TOOLKIT / Resources for the purpose-driven leader.
TOOLKIT / Resources for the purpose-driven leader.
TOOLKIT / Resources for the purpose-driven leader.
The Purpose-Driven Leader’s Toolkit for Change.
Resources for creative, purpose-driven leaders who believe in the never-ending pursuit of meaningful work, inclusion and changing outdated systems.
Resources for creative, purpose-driven leaders who believe in the never-ending pursuit of meaningful work, inclusion and changing outdated systems.
Resources for creative, purpose-driven leaders who believe in the never-ending pursuit of meaningful work, inclusion and changing outdated systems.
Resources for creative, purpose-driven leaders who believe in the never-ending pursuit of meaningful work, inclusion and changing outdated systems.
Catalogue
4000 Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Book
2021
Productivity
Time management for mortals. Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.
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Personal development, Productivity, Self-Awareness
A Gift of Love
Martin Luther King Jr.
Book
2012
Philosophy
As Dr. King prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known homilies. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962. Having been arrested for holding a prayer vigil outside Albany City Hall, King and Ralph Abernathy shared a jail cell for fifteen days that was, according to King, ‘‘dirty, filthy, and ill-equipped’’ and “the worse I have ever seen.” While behind bars, he spent uninterrupted time preparing the drafts for classic sermons such as “Loving Your Enemies,” “Love in Action,” and “Shattered Dreams,” and continued to work on the volume after his release.
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Philosophy, Spirituality, Leadership
A Liberated Mind
Steven Hayes
Book
2019
Psychology
What is psychological flexibility? Dr Steven Hayes walks us through his work on using techniques to change the habits of our thinking. If you’re into how the mind works - this is a fantastic resource.
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Psychology, Self Help, Mental Health
A Peace to End All Peace
David Fromkin
Book
1989
History
In our time the Middle East has proven a battleground of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and dynasties. All of these conflicts, including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis that have flared yet again, come down, in a sense, to the extent to which the Middle East will continue to live with its political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed upon the region by the Allies after the First World War.
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History, Politics, War
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
Book
2020
Biography
Many words have been written (and said) about this man — these are his own.
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Biography, Leadership, Politics, History
About Holocracy
Wikipedia
Reference
2022
Org Design
A concise summary of Holocracy as an org design system
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Leadership, Teams, Culture
Across That Bridge
John Lewis
Book
2017
Civil Rights
A legend walked amongst us. This book left us speechless.
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Challenging the system, Amercian Politics
Always Another Country
Sisonke Msimang
Book
2017
Memoir
Born in exile, in Zambia, to a guerrilla father and a working mother, Sisonke Msimang is constantly on the move. Her parents, talented and highly educated, travel from Zambia to Kenya and Canada and beyond with their young family. Always the outsider, and against a backdrop of racism and xenophobia, Sisonke develops her keenly perceptive view of the world. In this sparkling account of a young girl’s path to womanhood, Sisonke interweaves her personal story with her political awakening in America and Africa, her euphoria at returning to the new South Africa, and her disillusionment with the new elites. Confidential and reflective, Always Another Country is a search for belonging and identity: a warm and intimate story that will move many readers.
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Memoir, Africa, South Africa
Another Day in the Colony
Chelsea Watego
Book
2021
Indigenous Australia
A ground-breaking work - and a call to arms - that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations people.
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Nonfiction, Australia, Essays
Another Now
Yanis Varoufakis
Book
2020
Economics
What would a fair and equal society actually look like? It's 2025 and we're going to see this new economy through the eyes of three purpose-driven leaders.
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The new economy, Challenging the system,
Between The World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Book
2015
Memoir
An instant classic. Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
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Memoir, Social Justice, Nonfiction
Blakwork
Alison Whitaker
Book
2018
Indigenous Australia
A stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice in poetry. Alison Whittaker’s BLAKWORK is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet’s fearless examination of the present.
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Indigenous Australia, Poetry, Memoir, LGBT
Brave New Work
Aaron Digna
Book
2019
Future of Work
Imagine a bank that abandoned traditional budgeting, only to outperform its competition for decades. An appliance manufacturer that divided itself into 2,000 autonomous teams, resulting not in chaos but rapid growth. A healthcare provider with an HQ of just 50 people supporting over 14,000 people in the field--that is named the "best place to work" year after year. And even a team that saved $3 million per year by cancelling one monthly meeting.
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Future of Work, Business, Management
Bravey
Alexi Pappas
Book
2021
Mental Health
Couldn't put this book down! When Alexi Pappas was four years old, her mother committed suicide, drastically altering the course of Pappas's life and setting her on a perpetual search for female role models. When her father started signing her up for sports teams as a way to keep his bereaved daughter busy, female athletes became some of the first women Pappas looked up to, and she became a girl with a goal: to be an Olympian. Despite setbacks and hardships, Pappas held fast to that dream, putting in the tremendous hard work, both mentally and physically, and letting nothing stand in her way until she achieved it, making her Olympic debut as a runner in 2016.
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Mental Health, Optimism, Sport
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
Book
2020
Social justice
“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.”
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Social Justice, Society, America
Centered: People and Ideas Diversifying Design
Kaleena Sales
Book
2023
Design
A rich, inclusive, contemporary, and global look at design diversity, past and present, through essays, interviews, and images curated by design educator and advocate Kaleena Sales.As the design industry reexamines its emphasis on Eurocentric ideologies and wrestles with its conventional practices, Centered advocates for highlighting and giving a voice to the people, places, methods, ideas, and beliefs that have been eclipsed or excluded by dominant design movements.
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Design, Business, Leadership
Corporate Rebels
Joost Minnmar, Pim de Morree
Book
2020
Future of Work
A book about workplaces that make work fun.
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Future of Work
Dare to Lead
Brené Brown
Book
2018
Leadership
Brown's book has transformed leadership culture.
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Leadership, Business,
Dark Emu
Bruce Pascoe
Book
2014
Indigenous Australia
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing – behaviours inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag.
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Indigenous Australia, Inclusion
Design For Belonging
Susie Wise
Book
2022
Inclusion
How to build inclusion inclusion and collaboration in your communities
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Design, Leadership, Psychology
Die Empty
Todd Henry
Book
2013
Personal Development
Most of us live with the stubborn idea that we'll always have tomorrow. But sooner or later all of our tomorrows will run out.
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Personal Development, Leadership
Diversity & Inclusion Posters
Various
Posters
2022
Diversity
A range of diversity and inclusion posters on Etsy
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Diversity, Equality, Inclusion
Do Pause
Robert Poynton
Book
2019
Psychology
Machines are designed to run constantly; people aren't.
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Psychology, Self Help, Mental Health
Empathy
Damian Karaula & Jim Antonopoulos
Podcast
2020
Empathy
An episode about the importance of empathy at work, leadership and life.
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Leadership, Empathy, Self-Awareness
Expect Sexism
Blair Williams
Article
2020
Politics and Leadership
A gender politics expert reads Julia Gillard's Woman and Leadership
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Politics, Sexism, Leadership
Faith, Hope And Carnage
Nick Cave, Seán O'Hagan
Book
2022
Memoir
Faith, hope, carnage is only the beginning — a lesson in true vulnerability and discovering our purpose through grief and the many other trials of life.
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Memoir, Music, Biographies
Fearless Conversations
Damian Karaula & Jim Antonopoulos
Podcast
2020
Leadership
A podcast on purpose-driven leadership
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Leadership, Entrepreneurship
Give Diversity a Sporting Chance
Nareen Young
Article
2013
Diversity
As a die-hard fan of a bunch of different sports, and part of a household of equally keen fans and players, I was honoured this week to have been appointed to the board of Netball Australia. I have loved netball since my first game at the age of eight, and am beyond excited to be now working with a passionate and committed group of board members towards an even brighter future for the game.
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Diversity, Equality
How The World Works
Noam Chomsky
Book
2011
Political Science
According to The New York Times, Noam Chomsky is “arguably the most important intellectual alive.” But he isn’t easy to read . . . or at least he wasn’t until these books came along.
