Learning from Neurodivergent Leaders: How to Start, Survive and Thrive in Leadership
Nancy Doyle
A groundbreaking work that sheds light on the potential of neurodivergent individuals in leadership positions.
Lunchtime Learning for Leaders: 16 Ways to Grow Your Resilience and Influence
Lucy Ryan
Finding time for personal development can be challenging. This book addresses this issue by offering concise, actionable insights designed to fit into a leader's busy schedule.
The Problem with Change: And the Essential Nature of Human Performance
Ashley Goodall
For decades, "disruption" and "change" have been seen as essential to business growth and success. In this provocative book, leadership expert Ashley Goodall argues that what has become a sacred dogma is both wrong and harmful.
The Age of Outrage: How to Lead in a Polarized World
Karthik Ramanna
As outrage and polarization become ingrained in global discourse, how can leaders foster understanding, cooperation, and a more civil discourse in the face of growing societal tension?
Right Kind of Wrong
Amy C. Edmondson
An exploration of the nuanced relationship between failure and success that urges us to embrace failure as a necessary and powerful element of growth.
How Not to be a Leadership D*ckhead
Steve Sallis
As its title suggests, this is a no-nonsense book that gets straight to the point of addressing the toxic behaviours that some leaders exhibit and providing practical advice on how to avoid them.
The Four Workarounds
Paulo Savaget
Workarounds - solutions that ignore how problems are 'supposed' to be solved - can achieve massive wins with minimal resources. And as this book reveals, they're powerful tools when it comes to complex problem-solving.
Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source
Kathryn Judge
Over the past few decades, middlemen have taken control of the economy at the expense of the rest of us. This book explores how that happened and how going 'back to source' can help to build a more sustainable economy.
Love + Work
Marcus Buckingham
Bob Selden dips into Marcus Buckingham's new book, Love + Work, which asks why the simple idea of 'doing what you love' can be so challenging to put in practice.
Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of Life-affirming 21st Century Companies
Giles Hutchins and Laura Storm
In the context of recovering from the Covid pandemic, Regenerating Leadership provides a beacon for what companies can aspire to achieve and presents the alternative to rolling back to business as usual.
500%: How two pioneers transformed productivity
Andrew Holm, Julian Wilson & Peter Thomson
This story of how Matt Black Systems became a poster child for truly self-managing organisations should be essential reading for anyone with an interest in organisational design.
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
Kate Murphy
Despite living in a hyper-connected world which is supposed to make communication easier than ever, many people have simply forgotten how to listen.
Fad-Free Strategy
Daniel Deneffe and Herman Vantrappen
You may think that everything that can be written about business strategy has already been written, but Fad-Free Strategy proves the contrary with its end-to-end guide on how to make economics-rooted strategic decisions.
It's Good To Be King
James M. Kerr
It's Good To Be King, the new leadership book by James Kerr, explores some important leadership challenges along with suggestions for how to overcome them in an easy to read business parable form.
Accelerating Performance
Colin Price and Sharon Toye
Why do companies in the same sector pursuing near-identical strategies perform so differently? 'Accelerating Performance' sets out to find answers based on data and empirical evidence rather than anecdotes and theory.
Books we Like
Bee Wise: 12 Leadership Lessons from a Busy Beehive
Philip Atkinson
Lifting the lid on what happens inside a beehive, this book reveals how both bees and businesses can only thrive if they develop collaboration, clarity of roles and a shared sense of purpose.
Lead with Confidence: Essential skills and strategies to succeed and shine as a female leader
Jenny Jarvis
A comprehensive and practical guide for women aiming to enhance their leadership potential and navigate the complexities of the modern workplace.
Culture Matters: A Framework for Helping Your Team Grow, Thrive, and Be Unstoppable
Jenni Catron
A comprehensive guide for leaders aiming to cultivate a thriving organisational culture that provides actionable strategies to build and sustain a healthy culture that drives team success.
Podcasts
The Trusted Executive
John Blakey
The Trusted Executive is one of those books that changes the way you think about leadership. It’s not the first to extol the importance of trust as the essential trait of leaders, but few other authors have expounded such a comprehensive framework for building trustworthy organisations.
Decision Making for Dummies
Dawna Jones
Don't be fooled by the title. This book offers systematic approaches for for making and communicating decisions and integrating analytical data and intuitive intelligence to solve the paradoxical problems of digital-age businesses.
Staying Sane in Business
Chris Welford and Jackie Sykes
Sanity at work. Is that really possible? This ground-breaking book sheds new light on the factors contributing to our psychological wellbeing and personal effectiveness at work, drawing on insights from the dual disciplines of psychology and psychotherapy.
5 Conversations: How to transform trust, engagement and performance at work
Nigel Purse and Nick Cowley
Based on 30 years of research, 5 Conversations aims to identify and draw out those vital two-way conversations between line managers and staff members and develop them in ways that build trusting relationships rather than antagonism.
Awful Management
Gary Sheard
This book will strike a chord with anyone frustrated by bungling bosses, complacent companies or those well-meaning managers trapped in a long-established but outdated way of working.
Dont Be A Cant - A Manual for Happiness
Frank Bastow
Dont Be A Cant attempts to cover an entire ethos for life, in this case, taking responsibility for your own happiness. It is Frank Bastow's first book, and the first book I've read that comes with a money-back guarantee if you don't get anything out of it!
Commitment
Olav Massen, Chris Matts, Chris Geary
Your project has hit a bottleneck, the team is spread too thinly and Gant charts aren't helping. Do you through up your hands in despair? Or pick up a copy of 'Commitment - A Novel About Managing Project Risk'? Which option sounds better?
Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO's Quest for Meaning and Authenticity
August Turak
As its title suggests, this is not your typical business book. But in showing that Trappist principles can be successfully applied to a variety of worldly business settings, it can inspire thoughtful leaders to evaluate their current approach to management and strategy.
Extreme Trust: Honesty as a Competitive Advantage
Don Peppers and Martha Rogers
Extreme Trust is another important contribution to the betterment of management thinking from the team of Peppers and Rogers., who argue that businesses must deliberately act to protect the interests of customers proactively, before they have a chance to spread negative buzz.
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