The Lion King | 53
Books
Good Business Reads
Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and
Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling
By Frank V. Cespedes
Harvard Business School Professor, Frank Cespedes offers
a roadmap to articulate strategy in ways that people
in the field can understand and fuel the behaviours
required for profitable growth. According to Cespedes,
without that alignment, leaders will press for better
execution when they need a better strategy, or change
strategic direction with great cost and turmoil when
they should focus on the basics of sales execution.
The Time Bandit Solution: Recovering Stolen Time You
Never Knew You Had
By Edward G. Brown
You may not realise you are at the mercy of Time
Bandits - people who steal your precious time. And
because your worst Time Bandits are probably your
family, colleagues, clients, bosses, and friends, you
can’t just say no and risk offending them, for fear of
losing clients or getting fired. Read this book to find
out how to take charge of your time.
Great African Reads
Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
By Maaza Mengiste
Mengiste tells the tale of two
brothers and their father, faced
with dire choices that could
change the course of the family’s
life, during the years of the red
terror (the period of upheaval
following the violent communist
revolution in Ethiopia) in the 1970s.
Mama Miti
By Donna Jo Napoli/Kadir Nelson
Napoli and Nelson provide
modern morality tales of our
relationship with the natural
world in this beautifully illustrated
tribute to the Kenyan Nobel
laureate and environmentalist,
the late Wangari Maathai.
Of Africa
By Wole Soyinka
In this fascinating read, Soyinka
inquires into Africa’s culture,
religion, history and identity. He
seeks to understand how the
continent’s history is entwined
with the histories of others, while
exploring Africa’s truest assets.
