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Book Review: The Surpassing Life by Brad Rex
There are many self help and performance improvement books that claim to give simple and practical techniques to make your life better. Many are repetitions and derivatives of older works and often...
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Book Review: The Manager’s Dilemma by Jesse Sostrin
With a PhD in Philosophy focusing on organisational systems and a nationally recognised speaker on leadership and practical management, you know that when Jesse Sostrin writes something, its going...
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Book Review: The Complete Guide on How to Negotiate by Tali Raphaely
The Complete Guide On How To Negotiate: Master the Art of Getting What You Want in Business and in Life by Tali Raphaely is an excellent primer in the skills and techniques of negotiation. It also...
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Book Review: The Heart Led Leader by Tommy Spaulding
Tommy Spaulding’s book Heart-Led Leader: How Living and Leading from the Heart Will Change Your Organization and Your Life adds to the growing body of knowledge and supporting evidence for ‘Servant...
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Book Review: Survive to Thrive by Dishman and Hoque
Despite being quite a short book, Hoque and Dishman have packed a great deal into Survive to Thrive: 27 Practices of Resilient Entrepreneurs, Innovators, and Leaders. It is a book that explores some...
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Book Review: The Daily Edge by David Horsager
When a horse wins a race it doesn’t have to be by a mile. All it takes is for one horse to be ahead of another by a small margin and all that takes is a slight edge. In The Daily Edge: Simple...
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Book Review: The New Corporate Facts of Life – Diana Rivenburgh
The World changes and for businesses to survive and thrive, they must remain relevant. And that is why Diana Rivenburgh’s book is so important . The New Corporate Facts of Life describes the high...
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Book Review: It Takes More Than Casual Fridays and Free Coffee: Building a...
As a consultant that works on business change projects, I am always surprised and challenged by how difficult it is to change an embedded culture, no matter how poorly it is serving the organisation....
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Book Review: Customer Service the Sandler Way by Anne MacKeigan
It is much easier to keep a customer than it is to win one and the way to keep a customer is to give fantastic Customer Service. In Customer Service the Sandler Way: 48 Rules for Strategic Customer...
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Book Review: Bootstrap Selling the Sandler Way by Bill Morrison
As I have written several times before, I have been impressed by large parts of the Sandler selling system. Not everything from Sandler translates into an approach that I would personally employ,...
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Book Review: Profit from Science by George Danner
There is a balance to be struck between making decisions that are intuitive and those that are based on sound and robust analysis. In Profit from Science: Solving Business Problems using Data, Math,...
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Book Review: Venture Mom by Holly Hurd
With the explosive connectivity that the internet has delivered, the possibilities for new, more flexible ways to offer value and earn money are ever increasing. The development of micro businesses is...
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Book Review: Future Strong by Bill Jensen
In Future Strong: How to Work Unleashed, Lead Boldly, and Live Life Your Way, Bill Jensen poses some very challenging questions about the future of business, work and even your own performance. The...
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Book Review: Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Have you ever wondered why, when a Government begins to struggle with a challenging situation, they call upon a military capability to help resolve it. The National Guard in the US is often called...
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Book Review: Zombies Ate My Business by Jamie Gerdsen
For a business to grow and thrive it needs committed, engaged employees that are willing to help that the business grow. Unfortunately not all of your employees will be so fully engaged. Some of them,...
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Book Review: Herd by Mark Earl
In his book, Herd: How to Change Mass Behaviour by Harnessing Our True Nature, Mark Earl explores 2 sides of our decision making nature. On one side we have what we largely believe to be ‘individual...
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Book Review: The Secret Sauce-Creating a Winning Culture by Ford and Osterhaus
The Secret Sauce: Creating a Winning Culture by Kevin Ford and James Osterhaus is an exploration of the importance of culture. The reader is guided through this exploration by way of a business fable...
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Book Review: The $100 Start Up by Chris Guillebeau
The $100 Startup: Fire Your Boss, Do What You Love and Work Better To Live More by Chris Guillebeau is a book for those who are looking to do what they love, and get paid to do it. This is an engaging...
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Book Review: One Second Ahead by Hougaard, Carter and Coutts
A horse will often win by just a nose, the advantage in length that being a second ahead gives. From a cognitive perspective, being one second ahead provides a potential edge in both effectiveness and...
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Book Review: The CEO’s Secret Weapon by Jan Jones
As an C-Level operative or an senior executive in a busy company, you will find that the draws upon your time are varied and frequent. Commensurate with your compensation, you must focus on the tasks...
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Book Review: The Boardroom Entrepreneur by Mike Southern and Chris West
Mike Southon and Chris West have a skill for writing very readable books and The Boardroom Entrepreneur, follows on from their first joint book, The Beermat Entrepreneur: Turn Your Good Idea into a...
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Book Review: Almost by Hap Klopp and Brian Tarcy
So often we hear the tale of, how despite challenges and hardship, the gritty small company overcomes all and becomes a great success. In my view success isn’t something that can be duplicated with a...
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Book Review: Women in Transition by Linda Rossetti
In Women and Transition: Reinventing Work and Life, Linda Rossetti presents a heart felt and very personal view of transition. As she explains, at some stage in our lives, we all undergo some level of...
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Book Review: Deep Work by Cal Newport
Success isn’t something that just happens. It requires focus and concentration. However, there is multi-billion pound industry designed to grab you attention and exploit for their own ends....
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Book Review: The Psychology of Success: Secrets of Serial Achievement by...
