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“A CRASH COURSE IN HOW TO BE AN EFFECTIVE CEO.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Hidden Potential and host of the podcast Re:Thinking

From leading global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and the minds behind the New York Times bestseller CEO Excellence comes a compact, insight-packed guide to navigating the distinct phases of leadership that every CEO must pass through on their way to mastery.

In the high-stakes world of corporate leadership, becoming a Fortune 500 CEO is an Everest-like ascent – with only the savviest managing to avoid falling off the mountain. In A CEO for All Seasons you’ll find an essential climbing route that will take you through every stage. Featured in this tip-dense guide is wisdom from some of the world’s most iconic leaders, including Dell Technologies’ Michael Dell, Merck’s Ken Frazier, Nasdaq’s Adena Friedman, Morgan Stanley’s James Gorman, Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman, ASML’s Peter Wennink, and Chevron’s Mike Wirth.

Unique in applying a number of sophisticated metrics to isolate the world’s top 200 CEOs, reduce them to a representative sample, and then reap their wisdom, the McKinsey team, in A CEO for All Seasons, spotlights the specific stage-based hurdles that CEOs face. From preparing for the role to starting strong to sustaining momentum to ensuring a lasting legacy, the book leaves no segment of the journey unmapped. Along the way, it offers proven strategies for maintaining forward progress and, crucially, alerts readers to common blind spots that can sabotage success, as revealed by a detailed survey of thousands of executives.

Whether you’re an aspiring leader or a new-to-the-job CEO – or even a board member wanting to better steward your company’s performance – this is the compact, hands-on guide you’ve needed. Its compendium of pressure-tested tips is a must-have game changer for leaders at all levels.

It doesn’t matter who you are or what business you’re in, you are never far from a crisis.

Edward Segal has profiled over 700 crises in his popular column on Forbes.com since 2020, from those affecting businesses and organizations to global celebrities and royalty. Here he builds on that bank of real-life stories, developing the lessons and adding new unseen material, to reveal how global organizations and high-profile individuals have prevented, managed, and recovered from a variety of crisis situations.

According to The Conference Board’s C-Suite Outlook 2023, less than half of surveyed corporate executives around the world said they were ready for a pandemic or global health crisis; only 41% are prepared for cybersecurity crises; and only 39% have planned for financial instability. And these are just the tip of the iceberg of crisis triggers with others including recession, extreme climate events, terrorism, lawsuits, accidents, and allegations of sexual abuse.

In The Crisis Casebook, Edward Segal expertly recounts the good, the bad, and the ugly ways companies and people have managed a variety of crisis situations showing you how to avoid crisis management mistakes that could damage your company’s reputation, profits, and future – and your career.

Financial Times Best Book of the Year in Economics

‘A very timely book on the new, fractured world’***** The Sunday Times

‘The best book on the future of the global economy’***** The International Economy

The tectonic plates of the global order are shifting, creating new pressures that will strain long-standing financial structures.

But where will the world’s new economic fault lines emerge? And how disruptive will they be?

In a clear and far-reaching reckoning, The Fractured Age lays bare the threats and opportunities that will shape the world economy over the coming decade. It charts the emergence of geopolitical blocs in a world undergoing profound change – blocs whose relative size and economic diversity will be pivotal in reordering everything from goods trade and investment flows to technology transfers and access to critical minerals.

As the world enters another period of seismic upheaval and a new global order emerges, understanding which economies will benefit, and which will bear the costs, will be critical for effective decision-making throughout boardrooms and the halls of government.

As Chief Economist of one of the world’s leading providers of independent macroeconomic and market research, Neil Shearing lays out a stark vision of the peaks and rifts that will unfold, and how they will fundamentally reshape the global economy in this fractured age.

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Aspiring leaders are hungry to learn all that they can about how to be a more effective leader. And certainly there are tools and best practices young leaders should know and add to their toolkit.

But – as Steve Mostyn, one of the world’s leading innovators in executive leadership, has learned over the past decades of teaching this cohort – two equally useful activities for the aspiring leader are reflection and experimentation.

