Business Books

40 CEO Success Stories

By The CEO Institute

It’s lonely at the top - just ask any CEO. The buck stops at the CEO’s desk and the leader’s decisions spell success or failure. It is a job without peer. But there is one group who truly understand the challenges of leadership: other CEOs. In 40 CEO Success Stories, 40 Australian CEOs tell how they have faced their biggest challenges, found solutions - and thrived.

Add Value

By Mark Carter

Achieve impact, fulfillment and legacy by integrating your values across all aspects of your life.

Aligning Workforce And Business Strategies

By Colin Beames

The alignment of business and workforce strategies is a hot topic in the HR and business domain. Many HR professionals have identified this as a key issue for those seeking to extract maximum value from their most important intangible asset - their people. This book provides a road map for those seeking to achieve this alignment.

Amplifiers

By Matt Church

Great leaders do much more than just make decisions; they inspire those around them to excellence and form the vital link between strategy and execution. Amplifiers explains how great leaders use the art and practice of motivational leadership to light the path to success and inspire others to take that journey with them. This practical, powerful guide explores how great leaders move people to action and excellence - and how you can do the same.

Apprentice To Business Ace

By Sue Currie

Your inside-out guide to personal branding is a resource for the corporate or independent professional who wants to succeed in the business world. It shows readers how to go from being an apprentice, or at the first level of business success, to being a leader in their field. The way to do this is through personal branding - differentiating yourself from the competition.

Attracting And Retaining Talent

By Tim Baker

Attracting and Retaining Talent offers a practical roadmap for developing a new, more productive workplace culture, one that examines the employment relationship, reflecting the changing needs of the modern employee, and the interests of the progressive organization. This new way of relating is the cornerstone of being an employer of choice and for attracting the most talented workforce.

Beat Gender Bias

By Karen Morley

It is possible to Beat Gender Bias when you understand how bias works and why it happens. A must-read for all leaders, this practical book outlines an approach for minimising the impact of bias in organisations.

Be Brilliant

By Janine Garner

Slow down, own who you really are and unleash your inner brilliance. Be Brilliant helps you get out of your own way and unlock your true potential.

Be Your Own Leadership Coach

Karen Stein

Leadership is challenging. There are many complex problems to work through, decisions to be made and priorities to juggle. And, by the time you’re in a leadership role, you’re expected to know exactly what to do and how to do it.

Big Data Marketing

By Lisa Arthur

Big Data Marketing is a priority read for executives, marketers and others who want to tackle big data and use it to improve customer experiences, show revenue impact and demonstrate the value of their own roles. Using non-technical language, a healthy dose of humour and real-world examples, Arthur helps readers better understand and master the challenges and opportunities of modern big data marketing.

Blind Spots

By RJ Brideson

Blind Spots outlines the way forward for companies who want to get early-mover advantage on this new $28 trillion economy. This powerful market has remained untapped, ignored and underserved despite the fact it is more economically powerful than India and China together - twice over and continues to rise.

Brand Engagement

By Wendy McWilliams

This book is essential for all small to medium enterprises who want their brand to stand out in a crowded marketplace. It's a practical guide that explains how to create a low-cost and effective public relations campaign.

Building Resilience At Work

By Katherine McEwen

Our resilience, or capacity to bounce back and even thrive in pressured times, is critical in workplaces today. With higher workloads, declining resources and frequent change, together with the hectic pace of personal lives, resilience is almost a key to survival. Based on sound psychological theory, Building Resilience at Work is a practical and easy-to-read book providing a proven path to self-help in developing personal resilience.

Business Beyond Borders

By Cynthia Dearin

Expanding internationally might feel like a pipe dream for many Australian businesses, but despite COVID-19 there’s a global marketplace ready right now - you just need to know how to do it well.

Buy, Grow, Exit

By Joanna Oakey

Buy, Grow, Exit, is a definitive, practical guide for business owners and their advisors on how to acquire, grow and exit a business in a way that maximises its value.

