Preparing for the New Year – resources to help you succeed
At our regular networking breakfasts, we often hear about the latest book and podcast recommendations from senior leaders in marketing, digital and technology, so we have compiled our top ten to share with you all. These resources are perfect for the post-festive downtime, so that you can start the New Year feeling refreshed, energised and inspired for 2024.
Everyday Dharma: 8 Essential Practices for Finding Success and Joy in Everything You Do by Suneel Gupta
An expert on happiness and work, Suneel Gupta argues that for too long society has been fixated on the Future of Work and ignored the Future of Worth. We’ve compartmentalized work and well-being and ignored the fact that both are essential for sustained success. We’ve assumed that outer success leads to inner well-being–despite history showing us that this has never been the case. In Everyday Dharma, Suneel helps us break this negative cycle.
https://amzn.eu/d/5AjzXbvMindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential by Carol Dweck
World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly ground-breaking idea - the power of our mindset. Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us success but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn't foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment but may actually jeopardize success.
https://amzn.eu/d/60LnpcWExponential Organizations 2.0: The New Playbook for 10x Growth and Impact by Salim Ismail, Peter H. Diamandis, MD, and Michael S. Malone
In a world of accelerating technologies, three visionary pioneers—Salim Ismail, Peter H. Diamandis, MD, and Michael S. Malone—bring you a playbook to ride on top of the exponential curve. This is a sequel to Exponential Organizations, which quickly became one of the most successful business books globally, being used by leaders, organisations, and even countries to create transformation across nearly every industry and geography.
https://amzn.eu/d/7C1rHjWThe Unlock Moment leadership podcast with Dr Gary Crotaz PhD
Hosted by Dr Gary Crotaz PhD – coach, speaker, and author of The IDEA Mindset – this podcast brings you powerful and probing interviews with business leaders, entrepreneurs, world-class coaches, and many others, to find out what inspired them in developing as leaders, and their recipe for success in a world of change and uncertainty. His book, The IDEA Mindset, is also a valuable resource for designing a working life that enables you to reach your full potential, plays to your natural talents and strengths, excites you every day, and is built around the things that are most important to you.
Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/4yzWepuXTf5rursAv9O1NZ?si=808d490eb0d440dc
Book https://amzn.eu/d/5iugKHvSquiggly careers with Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper
This weekly podcast will help you to take control of your career development. Hosted by the founders of Amazing If, Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper, they cover all things work: from how to manage stress and overcome your confidence gremlins to micro-aggressions and discovering your strengths. Each episode is full of ideas, actions, hints, and tips that you can put into practice straight away. The Squiggly Career book was a No.1 Sunday Times Business Bestseller and well worth a read too.
Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/6t6vYEeYl3Kmdd0AE6v3xj?si=t92-kaNqRWW8bmWvcxgS-A
Book https://amzn.eu/d/i9AMhTLWhen Machines Become Customers: Ready or not, AI enabled non-human customers are coming to your business. How you adapt will make or break your future by Don Scheibenreif and Mark Raskino
For thousands of years, customers have been individual humans, families or organisations. But soon, generative AI enabled software and hardware machines will start to act as customers. First, they will shop for us, later they will act for themselves. You can’t take them to dinner, and they won’t fall for your slogans, but they might help grow your market – if you know how. When Machines Become Customers is the first book to lay out this profound change to business in the 21st century.
https://amzn.eu/d/jeTqTJTThe Marketing Week podcast
The UK's most respected business title and trusted voice on the marketing industry broadcasts this podcast on key topics with leading industry voices. From exploring what's next in marketing, to the future of B2B, Marketing Week takes listeners behind the scenes of the world's most effective brands and campaigns.
https://open.spotify.com/show/3x01siwMGgdSwJpYOVpO40?si=bubyWJsdSyWMkZrPWu6V3AMarketing Meetup podcast
The Marketing Meetup Podcast is an audio series by marketers, for marketers. Featuring live talk recordings, interviews and discussions, The Marketing Meetup Podcast is a place for marketers to stay in touch, learn, and be inspired.
https://open.spotify.com/show/5QvmFdxg5pMwsfPkKjhXl9?si=roftIiLiTyaPRz5WHqsZuwFT Tech Tonic podcast
In the midst of a digital revolution, where the line between our physical world and cyberspace is blurring, the FT's Tech Tonic podcast investigates the promises and perils of this new technological age.
https://open.spotify.com/show/0euILJ8WEEmIG7UeZi1VtM?si=RxjqeAFNSwiKJpF0SbOTfwTED Tech podcast
Host Sherrell Dorsey guides you through the latest ideas from TED Speakers, uncovering the riveting questions that sit at the intersection of technology, society, science, design, business, and innovation.
https://open.spotify.com/show/0euILJ8WEEmIG7UeZi1VtM?si=RxjqeAFNSwiKJpF0SbOTfw
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