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14 November 2022

Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

Raise your standards, pick up the pace, sharpen your focus and align your people. For Frank Slootman, writing this book was to summarize his convictions,...

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5 October 2022

How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams To Do The Best Work of Their Lives

The book builds out from Slack’s internal approaches to redefining the way they work - creating a strong case for change and challenging a great...

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26 September 2022

Difficult Decisions – How Leaders Make the Right Call with Insight, Integrity, and Empathy

I found this book to be highly thought provoking and in many ways asking way more questions than providing answers, certainly in the first two...

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6 September 2022

Benefits Realisation: The Change-Driven Approach to Project Success

As I settled down with excitement to read this book that could provide great benefits to even someone like me who is not an expert...

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5 September 2022

Navigating the Metaverse: A Guide to Limitless Pos sibilities in a Web 3.0 World

The world is changing. We know that. The metaverse - you've probably heard the term a lot. But what does it mean? How do you...

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15 August 2022

Toxic: A Guide to Rebuilding Respect and Tolerance in a Hostile Workplace

I was excited by the premise of this book, promising to be ‘a guide to rebuilding respect and tolerance in a hostile workplace’ as there...

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15 August 2022

THE ENABLING MANAGER

What does Lead, Manage and Coach mean to you? Think about that meaning pre Covid then think about post Covid. Does it mean the same?...

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10 August 2022

INTRODUCTION TO LEADER AS HEALER

In this fascinating and very different book, Nicholas Janni introduces a new style of leadership that feels much needed in our post-Covid world. Leaders are...

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12 July 2022

Group Dyna-Mix: Investigating team dynamics, from leaders to corporate gatekeepers

This book is a great resource for anyone who wants to better understand the dynamics of teams, and how they function in organisations. The author,...

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12 July 2022

The Anti-Racist Organization- Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Workplace

I was hugely keen to review this book - I avidly follow Shereen on LinkedIn, and find her content very thought provoking. So I was...

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22 June 2022

Smart Leadership: Four Simple Choices to Scale Your Impact

Mark Miller’s Smart Leadership book is packed with ideas and practical tips to scale your impact as leader. The central tenet of the book is...

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20 June 2022

Soft Skills for Tough Jobs: Building teams that work, one conversation at a time

This is a great book. It's clear, engagingly written and especially enjoyable but it's also full of practical tips and frameworks for building teams that...

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