How to Lead is a collection of short (5-10 page) interviews with executives, politicians, and a handful of artists and athletes about how they became so successful, conducted by private equity pioneer and billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein. As such, there's a lot of people and lot of repetition of biographical beats (highly successful people tend to move from high to high), and not much analysis. While Rubenstein is a peer to these interviewees, he shies away from hard questions, letting his subjects present their version of a 'best of' story. The closest he comes to pressing a point is asking Colin Powell about his speech to the UN which provided the pretext for the 2003 invasion. Powell deflects blame to the CIA.

I got this book for free from work, and it's fine in short bites. You can probably find an anecdote you like somewhere in there. But for any kind of systematic thought about leadership, you'll need another book.