Leadership
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
I remember getting Brene Brown’s first book, Daring Greatly. I was in the audience of one of the very first talk shows Brown was on back in 2012 – (The Katie Couric Show, which was sadly canceled after her second season.)
Read MoreKeep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative In Good Times And Bad by Austin Kleon
This book is about how to cultivate your craft, creating positive routines and habits to pave the way for your creativity and ingenuity to appear and thrive. It’s about persistence, surrounding yourself with like-minded people to give you feedback and help you improve. And it’s about staying open and trying new things.
Read MoreTribes: We Need You To Lead Us by Seth Godin
At its core, leadership is about skill and attitude. As Godin says, “They’re essential to a leader’s success.” And that as a leader, you also need to be a disruptor and change agent for the status quo. This also falls into the marketing category as well. That’s how a lot of successful companies have come about because of it’s leader disrupting the status quo.
Read MoreFeel The Fear And Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers, Ph.D.
Susan Jeffers’s book is it’s not just about working through your fear. It’s really about shifting and changing your mindset. She’s got a ton of tools that will help you address, work with and work through your fears. And the biggest aha for me was that the underlying aspect of fear is a lack of trust in yourself. Hmmmmm.
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