Career Unstuck

By Charlotte Blair

Do you feel stuck in your career? Do you long for more purpose? More freedom? More autonomy? Even more joy? Maybe you don’t have the opportunity to do what you do best every day. We spend over 80,000 hours of our life at work. We’re in the midst of a new revolution of people seeking more purpose in their work. It’s now your time to follow your passion and reach your full potential.

Courageous Invitations

Dr Jefferson Yu-Jen Chen and Anne Duggan

Is 2023 the time to disrupt yourself? If you’re looking to achieve greater happiness and personal fulfilment, this new book is for you.

Darling, You Can't Do Both

Janet Kestin and Nancy Vonk

Women need to start breaking the largely unspoken rules of business they’ve always tacitly accepted. 'Darling, You Can’t Do Both' outlines new strategies for every woman with ambition who is moving (and looking) forward- with motherhood not a roadblock but an unfair advantage.

Developing Direct Reports

By Corrinne Armour, Anneli Blundell & Belinda Cohen

Strong leadership is essential to the success of any organisation and in today's world, strong leadership must be realised at all levels. Developing Direct Reports: Taking the guesswork out of leading leaders aims to facilitate a new kind of conversation about leadership development.

Digital Is Everyone's Business

By David Banger

Marketplaces continue to change. The demands on your business are unprecedented: the volume of work is ever growing, complexity is increasing and digital is confusing. How will your organisation evolve? If you are serious about evolving your business and growing your people, and you want to understand and be digital, this guide is your foundation.

Elevate

By Shannah Kennedy & Colleen Callander

Elevate is not just a book; it’s a powerful mantra that you can carry with you every day, in every action, and apply to every aspect of your life.

The Encore Effect

By Mark Sanborn

Learn to give a remarkable performance in anything you do, and how to achieve the kind of extraordinary performance on the job that leaves people clamouring for more. Whether your stage is an office, a sales floor or a boardroom, Sanborn's sound and inspiring advice will help you shine ... everywhere it matters most. 

Everyday Creative

By Mykel Dixon

We all have a dysfunctional relationship with creativity. We love it, value it and want more of it but just can't seem to find the time or resources to give to it. And despite desperate calls for more innovative thinking, the systems and processes that hold most businesses together don't allow or enable anything like it.

Execution To Die For

By Graham Haines

This book is about overcoming the barriers to execution; the barriers that frustrate managers the world over as they see their plans and strategies undermined by poor implementation. Execution to Die For identifies 36 barriers to making it happen, explains why they occur and what to do about them. The book draws on the author's forty years of experience developing plans for others to implement and executing the plans of others.

Extraordinary Leadership In Australia And New Zealand - The Five Practices That Create Great Workplaces

James Kouzes & Barry Posner with Michael Bunting

The research-driven guide to the leadership behaviours which create more engaged workplaces and higher performance, Extraordinary Leadership in Australia and New Zealand is a guidebook for what it takes, at any level of an organisation, to bring out the best in people.

FIT

Warren Kennaugh

FIT: When Talent and Intelligence Just Won't Cut It unearths the hidden traits of elite performance and enables you to find your fit to further enhance your engagement and success.

Fitpreneur

Nikki Fogden-Moore

Struggle less, be free to strive more. Less hard work and more energy to work hard at what you love.

Fixing Feedback

Georgia Murch

Feedback is broken - here's how to fix it to create a highly engaged workplace with high performing leaders and employees. Fixing Feedback is not just another management book - it's a smart, refreshing, practical guide to feedback in the workplace.

Fred 2.0

By Mark Sanborn

Today, with stiff competition from the networked global economy, delivering extraordinary results is more important than ever. Mark equips all of us with new strategies to achieve more. You'll not only be inspired by Fred 2.0, you'll also have the tools and strategies to aim higher and achieve the extraordinary.

