First Look: Leadership Books for July 2023

HCHECK OUT some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2023 curated just for you. Be sure to check others carefully titles which is offered this month.

9781647824891 The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Leap to Leadership by Adam Bryant

The chasm separating managers from leaders is widening as the skills required to be an effective leader grow in number and complexity. But you are ambitious. You want to cross that chasm. And your organization needs you to cross it to join its stars to lead with empathy and humanity and base the organization’s strategies in a meaningful, mission-oriented, and purposeful way. The Leap to Leader is your trusted playbook for making the biggest leaps in your career. You’ll learn from over a hundred successful leaders who share their powerful insights and compelling stories about how to make the leap, along with practical strategies and tactics for building a loyal followers, step up quickly to expand your impact, and do it in a subtle way. but important changes in mindset needed to effectively lead others.

9781523004539 Compassionate Accountability: How Leaders Build Connections and Get Results through Nate Regier

Leaders don’t have to choose between relationships and results! Unfortunately, compassion and accountability are often in tension —leaders feel they have to choose one or the other. But simply prioritizing accountability can create toxic work environments that drive away good talent. At the other end of the spectrum, too much beauty can compromise performance and productivity. Finding harmony between compassion and accountability is the most important factor for improved results and a thriving workplace. The solution is to recognize that compassion and accountability are not opposites. In fact, accountability is an element of compassion. Affective Accountability is the process of building a connection while getting results.

9781400233830 Leading through Trouble: A Changemaker’s Guide to Twenty-First Century Leadership by Andrew Liveris

on Leading Through Trouble, Andrew Liveris provides a new leadership paradigm for resilience and agility in a rapidly changing world. This book is a must-read guide for leaders in various sectors who want to not only ensure current success, but protect the future of the planet for all. Liveris, who was recently elected to lead the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Organizing Committee and former Chairman and CEO of The Dow Chemical Company, presents a variety of powerful tools that will enable you to deal with any problem quickly and to respond, with an eye to creating a more just, sustainable future.

9781647824853 Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work by Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock and Emily Field

If you’re thinking of cutting your midlevel managers in the new world of work, think again. “Middle manager.” The term evokes a bygone era in industry where managers functioned like cogs in a vast bureaucratic machine. In recent decades, midlevel managers have been a favorite target on the chopping block — underappreciated, often considered a superfluous layer in the organization. Not only does this old perspective need to change, but the future needs it. In Power to the Middle, McKinsey thought leaders Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, and Emily Field called for a deep rethinking of managers and their roles. They explain how middle managers are uniquely positioned close to the ground but have an important connection to the company’s strategy, enabling them to guide their organizations in times of rapid and complex change, as also to help shape the new world of work.

9781399806527 The Flexible Approach: Prepare To Succeed In The Next Global Crisis by James Burstall

James Burstall runs one of the UK’s most successful TV production companies. But during his tenure at Argonon he had to deal with various existential crises. Through all of them, he was able to lead his team to the other side successfully. Whether it is the credit crunch or terror attacks. Recessions. Natural disasters. Pandemics. The TV industry feels the brunt of these recurring events just like all of us. And each time, James puts strategies in place to prepare for the next time it happens: because it will happen again. In 16 concise lessons, hard-earned from real-world experience, this book uses practical examples to show how we can turn catastrophic opportunities into opportunities. Although painful, traumatic events can be good for us. It is possible to turn venom into rocket fuel! We can survive crises and thrive.

9781009400466 Decisions about Decisions: Practical Reason in Ordinary Life by Cass R. Sunstein

Here is one of the most fundamental questions of human life: How do we decide how we decide? We make those decisions all the time. If you trust your doctor, you can decide to follow a simple rule for medical decisions: Do what your doctor suggests. If you really like someone, and maybe you love them, but you’re not sure if you want to marry them, you can do this: Live with them first. Some of these strategies are smart. They prevent error. They improve your emotional well-being. Some of these strategies are stupid. They lead you in the direction of terrible mistakes. They prevent you from learning. They can make you miserable. Decisions about Decisions explores how people make, and should, make decisions about decisions. It aims to see what those decisions are, to examine how they go right, and see where they go wrong.