{"id":1387,"date":"2026-01-15T16:22:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:24:12","slug":"book-review-be-yourself-at-work-claude-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/uncategorized\/book-review-be-yourself-at-work-claude-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: “Be Yourself at Work” (Claude Silver)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Thanks to Jason Rogers, my podcast-partner-in-learning, for recommending this book to me after listening to Claude Silver at a conference.<\/p>\n
This book is about her life and coming into how to lead herself and herself with others. If you’ve been following the “Leadership Lab”, part of the Cohort 21 community with @jmedved<\/a><\/span>, @tfaucher<\/a><\/span> and @gvogt<\/a><\/span>, you’ll know this a critical place to start any journey into leadership.\u00a0 Claude bring her life experiences to bear and shows how it lead her to lead with both courage and compassion, and how to harness that emotional intelligence not as a side effect of great leadership but its source. Claude Silver\u2019s Be Yourself at Work<\/em> is a book about heart-centered leadership, but it\u2019s also about self-awareness, communication, and the discipline of presence.<\/p>\n You’d be interested in this book if you were:<\/p>\n (1) Getting started on your Leadership Journey You may not be drawn to this book if you expect a traditional leadership manual. Silver doesn\u2019t give us a formula; she gives us language \u2014 and more importantly, a way of being.<\/p>\n Leaders, vulnerability is your superpower! \ud83d\udca1 If you want your team to share their journey, you’ve got to open up first. #careeradvice<\/a> #theworkculture<\/a> #emotionaloptimism<\/a> #kindness<\/a> #chiefheartofficer<\/a> #inspirational<\/a> #leadershipadvice<\/a> #leadership<\/a> #claudesilver<\/a> #empathy<\/a> #HRTikTok<\/a> #HRADVICE<\/a> #vaynermedia<\/a> <\/p>\n \u266c original sound – Claude Silver<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n(2) Looking for new ways to reframe your leadership style
\n(3) Interested in strong communications skills to match a kinder, more compassionate way to lead
\n(4) Interested in a more modern take on some key stoic practices, like appreciating what is in your control and acting accordingly, understanding the difference between urgency and importance, etc…<\/p>\n\n