From Bud To Boss

By Kevin Eikenberry

The transition from bud to boss is challenging, but exciting, with new responsibilities, relationship dynamics, and opportunities for growth. However, new boss's often don't get the training, support, and guidance they need to be successful. From Bud To Boss provides a comprehensive solution to the leadership transition crisis.

From Hope To Strategy

By Wayne Harrison

This is the gift that keeps giving. From Hope To Strategy: The Anatomy of Negotiation, is a book by Wayne Harrison that gives you the latest tools to do the right thing the right way at the right time.

From The Ground Up

By Sunil Kumar

This book is for those who want to be better leaders and better people. It is neither a magic recipe nor a short-cut to success. At heart, it identifies the basic principles of success in business, but ultimately how your people are the life of your business. It is a practical, 'how to' guide on creating success, with examples, tips, and exercises to get you working and thinking differently. 

FullyConnected

By Mel Kettle

Leaders have spent the past two years operating in survival mode, struggling with stress, overwhelm and burnout, with no respite in sight. But in order to effectively lead others, self-care needs to be prioritised in order to show up as the best version of themselves.

Fusion - The New Way Of Marketing

By David Taylor & David Miles

The development of modern websites, social networking sites, and pay-per-click as the modern face of advertising, have revolutionised the way we communicate with the world around us. Fusion will help you understand this new world order, explain why the old rules of marketing are being broken, and present you with cost effective ways to reach customers and improve profitability.

Future Brain

By Dr. Jenny Brockis

Super-charge your brain to gain a huge competitive edge in business and in life. Future Brain is the busy professional's secret weapon for boosting mastery, efficiency, and productivity to gain that coveted competitive edge - in business and in life.

Future Fit 2 ^nd Edition

By Andrea Clarke

Award-winning author, Andrea Clarke, shares her experience, expertise and tactical advice on how to become truly Future Fit.

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The Future Of Service Is 5D

Jaquie Scammell

With the ongoing disruption from AI and automation, it’s easy to assume that machines will replace humans in almost every field. Service industries are rushing to digitise for efficiency, yet they’re compromising what once set them apart: the act of service by a human. But what if, rather from making humans obsolete, the digital era brings opportunities for a more dynamic form of service than we’ve ever seen?

From Me To We

By Janine Garner

Business leaders and entrepreneurs have the complex responsibility of constant strategic thinking. If those finely tuned minds can be brought together for mutual benefit, the possibilities expand and the rewards can be dramatically amplified. From Me to We helps leaders drive better business, armored against future threats.

Get In The Go Zone

By Mark McKeon

The Go Zone maximises the productive hours we have in each day to get the important things done without distraction or excuse. The Slow Zone is productive but non stressful. No big decisions are made here. In the No Zone, you are not at work AND not thinking about work. Refresh, recover and live the life you love.

Get Moving Keep Moving

By Dr Gordon Spence

In Get Moving Keep Moving, Gordon explores why our motivation for physical activity declines over time and how becoming active again helps us age well. Using a unique 4-stage Health Activation Process, Gordon challenges you to Reflect, Project, Inspect and Connect as vital preparation for positive health change.

Go Live!

By Fred Schebesta

In Go Live! Fred Schebesta, founder of Finder and one of Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs, shares the stories, mistakes and insights from his incredible business journey to inspire you to kickstart your business and reach unimaginable success.

Greenhousing

Karen Schmidt

Frontline leaders are vital to the success of any organisation. As the people who get their hands dirty, working with staff and interacting with customers. In Greenhousing, let frontline leadership expert Karen Schmidt show you how to nurture a community of frontline leaders who can work in harmony with the nature of their teams.

Green Thumb Leader

Karen Schmidt

Being a successful team leader, supervisor or leading hand takes more than just knowledge and skills, you also need the right attitude. When you combine those three powerful qualities you become a Green Thumb Leader.

