In his memoir Scars of the Badge, Tom Lee describes leaving an electrical engineering path after a university Police Explorers program leads him toward law enforcement. Dispatching gives him his first view of police work before academy training places him on the other side of...

Tuesday in Trussville is Robert L. Mason's account of how he built SPOC Energy, a power conversion company in small-town Alabama, around a philosophy he calls "Lift Up." The book opens on a single dramatic morning when a company-wide drug test leads an employee to...

Lemonade! by Melane Mullings shares the author’s personal journey and encourages listeners to find their potential and passion. She talks about how some of the most challenging moments in her life shaped her and set her on the path to finding professional and lifelong purpose....

Let Me Lead by Seger S. Morris blends a memoir with a leadership guide. It is based on the author's own path from a difficult adolescence in Central Texas to a career in medicine and as a healthcare leader. He uses his journey as the...

The Governed Enterprise by Robin Horstmann is the most practical guide to AI governance currently available for senior leaders in consumer packaged goods companies. Horstmann opens with two scenarios that would stop any executive cold: a 2:00 AM call about an AI procurement agent that...

Jason M. Riggs’s The MACH-10 Leader argues that AI has compressed business time so sharply that leadership systems built around long approval cycles can no longer keep pace with the moment they are trying to influence. Riggs begins with decision latency, the delay between a...

Worth at Work by Randy Haveson and Kat Nisson is a thought-provoking inside-out blueprint for transforming service across industries. The authors dismiss the “smile harder” trap of compliance in customer service, arguing that exceptional service should be the result of the internal sense of worth...

Leading Without Shrinking by Dr. Jessica Saulsberry is a well-written book that discusses a common challenge most leaders, business professionals, and executives struggle with: a pattern of shrinking themselves and gradually moving away from who they are. These patterns occur in three forms, which include...

Lead with Trust by Bart Spence is a well-written book containing principles for building trust and positivity that readers, particularly business leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals, will find effective for cultivating a positive work environment. Spence begins by introducing the 9 principles of trust drawn from...

What causes betrayal? Sometimes, people mistake burnout for betrayal, which stems from having one's expectations come up short and one's worldview shattered. In It's Not Burnout, It's Betrayal, Lora Cheadle offers five tools as part of the FUEL UP toolbox to help readers manage expectations...