First Look: Leadership Books for April 2025

HERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2025 curated just for you. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

The Psychology of Leadership: Timeless principles to perfect your leadership of individuals, teams… and yourself! by Sébastien Page

The Psychology of Leadership offers a fresh take on leadership through the lens of groundbreaking research in positive, sports, and personality psychology. Leaders will develop what feels like mind-reading abilities for interpreting workplace personalities, hidden motivations, and group dynamics. They will learn how to inspire their organization to move mountains, improve their ability to listen, communicate and, when necessary, persuade. Along the way they will dramatically improve their own mindset and resilience.

Master Your Mindset: Live a Meaningful Life by Michael Pilarczyk

In Master Your Mindset, bestselling author Michael Pilarczyk reveals a life-changing approach that has helped countless individuals transform their lives. His unique method combines powerful insights with real-life examples, showing you how to break free from limiting beliefs and reach your most ambitious goals. This book offers more than just advice―it provides a clear, actionable, and repeatable 12-step strategy to help you master your mindset and create lasting success in every area of life. With Master Your Mindset, you'll have the tools to break free from limiting beliefs and take control of your personal and professional success. A practical, life-changing guide to unlocking your full potential―whether you seek personal fulfillment, professional success, or deeper inner peace and meaning in life.

The Relationship-Driven Leader: Strengthening Connections to Enhance Productivity and Wellness at Work by Karen Bridbord

In today’s dynamic business environment, the success of any organization is deeply rooted in the quality of its internal relationships. Psychologist and organizational behavior expert Dr. Karen Bridbord offers a revolutionary guide to career success and advancement, regardless of your industry, your company’s size, or your role. This groundbreaking book sheds light on how nurturing strong work relationships can lead to unmatched productivity and greater overall wellness throughout the organization and among its staff. The Relationship-Driven Leader explores the profound influence of everyday interactions on team experience and team performance. Bridbord emphasizes the importance of “micro-moments” in leadership to spark significant improvements. This book empowers you to take the first step toward becoming the leader everyone aspires to work with by enhancing your leadership skills, boosting workplace productivity, and mastering innovative conflict-management techniques. By focusing on well-being through relationship-building, you can create a healthier, more engaged, and more productive team.

Running the Gauntlet: Proven Strategies for High-Growth Leaders by Meg Thomas Crosby and Howard Cleveland

Written for leaders of high-growth companies, a framework for predicting and overcoming obstacles to scale successfully. Growth is hard. CEOs must constantly evolve to make it through the gauntlet of never-ending challenges. This book is written for leaders like you who recognize that success depends upon harnessing your people’s strengths to build a high-functioning and resilient organization. In Running the Gauntlet, the duo of veteran strategic advisors shows you how to predict and prepare for the challenges you’ll encounter as your company moves through four stages of growth, how to use key levers to proactively drive organizational growth including sharpening focus, calibrating culture, strengthening leadership, and elevating talent, how to evolve your role as CEO as the organization becomes larger and more complex and how to avoid the pitfalls that derail growth.

Detach: Ditch Your Baggage to Live a More Fulfilling Life by Bob Rosen

Our lives are guided by our attachments. When they’re healthy, they offer us security, pleasure, and validation. But for many of us, something has gone awry. We’re distracted and sabotaged by these attachments, like control, perfection, or success, which morph into internal conversations that undermine our best selves—ultimately inhibiting our ability to live a full, happy life. The antidote to the poison of unhealthy attachments? Trading them in for positive aspirations. Rooted in a blend of Western and Eastern psychology, supported by research, and told through the stories of real people from all walks of life who have overcome their own self-sabotage, Detach walks readers through the ten unhealthy attachments many of us carry, as well as the ten positive aspirations we can use to combat each one of them.

Conquering Crisis: Ten Lessons to Learn Before You Need Them by Admiral William H. McRaven

Throughout his 40-year career, Admiral McRaven has experienced every manner of calamity imaginable. From managing failed hostage rescues to responding to student unrest, McRaven has learned how to successfully navigate crises—those moments that push the limits of your experience and challenge your confidence, when leadership skills alone may not be enough. Conquering Crisis provides a new set of tools for facing these stressful moments with poise. It breaks crises down into five phases assess, report, contain, shape, and manage—and provides concrete steps to come out the other side stronger. With incredible personal stories, thought-provoking parables, and memorable lessons, Admiral McRaven sheds light on the ways we can rise to the occasion in times of crisis and act as leaders, no matter the situation.

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