Self-improvement is on most people’s agenda. Whether as leaders or entrepreneurs, making a more meaningful mark on their organization and taking their work — and life — to the next level is an enduring objective.
These five new books on self-help for those in business will offer insight on how to further your self-improvement journey.
In “Mindfully Successful: Unlock the Power of Your Brain, Body, and Breath to Elevate Your Leadership“, author Margo Boster, an executive coach and mindfulness advocate, has developed an actionable plan for leaders seeking to integrate mindfulness into their professional and personal lives. Boster’s approach helps leaders move beyond the “successfully exhausted” treadmill toward mindful success — cultivating emotional intelligence, focus, and authentic leadership while also delivering impactful and sustainable success. Her methods empower leaders to mitigate stress and avoid burnout using evidence-based practices. She’s used her approach with clients ranging from executives to military generals to and senior government officials. From neuroplasticity exercises to transformative breathing practices, “Mindfully Successful” equips leaders with strategies that they can immediately implement.
“Lead It Like Lasso” by Nick Coniglio and Marnie Stockman, returns readers to the AFC Richmond pitch for another coaching session based on the heartwarming Ted Lasso series. For those who’ve been in withdrawal since the series ended, “Lead It Like Lasso” adopts the humor and appeal intrinsic to the streaming show and draws from Coach Lasso’s leadership style that’s grounded in positivity, teamwork, and unfaltering kindness. Along with valuable leadership tools, fans will recognize anecdotes drawn for various episodes. In one exercise, readers assess their leadership style and learn which character in the series they’re most similar to. The authors, both successful business founders, have cleverly used the popular show to showcase leadership qualities that lead to success.
In “GRAPPLING: Leaders Striving to Improve“, Robert Kaplan presents eight fictionalized stories based on real life executive clients to illustrate how working on ourselves is hard to do well. It can quickly become uncomfortable or involve inherent beliefs we’re not aware of. He describes how working with a trained professional better enables us to meet the challenges of personal improvement. Kaplan, a leadership advisor, provides a road map for how to assess and adjust our own performance at work and at home in the spirit of continual improvement. From how blind spots get in the way to how to find the off switch when passion turns ugly, Kaplan’s parables have messages we can all learn from for personal transformation.
“Hacking the Corporate Jungle: How to Work Less, Make More and Actually Like Your Life” draws from the maxim “How we spend our days is how we spend our lives”. Author Sean McMann implores readers to start prioritizing their life by moving beyond the work culture of constant competition and profit. Instead, he offers a solution that doesn’t involve adding more — but adding less. In sharing the ups and downs, twists and turns, and roadblocks encountered throughout his own journey, he provides a template to a rewarding life based. He describes how to hack corporations by changing how we manage our days — from applying the 80/20 Rule to full(fill) our time effectively, to his 30 Minutes of Mastery Step-by-Step Guide. McMann shares how to find self-worth that isn’t connected to the stale corporate paradigm. He instructs us to stay focused on what really matters and create a new reality in which we can flourish.
In “Ready to Win: How Great Leaders Succeed Through Preparation“, author Matthew Mitchell — the winningest head coach in the history of the University of Kentucky women’s basketball program — reveals his secrets for how to expertly prepare for any challenge. Drawing from his success on the court as well as coaching organizational leaders, Mitchell shares where to find the sweet spot that enables you to consistently win versus struggling with up and down results. With his entertaining writing style and engaging anecdotes from his coaching career, he provides readers with essential advice for adapting his proven method to achieve championship-level preparation and create a habit of always driving toward excellence.
Whether the goal is better self-awareness, more effective leadership, improved work-life balance, or achieving maximum performance, find inspiration, the valuable insights from these experts will help you in your quest for achieving positive change.
