Equal Opportunity

Former Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, exposes gender bias with compelling data analysis in LEAN IN. She's been accused of overlooking the struggles of working mothers who may not be able to "Lean In," but her writing is brilliant. A perfect pairing for Battle of the Sexes where Billie Jean King kicks ass .     

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Chief Leadership

Lincoln is one of the greatest leaders in modern history and Doris Kearns Goodwin does a brilliant job bringing him to life, and the remarkable challenge that he faced during his presidency. The movie focuses on Lincoln's struggle to pass the 13th amendment. Read the book, watch the movie, and start developing your leadership skills.    

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The Power of Focus

The One Thing is simple book on how to get extraordinary results. It's a quick read and easy to absorb. If you want a living example of what focus looks like, there's no better example than Erin Brockovich. I love her passion and it's fun to see a paralegal kick some lawyer-ass. 

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Data Driven Decisions

Laszlo Bock, head of people operations, wrote this remarkable book on how Google created the most empowered company in the world. You can let your employees run the company if they use data instead of opinions to make decisions. And that's exactly what happened in Moneyball.

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The Power of Teams

The defining lesson of Good To Great is collective intelligence: a team of passionate employees in the right roles can outperform a star CEO with charisma. The greatest defeat in sports history was very similar. In 1980, a team of amateur college players defeated a Soviet team of professional stars.