In his new book WHY GREAT LEADERS ASK GREAT QUESTIONS, Mostyn has crafted an elegant collection of the seven provocative questions aspiring leaders should ask themselves in order to spur that reflection and experimentation. These are some of the most important questions Mostyn poses to each cohort of the Oxford Executive Leadership program’s students, honed by the past answers and engagement of thousands of students.

The book is simple in conception, profound in execution. In seven accessible chapters, with exercises, research, and examples, the reader will engage with these questions:
How do I reflect?
How do I spend my time?
Where does my power come from?
How do I grow my network?
How do I make change happen around here?
How do I manage my energy?
How do I grow more leaders?

Inspired in part by Mostyn’s work on the Oxford Executive Leadership Programme – an accelerated international leadership development program with over 5,000 alumni around the world – and in part by his numerous workshop sessions where he challenges and supports leaders through his unique questions, the premise of the book is well-tested with aspiring and practicing leaders and is proven to spark both reflection and growth.

These seven questions are drawn from the author’s deep experience with the needs of rising young executives. Readers will engage with provocative exercises, highly accessible overviews of applicable research, and examples from fellow mid-career executives.

This authoritative, focused and bestselling guide by two of the UK’s brightest young entrepreneurs – The Apprentice runner-up, Bianca Miller-Cole and serial entrepreneur, Dr Byron Cole – is a comprehensive toolkit for anyone who wants to make a success of running their own business. Featuring interviews with well known entrepreneurs, entertainers and industry experts, the book covers every tier of the business development process, from start-up to exit, offering practical, implementable and global advice on the start up process.

This fully updated new edition will de-code the jargon that is prevalent in business circles today, providing straightforward advice on converting an innovative business concept into a commercially viable proposition. It will help you to avoid the costly common mistakes of many who have gone before you, and create a sustainable enterprise that will flourish. Fully updated and expanded to make it more timely, more international, more practical and more inspiring, it will be a vital tool for Entrepreneurs both inside and outside of the author’s hugely motivated network.

THE REAL-LIFE GUIDE TO USING STOIC PRINCIPLES TO CREATE A SUCCESSFUL LIFE

“A GIFT TO ANYONE SEEKING TO LIVE A MORE FULFILLING LIFE.” — DONALD J. ROBERTSON, bestselling author of How to Think Like a Roman Emperor

The Power to Change shows how to use Stoic principles to create a successful life and provides a clear road map and directions to get there. It will guide you in designing a life that flows well and dealing with problems that arise in everyday living.

READERS LOVE The Power to Change:

‘This is no dry philosophy book; it’s a toolkit for real life.’

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‘I’ve read a lot of stoic wisdom, and this is one of the greats.’

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‘Simple and effective advice on how to have a happier and more fulfilling life.’

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Each chapter in The Power to Change is bite-sized and actionable, focusing on common, day-to-day challenges – from anxiety, self-sabotage and overthinking to resilience, habits and productivity – and giving you easy-to-apply tools to overcome them.

Practicing them is not difficult. But practicing consistently is where most of us fail. The Power to Change is packed with tools and exercises to help you practice consistently, bypass every motivational plateau and reach the big payoff.

You have the power to change your life, but knowing where you want to go is not enough. You also need to know how to get there.

‘No one has taught me more about the complexities and mysteries of human decision-making’ Malcolm Gladwell

‘Gary Klein is a living example of how useful applied psychology can be when it is done well’ Daniel Kahneman

Insight is everything. At its most profound, it can change the world. At its simplest, it can solve everyday problems. It can be used to build businesses, solve crimes, progress science and make many aspects of our lives quicker, easier, bigger or better.

Yet remarkably we often unwittingly build barriers to seeing what is in front of us. Both as individuals and organisations we can hold on to flawed beliefs and conform to established processes that can interfere with our perceptions. Having clear insight can transform the way in which we understand things, the decisions we make and the actions we take.

In this groundbreaking study, renowned cognitive psychologist Gary Klein uses an eclectic miscellany of real-life stories to bring to life the process of insight. He demonstrates the five key strategies for spotting connections and contractions to ensure you too can see what others don’t.

