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The Leadership Reading List

We don't write everything worth reading. This is where we collect the best leadership and business writing from other publications and blogs, so you don't have to go looking for it.

Leadership Now · 4 Aug 2026

The Hidden Leadership Trap: When Your Definition of Success Isn’t Really Yours

AS an executive coach, I’ve noticed something interesting. People almost never hire me because they’re questioning their definition of success. Business owners call because they want to grow their business or prepare for an exit. Executives call because they want to become a better leader, figure out why their team isn’t performing, or be more influential. But coaching never stays in one place, an

MIT Sloan Management Review · 3 Aug 2026

The Marketing Capability Paradox: Seven Forces Eroding Your Marketing Team’s Effectiveness

Alice Mollon/Ikon Images Marketing capabilities — the complex bundles of skills, processes, and organizational know-how that enable companies to implement customer-related activities and adapt to marketplace changes — are rated by marketing professionals as important to business success. At the same time, artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of content creation, customer targeting, and p

Lenny's Newsletter · 1 Aug 2026

🧠 Community Wisdom: Getting started with open source models, making a U.S. business trip worth it, preparing for a possible layoff, when marketing can’t keep up with product, and more

A curated collection of practical advice on multiple professional topics, including guidance on getting started with open source machine learning models, strategies for maximizing the value of U.S. business travel, steps to prepare for potential job loss, and insights on the challenges that arise when product development outpaces marketing capabilities.

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