The Start-up of You
The Start-up of You wasn't on my 2016 reading list, but during a trip to the library it caught my eye. Written by Reid Hoffman (Chairman and Co-Founder of LinkedIn) and Ben Casnocha I was intrigued by the tagline Adapt to…
How To Win Friends and Influence People
I can’t tell you how many times I have seen Dale Carnegie’s ‘How To Win Friends and Influence People’ mentioned in interviews, articles and books. As my book cover so proudly stated ‘Over 16 million copies sold”. Now that is…
What if it DOES work out?
What if it DOES work out? by Susie Moore claims to help you “turn your passion into cash, make an impact and live the life you were born to.” Susie is very passionate about having a side hustle and…
Mrs Moneypenny’s Career Advice for Ambitious Women
Well when you run a book club for ambitious women you have to read any other book with ambitious women in the title. Surely it's compulsory! The book starts of with 'What You Know'. Mrs Moneypenny is hot on qualifications. She believes…
The 80/20 Principle
**PROPELHER'S BOOK CLUB READ** Richard Koch's The 80/20 Principle is is based on the Italian economists Pareto’s theory. in essence, it examines the considerable imbalance between Input and Output, Cause and Consequence and Effort and Results. Richard applies that theory to…
Outliers: The Story of Success
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell follows the story of successful individuals and then indentifies why they are successful. Gladwell claims “it’s as much about where we’re from and what we do, as we who are”. Very early…
Eat, Love, Pray, Made Me Do It.
Now I have to admit I have never read Eat, Pray, Love. Now this is slightly surprising, but I think it would be due to the book being so popular that I thought it couldn't possibly interest me. So when I got…
The Confidence Code
I was kindly asked by my Lean In Circle leader to run a session for the circle. I was honoured and put together a list of books for the group to vote on and the winner was The Confidence Code.…
Awaken The Giant Within
Now I won't lie when the book arrived I was terrified by the size of it. How was I ever going to read this book (and plan a session on it)? However, I am so glad I persevered and read…
The Compound Effect
The core message in The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy is simple. If you want to change your life, you have to change something you do daily. The idea is that small steps consistently will change your life. Very similar…