2024 is here and it has started with lots of turmoil and uncertainty. With threats of a recession, a housing market crash, and layoffs, it’s a tough time to be a leader, especially in commerce and government. But it is also the perfect time to attend an online finishing school and read books that can improve your leadership skills and prepare you for the future of leadership.
Here are 7, soon to be released, books that will help you grow as a female leader, executive, or c-suite in 2024!
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(January 16, 2024)
Dr. Tracy Christopherson and Michelle Troseth believe that the missing logic in leadership is a skill called Polarity Intelligence. Polarity Intelligence allows individuals to look at the world through a both/and lens rather than an either/or lens that sees all challenges as problems to be solved. This book teaches leaders how to identify and leverage polarities and how to overcome conflict and diverse perspectives. It helps leaders uncover the beliefs, values, and biases inhibiting their and their organization’s growth.
Dr. Tracy Christopherson PhD-c, MS, BAS, RRT and Michelle Troseth MSN, RN, FNAP, FAAN are healthcare coaches and leaders who founded MissingLogic®, a coaching and consulting company dedicated to helping healthcare organizations combat burnout and transform from the inside out by using their Healthy Healing Organization (H2O) and Polarity Intelligence™ framework.
(January 23, 2024)
When Women Lead reveals the key characteristics that help top female leaders thrive as they innovate, grow businesses, and navigate crises. It brings together the stories of over sixty female CEOs, leaders, and founders. It features interviews with Katrina Lake, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jenn Hyman, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Lena Waithe, Shivani Siroya, and Julia Collins.
Julia Boorstin has been a reporter and Senior Media & Tech Correspondent for CNBC since 2007.
(February 6, 2024)
Leaders and business professionals assume they are resilient but given enough demands, anyone can burn out. In this book, Pelletier explores how resilience is the best defense against burnout and how everyone can build it in themselves. She uses relatable stories and activities to bring her concepts into context and shares strategies to protect your health and success into the future.
Marie-Hélène Pelletier, PhD MBA is an award-winning workplace mental health expert and psychologist. She has led workplace mental health strategies in senior leadership roles.
Overcoming Ageism (HBR Women at Work Series) by Harvard Business Review
(February 27, 2024)
Everyone experiences age-related bias at some point in their careers, but for women the costs are greater. Whether you’re seen as too old or too young, ageism affects the opportunities you have access to, how others perceive you, and how much your contributions are valued. This book, by Harvard Business Review, offers stories, research, and advice on navigating gendered age discrimination and bias at work. It will inspire you to establish your credibility, overcome imposter syndrome, build a support system across age groups, and to end age bias in your organization.
Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing, a not-for-profit, independent corporation that is an affiliate of Harvard Business School. It was founded in 1922 and is published six times a year.
Survive, Reset, Thrive: Leading Breakthrough Growth Strategy in Volatile Times by Rebecca Homkes
(February 27, 2024)
This book is about facing uncertainty head-on and thriving. It is a playbook for leaders on making choices for where to play and where not to play, how to win, how to allocate resources among competing priorities, how to navigate the most complex strategic situations, how to stabilize your business to withstand and grow through market shocks, and how to reset your strategy to take account of new realities.
Dr. Rebecca Homkes is a high-growth strategy specialist and a Lecturer at the London Business School (LBS)’s Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship.
Leadership from Bad to Worse: What Happens When Bad Festers by Barbara Kellerman
(March 2024)
Leadership from Bad to Worse is about how leadership that is bad gets worse unless it is stopped. This book examines four cases of bad leadership –two in political leadership and two in business leadership– to show step-by-step how leadership can go from bad to worse. This book serves as an early warning system. It teaches leaders how to predict and detect problems in order to stop a decline.
Barbara Kellerman is the James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She was the Founding Executive Director of the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, from 2000 to 2003.
Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy by Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit
(May 7, 2024)
Fair Shake takes a look at the state of women in the workforce. It discusses topics like: why women’s progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competition, how the WTA system sidelines women, and how we can fix the system that holds women back.
Naomi Cahn is an expert in family law, trusts and estates, feminist jurisprudence, reproductive technology, and aging and the law. She was associate dean at George Washington Law School and co-director of UVA Law’s Family Law Center.
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