The Leader’s Handbook
The Leader’s Handbook provides a comprehensive and practical guide for individuals looking to develop their leadership skills and effectively lead and manage a team. It covers a wide range of topics, from the basics of leadership to advanced strategies for success. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of leadership and will become equipped with the knowledge and tools needed to effectively lead and manage a team.
Leadership Secrets of the Australian Army
Learn from the best and inspire your team for great results.
“Read it and be wise”
Former Chief of Army Lieutenant General David Morrison, AO
The Obstacle is the Way
We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities.
Stoic philosophy – that what is in the way, is the way – can be applied to any problem- it’s a formula invented more than 2,000 years ago, whose effectiveness has been proven in battles and board rooms ever since.
The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety
Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation
This is the first practical, hands-on guide that shows how leaders can build psychological safety in their organisation, creating an environment where employees feel fully engaged and encouraged to contribute their best ideas.
The Resilience Shield
In their groundbreaking guide to overcoming adversity, Australian SAS veterans Dr Dan Pronk, Ben Pronk DSC and Tim Curtis take you behind the scenes of special operations missions, into the boardrooms of leading companies and through the depths of contemporary research in order to demystify and define resilience. Through lessons learned in and out of uniform, they’ve come to understand the critical components of resilience and how it can be developed in anyone including you.
Principles
Winner of the Axiom Business Book Award for 2018
“Mr Dalio has long been an object of fascination. His new book is more significant than the original list of principles: It is part memoir, part how-to guide. It is a deeply personal story, with Mr Dalio wading into how he started his firm in 1975, internal conflicts inside the company, and strife early on in his career. The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving
Legacy
In his global bestseller, Legacy, James Kerr goes deep into the heart of the world’s most successful team, the New Zealand All Blacks, to help understand what it takes to bounce back from adversity and still reach the top.
It is a book about leading a team or an organisation – but, more importantly, about leading a life.
Dare to Lead
Leadership is not about titles, status and power over people.
In her #1 NYT bestsellers, Brene Brown taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead.
The Daily Stoic
‘No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.’ – Marcus Aurelius
The Daily Stoic widens our view on the Stoic philosophy and shows that it can be applied to any problem.From how to manage failure to getting what you want, the ideas of Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and others continue to be vitally relevant to today’s doers and thinkers.
Ego is the Enemy
A powerful meditation on the nature and dangers of ego, from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Stillness is the Key, and Obstacle is the Way – over 1 million copies sold
‘Re-read it each year. It’s that important’ Derek Sivers, author of Anything You Want.
‘This is a book I want every athlete, aspiring leader, entrepreneur, thinker and doer to read’ George Raveling, Nike’s Director of International Basketball.
Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual
Take the guesswork out of leadership by translating theory into practical skills and manoeuvers that leaders at all levels can apply, practice and execute.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Extreme Ownership, this book is a powerful and pragmatic step-by-step guide to leading any team, in any situation, to victory.
Scaling Up
This is the first major revision (2022) to Scaling Up since it was published in 2014. With over 500,000 copies in print, it’s become the standard for scaling any for-purpose or for-profit organization.
In Scaling Up, Harnish and his contributors share practical tools and techniques for scaling an industry dominating business while enjoying the journey.
In Search of Excellence
Based on a study of forty-three of America’s best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management — action-stimulating, people-oriented, profit-maximizing practices — that made these organizations successful.
Your Brain at Work
In Your Brain at Work, Dr. David Rock goes inside Emily and Paul’s brains to see how they function as each attempts to sort, prioritize, organize, and act on the vast quantities of information they receive in one typical day.
The Power of Servant Leadership
During the last decade, we have witnessed an unparalleled explosion of interest in the practice of “servant-leadership”, as today’s business leaders search for a new leadership model for the 21st century.
Based on the seminal work of Robert K. Greenleaf
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive.
12 Rules for Life
Jordan Peterson has become one of the world’s most electrifying and influential public thinkers, with his lectures on topics ranging from the Bible to mythology to romantic relationships capturing audiences of tens of millions. His startling message about the value of personal responsibility and the search for meaning has resonated powerfully around the world.
The Prince
Niccol Machiavelli’s The Prince is the Bible of realpolitik, a tough-minded, pragmatic handbook on how power really works, and how to hold on to it in a dangerous world. How can a leader be strong? Is it better to be feared than loved? This work of a fifteenth-century Florentine diplomat is still read today for its shrewd political lessons.
Extreme Ownership
Jocko and Leif served together in SEAL Task Unit Bruiser, the most highly decorated Special Operations unit from the war in Iraq. Through those difficult months of sustained combat, Jocko, Leif and their SEAL brothers learned that leadership – at every level – is the most important thing on the battlefield. Now they teach these same leadership principles to companies throughout the business world that want to build their own high-performance, winning teams.
