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We’re keen to help you get every last drop of value from our courses and coaching programmes. To this end, we’ve compiled a list of our favourite reading material relating to many of the key points raised during our courses. We hope our selection will inspire you further and help cement new ideas and practices into your daily working life.
Simply select the books from the list of latest titles below and you will find a selection of additional material available to purchase directly from the Amazon.co.uk links.
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Recommended Titles
Title: Failure is Not an Option
Author: Gene Kranz
Title: Who Moved My Cheese?
Author: Dr Spencer Johnson
Title: Managers not MBA's
Author: Henry Mintzberg
Title: Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense
Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert I Sutton
Title: Good to Great
Author: Jim Collins
Title: When Professionals Have to Lead
Author: Thomas J. DeLong, John J Gabarro & Robert J. Lees
Title: Principle Centred Leadership
Author: Stephen R. Covey
Title: The First 90 Days
Author: Michael Watkins
Title: 10 Day MBA
Author: Steven Silbiger
Commentary / Reviews
Title: Failure is Not an Option
Kranz was part of the mission control team that, in January 1961, launched a chimpanzee into space and made Alan Shepard the first American in space. Through the many Apollo missions that followed, Gene Kranz was one of the integral inside men--one of those who bore the responsibility for the Apollo 1 tragedy and the leader of the "tiger team" that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts.
The book allows the reader to see NASA through his eyes, from its primitive days when he first joined up, through the 1993 shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, his last mission control project.
Acorn says:
While this book is all about the ‘space race’ it’s laced with pithy observations of people management and decision making in high stress situations. There are a lot of useful tips on leadership that can be taken from this book.
Price on Amazon £7.34
