Looking for some good leadership and management books that you can read on your next business trip? Here are few new books that I recommend about risk, capitalism, data, and more!
1. Take Command Lessons in Leadership: How to Be a First Responder in Business
by Jake Wood
The founder and CEO of Team Rubicon and an ex-Marine sniper applies lessons in leadership and teamwork from the disaster zone and battlefield to show how to be a “first responder” in business.
2. The Risk Factor: Why Every Organization Needs Big Risks, Bold Characters, and the Occasional Spectacular Failure
by Deborah Perry Piscione
In this book, the author explains why risk-taking is critical to success—for established businesses and startups alike.
3. Capitalism with a Conscience: How We Can Create Wealth… Not Destroy It
by Charles Hampden-Turner, Tom Cummings, and Fons Tompenaars
A meticulously researched and passionately argued treatise on global capitalist culture and wealth creation, and how we can rediscover the moral basis of capitalist values to compete in the 21st century.
4. Data-ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else
by Steve Lohr
A senior writer and technology reporter for the New York Times chronicles the rise of Big Data, addressing cutting-edge business strategies and examining the dark side of a data-driven world.
5. The Small Big
by Robert Cialdini, Noah Goldstein, and Steve Martin
What is the smallest change you can make to your approach that will make the biggest difference to your request? The world’s leading experts on persuasion offer the best of science and practical insights about influence. The smallest change = the biggest difference. The book offers readers 52 easy-to-apply changes—all designed to help you become a more effective and persuasive communicator.
What new leadership and management books do you recommend? Leave a comment and share your favorites!
Tracy Houston
Tracy E. Houston, M.A., is the president of Board Resources Services, LLC. She is a refined specialist in board consulting and executive coaching with a heartfelt passion for rethinking performance, teams and the boardroom. Her company, Board Resource Services, LLC, is online at www.eboardmember.com and www.eboardguru.com. You can follow Tracy on Twitter @BoardGuru. Headquartered in the Denver, Colorado area, Tracy is an avid hiker.
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