Book Reviews
Here you will find a list of recent book reviews on titles that are relevant for senior HR practitioners, many of which are available as subscriber offers. They are written by our readers and contributors to provide you with an unbiased opinion of each book.
Purpose Ignited: How Inspiring Leaders Unleash Passion and Elevate Cause
Author: Alise Cortez PhD
Review by: Perry Timms
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Where is My Office? Reimagining the Workplace for the 21st Century
Author: Chris Kane
Review by: Gemma Dale
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Ego: Get over yourself and lead
Author: Mary Gregory
Review by: Danielle Bacon
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Be Brilliant: How to Lead a Life of Influence.
Author: Janine Garner
Review by: Graham White
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The Energized Workplace: Designing organizations where people flourish
Author: Perry Timms
Review by: Lucinda Carney
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The Art of Judgement – 10 Steps to becoming a more effective decision maker
Author: John Adair
Reviewed by: Su Askew
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On Board – The Insider’s Guide to Surviving Life in the Boardroom
Author: John Tusa
Review by: Chris Preston
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Free to Soar – Race and Wellbeing in Organisations
Editor: Binna Kandola
Reviewed by: Gemma Dale
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Shapers: Reinvent the Way You Work and Change the Future
Author: Jonas Altman
Reviewed by: Graham White
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Work Together Anywhere: A Handbook on Working Remotely -Successfully- for Individuals, Teams, and Managers
Authors: Kirsten Janene-Nelson & Lisette Sutherland
Reviewed by: Gemma Dale
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Why We Do What We Do – Understanding Our Brain to Get the Best Out of Ourselves and Others
Author: Dr Helena Boschi
Reviewed by: Lucinda Carney
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Leadership U – Accelerating Through the Crisis Curve
Author: Gary Burnison
Review by: Perry Timms
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The Broken CEO – How To Be The Leader You Always Wanted To Be
Author: Chris Pearse
Review by: Chris Preston
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The Connection Quotient
– How a Culture of Understanding Transforms, Teams and Organisations
Author: Marco Buschman
Review by: Perry Timms
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The E5 Movement – Leadership through the rule of Five
Author: Paul Dupuis
Review by: Jim Kennedy
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Being – The Six Principles for Leading in an Age of Fast Change
Author: Ben Renshaw
Review by: Michelle Parry-Slater
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The Midlife Review – A guide to work, wealth and wellbeing
Authors: Steve Butler & Tony Watts
Review by: Chris Preston
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Bank of Me – The Remote Working Edition
Authors: Jane Sparrow, Chris Preston & Owen Cook
Review by: Ian Pettigrew
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How to be a Change Superhero – The business toolkit to help you to ‘do’ change better
Author: Lucinda Carney
Review by: Su Askew
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Life Is a Four-Letter Word – A Mental Health Survival Guide for Professionals
Author: Andy Salkeld
Review by: Graham White
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The Founder’s Notes – A Journey of Inspired Ideas, Work and Life by a Leading Serial Entrepreneur
Author: Ji Qi
Review by: Graham White
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Big Teams – The key ingredients for successfully delivering large projects
Author: Tony Llewellyn
Review by: Perry Timms
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Your Second Phase – Reclaiming and relationships during and after the menopause
Author: Kate Usher
Review by: Helen Tracey
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Soft Skills Hard Results – A Practical Guide to People Skills for Analytical Leaders
Author: Anne Taylor
Review by: Graham White
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The Motive – Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities
Author: Patrick M. Lencioni
Review by: Perry Timms
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The Rise of Bacardi – From Cuban Rum to a Global Empire, an insider’s story
Author: Jorge Del Rosal
Review by: Jason Spiller
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The Human Edge – How curiosity and creativity are your superpowers in the digital economy
Author: Greg Orme
Review by: Chris Preston
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The Heartbeat of Excellence – The Design of Changing Sustainabily, the Swiss Way
Author: Curt Blattner
Review by: Graham White
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People not Paperclips – Putting the human back into Human Resources
Author: Kath Howard
Review by: Su Askew
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Rehumanizing Leadership – Putting Purpose Back into Business
Authors: Sudhanshu Palsule & Machael Chavez
Review by: Chris Preston
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Press Start – Using Gamification to Power-up your Marketing
Authors: Daniel Griffin & Albert van der Meer
Review by: Lucinda Carney
