Award-Winning Books by Our Podcast Guests

As we look to the New Year, let’s challenge ourselves to keep learning and growing.

These industry-changing books are authored by our esteemed podcast guests.

Leading with Heart

In Leading with Heart, two veteran executive coaches, John Baird and Edward Sullivan , dispel the myth of one-size-fits-all leadership, showing instead how truly successful leaders allow themselves to be endlessly curious and inquisitive-the key to finding the strategies and insights that transform organizations.

Through their company Velocity Coaching , a leading global executive coaching firm, John Baird and Edward Sullivan work with top executives at companies like 苹果 , DoorDash , GEICO , Harry's Inc. , MasterClass , and sweetgreen .

Leading with Heart is

• The Wall Street Journal Bestselling Book
• One of the Top 22 Business Books of 22 by Next Big Idea Club
• Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award for 2022 by BookPal

endorsed by Tony Xu , Co-founder & CEO at DoorDash ,

"Required reading for any leader looking to scale their business and get results.”

and David Rogier , Founder & CEO at MasterClass ,

"Leading with Heart puts you in the room for a private conversation with two masterful coaches that helped build MasterClass and dozens more of the best companies of the last 20 years.”

The Flight of a Wild Duck: An Improbable Journey Through Life and Technology

In The Flight of a Wild Duck, avram miller , Co-founder at Intel Capital , describes how luck, intuition, imagination, humor, and risk-taking enabled him to become one of Silicon Valley's visionaries and leading venture capitalists. He recalls his journey of overcoming childhood illness, a troubled family, and an inability to function in the education system to eventually become a senior executive at one of the world's leading technology companies.

"You always needed a wild duck like Avram, a nonlinear thinker that stirred up the others. I always try to have an Avram on my team. Always. They disrupt and create."

— Andy Grove, former Intel CEO

Hangry: A Startup Journey

Mike Evans wanted a pizza, but getting a pizza was a pain in the neck. Insightful and hilarious, HANGRY candidly follows Mike’s personal journey from the excitement of creating something new, to the satisfaction of changing the way America eats, and then ultimately, to the horror of seeing Grubhub turn from its roots to become a byword for exploitation in the restaurant industry. Increasingly suffering from anger and frustration, Mike rage quits the company he started, leaving it all behind to ride a bike across the United States in a longshot attempt to regain his sanity and find a new purpose.

"In one of the truest portrayals of startup life I've ever read, Hangry lays out the painful-but-true story of the founding of GrubHub. But unlike most self-aggrandizing and chest-pounding entrepreneurial memoirs, company founder Mike Evans is brutally honest about how it really went down; the uncertainty, the disappointments, and his continuous struggle to keep a growing company true to its original vision. But it is more than just a business book— it's a personal journey as well. Hangry is right up there with ShoeDog for being one of the most honest and vulnerable depictions of what really goes into building a business."

— Marc Randolph , co-founder of Netflix

Global Class: How the World's Fastest-Growing Companies Scale Globally by Focusing Locally

Global Class, co-written by? Aaron McDaniel and Klaus B?rme Wehage ???? , is #2 The Wall Street Journal Bestseller and National Bestseller - The Playbook for Building a Global Company

The book has been endorsed by 45+ CEOs, bestselling authors, top executives, founders and thought leaders, including

"The way Aaron & Klaus describe a Global-Class Company is the exact model we aspire to at Flexport - culturally curious, localized, and strong in our core company values."

- Ryan Petersen , CEO & Founder, Flexport

“Learning to become a global company that stays agile through changing markets, cultures, and legislations can feel like an overwhelming task. Global Class will walk you step-by-step through the methodology to take your company to the next level. "

- Marshall Goldsmith , The Thinkers50, 纽约时报 Bestselling author Of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got you Here Won't Get There

Negotiate Like a CEO: How to Get Ahead with Lessons Learned From Top Entrepreneurs and Executives

A lively, engaging read, Negotiate Like a CEO, written by Jotham S. Stein , outlines how employees, executives, and entrepreneurs protect themselves, and will give you eye-opening advice on how to make sure you won’t get taken advantage of. This book describes best practices, common pitfalls, and sky’s-the-limit possibilities at any stage in your career, whether you’re just out of college or you’re going for that C-suite job.

The book has been endorsed by

" As a hi-tech Silicon Valley attorney, Stein is brutally honest in assessing a situation and advising his clients. In Negotiate Like a CEO you’ll learn to be aware, to recognize potential employment pitfalls, and how to protect yourself. You’ll also learn that you may have more leverage than you might think, either now or as you advance in your career."

- Grady Harp, 亚马逊 Top 100 Hall of Fame Reviewer

" As a CEO and multi-time Silicon Valley executive, I was very fortunate to learn from Jotham early in my career the great importance of the protective employment offer letter. Employment law is very complex and with this book you can learn from the best. "

- Bonnie Crater , Co-Founder and CEO at Full Circle Insights ; former SVP Salesforce ; former SVP Genesys ; former VP 甲骨文 ; former VP Netscape

Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results

Good leaders know they need to continuously learn. But great leaders know when to unlearn the past to succeed in the future. This book shows you the way. Unlearn by Barry O'Reilly is a transformative system that shows leaders how to rethink their strategies, retool their capabilities, and revitalize their businesses for stronger, longer-lasting success. There’s a learning curve to running any successful business. But once you begin to rely on past achievements or get stuck in outdated thinking and practices that no longer work, you need to take a step back—and unlearn. This innovative and actionable framework from executive coach Barry O'Reilly you how to break the cycle of learned behaviors that were effective in the past but are no longer relevant, and limit or may even stand in the way of your success.

"The only thing that is constant is change. And it's happening faster and faster. Disruption is ongoing, yet leaders tend to think incrementally about the future. Barry shows us a better way: the only way to disrupt yourself before someone does it for you is to unlearn, separate yourself from what has worked in the past in order to create an open space to shape the future. A great read for any leader in fast-moving environments faced with the realization that what worked in the past won't work in the future."

- Stephane Kasriel , Head of Commerce & Financial Technologies at Meta ; formel CEO at Upwork

“To succeed, it’s critical for executives to entrepreneurs to know how to let go of behavior and methods that have helped them achieve in the past but are now limiting. Unlearn explains how to continuously adapt in an every changing world”

- Eric Ries , CEO at Long-Term Stock Exchange ; Author of The LLean Startup

What is your favorite book to read in 2022? Tell us in the comment.