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My Misadventure in the start-up bubble
By Dan Lyons
Published by Hachette
Reviewed by Alan Cairns, senior content marketing manager, Jellyfish
I once heard about an agency that encouraged employees to place a tennis ball into "happy" or "sad" buckets at the end of each working day. At first I thought this was a clever way to measure workplace happiness, but I ended up realising it was a canny way of getting employees to reflect on their own work satisfaction, prompting them to make positive changes. READ MORE
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Blue Ocean Strategy:
How to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevantBy Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
Published by Harvard Business Publishing
Reviewed by Jim Lewcock, founder and CEO, The Specialist Works
This is not a book review. It’s an invitation to change your thinking. Perhaps it’s a cult. Certainly the reinvention we have all been waiting for. Have you ever wondered what actually caused all this mess of alleged corruption and client distrust in the first place?
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The Little Black Book of Change
By Paul Adams & Mike Straw
Published by Capstone
Reviewed by Mark Field, incoming director, The Bridge, News UK
In the movie Wayne’s World, when evil Benjamin asks, "How do you feel about making a change?" geeky Garth replies, "We fear change". For me this sums up people’s attitude to change.
However, when we were living in ‘Boris’ World’ and when asked the same question, 52% of the country replied, "Yeah, bring it on. We want change*". READ MORE
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Learning Leadership – the five fundamentals of becoming an exemplary leader
By James M Kouzes and Barry Z Posner
Reviewed by Katie Field, managing director UK, Viant
You’re always wary going into a book on "leadership", with so much waffle getting passed off as new ideas these days.
Having read Learning Leadership - the five fundamentals of becoming an exemplary leader, I’m happy to say I stand corrected. It does pretty much what it says on the tin. READ MORE