How to Have Difficult Conversations at Work as a Leader
About the Author Amanda Hammett is the co-founder and CEO of Core Elevation and a leadership expert focused on developing and retaining emerging leaders. She is the co-author of How to Have Tough Conversations, the book she wrote with Gene Hammett on navigating hard workplace conversations. You already know which conversation this is about. A name showed up before you finished the headline. And you’re waiting. For the right moment. A calmer week. A better mood. Some version of the timing that never quite arrives. I used to believe the
Best Books on Delegation for Founders Who Are the Bottleneck
About the Author Gene Hammett is an executive coach and the host of the Growth Think Tank podcast, where he has interviewed more than 1,200 leaders of fast-growth companies since 2014. He is the co-founder of Core Elevation and the co-author of How to Have Tough Conversations. A founder said it to me plainly over lunch: “I know I am the bottleneck. I just do not know how to let go.” I have heard some version of that in more than 1,200 interviews with CEOs of fast-growth companies. Same confession,
Leadership Skills for Managers: The Capability Ladder
About the Author Amanda Hammett is the co-founder and CEO of Core Elevation and a leadership expert focused on developing and retaining emerging leaders. She is the co-author of How to Have Tough Conversations. You collected the skills. You did the reading. You’re still stuck. A manager doesn’t become a leader by collecting more skills. Not a longer list of competencies to check off. The managers who make the leap do something else: they change what they optimize for, and they do it in a specific order. I coach managers
Best Books for New Managers to Lead With Confidence
About the Author Amanda Hammett is the co-founder and CEO of Core Elevation and a leadership expert focused on developing and retaining emerging leaders. She is the co-author of How to Have Tough Conversations. The first time I led a team, someone handed me a stack of management books and wished me luck. I read every one. And I still fumbled the first year. I was reading for information. What I needed was a shift. That’s what this list fixes. I’m Amanda Hammett, co-founder of Core Elevation and co-author of
The Best Leadership Books Won’t Make You a Better Leader
About the Author Gene Hammett coaches CEOs of fast-growth companies and hosts the Growth Think Tank podcast, where he has interviewed more than 1,200 of them since 2014. He co-founded Core Elevation and co-wrote How to Have Tough Conversations. He learned most of this the hard way, which is the only way he trusts. On January 15, 2010, I lost close to $3 million in a single day. A contract broke. The inventory I’d already paid for never showed, and the business I’d spent nine years building came apart in