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“Not another book on leadership?!” How often do we hear that comment these days? Yet this is another one well worth reading. ...

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  Do YOU Care to Dare? “Not another book on leadership?!” How often do we hear that comment these days? Yet this is another one well worth reading. ...
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  Time to face the facts on coaching The prolonged effects of the financial crisis have been evidence enough that business management has changed. But this is more about developing the skills coaches and leaders need....
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  Butterflies and Sweaty Palms by Judy Apps The subtitle 25 Sure-Fire Ways to Speak and Present with Confidence could be a little bit daunting for the average, would-be public speaker – but it would be worth their while to persevere. ...
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  On the Fault Line, edited by Herbst, McNamee and Mills A compilation of essays on the management of community-based tensions, On the Fault Line brings together a range of expert authors to probe causes of friction within several different countries....
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  The Diary: 100 Days and Lessons in Corporate Communications The demands on those responsible for corporate communications have never been more challenging....
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  The Engagement Manifesto: a systemic approach to organisational success “For longer than I care to remember, annual reports have stated that employees are the organisation’s greatest asset, but … the behaviours exhibited by those organisations do not reflect that.”...
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  How to take the callousness out of capitalism It is one of the three primary modes of behaviour modified from Hindu teachings on human instincts. ...
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  Value Management, Translating Aspirations Into Performance Change management programmes have a long track record of delivering poor results to shareholders and stakeholders alike. Here Davies and Davies argue that, in many instances, lack of technical expertise is the root of poor performance. Managers do not always...
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  What’s Next? How Professionals Are Refusing Retirement As a professional from the baby- boomer generation who has retired twice, I opened this book with anticipation. It reports a series of stories from senior baby boomers who, after successful careers across the globe, find themselves approaching the glass-ceiling...
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  Finding a winning formula for peak performance I lived and worked in Hong Kong, first in the hotel industry and then for Ernst and Young in performance improvement....
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  The CEO’s Strategy Handbook The author claims this is a book on strategy that will give them ‘provocative insights and pragmatic advice to setting strategy, leading the process, and turning winning strategies into great results.’...
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  Rolling review: Peter Rodger on three company cars You could do a lot worse than steer these into the company car park…...
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  The Economist Guide to Business Modelling Business modelling is often a difficult subject to master and use effectively. The Guide to Business Modelling from The Economist, now in its third edition, takes the reader through the full process, from defining the questions to be asked to...
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  Winning Investors Over Baruch Lev is an accounting and finance professor at the Stern School of Business and a visiting professor at the City Business School. This may put managers off, but don’t let it....
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  The Cult of the Leader – CMI Management Book of the Year A controversial book that dubs today’s super-paid ego-driven leaders the ‘L’Oreal generation’ has scooped CMI’s coveted management book of the year prize....
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  Higher Ambition – How Great Leaders Create Economic & Social Value Full of powerful CEO stories and advice, Higher Ambition argues that successful companies over the long term have demonstrated ‘the distinctive ability to do good while doing well’....
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  Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? The anecdotal, chatty and somewhat tedious style of this book detracts from the important message it seeks to send – that there are certain attributes or qualities that make a good leader....
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  The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work Focus on apparently mundane everyday events and it’s possible to make an enormous difference to employee commitment – and thus performance. That’s the message of this book....
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  Top five management gadgets A few years ago, you wouldn't go anywhere without lugging around a hefty laptop. It was the only way that you could work digitally outside the office. These days you don’t always need one to stay plugged into your business....
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  Infotainment: Ricky Gervais in more stage-managed mode at 2012 Golden Globes If something’s worth doing once, goes the old adage, it’s worth doing twice....