Book recommendations for business leaders: 5/4/23

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Leaders are readers. Reading helps you discover ideas to try and expand your mental models. In this post, I point you to reviews of recent business books. You’ll find pointers to reviews of The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness, Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential, The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems–and What to Do about It, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, and Wonderhell: Why Success Doesn’t Feel Like It Should . . . and What to Do About It,

From McKinsey & Company: Author Talks: The world’s longest study of adult development finds the key to happy living

“Harvard study director Robert Waldinger provides the data-backed answer to what makes people live happier and longer lives and shares the choices anyone can make to start feeling more fulfilled right now.”

From Matt Higgins: Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential

“Matt Higgins is an executive fellow and teacher at Harvard Business School where he teaches the course ‘Moving Beyond Direct to Consumer.’ He is co-founder and CEO of RSE Ventures, an investment firm that focuses on consumer brands like Magnolia Bakery and Milk Bar. Below, Matt shares 5 key insights from his new book, Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential.”

From BCG Henderson Institute: The Microstress Effect with Rob Cross and Karen Dillon

“A ‘microstress,’ as defined by Rob Cross and Karen Dillon in their new book of the same name, is a small amount pressure from our everyday interactions that is hardly perceived in the moment. But when many microstesses pile up, they become debilitating.”

From Mike Jakeman: Clocking out: Millennials and the workforce

“One of the most infamous charts in modern macroeconomics is a comparison of productivity and wages in the US since the end of the Second World War. In the decades following 1945, wages moved upward in lockstep with productivity as the economy modernized and became more efficient. But since the end of the 1970s, the two lines of the productivity–wage graph have dramatically diverged. Productivity has continued to grow at a healthy rate, but incomes have stalled.”

From Michael McKinney: Wonderhell: Why Success Doesn’t Feel Like It Should

“SUCCESS is not a destination but a journey. And each achievement opens yet another door to our potential. The achievement feels wonderful, but just when we thought we reached to top, we feel the burden of the invitation to take another step into our newfound potential. We’re in what Laura Gassner Otting identifies as Wonderhell.”

From Michael McKinney: First Look: Leadership Books for May 2023

“HERE’S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2023 curated just for you. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.”

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