If you’re a business leader or entrepreneur, chances are you’re ambitious. You’re hoping to propel your team to new heights of success and truly make a name for yourself—but how?
You may be a self-starter, but when answering that question, you don’t have to go it alone. Check out the ten business bestsellers below to find out what the best and brightest have to say about supercharging your career.
CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest (New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller)
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
Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company (Wall Street Journal Bestseller)
By Whitney Johnson
Smart Growth dives into the S Curve of Learning so that you can envision how growth happens, and direct yourself and others in your organization to create a culture that fosters it. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Whitney Johnson, in the Next Big Idea App
Build the Damn Thing: How to Start a Successful Business If You’re Not a Rich White Guy (Wall Street Journal Bestseller)
By Kathryn Finney
For all the Builders striving to build their businesses in a world that has overlooked and underestimated them: this is the essential guide to knowing, breaking, remaking, and building your own rules of entrepreneurship. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Kathryn Finney, in the Next Big Idea App
Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams from Isolated to All In (Wall Street Journal Bestseller)
By Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen
Connectable shows you what’s causing today’s loneliness, the role inclusion plays in solving it, and how you can decrease loneliness and increase belonging, engagement, and performance with employees at every level―including yourself. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by co-authors Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen, in the Next Big Idea App
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible (Wall Street Journal Bestseller)
By Albert Bourla
A riveting, fast-paced, inside look at one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history, Moonshot recounts the intensive nine months in 2020 when the scientists at Pfizer created, tested, and manufactured a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine that previously would have taken years to develop. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Albert Bourla, in the Next Big Idea App
My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future (New York Times Bestseller)
By Indra Nooyi
The first woman of color and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company—and one of the foremost strategic thinkers of our time—Nooyi transformed PepsiCo with a unique vision, a vigorous pursuit of excellence, and a deep sense of purpose. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Indra Nooyi, in the Next Big Idea App
Competing in the New World of Work: How Radical Adaptability Separates the Best from the Rest (Wall Street Journal Bestseller)
By Keith Ferrazzi, Kian Gohar, and Noel Weyrich
A bold new vision of future business based on a global research initiative involving thousands of executives, innovators, and changemakers who redefined their strategies, business models, and organizational systems. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by co-author Keith Ferrazzi, in the Next Big Idea App
How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams to Do the Best Work of Their Lives (Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller)
By Brian Elliott, Sheela Subramanian, and Helen Kupp
Using original research from Future Forum, a consortium by Slack, and global case studies from leading companies such as Levi Strauss & Co., Genentech, Royal Bank of Canada, and IBM, How the Future Works offers concrete solutions and practical steps for building high functioning teams of talented, engaged people by providing them with the flexibility and choice they need to do their best work. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by co-author Helen Kupp, in the Next Big Idea App
Global Class: How the World’s Fastest-Growing Companies Scale Globally by Focusing Locally (Wall Street Journal Bestseller)
By Aaron McDaniel and Klaus Wehage
From market entry to international growth, Global Class introduces a comprehensive tool kit of practical frameworks that provide a blueprint for how to build and manage a global business. It’s the essential playbook for reaching global scale for businesses of all sizes and stages. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by co-authors Aaron McDaniel and Klaus Wehage, in the Next Big Idea App
The Titanium Economy: How Industrial Technology Can Create a Better, Faster, Stronger America (Wall Street Journal Bestseller)
By Asutosh Padhi, Gaurav Batra, and Nick Santhanam
Three McKinsey veterans reveal the “titanium economy,” a modern, reinvented industrial sector complete with high-paying, domestic jobs, soaring stock prices, and critical infrastructure. They dispel the myth that the best of American manufacturing is behind us and illuminate an opportunity for a brighter future—if we can seize it. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by co-author Gaurav Batra, in the Next Big Idea App
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