5 of the Best… Strengths Tools
If you want to find out your strengths, your best bet is to use one of these five strength assessment tools. They differ greatly in the number/categories of strengths, what you get for your...
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Review: The Strengths-Focused Guide to Leadership
Review of The Strengths-Focused Guide to Leadership by Mike Roarty and Kathy Toogood If you want a practical manual to understanding how to harness strengths, for you and your team, this book is a great...
Words to Lead By
Shweta Jhajharia, the multi-award-winning business coach and author of Sparks, contributed the popular article The 6 Ms of Business Strategy to our last issue. Here she shares the best advice she has ever received....
Recommended Read: Soul Keeping
Jon Gordon is a trainer, consultant and inspirational speaker. His books cover a wide range of subjects aiming to help people be positive and to lead better. Interviewed in People and Purpose 11,...
Positive Leaders Can Change the World – Interview with Jon Gordon
In his interview with Eszter Molnar Mills, Jon Gordon, the wide-ranging author, speaker and consultant to Fortune 500 companies as well as baseball and US football teams, discusses his ideas and principles around positive...
5 of the best… Podcasts
The rise of the podcast in recent years has meant we now share our commute or the washing up with a massive range of experts, leaders and authors. Sometimes too much choice can be...
The happy secret to better work
TED talk by Shawn Achor Shawn Achor is a highly respected academic and consultant. He focuses on positive outliers—to understand more about people who are well above average. As he says in the talk...
Words to Lead By – Tamara Box
Head of structured finance at global law firm ReedSmith, Tamara Box shares the best piece of advice she has ever received: A woman, now working on exciting infrastructure projects in Africa, gave advice on...
Recommended Reads – The E-Myth Revisited
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber was recommended by David Mellor, the business mentor, honorary senior visiting fellow at Cass Business...
The Science Behind the Global Mindset
Diversity has always been around, we have just tried to ignore it. The ones who were proactive and culturally intelligent are the ones now who are thriving in this economy. It is still not...
The 6Ms of Business Strategy
The 6Ms of Business Strategy Interview with Shweta Jhajharia Shweta Jhajharia MBA is a business coach specialising in growth. She has been ranked ActionCOACH London’s Coach of the Year consecutively for the last eight...
Book Review – The Positive Organization by Robert E Quinn
In our recent interviews with Professor Kim Cameron and Michelle McQuaid both mentioned Robert E. Quinn’s The Positive Organization as a book worth reading for insight and ideas. It is not difficult to see...
Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
The book, which had a significant impact on Dr Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, encourages readers to embrace vulnerability and imperfection, to live wholeheartedly and courageously. Dr Brene Brown’s book is based on her research into the...
Words to Lead by from Jon Gordon
Best-selling author and keynote speaker, Jon Gordon shares his favourite piece of advice. These meaningful words are from Dr. James Gills, the only person on the planet to complete 6 Double Iron Man Triathlons...
Editor’s Note – October 2016
Welcome back, for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere, we hope you had a great summer and are now rested and raring to take on the rest of the year. Whether or not...
How Non-conformists Change the World – Originals by Adam Grant
If you have a look on Amazon, there are approximately 175,000 books on leadership which can make it hard to find something new, unique or challenging. Professor Kim Cameron, author of Practicing Positive Leadership,...
Where does the courage come in?
I recently attended an event on Women’s Leadership Careers organised by the Chartered Management Institute’s (CMI) Women in Management (WiM) Network. The keynote speaker was none other than CMI’s CEO Ann Francke, an exceptionally...
3 steps to powerful personal improvement
You dream of getting better at providing frequent feedback to your team, or paying attention to your body language, or implementing that time management system you’ve heard so much good about. You know what...
Words to Lead By: David Mellor
David Mellor is a mentor who helps business owners to increase their profitability, fund their growth plans, and free up their time. Mellor, a Freeman of the Guild of Entrepreneurs, shares the best piece...
The Imposter Phenomenon
Have you ever wondered when you would be ‘found out’ or felt terrified at making a mistake because it ‘proves’ you are not perfect, and not up to the job? First defined by two...
