The Leap to Leader by Adam Bryant

This is  a really interesting book, sort of a mix between self help and interviews with people are considered leaders. I liked a lot of the advice that these leaders gave and that is what the author was trying to do, to get down to the X factors to make you a good leader rather than try and explore every possibility. 

Some of my favorite advice included: Merge into leadership (don't try to make your mark on a place before you see how it works.) I also liked that you need to look at your peer relationships as much as anything else. And the advice that being a leader will completely reshape who you are. 

Bryant also asks people to define their values and make sure that you are consistent in your behaviors, to look at how they live those values at work, identify why they are important to your success, what you would say about your leadership approach and philosophy in order to recruit someone to your team, and whether your team members would describe you in the same way. 

Eminently readable, this book does give a lot of good advice that seems to come from a range of people not just those who had leadership handed to them.

Four and a half stars

This book comes out July 11, 2023

ARC kindly provided by Harvard Business Review Press and NetGalley

Opinions are my own