Leadership - Motivation
Winner
8 Paradoxes of Leadership Agility
Chuen Chuen Yeo
This book helps managers and leaders adopt a new way of thinking in the volatile workplace, reducing stress, increasing a sense of ease and authenticity, and improving their resilience to excel and make a positive difference.
Readers globally have reached out to me after the book was published, sharing how the simple four-step model has offered them another perspective that is more constructive, resourceful and liberating. Many readers have also shared their insights with the rest of the world through my podcast, Agile Leaders Conversations. For some readers, the stories in the book gave them closure on the challenges they faced on their leadership journey.
In a nutshell, the stories coupled with the four-step model gives modern leaders a simple and systematic way to broaden their perpsectives, clarify their values and then leading with agility and ease. This helps them be ready for whatever changes that will come their way.
Leadership - Motivation
Winner
Cowboys & Conductors: Conversations on Horseman-Humanship
Paul Jan Zdunek
Dustin Davis
'Cowboys & Conductors: Conversations on Horseman-Humanship' has been described as a business book about life and a life book about business for both CEOs in the workplace and young children in the schoolyard trying to figure out relationships. Hailed by Readers' Favorite as "...one of the most inspiring books on leadership...for anyone who needs...guidance in their day-to-day lives," this book has been helping people understand how to communicate with others through simple, yet impactful philosophies of Meeting People Where They Are, allowing people to Move Their Feet, and empowering them to work through this post black-and-white world by providing them with a foundational framework called GREY LEADERSHIP®. As the author of the Foreword, Beyonce's dad and executive producer, Mathew Knowles, says that after reading 'Cowboys & Conductors', "You'll want to be a better person and team player not only for yourself, but for your colleagues and loved ones too."
Leadership - Motivation
Finalist
The Handbook for Post-Covid Engagement
Fiona Passantino
Engagement is about bringing our best selves to the office, being heard, supported and free.
The Handbook for Post-Covid Engagement: A Comic Book for Executives is my witness statement after 25 years’ work as a professional storyteller, graphic artist and communicator with 12 years working in corporate. As Culture and Engagement manager for Danone, Philips and PostNL and other large multinationals, I have had a front-row seat for the slow erosion of trust and engagement in the workplace.
This is a very different kind of business book, part graphic novel, telling the story of how the pandemic changed our working world, and part research-driven roadmap to improve our global workplace culture. Humorous and easy to read, packed with essential information, the aim of the series is to help leaders and HR professionals prepare for our new ways of working and relieve the pain we all are feeling in our jobs. The goal is to support a shift in mindset and provide the tools to inspire, inform