As stated in the Business Leadership section of Time Magazine, people in management should strive to be leaders and not just managers. While managers make tasks, leaders are the ones who make the people to complete them. To improve skills, these are five great books every manager should read in 2016.

1. Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround

This book by Lou Gerstner highlights the most challenging time of IBM and how management affected the outcome. He focuses on transformation and reveals what people need to know to build their principles, communicate better and work more efficiently. The principles can be applied to both large and small companies. He also touches on how to deal with workers who do a halfway job. Although many books on management topics are dry, this one is a page-turning trove of helpful advice.

2. The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind The World’s Most Disruptive Company

Amazon is continually growing to be one of the most successful companies worldwide. For anyone who wonders about the management behind this powerful empire, John Rossman sheds light on it. In an easy-to-read layout, he gives a wealth of actionable advice. Rossman was once an executive for Amazon and writes about everything from ownership to making decisions. He writes about how every person is responsible for the outcome of his or her own project, and everyone must be flexible enough to help in a variety of areas to achieve common goals.

3. Stand Out

This book by Dorie Clark compares how corporate success was determined in the past, how it is determined now and what has affected the changes. She outlines how people must identify and build on their own unique value. This is what they have to offer the company and their teams of workers. This book shows the importance of building that uniqueness and explains how to do it. She stresses that each person should make their top goal to be someone who everyone fights for to have on their team.

4. Serial Winner

In this book, Larry Weidel explains five basic success principles. First, people must move forward at all times. Second, they must overcome doubts to maximize their success. Third, they must face and overcome hurdles in addition to doubts. Fourth, they must stay strong mentally until they finish their goals, and fifth, they must use the success of each completed goal to work toward the next one. The book explains how to develop a winner’s positive mindset and maintain it. It also talks about the importance of avoiding procrastination and simply diving into tasks.

5. Team Genius: The New Science Of High-Performing Organizations

This book by Michael Malone and Rich Karlgaard covers some fascinating scientific research on team performance and behavior. The authors write about how traditional ideas of building better teams are not very solid, and they provide helpful explanations for creating better teams based on science. They emphasize that the need to be a part of something and being part of a team is coded into human DNA. The authors explain how this has contributed to the formation of society for thousands of years.

• Is Real World Experience Better Than an MBA?

Part of being a good manager and leader is continually looking for self-improvement strategies. Reading books with innovative ideas and tools will help strengthen any management professional. With a positive attitude and a drive to succeed, it is never too early to start building a strong leadership personality. Students and prospective students can also read supplemental books while they complete their management degree programs.