THRIVE The Facilitator’s Guide to Radically Inclusive Meetings by Dr. Mark Smutny Overview This is truly a guide — containing a wide range of advice for those who want to run inclusive, engaging and productive meetings. It covers both the mindset and skills facilitators need. Those skills include: Planning a Continue Reading
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Unstoppable Teams
UNSTOPPABLE TEAMS The Four Essential Actions of High-Performance Leadership By Alden Mills Many leadership books talk about the whole organisation, but here Alden Mills talks about the uniqueness of small teams. And he draws upon his experience as a former SEALs team leader and rower. What they have in common is Continue Reading
Leaders Block
LEADER’S BLOCK How Great Leaders Recover After They Stumble Ritu Gupta Mehrish Summary Ritu Gupta Mehrish maintains that all leaders, at some point, feel ‘blocked.’ The premise of this book is that, although there are a plethora of titles explaining how leaders can boost their effectiveness – finding practical help Continue Reading
The Surprising Science of Meetings
THE SURPRISING SCIENCE OF MEETINGS The Surprising Science of Meetings How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance Steven G. Rogelberg Summary Many managers regard inefficient, unproductive or boring meetings as an unavoidable business flaw. In this book, Professor Steven G. Rogelberg challenges this assumption with ideas on how to Continue Reading
Radical Simplicity
RADICAL SIMPLICITY How Ken Allen turned DHL from a failing company into a global success story Logistics giant DHL was haemorrhaging hundreds of millions annually before Ken Allen became its global CEO. He turned the company around, making it a success and a place where people love to work. In this book, Continue Reading
Scaling leadership
SCALING LEADERSHIP Scaling Leadership (Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most) by Robert J. Anderson and William A. Adams I appreciate books based upon facts. There is nothing wrong in reading someone’s opinion on any given subject (this review is a case in point) but when Continue Reading
Change seems to have found a new gear
CHANGE SEEMS TO HAVE FOUND A NEW GEAR Books rarely solve problems – people do – but a well-written, thought-provoking read can certainly help. At a time when we are either worrying how we’ll fit everything in, or wondering how to fill the hours – there is one constant. We Continue Reading
Working remotely…successfully
WORKING REMOTELY SUCCESSFULLY Work Together Anywhere (A Handbook on Working Remotely – Successfully – for Individuals, Teams & Managers) by Lisette Sutherland and Kirsten Janene-Nelson Some books I am reading are useful and always relevant. I am not suggesting this book is only pertinent today, but it is particularly topical Continue Reading
The benefit of mindfulness
THE BENEFITS OF MINDFULNESS The Practicing Happiness Workbook (How Mindfulness Can Free You from the Four Psychological Traps That Keep You Stressed, Anxious, and Depressed) by Ruth Baer PhD Not every book I read is directly linked to my profession. Every now and then I choose to pick up something Continue Reading
Recalibrating diversity
RECALIBRATING DIVERSITY The paradox of diversity It is fair to say that every organisation has at least considered the subject of diversity. Many have embraced it and are – in their own ways and no doubt in the belief what they are doing is good – pressing on with the Continue Reading