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,...
Recommended Read
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...
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,...
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow by Ron Chernow
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...
Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help by Edgar Schein
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...
Maverick by Ricardo Semler
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...
The Positive Organization by Robert Quinn
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...
This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
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...
Gung Ho! – How To Motivate People In Any Organization by Ken Blanchard
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...
