RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
This is an evolving list of articles, videos and talks that I found useful and recommend for further learning on the topics below (in no particular order) :

MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP

• How Great Coaches Ask, Listen, and Empathize by Ed Batista. The three keys to effective coaching - Ask, Listen and Empathize. As a leader you do need to be able to connect with people, to inspire them, and to help them discover their own answers.
• The Leader as Coach by Herminia Ibarra and Anne Scoular. Managers need to adopt a coaching approach into their leadership style. But it also requires that those senior managers first need to learn how to coach. As the articles showed, it does not come natural to anyone. Good coaching requires experience, understanding of human behaviour and knowing a few useful methods.
• 6 Common Leadership Styles — and How to Decide Which to Use When by Rebecca Knight. The most effective leaders adapt their style to different circumstances. This article outlines the six leadership styles as introduced by Daniel Goleman in 2000. These have since been widely recognized as an essential framework for effective leadership, and the article explains when to use each one.
• 6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic by Graham Kenny. Many strategic plans aren’t strategic, or even plans. To fix that, try a six step process: first, identify key stakeholders. Second, identify a specific, very important key stakeholder: your target customer. Third, figure out what these stakeholders want from you. Fourth, figure out what you want from them. Fifth, design your strategy around these requirements. Sixth, focus on continuously improving this plan.
• Handing Off to a New CEO by Ed Batista. CEO transition is a tricky undertaking. The article points out nine steps to consider.
• The Best Leaders Are Versatile Ones by Robert B. Kaiser. Versatility is the most important component of leading effectively today. Versatile leaders have more engaged employees and higher performing teams. Their business units are more adaptable and innovative. Their organizations are more capable of gaining a competitive advantage because they know how to disrupt before being disrupted.

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE'

• Build a Corporate Culture That Works by Erin Meyer. Start by thinking about the dilemmas your people will face. Identify the tough dilemmas your employees routinely face and clearly state how they should be resolved. Then your desired culture will take root and influence the behavior of the team.
• Creating a Coaching Culture by David Clutterbuck and David Megginson. The paper provides a framework for consideration of the issues in creating a coaching culture in organisations. The authors differentiate four stages in an organization's development toward a coaching culture, as Nascent, Tactical, Strategic, and Embedded.
• The Four Building Blocks of Change by Tessa Basford and Bill Schaninger. The 'Influence Model' is a useful framework developed by McKinsey & Company, to understand how people can be helped to accept and support change. Transformations stand the best chance of success when they focus on four key actions to change mind-sets and behavior: (1) fostering understanding and conviction, (2) reinforcing changes through formal mechanisms, (3) developing talent and skills, and (4) role modeling.

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

• Managing Oneself by Peter F. Drucker. Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves—their strengths, their values, and how they best perform. We often harbour illusions about our strengths and weaknesses. Drucker suggested a method that he had practised himself for decades, that is feedback analysis.

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

• The Challenges of Networking as an Executive by Herminia Ibarra and Spish Rurak. If you hope to clinch a role for which you’re truly well suited, you need to figure out how to make the switch from talking about yourself to talking knowledgeably about the company and its problems — and then to articulating how well equipped you are to solve those problems.
• How to Do Walking Meetings Right by Russell Clayton, Christopher Thomas, and Jack Smothers. Have you ever tried to 'walk and talk'? Instead of sitting in offices around tables.

MISCELLEANOUS

• What Socrates Can Teach Us About AI by Carissa Veliz. If Socrates was the wisest person in Ancient Greece, then large language models must be the most foolish systems in the modern world. Interesting article to read for reflection.

Further recommended books you can find in the reading list.