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10 GOOD READS EXPAND YOUR SKILLS, GAIN INSIGHT, AND GET INSPIRED WITH THESE TOP PICKS. Off the Bench Leadership: Be Better than Your Best By: Jerry Busone e outcome of a sports competition can be decided by players who come off the bench. But it's not just the reserves or non-starters who need to be ready to come off the bench, so to speak. Everyone on the team must practice off-the-bench leadership in order for the team to succeed and achieve a first-place finish. A book for both emerging and established leaders in the business world, Off the Bench Leadership teaches you how to control your own destiny by using powerful and proven keys that will help you be a little better than your best every day and lead your team to victory. The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communication, Representation, and Democratic Accountability By: Justin Grimmer, Sean J. Westwood, and Solomon Messing e Impression of Influence is a groundbreaking study in representa- tion, examining why constituents fail to hold their representatives accountable for the federal spending decisions they make despite the per- vasive influence those decisions have on American life. e authors dem- onstrate how legislators use strategic communication to skillfully inform constituents and how this could fa- cilitate or undermine accountability. e book examines how legislators elicit a positive response from their constituents by backing popular projects, then deceive constituents by claiming credit for expenditures they had little or no role in securing. e book poses critical questions regarding when this type of decep- tion is allowed in a democracy and how citizens hold their political representatives accountable for their decisions. The Politics of Information: Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America By: Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones Leading policy scholars Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones examine how the government decides what is or isn't a problem and what priority that problem should receive. e authors discuss in depth the problem detection process– how expansion or contraction of the government is related to how it searches for information and analyzes its findings. Better search processes tend to lead to more intense policymaking, while limited searching tends to lead to declines in policymaking activity. Using data on American policymaking since World War II, e Politics of Information provides readers with a deeper understanding of the dynamics of American policymaking. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade By: Pietra Rivoli Rivoli shows readers the keys to global business success through the journey of a simple product, a t-shirt, from a Texas cotton field to a Chinese factory, then to a U.S. storefront and a used clothing market in Africa. e book explores all of the political and economic forces at work in the global economy and asks compelling questions about the impact on history of the business landscape of today, as well as on politics, trade, economics, and ethics. By using the journey of a t-shirt, Rivoli examines the complex issues faced by businesspeople, policymakers, and citizens around the globe every day.