5 Business and Leadership Books You Need to Read Now, All Written by Women

2021 is the year to really invest in your career and, more importantly, yourself and your personal growth as a business leader.  These five books will help guide you along the way, all providing different points of view and areas to improve upon.

Blowing My Way to the Top: How to Break the Rules, Find Your Purpose, and Create the Life and Career You Deserve by Jen Atkin

Atkin, named “the most influential hair stylist in the world” by the New York Times, gives her best advice on creating the career and life you deserve in her newly launched book.  As a bonus, you also get some insight into how she got her own start and her remarkable journey from growing up in a conservative Mormon community to building the cult-status beauty brand, OUAI.

In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from Over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs by Grace Bonney

This New York Times best-seller features over 100 exceptional and influential women who describe how they embraced their creative spirit, overcame adversity, and sparked a global movement of entrepreneurship. Media titans and ceramicists, hoteliers and tattoo artists, comedians and architects—taken together, these profiles paint a beautiful picture of what happens when we pursue our passions and dreams.

Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!: Make Your Million-Dollar Idea Into a Reality by Lori Greiner

Greiner, a regular on ABC’s Shark Tank and QVC TV’s Clever & Unique Creations by Lori Greiner, gives her best advice on how to turn your business or product into a reality, become your own boss and make your first million dollars.  Sharing her own secret formula and personal stories along the way, Lori provides vital information and advice on topics that can often intimidate, frustrate, and stump aspiring entrepreneurs.

No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy

The modern workplace can be an emotional minefield filled with confusing power structures and unwritten rules. We’re expected to be authentic, but not too authentic. Professional, but not stiff. Friendly, but not an over-sharer. This hilarious guide shows readers how to effectively express emotions at the office, find fulfillment, and how to define a work-life balance on your own terms.

Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, And Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick by Jen Sincero

Badass Habits is a eureka-sparking, easy-to-digest look at how our habits make us who we are, from the measly moments that happen in private to the resolutions we loudly broadcast on social media.  Habit busting and building goes way beyond becoming a dedicated flosser or never showing up late again- our habits reveal our unmet desires, the gaps in our boundaries, our level of self-awareness, and our unconscious beliefs and fears. The book includes enlightening interviews with people who’ve successfully strengthened their discipline backbones, new perspective on how to train our brains to become our best selves, and offers a simple, 21-day, step-by-step guide for ditching habits that don’t serve us and developing the habits we deem most important.