You are ready to step out from the crowd, set yourself apart.  You want to show that you are ready for a leadership position.  As a part of a sales team, you are motivated and have put in the work.  Perhaps you have even gone as far as to set up a meeting with your boss.  As Thomas Edison is believed to have said “ninety percent of a man’s success in business is perspiration.”  But, as you embark on this journey upward, don’t forget to nurture the ten percent.  Don’t forget to seek out inspiration.  This month we’ve rounded up 6 books to propel you forward into leadership, motivated AND inspired.

Be Obsessed Or Be Average   

Grant Cardone                https://amzn.to/2Z9jy7u   

If you want real success, you have to know how to harness your obsession to rocket to the top. This book will give you the inspiration and tools to break out of your cocoon of mediocrity and achieve your craziest dreams.                                                                                                       

Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions   

Keith Rosen                    https://amzn.to/2ZjWXtq   

Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions is your playbook to creating a thriving coaching culture and building a team of top producers. This book is packed with case studies, a 30 Day Turnaround Strategy for underperformers, a library of coaching templates and scripts, as well as hundreds of powerful coaching questions you can use immediately to coach anyone in any situation.   

The Joshua Principle: Leadership Secrets of Selling   

Tony Hughes                    https://amzn.to/2Hc8G2O   

Joshua Peters is a salesman in crisis – after losing a key deal his boss threatens him with the sack and he has doubts concerning his choice of career. His father is a sales veteran who progressed all the way to CEO but with their relationship at an all time low he struggles to help. Then a mentor’s invitation from the other side of the world powerfully transforms everything as Joshua’s RSVP sets him on the path to discovering leadership secrets of strategic selling. He applies the principles to the biggest and most complex deal of his life and his journey culminates with a powerful meeting that finally reveals The Joshua Principle.   

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't   

Simon Sinek                    https://amzn.to/2Z7hyAW   

In his work with organizations around the world, Simon Sinek noticed that some teams trust each other so deeply that they would literally put their lives on the line for each other. Other teams, no matter what incentives are offered, are doomed to infighting, fragmentation and failure.   

Strategic Leadership: How to Think and Plan Strategically and Provide Direction   

John Adair                    https://amzn.to/2H8xCbe   

Strategic Leadership encourages leaders to focus on tomorrow rather than yesterday. It explores the nature and origin of strategic leadership, transferable skills, and the art of inspiring others. It then describes the role of a strategic leader and broad functions of that role such as building and maintaining a team, achieving a common task, and motivating and developing the individual. It assesses skills needed to be effective, and the seven functions that make up the role of strategic leader.   

Why "A" Students Work for "C" Students and Why "B" Students Work for the Government: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Education for Parents   

Robert Kiyosaki                https://amzn.to/2HbyHzn   

"The book urges parents not to be obsessed with their kids' ""letter grades"" (""good grades"" might only mean they or the student themselves were successful in jamming a square peg into a round hole...) and focus, instead, on concepts, ideas, and helping their child find their true genius, their special gift. The path they can pursue with love and true passion."