Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World

Good Power is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller by former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty. It combines memoir, leadership lessons, and big ideas on how to drive meaningful change. Rometty shares milestones from her life and career, redefining power as a way to drive positive change for ourselves, organizations, and society. The book offers practical guidance and behind-the-scenes stories to help us use good power to advance our careers, inspire teams, improve companies, and create healthier societies. Rometty encourages us to use good power at scale to bring about urgent societal change.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 07 March 2023
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller, Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty delivers a powerful combination of memoir, leadership lessons, and big ideas on how we can all drive meaningful change.

Ginni Rometty led one of the world's most iconic companies, and in Good Power, she recounts her groundbreaking path from a challenging childhood to becoming the CEO of IBM and one of the world's most influential business leaders. With candor and depth, Rometty shares milestones from her life and career while redefining power as a way to drive meaningful change in positive ways for ourselves, our organizations, and for the many, not just the few—a concept she calls good power.

Rometty's memoir with purpose combines the experiences that defined her life—personal hurdles, high-stakes decisions, passionate advocacy—with the actionable advice of a coaching session to highlight lessons that shape authentic leadership. Behind-the-scenes stories and practical guidance offer us a blueprint for how we can all use good power to advance our careers, inspire our teams, improve our companies, and create healthier societies.

The book begins with raw, vivid memories from Rometty's youth and early professional years as she recalls the trauma and the role models that formed her belief that how we lead is as important as what we achieve. She learns early on that good power is a choice available to everyone, even to those without money, status, or impressive titles.

Rometty then shows us how her concept of good power evolved as she grew from a first-time manager to a transformative CEO. Stories told through the lens of five principles—be in service of others; build belief; know what must change and what must endure; steward good tech; be resilient—reveal tools that anyone can apply to achieve real change.

In conclusion, Good Power is a must-read for anyone seeking to drive meaningful change in their personal and professional lives. Rometty's powerful story and actionable advice provide a roadmap for how we can all use our power to create a better world for ourselves and for those around us.

Weight: 556g
Dimension: 241 x 166 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781647823221