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According to Malcolm Gladwell, if you want to be a success, the first thing that you must do is to be born in January!
Then you need to choose the right year, so that you will be ready in 20 years for the next wave of the technology revolution!!
In his fascinating and easily readable book Outliers [...]

I am off to the International Coach Federation annual conference this week.
Inevitably, I shall return with more of the latest books.
I thought you might like suggestions for a basic reference list for executive coaching clients.

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R Covey, is my recommendation as a starter text for anybody. It [...]

There is more to a book than the ideas within it.
There are the words, the structure, the style. There are also the physical aspects, the colour and design. In addition, there is the feel of it.
‘Niche Marketing for Coaches’ by Hannah McNamara scores on all counts. It is just a pleasure to [...]

Some time ago I asked you to support us in a campaign to get The Law of Business Attraction into an Amazon top ten best seller category. We succeeded in several categories and I thank you for your cooperation.
There was a distribution problem with some copies from Amazon – if you had a problem, [...]

I am sure that many of you are aware that I specialise in working with directors and boards.
So, when the Institute of Directors published another book on directorship, I obtained a copy for review – actually I bought one.
‘The Effective Director”, by Neville Bain, the current chairman of the IoD. It is an excellent and [...]

It is a long time since I wrote a book review, and they have been piling up.
Last October I drove down to Newport to hear Roger Hamilton and a new speaker, Mike Harris. Mike Harris is a very successful entrepreneur; he, personally, has created two one-billion pound businesses and has been credited with transforming [...]

I have been reading a book by Bea Fields. Its title is “EDGE!”, and is a leadership story for those who lead in business and those who lead in life. I think it would have been more appropriate to title it “Engage!”; for I became fully engaged.
This is another management book which takes the [...]

One of my teachers is Wayne Jones, and he has told me that when starting with new corporate clients he very often sends them a copy of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. This is one of those wonderful stories that teaches management concepts through a fictional person’s learning experience.
In [...]

One of my favourite prayers is the prayer of St Francis, which ends with: -

"It is in dying that we are born to eternal life."

The conventional interpretation of this is the in order to live life to the full you need to let go of desire. The Sedona Method is about ‘releasing’ emotions. The sub [...]

Book Review: me + you, by Maureen Bowes
me + you is a spiral bound A5 handbook based on the model of individual effectiveness created by Tim Sparrow and Jo Maddocks. It is a tool for improving personal relationships that enables readers to understand themselves and their emotions, manage their personality and relationships, and become [...]

The subheading to this book is "Inventive ideas for making an instant impact" and the sub text is "leave the PowerPoint at home and think of new ways of getting your message across".
Eleri Sampson is a presenter and executive coach who has helped more than 2,000 people to present themselves at their professional best. The [...]

Leadership that Matters is defined in their book of that name by Marshall and Molly Sashkin as leadership that makes a real difference both by affecting organisational productivity and performance and by making a positive difference in the lives of organisation members. This form of leadership transforms organisations from “good” to “excellent” and [...]

I am very pleased to recommend this wonderful new coaching tool developed by Michael Bungay Stanier, an Australian living in Toronto.

Once rapport has been established, coaching depends on asking good questions and making generative suggestions. How do you do this when you [...]

Regular readers of CorporateCoach will know that I have been interested in different ways of setting and achieving goals, and generally improving my future. I know that affirmations and visions and keeping a journal are the way to do it and I absolutely believe that they work.
Unfortunately I just do not get round to doing [...]

I have heard of this book, published in 2000, but not come across it before. It has been a fascinating read.
It analyses the tipping point, that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviours [...]

Written by Joseph OConnor and his partner Andrea Lages, the founders of Lambent do Brasil, Coaching With NLP is a great book that I would thoroughly recommend for anyone who is involved in coaching – whether they are a coaching professional, a recipient of coaching or would like to do some self coaching.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) [...]

I promised you a book review this week. But I am actually going to review a whole series of books. We first came across Management Pocketbooks at the CIPD Conference exhibition in Harrogate but I have since also seen them in Dubai Airport and there is a distributor for Australia and New [...]

I come back to this book, which I have now read for a second time, mystified. How true
is it in its assertion that we live among an infinite number of realities and can choose which one to follow at any moment – and the others [...]