Your Guide to Greatness
This is your toolkit for turbo-charging every aspect of your life, from your boldest ambitions to your daily routines.

100 Ways to Win is packed with great ideas for achieving professional highs, building rewarding relationships, and finding peace, all carefully chosen to help you navigate whatever challenges and opportunities cross your path.

Every chapter features a new idea to help you form the habits and mindset of a winner. Together, they are your springboard to success.

100 Ways to Win is your guide to the life you want, one small win at a time.

Praise for 100 THINGS SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE DO
‘Inside these pages you’ll find a powerful reminder of the many ways you can make your life – and other people’s lives – more successful. It will help you identify what success means to you and give you the building blocks for making that success a reality. This is your chance to overcome whatever obstacles are stopping you. Read it, act on it and experience the difference’ Marshall Goldsmith Ph.D., bestselling author of TRIGGERS

The familiar concept of work-life balance endures, but does anyone actually boast of having a healthy ratio of work and personal time? Very few do, because our model for work/life leads to burn out – it asks individuals to chase a dream where work and life are both equal and distinct, where the demands of one do not contradict the demands of another. Simply giving 100% to the twin pillars of your life will not give you the work/life balance you crave. The good news is, there’s a much more intelligent, holistic and effective way to live your life.

Life has never fit into tidy little boxes. Family and social needs don’t stop between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., and work pressures bleed into the hours between 5:01 p.m. and 8:59 a.m. all the time. And since the pandemic, the lines have become even more blurred, with remote workers bearing the brunt of the impact. It’s time to embrace new wellness strategies, This book will show how taking a holistic and integrative approach to the complex demands of life and work will transform your happiness and producitivity.

The book will contain three parts.
· Part I will focus on strategies to thrive as an individual; specifically, maintaining a healthy mind and body by prioritizing oneself. You’ll learn how to integrate healthy lifestyle habits into and throughout your workday, so that taking care of yourself won’t compete with productivity but will support it.
· Part II will focus on thriving at work. You’ll learn about checkpoints and how to use these moments to wake up and realign your well-being with your personal mission. You’ll learn how to create healthy boundaries, work through the common challenges that remote workers face and provide approachable solutions that you can immediately start integrating into your work life. Team leaders will gain key insights for managing remote and flexible teams so that they can create the conditions for success.
· Part III is about thriving in relationships. While community and connection are vital to well-being, many workers struggle to form and maintain these bonds. This book will explain why connection is vital, and show how to encourage it.
By identifying your personal mission and integrating the wellness strategies provided in TheWork/Life Tango, you’ll be able to show up 100% in all aspects of life-in your career, for your family and friends, and for yourself.

180 OF THE SHARPEST AND STICKIEST WAYS TO GET BETTER RESULTS AT WORK
“Flip the org chart and put the customer on top.”
“Write the press release before you start development.”
“Give someone busy more work to do.”

In 180 Business Hacks, you’ll find these and 177 other surprising, sharp and inspiring ways to get better results at work. These cheat codes will help you succeed by shifting the way you think about business problems. Conventional thinking gets you conventional results but often the stickiest ideas are small. And like tiny cracks, they eventually turn into in something bigger.

The hacks are organized into 9 themed chapters (Innovation, Strategy, Structure, Management, Analysis, Portfolio, Change, Impact and Effectiveness) so you can find them quickly, but for best results just flip through and open at random. You’ll always find something unexpected to add to your daily routine.

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Whether you’re managing a multi-million-dollar division or contributing to a small team, blending work and life over the course of a career takes creativity, organization, cutting yourself slack, exploring strategies and asking for help.

Plan Work and Life from Your Heart

Let fifty of the world’s most successful professional women show you how they too care simultaneously for kids, aging parents, households and careers. They each share simple strategies developed through every life stage and career level, whilst managing these 4 big jobs – all with sanity, good humor and grace.

Be True to Your Professional DNA

Career coach Kathryn Sollmann helps smart women integrate work and life, in her mission to keep women working towards long-term financial security. Through conducting this series of interviews she has compiled over 200 simple tips that will help you persevere and keeping moving forwards in your professional life.