Grounded

Bob Rosen

How can leaders stay grounded when everything around them is unstable? Beset by rapid change and challenged by uncertain markets, many of today's business leaders find themselves ill equipped to manage the hazards they face.

Hardwired Humans

By Andrew O'Keeffe

Leadership is easier when you understand the nine instincts that still drive human behaviour. Hardwired Humans shares a practical framework that helps makes sense of human behaviour and allows leaders to manage more effectively. 

Hire Love

By Christine Khor

Hire Love gives you an inside look at the unique recruitment methodology used by Christine Khor and her company Chorus Executive.

Hooked

By Gabrielle Dolan and Yamini Naidu

So, what is the number one leadership and business skill for the next decade? Storytelling is. Dry facts and data fade from memory over time, but an engaging story is difficult to forget. Storytelling is a compelling way to connect, engage and inspire your audience in business.

How To Feel F.R.E.S.H. At Work Every Day!

By Karen Schmidt

Do you bound out of bed every morning, refreshed and ready for another day at work or do you find yourself thinking "oh no, here we go again!". Being full of energy at work (and in the rest of your life) is easy when you follow the F.R.E.S.H. approach formula.

How To Heal A Workplace

By Kerry Howard

Boost wellbeing and build a robust, productive culture in your workplace.

How To Lead A Quest

By Dr. Jason Fox

The biggest threat facing modern business is the sheer complexity of an uncertain future. That, and the fact that everyone is busy. Too busy for progress. How To Lead A Quest is a handbook for pioneering executives.

How To Persuade

By Michelle Bowden

How persuasive are you? Every day we’re faced with moments where we either win or lose - whether it’s trying to convince your boss to approve your leave, secure a business deal or even win an argument with friends. So, what’s the key to winning more of the time?

How To Prepare Now For What's Next

By Michael McQueen

Disruption is changing the playing field - keep your successful business on top.

Humanise

By Anthony Howard

Humanise is a comprehensive look at human-centred leadership, providing insight and guidance for those who want to change the world. A deep examination of the concept of moral leadership, this book examines what it is, how it's acquired, and how it can be applied in business, government, and society.

Ignite

Gabrielle Dolan

Learn the authentic leadership skills that drive today's workforce to excel. Ignite - Real Leadership, Real Talk, Real Results is an honest guide to achieving lasting business success by becoming a more authentic leader. 

Innovate Or Perish

By Roger La Salle

This book not only assists people to understand what innovation actually is, but identifies the single biggest risk in business and provides the means to mitigate that risk. It then details a simple and practical tool used to generate innovative solutions for the services sector and backs it up with a means to actually measure in quantitative terms service delivery efficiency.

Integrate

By John Drury

Why work-life balance is a myth and what you really need to create a fulfilling lifestyle.

It's Who You Know

By Janine Garner

Meet the 12 people that can accelerate your success - in business and in life. Today, jobs are filled before they're advertised and previously unthought-of collaborations appear out of nowhere. Networking has become a critical factor for success. It's Who You Know brings networking into the modern era, and shows you a strategic approach to making it work for you.

Keep 'Em Keen

By Karen Schmidt

It used to be that the biggest staffing problem managers had to deal with was high turnover. Today, the real issue is engagement - finding a way to get staff to do more than just turn up to work physically. It’s about finding ways to engage them mentally and emotionally. In this practical, easy to read guide learn some cost effective ways to engage people of all ages and career stages.

Leader Resilience

By Dr Lynda Nolan

Leader Resilience is the smart leader's guide for achieving more in less time. As the evolving business environment leaves many leaders struggling to achieve outcomes against constantly shifting priorities, competitors, and deadlines, this book shows you how to sort through the madness and get back to obtaining results.

Leadership Hacks

By Scott Stein

Leadership Hacks is the smart leader's guide for achieving more in less time. As the evolving business environment leaves many leaders struggling to achieve outcomes against constantly shifting priorities, competitors, and deadlines, this book shows you how to sort through the madness and get back to obtaining results.

