Recommended reading

My favourite business books

Thoughts, tips and tools to help you hit the ground running, build your action plan and have a powerful impact in your critical first 100 days.

With the overall purpose of helping you become an even better leader and achieve even more success for your business with even less stress for you


Considered one of the most inspiring books ever written.

A step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity.

Principles to adapt to change and the wisdom to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.


What do Apple, Starbucks, Dyson and Pret a Manger have in common?

How do they achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and-true brands to gasp their last?

Create products and services that are worth marketing!


Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people.

It is wrong.

Daniel H. Pink explains the secret to performance in today’s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and the world.


Explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these insights ethically.

Memorable stories and relatable examples make this crucially important subject surprisingly easy.

You don’t have to be a scientist to learn how to use this science.


After five-years research, Jim Collins concludes that good to great can and does happen.

He uncovers the underlying variables that enable an organisation to make the leap from good to great.

His findings are surprising - at times even shocking - to the modern mind.


Why are some people more inventive, pioneering and successful than others?

Why are they able to repeat their success again and again?

Because it doesn't matter what you do, it matters WHY you do it.


How do winners excel? Is the winning mindset something we can all develop?

How do winners tick? How do they build great teams? How do they deal with setbacks?

What can the very different worlds of politics, business and sport learn from one another.


Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance.

His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. He has ninety days to save it.

A chance meeting helps him see what needs to be done.


Bruce runs a successful company but is on the brink of quitting because the company’s culture is driving it towards demise.

Fortunately Sam introduces him to the concept of UGRs, or unwritten ground rules.

Learn from Bruce how you, too, can revitalise your company’s culture.


What does your company do better than anyone else?

The rules for market leadership are changing.

This book will show what it takes to become a leader in your market, and stay there, in an ever more sophisticated and demanding world.


Explores the steps in the life of a business, from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective.

Draws the vital distinction between working on your business and working in your business.


Stands uncer­tainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary.

The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resil­ient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.

Antifragile things not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish.