Lunchtime Learning for Leaders: 16 Ways to Grow your Resilience and Influence
By Lucy Ryan
Routledge
ISBN: 978 1398 60254 0
5 out of 5

 

I am a fan of Mindful Chef – the recipe boxes that arrive on the doorstep with beautifully curated recipes and exotic ingredients. The meal leaves you thinking you’re a great chef. Dr Lucy Ryan’s book, Lunchtime Learning for Leaders is the Mindful Chef of leadership books.

Lucy has curated the best ingredients needed to help us grow as positive leaders, presenting them in a palatable format that increases learning with minimal time and effort. It’s all beautifully curated and synthesised.

It’s often hard to carve out time for learning yet we are hungrier than ever for new ways to navigate unusual times. These 16 leadership lessons are bite-size topics covering areas like influence, resilience, confidence, motivation, diversity, difficult conversations and navigating change. In short, many of the hot potato topics in leadership right now.

An ideal book to give to managers and leaders at any stage of their career journey, it’s well researched and referenced, yet distilled and imparted in an accessible and vibrant tone with case studies, ‘nickable’ models and regular top tips. A must-read for leaders who want to up their game while grabbing a sandwich at their desk.