Lead Bigger

By: Anne Chow

Narrated by: Anne Chow, Chris Henry Coffey, Gabra Zackman, Graham Halstead

Drawing from over three decades of experience, former CEO of AT&T Business Anne Chow shares how to lead bigger by leveraging inclusion beyond DEI, to elevate your work, workforce, and workplace.

For generations, when we’ve needed to innovate and grow, we’ve been told to “think bigger”—it’s now time to Lead Bigger.

In a world that’s become more interconnected yet polarized, inclusion has been overly politicized and narrowly defined to issues of gender and race. As a result, we need a new approach to inclusive leadership that goes beyond DEI, harnessing its power for innovation and growth. In Lead Bigger, Anne Chow reframes inclusion as the required leadership competency of expanding our perspectives for greater performance in our work, workforce, and workplace.

As former CEO of AT&T Business, she was the first woman of color to hold the position of CEO in the company’s over one hundred and forty year history. Chow draws from her expertise in transforming organizations to teach you how to create a dynamic environment that engages everyone you and your company interact with—as well as those you wish to be connected to—while adapting to the ever-changing world. This book equips you with the necessary tools to expand your inclusive leadership skills, including prompts, tactics, and enriching insights from leadership visionaries General Stanley McChrystal, Arianna Huffington, and Adam Grant.

Chow illuminates a seismic shift in the business world, in which a more humanistic approach is required as technology upends work as we know it. If you’re committed to advancing work that matters, engaging a dynamic workforce, and fostering an agile workplace, you’re ready to Lead Bigger.

©2024 Anne Chow (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio

Every leader should read this book

As I listened to this book it reminded me of one of the other great books that I have read - ‘All I need to know I learned in Kindergarten.’ However, this book is focused on taking those kinds of simple foundational concepts and applying them directly to life in the business world. Very practical in its explanation, with a lot of great real world examples. I would highly recommend this to anyone that is a leader, or aspires to become one in the future.

5 star! A great example of leadership through the eyes of an inclusive team environment!

I like how the book is divided into several sections, each focusing on different aspects of what inclusive leadership looks like. Anne explains how aligning purpose with values leads to performance improvements and discusses how leaders should create environments that motivate others. She emphasizes the need for leaders to demonstrate humility, and a genuine commitment to empowering every team member regardless of their title or tenure. She offers real world examples by retelling her interviews with figures such as General Stanley McChrystal and Arianna Huffington. And the book is full of practical examples of how inclusive leadership transforms both people and organizations for the long term. It is wonderful to hear the story in her own voice!