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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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What To Do When Leadership Is Needed

Bob Selden

What To Do When Leadership Is Needed is an inspiring yet practical book on leadership that should be on every managers bookshelf.

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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.

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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.

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INDISPENSABLE: Build and Lead a Company Customers Can't Live Without

James M. Kerr

Every business seems to have a story, a mission and vision statement. But how many of these are truly essential for their customers? That's the question James M. Kerr explores in his latest book.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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GRACE: A Leader's Guide To A Better Us

John Baldoni

Leadership guru and executive coach, John Baldoni, challenges conventional assumptions about leadership in "GRACE: A Leader’s Guide To A Better Us".

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Under New Management

David Burkus

Many of the established principles of business management are outdated and counter-productive, yet still organisations cling onto them. This books sets out to shoot those scared cows and get us to rethink how companies are managed and our work is designed.

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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.

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Triggers

Marshall Goldsmith

About 100 pages into Marshall Goldsmith's new book, I picked up a pen and began to write down some “engaging questions” for myself. I read dozens of business books a year, and can’t remember the last time I took action that quickly (or at all, to be honest).

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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.

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