The Tenacious Leader: Your Map to Overcome Change Fatigue by Michelle Smeby is a business guide for executives and managers stuck trying to drive transformation through teams exhausted by too much of it. The book opens with a personal moment on a hiking trail in...

What I Wish I Knew Years Ago by Sam Brady is a personal self-help guide written as a letter to her own younger self, covering everything she learned on the way from a difficult childhood and rough young adulthood to a life she now calls...

Directions in Paradox Comix by John F. Elliott presents stories, wisdom to live by, and humor. You can read it as a philosophical manifesto or therapy guide. Some readers will simply enjoy the illustrations, which are very symbolic. The author cleverly builds maxims into templates...

Contentment: How to Attain Lifelong Peace and Well-being by an anonymous author is a candid, personal account of a childhood and young adulthood of great unhappiness, which continued across several generations of the author's family. From there, the book widens into something closer to a...

Need It, Don't Want It by Jay Avigdor is a business memoir with a clever structural twist. It opens with the author at the peak of success, running his financing company Velocity through a stretch so busy that IPO talk is buzzing through the office,...

The System Gambit: Find Leverage to Unlock Compounding Value by Ritavan is a business strategy book that argues that successful companies rarely fail from incompetence; they fail because they get exceptionally good at playing yesterday's game. The book opens by defining its central idea: a...

In Forward Only, David Watson recounts growing up in Texas with his grandparents, Grandma and Pawpaw, whose home gave him his first sense of belonging. Losing Pawpaw at twelve changes that home, and adolescence is marked by a habit of leaving whenever he cannot see...

Begin It Now by Peace Mitchell and Katy Garner brings together 21 women from around the world, each sharing a personal essay about the moment they finally leaped at a dream they had been putting off. The book opens with Mitchell's own introduction, where she...

Bombs, Bacon, and Bankruptcy: The Art of Crisis Leadership by Henry J. Evans draws on the author's decades of experience, including work as a government contractor on a declassified counterterrorism mission after 9/11, to build a practical playbook for leading through disaster. The book opens...

What Would the Boss Do? 2.0 by Jerry Roth tells the story of Mali, a struggling business owner, and her retired neighbor Jerry, a former commercial lighting company president who lost his own job after twenty years at the top. The book opens with the...