You might think you are a people person. But do you really treat others well? And how can you improve your dealings with those around you? Through a series of entertaining stories, this astonishing book will show you how most of us are not fulfilling our potential – in our personal lives and at [...]
To lead is to live dangerously. It’s romantic and exciting to think of leadership as all inspiration, decisive action, and rich rewards, but leading requires taking risks that can jeopardize your career and your personal life. It requires putting yourself on the line, disturbing the status quo, and surfacing hidden conflict. And when people [...]
Marilee Adams’s book introduces a surprising, life-altering truth: any of us can literally change our lives simply by changing the questions we ask, especially those we ask ourselves. We can ask questions that open us to learning, connection, satisfaction, and success. Or we can ask questions that impede progress and keep us from getting [...]
There are five dimensions of Co-Active Leadership. Co-Active Leader Within is the foundation you must live with full self-authority, modeling acceptance and integrity Co-Active Leader from the Front means pointing the way and inviting and inspiring, not compelling, others to follow. Co-Active Leader from Behind means serving others, supporting them and growing their leadership [...]
In this inspiring book, Seth Godin argues that now, for the first time, everyone has an opportunity to start a movement – to bring together a tribe of like-minded people and do amazing things. There are tribes everywhere, all of them hungry for connection, meaning and change. And yet, too many people ignore the [...]
Peter Senge, founder and director of the Society for Organisational Learning and senior lecturer at MIT, has found the means of creating a ‘learning organisation’. In The Fifth Discipline, he draws the blueprints for an organisation where people expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking [...]
This is a very inspiring leadership book by Simon Sinek. The book is like a leadership course, the main ideas are: why are some people and organisations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others? And why are they able to repeat their success again and again? In business, it doesn’t matter what you do, [...]
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn’t) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest – and [...]
