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    Five must-reads for leaders expanding their business internationally, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

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    Global Influence: How business leaders can simplify, improve, and amplify their international impact
    by Jose Ucar

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    Succeeding in Business in Any Market - Volume II: Together with Insights from Top International Busi
    by Brian Tracy, Medhat Zaki, Meeta Dani, Mohamed Dakson, Alex Morris, Klaus Metzenauer, Mario Springer

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    3

    Take Your Company Global: The New Rules of International Expansion
    by Nataly Kelly

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    21st Century Business Icons: The Leaders Who Are Changing our World
    by Sally Percy

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    5

    Scale or Fail: How to Build Your Dream Team, Explode Your Growth, and Let Your Business Soar
    by Allison Maslan

Five must-reads for leaders expanding their business internationally

by Daisy Reynolds

     

    Five Inspiring Books to Support Parents of Children with Additional Needs, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

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    What’s Possible?: Plan a better future for your young adult with additional needs
    by Graham Caldow

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    2

    Help! I'm a SEND Parent: A complete guide for parents raising children with special needs.
    by Carrie Els

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    3

    Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work
    by Robyn Gobbel

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    4

    Your Child is Not Broken: Parent Your Neurodivergent Child Without Losing Your Marbles
    by Heidi Mavir

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    5

    Parenting a Child with ADHD: The Easiest Path to Raising Emotionally Intelligent Children. A Complet
    by Henrietta Shepard

Five Inspiring Books to Support Parents of Children with Additional Needs

by Daisy Reynolds

     

    Five Inspiring Books to Rethink Behaviour in Children, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

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    1

    Challenging The Story: A Surprisingly Simple Approach to Supporting Children with Challenging Behavi
    by David Jereb & Jules Faber

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    2

    How to Manage Children′s Challenging Behaviour
    by Bill Rogers

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    3

    How to Thrive and Survive in Your Classroom: Learn simple strategies to reduce stress, eliminate mis
    by Marjan Glavac & Paul Jackson

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    4

    How to Succeed as an Elementary Teacher: The Most Effective Classroom Management Strategies for Teac
    by Marjan Glavac

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    5

    Managing Very Challenging Behaviour 2nd Edition
    by Louisa Leaman

Five Inspiring Books to Rethink Behaviour in Children

by Daisy Reynolds

     

    Five Inspiring Books Championing Womens’ Voices, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

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    The Gift: One woman's journey from tragedy to building a global business for good
    by Zareen Roohi Ahmed

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    Voices of Powerful Women: Words of Wisdom from 40 of the World's Most Inspiring Women
    by Zoe Sallis

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    3

    The Great Book of Badass Women: 15 Fearless and Inspirational Women that Changed History
    by Rachel Walsh & Bill O'Neill

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    4

    The Female Factor: The Whole-Body Health Bible for Women (The Food Medic)
    by Hazel Wallace

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    5

    What It Takes: The Inspiring Journey of Sarina Wiegman and the Lionesses’ Rise to Success
    by Sarina Wiegman & Jeroen Visscher

Five Inspiring Books Championing Womens’ Voices

by Daisy Reynolds

     

    5 Essential Reads for Reaching Your Full Potential, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

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    Liberate Your Greatness: Accelerate your growth. Achieve your goals faster. Amplify your impact.
    by John Roussot

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    Change Your Life Today: The Ultimate Guide to Motivation, Success and Happiness (Personal Power Book
    by Lewis David

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    3

    Change It: 8 Steps to Create Positive Transformation in Your Health, Relationships and Income
    by C. J. Alexander & WOW Book Publishing

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    4

    Your Voyage to Success: HOW TO RIDE THE CREST OF A WAVE AND REACH YOUR FULL POTENTIAL IN LIFE AND WO
    by DESIREE ANDERSON

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    5

    Unleash The Magnificent You!: A Gazillion ways to Turbocharge your Life
    by Christopher Bradbury

5 Essential Reads for Reaching Your Full Potential

by Daisy Reynolds

     

    The top reads on creating resilient and thriving workplaces, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

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    1

    Brave New Leader: How To Transform Workplace Pressure into Sustainable Performance and Growth
    by Vicky Smith & Lesley Cooper

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    2

    Leading Edge: Strategies for developing and sustaining high-performing teams
    by Alison Grieve & Jenni Miller

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    3

    Remote Not Distant: Design a Company Culture That Will Help You Thrive in a Hybrid Workplace
    by Gustavo Razzetti

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    4

    Reimagining Workplace Well-Being: Fostering a Culture of Purpose, Connection, and Transcendence
    by Jessica Grossmeier

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    5

    The Psychological Safety Playbook: Lead More Powerfully by Being More Human
    by Karolin Helbig & Minette Norman

The top reads on creating resilient and thriving workplaces

by Daisy Reynolds

     

    The best books about trees, recommended by Joy Simpson

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    1

    The Language of Trees
    by Katie Holten

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    2

    North Woods: A Novel
    by Daniel Mason

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    3

    Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal
    by Jo Brown

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    4

    The Overstory
    by Richard Powers

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    5

    How to Read a Tree
    by Tristan Gooley

The best books about trees

by Joy Simpson

     

    5 Top Reads on Changing Careers, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

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    1

    Careers Unleashed: Unlock your potential for extraordinary career success
    by Asad Husain

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    2

    The Squiggly Career
    by Helen Tupper

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    3

    The Career Stories Method: 11 Steps to Find Your Ideal Career—and Discover Your Awesome Self in th
    by Kerri Twigg

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    4

    The Career Change Guide: Five Steps to Finding Your Dream Job
    by Rachel Schofield

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    5

    Change Your Career: 10 Practical Steps to a Successful Career Change
    by Adora Ikwuemesi

5 Top Reads on Changing Careers

by Daisy Reynolds

     

    Five Top Reads for Productivity Tools You Never Knew You Needed, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

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    1

    How to Work with a Virtual Assistant: Outsource Everything but Your Brilliance
    by Kathy Soulsby

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    2

    The 30-Day Productivity Plan: Break The 30 Bad Habits That Are Sabotaging Your Time Management - One
    by Damon Zahariades

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    3

    15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires,
    by Kevin Kruse

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    4

    Supercharge Productivity Habits: 50+ Simple Hacks to Organize Your Tasks, Overcome Procrastination,
    by John R. Torrance

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    5

    Productivity Power Pack: 4 Books in 1: Supercharge Productivity Habits, Proven Speed Reading Techniq
    by John R. Torrance

Five Top Reads for Productivity Tools You Never Knew You Needed

by Daisy Reynolds

     

    Five Books to Change Your Concept of Leadership, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

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    1

    The Unseen Leader: How History Can Help Us Rethink Leadership
    by Martin Gutmann

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    2

    Trust-Based Leadership: Marine Corps Leadership Concepts for Today's Business Leaders
    by Mike Ettore

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    3

    Leaders Eat Last
    by SINEK SIMON

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    4

    How to Lead for Daring New Leaders: The No-Nonsense Guide to Develop Basic Leadership Skills. Discov
    by Paul A. Wyatt

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    5

    Develop Your Leadership Superpowers: 50 Key Skills You Need to Succeed as a Leader
    by Dietmar Sternad & Eva Kobin

Five Books to Change Your Concept of Leadership

by Daisy Reynolds

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