It’s a very helpful guide to being a good, caring, respected and positively impactful leader with helpful summary sections that would allow you to put the ideas into an action plan and boost your leadership skills.
Today, I finished reading the attributes by Rich Diviney. It’s a fascinating book, full of interesting insights and enlightening commentary on the human psyche, behaviour and interactions. It sets out 25 human attributes critical for optimum performance, grouped under...
My writing days are Saturday and Sunday. You'll have probably already spotted that Knowing Self Knowing Others is my side hustle so blogging, podcasting and writing has to fit around cooking, shopping and working! Saturday 10th June was an excellent writing day when...
In the UK we had 3 extended weekends thanks to 3 bank holidays which gave me some extra time to work on my book. At the moment, my book is structured into 3 parts: defining and describing, the self-aware leader, and the journey to self-awareness. My job between now...
This is a big book with big principles and stories from big corporations It sets out the 10 WEs: 10 principles on which all organisations should base their behaviour, to drive their operations, and ultimately build their culture. Being with We, Kyle McDowell They are...
This book gave me feedback that I didn’t know I needed to hear. It took me on a journey of despair, embarrassment, inadequacy, enlightenment, learning and improvement. It was quite the journey At one point I couldn’t articulate my response to it, all I could do was...
This book is both amazing and exhausting. I read it whilst lying on a sun lounger next to a pool when I was on holiday and I still felt like I needed a lie down. The concepts keep coming. Page after page there's a new insight, a new definition, and a new model to get...
This book is written from experience. You can really sense that from the examples shared and the language used to share them. It is a collection of curated articles written over a five year span. Jon Rennie makes this clear at the beginning of the book - which is...
Without a shadow of a doubt, the most exciting thing to happen in April was my coaching session with the amazing Steph Caswell of Creating Happy Writers, author of Dare to Write and host of the Creating Happy Writers Podcast. You'll have already worked out from my...
I wanted to read this book to know a bit more about the thoughts and ideas of the fabulous Megumi Miki who recently joined me in an interview for my podcast. I also wanted to read it to better understand myself as a quiet person (QP) and my place in the leadership...
It's a little yellow book of wisdom! The Legendary Quest, Kulkarni & Yoo This book sets out all the things you need to do to live a successful life. One of the things you need to do to achieve that is develop your self-awareness, which is where my interest...
I read this book because I was looking for someone. And I found them. In chapters 1, 2 and 7! The book starts with a questionnaire. This is not for the feint hearted. It's not your average Good Housekeeping multiple choice questionnaire that'll tell you if you should...