Make Work Fair
Authors: Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi
Publisher: Harper Business
Price: £25
Despite widespread efforts, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are increasingly coming under fire for being burdensome and ineffective. In Make Work Fair, Harvard researchers and gender experts Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi present evidence-based methods for turning good intentions into measurable outcomes, without putting people on the defensive.
Choose Trust
Authors: Stuart Maister and Kevin Vaughan-Smith
Publisher: Economist Books
Price: £11.99
People choose to follow, work with and buy from people they trust. To earn that faith, argue the authors of Choose Trust, you need to be clear about what you’re doing and why, demonstrate good character and show competence in managing two-way relationships. Stuart Maister and Kevin Vaughan-Smith aim to show how to achieve all three.
Momentum
Author: Lee Chambers
Publisher: Kogan Page
Price: £14.99
Psychologist and wellbeing expert Lee Chambers has faced plenty of uncertainty. Challenges like learning to walk again after suffering autoimmune arthritis, and receiving an autism diagnosis aged 36, have informed his debut book, Momentum, in which he sets down his 13 lessons to help people find their purpose and build sustainable momentum in their career.
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Judgement at Work
Author: Andrew Likierman
Publisher: Profile Books
Price: £16.99
So many of us aspire to be the ones calling the shots – but how often do we get it right? For Andrew Likierman, former dean of London Business School and director of the Bank of England, where he chairs the and Risk Committee, judgement is a science. Sharing a six-part framework, he aims to guide readers towards making the right call.
Leading the Sustainable Business Transformation
Editors: Julia Binder and Knut Haanaes
Publisher: Wiley
Price: £40
Thoroughly researched and jammed full of renowned thinkers, experts and case studies, Julia Binder and Knut Haanaes’ guide to sustainable business is a comprehensive cross-section of the issues facing environmentally conscious entrepreneurs today. Promising leaders ways to dodge pitfalls and overcome barriers to change, the book offers practical steps to marrying planet and profit.
This article was published in the January/February 2025 edition of HR magazine.
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