Leadership Results

By Sebastian Salicru

A model for developing the leaders and delivering the leadership results the world needs.

Leading Above The Line

By Michelle Bihary

Never before have the importance of human relationships and the interpersonal climate we collectively create, been more critical to our professional lives and to an organisation’s success.

Leading On The Edge

By Rachael Robertson

In Leading on the Edge, successful business speaker and consultant Rachael Robertson shares the lessons she learned as leader of a year-long expedition to the wilds of Antarctica. Leading eighteen strangers around the clock for a full year - through months of darkness and with no escape from the frigid cold, howling winds, and each other - Robertson learned powerful lessons about what real, authentic leadership is.

Leading Well

By David Pich and Ann Messenger

Leading Well is about the inspiration of leadership. It focuses squarely on the personal attributes that can transform managers into leaders and good leaders into great leaders.

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Leading Wellbeing

By Fleur Heazlewood

With increased stress, burnout and mental illness impacting the post-COVID workplace, mental health conversation skills are no longer a nice-to-have but necessary. Leaders are expected to provide greater psychological safety and mentally healthy working environments, yet often lack the skills and training to support the wellbeing of their people. In this book, Fleur Heazlewood provides a practical guide to help leaders navigate these complex issues.

Liberate Leadership

By Suzanne Mercier

If leadership is so critical to business success why are up to 75% of leaders rated by their followers as incompetent? It could be because leaders can experience the ‘Imposter Syndrome’ - feeling like a fraud, not good enough and not sure how they can deliver to expectations. Discover how to move into a more engaging and inspiring leadership space.

Life In Half A Second

By Matthew Michalewicz

Life In Half A Second is the first 'fact-based', proven formula for achieving success in your career, business and personal life. Success expert Matthew Michalewicz - who before the age of 30 had built and exited several multimillion dollar ventures - explains the process of success, and allows the reader to apply the scientifically proven principles of the “five doors” you must walk through to achieve your goals.

Magnetic Stories

By Gabrielle Dolan

Your brand is the stories people share about you when you’re not in the room, and it’s these brand stories that determine if people buy from you, employ you, work for you or invest in you. When the stakes are that high, wouldn’t you want to take control of it? In Magnetic Stories, business storytelling expert Gabrielle Dolan reveals how you too can create and share stories that stick.

Market Your Way To Growth

By Philip and Milton Kotler

With the developed world facing slow economic growth, successfully competing for a limited customer base means using creative marketing strategies. Market Your Way to Growth presents eight effective ways to grow in even the slowest economy.

Master Expert

By Alistair Gordon & Dominic Johnson

At the centre of How to be a Master Expert is the idea of Expertship. Leadership is for people leaders. It's about how to get things done through teams, and how to grow your career by managing a team, then by managing managers of teams, and so on. If you want instead to drive increasingly more important projects, more dramatic process change and innovation, you'll want a very different career path - Expertship.

Mastering The Change Curve

By Philip Owens

This book offers a powerful and readily accessible set of tools and approaches to deal with change. Rather than offer a method to get unstuck from one specific problem, this book will give you a new level of insight into how to change any time that you find yourself stuck.

MatchFit

By Andrew May

MatchFit is the complete guide to getting your body and brain in the best possible shape for work, and for life. This inspiring book is the culmination of Andrew May's twenty years of experience as an elite athlete and fitness trainer for some of the world's best athletes; studying the body (Exercise Physiology) and the brain (Coaching Psychology); working with a variety of clients including elite athletes, military, entrepreneurs, business leaders and entire organisations; and life experience.

Million Dollar Micro Business

By Tina Tower

Million Dollar Micro Business is a book that shows you everything you need to start your online course business. Through your life, you’ve acquired the skills and knowledge that other people want. This is your step-by-step guide to turning your expertise into a highly-profitable online course that will be available to millions of people around the world.

