Leadership
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Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back
Posted July 31, 2019 in Career Management, Latest News & Insights, Leadership, What We're ReadingBy: Gary John Bishop Reviewed by: Liyana Johan The Premise: From the author of Unfuck Yourself, Gary John Bishop is back with his second book Stop Doing That Sh*t which attempts to describe the reasons why we’re stuck in destructive self-sabotaging cycles and how by Stop Doing That Sh*t, we can break through and achieve […]
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Quiet Leadership – Six Steps to Transforming Performance
Posted June 28, 2019 in Career Management, Communication, Decision Making, Latest News & Insights, Leadership, What We're ReadingBy: 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 […]
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The First 90 Days
Posted September 9, 2016 in Leadership, What We're ReadingBy: Michael Watkins Reviewed by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Premise: In an homage to the recent US inauguration and the scrutiny being placed on President Obama, we thought we’d revisit Michael Watkins’ guidebook to navigating your first three months in a new leadership role. Watkins is an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School where he specializes […]
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Onward
Posted August 10, 2016 in Leadership, What We're ReadingBy: Howard Schultz Reviewed by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Premise: In 2007, after years of recording record growth and profits, Starbucks Coffee Company started to take a rapid and brutal nose dive. With analysts and critics pronouncing the death of the coffee juggernaut, entrepreneur and founder, Howard Schultz stepped back into the business after moving away […]
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
Posted June 1, 2016 in Communication, Leadership, Self-Insight, What We're ReadingWritten 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 […]
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Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
Posted May 1, 2016 in Career Management, Leadership, What We're ReadingWritten by: Derek Sivers Review by: Julie Melaschenko The Premise: A short, easy to read autobiography/manifesto, this pocket book outlines 40 lessons learned by Derek Sivers in his humble rise and unusual retreat from musician to accidental online marketing sensation and back again. As an independent musician with no way to sell his own music, […]
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