Chris Lewis Books
Chris Lewis is the founder and CEO of LEWIS, a global marketing and communications agency. He is an author and speaker on creativity, leadership, and communication, known for his insights into how modern work culture affects innovation and human potential.
Known for: The Infinite Leader: Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership, The Leadership Lab: Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century, Too Fast To Think: How to Reclaim Your Creativity in a Hyper-Connected Work Culture
Books by Chris Lewis
The Infinite Leader: Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership
The Infinite Leader explores how leaders can balance logic and emotion, data and intuition, and short-term performance with long-term purpose. Drawing on insights from business, psychology, and geopol...
The Leadership Lab: Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century
Leadership no longer operates in a stable, predictable environment. In The Leadership Lab, Chris Lewis and Dr. Pippa Malmgren argue that modern leaders must navigate a world defined by technological a...
Too Fast To Think: How to Reclaim Your Creativity in a Hyper-Connected Work Culture
Too Fast To Think argues that one of the greatest threats to creativity is not a lack of talent, intelligence, or technology, but the relentless speed of modern life. In a culture shaped by constant n...
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The Paradox of Leadership
Throughout our research we found that great leaders are those who thrive in contradiction. Every organization, every market is full of competing forces — the need for control against the desire for innovation, the push for accountability balanced by the necessity of freedom. The paradox of leadershi...
From The Infinite Leader: Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership
The Limits of Data
We live in an age of worshipping data. Business schools and boardrooms echo with charts and dashboards that promise objective truth. But leaders must distinguish between data and meaning. Numbers describe patterns; they do not explain causes or offer moral guidance. We have seen crises emerge precis...
From The Infinite Leader: Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership
Leadership Has Entered an Age of Disruption
The first great challenge of modern leadership is accepting that instability is no longer an exception but the operating environment. Lewis and Malmgren show that leadership in the 21st century unfolds amid interconnected shocks: digital disruption, shifting geopolitics, rapid capital flows, public ...
From The Leadership Lab: Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century
Treat Leadership as a Living Laboratory
One of the book’s most memorable ideas is its central metaphor: leadership is a lab, not a stage. That insight challenges the outdated belief that leaders must always appear certain, polished, and in control. In a laboratory, people test hypotheses, learn from failures, examine evidence, and revise ...
From The Leadership Lab: Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century
Bias Distorts Judgment More Than Intelligence
A powerful leader can still make poor decisions if they misunderstand how the mind works. Lewis and Malmgren emphasize that cognitive bias is one of the hidden forces shaping leadership outcomes. Leaders often pride themselves on rationality, but real-world decisions are influenced by overconfidence...
From The Leadership Lab: Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century
Empathy Is a Strategic Leadership Capability
Empathy is often dismissed as a soft trait, yet the book presents it as a hard advantage in an era of complexity. Lewis and Malmgren argue that leaders who cannot understand the emotions, needs, and perceptions of others will struggle to build trust, motivate people, or interpret social change. Emot...
From The Leadership Lab: Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century
About Chris Lewis
Chris Lewis is the founder and CEO of LEWIS, a global marketing and communications agency. He is an author and speaker on creativity, leadership, and communication, known for his insights into how modern work culture affects innovation and human potential.
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