First Look: Leadership Books for January 2024
hourExplore the best leadership books coming out in January 2024, curated just for you. Be sure to check out the other great titles available this month.
All In: How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams Mike Michalowicz
Building a successful team has never been more difficult. Challenges such as work-from-anywhere, flexible schedules, and generational gaps are forcing business leaders to find effective solutions. They tried everything from food perks and ping pong tables to endless team-building exercises and drills, but nothing worked. Now, in a long-awaited book for leaders at all levels, bestselling author Mike Michalowicz reveals his proven formula for building unstoppable teams in any work environment.
Glad I Met You: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings by Stephen G. Rogelberg
An estimated 200 to 500 million 1:1 meetings are held every day around the world, but are these meetings being run as innovatively as possible? Or is it just talk? in I'm glad we met Rogelberg helps maximize the potential of these important conversations. 1:1s are one of the most important types of meetings for team members, managers, coaches, and the success of your team and organization. The best managers recognize that 1:1 conversations are not an add-on to their role as a manager. Successfully conducting 1:1 meetings is the basis for becoming a manager. At the same time, these meetings are key to direct reports' workplace experience and development, including how well they engage and attach to their roles, perceive their managers' effectiveness, and envision their future in the organization.
Optimal: How to Maintain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss
There are moments when you achieve your best performance. Athletes perform flawlessly. Businesses have once-in-a-lifetime revenue-generating quarters. But these moments are often difficult to capture, and despite an amazing day, we may have a hundred days of mediocre, even unsatisfying days. Achievement comes not from isolated peak experiences, but from consistently experiencing many good days. So how can you maintain performance while avoiding fatigue and maintaining balance? in optimal, Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss show how emotional intelligence can help us have a good day at any time. They explain how to set realistic and achievable goals to consistently work at your ‘optimal’ level – the satisfaction of having had a productive day. Drawing on research into how hundreds of people build their internal structures for a good day, we sketch out what optimal state feels like and show how emotional intelligence is the key to peak performance.
Six principles of strategic thinking: Leading your organization into the future Michael D. Watkins
Michael D. Watkins presents a new, actionable framework to help aspiring leaders learn how to think strategically—a skill set needed more than ever in a world of constant change. Pattern recognition. Systems perspective. Mental agility. Structured problem solving. vision. I am well versed in politics. Because every great leader who has mastered one of these disciplines is a great leader who knows and masters them all. Watkins presents six principles that distinguish good from good. Watkins' approach to strategic thinking, developed over his celebrated career, is “used by leaders to recognize potential threats and opportunities, set priorities, and mobilize themselves and their organizations to envision and execute a promising path forward.” “It is a set of mental disciplines.” Today’s most successful first-time CEOs and new business leaders have followed this model.
Jar of Good Will: Reflections on Leadership and Legacy by Nick O. Rowe
Sometimes it seems like too many people are going through an identity crisis, unsure of what they stand for or what they want to do with their lives. jar of goodwill This answers the question. It teaches that if we focus on the good, give ourselves the benefit of the doubt, and open our hearts to love, we can all live richer lives filled with meaningful relationships. Ultimately, humans are social animals. Imagine what world we would live in if everyone shared the goal of leaving others better than we found them. Follow the path of a typical person as you navigate the relationships that arise at every stage of life, from childhood to the grave. It begins with the basic values of our youth, through the chaotic teenage years, through early adulthood, middle age, and finally retirement. Every choice you make builds a legacy. Our leadership foundation begins when we are very young, establishing core values that drive our choices for the rest of our lives. Once you know how to fill other people's jars of goodness, you will have no choice but to live with your own jars of goodness filled.
The Friction Project: How smart leaders make it easier to do the right thing and harder to do the wrong thing by Robert I. Sutton and Hughie Rao
Every organization struggles with destructive friction. But some forms of friction are very useful, and leaders who try to improve workplace efficiency often end up making things worse. Based on 7 years of practical research, friction project Bestselling authors Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao teach readers how to become “friction solvers.” Sutton and Rao begin their book by explaining how a skilled friction solver thinks and acts like someone who manages other people's time. It provides friction forensics to help readers identify where to avoid and repair bad tissue friction and where to maintain and inject good friction. The Helping Pyramid then shows how friction solvers can accomplish tasks, from reframing currently unsolvable friction problems to make them feel less threatening to designing and repairing the organization. The core of the book delves into the causes and solutions for five of the most common and destructive problems of friction: forgetting the leader, extra bottles, broken connections, carbon monoxide jargon, and fast, frenetic people and teams.
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— George R.R. Martin, The Game Of Thrones
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