10 Books Every Leader (and Aspiring Leader) Should Read
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10 Books Every Leader (and Aspiring Leader) Should Read

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10 Books Every Leader (and Aspiring Leader) Should Read

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.

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CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest by Scott Keller etc

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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: 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

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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