A funny thing happens when you get far enough into your career: you’re often expected to lead, coach, or mentor others. It’s a great idea, but being a leader requires an entirely new skill set, one that may have nothing to do with your success up until now. So to fast-track your leadership learning curve, check out the ten remarkable reads below.
CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest
By Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, and Vikram Malhotra
From the world’s most influential management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, an insight-packed, revelatory look at how the best CEOs do their jobs based on extensive interviews with today’s most successful corporate leaders—including chiefs at Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, and Sony. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by co-author Scott Keller, in the Next Big Idea App
Boundless Leadership: The Breakthrough Method to Realize Your Vision, Empower Others, and Ignite Positive Change
By Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan
Whether you’re a CEO, manager, team leader, consultant, coach, social entrepreneur, or community activist, this book offers the tools you need to clarify your vision, lead others, and ignite positive change in the world. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by co-authors Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan, in the Next Big Idea App
Ambitious Like a Mother: Why Prioritizing Your Career Is Good for Your Kids
By Lara Bazelon
In this captivating and radical look at work-life balance, an acclaimed law professor and mother reframes our understanding of working women—and shows how prioritizing your career benefits mothers, kids, and society at large. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Lara Bazelon, in the Next Big Idea App
Animal Farm
By George Orwell
The classic political fable based on the events of Russia’s Bolshevik revolution and the betrayal of the cause by Joseph Stalin. Listen to our professionally-read Book Bite summary in the Next Big Idea App
Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism
By Tom Peters
Legendary management expert Tom Peters returns with more people-first wisdom for leading during these tumultuous times of socio-political unrest and a global pandemic. Listen to our professionally-read Book Bite summary in the Next Big Idea App
Lead with We: The Business Revolution That Will Save Our Future
By Simon Mainwaring
By leading with “we”—putting the collective above the individual, holding the sum above the parts, and emphasizing the importance of the role that everyone plays—you can not only help solve the escalating challenges of today but also unlock extraordinary growth for your business, and abundance on our planet. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Simon Mainwaring, in the Next Big Idea App
Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams
By Stefanie K. Johnson
In this groundbreaking guide, a management expert outlines the transformative leadership skill of tomorrow—one that can make it possible to build truly diverse and inclusive teams that value employees’ need to belong while still being themselves. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Stefanie K. Johnson, in the Next Big Idea App
Think Talk Create: Building Workplaces Fit for Humans
By David Brendel and Ryan Stelzer
Think Talk Create enables us to cultivate trust and define collective values, seemingly “soft” attributes that nonetheless markedly increase innovation and, ultimately, financial performance. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by co-authors David Brendel and Ryan Stelzer, in the Next Big Idea App
Wellbeing at Work: How to Build Resilient and Thriving Teams
By Jim Clifton and Jim Harter
Wellbeing at Work explores the five key elements of wellbeing—career, social, financial, physical, and community—and how organizations can help employees and teams thrive in those elements. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by co-authors Jim Clifton and Jim Harter, in the Next Big Idea App
Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws
By Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach
Two renowned strategy consultants deliver an insightful exploration of how people tend to act tentatively in the face of uncertainty and provide the tools we need to do things differently. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by authors Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach, in the Next Big Idea App
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