Book recommendations for business leaders: 8/23/21

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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 Span Of Control: What To Do When You’re Under Pressure, Overwhelmed, And Ready To Get What You Really Want, 101 Things I Learned in Business School, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell, The Conscience Code: Lead with Your Values. Advance Your Career, and ALIEN Thinking: The Unconventional Path to Breakthrough Ideas. I also point you to a list of books that will make you feel smarter.

From LeaderChat: Identifying and Managing your Span of Control with Carey Lohrenz

“As one of the first female F-14 Tomcat fighter pilots in the US Navy, Carey Lohrenz knows all about pressure. During her intense training, she learned critical lessons about navigating in the most demanding, high-pressure environment imaginable—the cockpit of an F-14 fighter jet. The genius of her latest book, Span of Control, is how she applies those lessons to everyday life and shows you how to do the same.”

From Michael McKinney: 101 Things I Learned in Business School

“101 Things I Learned in Business School, written by Harvard MBA, Dr. Michael Preis helps to provide the broad knowledge based needed to succeed in business. Each lesson is concise and illustrated by Matthew Frederick. It is valuable for those just beginning o study business and a tool to explore more into areas where you could profit from learning more about.”

From John Steele Gordon: The triumph of Thomas Sowell

“He has written an astonishing fifty books (if you count revised and expanded editions), numerous essays, and a long-running, twice-a-week newspaper column. Extraordinarily wide ranging, he has covered everything from the rudiments of economics to race relations, the housing crisis of 2008 to late-talking children.”

From Wharton: How to Bring Your Conscience to Work

“Inspired by their real-life conflicts and wanting to help, Shell, chair of the School’s Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department, wrote The Conscience Code: Lead with Your Values. Advance Your Career as a practical guide for handling the sticky ethical situations that can arise in the workplace. Drawing on both research and the real lives of his students, the book provokes readers into thinking more deeply about the consequences of their actions — or inaction.”

From Braden Kelley: Leveraging Alien Thinking: Exclusive Interview with Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, and Michael Wade

“I had the opportunity recently to interview these three IMD professors about the concepts behind the book ALIEN Thinking: The Unconventional Path to Breakthrough Ideas.”

From Fast Company: 5 books that will make you feel smarter

“If you want to better understand the world or just impress people with interesting facts, these books will expand your mind and cocktail party conversations.”

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