Interesting and powerful insight to sharpen one's skills to advance leadership. Recommended especially if you want a big career jump and make yourself stand out

This book has lot of actionable frameworks.
You can start off with the about me manual to bond with your team, by letting them know how you work with others. There are a series of interviews with questions of influence on your leadership style. Its amazing that all leaders think that they still have things to work on. This book is handy for middle managers and above shooting for executive roles.

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

There are infinite complexities to leadership. And, there are many factors that make people want to get into a leadership role. But there are two very popular factors, one is to earn more money and second is to weild power ? very soon you will realize that the money that you earn will not be able to offset the sacrifices that you make at personal level. And since these days you work as a team so you won’t be able to exercise your powers as it could have been done in old times. So be honest and clear about why you want to be in this role ? Because that only will sustain you through the most difficult moments when you might wonder why you took this role. Leadership is complicated. There will be a dichotomy in thoughts. And, if you do not have the right mindset and the right tools to solve it you will curse yourself for being in a leadership role. . So you should not be surprised to have a complicated relationship with leadership.

So what does it take to become a leader ? a corporate leader. From Solo contributor to manager to a leader, this jump has everything to do with your mindset rather than your current title. So from where do you start ? Organizations assume that if someone is a high performer then they will of course make the jump from solo contributor to manager to leaders. They never do a real assessment of that person's ambitions and what he really wants to do.

You are a manager and you want to see yourself as a CEO of a company someday ! It's a hard task but if you know why you want to be in a leadership role then this book is for you . This book talks about how to become a good manager first and then be ready for the leap - the leap to leadership. In this book the author talks about the journey from a Manager to CEO. Leadership roles are not easy but if you are interested then this book can work as a reference point.