[Book Synopsis only] How Women Rise—Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, Job  by Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith, Hachette, April 2018 Sally Helgesen is widely regarded as a gold standard author and speaker for women in leadership. Her first book The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leading has been continuously…

[Book synopsis only] Many of us began our life journeys by trying our best to avoid difficult conversations, hoping and even praying that the need for a difficult conversation will pass, or setting up broad organizational policies designed to prevent the necessity of difficult conversations with specific men and women—difficult people.

[Book synopsis only] From the book’s opening pages, I felt as though I was sitting in class on the first day of a graduate course on leadership, with a brilliant professor presenting thoroughly original material from a lifetime of research and practice. There were no footnotes referencing popular “leadership gurus” whose books I had read.

[Book synopsis only] Senior Leadership Teams is a well-engineered blue print for building from the ground up. Two Harvard Business School academics and two seasoned, market place consultants discovered a shared interest in high-functioning senior leadership teams, pooled their individual awareness, surveyed 120 senior leadership teams around the world, and distilled their insights in this seminal resource for business owners, top leaders, and CEO’s.