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Brave Leadership: Unleash Yout Most Confident, Powerful, and Authentic Self to Get the Results You Need Kimberly Davis Greenleaf Book Group Press (January 2018) “Do the best you can until you know better. When you know better, do better.” Maya…
Read MoreThe Right — and Wrong — Stuff: How Brilliant Careers Are Made and Unmade Carter Cast Public Affairs (January 2018) “What really impedes the progress of talented people? Why do some careers stall while others flourish?” Careers as well as…
Read MoreEntering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job Jeffrey Bussgang Harvard Business Review Prfess (October 2017) What you need to know — from an expert — about exploring territory that is probably unfamiliar I think the subtitle should…
Read MorePayoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations Dan Ariely TED Books (November 2016) How and why people can have perpetual energy by investing in “a sense of connection, meaning, ownership, and long-term thinking” In Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded…
Read MoreDan Pontefract is Chief Envisioner at TELUS, a Canadian telecommunications company, where he heads the Transformation Office, a future-of-work consulting group that helps organizations enhance their corporate cultures and collaboration practices. Previously as Head of Learning & Collaboration at TELUS,…
Read MoreDan Pontefract is Chief Envisioner at TELUS, a Canadian telecommunications company, where he heads the Transformation Office, a future-of-work consulting group that helps organizations enhance their corporate cultures and collaboration practices. Previously as Head of Learning & Collaboration at TELUS,…
Read MoreMillion Dollar Maverick: Forge Your Own Path to Think Differently, Act Decisively, and Succeed Quickly Alan Weiss Bibliomotion (May 2016) How and why “simply taking a contrarian or one-off view” – and acting on it – can be the secret…
Read More5 Habits to Lead from Your Heart: Getting Out of Your Head to Express Your Heart Johnny Covey Made for Success Publishing (June 2016) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle…
Read MoreInvisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior Jonah Berger Simon & Schuster (June 2015) Here are the “simple, subtle, and other surprising ways that others affect our behavior” Actually, the invisibility to which the book’s title refers is —…
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