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Internationally recognised works on visionary leadership

Beyond Chaos: How to Create Clarity When Everything Falls Apart

September 2025

With the constant stream of changes we face daily, we encounter more chaos, which has become the norm in human life. This chaos blinds us from seeing opportunities, weakens our mental health, and silences our hopes and passions. We find ourselves in a seemingly never-ending state of uncertainty.

No one can forge a path toward a brighter future or execute a strong vision if their mind is in chaos and lacks clarity. Achieving certainty amid the debris of chaos is no easy feat.

This presents a daunting challenge for any leader. Helping people escape their bubbles of uncertainty requires the ability to see beyond the chaos. To do that, the leader must learn how to create clarity.

The Fisherman's Path to Leadership: 224 Lessons from the Wisdom of Nature

February 2024

This book reveals how the secrets of nature can help you to become a better leader.

Fishing is not about fish. It is about interacting and learning from nature. Nature is the wisest leadership coach available and helps one to become better with every interaction. Nature is a source, not a resource.

Living in the era of AI we neglect the fact no AI can beat or will ever change the emotions and feelings of a human connected with nature. We train AI to think like humans, but we can't train AI to ground itself in nature.

The Vision Code

January 2021 · Wiley, USA

The Vision Code explores the concept of vision and leadership. The book reveals the secrets of building and executing a strong vision within any organization. Oleg Konovalov draws together in-depth interviews with nineteen extraordinary global visionaries that represent a variety of industries and organizations. These leaders explain why a vision is needed, how to implement it, how to communicate a vision effectively, and how to live by it with integrity.

Vision is a key leadership skill that can be developed as a practical business tool for leading a company today and into the future.

Leaderology

2019 · WildBlue Press, USA

Modern management desperately needs a systematic and robust understanding of leadership. Leaderology defines the beginning of the Renaissance period in modern management and leadership while helping leaders to reach a new level of success.

Leaderology is a new approach to managing organizations in the new realities — identifying common and specific errors that arise in any business and spotting problems that distance it from customers and limit the company's capacities early, and how to treat them before they threaten the business itself.

Forbes named it a Top 20 Must Read of 2019.

Corporate Superpower: Cultivating A Winning Culture For Your Business

2018 · WildBlue Press, USA

Many organisations today find themselves stagnating, struggling just to keep up in today's rapidly changing environment. Companies and charities alike rise and fall with alarming rapidity. All of this can be traced back to one thing — culture.

Culture is the soul of any organisation. A strong culture breeds loyalty, innovation, and success. A weak culture will breed cynicism, apathy, instability, and the eventual demise of the organisation.

In this work, a reader will learn what culture is, why it is important and how to fix it when it goes wrong.

Organisational Anatomy

2016 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK

This book offers a discussion of a new management concept, 'Organisational Anatomy', which views organisational processes and functions from a biological perspective. This approach naturally explains the ongoing internal and external organisational processes and optimum configuration of different organisations.

Organisations are living creatures which breathe, move, and develop inside their specific environments. Biological examples offer a useful way of making sense of complex ideas, because they can be related to everyday existence.

Organisational Anatomy earned a place in the Hot 100 Best Business Books (2016).

Hidden Russia: Informal Relations and Trust

2014 · Wren Publications Ltd

Breaking into the Russian market has always been a challenging task, particularly for Western organisations, and personal networks play a crucial role in achieving this. However, personal networks that exist in Russian business remain a mystery to Westerners.

Hidden Russia explores the phenomenon of Russian personal networks from inside the mind of Russian business people, revealing peculiarities of the inner life, norms, trust, knowledge transfer, and entry and exit rules Russian business people regularly experience.