Heart Leadership In his latest book, Heart Leadership, business mentor and leadership expert Ian Berry talks about the progress from the mind of leadership to leading with the heart. It’s an interesting update on leadership styles and more timely than ever given our experiences with the pandemic, lockdown and often, leading from afar with more…
Best Business Books 2019
Best Business Books 2019 My Best Business Books 2019… Each year I read a lot of books – in the range of 40-55 books. And given I’m always reading and always talking about the best business books, it makes sense that people ask me what I’m reading and what I’d recommend. To help with this…
The Hero’s Journey: Create your Brand and Marketing Message
The Hero’s Journey and What You Do The Hero’s Journey is a great tool to use when you’re asked the inevitable business question: What do you do? How do you usually answer that? Do you respond with a generic category? “I’m a… Business Coach, Accountant or Trainer.” Do you respond with your job title and…
Best Books 2017 for Business and Life
Book of the Year 2017 Best Books 2017? Over the past decade – since I started Book Rapper – I’ve often been asked by friends and colleagues to recommend my best books to read. During this time, I’ve read over 450 books fuelled by an annual goal to read 50 books. This year (2017) I…
Top 10 Business Books for 2018
Top 10 Business Books Business Book of the Year What are the top 10 business books for 2018? And what is your book of the year? Each year, I aim to read 50 books. In 2018, I fell a few short and read 40 books. Still a good result. From this list of books I’ve…
Leadership Development: Best Business Books to Read
Leadership Development What are the best business books to read for leadership development? For a long while I had dismissed leadership development as a topic overblown by it’s own self-importance. For me, so many of the best business books that I had read (over 450 in the past decade) talked about leadership as if they…
Best Business Books to Increase Productivity
The Best Business Books What are the best business books to increase productivity? I have a strong personal interest in this question. As I wrote in my book Done: How to finish your projects when traditional ways don’t work, I had a serious problem finishing things – at one point I had over 25 half-written…
How to overcome any project management challenge
Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash Project management challenges Despite the best planning in the world, there are always going to be project management challenges. Typically, these include: Not meeting deadlinesUnclear goals and objectivesTeam issuesCommunication challengesTechnical problems Scope creepRisks to manage and avoid If you believe Murphy’s Law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.Wikipedia Overcoming obstacles…
The Four Types of Planning in Management
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash What is Planning? It’s such a common word, but what specifically do we mean when we say ‘we are going to do some planning’? The word ‘plan’ is a heteronym, which means it can be both a verb (action/doing word) and a noun (a thing). The action of planning is often spoken about…
Accountability – what it is, why you need it, how to do it
Photo by Massimo Sartirana on Unsplash Accountability Meaning, Definition What do we mean when we say ‘accountability’? I believe ‘to be held to account’ is an important management idea, except it’s almost become a cliché. Or, as political writer Don Watson might have called it ‘a weasel word’ – a concept we use to mask over what’s really…