Weekly series – Starting from the third quarter – (July – September – 14 episodes)

Possibility. Encouraging people to create their own narratives within the Corona season

Books:

1. As a man Thinketh
2. Anti-fragile
3. Black Swan
4. Grit
5. Relentless
6. The Psychology of Pandemics
7. Bitange Ndemo book
8. Creative Thinking - Wale Akinyemi
9. Jimnah Mbaru book
10. Kinyanjui Nganga book
11. Lady tech book
12. Pat Okello book
13. Waceke Nduati book
14. Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway
15. The Richest Man in Babylon
16. How to lie with statistics
17. Influence – Robert CIaldini
18. Sapiens
19. The Greatest Salesman in the World – Og Mandino
20. Drive
21. The Loudest Voice in the Room
22. The Big Five For Life by John P. Strelecky
23. 12 Rules for Life – Jordan Peterson
24. Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willinck
25. Mindset – The Psychology of Success
26. Brand Activism: From Purpose to Action by Christian Sarkar and Philip Kotler

Below are the top 52 books recommended by today's leading business minds (in order of number of
recommendations):

1. Good to Great by Jim Collins

2. Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
3. Great by Choice by Jim Collins
4. The Outsiders by William Thorndike
5. Competitive Strategy by Michael Porter
6. Built to Last by Jim Collins
7. The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
8. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
9. The Speed of Trust by Stephen Covey
10. The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni
11. The Bible by Multiple
12. Moneyball by Michael Lewis
13. The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
14. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
15. In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters
16. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
17. The Leadership Pipeline by Ram Charan
18. Management by Peter Drucker
19. Leadership Is an Art by Max DePree
20. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance by Louis Gerstner
21. Leadership by John Wooden
22. Our Iceberg Is Melting by John Kotter
23. Leading Change by John Kotter
24. The Five Temptations of a CEO by Patrick Lencioni
25. True North by Bill George
26. American Icon by Bryce Hoffman
27. Lincoln on Leadership by Donald Phillips
28. Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
29. StrengthsFinder by Tom Rath
30. Titan by Ron Chernow
31. Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury
32. Global Tilt by Ram Charan
33. Abundance by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
34. Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
35. The Strategist CEO by Michel Robert
36. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
37. The Will to Manage by Marvin Bower
38. Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
39. Business Adventures by John Brooks
40. How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins
41. Winning by Jack Welch
42. The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt
43. The Power of Many by Margaret C. Whitman
44. Taking People With You by David Novak
45. Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
46. Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
47. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
48. Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough
49. Only the Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove
50. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
51. Give and Take by Adam Grant
52. Playing to Win by A.G. Lafley
 Also:
1. Adaptibility – Max McKeown
2. Resilient Organizations – Erica Seville
3. Strategic Risk Management – Paul C Godfrey and Paul Bartone
4. Hardiness – Steven J Stein
5. Data Driven Business Transformation – Peter Jackson and Caroline Carruthers
6. That Doesn’t Work Anymore – Robert S. Kricheff
7. The Listener of the Future –Blake Morgan
8. On the Future – Martin Rees
9. Advanced Brand Management – Paul Temporal
10. Managing Oneself – Peter F Drucker
11. Crisis Leadership – Tim Johnson
12. The Science of Storytelling – Will Storr
13. Uncertainty and Strategic Decision Making – Kristian J Sund, Robert J Galavan, Anne S. Huff
14. Leadershift – John Maxwell
15. Algorithims to Live By – Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
16. Can you Hear Me – Nick Morgan
17. Economics for the common good – Jean Tirole and Steven Randall
18. Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
19. The Hard Thing about Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
20. Flourish – Martin Seligman
21. Like War – The Weaponization of social media – PW Singer, Emerson Brooking
22. The Passion Economy – Adam Davidson

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3. Kenya National Chamber of Commerce
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