Mindset Mastery

By Darren Fleming

Mindset Mastery will show you how to remove distracting thoughts so you can remain focused on tasks you need to complete.

Money Magnet

By Steve McKnight

Money Magnet reveals the crucial truths and tools needed to acquire a wealth mindset. Inside you'll find key strategies; not taught elsewhere that you can use to create a blueprint for financial freedom. Also included are handy templates, checklists and other aids to help you plan, manage and measure your wealth-building progress.

Out Of Office

By Gihan Pererra

This book is for you if you like your job or your business, but you’d like to use the Internet to give you more convenience, comfort and freedom in where and when you work. It will help you move "out of office", part-time or full-time, without being out of sight and out of mind.

Phenomenal Teams

By Garie Dooley

Talented people want to be stretched, they want to grow, they want to achieve amazing things, and they want to be engaged and feel empowered. This book is your guide to building a Phenomenal Team that delivers exactly that and, in turn, to becoming a Legendary Leader yourself.

Power Play

By Yamini Naidu

Great leaders are mega influencers, but could their tools of influence be out of date? To influence today, you need more than just the traditional approaches of yell and tell (coercion) and sell (persuasion).

Projectify

By Jeff Schwisow

Even the best laid strategic plans are not enough to keep on top of today's dynamic and competitive marketplace.

Prove It

By Stacey Barr

Prove It! is the executive guide to improving organisational performance through the practice of evidence-based leadership.

Putting Stories To Work

By Shawn Callahan

Learn the business storytelling secrets Shawn shares with leaders around the world and now applied in Global 1000 companies.

Quietly Powerful

By Megumi Miki

In this book, Megumi Miki shares her own experience and those of many other quiet professionals who have achieved great success in the business environment. She aims to empower quieter professionals and those outside majority groups to fulfill their potential. 

Recommended

By Andy Lopata

Recommended shows you new ways of generating referrals which make getting recommended faster, cheaper and more valuable. If you don't have an effective strategy in place you are missing out on the most powerful and least expensive way of generating new business.  

Resilience Recipes

By Fleur Heazlewood

This engaging, easy to read wellbeing guidebook cuts through the sea of wellness information with a curated selection of resilience and wellbeing strategies that are proven to work. While there is no one-size fits all solution to wellbeing, there is a resilience recipe that will work for you!

Risk Starts And Ends With People

By Lisa Sisson

Run Your Business On Autopilot

By Greg Roworth

Do you run your own business and work too many hours and would prefer to build an asset that works for you? Learn how to leverage your strengths to break through the barriers to create an extraordinary business.

Secrets Of Online Entrepreneurs

By Bernadette Schwerdt

Discover how Australia's hottest online entrepreneurs turned their ideas into millions... and how you can too. Whether you're looking to build a global online business, or just want to make some extra money, this keynote should not be missed.

Service Habits

By Jaquie Scammell

Service internally and externally in the 21st century is about building long-lasting relationships which have a greater long-term impact. So how do you transform an organisation's service culture?

Seven Stories

By Mike Adams

How do the best salespeople connect, influence and persuade? With stories.

Smart Work

By Dermot Crowley

Are you drowning in constant emails, phone calls, paperwork, interruptions and meeting actions? Smart Work is the busy professional's guide to getting organised in the digital workplace.

Steer Through The Storm

By Leah Mether

This book provides a practical, step-by-step guide to help lead your people through turbulent times. Drawing upon over 15 years experience working with a variety of organisations, Leah Mether outlines a new approach to communication and leadership that will help you deal with the feelings of your people, improve performance, and get better results.

Step Up

By Michelle Gibbings

One of the challenges confronting technical people in organisations is how to best enhance their skills and expertise so they can secure greater influence and promotion into senior roles.

