Positive Leadership

Positive Leadership Limited is a strategic leadership and corporate finance advisory firm. We use our considerable experience to provide unique perspectives and innovative solutions which help corporate leaders unlock maximum value from complex business challenges. There is no dress rehearsal for delivering answers to critical business challenges. When you are under intense pressure to succeed, we help deliver the vitally important marginal gains which let your business excel and win.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Summer Reading

Here are some books worth reading this summer:

On leadership:

Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business by Ranjay Gulati – organizing for customer-focus, based on 600 in-person interviews
Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World by John Hope Bryant – straight talk from founder of Operation Hope, leader on financial literacy for everyone

Personal Development:

The books below are to enhance your development as a leader and a human being.

Ethics for the New Millennium by the Dalai Lama – brilliant insights into the nature of humanity and how society should develop
Emotional Intelligence: 10th Anniversary Edition; Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman – developing your EQ, not just your IQ
On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis – classic book on leadership by the world’s best leadership scholar
Five Minds for the Future by Howard Gardner – on the developing of our minds, tailored to our unique ways of approaching life
The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life by Emmet Fox – the spiritual classic on the greatest sermon ever delivered – and the most relevant to our 21^st century lives
The MBA Oath: Setting a Higher Standard for Business Leaders by Max Anderson and Peter Escher – about the need for business leaders to have a professional oath comparable to medical doctors and lawyers.

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