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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups – leadership book review
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This book is aimed at a wide range of professionals, including company leaders, managers, and human resource experts who play a critical role in shaping the culture and dynamics of their teams and organisations. Daniel Coyle gives us an important lesson in leadership and management: quite often, the team dynamics inspired by the leader are more important than the individuals comprising the team. The author delves into the specific actions and elements required for a team to achieve the type of cooperation and coordination that leads to greatness, using real-world examples from a variety of industries and sports, providing practical insight and actionable steps for fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and success within a team or organisation. The book covers the key principles and strategies for building a positive and productive group culture: creating safety, sharing vulnerability, and establishing purpose. About the author Daniel Coyle is a best-selling author and speaker who has written several books on the topic of human performance, including “The Talent Code,” “The Little Book of Talent,” and “The Culture Code.” He is known for his research-based approach to understanding how individuals and groups achieve success. Coyle has spent over a decade studying and writing…

Developing the Leader within you 2.0 - leadership book review
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Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 by John C. Maxwell – leadership book review
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The reason why leadership became such an important subject these days is due to the fact that people realize the following: when you become a leader, your hole life changes. Everything goes up and down with leadership and the world becomes a better place when people become better leaders. Your development as a leader has the power to change everything about you: you will become more effective, your weak points will improve, and your impact will be amplified exponentially. Developing the Leader Within You (we are reviewing the updated 2.0 version released in 2018), cited by many to be the best book you can read at the beginning of your leadership career, revolutionized the way leaders are made and in the process sold more than one million copies. Twenty-five years after its original release, the author returns to his classic text to include the leadership insights and practices he’s learned in the decades since the book first appeared. Thoroughly revised and with two completely new chapters, this new edition updates the foundational principles for transformative leadership that Maxwell has used as a leader for more than 40 years. No matter what arena you are called to–family, church, business, nonprofit–the principles…

Peopleware leadership book review
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Peopleware by Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister – How to successfully lead in the software industry – leadership book review
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Progress Rating: 5/5
Category: Management (Software Industry)
Why leaders should read it: Management in the software industry presents distinct challanges. From how to approach recruiting to how the office should be built in order to boost productivity, Peopleware presents a complete overview of the entire software management process. The book is written as a series of essays on the various ways that software companies and projects go right and wrong. Each chapter has some prescriptive advice that could be used in order to begin a sensible reconstruction of a project, a division, or a whole organization.

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Ego Is The Enemy by Ryan Holiday – a vaccine against failure in leadership – leadership book review
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Progress Rating: 3/5
Category: Personal Development (Teaching humility and modesty)
Why leaders should read it: It teaches leaders why modesty is more important today than ever and what advantages a quiet leader has in our interconected world. We are also presented with a lot of history tales about how successful and unsuccessful leaders managed their ego.
‘Ego Is The Enemy’ is a valuable book for leaders. There is a lot to learn for someone who is at the beginning of his leadership journey, and this book can help with setting up a good mindset and shaping a healthy way of thinking about this position before being influenced by other unfair events or people with their own agenda. But also, during every leader’s career, there will be times when things are not going so well and times when everything seems to be working perfectly. Both of this cases are turning points during which great leaders think and act in the best way possible in order to keep the motivation and raise the happiness of their teams and companies.

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Daring Greatly by Brené Brown – how to embrace vulnerability as a leader – leadership book review
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Progress Rating: 4/5
Category: Personal Development (Understanding vulnerability)
Why leaders should read it: It teaches leaders why they must embrace vulnerability and discomfort, how to give great feedback and what to do in order to have a very open, communicative and efficeint team
After more than a decade of studying the topic, Brené Brown presents in this groundbreaking book her take on vulnerability and how understanding it better will help us live a more fulfilled life and increase our contributions to our family, school, job or other communities we are part of.

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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup – leadership book review
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Progress Rating: 5/5
Category: Thriller | Biography
Impression: tackles some serious ethical questions, but it is ultimately a thriller with a tragic ending. It’s a fun read full of bizarre details that will make you gasp out loud. The story almost feels too ridiculous to be real at points
Biographies of great achievers can be a great source for inspiration. They can not only teach us resilience and strategy, but we can also see that every great individual who managed to achieve some ambitious goals had his faith tested several times along the way. Their vision combined with a burning desire and backed by discipline, hard work and people skills are the reasons why we now have great things that we take for granted, which can include: the incandescent light bulb, the antibiotics, the airplane, or the smartphone.
But what happens if, for a bright Stanford student with great resilience, sales skills and connections, being remembered as a great inventor like Thomas Edison, Louis Pasteur, The Wright brothers or Steve Jobs is more important than helping the world with a revolutionary discovery? This is the true and tragic story of Elizabeth Holmes and the company she so desperately wanted to become a success: Theranos.

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Measure what matters – OKRs in action – leadership book review
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Progress Rating: 3/5
Category: Leadership & management
Impression: A good book on how successful corporations use new management concepts in order to get the best results. Also includes a small history of management techniques
The book gives detailed information about how a lot of companies ranging from small startups to big corporations (like Intel and YouTube) managed to scale, improve revenue or achieve ambitious goals by using a more effective approach of goal setting called OKR (Objectives and Key Results) that improves the process of planning, progress tracking and keeping accountability.