Designing your life – a great book to get unstuck in your career
How “Designing Your Life” by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans can help you get unstuck in your career and start designing the one you really want.
Tag: book review
March 17, 2023
Do you see your role in business as a calling?
Could being a leader in a business be more than a route to higher rewards or social status? Could it be a moral calling, a vocation? Learn how
How thinking about the economics of data & analytics can help
A review of Bill Schmarzo’s “The economics of data, analytics and digital transformation” and how it can help data leaders maximise value.
Exploring the reality of all that we are at work
Book review of the wonderfully engaging “All that we are” by Gabriella Braun. Helping leaders think about the reality of human nature at work
e-Commerce Measurement: Are Your Numbers Up?
A book to help you really understand how to implement the e-commerce measurement your organisation needs. “Your Numbers Up!” book review.
Why Positively Energising Leadership is a call for virtues
Book review of “Positively Energising Leadership” by Prof Kim Cameron. Why virtues matter & how to behave in a way that positively energises.
Do you know the journey beyond expertise to intentional mastery?
Discovering what Mastery is and how you can developing beyond being a practitioner or even an expert, to become a master, with William Buist.
Leadership lessons from ex-President Barak Obama
Leadership lessons from President Barak Obama. Relevant insights for data & analytics leaders gleaned from reading memoirs “A Promised Land”.
Learning from “The Book of Why” about Casual Science
Book review of Judea Pearl’s masterpiece: “The Book of Why”. An introduction to Causal Science. Why it matters for data scientists & analysts
Thinking with Data helps you turn information into insights
Book review of “Thinking with Data”. Uncovering how a short book really can help you develop the thinking skills needed to generate insights.
What can we learn about data storytelling from The Atlas of Experience?
A classic example of visual storytelling, what can ‘The Atlas of Experience’ teach analysts today? Tony Boobier shares why it inspires him.
The journey of developing vital Soft Skills in analytical leaders
A review of “Soft Skills Hard Results” by Anne Taylor and why this busy book is helpful for data & analytics leaders is read in the right way