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137+ summaries written from the experience of a practising organisational leader. The big ideas and key takeaways in five minutes or less — with notes on how they show up at work.
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Rating
Year
137 summaries
The Next Conversation
9/10 · 21 Aug 2026
Nonviolent Communication
8/10 · 20 Aug 2026
Thanks for the Feedback
9/10 · 19 Aug 2026
Getting to Yes
8/10 · 18 Aug 2026
The Culture Map
9/10 · 17 Aug 2026
Humble Inquiry
9/10 · 16 Aug 2026
We Need to Talk
8/10 · 15 Aug 2026
Just Listen
8/10 · 14 Aug 2026
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
9/10 · 13 Aug 2026
Dare to Lead
9/10 · 12 Aug 2026
Corporate Escapology
8/10 · 27 Feb 2025
How to Know Everything
6/10 · 28 Nov 2024
Listen
10/10 · 21 Nov 2024
How To Listen
7/10 · 13 Nov 2024
How To Know a Person
9/10 · 30 Oct 2024
The 4-Hour Chef
7/10 · 24 Oct 2024
Speak So Your Audience Will Listen
9/10 · 17 Oct 2024
The Laws of Connection
9/10 · 10 Oct 2024
The Friction Project
7/10 · 26 Sept 2024
The Intelligence Trap
6/10 · 18 Sept 2024
Start With Why
8/10 · 12 Sept 2024
Squiggly Career
9/10 · 12 Sept 2024
We're All Mad Here
7/10 · 4 Sept 2024
Difficult Conversations
9/10 · 22 Aug 2024
Key Person of Influence
9/10 · 15 Aug 2024
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
8/10 · 8 Aug 2024
One Last Thing
8/10 · 1 Aug 2024
The Pathless Path
9/10 · 23 Jul 2024
The Social Brain
7/10 · 4 Jul 2024
Pitch Anything
8/10 · 20 Jun 2024
Ask
9/10 · 20 Jun 2024
Super Mentors
8/10 · 11 May 2024
Radical Candor
10/10 · 2 May 2024
Crucial Conversations
9/10 · 2 May 2024
The Five Love Languages
7/10 · 2 May 2024
Fierce Conversations
10/10 · 23 Apr 2024
Million Dollar Weekend
7/10 · 19 Mar 2024
Supercommunicators
6/10 · 13 Mar 2024
Building a StoryBrand
10/10 · 27 Feb 2024
The Coming Wave
8/10 · 18 Feb 2024
Quit
8/10 · 5 Feb 2024
When McKinsey Comes to Town
8/10 · 16 Jan 2024
Lost Connections
10/10 · 15 Jan 2024
Hidden Potential
5/10 · 8 Jan 2024
Same as Ever
8/10 · 7 Jan 2024
The Art of Community
7/10 · 7 Feb 2023
Four Thousand Weeks
20 Jan 2023
What's in It for Them?
