Leaders are paid to make the important decisions. They need to ensure that the organization’s decision making process is fact-based and inclusive otherwise it just becomes a battle of opinions. and , when it comes to opinions, the person with the most power typically wins.
During a Vistage coaching session today, I revisited a tool I’ve used many times over the years. It reminded me of something simple: Sometimes the old tools are still the best tools—especially when…
Growth Regardless of Obstacles: How Small Business Leaders Build Sustainable Growth in Any Economy Growing a business is rarely a smooth, predictable process. In fact, most business growth happens during seasons that feel…
The Two Most Important Things a Leader Needs to Be Able to Say Let me share something I’ve come to believe pretty strongly over the years. There are two statements every leader needs…
Sometimes the Things You Don’t Want to Do Matter the Most Sometimes it’s important to do the things you don’t want to do—but know you need to do. We all feel fatigue. We…
What Does Success Really Mean to You? Most people think they know what success is—until you ask them to define it. It sounds like a simple question: What does success mean to you?…
What Happens to Execution Momentum? Every January, I see the same pattern play out. Leaders come back from the holidays energized. Plans feel crisp. Whiteboards are full. Offsites are optimistic. And for a…
The CEO’s Playbook for 2026 Most CEOs I work with aren’t short on ideas, intelligence, or ambition. What they’re short on is clarity, focus, and execution capacity in an environment that keeps getting…
Introduction – Don’t Get Stuck in the Short-Term I’m increasingly concerned that more business leaders have slipped into short-term thinking. After years of volatility and nonstop disruption, many seem almost shell-shocked. Instead of…
High performance is achievable You don’t need jargon to run a tighter, faster shop. You need a simple way to set priorities, make decisions quickly, and keep work moving without drama. I think…
“Do you think the world was created by an accountant? No! The universe was created by the combustion of a creative explosion.” — Robert Redford I decided to revisit this article after hearing about…
Book Introduction Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen is a powerful and eye-opening book that challenges one of our most basic assumptions—that our thoughts are always true. Nguyen explains that much…
Life has a way of testing our judgment, grit, and character—especially when you’re responsible for a business and a team. Andy Andrews’ The Traveler’s Gift reads like a parable, but it lands like…
In a world obsessed with speed, noise, and constant motion, Holiday makes a compelling case for slowing down, quieting the mind, and finding clarity in the present moment. Through stories of figures like…
The New Makers of Modern Strategy reminds leaders that strategy isn’t a binder—it’s a living set of choices you make under pressure. Read it to sharpen your judgment, tighten your plans, and align…
Running a business is a thinking sport. You win or lose on the quality of your judgments, not the volume of your activity. The Rules of Thinking is a concise, practical playbook for…
You don’t need a louder voice or a bigger title to lead well. You need clear motives, steady habits, and the courage to do what’s right when it costs. Start there. Keep going.…
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership Lead with wisdom, not just willpower.What if the clearest playbook for today’s toughest leadership problems was written two millennia ago? How to…
The Universal Rules of Life — In My Words Why This Book Matters Life and leadership come at us fast. Whether it’s running a business, managing a team, or trying to balance family…
The idea is simple: the life you want grows out of the thoughts you practice and the actions you repeat. Start tiny. Repeat daily. Let consistency do the heavy lifting. In practical terms,…
You Are Now Less Dumb won’t turn you into a perfect thinker—but it will make you reliably less wrong. And that’s the real edge: fewer unforced errors, cleaner decisions, and conversations that leave…
If you want your company to outlast your own leadership, start with BE 2.0 by Jim Collins. Use it to realign your team around enduring values, strengthen your culture, and prepare your organization…
Leaders win or lose on the quality of their thinking. This How to Think More Effectively summary is especially valuable for founders and managers who must set strategy under pressure, navigate ambiguity, and…
In Winning, Jack Welch shares hard-earned lessons about competition, strategy, people management, and organizational culture. Rather than offering abstract frameworks, he answers the questions leaders actually face every day—how to win in the…
Introduction Straight from the Gut is Jack Welch’s candid and deeply personal account of his journey from a young engineer to one of the most successful CEOs in business history. In this autobiography,…
Taleb’s central point is clear: People should have something to lose. Not abstractly. Directly. When someone makes decisions that affect others—but carries no real risk themselves—you get bad outcomes. Poor advice. Weak systems.…
Choose the Life You Want –— Tal Ben-Shahar 101 Ways to Create Your Own Road to Happiness Most people treat happiness like a destination. Tal Ben-Shahar reframes it as a series of decisions.…
For leaders who want more than surface-level guidance, this anthology provokes reflection: What does it mean to lead in the face of tension, complexity, and contradiction? How do values shape action in uncertainty?…
Before you invest, before you plan, before you act—you need clarity. What do you actually want? Not a vague number. A real target. Robbins emphasizes defining your financial goals in concrete terms. Income.…
Reflections on Life and Leading This book reads like a distillation of years spent in rooms where decisions mattered—where leaders had to look at themselves honestly and then go do something about it.…
On Leadership and Business doesn’t chase theory. It doesn’t try to impress. It goes straight at the real work—what leaders do, what they avoid, and what it costs them over time. This is…
I’ve worked with leaders who want better results but avoid the hard choices that produce them. Lincoln didn’t have that luxury. He made decisions knowing they would be criticized, misunderstood, and resisted. And…
