For years, I have been blogging about Adam Bryant’s column, “The Corner Office,” that appears in the Sunday edition of The New York Times. By providing an excerpt from each week’s column, I hope I have helped to increase the readership that Bryant and his interviews so richly deserve.

Times Books has just published The Corner Office, an anthology of 75 of Bryant’s interviews. As I will suggest in my review of the book, I think it offers an ingenious “orchestration” of information, insights, and recommendations from a wide variety of C-level executives, most of them CEOs. Several of those interviewed are prominent (e.g. Microsoft’s Steven Ballmer, Cisco’s John Chambers, Zappos’ Tony Hsieh, Disney’s Bob Iger, and Ford’s Alan Mulally) but most of them were not be familiar, at least to me.

If you know someone among those graduating from schools, colleges, and universities who has expressed an interest in a business career – or who has only recently embarked on one – I think Adam Bryant’s book would be an ideal gift. It really does provide, as its subtitle correctly suggests, a wealth of “indispensable and unexpected lessons from [mostly] CEOs on how to lead and succeed.

If you don’t know any imminent or recent graduates, give the book as a gift to yourself.

In fact, I highly recommend this book to anyone who possesses “insatiable curiosity” to gain a better understanding of what great leadership is…and isn’t.

Please click here to read Bryant’s recent column about the book.

Please click here to check out his superb interviews.