Blog / Book Giveaways

Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

By Porchlight

Liz Wiseman's brilliant book on engaging and developing workers in a way that multiplies what they have offer has been revised and expanded, and is out now.

Blog / Book Giveaways

The Weekend Effect: The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork

By Porchlight

In her new book, The Weekend Effect, Katrina Onstad points to an unsettling reality of modern life—we have ceded the weekend back to work.

Blog / Editor's Choice

Insight: Why We're Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

Dr. Tasha Eurich's new book is a sometimes uncomfortable, always powerful eye-opener to what it takes to be truly successful.

Blog / ChangeThis

Learning to Recognize Your Leadership Gap

By Lolly Daskal

"It's the one problem that even some of the most successful CEOs I've worked with never see coming and have no idea how to resolve. The problem is that one day, suddenly, what once worked so well to propel their rise stops working. And the very same traits that had worked for them actually start working against them. Another stellar career comes to an abrupt end. Another high-flying executive is brought swiftly back down to earth. This is the moment when leaders confront a critical and very uncomfortable question: What if there's a gap in what I think I know?"

Blog / ChangeThis

The Operational Excellence Manifesto

By Porchlight

"When a company reaches a state of readiness, it attains a situational awareness and command of its capabilities—the ability to see and anticipate opportunities and threats. Along with it comes the ability to react in a meaningful and expeditious manner to any such challenges that may present themselves—keeping in mind this awareness will never be perfect and will need to be perpetually refined. As Mike Tyson famously said, 'Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth.' That is to say, even though you are talented, trained, professional, and on the offensive pursuing your plan, the business that is better prepared to identify and engage an unforeseen challenge more quickly than its competition has a strategic and tactical advantage."

Blog / ChangeThis

Capitalists Arise!

By Peter Georgescu

"For the past four decades, capitalism has been cannibalizing itself. It's going on in plain view and yet no one is talking about it because only a few people recognize what's happening. Those few are either very troubled or very scared. The bull market is setting historical records, and the unemployment rate seems reasonable again, so most casual observers—meaning almost all of the media—think America is back on track and growing. Nothing could be further from the truth."

Blog / ChangeThis

G.R.I.T.: The Stuff of Leaders and Champions

By Scott Petinga

"Success is rarely, if ever, easily obtained. It rises from the ashes of multiple failures like the proverbial phoenix, having to be fought for, chased and desired above all else. That is particularly true in this day and age when competition is fiercer, criticism is deeper, and expectations are higher. A thousand and one obstacles will be thrown up along your journey, seeking to stop your career and even your very existence. I know because I have failed at most things in my life and was even diagnosed with cancer. I shouldn't be a success, but I learned to apply certain foundational characteristics that I have found to be the 'stuff' of entrepreneurs, leaders, and champions."

Blog / ChangeThis

Bringing Passion and Evangelism Together in Your Business: The Unquenchable Spirit of Co-Creation

By David Nour

"Do you co-create value with others? Do you understand—deep in your gut—that you cannot succeed in the future by going at it alone? Co-creation means banding together with another organization or person to build something together that you could not have built alone. To do this right, you must intertwine your futures together in a highly significant manner. Taking a step like that requires the heartfelt belief that the two of you are much better off together than you were on your own. This belief must survive obstacles, setbacks, delays, disappointment, and even (gasp) looming failure."

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How to Win by Being Your Own Worst Enemy

By Bryce G. Hoffman

"Many of the business tools we have relied on for decades no longer work in a world where incremental improvement is not enough to stay in business, let alone succeed in it. We need new processes, new methodologies, and new ways of thinking if we are to become one of the disruptors, rather than one of the disrupted. One of the most promising and powerful of these new approaches is red teaming—a system developed by the military and intelligence agencies after 9/11 to help organizations stress-test their strategies, challenge their assumptions, and make better decisions. How? By becoming their own worst enemy."

Blog / Staff Picks

Double Bind: Women on Ambition

Book Review by Sally Haldorson

Robin Romm has edited a book of essays from successful women that takes on "the last feminist taboo"—ambition.