In The Psychology of Success: Secrets of Serial Achievement, Judith Leary-Joyce offers some interesting techniques, case studies and observations. Success is, apparently, a matter of aligning with 5...
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Book Review: Good for the Money – Bob Benmosche
Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America is a fascinating and compelling book that captures the passion and anxiety of the recent banking problems and presents a unique view of how AIG...
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Book Review: The New Advantage by Howard Morgan and Joelle Jay
Although the subtitle is How women in leadership can create Win – Wins for their companies and themselves, the leadership lessons in The New Advantage: How Women in Leadership Can Create Win-Wins for...
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Book Review: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There is an excellent book, well deserving of the interest and hype that surrounds it. Goldsmith has the reputation of being one of the most effective executive coaches...
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Book Review: The Luck Factor by Richard Wiseman
‘I was just very lucky’ is a common response from many successful people. But how much of this is true? Wiseman has spent 10 years conducting interviews and research on luck and lucky people and...
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Book Review: The Art of Authenticity by Karissa Thacker
Leadership is perhaps one of the most complex psychological concepts to define. What are the factors that cause one person to step up and make things happen, binding others into a team and so...
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Book Review: Rain Making by Ford Harding
The Rain Maker was a revered member of the tribe. They called upon the gods to bring the rain so the tribe could survive. In business, it is the person that brings back the big account or the large...
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Book Review: 59 Seconds – Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lot is an easy and enjoyable book to read – the kind that you can dip in and out of, picking up interesting tips along the way. The chapter list gives a good...
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Book Review: Tycoon by Peter Jones
Tycoon is very much as you would expect, a selection of anecdotes and business guidance that provides some insight into the starting of a business. Clearly, Jones has some prowess in business and his...
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Book Review: 29 Leadership Secrets by Jack Welsh
As the head of General Electric, Jack Welsh was recognised internationally as a word class leader. In 29 Leadership Secrets he presents his view of the key factors for leadership. PART 1 THE...
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Book Review: Permission Marketing by Seth Godin
In Permission Marketing, Seth Godin reinforces the view that the marketing paradigm has changed and we are in the situation that we need to be asking permission of our market to engage with them. Now...
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Book Review: Stand Out by Winnie Brignac Hart and Lorrie Brignac Lee
The pace of change in the marketing domain means that you have to find innovative techniques to allow you to discriminate your business from all of the others. However, there are some fundamentals that...
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Book Review: Board Games – Straight Talk for New Directors by Montford and...
The Peter’s Principle suggests that people thrive and perform well in each role they undertake and so are promoted. This continues until the point at which they can no longer perform and so people are...
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Book Review: Why Make Eagles Swim by Bill Munn
For those of you that have read my other reviews, you will know that I am an advocate of helping people find their talents and focus on developing them to the achieve their highest potential. Bill...
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Book Review: Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers is one of the more interesting authors I have read. Having made his fortune in being one of the early online sellers of music, Sivers donated much of it to charity and has been thinking...
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Book Review: The Brain Audit by Sean D’Souza
I’m not sure where I came across the name of Sean D’Souza and his book the The Brain Audit: Why Customers Buy (and Why They Don’t). It was probably one of the many podcasts I listen too on my commute...
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Book Review: Navigating the Talent Shift by Lisa Hufford
This is a useful and insightful read for anyone in a management position or looking to complete short-term projects. In Navigating the Talent Shift, Lisa Hufford a written a book that is perfect for...
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Book Review: The Great Management Reset by Leslie Kaminoff
As an interim manager and executive coach, I am always looking for ways to improve my management skills and those of my team. Time is always tight and so concise and focused blocks of wisdom are what I...
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Book Review: Winning Well by Karin Hurt and David Dye
Winning Well: A Managers Guide to GettingWithout Losing Your Soul is perhaps the most comprehensive management book I have read on 2016. Hurt and Dye have written an outstanding guide on how to manage...
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Book Review: Leading the Malcolm Baldrige Way by Kendall and Bodinson
Malcolm Baldrige was the United States Secretary of Commerce from 1981 until 1987 and a strong advocate in the domain of quality management for industrial productivity. His contributions were so...
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Book Review: Creating the Vital Organisation by Brooks and Salesman
There seems to be an almost fanatical drive for organisations to streamline, drive efficiencies and look to get more from the resources they have. But in focusing on scarcity, we are missing the true...
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Book Review: From Breakdown to Breakthrough by Michael Papanek and Liz Alexander
Any book on ‘change’ that is written by the Grandson of the modern pioneer of organisational psychology, Kurt Lewin, is anticipated to be a solid text. And From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Forging...
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Book Review: Communicate Like a Leader – By Dianna Booher
If you look at the challenges that arise in business, the vast majority of them have their origin in poor communication. And so any book that explores the failures in leadership communication and how...
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Book Review: Excellence in Execution – How to implement your strategy by...
A strategy is only high-level guidance unless you can execute against that strategy. Unfortunately, the execution of a strategy is one of the more challenging elements of management. In Excellence in...
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Book Review: Change the Way You Change! by Lyman and Daloisio
Change continues to be a topic that stimulates both interest and discussion among the Management Consultancy community, with many serious thinkers looking at ways to deliver sustainable change. In...
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Persuade – Using the Seven Drivers of Motivation to Master Influence and...
Persuade – Using the Seven Drivers of Motivation to Master Influence and Persuasionis an interesting book with a style that will appeal to many. The underlying psychology is sound and the book...
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