Title: Dare To Lead Recommendation: 8/10 Summary: Meant as a practical guide for leaders to implement advice from Daring Greatly, Dare To Lead iterates much of Brené’s previous writing.  Daring is knowing you will eventually fail and saying “I’m still in.” Although not perfect, in many ways, this reminds me not just of good leaders,…

Title: Being Mortal Recommendation: 7.5/10 Summary: What does it look like to maintain a high quality of life while you age? The fact is, nursing homes are often designed to address societal goals, free up hospital beds, and remove caretaking burdens on the family. They are not designed around the needs of the people who…

Title: Dune Recommendation: 8.7/10 Summary: With a fast-paced plotline, engaging characters, and delightful nuggets of wisdom, I can confirm this book lives up to its sci-fi legend status. Jim Jones, the mass murderer who is infamously remembered in the phrase “don’t drink the kool-aid”, was a character that served as inspiration for Herbert’s masterful reminder…

Title: Competing Against Luck Recommendation: 8.5/10 Summary:  Summary:  Conventional wisdom is wrong. Understanding your customers is not the best way to drive innovation. Understanding customer jobs, their day-to-day, predictably reveals opportunities to remove friction and innovate.  In a world obsessed with data to better understand customers, this is a great reminder that data doesn’t tell…

Title: The Advantage Recommendation: 8.9/10 Summary:Although Patrick Lencioni argues it’s the single greatest advantage, organizational health is often ignored. Placing executive teams at the center of organizational health, he declares they too often reflect golf teams, everyone on their own, when it should be a basketball team, working together. “Hey, your side of the boat…