Coaching for Performance
Coaching for Performance is the institution of the coaching profession. This landmark text has now undergone the largest revision yet in its history to bring it fully up to date for today’s professionals. With a focus on coaching as a way of being rather than a temporary process, this new edition explains how coaching can have a profound effect on the culture of an organisation. No longer an activity conducted in isolation by a select few managers, coaching impacts the growth of the whole company as well as the personal growth of the individual.
Think Smarter
Thinking is the foundation of everything you do, but we rely largely on automatic thinking to process information, often resulting in misunderstandings and errors. Shifting over to critical thinking means thinking purposefully using a framework and toolset, enabling thought processes that lead to better decisions, faster problem solving, and creative innovation. Think Smarter provides clear, actionable steps toward improving your critical-thinking skills, plus exercises that clarify complex concepts by putting theory into practice.
Start With Why
Why are some people and organisations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others?And why are they able to repeat their success again and again?
Unstoppable Teams
Three-time Navy SEAL platoon commander and founder of Perfect Fitness reveals how to put together teams that can accomplish any objective—by leveraging an unexpected set of values and priorities.
The Coaching Habit
In Michael Bungay Stanier’s The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact.
HBR’s 10 Must Reads Boxed Set
You want the most important ideas on management all in one place. Now you can have them―in a set of HBR’s 10 Must Reads. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on strategy, change leadership, managing people, and managing yourself and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your performance.
Talking to Strangers
What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger’s motives?
Leaders Eat Last
In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek explains where we’ve gone wrong and puts out an urgent call for real leaders to step forth to make a positive difference. In this Leaders Eat Last summary, we’ll explain the human need for safety, why we’ve become so dangerously out of balanced, and how you can become a true leader.
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
If you’ve never read The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, you’ve been missing out on one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. If you have read the original version, then you’ll love this new expanded and updated one.
Theory of Constraints
Theory of Constraints walks you through the crucial stages of a continuous program: the five steps of focusing; the process of change; how to prove effect-cause-effect; and how to invent simple solutions to complex problems. Equally important, the author reveals the devastating impact that an organization’s psychology can have on the process of improvements.
Self Leadership And The One Minute Manager
Twenty years after creating the phenomenal bestselling classic The One Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard returns to its roots with the most powerful and essential title in the series as he explores the skills needed to empower yourself to success.
Thinking Fast and Slow
In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices. One system is fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.
Decision Making & Problem Solving
Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Leadership and Management Skills.
The 48 Laws of Power
The perfect book for the power hungry (and who doesn’t want power?). At work, in relationships, on the street or on the 6 o’clock news: the 48 Laws apply everywhere. For anyone with an interest in conquest, self- defence, wealth, power or simply being an educated spectator, The 48 Laws of Power is one of the most useful and entertaining books ever.
The Art of Resilience
Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body.
Best-selling author and award-winning adventurer Ross Edgley has been studying the art of resilience for years, applying all he has learned to become the first person in history to swim all the way round Great Britain, breaking multiple world records along the way. Now, Ross turns his attention to mental strength and Stoicism.
Strategic Planning and Performance Management
The First Five Tools of Strategy and Strategic Planning.
Develop and measure a winning Strategy, provides a clear and concise roadmap for designing, implementing and measuring strategy. The focus is on strategic factors, which are defined in a unique way as the criteria on which an organization or business unit has to do well in order to succeed.
Building Strategic Organizations
Every leader and team can use Building Strategic Organizations to deepen their understanding of essential strategy topics. You can also use these five tools to quickly develop a robust strategic plan that aligns your on-the-ground work with your strategy, priorities, and vision.
The Design Thinking Playbook
A radical shift in perspective to transform your organization to become more innovative
The Design Thinking Playbook is an actionable guide to the future of business. By stepping back and questioning the current mindset, the faults of the status quo stand out in stark relief—and this guide gives you the tools and frameworks you need to kick off a digital transformation.
What Works on Wall Street
Recent history has witnessed one of the worst stock market beatings ever. As a result, abysmal returns are being called “the new normal,” financial “experts” are ringing the death knell of buy-and-hold, and investors’ faith in equities has hit an all-time low. You have two choices. You can abandon the stock market based on what is happening today. Or you can invest today based on what will happen in the future.
Rich Dad Poor Dad
While so much in our world is changing a high speed, the lessons about money and the principles of Rich Dad Poor Dad haven’t changed. Today, as money continues to play a key role in our daily lives, the messages in Robert Kiyosaki’s international bestseller are more timely and more important than ever.
