What's it about? Positively Energizing Leadership (2022) offers organization leaders and workers a practical guide to understanding and harnessing the power of positively energizing characteristics and interpersonal approaches. With empirical data and how-to advice, it aims to boost innovation, profits, and compassion in the workplace and at home. We live in serious times. Society is riddled by fear, mistrust, racial injustice, climate disasters, and the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic – all of which have sowed a climate of violence, outrage, and conflict. As a result of this culture of despair, the power of positive thinking has mushroomed as an industry. There are thousands of books out there promising to guide you to happiness, and each year more and more are published. But the problem with what Kim Cameron calls “happiology” is that it encourages us to put a smile on our faces while inside, our teeth are gritted and our jaws are clenched. The thing is, all lives are comple...

What's it about? Leadership Strategy and Tactics (2020) teaches you how to take the skills of a high-functioning Navy SEAL team and apply them to your workplace. You’ll learn about practices such as Extreme Ownership, and find out why humility is better than arrogance. These tips will help you to leave your ego at the door and to remember that your team’s success should always come before personal success. Being a team leader can be fraught with challenges. You’re often called upon to juggle multiple responsibilities, make tough decisions, and many must overcome their own insecurities. But fortunately, for most of us, being a team leader isn’t a matter of life or death – and that’s because we’re not leading Navy SEAL platoons on high-risk special ops missions. But this is precisely what author Jocko Willink did. In his experiences leading a Navy SEAL platoon, Willink used a full range of leadership skills. And he noticed that these skills could also be applied to other, less dan...

What's it about? Superhero Leadership (2026) distils decades of frontline executive experience into the core principles that define exceptional leadership. A portrait of one of the world’s top “turnaround” CEOs, it’s also a playbook for leaders and managers navigating crises in their own organizations. Leadership has its perks: authority, status, and ownership are just a few of them. Life on the frontlines of a failing enterprise, though, is anything but glamorous: morale is low, cash is tight, and trust sorely tested. The leader’s lot is to hold steady when everyone else is panicking. In this kind of situation, the right call is rarely the most popular. Most managers know the theory of leadership, but crisis is the true test of their character. As we’ll see in this lesson, what matters most isn’t charisma but clarity, discipline, and emotional control. Our guide as we explore these practical virtues is the world’s top turnaround CEO, Peter Cuneo. Cuneo’s book on superhero le...

What's it about? Cheers to Monday (2026) argues that chronic stress isn’t an inevitable part of working life but a systemic problem with a practical solution. It lays out a three-step framework – See, Sort, and Solve – for identifying what’s driving your stress, categorising it, and taking the right action. It also makes the case that reducing stress isn’t just good for your health; it’s what creates the conditions for joy to become a genuine part of your working life. Amy Leneker hit a wall at 40 – panic attacks, medical leave, and a life that had become unrecognizable. The turning point came during a medical appointment, when a form asked what she did for fun and what her hobbies were. She had no answer. Chronic stress had stripped away her sense of self so gradually that she hadn't even noticed – until that question made it impossible to ignore. She spent the next decade in conversation with executives and their colleagues, digging into what drives burnout, what keeps peop...

What's it about? Flash Teams (2025) is a hands-on guide to assembling and running on-demand, computationally powered groups of experts. It explores how to tap online labor markets and artificial intelligence to recruit top talent in minutes and adjust to project changes on the fly. Put these strategies to work, and the way you tackle complex challenges shifts completely, letting you scale operations without the drag of traditional hiring. In today’s rapidly accelerating world, office walls and geographical borders are quickly dissolving, giving way to something far more alive: a fluid, humming network of global talent stretched across every time zone. So the next time a sprawling, complicated project lands in your lap, there’s no reason to flinch. Because somewhere out there, the exact minds you need are already at their desks, coffee in hand, ready the moment you reach out. This lesson walks you through the architecture of the flash team, a bold rethinking of how temporary, high...

What's it about? Leading with Strategy (2026) is a guide to strategic decision-making for leaders navigating the complexity of today's rapidly changing business landscape. It argues that effective strategy requires more than analytical frameworks; it requires a clear sense of organizational purpose, and a commitment to implementing that purpose at every level and across every team of an organization. Your strategy is probably failing. Failing to fix your organization’s overarching problems. Failing to permeate its operating systems. Failing to underpin all the decisions, big and small, that ultimately make up your organization’s strategic direction. But, here’s the good news. It’s not failing because of bad ideas or lack of vision. It’s failing because it’s falling into the gaps between thinking and doing, vision and culture, stated priorities and daily behavior. This lesson won’t just diagnose why your strategy isn’t reaching its full potential, it will give you the to...

What's it about? The AI-First Company (2021) argues that businesses which deliberately build AI into their core operations from the start – rather than bolting it on later – are the ones poised to dominate their industries. It walks you through how to identify valuable data, build the right teams, integrate AI into existing workflows, and reinvest the gains from automation to keep compounding a competitive edge. Dogs have a sense of smell roughly 10,000 times more powerful than ours. Lions can sprint at 50 miles per hour. Whales can hear each other across entire ocean basins. And yet none of those animals built a civilization. Humans did – not because they’re faster or stronger or sharper-sensed, but because they gather information, process it collectively, and learn from it faster than anything else on Earth. Now hand that ability to a machine. One that never sleeps, never forgets, and sharpens itself with every new piece of data it encounters. That’s what this lesson is all ab...