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Women Of The C-Suite
Women Of The C-Suite

Mentee Reading | How women excel and confidently take the initiative to draw on the best around them. The takeaways are: join circles of influence, seek out others with different ways of doing things, notice and pick out people with approaches, styles and sector knowledge that both resonates and stretches your own perspectives.

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C-Suite, Coach-Mentor, Conversations That Matter, Executive Promotions, Future Focus, Grit and Resilience, High-Performance, Leadership, Mastery, New Business Leader, Reading Circle, Stimulating Ideas, Strategy, The Long View, Think Differently!, Women's Leadership, Multiply Your ImpactDianne JacobsCarolyn Dewar, Scott Keller and Vikram (Vik) Malhotra, CEO Excellence, Jennifer McCollum, Own Voice, A Women's Rise To CEO, Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith, How Women Rise, Edie Fraser, Robyn Freedman Spizman and Andi Simon, Women Mean Business, Grace Puma and Christiana Smith Shi, Career Forward, Indra Nooyi, My Life In Full, Executive Promotions, CEO, C-Suite, Corinne Post, Boris Lokshin and Christophe Boone, Adding Women to the C-Suite Changes How Companies Think Comment
Make Possibilities Happen
Make Possibilities Happen

Mentee Reading | There are two critical things an executive can influence when it comes to making possibilities happen: your strategy and your ability to execute that strategy. After all, any dream, idea or goal without the ability to bring it to reality is merely wishful thinking. Moving from visualisation to actualisation takes a specific skill set, hyper focus and discipline.

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Boardroom, C-Suite, Coach-Mentor, Conversations That Matter, Effort, Execution, Flux and Failure, Leadership, Make It Happen, Mastery, Problem Solving, Reading Circle, Strategy, The Long View, Think Differently!, Transformation, Multiply Your ImpactDianne JacobsMake Possibilities Happen: How to Transform Ideas into Reality, Grace Hawthorne, How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters, Michael Stanier Bungay, The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals, Sean Covey, Chris McChesney and Jim Huling, The Change Book: Fifty models to explain how things happen, Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler, Super Vision: An Eye-Opening Approach to Getting Unstuck, Sherife AbdelMessih, Hyperfocus: How to Work Less to Achieve More, Chris BaileyComment
Love What You Do and Do What Sustains You
Love What You Do and Do What Sustains You

Mentee Reading | The path to satisfaction is not linear. Hopefully, along the way you’ll discover the crucial intersection between what you love to do and how you contribute it to others. Fulfilment doesn’t come from one-off peaks, but from many consistent good days. So how do we sustain performance, foster deeper connections, know ourselves, find more in life and do what we love?

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Conversations That Matter, Continuous Learning, Future Focus, Leadership, Problem Solving, Reading Circle, Questions, Stimulating Ideas, The Long View, Think Differently!, C-Suite, Coach-Mentor, Mastery, Disruption, Risk, Transformation, New Business Leader, High-Performance, Hidden Potential, Executive PromotionsDianne JacobsIdeas, Leadership, Imagination, Outside-In Thinking, Problem Solving, Outside-In Questions, Excellence, facing the future, Business Leadership, Lost Leaders, Future Choices, Future Self, Strengths, Breakthrough, Thrive, Love + Work, Do What Sustains You, Working Identity, Sustain Excellence, Love What You DoComment
Lost Leaders
Lost Leaders

Mentee Reading | When life and work don’t go as planned, sometimes under challenging and confronting circumstances, there can be a painful sense of being unable to find the way. Rather than staying lost or being stuck in ‘not knowing’ or making mental mistakes about the future, look for that breakthrough.

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Conversations That Matter, Continuous Learning, Future Focus, Leadership, Problem Solving, Reading Circle, Questions, Stimulating Ideas, The Long View, Think Differently!, C-Suite, Coach-Mentor, Curiosity, Mastery, Disruption, Risk, Transformation, New Business Leader, Flux and Failure, High-Performance, Hidden PotentialDianne JacobsDiverse Thinking, Future, Ideas, Leadership, Imagination, Connection, Invention and Innovation, Outside-In Thinking, Problem Solving, Outside-In Questions, Excellence, facing the future, Business Leadership, Lost Leaders, Future Choices, Future Self, Strengths, Breakthrough, ThriveComment
New Kind of Business Leadership
New Kind of Business Leadership

Mentee Reading | As the business environment is transforming a new kind of business leadership is emerging. Contemporary organisations are seeking solutionists, activists, relationists, imperfectionists all with the curiosity and a mindset necessary for a fragmented, uncertain and non-linear future.

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Conversations That Matter, Continuous Learning, Future Focus, Leadership, Problem Solving, Reading Circle, Questions, Stimulating Ideas, The Long View, Think Differently!, Boardroom, C-Suite, Coach-Mentor, Curiosity, Mastery, Disruption, Risk, Strategy, Sustainability, Transformation, New Business LeaderDianne JacobsCuriosity, Diverse Thinking, Future, Ideas, Leadership, Imagination, Connection, Invention and Innovation, Outside-In Thinking, Problem Solving, Outside-In Questions, Excellence, design-thinking paradigm, ideas-informed society, facing the future, Business LeadershipComment
Storytellers and Powerful Stories
Storytellers and Powerful Stories

Mentee Reading | Powerful stories. Storytellers. Right story. What can storytelling do for you? Which stories do you need to tell, and how do you tell them? Do you worry about holding people's attention? Are you unsure where to start when faced with writing a report? Are you preparing for a discussion and wondering how to get all your points across? What are the four stories that form your narrative and how will you utilise them?

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Conversations That Matter, Continuous Learning, Future Focus, Leadership, Problem Solving, Reading Circle, Questions, Stimulating Ideas, The Long View, Think Differently!, Boardroom, C-Suite, Coach-Mentor, Curiosity, Mastery, Powerful Stories, New Business LeaderDianne JacobsCuriosity, Diverse Thinking, Future, Ideas, Leadership, Imagination, Connection, Invention and Innovation, Outside-In Thinking, Problem Solving, Outside-In Questions, Excellence, design-thinking paradigm, ideas-informed society, facing the future, Storytelling, Powerful StoriesComment
Achieving What Matters Most
Achieving What Matters Most

Mentee Reading | Achieving What Matters Most is the focus of this reading list selection, exploring if we can achieve and master something we choose, if the work we did had significance, if we could tap hidden potential, if we could smooth the friction, if we could make the right things easier and the wrong or pointless things harder. Happy reading and stay curious!

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Coach-Mentor, Conversations That Matter, Curiosity, Continuous Learning, Executive Promotions, High-Performance, Leadership, Problem Solving, Questions, Reading Circle, Stimulating Ideas, The Long View, Think Differently!, Mastery, Hidden Potential, Significance, EffortDianne JacobsThe Talent Advisors | NED AdvisorsAchieving, Mastery, Significance, Friction Project, Get The Right Things Done, Hidden Potential, Effort, Successful ProjectsComment