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The personal and professional qualities that go into making a good leader are not always obvious.  And different situations often call for different qualities.  In this section experts recommend books to unlock the secrets of good leadership.

Brett Wigdortz, is the founder and CEO of UK-based independent charity Teach First, which places graduates to teach in schools in challenging circumstances across England, to raise the attainment, access to opportunity and aspiration of its pupils.  He argues that good leaders combine an iron will with a dose of humility and recommends books ranging from The tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell to Exodus and the lessons we can learn from Moses’ leadership.

Alastair Campbell, former press secretary to Tony Blair when prime minister and director of communications for the Labour Party, takes his pick of the best books on leadership in politics and in sport.

    The best books on Leadership (from Ancient Greece and Rome), recommended by Jeffrey Beneker

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    The best books on Leadership (from Ancient Greece and Rome) - The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives by Ian Scott-Kilvert & Plutarch

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    The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
    by Ian Scott-Kilvert & Plutarch

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    The best books on Leadership (from Ancient Greece and Rome) - The Greek Alexander Romance by Richard Stoneman

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    The Greek Alexander Romance
    by Richard Stoneman

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    The best books on Leadership (from Ancient Greece and Rome) - Atticus by Cornelius Nepos & Nicholas Horsfall

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    Atticus
    by Cornelius Nepos & Nicholas Horsfall

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    The best books on Leadership (from Ancient Greece and Rome) - Agricola by Harold Mattingly, James Rives & Tacitus

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    Agricola
    by Harold Mattingly, James Rives & Tacitus

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    The best books on Leadership (from Ancient Greece and Rome) - Lives of the Eminent Philosophers Diogenes Laertius (ed. James Miller, trans. Pamela Mensch)

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    Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
    Diogenes Laertius (ed. James Miller, trans. Pamela Mensch)

The best books on Leadership (from Ancient Greece and Rome), recommended by Jeffrey Beneker

Whatever modern leadership books may say about what’s required to be a good leader, for the ancients there was only one vital requirement: studying philosophy. Jeffrey Beneker, Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks us through what ancient biographies reveal about how to be a leader.

    The best books on Leadership, recommended by Brett Wigdortz

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    The best books on Leadership - Tribal Business School by Jo Owen

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    Tribal Business School
    by Jo Owen

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    The best books on Leadership - The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell

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    The Tipping Point
    by Malcom Gladwell

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    The best books on Leadership - From Good to Great by Jim Collins

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    From Good to Great
    by Jim Collins

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    The best books on Leadership - Freedom from Fear by Aung San Suu Kyi

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    Freedom from Fear
    by Aung San Suu Kyi

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    The best books on Leadership - The Book of Exodus by Various

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    The Book of Exodus
    by Various

The best books on Leadership, recommended by Brett Wigdortz

Good leaders combine iron will with a dose of humility, says the founder of groundbreaking teaching charity Teach First. He traces leadership skills back to Moses, and tells us about books we can all learn from.

    Alastair Campbell on Leadership

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    Alastair Campbell on Leadership - Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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    Team of Rivals
    by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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    Alastair Campbell on Leadership - Perestroika by Mikhail Gorbachev

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    Perestroika
    by Mikhail Gorbachev

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    Alastair Campbell on Leadership - Bodyline Autopsy by David Frith

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    Bodyline Autopsy
    by David Frith

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    Alastair Campbell on Leadership - Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins

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    Every Second Counts
    by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins

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    Alastair Campbell on Leadership - Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada

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    Alone in Berlin
    by Hans Fallada

Alastair Campbell on Leadership

Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former communications chief, takes a look at leadership in politics and in sport, recognising that ordinary citizens can show courageous moral leadership

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