Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards, Richard P. Chait, William P. Ryan, and Barbara E. Taylor, 2005. This book offers trustees and executives a new and practical framework to govern nonprofit organizations more effectively. The authors reframe the purpose and practice of nonprofit governance by drawing on theories that have reshaped the concept and practice of leadership. The book describes three modes of governance–fiduciary, strategic, and generative–that together enable effective trusteeship.

Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness, Robert K. Greenleaf, 2002. This book, first published in 1977, is still making an impact today. Robert Greenleaf discusses his theory of servant leadership, which he developed while still an executive at AT&T. He proposes that service ought to be the distinguished characteristic of leadership and that true leadership is an inner quality as much as an exercise of authority. Sections of the book deal with leadership in education, in foundations, in churches, in bureaucracies, and with the role of the United States as a world leader.