These relatively easy, yet powerful tips are from women who have found non-life-shattering trade-offs, practiced anti-perfection, used short-cuts, got help, and set up systems for household equity.

THE 4 JOBS CLUB is the place where you will find the help and wisdom you need to pursue work that fits your life and be the professional, mother, daughter, and life partner you want to be.

Join the 4 Jobs Club community at /the-4-jobs-club.mn.co/

A detailed field guide to foreign business opportunities in China during the era of heightened rivalry with the U.S.

China dominates manufacturing and is the world’s largest retail market, but for companies outside of China, finding ways to do business in the country is increasingly uncertain in the face of rising US-China tension, combined with China’s crackdowns on the tech and education sectors.

Shaun Rein runs the China Market Research Group and has spent his career helping multinationals understand where the opportunities are in China. An American who’s lived in Shanghai for 25 years, he has long been one of the biggest China bulls. He now argues that while China is not a must-go destination for all companies and investors, there are still many non-politically sensitive sectors where long-term opportunities can be sought.

The Split analysis what the geo-political split between the US and China and China’s turn towards socialism means for international firms. It explains why corporations in sectors such as semiconductors and AI should stay clear and relocate to other countries – like Vietnam, India and Mexico. Yet principally, it makes the case that for most sectors, China should remain the main growth driver for even the largest companies.

Expert from insights into China’s national policy reforms and its rising middle class will help inform international strategies for companies around the world in sectors such as finance, consumer goods and auto. China will soon eclipse the United States as the world’s largest economy and these companies will lose out if they do not know how to invest in China knowledgeably.

The Split presents a unique and informed case for why the time is definitely now to capitalize on trends in China and create long-term opportunities for your business.

The highly practical lessons in How to Get to Great Ideas are based on neuroscience, psychology and sociology. Written by former advertising creative director Dave Birss, this book offers a brilliant new system for conceiving original and valuable ideas. It looks at how to frame a problem, how to push your thinking, how to sell the idea, how to build support for it and how to inspire others to have great ideas. It proves that any organization – and any individual or department within an organization – can create a fertile environment for ideas.

Combining a practical research-based system with fascinating insights and inspiring and humorous writing, the book also includes the problem-solving system RIGHT Thinking. This is a tool which enables a more effective way to generate more effective ideas, and is one that anyone can use to transform themselves or their business. Training on this system is also available in person from the author. And will be released soon as an online course.

Ground-breaking research into how CEOs succeed by navigating the storms and predictable crises of corporate life.

Being appointed CEO is seen by many as the pinnacle of success in business, but it is actually the first step in a journey of evolving stages requiring ongoing personal reinvention. In an unprecedented study of the individual performance of every twenty-first-century CEO of the S&P 500, combined with over 100 in-depth interviews of CEOs and board directors, Claudius A. Hildebrand and Robert J. Stark discovered the CEO Life Cycle, a series of five stages: launch, calibration, reinvention, complacency trap, and legacy. Each presents distinctive headwinds and tailwinds that require leaders to develop the fresh skills and strategies needed to thrive.

Successful CEOs are often portrayed as fully formed heroes endowed with exceptional leadership traits. Hildebrand and Stark break through the mythology to provide unique understanding, explaining how outstanding leaders surmount predictable challenges and develop the mental fortitude, emotional resilience, and self-awareness required to keep adapting.

Invaluable not only for CEOs to take their game to the next level of high performance but also for executives who envision themselves in the role, The Life Cycle of a CEO provides the unvarnished truth about what it takes to be a successful CEO.

‘This roadmap will help all of you as leaders, professionals, and executives who are preparing to be CEOs.’ – Forbes

From the bestselling author of THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE, a book of daily advice to help you live better for less effort

THE UNIVERSE IS WONKY! Out of 300 movies released over 18 months, just 4 of them took 80% of box office receipts. Daily life is full of relationships like this. When you discover asymmetries in your own life, you can find ways to multiply results with much less effort, stress, time or money.

