Our community is composed of a diverse group of individuals of different nationalities, cultures, professional fields, backgrounds, and interests. What brings us together is our shared love for learning new things. We asked our community what they are currently reading and picked our top ten favourites to share with you and support you in expanding your knowledge! We have books on improving your communication skills to developing your organisations to breaking through invisible boundaries of global businesses. Expand your horizons this month by picking up one of the books members of our community are reading right now.
This book is your toolkit for getting heard. It provides a revolutionary take on how to use your voice to get what you want. Samara Bay offers a fresh perspective on public speaking and a new definition of what power sounds like: namely, you. The book blends together anecdotes with eye-opening research in leadership, linguistics, and social science to show you how to strike the right balance of strength and warmth to land your message. More importantly, it aims to help you discover your voice story: why you talk the way you do, what’s wonderful about it, and what you’ve outgrown.
Explaining how companies such as Amazon, IKEA, Airbnb, Microsoft, and Logitech, have been able to create immensely successful businesses and disrupt entire industries, this book puts forward the idea that the ability to improve existing business models while consistently launching new ones is at the core of these companies’ success. The book presents practical new tools for measuring, managing, and accelerating innovation, and strategies for reducing risk when launching new business models. It serves as a blueprint for your organisation’s growth strategy and how to constantly stay ahead of your competition.
Through insightful stories, anecdotes, and practical exercises and role-plays, this book aims to improve the quality of your relationships, deepen your sense of personal empowerment and simply communicate more effectively. The book puts forward an approach that blends practical skills with a powerful consciousness and vocabulary to help you get what you want peacecully. The book helps you discover how the language you use can strengthen your relationships, build trust, prevent conflicts, and heal pain by offering tools to reduce violence and create peace in your life through your interactions.
This book aims to show you how to charm and win over anyone to be more successful by providing 53 bite-sized, easy-to-execute, and often counterintuitive tips that will get you more of what you want at work, at home, and in life. Dave Kerpen argues that it is actually those who truly understand and connect with their colleagues, customers, and partners that win the day. The book puts forward that the key to getting ahead is being the person others like, respect, and trust because success is contingent less on what you can do for yourself, but on what other people are willing to do for you.
A foundational book in terms of the inclusion of LGBT+ team members in any organisation, Jens Schandorf writes about the mechanisms of inclusion and the benefits for when organisations “get it right” as well as stories and examples of when they “get it wrong.” A highly technical book, A highly technical book, it provides ideas on how to build a stronger position and approach to being an inclusive organisation. This book is a manual for how organisations can understand the relevant trends and societal shifts and respond accordingly. It helps organisations develop the right approach and tap into a rich seam of talent and original thinking that organisations need to survive and thrive.
Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez sheds light on the tremendous cost on women when data does not take into account gender. By pointing out the fact that much of the data we work with treat men as the default and women as atypical, the book highlights how this bias and discrimination are baked into our systems and investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research by diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, and in the public setting. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this book changes the way you look at the world.
This book serves as an insightful and practical guide to understand and navigate cultural difference for both your personal and professional life. INSEAD professor Erin Meyer guides you by providing a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business, and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice. Filled with engaging, real-life stories and anecdotes from around the world, the book provides a new way forward, with vital insights for working effectively and sensitively with one’s counterparts in the new global marketplace.
This book brings an empowering five-step guide putting forward the claim that you don’t have to be an expert or a millionaire to make money. The book equips you with easy-to-follow golden rules and tools to find your confidence in the world of finance. By demystifying financial jargons and markets or helping you master the art of setting realistic goals, this comprehensive guide provides the answers you need to open a whole new world of opportunities.Start your journey to financial success with Female Invest's guide for safe, smart, and sustainable investing. This is an empowering and uplifting money manifesto, aiming to change the tides of financial power.
A collection of Naval Ravikant’s wisdom and experience, this book puts forward the idea that building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn. It shares ways on how we can learn these skills and what principles should guide our efforts. Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor who has captivated the world with his principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness. This book is a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections.
This book highlights the power of relationships and lays out the specific steps and inner mindset to use to reach out to other people. The book distinguishes genuine relationship-building from the crude, desperate glad-handing usually associated with “networking” by instilling a system of reaching out to people into practical, proven principles. The book also outlines the timeless strategies shared by the world’s most connected individuals, from Winston Churchill to Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan to the Dalai Lama.
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