Art Kliner, Jeffrey Schwartz and Josie Thomson have written an important book, with the main premise being that the inner voice of strategic leadership is the "Wise Advocate". The Wise Advocate involves "stepping back and being thoughtful: looking at your own situation, and yourself in it, with all the commitment and information of an insider [...]
Martin Seligman, the father of Positive Psychology, has written a must-read book, Learned Optimism. The book draws on twenty years of research focused on optimism and the important role it plays in your quality of life and mental and physical health. Seligman writes, “If we habitually believe, as does the pessimist, that misfortune is our [...]
Dr. Daniel Lieberman and Michael Long have written a thought-provoking book, The Molecule of More. The authors do a deep dive into the neurochemical dopamine and the impact it has on your life. The authors write that "understanding dopamine turns out to be the key to explaining and even predicting behavior across a spectacular range of [...]
Robert Sapolsky has written an epic book, Behave, that attempts to explain why we behave as we do. The book is over 700 pages long and is often technical in nature. It is the most comprehensive study of human behavior ever written. To use Sapolsky’s own words, when asked to summarize his book and human [...]
Steve Hardison is the Ultimate Coach. He charges his clients $200,000 for 100 hours of coaching. You must see him at his Arizona office every week without fail. Many clients fly from great distances weekly to be coached by Steve. If you don’t show up, you risk forfeiting the entire $200,000. Steve’s wife, Amy, and [...]
“Don’t believe everything you think!” This is one of the insights from Dr. Marilee Adams, founder and CEO of the Inquiry Institute. Adams has written a thoughtful book, Change Your Questions Change Your Life, that posits that “the questions we ask either expand our mindsets, opening us to exciting new possibilities, or constrict our mindsets, [...]
Oliver Burkeman has written a book, Four Thousand Weeks, which, in my opinion, is the best book ever written on the subject of time management. Burkeman's major premise is reflected in these two paragraphs: "You have to accept that there will always be too much to do; that you can't avoid tough choices or make the [...]
Morra Aarons-Mele has written the bible on anxiety - helping the reader better define, understand and deal with it. The book, The Anxious Achiever - Turning your Biggest Fears Into Your Leadership Superpower, is a book intended to help you normalize anxiety and, for the leader, to harness it into something that is not intimidating [...]
Todd Rose, cofounder of think tank Populace, has written a bestselling book, Collective Illusions, that asks a key question – “Why do we keep falling for illusions and believing the lies that hurt ourselves and others?” Rose defines collective illusions as "social lies that occur where a majority of individuals in a group privately reject [...]
In the illuminating book, Mistakes were Made…But Not by Me, social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliott Aronson explain “why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions and hurtful acts”. The premise of the book is that "as soon as people make a decision, whether reasoned or impulsive, they will change their attitudes to conform to that [...]