80/20 DAILY is million-copy bestselling author Richard Koch’s most accessible exploration to date of the potential of 80/20 to transform your life. It features a year’s worth of powerful daily insights to inspire you identify the 20% in your life that works so brilliantly you should be doing more of it – and far less of the 80% that is taking you nowhere.

80/20 IS LIFE-ENHANCING
The essence of 80/20 is identifying activities that have a high ratio of results to effort. In this day-by-day guide you’ll discover how:

–A small proportion of your time generates most of your results.
–Fewer than 10 decisions in life are truly important.
–Four factors influence your happiness more than anything else.

80/20 is an invitation to share in delights without downsides; success as you define it, with as little or as much effort as you want to put in. Discover the magical power of intelligent laziness one day at a time with 80/20 DAILY.

From the bestselling author of THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE, a book of daily advice to help you live better for less effort

THE UNIVERSE IS WONKY! Out of 300 movies released over 18 months, just 4 of them took 80% of box office receipts. Daily life is full of relationships like this. When you discover asymmetries in your own life, you can find ways to multiply results with much less effort, stress, time or money.

80/20 DAILY is million-copy bestselling author Richard Koch’s most accessible exploration to date of the potential of 80/20 to transform your life. It features a year’s worth of powerful daily insights to inspire you identify the 20% in your life that works so brilliantly you should be doing more of it – and far less of the 80% that is taking you nowhere.

80/20 IS LIFE-ENHANCING
The essence of 80/20 is identifying activities that have a high ratio of results to effort. In this day-by-day guide you’ll discover how:

–A small proportion of your time generates most of your results.
–Fewer than 10 decisions in life are truly important.
–Four factors influence your happiness more than anything else.

80/20 is an invitation to share in delights without downsides; success as you define it, with as little or as much effort as you want to put in. Discover the magical power of intelligent laziness one day at a time with 80/20 DAILY.

From the bestselling author of THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE, a book of daily advice to help you live better for less effort

THE UNIVERSE IS WONKY! Out of 300 movies released over 18 months, just 4 of them took 80% of box office receipts. Daily life is full of relationships like this. When you discover asymmetries in your own life, you can find ways to multiply results with much less effort, stress, time or money.

80/20 DAILY is million-copy bestselling author Richard Koch’s most accessible exploration to date of the potential of 80/20 to transform your life. It features a year’s worth of powerful daily insights to inspire you identify the 20% in your life that works so brilliantly you should be doing more of it – and far less of the 80% that is taking you nowhere.

80/20 IS LIFE-ENHANCING
The essence of 80/20 is identifying activities that have a high ratio of results to effort. In this day-by-day guide you’ll discover how:

–A small proportion of your time generates most of your results.
–Fewer than 10 decisions in life are truly important.
–Four factors influence your happiness more than anything else.

80/20 is an invitation to share in delights without downsides; success as you define it, with as little or as much effort as you want to put in. Discover the magical power of intelligent laziness one day at a time with 80/20 DAILY.

Winner for Best Business (General) Book, International Best Book Awards.
Winner for Best Nonfiction (General) Book, Best Book Awards.
Silver Medal Winner in Business Ethics, Axiom Business Book Awards.
Silver Medal Winner in Business and Leadership, Nautilus Book Awards

‘Change and disruption define our present and foreseeable business operating climate. Changemaker Playbook offers readers a leadership-paradigm-shifting and thought-provoking way forward to achieving successful business engagement.’ Ertharin Cousin, former US Ambassador to the UN, Forbes’ The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women, and TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World

‘A powerful new leadership framework and organizational model for working in teams of teams, to take care of business and solve society’s most urgent and pressing issues.’ Jostein Solheim, former CEO at Ben & Jerry’s and senior business executive at Unilever

The Game Has Changed!

What would you do if the game you had been preparing for your whole life had changed?

This is the question we all face today. Our one-leader-at-a-time past has given way to a present reality where everyone has the potential to lead in every aspect of life. We all have at our fingertips the tools of change that were once available to only a few. This shift from one-leader-at-a-time to everyone-leading-in-every-moment has created a changemaker effect on society. Change is no longer linear and faster, it’s explosive and omnidirectional-and we are the first generation to navigate this reordered reality.