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The Ethical Business Book – 50 ways you can help protect people, the planet and profits
Author: Sarah Duncan
Review by: Perry Timms
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Coaching on the Go – How to lead your team effectively in 10 minutes
Authors: Phil Renshaw & Jenny Robinson
Review by: Derek Draper
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One Life – How we forgot to live meaningful lives
Author: Morten Albaek
Review by: Gemma Dale
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Positive Mental Health – Overcoming mental health problems
Authors: Dr Shaun Davis & Andrew Kinder
Review by: Ian Pettigrew
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Create Space – How to Manage Time, and Find Focus, Productivity and Success
Author: Derek Draper
Review by: Adele Swan
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The Journey Inside – Coaching to the Core
Edited by: Veronica Munro
Review by: Emma Browes
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Manage the Gap -Achieving Success with Intergenerational Teams
Author: Steve Butler
Reveiw by: Chris Preston
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Best Behaviour – Empowering managers and HR leaders to coach and align employee behaviour to supercharge growth
Author: Tony Holmwood
Review by: Graham White
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Unleashing Capacity – The Hidden Human Resources
Author: Rita Trehan
Review by: Derek Draper
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Neuroscience for Organizational Change – An evidence-based practical guide to managing change
Author: Hilary Scarlett
Review by: Jim Kennedy
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The Resilience Dynamic – The simple, proven approach to high performance and wellbeing
Author: Jenny Campbell
Review by: Gemma Dale
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Redesigning the Way Work Works – Strong Opinions and Advice from 40 Years in the Business
Author: Bruce Morton
Review by: Perry Timms
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Values Count – Believing in what we do
Author: Stuart Eglin, PhD
Review by: Gemma Dale
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The Creative Thinking Handbook – Your Step-by-Step Guide to Problem Solving in Business
Authors: Chris Griffiths with Melina Costa
Review by: Su Askew
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Culture Shift – A Practical Guide to Managing Organizational Culture
Author: Kirsty Bashforth
Review by: Jim Kennedy
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Value Creation Through Executive Development
Author: Solomon Akrofi
Reviewed by: Graham White
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How we Work with People ….. and Enjoy It!
Authors: Jenny Bird & Sarah Gornall
Review by: Derek Draper
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The Project Revolution – How to Succeed in a Project Driven World
Author: Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
Review by: Su Askew
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The Conscious Effect – 50 Lessons for Better Organizational Wellbeing
Author: Natasha Wallace
Review by: Ian Pettigrew
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High Frequency Change – Why we feel like change happens faster now, and what to do about it.
Author: Tom Cheesewright
Review by: Perry Timms
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Fair Talk – Three steps to powerful feedback
Authors: Sergey Gorbatov & Angela Lane
Review by: Ian Pettigrew
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Artificial Intelligence in Practice – How 50 successful companies used AI and machine learning to solve problems.
Author: Bernard Marr with Matt Ward
Review by: Perry Timms
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Data Driven Business Transformation – How to disrupt, innovate and stay a head of the competition.
Authors: Peter Jackson & Caroline Carruthers
Review by: Michelle Parry-Slater
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The drama-free workplace – How you can prevent unconscious bias, sexual harassment, ethics lapses and inspire a healthy culture
Author: Patti Perez
Review by: C J Green
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#Upcycle your Job – The smart way to balance family life and career
Author: Anna Meller
Review by: Elaine Keith
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The Ethical Leader – Why Doing the Right Thing Can Be the Key to Competitive Advantage
Author: Morgen Witzel
Review by: Madeleine Field
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Transforming Organizations – Engaging the 4C’s for powerful organizational learning and change.
Authors: Michael Anderson & Miranda Jefferson
Review by: Chris Furnell
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The HR Change Toolkit – Your complete guide to making it happen
Author: Lucy Adams
Review by: Perry Timms
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Bank of Me – How to invest in yourself and others to build great cultures
Authors: Jane Sparrow & Chris Preston
Review by: Emma Browes
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Network Better – How to meet, connect & grow your business
Author: Jeremy Marchant
Review by: Madeleine Field
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Better Business Relationships – Insights from Psychology and Management for Working in a Digital World.
