J. Keith Murnighan – Do Nothing
In Do Nothing! How to Stop Overmanaging and Become a Great Leader award-winning business professor J. Keith Murnighan challenges his readers: “Imagine you’ve just come back to work after a two-week...
View ArticleMark Miller – The 30-Day Leadership Management Course
For those interested in leadership and management topics without yearning to read another pile of books, Mark G. Miller’s The 30-Day Leadership Management Course: A Practical Guide to Better Leadership...
View ArticleWilliam F. Baker & Michael O’Malley – Leading with Kindness
Businessmen and professors William F. Baker and Michael O’Malley have opened quite a couple of new perspectives on leadership. While many leadership books concentrate on leading by example, leadership...
View ArticleMichael Lopp – Managing Humans
In Managing Humans - Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager, veteran software developer and manager Michael Lopp serves you the must-read a-typical management or leadership book....
View ArticleBen Tiggelaar & Joël Aerts – MBA in één dag
MBA in één dag geeft een frisse blik op de beste ideeën van de belangrijkste denkers en schrijvers uit de business literatuur van de afgelopen eeuw. Als bedrijfseconoom ben ik eind jaren ’80 gestart...
View ArticleShari Harley – How to Say Anything to Anyone
In How to Say Anything to Anyone Shari Harley presents a Guide to Building Business Relationships That Really Work. Key concept: candor. Candor is making a commitment to talk about things as they...
View ArticleDoug Sundheim – Taking Smart Risks
Playing it safe is no option to win in today’s marketplace, neither is a too risk appetite approach. Doug Sundheim takes you to the middle road between boredom and careless risky behaviour....
View ArticleDave Ulrich & Norm Smallwood – Leadership Sustainability
What’s the return on investment of leadership skills training? What’s the lasting effect of a bookshelf full with great thoughts on leadership, management, business and influencing people? How easy to...
View Article10 leiderschapslessen toegepast in persoonlijke praktijk
Via icm.nl kreeg ik onlangs een oversized speelkaart met daarop 10 leiderschapslessen. Op eerste oog dooddoeners, open deuren of bekende boodschappen. Platgetreden paden, zoals je vaak in tot tweets...
View ArticleDe kracht van Critical Thinking ofwel door- en voordenken
In het Leadership Advantage Program had ons drietal in september gekozen voor het onderwerp Critical Thinking. Ten opzichte van het in een oogwenk (daarom ook Blink (2005) als titel van Malcolm...
View ArticleMarc Dortu – Je ziet het niet vanzelf!
Met de stelling, dat 70% van de projecten om veranderingen door te voeren mislukt, begint ook dit boek. Je zou er haast een sik van krijgen hoe dit roemruchte statistische gegeven een eigen leven...
View ArticleLarry Osborne – Innovation’s Dirty Little Secret
Unlike most business books on innovation Larry Osborne does not draw on worn out (urban) legends, instead applies spiritual and managerial lessons in and from his own organization, a mega church in San...
View ArticleHenk Jan Kamsteeg – Pure winst
Hoe kun jij bijdragen aan een betere wereld, een goed doel, een rechtvaardiger samenleving? Sus je je geweten door periodiek wat geld over te maken naar een hulporganisatie en koop je daarmee verdere...
View ArticleTemeko Richardson – Get A Clue – 10 Steps to an ExecutiveIQ
Temeko Richardson, a CRM consultant to CxOs, has coined “ExecutiveIQ” and yielded her work experiences and technological insights to compile this 10-steps book. In the beginning I somehow got the...
View ArticleMet Bart Flos op zoek naar het perfecte project
Een maand geleden was veranderadviseur en inspirator Bart Flos te gast bij Freelunch om er in een half uur de kernboodschap van zijn laatste boek Het Perfecte Project voor het voetlicht te brengen....
View ArticleFaisal Hoque & Drake Baer – Everything Connects
Everything Connects connects a myriad of ideas on innovation, organization, leadership, creative destruction, motivation and sustainability. Faisal Hoque & Drake Baer throw in examples from history...
View ArticleGordon Tredgold – Leadership: It’s a Marathon Not a Sprint
Currently I’m in the writing process of a book on project management illustrated with long distance walking experiences. I was glad to discover Gordon Tredgold’s new book Leadership: It’s a Marathon,...
View ArticleJurgen Appelo – Management 3.0 Workout: Games, Tools & Practices to Engage...
After Management 3.0 and How to Change the World, Jurgen Appelo is back with a series of principles, tools & practices, and inspirational thoughts to replace bad management by better management....
View ArticleDirection is key #6 to happier living
We all need goals to motivate us and these need to be challenging enough to excite us, but also achievable. Maybe you know the SMART acronym to define goals: Specific, Measurable, Acceptable, Relevant...
View ArticleRalph K Hawkins & Richard Leslie Parrott – Leadership Lessons Avoiding the...
Many books on leadership concentrate on good or ‘best’ practices, often taken from interviews with successful corporations and sociological research. Both nonbelievers, Christians (e.g. John Maxwell)...
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