Stepping Stones To Success

By Donna Stone

With over 200 practical tips on how to succeed in business, you'll find yourself shaking your head in disbelief on how easy it is for a business to succeed. If KPI, CPI, BAS, SWOT, WH&S are just jumbled letters of the alphabet, you will be pleasantly surprised just how enjoyable learning about the business fundamentals can be.  

Stop the Bleeding

By Brian Sands

As a business leader with your back to the wall, how will you stop the bleeding in your business? How will you get to a sustainable next?  

Stick With It

By Lee J. Colan and Julie Davis-Colan

There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all strategy, especially in today's complex and competitive world. But there is such a thing as a one-size-fits-all to business success ... it's called the Art of Adherence. A good strategy gets you in the game, but adhering to your strategy gets you into the winner's circle.

Speedlights & Elephants

By Eddie Yu

Why do most online businesses fail and what makes the successful ones great? Every entrepreneur who has an online presence or is thinking of a new online venture will want to know the answer to this question. Eddie Yu presents a very personal look into the mindsets and strategies which have worked for him and demonstrates how anyone with a good idea can create an online business worth shouting out loud about.

Stop the Bleeding

By Brian Sands

As a business leader with your back to the wall, how will you stop the bleeding in your business? How will you get to a sustainable next?

Team Better Together

By Bernard Desmidt

What's the difference between a floundering and a flourishing team? How do teams operate at more than the sum of their parts more often? How do teams make it safe to discuss the undiscussables? How do teams achieve better outcomes working more interdependently? Team Better Together answers these questions by introducing 5 distinguishing disciplines of high performing and flourishing teams. What is sometimes obvious to do can be difficult to access, apply and accomplish.

Teams That Swear

By Adrian Baillargeon

In Teams That Swear, renowned team performance expert, speaker and author Adrian Baillargeon breaks down the art and science of teamwork to provide a practical guide to make leading teams that much easier.

The 10 Commandments of Client Appreciation

By Darrell Hardidge

Client Appreciation - the new standard that defines service excellence and empowers extraordinary teams. Inspire, empower, engage, your pathway to market relevance.

The 25 Minute Meeting

By Donna McGeorge

Sharpen your focus and tighten your time frames to get more done in less time.

The Advantage: Why Organisational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

By Patrick Lencioni

Lencioni brings together his vast experience and delivers a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organisational health provides. He argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know or how smart they are and rather with how healthy they are.

The End Of The Performance Review

By Tim Baker

Most organisational leaders are locked into conducting annual or bi-annual performance reviews with their staff, even though they know the system is not working. Performance reviews are costly, time consuming and often a one-way monologue without follow-up. Find out why organisations need an entirely new approach to managing performance.

The Four Mindsets - How to Influence, Motivate and Lead High Performance Teams

By Anna-Lucia Mackay

How to Influence, Motivate, and Lead High Performance Teams holds the key to significantly increasing productivity, performance, and revenue in your organisation.

The Fourth Moon

By Darren K Bourke

How to escape the mire of day-to-day business operations, transform the way your business operates, and achieve spectacular and sustainable success?

The Happy Healthy Leader

By Margie Ireland

A step-by-step, practical guide using the most successful ingredients from Margie Ireland's proven program that results in happy, healthy leaders.

The Innovation Race

By Andrew & Gaia Grant

If innovation is a race: Who wins? Who loses? Who gets eliminated? - and how is it possible to stay ahead of the game? The Innovation Race provides concrete strategies to support purpose-driven sustainable innovation through deep cultural transformation.

The New Rules Of Management

By Peter Cook

Most organisations aren't designed to successfully implement long-term projects, despite this being one of the key’s to long-term success. In this book, you'll learn how to successfully manage yourself, your teams, and your entire organisation to create and execute engaging, vital projects that people care about.

