Book Summaries

The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership unpacks the fresh strategies and new mindset required of a next-generation leader today.

In Anticipate Failure, Lak Ananth - CEO of global venture capital firm Next47 - describes the most common patterns of failure in innovation.

Work From Anywhere delivers practical strategies on developing a high-performing team and business in a remote, distributed environment.

Leading from the Middle delivers an insightful and practical guide for the backbone of an organization: those who have a boss and are a boss and must lead from the messy middle.

In What They Didn’t Tell Me, the author’s goal is to help you become a resilient leader and surround yourself with teams you can trust to weather storms and achieve great things together.

By recognizing bias, emphasizing empathy and curiosity, and making true understanding a priority in the workplace, you can unlock the potential of every person you encounter.

Based on nearly a decade of research, the six critical practices that are identified will give you a head start in building the competence and confidence you need to succeed as a first-time manager.

According to leadership expert John Maxwell, you can learn to develop your influence from wherever you are in the organization by becoming a 360-degree leader. You can learn to lead up, lead across and lead down. He writes that only 360-degree leaders influence people at every level of the organization, and by helping others, they help themselves. In The 360 Degree Leader, Maxwell explains that becoming a 360-degree leader is within the reach of anyone who possesses average or better...

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee puts the imperative of teams in context; discusses the characteristics, strengths, and challenges of the basic team types; and teaches leaders and team members alike how to have effective teams.