Leadership Genius

An admiring portrait of the pioneering entrepreneur from the former CNBC host and Forbes editor. One of the most influential figures of our time, Elon Musk is the most talked about man in America who isn’t running for president (yet!). In The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk, veteran business...

In Free to Lead, Will Steel not only shows you how to lead—he helps you unleash and be the authentic leader within: the leader you were born to be. This isn't just another business book. It's your personal roadmap to removing the blocks that are holding you back from being a powerful, authentic leader who influences people naturally.

Construction Genius logically breaks down complex concepts into small components so any construction leader understands how to be more effective. Construction Genius covers topics as broad as how to structure a meeting so you reach an agreement on how to solve problems every time, to how to have tough conversations without ruining relationships, to how to build better teams that deliver profitable projects . . . and the one question that will save you $1 million, guaranteed.

One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political...

The best ideas don’t happen in boardrooms—they happen over dinner. The candles flicker, the plates arrive, and suddenly Napoleon is debating strategy with Madonna while Confucius nods in quiet approval. Across the table, Van Gogh sketches light on a napkin as Suze Orman explains how belief compounds faster than interest. That’s the spirit of Take a Genius to Dinner. Sixty brilliant minds share wisdom in bite-sized courses—stories, principles, and revelations meant to be savored. Each “meal” is a ten-minute conversation with history’s most creative, courageous, and calculated ...

What if you could sit down for coffee with the world’s greatest minds—past and present—and walk away smarter every single time? Take a Genius to Coffee is your seat at the table with 60 extraordinary thinkers, leaders, rebels, and creators—from Bob Iger to Cleopatra, Freud to McCartney, Shackleton to Zelensky. In fast, vivid, 10-minute chapters, each encounter distills a lifetime of wisdom into simple, actionable lessons you can use immediately in business, leadership, and life. Every “coffee” delivers: • A cinematic snapshot bringing the genius to life • Ten core principles...

What if you could sit down each morning with the greatest minds in history—and walk away sharper, braver, and more inspired than the day before? Take a Genius to Breakfast is your invitation to the most extraordinary table you’ll ever join. In short, powerful 10-minute chapters, Andrew Wood distills the wisdom of 60 remarkable figures—from Zuckerberg to Mandela, Stephen King to Armani, Marco Polo to Galileo, Jim Collins to Beyoncé—into clear, actionable lessons you can use immediately in business, life, and leadership. This is not a book about idolizing heroes. Many of these ...

What if you could gather sixty of history’s greatest minds around one table—and walk away smarter after every conversation? Take a Genius to Brunch invites you into a lively, surprising, and deeply practical meal with the thinkers, builders, rebels, artists, strategists, and visionaries who reshaped the world. In fast, vivid chapters you can read in just ten minutes, Andrew Wood distills the essence of each genius—Nietzsche, Springsteen, Vaynerchuk, Angela Merkel, Phil Knight, Cicero, the Buddha, Stephen Covey, the Wright brothers, Helen Keller, Elvis, Laozi, and dozens more—into ...

Preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill, along with former Pixar tech wizard Greg Brandeau, MIT researcher Emily Truelove, and Being the Boss coauthor Kent Lineback, found among leaders a widely shared, and mistaken, assumption: that a "good" leader in all other respects would also be an effective leader of innovation. The truth is, leading innovation takes a distinctive kind of leadership, one that unleashes and harnesses the "collective genius" of the people in the organization.

In a book that Doris Kearns Goodwin has called "brilliantly crafted to draw leadership lessons from history", Philip Barlag uses dramatic and colorful incidents from Caesar's career to illustrate what modern leaders can learn from him. Central to Barlag's argument is the distinction between power and force. When leading his own organization, Caesar never used brute force to motivate his followers.

Tea slows the world down. It quiets the noise. It sharpens the senses. It creates the perfect pause where insight slips in. Tea is the drink of reflection. Philosophers drank it. Writers swore by it. Leaders relied on it to stay calm when the world was on fire. Tea invites a slower mind—and deeper understanding. So I wrote this book as a companion to that moment. Now imagine pouring that cup—and Lady Gaga sits across from you. Or Peter Drucker. Or Ayrton Senna. Or Simone de Beauvoir. Or the Bloody Red Baron himself. Imagine 10 minutes not filled with scrolling... but with strategy, ...

"This is the most important book on Silicon Valley I've read in two decades. It will take us all back to our roots in the counterculture, and will remind us of the true nature of the innovation process, before we tried to tame it with slogans and buzzwords." -- Po Bronson, #1 New York Times...

Thompson and Ware, nationally known consultants in the fields of management and leadership, offer a practical guide that focuses on the skills G.W. Bush has used throughout his career and in the White House. Each useful chapter highlights one of his leadership lessons. From identifying core values to getting results, this clearly written guide is filled with timeless and time-tested advice.

We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up to date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. Featuring examples from leaders such as Jensen Huang and Jane Fraser, and companies from Hermès to OpenAI, this volume brings a year's worth of management wisdom right to your fingertips.

Lawyers. Accountants. Software Engineers. That what Mom and Dad encouraged us to become. They were wrong. Gone is the age of "left-brain" dominance. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers - creative and emphatic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

In this "handbook for disruptors" (Eric Schmidt), The Geek Way reveals a new way to get big things done. It will change the way you think about work, teams, projects, and culture, and give you the insight and tools you need to harness our human superpowers of learning and cooperation. What is...

In this authoritative and fascinating new audiobook, Keith Sawyer, a psychologist at Washington University, tears down some of the most popular myths about creativity and erects new principles in their place. He reveals that creativity is always collaborative: even when you're alone. Sawyer's audiobook is filled with compelling stories about the inventions that changed our world.

The now widely known Map of calibrated levels of Consciousness was presented in Power vs. Force in 1995 and has been translated into all the world's major languages. This was followed by The Eye of the I (21), I: Reality and Subjectivity (23), and Truth vs. Falsehood (25), which explored the...

This program includes an introduction read by the author. Too often we live lives that we find unfulfilling, fail to reach our own potential, and neglect to practice creativity in our daily routines. Gay Hendricks's The Genius Zone offers a way to change that by tapping into your own innate...

One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political...