Are you a founder? Got fired by a founder? Wanna be a founder? New this week from Matt Holt Books: “Founders, Keepers: Why Founders Are Built to Fail, and What It Takes to Succeed,” by Richard Hagberg, PhD, and Tien Tzuo, with Gabe Weisert. urgentink.typepad.com/my_weblog/2025…

When you speak, do your great ideas “ricochet in people’s heads for hours, days, or even weeks after you’ve said them?” Better read this book from Bill McGowan and Juliana Silva, "Speak, Memorably: The Art of Captivating an Audience." Here's my review: urgentink.typepad.com/my_weblog/2025…

“It’s the best book on management—and, especially, mismanagement—I’ve ever read.” That was the founder of Trader Joe’s on “The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I,” by Barbara W. Tuchman. Read my review: urgentink.typepad.com/my_weblog/2025…

Pastor John MacArthur (1939-2025) wrote his last chapter this week, so I reminisced about “John MacArthur and the Junior High Retreat.” Read my blog: urgentink.typepad.com/pails/2025/07/…

Yikes! You’ll recognize many of your co-workers (and maybe your boss!) in the colorful profiles of this new book, “The Science of Leadership: Nine Ways to Expand Your Impact,” by Jeffrey Hull, PhD and Margaret Moore, Margaret Moore aka Coach Meg, from Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Read my review: urgentink.typepad.com/my_weblog/2025…

This might be the most important book you’ll read this year. From Dane Ortlund, "Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers" (2020). Read my review: urgentink.typepad.com/my_weblog/2025…

Chapter 7, “Picking the Wrong People,” is a master class in hiring and firing. Hot-off-the-press: "Mistakes that Made Me a Millionaire: How to Transform Setbacks into Extraordinary Success," by Kim Perell. Read my review. urgentink.typepad.com/pails/2025/08/…

What's your most important seat assignment? Read Dean G. Curry's book, "In the Right Seat." Here's my review: urgentink.typepad.com/my_weblog/2025…

“There’s Got to Be a Better Way” just might be my 2025 book-of-the-year, from Basic Venture, and Nelson Repenning and Donald C. Kieffer. Read about the “Barbeque the Boss” exercise: urgentink.typepad.com/my_weblog/2025…

I just added a 19th book to my list of "18 Best Board Books!" Read my short review of "The Board and the CEO: Seven Practices to Protect Your Organization's Most Important Relationship," by Peter Greer and David Weekley Homes. urgentink.typepad.com/pails/2025/09/…

Apparently leaders, not just organizations, experience “mission drift.” From Peter Greer, Jill Heisey, and InterVarsity Press, “How Leaders Lose Their Way: And How to Make Sure It Doesn't Happen to You.” Brilliant case study on King Solomon. Read my review. mailchi.mp/18a00c229860/d…

The “middle stretch” of your CEO years are the most dangerous—due to complacency—warns a new book from 4 senior partners at McKinsey & Company from Scribner. Read my review of “A CEO for all Seasons." (Oct. 7). urgentink.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-ceo-…

Know someone who hates their job? Here’s help from William Vanderbloemen’s new book, “Work How You Are Wired: 12 Data-Driven Steps to Finding a Job You Love.” Also…learn why a team member might leave your organization. Read my review. urgentink.blogspot.com/2025/10/work-h…

Really! Author Tammy Melchien references a "Seinfeld" episode in her new book about the Sermon on the Mount, "Choosing the Opposite." I will read her book a second time. From NavPress. Here's my review: urgentink.blogspot.com/2025/10/choosi…

NEW! "The 8 Big Mistakes to Avoid With Your Nonprofit Board: How Leaders Enrich Their Ministry Results Through God-Honoring Governance," by John Pearson amzn.to/4nLf970. Join us Oct. 30 at TBG/OC board seminar: form.jotform.com/TheBarnabasGro…

This new book on culture and “Delivering the WOW,” from Richard Fain, the chairman and former CEO of Royal Caribbean Group, checks all the buckets! From Fast Company Press. Read my review: urgentink.blogspot.com/2025/10/delive…

In “Time to Stand Up,” Bill Hull “invites” 10 people to argue YES or NO on the proposition of “The Great Debate.” I invite one friend to discuss this deep (and hilarious) book over fish and chips! Read my review: urgentink.blogspot.com/2025/11/time-t…

Honest! I read a whole book without a pen in my hand! Must-read: "Cracked Vessels: True Stories of Real Life Restoration," by J.P. and Diana Spitz with Mark Ellis of Mark Ellis. Read my review: pailsincomparison.blogspot.com/2025/11/cracke…

“Wanting the CEO job requires ego. Being great at the job requires humility.” Just published today from Harvard Business Review, "CEO Ready: What You Need to Know to Earn the Job—and Keep the Job," by Mark C. Thompson and Byron Loflin. Read my review: urgentink.blogspot.com/2025/11/ceo-re…

“I have come to realize that I am the indispensable person only until the moment I say no.” That's from Charles Hummel's 31-page poke-in-the-ribs, "Tyranny of the Urgent," from InterVarsity Press. Read my review: pailsincomparison.blogspot.com/2025/11/tyrann…