06 August 2024
TNM Coaching’s 2024 Reading List for Inspired Leadership
From leadership and coaching to creativity and productivity, we’re sure you’ll find something that piques your interest.
We’ve asked TNM Coaching’s top facilitators and coaches to give their recommendations for the books you should read this summer to inspire you for the second half of 2024.
From leadership and coaching to creativity and productivity, we’re sure you’ll find something that piques your interest.
Happy reading!
Breakthrough Coaching: Creating Lightbulb Moments in Your Coaching Conversations
by Marcia Reynolds
This is a new, practical guide for disrupting the narratives holding clients back from resolving problems and making the changes they want in themselves. Breakthrough Coaching offers methods, resources and exercises that will help you activate immediate and sustainable shifts in perspective and behaviour, moving you and your coachees forward in your journeys. We’re so proud to have Marcia as a TNM colleague!
Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
by Paul Polman & Andrew Winston
During his time as Unilever CEO, Polman increased his shareholders’ returns by 300% while ensuring the company ranked #1 in the world for sustainability for 11 years. Together with Andrew Winston, Polman has revealed how business leaders can build a thriving business by solving humanity’s greatest and most urgent challenges—climate change and inequality – instead of creating them.
Good Team, Bad Team: Lead Your People to Go After Big Challenges, Not Each Other
by Saran Thurber & Blair Miller
Sarah Thurber and Blair Miller have decades of team-building experience between them. Their advice? If you want to lead a good team, ignore your instincts and follow the science. Built on research from their popular FourSight® system, this book examines a collection of over 6 million data points on why people solve the same problem so differently. The answer? We all have unconscious problem-solving patterns which, left unmanaged, can cause conflict and prevent progress. But if understood, these patterns can help diverse thinkers achieve the extraordinary.
Flying Lead Change
By Kelly Wendorf
In this beautiful book, Wendorf presents a way of leadership based “on a 56-million-year-old system of the horse herd––a path that has allowed humans and horses alike to survive the kinds of global and societal threats we now face.” Analogies from the horse herd are adapted to human leadership herds, such as leading from behind and conserving energy, and each chapter comes with journal questions and exercises.
The War of Art by: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
by Steven Pressfield
It’s been described as “A succinct, engaging, and practical guide for succeeding in any creative sphere, The War of Art is nothing less than Sun-Tzu for the soul.” This book examines what keeps us from beginning a creative project – be it starting up a new business, writing a book or composing a song. Novelist Steven Pressfield identifies the enemy within and offers a battle plan for conquering it and rising up to reach the highest level of creative discipline.
It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be
by Paul Arden
If you’re tired of dreaming and want to make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible, the world’s top advertising guru, Paul Arden, has the know-how to get you there. He provides a unique insight into the world of advertising with wisdom, quirky stories and tips on a variety of challenges such as problem solving, responding to a brief, communicating, playing your cards right, making mistakes and creativity – all notions that can be applied to aspects of modern life.
Perennial Psychology of the Bhagvad Gita
by Swami Rama
Swami Rama makes the Bhagvad Gita – one of the most influential spiritual texts of ancient India – highly accessible by vividly drawing out the psychological concepts it holds. The lessons in this book are centred on an understanding that the world outside of us can only be mastered when we have explored and realised our inner potential.
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
A New York Times Bestseller with more than two million copies in print, this influential guide helps you take the final leap to success by actually getting things done. In this latest edition, Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan have reframed their empowering message for a world where old rules no longer apply and change is the norm, making the ability to execute on your ideas more important than ever.
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
by Seth Godin
It’s human nature to want to belong to a tribe, whether it’s religious, ethnic, economic, political, or even artistic. Published almost a decade ago, Seth Godin’s visionary book has helped tens of thousands of people bring a scattering of followers together as a loyal tribe. If you need to rally fellow employees, customers, investors, believers, hobbyists, or readers around an idea, this book presents the three steps to success: the desire to change things, the ability to connect a tribe, and the willingness to lead.
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
by Elizabeth Gilbert
The author of Eat. Pray. Love dives into the mysterious nature of inspiration, asking us to embrace our curiosity and tackle what we love, while facing down our fears and releasing needless suffering. Gilbert discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need to adopt to live our most creative lives. Balancing between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages us to uncover the precious gems that we all hide inside.
