Many leaders tell us they’re under constant pressure to react, while also sensing they’re not learning or evolving as fast as they need to. There’s rarely enough time carved out for deep reflection, shared learning, or conversations that could unlock new energy and potential.
The Leader’s Book Club aims to help leadership teams pause, reflect, and explore powerful ideas from leading thinkers and successful leaders. Over the course of the year, we’ll recommend books that challenge assumptions, provoke discussion, and encourage practical experimentation.
Every month you'll find that we have added a video to the library (below) accompanied by our downloadable study guide.
The aim is simple: to build awareness, grow commitment, and support each other in turning ideas into action.
NEW FROM THE LEADER'S BOOK CLUB
RICHARD MEDCALF - MAKING TIME FOR STRATEGY
The next chapter of The Leader’s Book Club features Richard Medcalf, author of
Making TIME for Strategy
Making TIME for Strategy by Richard Medcalf is a practical, experience-based guide to one of leadership’s most persistent challenges: creating the space to think strategically amid day-to-day pressure. Drawing on Medcalf’s work with senior leaders and organisations, the book challenges the assumption that strategy is something to be added on once operational work is complete. Instead, it reframes strategy as an ongoing discipline that requires deliberate choices about focus, boundaries, and how leaders spend their attention. The emphasis is not on abstract theory, but on the realities of modern leadership, including overload, constant interruption, and the pull of short-term demands.
Across the book, Medcalf offers clear frameworks and practical questions to help leaders diagnose where their time and energy are really going, and what needs to change if strategy is to become more than an occasional off-site activity. He explores themes such as prioritisation, delegation, meeting design, and personal effectiveness, always linking them back to strategic impact. For leaders who feel they understand the importance of strategy but struggle to make room for it in practice, Making TIME for Strategy provides grounded, thoughtful guidance on how to shift from good intentions to sustained strategic thinking.
JANUARY 2026: RICHARD MEDCALF, AUTHOR OF MAKING TIME FOR STRATEGY
THE LEADER'S BOOK CLUB ARCHIVE
DECEMBER 2025: WENDY SMITH, CO-AUTHOR OF 'BOTH/AND THINKING - EMBRACING CREATIVE TENSION TO SOLVE YOUR TOUGHEST PROBLEMS '
NOVEMBER 2025: KIM SCOTT, AUTHOR OF 'RADICAL CANDOR: BE A KICK-ASS BOSS WITHOUT LOSING YOUR HUMANITY'
OCTOBER 2025: RITA McGRATH, COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL PROFESSOR AND STRATEGIST,
AUTHOR OF 'SEEING AROUND CORNERS: HOW TO SPOT INFLECTION POINTS IN BUSINESS BEFORE THEY HAPPEN'
SEPTEMBER 2025: MARTIN REEVES, CHAIRMAN OF THE BCG HENDERSON INSTITUTE AND CO-AUTHOR OF 'LIKE: THE BUTTON THAT CHANGED THE WORLD'
AUGUST 2025: CHRIS HIRST, AUTHOR OF INDISPENSABLE: THE NO BULLSH*T GUIDE TO CAREER SUCCESS
JULY 2025: JEAN GOMES, AUTHOR OF LEADING IN A NON-LINEAR WORLD
JUNE 2025: GREG SATELL, AUTHOR OF CASCADES, HOW TO CREATE A MOVEMENT THAT DRIVES TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE
MAY 2025: MICHAEL D WATKINS, AUTHOR OF THE SIX DISCIPLINES OF STRATEGIC THINKING