HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strengthening Your Soft Skills (with bonus article “You Don’t Need Just One Leadership Voice–You Need Many” by Amy Jen Su)

Amy Jen Su is an executive coach to CEOs and other executives to "to sustain and scale their “highest and best” as they lead organizational change and transformation." She has codified some of her recommendations from her work in her new book, The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles to Bringing Out Your Best Self. The five essential principles are purpose, process, people, presence, and peace. In this interview, she offers a definition of each, and how each applies to leaders. She also describes how she has used these same principles in her own work as a busy executive in her own right.