Tom’s great friends and former partners, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, have a new book out called The Truth About Leadership: The No-Fads, Heart of the Matter Facts You Need to Know. They’ve devoted their lives to leadership, so this is one you won’t want to miss.
Bob Sutton has a new book coming out in September called Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best… and Learn from the Worst. Not only that, according to Bob, “we just put together a quiz that people can use to help determine of their boss is good or bad—and whether he or she lives in a fool’s paradise.”
Don Tapscott also has a book coming out in September called MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World.
David Meerman Scott’s new book is Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead:What Every Business Can Learn from the Most Iconic Band in History. Tom has quoted Jerry Garcia for years and wholly subscribes to the “give lots away for free” aspect of their marketing philosophy.
Sally Helgesen has a new book out called The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work.
If there’s a single person we’d recommend you listen to about social media, it’s Chris Brogan. Thankfully, he published a handbook this year called Social Media 101: Tactics and Tips to Develop Your Business Online.
And someone who never ceases to surprise us with revelations about human behavior, Dan Ariely, has a new book called The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home.
This doesn’t fit precisely within the theme of this post, but we want to point you to an excellent resource. Our good friends and colleagues Robert Thompson and Mike Neiss have started a series of podcasts that they cleverly call Thought Grenades. Have a listen.