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Politics, Economics, Philosophy
How To Encourage Inclusivity On Your Team
Serenity Gibbons
Article
2019
Teams
Diversity in the workplace takes work
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Workplace culture, Teamwork
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Rutger Bregman
Book
2019
Philosophy
A revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and cooperation of human beings has been the greatest factor in our success.
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Philosophy, Science, History
I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It!
Norman G. Finkelstein
Book
2023
Political Science
In his new book, Finkelstein focuses his keen forensic eye on the canonical texts of identity politics. After methodically parsing them, Finkelstein concludes that they're lacking in intellectual substance. Instead, the real purpose of identity politics is to derail a class-based movement bent on radical change. "If I can't laugh, I don't want your revolution," Finkelstein declares. Laced with his signature wit, readers of this book will get to laugh along with him.
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Political Science, Culture
Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Pérez
Book
2019
Feminism
Data Bias in a world designed by men.
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Feminism, Science, Politics,
Killing For Country
David Marr
Book
2023
Indigenous Australia
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars
David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result -- a soul-searching Australian history.
This is a richly detailed saga of politics and power in the colonial world -- of land seized, fortunes made and lost, and the violence let loose as squatters and their allies fought for possession of the country -- a war still unresolved in today's Australia.
"This book is more than a personal reckoning with Marr's forebears and their crimes. It is an account of an Australian war fought here in our own country, with names, dates, crimes, body counts and the ghastly, remorseless views of the 'settlers'. Thank you, David."--Marcia Langton
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Indigenous Australia, Australia, History
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
Book
2021
AI
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.
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Science Fiction, Contemporary, AI
Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek
Book
2013
Leadership
The book that inspires so many of our clients. Simon talks through workplace cultures that leave cynicism, paranoia and fear at the door — and the leaders who lead them.
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Leadership, Purpose, Business
Master of Change
Brad Stulberg
Book
2023
Leadership
Change is not the exception, it’s the rule. Yet we endlessly fight it, often viewing it as a threat to our stability and sense of self. Master of Chang e flips this script on its head and offers a path for embracing and even growing from life’s constant instability. Brad Stulberg, sustainable excellence expert, coach, and bestselling author of The Practice of Groundedness, offers a new model that describes change as an ongoing cycle of order, disorder, and re order—yes, we return to stability, but that stability is somewhere new. Drawing on modern science, ancient wisdom, and daily practice, Stulberg offers concrete principles for developing a mindset called rugged flexibility , along with habits and practices to implement it. Along the way, Stulberg In the end, Stulberg reshapes our entire perception of change and shows us how to grow in its midst—ultimately helping us move forward better, stronger, and wiser than we were before.
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Leadership, Personal Development, Change
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Book
2006
Leadership
Personal journals written by the only Roman Emperor who was also a philosopher without any intention of ever being published. Filled with timeless leadership lessons.
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Leadership, Classics, Stoicism
Mindful Entrepreneurship
Danielle Sabrina
Article
2019
Mindfulness
The bottom line is that mindfulness is good for the bottom line.
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Mindfulness, Entrepreneurship
My Place
Sally Morgan
Book
1987
Indigenous Australia
Looking at the views and experiences of three generations of indigenous Australians, this autobiography unearths political and societal issues contained within Australia's indigenous culture. Sally Morgan traveled to her grandmother’s birthplace, starting a search for information about her family. She uncovers that she is not white but aborigine—information that was kept a secret because of the stigma of society. This moving account is a classic of Australian literature that finally frees the tongues of the author’s mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories.
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Indigenous Australia, Inclusion
No Logo
Naomi Klein
Book
2000
Business
The book that lit a path of change in our hearts in the year 2000. No Logo will challenge and enlighten students of sociology, economics, popular culture, international affairs, and marketing.
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Economics, Marketing, Business, Sociology
Not Knowing
Steven D'Souza
Book
2014
Psychology
In order to thrive in uncertain times, this fascinating book proposes we head, uncomfortably, towards the unknown, rather than away from it.