Trusted To Thrive

By Marie-Claire Ross

Trusted to Thrive is for leaders who realise that today’s uncertain environment needs a new style of leadership. This book helps leaders create a supportive, healthy team culture, where they can put their team anywhere and under enormous pressure, and they will thrive. An environment where leaders feel trusted, and equally importantly, where their direct reports feel trusted. This insightful and practical book is packed with tips, case studies and stories -  combining the latest behavioural techniques and on-the-ground insights into practical leadership action. 

The Innovation Formula

By Dr Amantha Imber

In The Innovation Formula, best-selling author and innovation psychologist Dr Amantha Imber provides intelligent science-based strategies to create a culture where innovation thrives at an individual, team, leadership and organisation level.

 The Languages of Leadership

By Wendy Born

In her new book, leadership expert Wendy Born draws upon over 25 years' experience and shows how to make small changes that have a big impact, ensuring you become an active, directive and perceptive leader with the skills to influence and lead in today's workplace. 

The Long-Distance Leader

By Kevin Eikenberry & Wayne Turmel

In  The Long-Distance Leader, you'll learn the subtle but often painfully different nuances of leading in this new world of virtual work.

The Stop Doing List

By Matt Malouf

The Stop Doing List gets you off the treadmill of unproductive, frenetic activity, and sets you on the path toward growth. Running a business has never been easy, but today's nonstop 24-7-365 world makes moving forward more difficult than ever before .

The Ultimate Book of Phone Scripts

By Mike Brooks

Get over 220 Brand New Scripts in the new book, "The Ultimate Book of Phone Scripts!". This powerful resource is packed with word-for-word scripts to help you overcome all the brush offs, put offs, resistance and objections you get every day. Learn how to get through to decision makers, qualify better leads, set more appointments and close more sales using the FRESH and proven scripts in this best-selling book of scripts!

The People Manager’s Toolkit

By Karen Gately

People who manage people face a number of challenges, from keeping workers engaged and performing at a high level to dealing with absenteeism and bad behaviour in the workplace. In The People Manager's Toolkit, leadership and people management specialist Karen Gately offers a suite of practical tools for optimising staff performance and dealing with a wide variety of "people issues."

The Unlikely Entrepreneur

By Alan Manly

This is the unlikely, but true story of a man who had none of the qualities considered necessary for an entrepreneur - no eccentric IT genius - nor money-market marvel - nor the innovator / creator of a new market.

Think Again

By Roger LaSalle 

A structured roadmap for process innovation. Innovate your processes and harvest untouched wealth. In Think Again , Roger explains what process innovation is, how to do it and how it applies equally to the services sector and many other activities. He details highly successful everyday businesses we take for granted that have done nothing more than process innovate the offering of their forerunners.

Think New

By Roger LaSalle 

In attempting to become innovative we are usually asked to "think outside the square", and although we do need to search for solutions that may be unique, this does not prevent us from having some structure to our thinking. Roger LaSalle's thinking method is structured and simple. It is based on a matrix of words called the La Salle Innovation Matrix ©. The intersections in this matrix provide a framework of squares. Working within this framework will shape and stimulate your thinking to provide solutions that are "outside the square".

Think Next

By Roger LaSalle 

In the aggressive world of enterprise today, everybody is trying to identify and seize the next big opportunity. Indeed, opportunity is the lifeblood of enterprise, the stuff on which entrepreneurs thrive and fortunes are made. In Think Next, discover the way to find business opportunity in the chaos of everyday life.

Think One Team

By Graham Winter 

Think One Team, 2nd Edition - The Revolutionary 90 Day Plan that Engages Employees, Connects Silos and Transforms Organisations weaves a fascinating and entertaining tale that reveals how a simple change in approach can free your organisation of silo-based thinking, and empower your team to act as a single unit.

Think Write Grow

By Grant Butler 

In a competitive age, thought leadership has emerged as a subtle but powerful way to grow your business, establish credibility and demonstrate expertise, build your profile and forge relationships with prospects and customers. This book will show you how to take your great ideas and craft them into a clear point of view which can influence others.