BOOKS THAT WORK
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BOOKS THAT WORK
Business books you’re too busy to read - but need to know about. Get the best and most useful bits from business writing covering everything from leadership, to culture, to the future of work and strategy. We speed read a book, talk to the author and share five things each time to adopt or try to ma...
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FLEXPERTS - BY GILLIAN BROOKES
Flexible work can enable us to successfully deliver productivity and wellbeing. Flexperts fronts into the challenges, like disconnection, organisatio...
belonging - by owen eastwood
Owen Eastwood is a high performance coach, who has worked with teams like the Royal Ballet in London, England Football, South African Cricket and Nato...
THE UPSTANDER LEADER - BY JESSICA HICKMAN
The world is changing rapidly, will you be a bystander leader - ignoring change as it happens around you, or will you be an upstander leader contribut...
WHEN THE DUST SETTLES - BY LUCY EASTHOPE
2023 has started with a climate change wake up call in New Zealand – many communities have been hit by, and are reeling from, weather related disaster...
AROHA - BY DR HINEMOA ELDER
Business books don’t have the monopoly on providing insights and inspiration to make work better. Aroha is a beautiful small book that contains 52 wh...
I’M NOT A NUMBERS PERSON - BY DR SELENA FISK
A numbers person is someone who understands the metrics, can read what they are given, looks for trends in the data and can communicate the data to ot...
THE COMPASSIONATE LEADER’S PLAYBOOK - BY STEVEN HARGREAVES
This playbook explains how respect, fairness, integrity, attention, empathy, humility and courage are the characteristics of the compassionate leader....
FINDING CALM - BY DR SARB JOHAL
Psychologist, Dr Sarb Johal, helps us navigate uncertainty, understanding how our brain drives our reactions, the role of structure and habit in creat...
FUTURE YOU - BY FRANCES VALINTINE
Future You helps us challenge our assumptions and embrace the future - harnessing the creative benefits of change, learning all the way from Gen Z, by...
FLEXABILITY - BY DR KAREN MORLEY
In a post-pandemic world flexible work has blurred the boundary between our professional and personal lives. How do we take back control, deal with th...
EXPERIENCING DESIGN - BY KAREN HOLD, JEANNE LIEDTKA, JESSICA ELDRIDGE
Drawing on a decade of research and experience of creatively solving problems with Design Thinking, Experiencing Design challenges us to deeply unders...
MOTHER OF INVENTION - KATRINE MARÇAL
From ideas to funding, history shows us that innovation has been stifled because of gender - hear the examples from author Katrine Marçal and how we m...
POWERFUL - BY PATTY MCCORD
Learn what created the culture at Netflix from their Chief Talent Officer of 14 years Patty McCord, and how this applies today in a Covid world.
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PEOPLE STUFF - BY ZOË ROUTH
Learn how perspective, perspective on ourselves and others and what behaviours are created through fear of loss at work to develop wiser, more compass...
PLAN B - BY SHANNAH KENNEDY
Why does it matter to feel the pain of change and embrace the grief that comes with change? How do you find patience and hope? And what role does bein...
IT’s not always right to be right - by hamish thomson
Understand the pitfalls of always wanting to ‘win’ or be right at work and how a different approach changes how we operate and the results we can achi...
LEADER BY DESIGN - BY COLLEEN CALLANDER
Former Sportsgirl and Sussan CEO Colleen Callander’s story of leadership success is centred on changing the emphasis from profit to people, purpose an...
EM-PA-THY - BY HAROLD HILLMAN
This Empathy episode is essential if you:
Are leading a team through a particularly tough challenge
Want to master the art of connection w...
TRUST - BY MELANIE MARSHALL
Discover the case for trust – even though it’s time consuming, can be risky and the return isn’t always obvious - learn why trust matters, what anchor...
The 4 Day Week -By Andrew Barnes
Discover a proven formula for a 4 day week that maintains productivity and ensures 100% of pay for the workforce.
As we grapple with what workpl...
HOW CONFIDENCE WORKS - BY IAN ROBERTSON
Learn what confidence is, why it matters and how to build it. It’s worth it, as confidence can make us healthier, happy, wealthier, kinder and more mo...
Thriving at Work - The Best of Books That Work
Key insights from six Books That Work authors to help lift our sights to thrive at work, as individuals and to help build good workplace cultures. A...
leadership that works - the best of books that work
We take the best and most useful bits of our business books to date to provide a shortcut into the skills we need from our leaders.
You Don’t Need An MBA - By Alicia McKay
Get insights into the importance of flexibility in leadership, how to make good decisions, the power of systems leadership, the language strategic l...
Beyond Burnout - By Suzi McAlpine
Discover what burnout looks like, what causes it, how to spot it and what to do about it personally and as leaders.
Silver Linings - By David Downs & Joe Davis
Silver Linings shares the magic that turned the pandemic clouds on the horizon into silver linings. It teaches us about the Kiwi leadership and runnin...
BACKABLE - By Suneel Gupta
Suneel Gupta was the poster child for failure before he uncovered how to turn ideas into backable ideas and action. He shares the seven surprising cha...
No Sex At Work - By Judith Beck
Judith Beck draws on decades of experience as an executive recruiter to share what sets the top 10 percent of people apart. She believes the key to sp...
Let Your Mind Run - By Deena Kastor
This is the story of achievement, and how small steps of cultivating positivity can give anyone a competitive edge. Deena Kastor is proof that scannin...
Learning to Lead Together - By Jane Riddiford
Global Generation has been building communities while building gardens in London since 2004. Hear the leadership stories that emerged during this tim...
Be Brilliant - By janine garner
A formula for unleashing our inner brilliance as leaders, to make a difference for ourselves and our teams.
Be Brilliant teaches us how to own o...
LIVE LEAD LEARN - BY Gail Kelly
Gail Kelly passionately argues for putting people and customers at the heart of a business and leading with courage and generosity of spirit.
Ga...
FOREVER SKILLS - BY KIERAN FLANAGAN & DAN GREGORY
What will jobs look like in the future? Will Artificial Intelligence and robots take over? What chance have I got to survive and thrive at work with s...
CULTURE FIX - BY COLIN D ELLIS
The playbook for how to create a great place to work.
Practical, straight up advice and tips as a leader or to get your organisation and team t...
Change Makers - BY Digby Scott
In this pilot Books That Work episode we talk about being a change maker, working out what drives you, how to open your thinking to doing things diffe...