Let the Samurai Be Your Guide
£9.99Leadership lessons inspired by the Samurai spirit and the resilience of Japanese American pioneers.
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The Diary of a CEO
£10.99‘The Diary of a CEO’ is an unfiltered journey into the remarkable stories of the people that have defined culture, achieved greatness and created stories worth studying. Steven conducts his podcast by interviewing some of the world’s most influential people, experts and thinkers and embarks on a curiosity driven journey to discover untold truths, unlearned lessons and important insights that will make his, and the audiences lives more enjoyable, more successful and more fulfilled. ‘The Diary of a CEO’ is different because of how raw, honest and emotional it is – living up to the word ‘diary’ in its name – these are the things people don’t usually share told with a level of honesty that most ‘interviews’ don’t give you.
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The Success Principles
£18.99Jack Canfield reveals the simple set of rules for success that led him to become the multi-million copy bestselling author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and shows how anyone can follow these principles to achieve their own dreams.
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Plays Well With Others
£12.99Can you judge a book by its cover? Is a friend in need truly a friend indeed? Does love conquer all? Is no man an island? In ‘Plays Well with Others’, Eric Barker dives into these age-old maxims drawing on science to reveal the truth beyond the conventional wisdom about human relationships. Combining his compelling storytelling and humour, Barker explains what hostage negotiation techniques and marital arguments have in common, how an expert con-man lied his way into a twenty-year professional soccer career, and why those holding views diametrically opposed to our own actually have the potential to become our closest, most trusted friends.
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*Ck
£12.99A self-help guide for millennials – superstar blogger Mark Manson shows us how to accept our faults, discover just how much pain we can tolerate, and stop deluding ourselves so that we can be better, happier people.
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The Stoic capitalist
£20.00An exploration of the issues around the Stoic ideal of a well lived life, and how anyone can learn to define and realize a modern version of it for themselves.
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Moral ambition
£20.00The inspiring, life-changing new book from global sensation Rutger Bregman, Moral Ambition shows how you can use your time – and your talents – to change the world
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The explorer’s gene
£25.00Alex Hutchinson returns with a fresh, provocative investigation into how exploration, uncertainty, and risk shape our behaviour and help us find meaning. Off the beaten path, following unmarked trails, we are wired to explore. More than just a need to get outside, the search for the unknown is a primal urge that has shaped the history of our species and continues to mold our behaviour in ways we are only beginning to understand. In fact, the latest neuroscience suggests that exploration in any form – whether it’s trying a new restaurant, changing careers, or deciding to run a marathon – is an essential ingredient of human life. Exploration, it turns out, isn’t merely a hobby – it’s our story. In this book, Hutchinson refutes the myth that, in our fully mapped digital world, the age of exploration is dead.
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Tested
£14.99Australia’s Test Cricket Captain in conversation with remarkable leaders and achievers – from Julia Gillard to Dennis Lillee. When Pat Cummins unexpectedly became Australia’s 47th Test captain at age 28, he inherited a team with a long and storied history, but also one on the cusp of reinvention. It was the beginning of a personal leadership journey for him, a unique moment of challenge and pressure that would see him become a seasoned captain and, in his private life, become a father and husband but also lose his mother to cancer.Inspiring, revealing and deeply personal, Tested is an exploration of the remarkable place where challenge, crisis and opportunity meet, and how it’s only in the moments when we are tested that we discover what we are made of.From a charity leader to Australia’s first female prime minister, a Test cricket great to a ground-breaking scientist, an Indigenous leader to a bestselling author and podcaster, Pat inte
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The disengaged teen
£16.99Adolescents are hardwired to explore and grow, and learning is mainly how they do this. But a shocking majority of teens are disengaged from school, simultaneously bored and overwhelmed. As parents, we can feel powerless and don’t know how to help – until now. Based on five years of research into why children lose their love of learning, journalist Jenny Anderson and the Brookings Institution’s global education expert Rebecca Winthrop have created a transformative model that every parent, carer and educator needs to know about. Identifying four modes of learning that every student goes through – resister, passenger, achiever and explorer – you’ll find out why understanding what these are is crucial to your child’s development and how you can coach them to become a curious, resilient and motivated learner.
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What you do is who you are
£10.99Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author combines lessons both from history and modern organisational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help us build cultures that can weather both good and bad times.
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The glass cliff
£10.99A data-led examination of The Glass Cliff social phenomenon, whereby women are often only hired into leadership roles when a business is already underperforming, thereby undercutting their chances of success.