Communication | The Roundtable

Quiet Leadership – Six Steps to Transforming Performance

Posted June 28, 2019 in Career Management, Communication, Decision Making, Latest News & Insights, Leadership, What We're Reading

By: David Rock Reviewed by: Susan MacKenzie The Premise: At the Roundtable, we work with some of the brightest leaders around. We coach to change their behaviour which results in better performance. If you are a people leader, how much of your energy gets focused on improving the performance of your team? In today’s work environment, we are constantly raising the bar on performance with the expectations that leaders have the ability to coach for […]

Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success

Posted June 1, 2016 in Communication, Leadership, Self-Insight, What We're Reading

Written by: Shane Snow Review by: Julie Melaschenko The Premise: Billed as a book for entrepreneurs, Shane Snow’s Smartcuts is actually a great book for anyone looking for ways to innovate, simplify or create. A smartcut is a term Snow coins to describe the way in which a person jumps a series of steps towards success – not a shortcut, wherein one skips steps (potentially missing out on important learning), but a smartcut, where one […]

The Decoded Company: Know Your Talent Better Than You Know Your Customers

Posted April 1, 2014 in Communication, Leadership, What We're Reading

By: Leerom Segal, Aaron Goldstein, Jay Goldman, Rahaf Harfoush Reviewed by: Daneal Charney The Premise: I am one of those HR geeks who closely follows management innovationalists like Gary Hamel and Don Tapscott. So when I picked up The Decoded Company I got excited. The book presents breakthrough ideas on how to leverage employee work data to personalize and optimize the employee experience (in the same way that Facebook, Netflix, Spotify do so in our non-work […]

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t

Posted January 1, 2014 in Communication, Leadership, Teamwork, What We're Reading

By: Simon Sinek Reviewed by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Premise: In a follow-up to his bestseller, Start with Why, Simon Sinek explores what factors drive some employees to say “I love my job” while others approach work like they’re heading to the gallows. In Leaders Eat Last, Sinek explores how you can create an organization in which everyone is inspired to go to work, contributes their best, comes home fulfilled… and delivers results. The examples shared […]

Change with Confidence

Posted August 1, 2013 in Communication, Decision Making, Leadership, What We're Reading

By: Phil Buckley Reviewed by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Premise: Change with Confidence is consultant Phil Buckley’s first book and provides leaders and change professionals with answers to the top 50 questions about change that Buckley has encountered in his career as a corporate change specialist. The book is organized around four phases of a change initiative: figuring it out, planning for change, managing change and making change stick. Each section then dives into various questions […]

Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead

Posted April 1, 2013 in Career Management, Communication, What We're Reading

By: Sheryl Sandberg Reviewed by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Overview: 30 years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions. In Lean In, Facebook COO and Harvard graduate Sheryl Sandberg combines research, data and personal insights to explore the reasons why the gap remains. The book sets the stage by pointing to an “ambition gap” between men and women and then through […]