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Psychology, Self Help, Leadership
On Being
Krista Tippett
Podcast
2022
Presence
If you listen to one podcast to become more wordly- it’s this one. Krista’s interview style is so honest and touching that she manages to uncover the most wonderful sparks of insight from her guests.
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Personal, Development, Self Awareness
On Being Heard & Seen
Tarana Burke
Podcast
2020
Empathy
How empowerment through empathy is changing the world thinks and talks about sexual violence, consent and social justice.
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Social justice, Empathy
On Identity
Stan Grant
Book
2019
Indigenous Australia
Bestselling author Stan Grant explores how identity is being hijacked to incite hate
Stan Grant asks why when it comes to identity he is asked to choose between black and white. Is identity a myth? A constructed story we tell ourselves? Tribalism, nationalism and sectarianism are dividing the world into us and them. Communities are a tinderbox of anger and resentment. He passionately hopes we are not hard wired for hate. Grant argues that it is time to leave identity behind and to embrace cosmopolitanism. On Identity is a meditation on hope and community.
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Indigenous Australia, Inclusion
On Palestine
Noam Chomsky, Illan Pappé
Book
2015
Politics
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater. Ilan Pappé and Noam Chomsky, two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, discuss the road ahead for Palestinians and how the international community can pressure Israel to end its human rights abuses against the people of Palestine. On Palestine is the sequel to their acclaimed book Gaza in Crisis.
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Politics, International Relations, History
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay Shetty
Podcast
2022
Purpose
My name is Jay Shetty, and my purpose is to make wisdom go viral. I’m fortunate to have fascinating conversations with the most insightful people in the world, and on my podcast, I’m sharing those conversation with you. New episodes Mondays and Fridays. Listen anywhere you get your podcasts, and please rate and review the podcast if you enjoy it. Live life today ON PURPOSE
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Purpose, Empathy, Leadership
Phosphorescence
Julia Baird
Book
2020
Wonder
Rediscover the beauty and wonderment of the world through this book. This book is about nature, nourishment and finding our resilience through it all.
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Memoir, Science, Self Help
Profit Over People
Noam Chomsky
Book
1998
Political Science
Chomsky offers a profound sense of hope that social activism can reclaim people's rights as citizens rather than as consumers, redefining democracy as a global movement, not a global market.
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Politics, Economics, Philosophy
Queer: A Graphic History
Meg-John Barker, Jules Scheele
Graphic Novel
2016
LGBTQ
Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel.
From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged.
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Queer History, Inclusion, Equtiy
Range
David Epstein
Book
2019
Personal Development
Specialisation is the exception, not the rule. According to Mr. Epstein, generalists, not specialists are primed to excel.
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Personal Development, Business, Psychology
Reasons Not To Worry
Brigid Delaney
Book
2023
Stoicism
We're all searching for answers to the biggest questions: How can we be good? Find calm? Properly grieve? Beat FOMO? Work out what truly matters? Well, the good news is that the wisest minds in history asked the exact same questions - and they found answers. The ancient philosophy of Stoicism shows us that we are already in possession of the very tools we need to excavate this much-needed wisdom for ourselves.
So into the past we go with Brigid Delaney, to a time not unlike our own: one full of pandemonium, war, plagues, pestilence, treachery, corruption, anxiety, overindulgence, and - even back then - the fear of a climate apocalypse. By living and learning the teachings of three ancient guides, Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, Brigid shows us how we can apply their lessons to our modern lives in a way that allows us to regain a sense of agency and tranquillity.
Stoicism can be a tough medicine to swallow, but no longer - this book is awash with insight, humour and compassion. Timely, so very useful, and filled to the brim with ways you can wrest back control, here are all the reasons not to worry.
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Stoicism, Personal Development, Leadership
Reinventing Organisations
Frederic Laloux
Book
2014
Org Design
Frederic Laloux has caused all manner of debate within our business, and our colleagues — explore the initial ideas of Holacracy, a workplace organising idea that reinvents the very notion of what makes workplaces tick.
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Culture, Change, Psychology, Teams
Right Story, Wrong Story
Tyson Yunkaporta
Book
2023
Indigenous Australia
Right Story, Wrong Story extends Yunkaporta’s explorations of how we can learn from Indigenous thinking. Along the way, he talks to a range of people including liberal economists, memorisation experts, Frisian ecologists, and Elders who are wood carvers, mathematicians and storytellers.
