Leadership Wise: Why Business Books Suck, but Wise Leaders Succeed

Business books often contradict one another, provide advice that is only helpful some of the time, and push fundamentally changing your personality to look like an idealized leader. In Leadership Wise, Chief Product Officer at Podium, John Foreman, delivers a different and practical take on business leadership. He moves beyond what a leader should look like to discuss how anyone can become a great leader by making more effective decisions over and over again. The book provides a structure for understanding and becoming comfortable with the unending contradictions of leading in business, strategies for defining priorities, sourcing options, and choosing the best decision, and advice for channeling emotions and company culture to more effectively solve problems. It belongs on the desks of managers, executives, directors, entrepreneurs, and founders everywhere.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 06 September 2023
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Why do so many business books feel useless the moment they come in contact with your day job?

Business books often contradict one another, each providing advice that is only helpful some of the time, and exhaustingly, your boss is going to cherry pick only the books that suit their way of working.

Additionally, too often leadership books push fundamentally changing your personality to look like some idealized leader, often some dude. That dude may not even be a business leader! They might be a marine, a mountain climber, or a politician. Their stories might inspire you to summit Everest, but they're not going to help you figure out the looming company merger or what to do with that struggling manager.

In Leadership Wise, Chief Product Officer at Podium, John Foreman, delivers a different and refreshingly practical take on business leadership. The author moves beyond what a leader should look like, to discuss how you can make better decisions over time to help your organization accomplish its goals. Regardless of a reader's personality and background, John provides practical advice for how anyone can become a great leader, just as they are, by making more effective decisions over and over again. It's not about becoming a 5-star general or a mythical titan of industry, it's about making better decisions more often.

In the book, you'll find:

A structure for understanding and becoming comfortable with the unending contradictions of leading in business.

Strategies for defining priorities, sourcing options, and choosing the best decision.

Advice for channeling your emotions and company culture to more effectively solve problems.

An engaging and hands-on exploration of how to lead real people in real companies by making the best decisions possible with the information you have.

By following the advice and strategies outlined in Leadership Wise, you can become a more effective leader, make better decisions, and help your organization achieve its goals. So why wait? Start reading today and become the leader you were meant to be!

Weight: 502g
Dimension: 162 x 238 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781394191680