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12 Good Reads Expand your skills, gain insight, and get inspired with these top picks. Leader Board: The DNA of High- Performance Teams By Omar L. Harris e author, a former pharmaceutical executive and founder of Intent Consulting, uses his latest book to explain the value of diversity and inclusion in corporate leadership ranks. While noting there are only three Black CEOs among the Fortune 500 and only 8% of private sector managers are African-American, Harris, provides a game plan that puts business leaders in control of defining how they can build teams that are reflective of the wider society while still collaborating together for bottom line success. is approach involves changing how many companies operating, including the elimination of the "top-down hierarchy" and the empowering of the workforce to maximize their skills and strengths. Do Good at Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing By Bea Boccalandro Bea Boccalandro is Founder and President of VeraWorks, a global consulting firm with clients including Aetna, IBM, HP, and PwC; she also teaches at Georgetown University. In her first book, she acknowledges that jobs without a compelling purpose can lead to disengaged, careless, and lethargic workplaces. But rather than encourage a career change, the author provides advice on using "job purposing," a strategy that employs a series of modest but effective acts that transform the most quotidian job—either at entry level or C-suite hierarchy—into a professionally and emotionally meaningful experience. e book cites scientific evidence and more than 100 examples of successful "job purposing" pursuits. Family Value at Risk: Inclusive Communication to Pass on Your Family's Wealth and Legacy By JR Gondeck and Vanessa Martinez e authors are partners and managing directors at e Lerner Group, a wealth management firm, and they advocate for a more holistic approach to financial planning. e book argues that wealth management strategies that focusing solely prioritizing return on investment over other factors—including the impact on assets, estate, and legacy—will result in the entire family's value being put into great risk. Instead, the call for more inclusivity in financial planning, with an entire family participating in the ongoing conversations about its financial future, including the transfer of wealth between the generations. Leverage Your Mindset By Ricky Kalmon Motivational speaker and Amplify Your Mindset host Ricky Kalmon offers a 14-day program designed to jettison self-limiting beliefs that prevent professional and personal development. rough a combination of mindfulness, relaxation, visualization, and self-talk, Kalmon details a regimen running 10 to 15 minutes per day over a two-week period to jumpstart and expand the individual potential that may have become stagnant. e book also includes access to an audio support program on the Ricky Kalmon mobile app designed to allow readers to further maximize their results.