Right Story, Wrong Story describes how our relationship with land is inseparable from how we relate to each other. This book is a sequence of thought experiments, which are, as Yunkaporta writes, ‘crowd-sourced narratives where everybody’s contribution to the story, no matter how contradictory, is honoured and included…the closest thing I can find in the world to the Aboriginal collective process of what we call “yarning”.’
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Indigenous Australia, Philosophy, Anthropology
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Tyson Yunkaporta
Book
2019
Indigenous Australia
As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation, he raises important questions. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?
In this thoughtful, culturally rich, mind-expanding book, he provides answers. Yunkaporta's writing process begins with images. Honoring indigenous traditions, he makes carvings of what he wants to say, channeling his thoughts through symbols and diagrams rather than words. He yarns with people, looking for ways to connect images and stories with place and relationship to create a coherent world view, and he uses sand talk, the Aboriginal custom of drawing images on the ground to convey knowledge.
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Indigenous Australia, Philosophy, Anthropology
Solitude & Leadership
William Deresiewicz
Article
2020
Solitude
If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.
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Solitude, Leadership
Stop Fixing Women. Why Fairer Workplaces is Everybody’s Business
Catherine Fox
Book
2017
Future of Work
Millions of words have been spent in our quest to explain men’s seemingly never-ending dominance in boardrooms, in parliaments, in the bureaucracy and in almost every workplace. So why is gender inequality still such a pressing issue? Wage inequality between men and women seems one of the intractables of our age. Women are told they need to back themselves more, stop marginalising themselves, negotiate better, speak up, support each other, strike a balance between work and home. This searing book argues that insisting that women fix themselves won’t fix the system, the system built by men. Catherine Fox does more than identify and analyze the nature of the problem. Her book is an important tool for male leaders who say they want to make a difference. She throws down the gauntlet, showing how business, defence, public service and community leaders might do it, rather than just talk about it. She shows that not only will this be better for women but for productivity as well, not to mention men and women’s health and happiness at home and at work.
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Future of Work, Business, Inclusion
Strategy as Leadership
Roberto S Vassolo, Natalia Weisz
Book
2022
Strategy
Strategic leadership through change. An adapative leadership lens for strategy.
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Strategy, Leadership, Business
Swallow The Air
Tara June Winch
Book
2006
Indigenous Australia
In 2006, Tara June Winch’s startling debut Swallow the Air was published to acclaim. Its poetic yet visceral style announced the arrival afresh and exciting new talent. This 10th anniversary edition celebrates its important contribution to Australian literature.
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Indigenous Australia, Inclusion
Talking To My Country
Stan Grant
Book
2016
Indigenous Australia
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture and national identity. In July 2015, as the debate over Adam Goodes being booed at AFL games raged and got ever more heated and ugly, Stan Grant wrote a short but powerful piece for The Guardian that went viral, not only in Australia but right around the world, shared over 100,000 times on social media. His was a personal, passionate and powerful response to racism in Australian and the sorrow, shame, anger and hardship of being an indigenous man. 'We are the detritus of the brutality of the Australian frontier', he wrote, 'We remained a reminder of what was lost, what was taken, what was destroyed to scaffold the building of this nation's prosperity.'
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Indigenous Australia, Inclusion
Techno-Feudalism
Yanis Varoufakis
Book
2023
Technology
Insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies in the wake of the financial crisis and the pandemic have ended up supercharging big tech's hold over every aspect of the economy. Capitalism's twin pillars - markets and profit - have been replaced with big tech's platforms and rents. Meanwhile, with every click and scroll, we labour like serfs to increase its power. Welcome to technofeudalism.
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Economics, Politics, Technology
Terra Nulius
Claire G. Goleman
Book
2017
Indigenous Australia
The Natives of the Colony are restless. The Settlers are eager to have a nation of peace, and to bring the savages into line. Families are torn apart, reeducation is enforced. This rich land will provide for all.
