📚 Executive Ability

Books with executive ability on their catalogue record, first published between 1926 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject executive ability in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,514 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Effective Executive	Peter F. Drucker	1967	43
	Leadership in Organizations	Gary A. Yukl	1981	26
	Advances in Global Leadership	Joyce S. Osland	2014	25
	Credibility	James M. Kouzes	1993	15
	Management	Annie McKee	2010	15
	How to Think Like a CEO	D. A. Benton	1996	11
	Leadership from the inside out	Kevin Cashman	1998	11
	The technique of executive control	Erwin Haskell Schell	1926	10
	Secrets of Closing the Sale	Zig Ziglar	1984	9
	Radical Candor	Kim Malone Scott	2017	9
	Executive Intelligence	Justin Menkes	2005	8
	Leadership	David Pendleton	2011	8
	Exploring Management	John R. Schermerhorn Jr.	2015	8
	Leaders	Warren G. Bennis	1985	7
	Top performance	Zig Ziglar	1986	7
	Assessment and intervention for executive function difficulties	George McCloskey	2008	7
	The Productivity Project	Chris Bailey	2016	7
	How to live though an executive	L. Ron Hubbard	1953	6
	Think Like a Manager	Roger Fritz	1991	6
	Influence without authority	Allan R. Cohen	2005	6
	The Making of a Manager	Julie Zhuo	2019	6
	The situational leader	Paul Hersey	1984	5
	The process of excelling	Roger E. Herman	1988	5
	The top ten mistakes leaders make	Hans Finzel	1994	5
	Leadership	Keith Grint	1997	5
	Developing Skills for Business Leadership	Gillian Watson	2010	5
	Dare to lead	Brené Brown	2018	5
	Pushing up people	Art Williams	1984	4
	Secrets of effective leadership	Fred A. Manske	1987	4
	Leadership	Robert P. Vecchio	1997	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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