senior leadership – Scott J. Pearson’s Book Review

The Power of Going All-In: Secrets for Success in Business, Leadership & Life

By Scott J. Pearson | September 22, 2025September 22, 2025 by Scott J. Pearson

This book’s conclusion encourages readers to reread this book again at a later time. At the beginning of the book, I would find that admonition a bit pompous; even halfway through, I would have laughed at the suggestion. However, the book finishes much stronger than it begins, and in that light, I can see the value of rereading it for several reasons. First, this quick read is organized in short, digestible segments that are easy…

Scaling Leadership: Building Organizational Capability & Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most

By Scott J. Pearson | April 24, 2025April 24, 2025 by Scott J. Pearson

For anyone, leadership is a journey, not a destination. It’s more of an art than a series of steps to implement. We all break down as much as we build up. It helps to have intelligent partners to dialogue with, but those are often hard to come by. Good books certainly provide helpful sparring partners to hone one’s style. This book seeks to help leaders advance their personal leadership by advancing how they build leaders…

Leadership Management-Business Software-Technology

The Engineering Executive’s Primer: Impactful Technical Leadership

By Scott J. Pearson | September 24, 2024September 24, 2024 by Scott J. Pearson

Encoding software is a highly technical task, but effective leadership is often anything but technical. Combining the two thus can be supremely difficult, but this pair of skills is necessary to fill roles like Chief Information Officer (CIO) or Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Unfortunately, advice is hard to come by in the literature since only a few extended books in this space. To better fill these gaps, Will Larson, known for his deep looks at…

Leadership Management-Business

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

By Scott J. Pearson | November 30, 2023September 24, 2024 by Scott J. Pearson

This book is known as a classics on strategic planning and the role of strategy in business. It speaks from the point of view of leadership over Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) numerous businesses. The company identified its organization to be weak in understanding strategy, and it sought to inculcate strategic thinking into its leadership. Although this book references a few other corporations, it consists largely of case studies around how P&G succeeded using strategy. The…

Leadership Management-Business

The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster & Smarter

By Scott J. Pearson | September 29, 2022September 24, 2024 by Scott J. Pearson

Starting any new job is tough, and the pressure cooker is even hotter if the job involves leadership of some sort. There’s simply so much history and dynamics that the new leader is unaware of and so many new difficulties that have not been surmounted. Yet leaders are responsible for lots, and their actions can impact how hundreds of thousands of dollars – if not millions – are spent. How can we improve the chances…