Date: 17 September, 2026
Most leadership advice starts with what you say. This book starts earlier — with what the room has already told you. Read the Room is a field guide for operating leaders: the managers, directors, VPs, and founders who run the meeting, own the number, and carry the team. Drawing on more than three decades across the military, corrections, manufacturing, natural foods, e-commerce, and software, John Guszak argues that the signals that decide an outcome — the hesitation, the deference, the question nobody asks — are present long before the first word is spoken. Leaders who learn to hear them make...