The Director’s Bookshelf: Must-Reads for Strategic Leadership

Mustafa Suleyman explores how AI, synthetic biology, and quantum computing will reshape society. Highlighting both immense potential and existential risks, he urges urgent governance to navigate between catastrophe and dystopia in a world transformed by rapidly advancing technologies. Find out more.

This book introduces OKRs—Objectives and Key Results—as a powerful goal-setting system. John Doerr shares how OKRs drove success at Google and beyond, offering practical insights and case studies to help organizations focus, align efforts, and achieve ambitious goals. Find out more.

This book offers a practical framework for strategic thinking, emphasizing logical coherence between resources, context, and goals. Through visualization, formalization, and argumentation, it helps leaders craft effective strategies, illustrated with real-world examples from companies like Apple and Walmart. Find out more.
 

Richard Rumelt exposes the flaws of vague, buzzword-driven strategies and defines good strategy as coherent action rooted in insight. Using diverse examples, he offers practical tools to identify challenges, craft effective responses, and achieve meaningful results across sectors. Find out more.
 

This book explores how moral psychology and social identity influence organizational ethics. It reveals why identity threats hinder moral growth and offers research-backed strategies to overcome symbolic actions, fostering genuine ethical improvement across leadership, motivation, diversity, and stakeholder relations. Find out more.

This book explores Sir Ernest Shackleton’s extraordinary Antarctic expedition and his unmatched leadership that saved all 27 crew members. Blending gripping survival narrative with leadership lessons, it offers timeless insights for anyone seeking to lead through crisis and uncertainty. Find out more.