Summer 2016 will see a wide range of new books that promise to inform and support those striving to become better creative leaders. The following recommended titles are scheduled for release between May and August.
Jens Beckert, Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics (Harvard University Press, June 7)
How do we – as consumers and creators, investors and economic actors – approach the unknowability of future markets? A sociologist and Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne mounts an original argument that our fictional expectations, collectively-held images, and finally dreams of the future not only guide our forecasts and choices but generate actual economic activity.
Jonah Berger , Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior (Simon & Schuster, June 14)
The Wharton School marketing professor and author of the bestselling study of social transmission and what goes viral, Contagious , has written a new book on how social influence works. The result is a lively, wide-ranging and illuminating exploration of what affects our choices and actions to imitate, embrace, resist or diverge.
Didier Cossin and Ong Boon Hwee, Inspiring Stewardship (Wiley, June 27)
Steward leadership involves safeguarding and enhancing the capability of an organization to create economic and societal value now and into the future. Cossin, on the IMD faculty, and Hwee, a financial consultant, researched some of the world’s most successful stewards, like Rajan Tata, Warren Buffett, and Eiji Toyoda, and explain how they lead with impact across multiple and competing objectives, demands and contexts. Warren Buffett sits behind a desk under a portrait of founder Mary See at the See’s Candies booth during a part of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting, on Friday, April 29, 2016 in Omaha Neb. (Eric Francis/AP Images for See’s Candies)
Thomas H. Davenport and Julia […]
