While the arrival of spring doesn’t always bring with it spring-like weather (I know many of you are nodding your head in agreement right now), one thing is for certain: a stack of great new business books to read.
We’ve poured over the lists of upcoming books to bring your our short list of the top 4 books we’re most excited to read this spring from some of our favourite authors such as Chris Guillebeau, Dan Pontefract and Patrick Lencioni.
Born For This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do by Chris Guillebeau
Are you currently doing the work you were meant to do? If you just answered no to that question, bestselling author Chris Guillebeau has written Born For This just for you. Readers will discover how to “Hack the job of your dreams within a traditional organization by making it work for you, find not only your ideal work but also your ideal working conditions, create plans that will allow you to take smarter career risks and ‘beat the house’ every time, start a profitable “side hustle” and earn extra cash on top of your primary stream of income” and more. In anticipation of Chris’s upcoming book, check out our summaries of some of his previous books.
The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything by Neil Pasricha
I’m cheating a little bit with the inclusion of The Happiness Equation as it was actually published a couple of weeks ago. But I couldn’t resist making an exception because Neil Pasricha’s book came highly recommended from our good pal Michael Bungay Stanier and has soared to the top of the bestseller lists. This buzzed about book promises to disclose the formula for the perfect life (spoiler: it’s revealed in the book’s subtitle). It’s “a book that will change how you think about everything—your time, your career, your relationships, your family, and, ultimately, of course, your happiness.”
The Ideal Team Player: A Leadership Fable About the Three Essential Virtues by Patrick Lencioni
Patrick Lencioni is one of the most respected and prolific business book authors writing today. The Ideal Team Player picks up where the highly influential Five Dysfunctions of a Team left off. The book offers effective strategies to build a winning team in the 21st century and promises to help the reader “Discover the types of people every team needs, learn the three critical traits used to evaluate team players, [and] utilize evaluation criteria on an ongoing basis. Customize a proven system for building your ideal team.” To tide you over until the book’s publication next month, why not revisit our podcast interview with Patrick where he discusses leadership vulnerability here.
The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role and Your Organization by Dan Pontefract
Dan Pontefract, the bestselling author of Flat Army, is back with an all new book, The Purpose Effect. In it “Pontefract combines years of experience and research on employee engagement to create a work about the three crucial areas of purpose: individual, workplace role, and organizational. When one area is lacking, this three-legged barstool starts to wobble, and the results range from disengagement to bankruptcy.”
Which book are you most looking forward to reading this spring?
