CP BOOK CLUB

HOW TO BE A GREAT BOSS

Authors: Gino Wickman and Rene Boer

If your employees brought their “A-Game” to work every day, what would it mean for your company’s performance? Studies have repeatedly shown that the majority of employees are disengaged at work. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

FIRST, BREAK ALL THE RULES

Authors: Gallup & James K. Harter

First, Break All the Rules, subtitled What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently, is a book authored by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, who offer solutions to better employee satisfaction with the help of examples of how the best managers handle employees.

DELIVERING HAPPINESS

Authors: Tony Hsieh

Delivering Happiness is a book by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. It details his life as an entrepreneur, with emphasis on the founding of LinkExchange and Zappos.

TRIBAL LEADERSHIP

Authors: Dave Logan, John King & Halee Fischer-Wright

Itʼs a fact of life: birds flock, fish school, people “tribe.” Malcolm Gladwell and other authors have written about how the fact that humans are genetically programmed to form “tribes” of 20-150 people has proven true throughout our speciesʼ history.

GREAT LEADERS GROW

Authors: Ken Blanchard & Mark Miller

uccessful leaders don’t rest on their laurels. Leadership must be a living process, not a title on a business card, and life means growth. As Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller write in the introduction, “the path to increased influence, impact, and leadership effectiveness is paved with personal growth.

TURN THE SHIP AROUND!

Authors: L. David Marquet

From the vantage point of the commander of the USS Santa Fe, read how the crew completely turned the ship around, going from worst to first by
questioning many of our basic leadership assumptions and shifting from take control authority to give-control empowerment.

JACK

Authors: Jack Welch

Jack Welch revolutionised GE’s entire corporate culture with his distinctive, highly personal management style: the individual appreciation of each of his 500 managers, the commitment to an informal but driven work style and the encouragement of candour were all part of the Welch approach.

TRACTION

Authors: Gino Wickman

In Traction, youʼll learn the secrets of strengthening the six key components of your business. Youʼll discover simple yet powerful ways to run your company that will give you and your leadership team more focus, more growth, and more enjoyment.

GO PUT YOUR STRENGTHS TO WORK

Authors: Marcus Buckingham

When employees learn how to truly apply their greatest strengths at work, they turbo-charge their career potential and everybody wins. Companies find that their employees are more productive, their teams are more effective, their organisation is more innovative and, accordingly, their customers are more engaged.

DISCOVER YOUR CLIFTON STRENGTHS

Authors: Don Clifton

Now, Discover Your Strengths is a self-help book written by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, first published in 2001. At the heart of the book is the internet based “Clifton Strengths Finder,” an online personal assessment test that outlines the user’s strengths.

THE ONE THING

Authors: Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan

The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results is a non-fiction, self-help book written by authors and real estate entrepreneurs, Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan. The book discusses the value of simplifying one’s workload by focusing on the one most important task in any given project.

THE 4-HOUR WORK WEEK

Authors: Timothy Ferriss

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich is a self-help book by Timothy Ferriss, an American writer, educational activist, and entrepreneur.