8/10 · 29 Dec 2022
The First Minute
10/10 · 13 Dec 2022
Both/and Thinking
9/10 · 2 Oct 2022
The Visibility Factor
8/10 · 22 Aug 2022
The Disciplined Listening Method
5/10 · 14 Aug 2022
Influence Is Your Superpower
7/10 · 1 Aug 2022
The Metaverse
8/10 · 28 Jul 2022
How to Win Friends and Influence People
10/10 · 21 Jul 2022
A More Beautiful Question
9/10 · 12 Jul 2022
Never Split the Difference
10/10 · 10 Jul 2022
Building a Second Brain
8/10 · 3 Jul 2022
Humanocracy
10/10 · 22 Jun 2022
Creating Magic
10/10 · 16 May 2022
Multipliers
10/10 · 16 May 2022
Energize
26 Apr 2022
The Art of the Gathering
20 Apr 2022
Atlas of the Heart
29 Mar 2022
Belonging
20 Mar 2022
Presence
10/10 · 20 Feb 2022
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before
19 Feb 2022
Relentless Solution Focus
10/10 · 14 Feb 2022
Time To Think
10/10 · 11 Feb 2022
You Coach You Book
10 Feb 2022
The Prosperous Coach
10/10 · 1 Feb 2022
Stolen Focus
7/10 · 30 Jan 2022
The Culture Code
9/10 · 26 Jan 2022
How To Begin
10/10 · 21 Jan 2022
The Drunkard’s Walk
7/10 · 16 Jan 2022
Quiet: The Power of Introverts
10/10 · 16 Jan 2022
The Coach's Guide To Teaching
9/10 · 16 Jan 2022
Leadership
10/10 · 26 Dec 2021
Twelve and a half
7/10 · 17 Dec 2021
High Performance
9/10 · 12 Dec 2021
Future Presence
6/10 · 5 Dec 2021
Masters of Scale
7/10 · 5 Dec 2021
Catalyst
7/10 · 5 Dec 2021
High Conflict
9/10 · 7 Sept 2021
Connect
10/10 · 15 Aug 2021
The Advice Trap
6/10 · 6 Aug 2021
Super Learning
8/10 · 27 Jul 2021
Team Coaching At Work
8/10 · 13 Jul 2021
The Inner Game of Tennis
7/10 · 7 Jul 2021
The Body Keeps The Score
9/10 · 26 Jun 2021
The Alchemist
9/10 · 23 Jun 2021
The Copywriters Handbook
8/10 · 17 Jun 2021
How To Have Successful Relationships
8/10 · 16 Jun 2021
Noise
6/10 · 27 May 2021
How To Change
5/10 · 11 May 2021
Essentialism
6/10 · 3 May 2021
Trillion-Dollar Coach
8/10 · 25 Apr 2021
Team Topologies
8/10 · 16 Apr 2021
Rapport
6/10 · 13 Apr 2021
The Making of a Manager
8/10 · 1 Apr 2021
Power Of Habit
9/10 · 27 Mar 2021
Good Habits, Bad Habits
5/10 · 16 Mar 2021
Think Again
8/10 · 25 Feb 2021
You’re Not Listening
9/10 · 17 Feb 2021
Upstream
7/10 · 9 Feb 2021
The Coaching Habit
9/10 · 31 Jan 2021
The Coaching Habit
9/10 · 31 Jan 2021
Empowered
7/10 · 24 Jan 2021
Hiring Product Managers
7/10 · 19 Jan 2021
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
9/10 · 16 Jan 2021
The Great Mental Models
7/10 · 27 Dec 2020
The Practice
8/10 · 15 Dec 2020
Barcelona Way
8/10 · 12 Dec 2020
Cynefin
6/10 · 11 Dec 2020
Stand Out
7/10 · 10 Dec 2020
Sooner Safer Happier
6/10 · 28 Nov 2020
Challenging Coaching
27 Oct 2020
Project to Product
6/10 · 18 Oct 2020
Who Moved My Cheese
8/10 · 3 Oct 2020
Forever Employable
13 Sept 2020
The ONE Thing
9/10 · 12 Sept 2020
Ultralearning
7/10 · 17 Aug 2020
Beyond Command and Control
28 Jun 2020
How To Be an Antiracist
10/10 · 21 Jun 2020
Biased
17 Jun 2020
A Scrum Book
3 May 2020
Ego is the Enemy
10/10 · 19 Apr 2020
Superfast Lead at Speed
12 Apr 2020
Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps
22 Mar 2020
How to Lead in Product Management
14 Mar 2020
Influence
8 Mar 2020
The Unicorn Project
7/10 · 7 Mar 2020
Happiness Hypothesis
7/10 · 23 Feb 2020
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F
8/10 · 16 Feb 2020
Knowing Doing Gap – How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
8/10 · 16 Feb 2020
Tiny Habits
10/10 · 1 Feb 2020
Range - Why Generalists Triumph
1 Feb 2020