Book Tour: 8 Leadership & Life Reads (Careers, Change, Community, and Culture)

In this episode of Fishing for Answers, Marlin and Jaerica bring back their popular “book tour,” sharing four recommendations each and key takeaways. Jaerica highlights The Squiggly Career by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis on designing growth beyond the corporate ladder, Jon Gordon’s The Carpenter on service, positivity, and doing the right thing, The No Complaining Rule with practical alternatives to complaining and a companion website, and 13 Ways to Kill Your Community on actions that harm or strengthen local communities. Marlin recommends The Cabin at the End of the Train by Michael Ivanov, a fable about resilience, fear, perspective, and practical motivation; Our Iceberg Is Melting by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber on leading through rapid change; Unhackable on protecting attention and building focus and flow; and No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer on Netflix’s reinvention and changing rules to support growth.

00:00 Welcome and Book Tour

00:55 The Squiggly Career

03:59 Cabin at the End

06:54 Jon Gordon The Carpenter1

0:22 Our Iceberg Is Melting

12:32 No Complaining Rule

12:57 Five Ways to Reframe

13:59 Control What You Can

15:43 Unhackable Focus Flow1

7:33 Save Your Community

20:13 No Rules Reinvention

22:27 Wrap Up Next Reads