This post was written by Editorial Assistant, Bethan James. With the days shortening and the nights lengthening, it seems summer has reached its end. And as kids around the world return to school, perhaps it’s time that adults, too, turn their attention to learning. This is a somewhat underused and underappreciated activity in the adult
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This review of Sheryl Sandberg’s Option B was written by Puck van Doorn, a presentation coach and entrepreneur with a strong background in business strategic roles in an international environment. In her current role she transforms talent around the globe into influential speakers. At the same time she also supports her clients on how to
We are long-time fans of Rachel Bridge, going back to her pure journalist days. She has written six books but Already Brilliant, Play to your strengths in work and life (Piatkus, 2018) is her best to date. Already Brilliant is refreshing in its simplicity. Often business books are so jam-packed with research findings and statistics
As you can imagine, we read A LOT of leadership books here at My Business Bookclub! Our goal is to highlight those that we think are really worth your time investment to read. Lead with Heart by Tom Garland (BenBella Books, May 2018) is one such book. Gartland proposes a leadership ethos that is directly
From time to time we love to speak to the authors of business books to add a little something extra to what you find in the book itself. We took the opportunity to speak to Tom Goodwin, author of Digital Darwinism. Survival of the fittest in the age of business disruption (Kogan Page Inspire, 2018).
Asking someone how they make decisions is always an interesting conversation-starter. Once you start to scratch the surface and understand the subtext to decision-making in others, it will start to help you understand the science behind your own decision-making. And it is this science that is tackled by author Matt Watkinson in his book The
There’s something about The Responsive Leader by Erik Korsvik Ostergaard (LID, 2018) that is weirdly comforting. Maybe it is his writing style – he comes across as a wise mentor rather than a dogmatic know-it-all. And that, I guess, is precisely the point of his book. Ostergaard digs into leadership styles old and new and
I was excited to read Professor Steven Van Belleghem’s latest book ‘Customers The Day After Tomorrow’ (Lannoo Campus, 2017) because it is so of the moment. Tackling topics around the shift from a mobile to artificial intelligence (AI) world, it doesn’t disappoint. I need to start with practicalities. There is an augmented reality (AR) component
For anyone looking for a short, sharp read on creating a business strategy, Strategy Plain and Simple by Vaughan Evans (FT Publishing 2018) is the book for you. If you are looking for the latest trends and thinking when it comes to building a strategy, there are other books that might be more appropriate. But