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Starting a feminist revolution, learning the secrets of highly performing organisations and a
Pulitzer Prize winning novel feature in this month’s book selections.
GreatTeams: 16ThingsHighPerformingOrganisationsDoDifferently
DonYaeger
Publisher:HarperCollins
Whatmakes a teamgreat?Not just good.Not just functional. But great?Over the last six years,
long-time Sports Illustratedassociate editorDonYaeger has been invitedby some of the great-
est companies in theworld to speak about thehabits of high-performing individuals.Deliver-
ing anaverage of 80keynote speeches per year,Donwas approachedby hismost consistent
client,Microsoft, todevelopa talk onwhat allowed some teams toplay at a championship level
year after year. FromMicrosoft andStarbucks to theNewEnglandPatriots andSanAntonio
Spurs,what do some organisations do seemingly better thanmost all of their opponents?
Don took the challenge.He beganbuilding intohis travel schedule opportunities to
interviewour generation’s greatest teambuilders fromthe sports andbusinessworlds.During
this process, hehas conductedmore than 100 interviewswith some of themost successful
teams andorganisations in the country.
Fromthose interviews,Donhas identified 16habits that drive thesehigh-performing teams.
Buildingon the stories, examples, andfirst-handaccounts, each chapter inGreat Teams comes
withapplicable examples onhowto apply these characteristics inany organisation.
BlackFlags: TheRiseof ISIS
JobyWarrick
Publisher:RandomHouse
Ina thrillingdramatic narrative,
awarded the 2016Pulitzer Prize for
General Nonfiction, JobyWarrick
traces howthe strainofmilitant
Islambehind ISISfirst arose in
a remote Jordanianprisonand
spreadwith the unwitting aidof
twoAmericanpresidents.
When the government of
Jordangrantedamnesty to a
groupof political prisoners in
1999, it little realised that among
themwas AbuMusabal-Zarqawi, a
terroristmastermindand soon the architect of an Islamist
movement bent ondominating theMiddle East. InBlack Flags, an
unprecedented character-drivenaccount of the rise of ISIS, Pulitzer Prize-
winning reporter JobyWarrick shows howthe zeal of this onemanand
the strategicmistakes of Presidents BushandObama led to the banner of
ISISbeing raisedover huge swaths of Syria and Iraq.
Drawingonuniquehigh-level access toCIAand Jordanian sources,
Warrickweaves gripping,moment-by-moment operational details
with the perspectives of diplomats and spies, generals andheads of
state,many ofwhomforesawamenaceworse thanal Qaeda and tried
desperately to stop it. Black Flags is abrilliant anddefinitivehistory that
reveals the long arc of today’smost dangerous extremist threat.
What’saGirl
GottaDo?
HollyBourne
Publisher:
Usborne
Publishing
Howto start a feminist revolution:
1. Call out anything that is unfair onone gender.
2. Donot call out the same thing twice (so you
can sleepandbreathe).
3. Always try to keep it funny.
4. Donot let anything slide. Evenwhen you start
tobreak ...
Lottie’s determined to change theworldwith
her #Vagilante vlog. Shame the trolls have other
ideas ...