Our iEverything world requires a new playbook.

THE CHANGEMAKER PLAYBOOK will show you how to thrive in every aspect of today’s transformed societal landscape. Based on the author’s discoveries about leading in change from some of the world’s leading changemakers – business and social entrepreneurs, educators, media thought leaders, and youth innovators – readers can apply the principles in this book to the new everyone-a-changemaker world. An unforgettable tutorial on the principles of empathy-based ethics, co-creative teamwork, and the ins and outs of the new game, CHANGEMAKER PLAYBOOK is as much a new leadership handbook as it is the definitive individual and organizational achievement playbook.

This is the new playbook for the new game.

From the bestselling author of THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE, a book of daily advice to help you live better for less effort

THE UNIVERSE IS WONKY! Out of 300 movies released over 18 months, just 4 of them took 80% of box office receipts. Daily life is full of relationships like this. When you discover asymmetries in your own life, you can find ways to multiply results with much less effort, stress, time or money.

80/20 DAILY is million-copy bestselling author Richard Koch’s most accessible exploration to date of the potential of 80/20 to transform your life. It features a year’s worth of powerful daily insights to inspire you identify the 20% in your life that works so brilliantly you should be doing more of it – and far less of the 80% that is taking you nowhere.

80/20 IS LIFE-ENHANCING
The essence of 80/20 is identifying activities that have a high ratio of results to effort. In this day-by-day guide you’ll discover how:

–A small proportion of your time generates most of your results.
–Fewer than 10 decisions in life are truly important.
–Four factors influence your happiness more than anything else.

80/20 is an invitation to share in delights without downsides; success as you define it, with as little or as much effort as you want to put in. Discover the magical power of intelligent laziness one day at a time with 80/20 DAILY.

DAILY ADVICE FOR MORE SUCCESSFUL LIVING WITH LESS EFFORT FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE

80/20 DAILY is million-copy bestselling author Richard Koch’s most accessible exploration to date of the potential of 80/20 to transform your life. It features a year’s worth of powerful daily insights to inspire you identify the 20% in your life that works so brilliantly you should be doing more of it.

Readers love 8020 Daily:

‘If you apply what’s in this book, it can truly shift how you live for the better.’

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‘A game changer for an easier, joyful and enriching life.’

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‘Richard Koch will change your life for the better.’

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80/20 IS LIFE-ENHANCING
The essence of 80/20 is identifying activities that have a high ratio of results to effort. In this day-by-day guide you’ll discover how:

–A small proportion of your time generates most of your results.
–Fewer than 10 decisions in life are truly important.
–Four factors influence your happiness more than anything else.

80/20 is an invitation to share in delights without downsides; success as you define it, with as little or as much effort as you want to put in. Discover the magical power of intelligent laziness one day at a time with 80/20 DAILY.

The #1 book for coaches, leaders, talent managers and professionals around the world.

The definitive and fully updated 6th edition.

”For those who want to understand the potential and power of coaching. This new edition is a must-read and a want-to-read; with powerful case studies of coaching making a difference, having lasting impacts, and transforming societies.’ Magdalena N. Mook, CEO, International Coaching Federation

An international bestseller, featuring the influential GROW model, this book is the founding text of the coaching profession. It explains why enabling people to bring the best out of themselves is the key to driving productivity, growth, and engagement. A meaningful coaching culture has the potential to transform the relationship between organizations and employees and to put both on the path to long-term success.

Written by Sir John Whitmore, the pioneer of coaching, this new edition has been fully revised by Tiffany Gaskell, Director at Performance Consultants, the global market leaders in performance coaching. This 6th edition has been updated throughout to reflect today’s new world of work, and will revolutionize the traditional approach to organizational culture. Insightful real-world examples serve to champion inclusivity, alongside practical exercises which place an increased value on trust and responsibility. Critical new material has further been added to strengthen the process of measuring the benefits of coaching as a return on investment; all ensuring this contemporary new edition will remain at the forefront of professional coaching and leadership development.

