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,...
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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...
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...
The Science of Strengths
In my work with managers on developing their capacity and confidence to lead, the theme of strengths has come to the forefront over the past 5 years, to the extent that we now define...
From Crew to Captain: Interview with David Mellor
David Mellor is a business mentor, honorary senior visiting fellow at Cass Business School and author of a number of books on the theme of moving from being an employee to being a business...
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...
The 7 questions of impactful leaders
Review of the Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier Your team sometimes just need a bit of support to shine. You can provide this support through changing your leadership approach to one of coaching. Helping...
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Ann Francke, Chief Executive Officer of the Chartered Management Institute, recommends a book that helps to remind ourselves of the guidelines and habits for establishing personal and professional effectiveness. Francke says the book was...
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,...
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...
Positive Organisational Scholarship – Interview with Professor Kim Cameron
Kim Cameron is the William Russell Kelly Professor of Management and Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, author of Positive Leadership and Positive Organizational Scholarship and number of...
Being human…
Giving a talk on The Art of Conversation, I mentioned a kind of conversation called Thing Talk. Thing Talk is conversation about such subjects as weather, cars, fashion, computers, banks, money, widgets and whatsits, facts...
Words to Lead By – Boomy Tokan
Boomy Tokan small business consultant, the founder of Start Your Own Business Academy, speaker and author shares his most impactful piece of advice: Tokan suggests to make little tweaks and there will come a time...
How can I be authentic in what I wear but still fit in?
Being known, liked and trusted is vital for building positive, professional relationships. Personal image is the gateway to building these three. In her talk delivered for Women in Management London, Joanna Gaudoin outlined the...
Support your brain to focus to increase your productivity & lower your stress
“There are few things ever dreamed of, smoked or injected that have as addictive an effect on our brains as technology” (McGonigal, 2012) and “perhaps not since Early Man first discovered how to use...
Words to Lead By – Henry Stewart
Henry Stewart is founder and Chief Executive of London-based training business Happy Ltd. Happy was rated one of the top 20 workplaces in the UK for 5 successive years and now helps other organisations...
Words to Lead By – Michelle McQuaid
Michelle McQuaid best-selling author, workplace wellbeing teacher and playful change activator and our featured interview in the next issue of People & Purpose. Here sheshares the best piece of advice she received: “Every action...
Strength was a watchword at Inspiring Women 2015
A formidable line-up of inspiring women spoke at the London day of Management Today’s flagship conference series on 19th November 2015. In perfect wordplay, the event featured both tremendously inspiring women and provided an...
How great leaders inspire action
Why is Apple so innovative? Why is it that Martin Luther King led the Civil Rights Movement? Simon Sinek answers these questions in this TED talk. He introduces a really simple but insightful model...
5 of the best… leadership blogs
We believe that great leaders are made not born. We have brought together a list of 5 thought-provoking blogs which can give you ideas to develop your skills and guidance on your leadership journey....
