The Positive Leadership Journal
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Career / Impact / Perspectives
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...
Change / Impact / Leadership / Purpose / Strategy
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...
Change / Featured / Impact / Leadership / Perspectives / Uncategorized
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,...
Sophia Amoruso is a very interesting and inspiring millennial. Why? She is the founder of one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world, Nasty Gal and has written #Girlboss, a book about her and...
Boomy Tokan recommends Chernow’s autobiography of business tycoon and ground-breaking philanthropist John D. Rockefeller. John D. Rockefeller was an extremely shrewd businessman, and when it came to his philanthropic activities he was a great...
Michael Bungay Stanier, the interviewee from our last issue, recommended this book, saying that readers can get a real insight into coaching from this well-known and influential writer. Bungay Stanier says “Schein has written...
Big Data is an expression that we hear on a regular basis but not everyone knows what it is and how to use it beneficially. Bernard Marr’s book is a guide for all businesses...
Change / Featured / Leadership / Management / Teams
Henry Stewart, the interviewee in our last edition, recommended this book, saying that it changed his life and his organisation as well. Maverick by Ricardo Semler is a story of a Brazilian businessman who...
Change / Featured / Management / People / Teams
This issue’s recommended read is a freshly published book by Robert Quinn. The Positive Organization is an excellent summary about how you apply some of the ideas of positive psychology in workplaces in a...
A book that has the capacity to change you and really change your perspective on leadership – says Pete Hamill, author and consultant. ”I would offer it as a counterpoint to a book on...
Over the last few decades a dispiriting body of research has been amassed, which suggests that the vast majority of change programmes fail, or fail to reach their intended outcomes. In their book Switch...
More of a fable than a leadership textbook, this book is about someone who goes to a company and turns around its performance through 3 principles: the spirit of the squirrel, the way of...
This Positive Leadership Journal is a publication for managers and leaders looking for strength-based approaches and practical resources to add to their toolkit for enhanced performance. Comprising of interviews, case studies, articles and multimedia content, People & Purpose will help readers develop effective strategies to build their management practice, their organizations and their careers.
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