Establishing leadership and lab management skills must-reads, recommended by William Valenta, PhD and Jane Valenta, PhD: 

• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Chip and Dan Heath)
• StrengthsFinder
• Real Change Leaders: How You Can Create Growth and High Performance at Your Company (Jon R. Katzenbach)
• A Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
• Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times (Donald T. Phillips)
• The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations (James A. Kouzes & Barry Posner)
• Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable about Destroying the Barriers that Turn Colleagues into Competitors (Patrick Lencioni)