With more than three million copies of his books in print, David is most well-known for authoring the ground-breaking, best-selling books Monday Morning Leadership, Monday Morning Mentoring, Tuesday Morning Coaching, and LeaderShift: Making Leadership Everyone’s Business. His books have been adopted by organizations in numerous countries as trusted leadership training tools. David is the President & CEO of CornerStone Leadership Institute, one of the nation’s largest publishers of management and leadership resources.

Monday Morning Leadership

Monday Morning Leadership offers unique encouragement and direction that will help you become a better manager, employee, and person. Recognized as one of top 15 best-selling business books by Businessweek magazine!

Tuesday Morning Coaching

What is the key to success? There isn’t one. Long-term success is not the result of one defining change or doing one thing well. It comes from embracing several small, simple yet powerful truths. 

Monday Morning Motivation

This step-by-step guide explains how to generate the positive energy found in successful organizations, providing readers with the tools to discover Synchronization, Speed, Communication, Customer Focus, and Integrity—five vital energy conductors to motivate their teams, customers, and profits.

Monday Morning Choices

Each of us has a different ideal of success. Whether you strive for money, power, happiness, love, or anything else, your choices will determine whether you reach your goals. How to make the right choices, even when they’re hard, is what Monday Morning Choices is all about.

The First Two Rules of Leadership

Don't Be Stupid. Don't Be a Jerk.

How can you improve your leadership results beginning right now? The First Two Rules of Leadership: Don't be Stupid, Don't be a Jerk provides a clear path to increased results and higher job satisfaction for the leader and the people he is leading. Written for the leader who wants to do great things, but is overwhelmed with the complexities of leading, it is a book with a very simple message: think your decisions through and take care of your team.

Quit Drifting, Lift the Fog, and Get Lucky

In How to Quit Drifting, Lift the Fog, and Get Lucky, leadership authority David Cottrell tells the story of Jack Davis, a hard worker who had thrived early in his career, but finds himself unmotivated, dissatisfied, and unfulfilled. He wants more for himself and his family, but he doesn't know how to get it. Through Jack's meetings with two successful mentors, Cottrell illustrates unique perspectives on achieving success and happiness that anyone can use to improve morale, productivity, and satisfaction at work and in life.

This simple yet profound novelette, written to be read in one sitting, provides practical tools and inspiration to help you on your own path to success. Enjoy the journey!

Becoming the Obvious Choice

This roadmap shows how to maintain motivation, develop hidden talents, and become the best. Becoming the Obvious Choice is a guide to prepare you for your next career opportunity.

Becoming the Obvious Choice is a guide to prepare you for your next career opportunity. By following the suggestions detailed in the book, when the right opportunity comes along it will be crystal clear that you are the obvious choice for the position.