Posts in New Business Leader
Communicate To Connect

Mentee Reading | Conversation is communal. The goal of any conversation is to connect. There is a very real human need to be included, to belong, to be heard, to share and to relate to experiences that resonate. There is strength in any conversation that enhances community and meaningful connections.

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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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Conflict and Reflection

Mentee Reading | Conflict is inevitable and at times even desirable if those differences result in the design and delivery of coherent, effective strategies. The issue becomes how to turn tensions arising from diversity of thought, personality and experience into an advantage.

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Multiply and Shape Your Impact

Mentee Reading | As an executive, the legacy you craft depends on how you empower others, lead or build something that is smarter or better, nurture the right culture, work with impact on what matters, prefer influence to authority and create a multiplier mindset.

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Learn To Love The Problem

Mentee Reading | Having problems is *not* the problem. Can you find the opportunity and build a better or novel solution? What do you do when you're faced with a big decision? How can you Work Creatively! to be more effective as a strategist, innovator or problem-solver? What do you do when a wild problem requires a leap in the dark? How can you seek viewpoints, be open minded, question your own judgement or conclusions, look for novelty, adopt integrative thinking and look for what you can learn?

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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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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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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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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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Strategy and Future Choices

Mentee Reading | What is strategy and why is it so difficult? This reading series will help answer these questions. Strategies are fundamentally about choice, difference and advantage. It is as much about deciding what not to do and being alert to signals or noise, as it is about what will be done. It incorporates a systems perspective, it is intent-focused, level shifting, opportunistic and timely.

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Future-Proof The Organisation

Mentee Reading | Future proofing the organisation is the focus of this reading list selection, exploring how you can go beyond disruption for a thriving and enduring organisation. Purpose, people, customers and creativity are key. Happy reading and stay curious!

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Leading and Organisations

Mentee Reading | Managerial leadership happens within multiple contexts and multiple moments - the organisation, the coaching and mentoring of and with people, the sustainable future and volatile environments. These six books will help you navigate what it means to be a next-level leader. Happy reading and stay curious!

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Conviction and Courage

Mentee Reading | Exploring leadership with a vision, conviction, courage, different voices, stands worth taking and shaping the future.

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Ideas that Transform

Mentee Reading | Exploring imagination that transforms, outside-in thinking, innovation, applied curiosity and how ideas incubate and spread.

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CEOs Future Focus

Mentee Reading | Exploring CEO leadership, future trends, cyber and AI, sustainability and building exceptional talent.

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