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
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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
Lately, I have been reading a lot about the use of smartphones and their impact on everything from our attention span to our ability to bond with our children. As someone who works in a communications role, in the technology sector – I know first-hand how all-consuming digital technology can be. It has made me
I was conflicted about this book (Spike, Rene Carayol, LID Publishing, 2017). Something about the positioning of it, and author Rene Carayol himself just doesn’t seem to match the experience and gravitas this man has. The quirky chapter headings (each heading is crossed out, and an alternative put in its place), the sometimes forced use
There’s something special about giving someone a book as a gift. The right book will become something treasured – with pages worn from years of use, notes in the margins, a cracked spine….or kept as perfect and as pristine as the day it was received. Giving someone a book at the right time in their