This is not Australia as we know it. This is not the Australia of our history.
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Indigenous Australia, Inclusion, Fiction
That Time You Failed To Follow Up On Diversity
Melissa Nightingale
Article
2017
Diversity
The space between caring and not giving a fuck.
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Diversity, Management, Leadership
The CEO Moment
Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, Kevin Sneader, and Kurt Strovink
Article
2020
Leadership
Post-pandemic/Post-crisis leadership
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Leadership, Change
The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
Book
2009
Productivity
In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds.
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Business, Productivity, Getting Things Done
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin
Book
2023
Creativity
A philosophical approach/memoir on the act of creativity.
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Creativity, Leadership, Philosophy
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Book
1963
Social justice
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document.
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Social Justice, Society, Change
The Inspirational Leader
Gifford Thomas
Book
2019
Leadership
Leadership and inspiration go hand in hand — so they say. Harvard Business School gathered data from more than 50,000 leaders and their ability to inspire stood out as one of the most critical competencies.
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Leadership, Business, Management
The Iron Cage
Rashid Khalidi
Book
2006
Politics
At a time when a lasting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis seems virtually unattainable, understanding the roots of their conflict is an essential step in restoring hope to the region.
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Politics, International Relations, History
The Mish
Robert Lower
Book
2002
Indigenous Australia
Robert's adventurous boyhood was a secure and unfettered time spent with siblings and cousins enjoying hunting, fishing and eel trapping.Teachings by the community elders instilled in him a connection to the land and a spirituality he would, in turn, pass on to following generations. When Robert and his bride leave the Mish, a new chapter begins in a nearby town where acceptance and respect are hard won.Winner of the 2001 Unaipon Award
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Indigenous Australia, Inclusion, Memoir
The Obstacle Is The Way
Ryan Holiday
Book
2015
Philosophy
How we think of adversity, how we choose to face it and howe we deal with it is the making of us.
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Stoicism, Philosophy
The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
Angela Saini
Book
2023
Feminism
In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini explores the roots of what we call patriarchy, uncovering a complex history of how it first became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present. She travels to the world’s earliest known human settlements, analyzes the latest research findings in science and archaeology, and traces cultural and political histories from the Americas to Asia, finding
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Feminism, Gender, Sociology
The Power
Naomi Alderman
Book
2016
Gender Equality
Science-fiction that flips the roles of men and women
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Fiction, Feminism, Science Fiction
The Price of The Ticket
James Baldwin
Book
1985
Civil Rights
An epic collection of James Baldwin's non-fiction essays. Powerful, insightful as only Mr. Baldwin can be.
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Civil Rights, Sociology, Social Justice
The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein
Book
2006
Economics
The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. By capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, Klein argues that the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.
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Economics, Social Justice, Change
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
Richard G. Wilkinson, Kate E. Pickett
Book
2009
Equality
A groundbreaking work on the root cause of our ills, which is changing the way politicians think. Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Greeks? The answer: inequality.
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Social Justice, Equality, Economics
The Untethered Soul
Michael Singer
Book
2007
Life
We are sure that everyone goes through times in our life when we ask ourselves ‘who am i?’. The question is confronting and something beyond we can define. This is a book that dives into the big questions with a light approach into bringing this awareness into everyday life.
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Self Help, Spritiuality, Philosophy
The Woman Dismantling Systemic Racism at Fortune 500 Companies
Flora Tsapovsky
Article
2020
Equality
"I dismantle white supremacy. I do this for Fortune 500 companies, global brands, foundations, and nonprofits. I also educate the public on ways in which they can also dismantle white supremacy. One key step is understanding privilege — it’s a misconception that only white people have it. Once you identify the privilege, you can determine the power that comes from it and understand how your actions in work and life can be adding to the oppression of other groups."
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Racism, Social Justice, Fortune 500
Thinking in Systems
Donella Meadows
Book
2008
Science
Meadows’ Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.
