The 5 Books Helping You To Improve Your Leadership
Here are my 5 go-to (recent) book recommendations to improve your leadership, whether that’s improving listening, improving the questions you ask, understanding what optimises performance and why mental models and frameworks are key to the most successful people.
1/ Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg (book link)
Why Read?
Help you to improve your listening
Help you to understand how to ask better questions
Learn how some people are built to ask the right questions, while others just don’t and likely won’t - and why this means there is an opportunity for leaders
Below is another teaser in form of a vodcast with Mr Why Simon Sinek
2/ Clear Thinking - Shane Parrish (book link)
Why Read?
How to craft your own fate (and not rely on every situation around you
Improve your decision-making, step by step
How to place yourself into areas/zones of success
With many mental models (frameworks) to guide you through your journey
If you would like the cheat sheet, here is the 8-minute breakdown
3/ Hidden Genius - Polina Marinova Pompliano (book link)
Why Read?
Polina breaks down how successful people have high resilience and don’t break easily
Learn how the high performers don’t use hacks but leverage and optimise their mental framework
How the best of the best improve their content consumption (better content diet)
Below is Polina being interviewed by her husband (well-known entrepreneur and business personality) Andrew Pomp Pompliano and breaking down her book. Lastly, Polina’s newsletter The Profile is brilliant and a must-subscribe.
4/ Scaling People - Claire Hughes Johnson (book link)
Why Read?
Learn how to scale operations, people management and C-suite leadership by knowing your strengths
and knowing not to improve your weaknessesWhy do the hard but right conversations have to happen especially around poor performers - for their good, your good, for the company
Why managers should have their operating cadence and work with their teams on their preferred ways of working
If you want a deeper look inside the book, grab a coffee and enjoy Tim Ferriss interviewing Claire and actively learning throughout the podcast. Claire has had quite the book tour so definitely search your podcast players of choice for more brilliant insights.
5/ Tiny Habits - Professor BJ Fogg (book link)
Why Read?
If you have heard or read James Clear, you’ll love his actual teacher/Professor BJ Fogg, BJ breaks down how to form habits slowly but surely
The secret to forming any habit
make it tiny,
find where it fits naturally in your life
and nurture its growth.
Why it applies to work, training and self-development
This is a brilliant podcast with BJ Fogg talking to Nike’s audio team on habits, transforming performance and getting out of your own way.