Au-thor: Kim Tasso
Review by: Carolyn Dyer
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Executive Presentations – Develop presence to speak with confidence and skill
Author: Jacqui Harper
Review by: Michelle Parry-Slater
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The Compass and The Radar – The Art of Building a Rewarding Career While Remaining True to Yourself
Author: Paolo Gallo
Review by: Adele Swan
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Culture Decks Decoded – Transform your culture into a visible conscious and tangible asset
Author: Bretton Putter
Review by: Perry Timms
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Re-entrepreneuring – How organisations can reignite their entrepreneurial spirit
Author: Roland Berger Partners
Review by: Chris Furnell
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Humane Capital – How to create a management shift to transform performance and profit
Author: Vlatka Hlupic
Review by: Jim Kennedy
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Humanity’s Lucky Clover – A History of Discoveries, Technologies, Competition and Wealth
Author: Vadim Makhov
Review by: Graham White
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Peter Drucker’s Way to the top – Lessons for reaching your life’s goals
Author: William A. Cohen
Review by: Ian Pettigrew
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Purpose – The extraordinary benefits of focusing on what matters most
Author: Ben Renshaw
Review by: Gemma Dale
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Human Resource Excellence – An Assessment of Strategies and Trends
Authors: Edward E Lawler III & John W Boudreau
Review by: Perry Timms
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Creating the high performance work place – It’s not complicated to develop a culture of commitment
Authors: Sue Bingham & Bob Dusin
Review by: Chris Furnell
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DO GOOD
Embracing Brand Citizenship to Fuel Both Purpose and Profit
Author: Anne Bahr Thompson
Review by: Madeleine Field
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Purpose – The extraordinary benefits of focusing on what matters most
Author: Ben Renshaw
Review by: Gemma Dale
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The Independent Director: The non-executive director’s guide to effective
Author: Gerry Brown
Review by: Jim Kennedy
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The power of purpose – Inspire teams, engage customers, transform business
Authors: John O’Brien and Andrew Cave
Reveiw by: Ian Pettigrew
NOMINATED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2018
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The Listening Leader – How to drive performance by using communicative leadership
Authors: Emilio Galli Zugaro and Clenentina Galli Zugaro
Review by: Adele Swan
NOMINATED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2018
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The leader’s guide to presenting – How to use soft skills to get hard results
Authors: Tom Bird and Jeremy Cassell
Review by: Su Askew
NOMINATED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2018
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Futureproof – How to get your business ready for the next disruption
Authors: Minter Dial & Caleb Storkey
Review by: Perry Timms
NOMINATED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2018
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Trusted – The human approach to building outstanding client relationships in a digitised world
Author: Lyn Bromley & Donna Whitbrook
Review by: Su Askew
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Leading Through Uncertainty – Emotional Resilience and Human Connection in a Performance Driven World
Author: Jude Jennison
Review by: Jim Kennedy
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Boards that dare: How to Future-Proof Today’s Corporate Boards
Authors: Marc Stigter & Sir Cary Cooper
Review by: Ian Pettigrew
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Leading International Projects – Diverse strategies for project success
Author: Bob Dignen & Peter Wollmann
Review by: Kim Knight
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Racism at Work – The Danger of Indifference
Author: Binna Kandola
Review by: Madeleine Field
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The Power of Company Culture – How any business can build a culture that improves productivity, performance and profits
Author: Chris Dyer
Review by: Ian Pettigrew
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Mindfulness For Busy People
Authors: Michael Sinclair, Josie Seydel & Emily Shaw
Review by: Graham White
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The Data Driven Leader – A Powerful Approach to Delivering Measurable Business Impact through People Analytics
Authors: Jenny Dearborn & David Swanson
Review by: Emma Browes
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Confident Data Skills – Master the Fundamentals of working with Data & Supercharge your Career
Author: Kirill Eremenko
Review by: Perry Timms
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50 Top Tools for Employee Wellbeing – A complete Toolkit for Developing Happy, Healthy, Productive & Engaged Employees.
Author: Debbie Mitchell
Review by: Adele Swan
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The Team Coaching Toolkit – 55 Tools & Techniques for Building Brilliant Teams
Author: Tony Llewellyn
Review by: Su Askew
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Beyond Default – Setting your organisation on a trajectory to an improved future
Authors: David Trafford & Peter Boggis
Reviewed by Graham White
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Leadership Results – How to Create Adaptive Leaders and High-Performing Organisations for an Uncertain World
Author: Sebastian Salicru
Reviewed by Michelle Parry-Slater
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Results at the Top – Using Gender Intelligence to create Breakthrough Growth
Authors: Barbara Annis & Richard Nesbitt
Reveiwed by Madeleine Field
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Transgender Employees in the Workplace – A guide for employers
Author: Jennie Kermode
Reviewed by: Madeleine Field
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Transformational HR
Author: Perry Timms
Reviewed by: Emma Browes
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Reframing Organisations
Authors: Lee G Bolman & Terrence E. Deal
Reviewed by: Graham White
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Inclusive Talent Management: How business can thrive in an age of diversity
Authors: Stephen Frost and Danny Kalman
Review by: Ian Pettigrew
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Reformers Arise – Calling out a people of dignity to influence and action
Author: Alero Ayida-Otobo
Review by: Ian Pettigrew
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Firm Principles: Simple Guidelines for Winning Professional Service Firms
Author: Alex Shacklock
Review by: Su Askew
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Thriving Abroad
Author: Louise Wiles & Evelyn Simpson
Review by: Michelle Parry-Slater
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Revolution in a Heartbeat: Using Emotional Insights to Drive Better Business Performance
Author: Matt Stephens
Review by: Gemma Dale
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Managing at the Leading Edge: Navigating and Piloting Business Strategy at Critical Moments
Accelerating Performance: How organizations can Mobilize, Execute and Transform with Agility
How to get Fired at the C-Level
Succeed as an Inclusive Leader
Radical Candor
HR Disrupted – It’s time for something different
Mission: Leadership
Dedication – the Huawei Philosophy of Human Resource Management
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Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management