4 Books To Make You A Better Leader

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As the days grow shorter and temperatures begin to drop, there’s nothing I want to do more than snuggle up in a blanket, pour myself a cup of tea, and go to town on a good book. This week, I wanted to share 3 new and amazing books that can enhance your leadership skills and help you grow your thought leadership. Why not learn something while you’re getting your cozy on??

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4 Books To Make You A Better Leader

The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

By Dorie Clark

If you’re not familiar with Dorie Clark, here’s your chance. She is the best-selling author of multiple books, a strategy consultant and executive coach, a professor at Duke University, and she’s been recognized as one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50. I could go on forever listing her accolades, but trust me, she knows her stuff.?

If you’ve ever felt like you’re always behind in your career, no matter what you do, The Long Game is for you. We are often pushed to the limit, continuing to work harder and harder without seeing the progress we want. Our culture encourages us to find the shortcut to every situation, to work with what’s quick and easy, but The Long Game encourages us to think differently.?

Dorie encourages readers to focus on accomplishing small things over time to achieve our goals instead of looking for the next quick fix. She shares how to apply these principles to your unique situation, as well as stories from her own career and other professionals' experiences. (Full disclosure: I’m featured in this book, but that’s not the only reason you should read it!) The Long Game is required reading for anyone looking to break free from their stressful routine and transform their life and career.?

Lead: How Women in Charge Claim Their Authority

By Ellen M. Snee, EdD

Ellen Snee hasn’t walked a traditional path. Before arriving in the corporate sector, Ellen spent 18 years as a Catholic nun. Her time in a convent may not seem applicable to her current life, but that couldn’t be more far from the truth. As a nun, she learned how to hear and discern a call or desire, how to work collaboratively with other women, how to be a savvy operator within male hierarchies… and more.?

Lead draws on this experience, as well as insights gained from her Harvard dissertation on psychological dimensions of authority for women and 20 years of executive coaching experience, to teach women how to better step into their authority. Full of illuminating anecdotes and surprising research insights, Lead is an accessible, instructive, and empowering road map to finding success by drawing on the strengths you’ve carried inside you all along.

Make Space to Lead: Break Patterns to Find Flow and Focus on What Matters

By Tutti Taygerly

Burnout. It’s happened to all of us at one time or another. In a world that encourages us to work ourselves to exhaustion, burnout can be hard to avoid. But how are you supposed to know what you want your life to look like if you never come up for air??

Pulling from 22 years of experience working in Silicon Valley, award-winning design leader and international speaker, Tutti Taygerly shows readers how to create their best professional and personal lives using the design process of research, ideation, and focused action. In Make Space To Lead, readers are encouraged to release themselves from the burden of busyness, step back, and discern what they really want from their lives and career. Make Space To Lead is for anyone who needs to stop getting in their own way and start living the life they want.?

Let Her Out: Reclaim Who You Have Always Been

By Natalie Siston

Natalie Siston’s journey, which started in a small Midwestern town, took her to Silicon Valley, and eventually back home to Ohio. Along the way, you will be presented with 100+ coaching questions to help you reconnect to your story on your own journey.

Fun fact: Natalie's book was released 1 year ago today! Happy book birthday, Natalie!

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