Resources

Magnify’s Top Reads

Here are some of our favourite books:

Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen

This book is an excellent guide that breaks down the drivers of conflict in both personal and professional environments. By providing further context for conflict, this allows the reader to better understand others and themselves in different relationships, and provides them with practical strategies of how to facilitate difficult conversations.

Insight by Tasha Eurich

Organizational psychologist and researcher Tasha Eurich discusses the science of self-awareness, how we may not know ourselves as well as we think, and what to do about it. By drawing upon her fifteen years of research and her findings with Fortune 500 companies, this book offers tools on how to improve one’s self-awareness along with how to enhance work performance, leadership skills, and interpersonal relationships.

Option B by Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant

Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg, recounts a tragic tale in Option B of how her and her family overcame adversity by engaging in resilience. Sandberg explains the resilience processes and strategies that she used to bounce back through a difficult time, and also provides the reader with a great deal of cross-cultural research to support her findings.