Book Club with the C-Suite

What if the habits that earned your promotion are now holding your team back? For Arcfield Chief People Officer Janet Brewer, that lesson became clear when an employee told her, “I really think I can take it from here.”

In this episode of Book Club with the C-Suite, Brewer joins host Amanda Ziadeh to explore how “The Leadership Pipeline” by Ram Charan helped her understand the shifts in values, time and skills required at each stage of leadership.

Brewer shares what she learned about trusting others to deliver, making tough trade-offs while building Arcfield’s people programs and recognizing that senior leadership often means deciding what not to do. She also explains why your calendar may reveal more about your priorities than your intentions do.

What can a memoir from Apple’s original Macintosh team and a book about Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill teach us about leadership in government technology? For Intel Government Technology Vice President and General Manager James Chew, more than you might expect.

In the inaugural episode of Book Club with the C-Suite, Chew joins hosts Amanda Ziadeh and Camille Tuutti to unpack the lessons he carried from Guy Kawasaki’s "The Macintosh Way" and Chris Matthews’ "Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked."

Chew shares why introducing transformative technology takes conviction and credibility, what Washington can relearn about working across differences, and why anyone hoping to make a lasting impact must be willing to go all in while building bridges along the way.