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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2022

Leading Blog

Win from Within : Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage by James Heskett. James Heskett provides a roadmap for achievable and fast-paced culture change. We the Leader : Build a Team of Equals Who All Lead AND Follow to Drive Creativity and Innovation by Jeffrey Spahn.

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‘Tis the Season of Prophecies, Forecasts, and Predictions

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett, poses the right question in his blog Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions? ” In providing provocative perspectives on this challenge, Heskett draws from three books on the folly of predictions, how some predictions can be made more accurate, and how to gain from disorder.

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