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Systems Thinking, Science, Design
This All Come Back Now
Various
Book
2022
Indigenous Australia
The first-ever anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction – written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas, for blackfellas and about blackfellas. In these stories, ‘this all come back’: all those things that have been taken from us, that we collectively mourn the loss of, or attempt to recover and revive, as well as those that we thought we’d gotten rid of, that are always returning to haunt and hound us.
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Indigenous Australia, Fiction, Storytelling
Too Shy To Be A Leader?
Harvard Business Review
Podcast
2020
Leadership
A deep dive into shyness and leadership.
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Leadership, Introverts
Turn The Ship Around
David Marquet
Book
2013
Change
A first-person view of what was the worst-performing culture in the US Navy, and what it took to turn the entire thing around.
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Leadership, Military Fiction, Personal Development
Utopia For Realists
Rutger Bregman
Book
2014
Economics
Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today.
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Change, Social Justice, Economics
Welcome To Country
Marcia Langton
Book
2018
Indigenous Australia
A guidebook to Indigenous Australia from one of our country's most important voices.
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Indigenous Australia, Philosophy, Anthropology
What I Told My Daughter
Nina Tassler
Book
2017
Female Leadership
The lessons we can learn from powerful women are endless. This book collects stories and lessons from successful women, writing stories to their daughters. This is the book that paves the way for the next generation.
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Female Leadership, Inclusion, Equity, Leadership
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Book
1994
Meditation
Proven to be a helpful meditation resource since 1994, this book is a great entry into practicing mindfulness. It’s a practical book, full of advice and steps to learn how to be fully present in our daily lives.
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Sprituality, Buddhism, Personal Development
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
Dr. Julie Smith
Book
2022
Mental Health
Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times. Dr Julie Smith's expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient, whether you want to manage anxiety, deal with criticism, cope with depression, build self-confidence, find motivation, or learn to forgive yourself. The book tackles everyday issues and offers practical solutions in bite-sized, easy-to-digest entries which make it easy to quickly find specific information and guidance.
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Mental Health, Productivity
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Anand Giridharadas
Book
2018
Economics
Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can--except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. We see how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; how they lavishly reward "thought leaders" who redefine "change" in winner-friendly ways; and how they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm. We hear the limousine confessions of a celebrated foundation boss; witness an American president hem and haw about his plutocratic benefactors; and attend a cruise-ship conference where entrepreneurs celebrate their own self-interested magnanimity.
Giridharadas asks hard questions: Why, for example, should our gravest problems be solved by the unelected upper crust instead of the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging taxes? He also points toward an answer: Rather than rely on scraps from the winners, we must take on the grueling democratic work of building more robust, egalitarian institutions and truly changing the world. A call to action for elites and everyday citizens alike.
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Economics, Sociology, Social Justice
Women's Health Atlas
Women's Health Victoria
Resource
2023
Women's Health
The Victorian Women’s Health Atlas has been developed by Women’s Health Victoria, in collaboration with other state-wide and regional women’s health services, as a tool to assist in the identification of gender impacts on key health areas. The Atlas provides a coordinated State approach to support women’s health services and other health planners, to enable comparison between LGAs, regions and the state. The purpose of the Atlas is to increase the availability of reliable data for evidence based decisions about service design, emerging priorities and program planning.
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Women's Health, Gender, Health
Work As A Love Language
Tim Leberecht
Article
2020
Future of Work
To lead beautifully means finding the right words for someone else's work.
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Leadership, Empathy, Self-Awareness
Clear Thinking
Shane Parrish
Book
2023
Psychology
Few things will change your trajectory in life or business as much as learning to think clearly. Yet few of us recognize opportunities to think in the first place.You might believe you’re thinking clearly in the moments that matter most. But in all likelihood, when the pressure is on, you won’t be thinking at all.
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Psychology, Business, Personal Development
Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share.
Russell Davies
Book
2023
Creativity
Don’t try to be interesting. That’s a fool’s errand. Do interesting instead.
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Mindfulness, Creativity, Innovation
Think Like A Woman
Regan Penaluna
Book
2023
Philosophy
From a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential 17th and 18th century feminist philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft and her predecessors who have been written out of history, and a searing look at the author’s experience of patriarchy and sexism in academia
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Philosophy, Feminism, History
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