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?
Read MoreMentee 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?
Read MoreMentee 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.
Read MoreMentee 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.
Read MoreMentee 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?
Read MoreMentee 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.
Read MoreMentee Reading | Adventures In Thinking looks at collective thinking and the creative mindset, design paradigm and ideas-informed society needed to face the future including the coming wave of powerful technologies.
Read MoreMentee Reading | What are the greatest leverage points for reducing emissions? What are the human choices and alternatives? What do we need to do now? Can we build a better future? This series will assist you understand the clean energy supply chain, the implications of climate and carbon and the options of electrification, community involvement and the circular economy. Happy reading and stay curious!
Read MoreMentee 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!
Read MoreMentee Reading | How is AI shaping our ourselves, our humaness and our societies? What are the next big positive breakthroughs? How will AI change the way we govern, learn, heal, work and live? How ethical and responsible will it be? How can we make AI a partner in shaping a better world?
Read MoreMentee Reading | Curious about gaining insight, idea flow and management effectiveness? Ask the right questions, see what others don’t, develop new ways of thinking, learn from indigenous thinking and find better ways to meet challenges.
Read MoreMentee Reading | Exploring the traps of meritocracy, culturally diverse leadership, bamboo ceilings, bridging differences. bias, changing minds, the quietly powerful and different generations.
Read MoreMentee Reading | Exploring how to lead positive change, collaborative change and innovation, stories of purpose-driven change, creative tensions, thinking for change, empowering others to make better choices.
Read MoreMentee Reading | Exploring power, dead-end work, careers in uncertain times, why there is no such thing as the ideal executive, how successful people become even more successful and strategies for shaping a working identity.
Read MoreMentee Reading | Exploring sustainability, climate, circular economy, food production, zero-carbon, regeneration, landscapes and the environment.
Read MoreMentee Reading | Exploring fixed and changing mindsets, why people think in certain ways, understanding others and the world around us.
Read MoreMentee Reading | Exploring boardroom dynamics, paradoxes of leadership, variability in judgment and taking value(s) based actions.
Read MoreMentee Reading | Exploring leadership with a vision, conviction, courage, different voices, stands worth taking and shaping the future.
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