Resources
Leadership resources
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Discovering the Leader in You
A Guide to Realizing Your Personal Leadership Potential
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Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk
The first challenge is where to put this book in the placings here. Leadership because that is what we use parts of it for on our programmes. If you are interested in climbing books, this will give some great messages about leadership, teamwork, self awareness, drive, motivation and risk. Quite a lot really for 1 book!
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Leadership and Self-deception: Getting Out of the Box
Leadership and Self-Deception is the first book to identify a single, underlying cause of every form of leadership failure.
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The Case of the Bonsai Manager: Lessons from Nature on Growing
Amazon says: In this world, the inclusive, intuitive and humane style of management will work, not the top-down approach - and here is an author uniquely placed to tell us how.
I say this book, recommended to me by one of my Indian students, is written by an experienced senior manager who 'gets it'. The book really has you challenging yourself as well as being very accessible.
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The Leader's Voice
How your communication can inspire action and get results
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The Living Leader
The is a handy little book gives insight into what I would describe as the basics of leadership. It is easily applied and a very useful start. I have read it and found it worthwhile.
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Personal Development resources
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Affluenza
A great book that helps us understand what for many life had / has become - the sole and mindless pursuit of wealth as a substitute for meaning to life. This is as oppossed to wealth as an enabler in the pursuit of a greater meaning. Whatever that may be!
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Blink
The Power of Thinking without Thinking. This book explains those moments when we know something without really knowing why or how. Understanding this is the key to unlocking the power of our intuition.
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Creagh Dhu Climber: The Life and Times of John Cunningham
Creagh Dhu Climber: The Life and Times of John Cunningham. John was an inspirational lecturer at the college I atteded. This book describes his adventurous life - much in the service of others.
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Creative Visualisation
Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in You Life
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
A great book to give you structure, confidence and the right approach when you need to do the name sake - which is more often than perhaps you are aware!
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Difficult Conversations
A brilliant book on how to deal with conversations you have so far avoided. I recommend this book to many people.
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Eat That Frog!: Get More of the Important Things Done, Today!
There's an old saying that if the first thing you do in the morning is to eat a live frog, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that it's probably the worst thing you'll do all day. Eat That Frog! takes this saying as a metaphor for tackling the most challenging task of your day - the one you are most likely to procrastinate on, but also probably the one that will have the greatest positive impact on your life.
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Funky Business
A unique perspective on our world order and your place in it!
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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
Ways of bringing about more cooperation from children than all the yelling and pleading in the world - thats what the book says and it's pretty good stuff
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Influencing With Integrity: Management Skills for Communication and Negotiation
Powerful tools and approaches for influence
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Karaoke Capitalism
Follow on from Funky Business - do you want to be a first-rate version of yourself or a second-rate version of someone else?
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Mans Search for Meaning
This book is a disturbing read but life changing. It is a must read for any thinking person.
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Performance: The Secrets of Successful Behaviour
Looking at how our behaviour directly influences output. A good personal and leadership read.
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Purple Cow
Transform your Business by Being Remarkable. I think this is a great book about transforming yourself!
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That's Outside My Boat: Letting Go of What You Can't Control
A great liilte book full of stories pertaining to the name. Learning to let go of what you cannot control to allow focus on what you can!
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The 60 Minute Father
An Hour of Reading for a Lifetime of Love. This really is a great little book. I don't know anyone who has not been in some way motivated by it - an eye opener.
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The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
A classic - magic, dreams and the treasures we seek elsewhere only to find on our doorstep!
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The Black Swan
From the cover: A rallying cry to ignore 'experts', The Black Swan shows us how to stop trying to predict everything and take advantage on uncertainty.
This book is incredibly topical and to me a massive release from being help hostage to those who proclaim to know it all. I cannot remember 18 months ago any of these experts predicting oil prices, credit crunch, food prices or GDP as being what they are today! This book determines that they never did know, they were simply able to convince us that they did. Read for yourself and make you own mind up.
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The Things They Carried
A beautifully written set of short stories about a group of soldiers in the Vietnam War. This book to me is a brilliant metaphor for the accumulated baggage we bring into play as we progress forward with our lives. Thought provoking.
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Towards Emotional Literacy
Emotional Literacy - what does it mean and why is it important? I have heard Susie referred to as a feminist writer. I am not sure what that is supposed to imply. For anyone keen to explore the role of their emotions and move towards mastery this is a fantastic book.
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Trusting the Tides: A New Approach to Self-empowerment
Few of us understand our emotions. We can be overwhelmed by anxiety; confuse grief with depression, anger with aggression. Even when suspect that various bodily ailments are connected with our emotions, we dont know how to help ourselves. Trusting the tides is a fascinating and accessible guide to the currents of the heart.
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Organisational Development resources
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Built To Last
From Amazon - This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Throughout, the authors asked: 'What makes the truly exceptional companies different from other companies?'
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Business Psychology and Organisational Behaviour
An excellent introduction and resource for those interested in Business Psychology.
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Exploring Corporate Strategy
A comprehensive resource for the name sake, well written, interesting and complete
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Good to Great
Five years ago Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last concludes that it is possible, but finds that there are no silver bullets to greatness. Instead Collins and his team found a common set of characteristics and traits. If that has not got you curious you are on the wrong site!
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Organizational Behaviour: An Introductory Text
Huczynski and Buchanan bring their well-known and successful brand of critical thinking, social science underpinning, and visual appraisal to bear in this comprehensive introduction to organizational behaviour.
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The Long Tail
How Endless Choice is Creating Unlimited Demand
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The Tipping Point
How little things can make a big difference. That magic moment when ideas, tends and social behaviours cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire.
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Process Improvement resources
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