Permission To Screw Up: How I Learned To Lead by Doing (Almost) Everything Wrong

Hadeed is the founder of the cleaning business Student Maid, and while readers may expect an overnight rags-to-riches success story, they instead learn of the mistakes the entrepreneur made (and still makes) while building and running her company. Explaining how she learned from those errors, Hadeed shares the larger lessons to be gleaned, including a willingness to be vulnerable (with her staff and the world). This work goes beyond the average leadership tome; her honesty and people-oriented values make this an inspirational piece. In particular, the author describes an exercise in which everyone from her leadership team shared a story from their childhood that shaped them as a person, allowing the group to gain a better understanding of one another. Suddenly, a coworker's quirks make sense and could be given context. Hadeed also provides insight into what millennial employees (and leaders) look for in the workplace.