The Road Less Traveled — What It Demands of You M. Scott Peck opens with a line that most people want to argue with: “Life is difficult.” He doesn’t soften it. He builds…
Nightly Business Report Presents Lasting Leadership: What You Can Learn From the Top 25 Business People of Our Times Most leadership books try to give you a formula. This one does something better.…
Mary Lore doesn’t focus on tactics, tools, or productivity systems. She goes deeper. She focuses on the source of all of it—how you think. Because your thinking drives your decisions, your behavior, your…
Head Game: High-Efficiency Analytic Decision Making and the Art of Solving Complex Problems This is a different kind of book. It doesn’t try to inspire you with stories. It trains you to think…
Please click on this link for The Man In The Mirror Book Summary. Patrick Morley’s work in “The Man In The Mirror” is a call to men to look beyond the superficial…
Every leader, every operator, every person trying to build something meaningful runs into the same problem: we don’t just deal with reality. We interpret it. And over time, those interpretations harden into beliefs.…
Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have spent decades studying leaders across industries. Their conclusion is simple and grounded: Leadership is not a gift. It’s a set of behaviors. That changes the conversation. It…
There are leadership books that inform you, and there are those that quietly raise the standard you hold yourself to. The Leadership Challenge sits firmly in the second category. It doesn’t offer tricks…
Komisar forces you to look at your life in terms of time, not money. Money is renewable. Time is not. So every decision becomes clearer. You’re not just choosing a job. You’re choosing…
You don’t need advanced math. You need working math. The kind you use without thinking. The kind that helps you make faster, better decisions under pressure. This book is built around that principle—simple…
Kaplan and Norton argue that strategy must become a management system—something that shows up in how you plan, measure, communicate, and lead every day. When it does, execution stops being reactive. It becomes…
We like to believe we’re rational. Kahneman dismantles that belief piece by piece. He shows that your mind relies on shortcuts—heuristics—to make decisions quickly. They work often enough to be useful. But they…
Handy’s central idea is simple, but it’s not comfortable: the world of stable organizations, predictable careers, and linear progress is over. It’s gone.What replaces it is a world of discontinuity—where change is not…
What The Dog Saw This is a different kind of book. It’s not a single argument. It’s a collection of stories—profiles, investigations, and essays—that all circle one idea: the world is not what…
Most people don’t choose their path. They inherit it. Handy is asking you to stop. Look at it. And decide if it’s actually yours. Because in this new world, no one is assigning…
The Strategy Concept & Process A grounded look at how strategy actually works Most leaders talk about strategy as if it’s a moment. A planning session. An offsite. A deck. This book pushes…
The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger is not built on theory or frameworks. It’s built on decisions made over time, under pressure, with real consequences. What you see is how a…
Fear is not the problem. Avoiding it is. This book shifts the conversation away from eliminating fear—which doesn’t work—and towards building the ability to act in spite of it.
The book cuts through one of the biggest myths in business: There is no single strategy, structure, or innovation that guarantees success. No magic formula. No shortcut. Instead, performance comes from a combination…
The Thinking Life How to slow down, think clearly, and live with intention Most people don’t have a thinking problem. They have a not thinking enough problem. Too much noise. Too much speed.…
Tim Ferriss pulls together insights from world-class performers—investors, athletes, entrepreneurs, thinkers—and organizes them into something more like a toolkit than a narrative.
Smarter Faster Better How productivity really works—and why it’s not what you think Most people think productivity is about doing more. Charles Duhigg makes a different case. Productivity is about making better choices.…
The Power of Habit Why we do what we do—and how to change it Most people think change starts with motivation. Charles Duhigg makes a different case. Change starts with understanding behavior. Because…
Drucker is not writing about management techniques. He’s writing about responsibility. About clarity. About doing work that matters...He believed most leaders are busy—but not effective. That’s a hard truth. And it holds up.
Principles – Ray Dalio You don’t read Principles for inspiration. You read it to see how a world-class operator actually thinks. Ray Dalio built Bridgewater Associates—one of the most successful hedge funds in…
Most organizations don’t fail because they run out of opportunity. They fail because they lose discipline. That’s preventable. But only if you’re willing to look in the mirror before the numbers force you…
There is nothing more important than understanding how reality works and how to deal with it. The state of mind you bring to the process makes all the difference. I have found it…
I believe that business and nonprofit leaders need to think differently about what constitutes success. Besides the quality of their people, what differentiates most high-performing companies is their vision, focus, and discipline. Culturally,…
The leadership journey requires you to cogitate constantly on the role you and others should be playing. As you achieve some level of success, your business may challenge your capabilities to lead it.…
Seven Decisions That Shape a Life—and a Legacy In your own words: A journey through adversity, personal responsibility, and the kind of leadership that transforms lives. Andy Andrews takes us on a unique…
By embracing the principles outlined in these sections, leaders can inspire their teams, drive sustainable success, and create a lasting positive impact within their organizations. The path to success involves not just strategic…
By understanding the nature of illusions, their causes, and strategies for addressing them, managers and leaders can foster a more truthful, effective, and dynamic work environment. Implementing these principles helps create a culture…
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