The Next Top 5 Leadership Books of 2015

Hone your management skills with the latest and greatest books on teams and leadership.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be revealing my picks for the best business books of the year, first by category and finally (on December 15th) the very best of the best.

1. People Over Profit

Subtitle: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful

Author: Dale Partridge

5 Second Summary: A manifesto and action plan for companies to remain socially responsible not because it’s the right thing to do but because it’s the only way to survive.

Best Quote: “Upon surveying America’s leading corporations throughout the last century, I identified a cycle that America has been stuck in for centuries. Behind our capitalistic megamachine exists a pattern of corporate behavior, churning through seasons of honesty, efficiency, deception, and redemption. This cycle drives companies from a period where they value people over profits to a time when they value profit over people, and then back again. Within each era, certain value shift, drive, and change not only the business but also the marketplace as a whole.

2. Corporate Awesome Sauce

Subtitle: Success Rules for Generation Y

Authors: Richie Etwaru & Dhar Ramdehal

5 Second Summary: A survival guide for millennials in a workplace that’s dominated their overly-conservative, risk-averse elders.

Best Quote: “Whenever I found myself pressing on, even though I’d pissed off my boss, his boss, my whole department or another department, I find myself thinking, ‘What is the worst that can happen? They will fire me.’ I had realized that I’d rather be fired then be a yes-man, and it’s been the single best thing for my career.”

3. Do Over

Subtitle: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck

Author: Jon Acuff

5 Second Summary: A manual for remaking your career at any stage of your life by reinventing yourself and your ability to add value.

Best Quote: “Choose your attitude every day until eventually it chooses you right back. It’s not about feeling happy or feeling committed to your work or feeling like being a good employee. Feelings are the flightiest things in the world, held to the whimsy of a thousand factors. Feelings will tell you the day is already ruined because you woke up on the wrong side of the bed or had a bad commute that morning. Don’t listen to feelings. Make choices. Today, choose a good attitude. This is the one thing you can do right this minute to actually shock your boss, improve your work relationships and dramatically increase your long-term odds of an awesome career.”

4. Work Rules!

Subtitle: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

Author: Laszlo Bock

5 Second Summary: A self-congratulatory paean to Google which nevertheless contains useful observations about sparking and maintaining creativity inside a large company.

Best Quote: “Building an exceptional team or institution starts with a founder. But being a founder doesn’t mean starting a new company. It is within anyone’s grasp to be the founder and culture-creator of their own team, whether you are the first employee or joining a company that has existed for decades.”

5. Steal the Show

Subtitle: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life

Author: Michael Port

5 Second Summary: An indispensable guide for introverts and extraverts alike who want to shine when performing in public.

Best Quote: “The best performers in the world are the most honest ones. Many of the world’s best performers are quiet, dedicated, sensitive artists who reserve their energy for the work in service of an audience. In fact, the most important elements of preparing for a great performance have less to do with self-expression and more to do with the self-understanding. Self-expression is often simply used as a means of emoting or sharing how you feel. Self-understandingallows you to express yourself with clear intent and purpose that resonates with the people around you.”

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