6 Books on my Reading List for Q4 2021

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown

“If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for meaningful connection.”

The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects by Andrew Chen

What exactly are network effects? How do teams create and build them into their products? How do products compete in a market where every player has them? Andrew Chen draws on his experience and?on interviews with the CEOs and founding teams of LinkedIn, Twitch, Zoom, Dropbox, Tinder, Uber, Airbnb, Pinterest — to provide unique insights in answering these questions. Chen also provides practical frameworks and principles that can be applied across products and industries.?

Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact?

In Impact Players, New York Times bestselling author and researcher Liz Wiseman reveals the secrets of these stellar professionals who play the game at a higher level. Drawing on insights from leaders at top companies, Wiseman explains what the most influential players are doing differently, how small and seemingly insignificant differences in how we think and act can make an enormous impact, and why—with a little coaching—this mindset is available to everyone who wants to contribute at their highest level.??

The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever?by Michael Bungay Stanier

This book:?

• untangles the difference between?Easy Change?and?Hard Change.??
• tackles the thorny issue of?how to change your behaviour so you stay curious longer.??
• provides the tools to?make you masterful at focus, and?your conversations irresistible.
• introduces a?new way of thinking about leadership?that rests on curiosity and invites in?empathy, mindfulness and humility.

Reset: A Leader’s Guide to Work in an Age of Upheaval by Johnny C. Taylor, Jr.

The pandemic has upended everything about the workplace, but far and away the biggest challenge facing leaders isn’t technology, innovation, or even leadership: It’s engendering a culture that readily finds, develops, and engages the right talent to thrive now and in the future. RESET delivers a candid and forward-thinking vision for leaders to reimagine their company cultures in a time of global upheaval and presents data-driven strategies to make the necessary foundational reset of all things work.

The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society by Akeem Azhar

We are entering the Exponential Age. Between faster computers, better software and bigger data, ours is the first era in human history in which technology is constantly accelerating. In?The Exponential Age, Azhar shows how the exponential gap can explain our society's most pressing problems. The gulf between established businesses and fast-growing digital platforms. The inability of nation states to deal with new forms of cyberwarfare. And the sclerotic response of liberal democracies to fast-moving social problems.

But the exponential gap is not inevitable. Drawing on fields as varied as economics, political science and psychology, Azhar sketches out how we can harness the power of tech to serve our real needs - fostering new ways of doing business, innovative forms of politics, and fresh approaches to national defense.

The result is a holistic new way to make sense of the modern world. Exponential technology is transforming all of our lives. This book explains how.