Here are my recommendations for the best leadership & business books this month: Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus: How Growth Became The Enemy Of Prosperity by Douglas Rushkoff When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work, their anger may have been justifiable, but it was misdirected. The true conflict of our age isn’t between the unem­ployed and the digital elite, or even the 99 percent and the 1 percent. Rather, a tornado of technological

Here are my recommendations for the best leadership & business books this month: The Industries of The Future by Alec Ross Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what’s next for the world: the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years, and how we can navigate them. While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled to forty-one countries, exploring the latest advances coming out of every contine

Here are our top picks for the best leadership & business books for January 2016: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport “As automation and outsourcing reshape the workplace, what new skill do we need? The ability to do deep work. Cal Newport’s exciting new book is an introduction and guide to the kind of intense concentration in a distraction-free environment that results in fast, powerful learning and performance. Think of it as calistheni

Here are our top picks for the best leadership & business books for December 2015: Go Slow To Go Fast: Tools To Disrupt Incumbent Strategy & Behavior To WIN Your Competitive Landscape by Damian “Skipper” Pitts “Go Slow to Go Fast” offers strategic, proven and credible principles to help leaders and organizations survive big bangs to become Big‐bang disruptors in their own right, while causing incumbents an incredibly hard time to combat their actions. Driven To Delight: Deliv

Here are our top picks for the best leadership & business books for November 2015: Black Box Thinking: Why Some Never Learn From Their Mistakes, But Some Do by Matthew Syed Nobody wants to fail. But in highly complex organizations, success can happen only when we confront our mistakes, learn from our own version of a black box, and create a climate where it’s safe to fail. We all have to endure failure from time to time, whether it’s underperforming at a job interview, flunki

Here are our top picks for the best leadership & business books for October 2015: Entitlement Cure: Finding Success In Doing Hard Things The Right Way by John Townsend Today we live in a culture that says, “Life should be easy and work well.” This attitude, called entitlement, influences our most important institutions: family, business, church, and government. Its devastating effects contribute to relational problems, work ethic issues, and emotional struggles. It comes down

Here are our top picks for the best leadership & business books for September 2015: 5 Gears: How To Be Present & Productive When There Is Never Enough Time by Jeremy Kubicek and Steve Cockrum Be present, connect more effectively, all while being as productive as possible 5 Gears: How to Be Present and Productive When There’s Never Enough Time teaches you to shift into the right gear at the right time so that you can grow in your relational intelligence and increase your influ

Here are our top picks for the best leadership and business growth books for June 2015: Team Genius: The New Science of High Performing Organizations by Rich Karlgaard & Michael S. Malone A groundbreaking book that sheds new light on the vital importance of teams as the fundamental unit of organization and competition in the global economy. Teams—we depend on them for both our professional success and our personal happiness. But isn’t it odd how little scrutiny we give them?

Here are our top picks for the best leadership and business growth books for June 2015: Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World by Brian J. Robertson Holacracy is a revolutionary management system that redefines management and turns everyone into a leader. Holacracy distributes authority and decision-making throughout an organization, and defines people not by hierarchy and titles, but by roles. Holacracy creates organizations that are fast, agile, a

Here are our top picks for the best leadership and business growth books for May 2015: Connection Culture: The Competetive Advantage of Shared Culture, Empath and Understanding at Work by Michael Lee Stallard with Jason Pankau and Katharine P. Kallard Organizations thrive when employees feel valued, the environment is energized, and high productivity and innovation are the norm. This requires a new kind of leader who fosters a culture of connection within the organization. Mi

Here are our top picks for the best leadership and business growth books this month. How Great Leaders Think: The Art of Reframing by Lee G. Bolman and Terrance E. Deal How Great Leaders Think: the Art of Reframing uses compelling, contemporary examples to show how more complex thinking is the key to better leadership. Leaders who understand what’s going on around them see what they need to do to achieve the results they want. Bolman and Deal’s influential four-frame model o

Here are our top picks for the best leadership and business growth books this month. How The World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through The Science Of Fascination by Sally Hogshead Sally Hogshead believes the greatest value you can add is to become more of yourself. Hogshead rose to the top of the advertising profession in her early 20s, writing ads that fascinated millions of consumers. Over the course of her ad career, Sally won hundreds of awards for creativity, c

Here are our top picks for the best leadership and business growth books this month. How To Be A Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact by Jane E. Dutton and Gretchen Spreitzer Positive leaders are able to dramatically expand their people’s—and their own—capacity for excellence. And they accomplish this without enormous expenditures or huge heroic gestures. Here leading scholars—including Adam Grant, author of the bestselling Give and Take; positive organizational scholar

Here are our top picks for the best leadership and business growth books this month. The Obstacle Is The Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday We are stuck, stymied, frustrated. But it needn’t be this way. There is a formula for success that’s been followed by the icons of history—from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs—a formula that let them turn obstacles into opportunities. Faced with impossible situation

Here are our top picks for the best leadership and business growth books this month. Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John Kotter It’s a familiar scene in organizations today: a new competitive threat or a big opportunity emerges. You quickly create a strategic initiative in response and appoint your best people to make change happen. And it does—but not fast enough. Or effectively enough. Real value gets lost and, ultimately, things drift b

Here are our top picks for the best leadership and business growth books this month. The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World by Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. The question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially important in our uncertain, high-pressure, turbulent world. In this book, Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco answers this question in practical and, at times, provocative ways. Leaders today are surrounded by what B