calloway, Ben Horowitz, John Maxwell, Sam Walker, and Clint Swindall, this episode dives into essential reads such as "High Output Management," "Work Like You're Showing Off," "Five Levels of Leadership," and "Engaged Leadership." Discover strategies for developing leadership qualities, creating winning teams, and cultivating a culture of engagement and growth.
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• Ben Kinney: https://www.BenKinney.com/
• Bob Stewart: https://www.linkedin.com/in/activebob
• Chad Hyams: https://ChadHyams.com/
• Book one of our co-hosts for your next event: https://WinMakeGive.com/speakers/
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• Explore the Win Make Give Podcast Network: https://WinMakeGive.com/
Part of the Win Make Give Podcast Network
00:00 Exploring Leadership Through Books and Unique Reading Strategies
05:28 Andrew Grove's Impact on Leadership and Management Literature
09:40 Embracing Boldness and Innovation for Future Success
14:22 The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
18:14 Exploring Leadership Levels and Influential Leaders
24:50 The Unseen Leaders Behind History's Greatest Sports Teams
33:00 Engaged Leadership and the Importance of Organizational Change
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Win Make Give podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | This is Ben Kinney, joined with Chad Heimes and Bob Stewart. |
| 0:14.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to talk about leadership. |
| 0:19.0 | Are we going to sing first? |
| 0:20.0 | No. No. Thank goodness. I can't think of talk about leadership. We're going to sing first? No. No. |
| 0:21.6 | Thank goodness. |
| 0:22.6 | I can't think of any good leadership songs. |
| 0:25.6 | So when I rope these knuckleheads into doing a podcast with me, I don't know if they knew that I was going to rope them into reading a ton of books, watching a ton of videos, researching, Chad learning how to count, |
| 0:39.7 | Bob learning how to spell, me learning how to speak. It's been chaos ever since we started. |
| 0:47.6 | And a while ago, we did an episode that we got a lot of great feedback on. And it was about |
| 0:51.8 | the best books that we could think of about wealth or about |
| 0:55.9 | money and I'm a massive collector and consumer of knowledge and books and I have a huge book |
| 1:02.6 | collection and I will tell you 90% of them suck 10% of them are awesome so today Chad we're going to talk a little bit about some of the best leadership books that we've ran across, |
| 1:17.3 | some of which you're going to know, maybe you've heard of, and maybe even you've read one or two. |
| 1:22.2 | And a couple, I'm just going to bet that you probably haven't. |
| 1:25.3 | Yeah, there's some even on this list I hadn't read yet until you threw these books at us and said, |
| 1:30.2 | we're going to discuss these. |
| 1:31.6 | And before we get into them, Ben, because I love our list. |
| 1:34.7 | So Bob, standby on our list sound effects stuff we're going to need over there. |
| 1:38.2 | You referenced a past episode, and I want to let everybody find it really easily. |
| 1:43.1 | And that was episode 49, |
| 1:44.8 | where we talked about the 10 must read books for money investing, real estate, and wealth. |
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