Leadership & Management

A Manager’s Guide to Avoiding Total Disaster, Tynan unlocks the truths about management, showing that first-time managers are basically on a journey without a map. It’s not that employers aren’t investing in their new managers, she says, or that the people in leadership don’t care, but they are no longer close to the raw experience of being a new manager.

The Everyday Leader  will help you recognise and embrace your natural leadership qualities, so that you can be more motivated and empowered in the workplace and at home.

 Coaching on the Go shows you how to coach your team in bite-sized chapters, so you can learn on the go – on a flight, on your commute to work - and put it into action right away. 

Leading People in Change: A Practical Guide - Aimed at the ordinary line manager just as much as the director of a large company, this book is a short, simple account of practical steps to lead people through change successfully, with quick and easy chapters and pertinent case studies.

The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias - this book explains that bias is the result of mental shortcuts, our likes and dislikes, and is a natural part of the human condition. And what we assume about each other and how we interact with one another has vast effects on our organizational success—especially in the workplace. Teaching you how to overcome unconscious bias, this book provides more than thirty unique tools, such as a prep worksheet and a list of ways to reframe your unconscious thoughts.

Humanizing Leadership: Reflection Fuels, People Matter, Relationships Make The Difference - This book is not a leadership guide. It's not some leadership 101 class that will draw you a picture of what a leader is supposed to look like and how you can learn to fit that mould.

Making a Success of Managing and Working Remotely - This book will help managers and team members alike who are about to or have already started working remotely. It will enable managers to comprehend the challenges of managing remote workers and put strategies in place to overcome these, and will advise employees how to approach their work when doing so remotely.

Managing Millennials: The Ultimate Handbook for Productivity, Profitability, and Professionalism - Archaic methods of management do not deliver success with a new breed of employee. Instead, the outdated model leaves Millennials uninspired and lacking the desire to produce results. To get the best out of Millennials, it is imperative for leaders to modify their current management style. 

Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust - The more traditional form of leadership that is based on immobile hierarchies is growing increasingly outdated and ineffective. Without the ability to actually communicate with their peers, leaders become alienated from their followers and productivity and quality are sacrificed. 

And Now What? A Guide to Leadership and Taking Charge in Your New Role - When you start a new managerial role, there is an inevitable contrast between what you believed you would find and what you're actually faced with. And Now What? helps you manage this gap between expectation and reality, ensuring that you get off to the best possible start in your new job. 

The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlock the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team - Lateral thinking can help you transform your ability to generate ideas, unlock the creative potential of your team and make your organization more innovative. With a lively, energetic and practical approach, The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills will teach you dynamic, up-to-date techniques to unleash the creative energies of your people and show you how to put the techniques to work immediately.

Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking - Conventional wisdom ― and business school curricula ― teaches us that making trade-offs is inevitable when it comes to hard choices. But sometimes, accepting the obvious trade-off just isn’t good enough: the choices in front of us don’t get us what we need. In those cases, rather than choosing the least worst option, we can use the models in front of us to create a new and better answer. This is integrative thinking.

Leaders Like You - By sharing their leadership stories we hope this book de-mythologises many aspects of leadership and makes leadership more accessible and attractive to more New Zealanders.

Leadership Material: How Personal Experience Shapes Executive Presence - Often viewed as 'touchy feely', intangible and invisible, most leaders separate their personal lives from their professional lives. Diana Jones, an executive coach for 30-years, argues that this is unwise. 

Systems thinking for effective managers: the road less travelled - The real world is markedly different and heavily interconnected. Systems thinking is the perfect antidote to the stagnation that characterizes managerial theories and practices. Conventional management, constrained by a sanitized world view, is no longer able to deliver as it did in the past. Expanding horizons and thinking holistically unveils the big picture and builds a body of knowledge more suited to the changing times we live in.

Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for Leaders - When faced with complex challenges or uncertain outcomes, many leaders believe that if they are smart enough, work hard enough, or turn to the best management tools, they will be able to find the right answer, predict and plan for the future, and break down tasks to produce controllable results.

Wayfinding leadership: ground-breaking wisdom for developing leaders - Wayfinders go beyond the known, and journey on voyages of discovery to new horizons. Central to the wayfinding approach is seeing what is really going on - discerning the detail and seeing the whole. The wayfinder has a deep understanding of themselves, their crew, their waka and the environment. 

The Rules of Management: A definitive code for managerial success - Some people find management so easy. They glide effortlessly onwards and upwards through the system, the politics, the people problems, the impossible targets and the work overload. They always seem to say the right thing, do the right thing and know instinctively how to handle every situation. 

The Four Mindsets: How to Influence, Motivate and Lead High Performance Teams - Developed as a guide proven to help all levels of managers to connect, focus, align and activate their teams to elevate results, this book also serves as a low-cost, first step, alternative to expensive training, coaching and mentoring programs by providing a range of resources and tools to use and become a 'best in class' leader today. 

Financial Times Guide to Management: How to be a Manager Who Makes a Difference and Gets Results - From motivating a team and developing star talent to controlling budgets and fostering innovation, The Financial Times Guide to Management is your authoritative guide to becoming an effective manager. 

The Practical Drucker: Applying the Wisdom of the World's Greatest Management Thinker - Few thinkers have had a greater impact on business than Peter Drucker, the inventor of modern management, whose legacy continues to influence leaders around the globe. His keen observations about organizations took the form of deceptively simple truths and astute predictions. Concepts such as decentralization, outsourcing, the rise of the knowledge worker, the role of employees as assets, and a focus on the customer.

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People - If you read nothing else on managing people, read these 10 articles (featuring “Leadership That Gets Results,” by Daniel Goleman). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your employees' performance.