‘The perfect handbook, whether you’re a new and aspiring manager or a seasoned leader. How to apply the GROW model to coaching high-performing teams in different scenarios, and comes with a helpful bank of coaching questions and dialogues.’ Forbes

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!

When the pressure is on, many of the world’s top CEOs turn to McKinsey & Company to reinvent themselves and their organizations. The Journey of Leadership brings the experience of one of the world’s most influential consulting firms right to your fingertips.

This book is the first-ever explanation of McKinsey’s step-by-step approach to transforming leaders both professionally and personally, including revealing lessons from its legendary CEO leadership program, The Bower Forum, which has counseled more than five hundred global CEOs over the past decade. It is a journey that helps leaders hone the psychological, emotional, and, ultimately, human attributes that result in success in today’s most demanding top job.

Packed with insightful and never-before-heard reflections from leaders, including Ed Bastian (CEO of Delta Air Lines), Makoto Uchida (CEO of Nissan Motor Corporation), Mark Fields (former CEO of Ford Motor Company), Reeta Roy (CEO of Mastercard Foundation), and Stéphane Bancel (CEO of Moderna), you will learn how to:

* Assess your personal leadership approach and style objectively.
* Discover your true mandate as a leader.
* Develop creative, actionable ways to reinvigorate both yourself and your organization.
* Create a personal commitment plan to inspire your team and cement your legacy.

The Journey of Leadership is an invaluable resource for anyone running or hoping to run an organization in today’s ever-more-complex world.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!

When the pressure is on, many of the world’s top CEOs turn to McKinsey & Company to reinvent themselves and their organizations. The Journey of Leadership brings the experience of one of the world’s most influential consulting firms right to your fingertips.

This book is the first-ever explanation of McKinsey’s step-by-step approach to transforming leaders both professionally and personally, including revealing lessons from its legendary CEO leadership program, The Bower Forum, which has counseled more than five hundred global CEOs over the past decade. It is a journey that helps leaders hone the psychological, emotional, and, ultimately, human attributes that result in success in today’s most demanding top job.

Packed with insightful and never-before-heard reflections from leaders, including Ed Bastian (CEO of Delta Air Lines), Makoto Uchida (CEO of Nissan Motor Corporation), Mark Fields (former CEO of Ford Motor Company), Reeta Roy (CEO of Mastercard Foundation), and Stéphane Bancel (CEO of Moderna), you will learn how to:

* Assess your personal leadership approach and style objectively.
* Discover your true mandate as a leader.
* Develop creative, actionable ways to reinvigorate both yourself and your organization.
* Create a personal commitment plan to inspire your team and cement your legacy.

The Journey of Leadership is an invaluable resource for anyone running or hoping to run an organization in today’s ever-more-complex world.

A former Gallup Global Leadership Research and Development leader and the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Strengths-Based Leadership demystifies the aura and complexity surrounding high performing leaders through original research and interviews with high-performing global leaders.

The leadership space is rife with myths, such as the belief that anyone can be a leader with enough effort or that a leader’s strengths can be their greatest weaknesses. According to Barry Conchie and his business partner Sarah Dalton, these statements are unfounded. THE FIVE TALENTS THAT REALLY MATTER explains how high-performing leaders are talented in five essential ways.

This book strips away the fluff in leadership and unveils and describes the traits and characteristics that actually determine high-performance leadership. These talents provide a template against which career-driven managers and leaders can assess and develop their own capabilities. The five evidence-based talent dimensions are:

– Direction: High-performing leaders describe a compelling, intrinsically good destination and help others understand that getting there will be worth the effort.
– Drive: This dimension hardly needs a description. We all know it when we see it: strong work ethic, tenacity, goal-orientation… being a self-starter.
– Influence: The ability to motivate, persuade, challenge, and change the minds of others.
– Relationships: People matter to outstanding leaders. They can build commitment and trust among the people they work with.
– Execution: Excellent leaders are obsessed with getting work done and how work gets done.

Through meticulous research, assessment, and testing, Conchie and Dalton have built a database that predicts the talents and behaviours of the most successful leaders. In this book they present for the first the first time a scientific model that demystifies the aura and complexity surrounding high performing leaders.