The top leadership books of 2024

Level up your leadership skills in 2024 with the latest insightful takes and expertise from IESE professors

Reading every day improves your analytical skills, exercises your brain and has been shown to reduce stress. All good things. And in the case of books by IESE professors, it also offers a wealth of need-to-know information for your career and the broader business world.

Here are IESE's latest publications to devour. Is your next read among them?

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Everything Is Terrible, but I'm Fine
By José Luis Nueno
Rising prices have forced consumers to cut back on their spending, yet at the same time, more people say they are able to maintain their current lifestyle for another 10 months or more (34% of Europeans said so in January 2023, up from 21% in June 2022). This dichotomy gives rise to the book (in Spanish) whose title translates as Everything Is Terrible, but I'm Fine. In it, IESE Prof. José Luis Nueno, the Intent HQ Chair on Changing Consumer Behavior, analyzes data on 200 million purchasing actions between January 2022 and March 2023 to recommend how retailers can entice consumers amid the cost-of-living crisis.

Climate Finance
By Nuno Fernandes
Exploring the many solutions of private capital for tackling the green transition, based on years of research and professional experience. From green bonds and project finance to shareholder activism.

Boards of Directors in Disruptive Times
By Jordi Canals
Society benefits when companies meet market needs, innovate, create jobs and invest in local communities. Boards of directors have a key role to play in this.

Compliance Beyond Compliance
By Antonino Vaccaro
Compliance can be a powerful tool to advance social responsibility and innovation, improving lives and helping organizations define standards to increase sustainability.

Learning to Fly: How to Manage Your Career in a Turbulent and Changing World
By Mike Rosenberg
Is your career like a river or like a race? Whichever narrative best matches yours, you can develop it further for growth and professional success.

Cities in Motion
By Pascual Berrone & Joan Enric Ricart
A series of books dealing with cities in the context of a specific dimension (the most recent is Cities and Governance). Keep up with all the developments of our urbanizing planet.

Strategy-Making and Organizational Evolution
By Robert Alexander Burgelman, Yuliya Snihur & Llewellyn D.W. Thomas
Co-authored by IESE’s Llewellyn Thomas, this book presents strategy frameworks to analyze organizational evolution processes, both within the firm and beyond it.

Advances in Global Leadership
Edited by Joyce S. Osland, B. Sebastian Reiche, Mark E. Mendenhall & Martha L. Maznevski
Sebastian Reiche co-edits this collection of findings and practical applications of global leadership ideas, which includes everything from how global leaders influence followers, to tackling large-scale societal challenges.

Decision and Action
By Guido Stein
Inspiration from the masters — Peter Drucker, Luis Valls-Taberner and Warren Buffett — on how to make better decisions and put theory into practice.

A Helping Hand From the Best
By Nuria Chinchilla, Pilar Garcia Lombardia & Esther Jimenez
Testimonies from 15 leading women in the business world, sharing their experiences as agents of change determined to make a positive impact in their fields.

8 Maxims for Enjoying Life and Work
By Pablo Maella
To make a lasting impression, you need personal and work lives that fill you with joy and satisfaction. Here’s how to achieve it.