Category: Book Reviews
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The Meeting Book (Book Review)
I’ve never been a fan of meetings. Bad meetings, that is. The ones that are ill-prepared (myself included, more often than I’d like to admit) or that just don’t seem to go anywhere. We’re terrible at counting the true cost of a meeting too, quietly adding another recurring weekly slot to the calendar without ever…
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The Decision Stack (Book Review)
Ask ten people to define “strategy” and you’ll get ten different answers. There’s no shortage of books and frameworks to help us think strategically, but formulating and aligning on one is still a genuinely difficult exercise. I’ve found that the hard part isn’t defining the vision or mapping out the steps to get there. It’s…
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“Scaling People” (Book Review)
“Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building” is an indispensable resource for anyone needing guidance on managing people and scaling organisations. Claire Hughes Johnson, former COO of Stripe, offers valuable insights and tactics for scaling organisations and developing people. Her approach to leadership and management is grounded in four core operating principles: “Scaling People”…
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“Evidence-Guided” (Book Review)
How do you identify the right signals to know you’re tackling the right customer problem? What confidence level do you need to invest in a ‘big bet’? In Evidence Guided, experienced product coach Itamar Gilad describes how to apply evidence-guided development in your organisation. The book centres around GIST: Goals, Ideas, Steps, and Tasks. Gilad…
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“The Systems Leader” (Book Review)
In “The Systems Leader”, management lecturer Robert E. Siegel writes about the uncertain landscape in which today’s leaders operate, having to manage many conflicting tensions. System Leadership is about mastering five cross-pressures: The main point of “The Systems Leader” is that today’s leaders need to be good at fitting all the different pieces together to…
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