by Stephanie Barros | Nov 8, 2025 | Book Reviews
Simon Sinek’s Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t (2014, Penguin Group) explores the fundamental human need for trust and belonging in leadership. Drawing inspiration from the U.S. Marine Corps’ tradition that officers eat after their... 
by Stephanie Barros | Aug 14, 2025 | Book Reviews
Workplace fear may be invisible, but its impact isn’t. In The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth, Amy C. Edmondson offers a compelling blueprint for what it takes to create workplaces where... 
by Stephanie Barros | Aug 7, 2025 | Book Reviews
First published in 1997 by Doubleday, The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch introduces a compelling way to view time, effort, and results that challenges the status quo of modern productivity thinking. The principle is simple but powerful: 80 percent of results often... 
by Stephanie Barros | Jul 25, 2025 | Book Reviews
Published in 2013 by Allen & Unwin, The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga is one of my all time favourite reads and had a profound impact on my life. Drawing deeply from Alfred Adler’s individual psychology, this book reframes the way we... 
by Stephanie Barros | Jul 3, 2025 | Book Reviews
First published in 1989 by Free Press, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People quickly became a cornerstone in the personal development genre. Stephen Covey’s work isn’t just a manual; it’s a leadership philosophy that blends timeless principles with practical... 
by Stephanie Barros | Jun 26, 2025 | Book Reviews
Why do some people rise so far above others in their fields? Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success (2008, Little, Brown and Company) investigates that very question with a compelling twist: it’s not just talent and ambition that shape success, it’s...