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10 GOOD READS EXPAND YOUR SKILLS, GAIN INSIGHT, AND GET INSPIRED WITH THESE TOP PICKS. Finding the Space to Lead: A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership By Janice Marturano Leaders today feel the burdens of the complexity and relentless pace of today's world; they feel they are not meeting their own expectations of excellence in spite of how hard they work. Books on leadership skills, though useful, often don't speak to the leader's fundamental sense that something is missing. Marturano, with decades of experience as an executive with Fortune 500 corporations, explains in the book how "mindful leadership" training integrates mindfulness (meditation and self-awareness) with practical tools of management. is integration enables leaders to bring a wider range of their capacities to face challenges at hand. Research has shown the mindfulness practices enhance mental health and improve clarity and focus; Finding the Space to Lead shows the specific value of this training to leaders. Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants By Bethany McLean In 2008 in the midst of the financial crisis, the government seized control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and placed them into a "conservatorship" along with a $187 billion taxpayer-funded bailout to prevent their failure. e two agencies are profitable again but remain in conservatorship seven years later with the government keeping all their profits. China and Japan are big investors in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and they want to protect their investments, which is a possible reason why the government has not moved to end the conservatorship. Shaky Ground contends, however, that the current state of limbo is unsustainable and discusses why housing finance is one of the biggest unsolved issues in the global economy today. Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance That Forged America By Stephen F. Knott and Tony Williams e Founding Fathers had competing visions on how to build their nation and engaged in hostile debates over how to protect their new hard-won freedoms immediately following the American Revolution. Out of this came an improbable partnership that would help create the United States of America: George Washington, the general devoted to classical virtues, and Alexander Hamilton, the ambitious officer and lawyer eager to achieve fame. Together Washington and Hamilton laid the groundwork for institutions that govern the United States to this day. A captivating history, Washington and Hamilton reveals the role the unlikely duo played in putting the U.S. on the path to becoming a superpower. Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few By Robert B. Reich Saving Capitalism provides a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that made America so strong is now failing and what it will take to repair it. Reich, who also authored the books Aftershock and e Work of Nations, discusses the new American oligarchy created by power and influence, the greatest wealth and income inequality in 80 years, and the shrinking middle class. Reich shows that the size of the government should not figure in our decisions as much as who the government is for; and that the choice should not be between a free market and a "big" government, but rather it should be between a market organized for broad-based prosperity and a market designed to deliver most gains to the top.