Alumni Publications Roundup: April
Find below a selection of publications by Henley alumni. To find out more about these works, or to contact the authors, email us.
Build Your Legacy Business: Solopreneur To Family Business Hero
By Sajjad Hamid
If you are in the lifelong game of becoming a successful entrepreneur, there is only one way to achieve it. Develop the right mindset, start a venture on some innovative idea, grow it, invite your family to join the business, and be prepared for the inevitable challenges of a family firm. This legacy goal is an enduring dream for many, but if you execute the right moves in sequential order, you will have the satisfaction many in business do not. Legacy is all about immortality, and in business, living forever can only be achieved by having the next generations working in the same organization.
The IDEA Mindset - Figure Out What You Want From Work, And How To Get It, In Six Weeks
By Dr Gary Crotaz
Henley's Coaching Book of the Year 2022
Your IDEA Mindset isn’t a certificate you can frame and put on the wall. It’s not an object you can store in a box under the bed. It’s something deep within you. Intangible maybe, but oh so powerful. My clients say that they have changed beyond recognition. It feels different to be them.
Your new perspective and plan will power you to a much more satisfying working life. The road won’t be easy, but you’ll have an inner compass to guide you on your way, and new skills and routines to support you even when the going gets tough.
The IDEA Mindset is personal to you. No one can write your vision, your purpose or your plan for you. Certainly not me! That’s why in the IDEA Mindset book you have to write it for yourself. Writing is part of the journey to self-discovery and change.
Beyond Discomfort: Why inclusive leadership is so hard (and what you can do about it).
By Nadia Nagamootoo
Henley Women in Leadership Scholarship Winner 2012
Talk to anyone about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and it sparks a whole range of emotions. Why? Because DEI, at its very core, is about values and beliefs, and it’s about change. So it is no surprise then, that despite putting in place a DEI strategy and multiple initiatives, so many organizations get stuck.
Beyond Discomfort reveals a new model of inclusive leadership, which describes four belief systems and associated emotional responses to DEI.
Wisdom for Leadership: Faith, Values & High Performance
By Tony Nelson
Wisdom For Leadership tells the story of a development programme for senior educational leaders in Iraq, without doubt one of the most challenging environments in the world. Nelson draws upon his own accomplishments in tailoring a training programme for the deans and heads of colleges and schools across Iraq. This is a story of leadership in extraordinary circumstances. The book shares accumulated leadership wisdom from a variety of western, eastern and tribal sources.
This body of knowledge is sensitively grounded in a cross-cultural context to enable the leader to reflect upon their leadership impact on teams and organisations. Wisdom for Leadership is full of practical diagnostics and tools to help the busy leader quickly apply their own learning to create amazing workplaces.
Leadership in Complexity and Change: For a world in constant motion
By Dr Sharon Varney
If we needed a reminder that the world is complex and in constant motion, then 2020 certainly delivered. Suddenly, the inherent uncertainties and ambiguities of leadership were starkly revealed for all to see as the dynamics of complexity and change played out intensively, and very publicly, on the global stage.
Leadership in Complexity and Change draws on complexity science to paint a picture of a world in constant motion, where leadership is enacted in the midst of complexity and continuous change. We must learn to engage with complexity. If not now, when?
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