Oct 2026FREE
Purposeful Governance
Inspired by a conversation with a good friend about the challenges of governance in our world today: my thoughts, and some answers that might accelerate our progress to a brighter future.
Books
Clive's books
Books Clive has written over the last twenty years or so, newest first. 17 of them are free for you to read, download and share as widely as you feel would be useful.
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Free to read and download
Sep 2026FREE
Fundamentals of Purpose
In a fast-changing world we are all tempted to react to our circumstances. The Fundamentals of Purpose encourage us to pause, remember why we're doing what we're doing, and be creative in our response.
July 2026FREE
Purposeful Leadership in Disruption
A key book for the times we live in, and for leaders in any context. Organisations and society will not flourish through disruption without purposeful leadership of a high calibre.
June 2026FREE
Economics of Super Abundance
How will the economics of the world be affected by AI, robotics and other technological disruptions? The risks are real and the opportunities are staggering.
May 2026FREE
Precision Fermentation
How this technological disruption will affect our lives and the world we live in: a change that is happening, and which many people don't yet recognise as in progress.
May 2026FREE
The Future of Community Energy
Inspired by local Net Zero action in my home town, building on twenty-seven years in the electricity industry and twenty-six in Purposeful Leadership.
May 2026FREE
Our Shifting Geopolitical Landscape
Prompted by concern over the rise of populism in the US and UK and the division it brings. Not party political: you may be as surprised to read it as I was writing it.
May 2026FREE
Cleaning our Oceans
Inspired by a walk on a Northumberland beach and a powerful video about Boyan Slat's work to clean our oceans. It all got me thinking.
April 2026FREE
Leading with Open Arms
Inspired by the work of Open Arms Malawi: the need and the opportunities for cultural change and leadership development in organisations worldwide.
April 2026FREE
The Changing Landscape of Britain
The impact on our country of coming technological disruption, framed as an age of opportunity rather than of threat.
April 2026FREE
The Power of Love
Love as a universally appreciated term for our shared consciousness, and how it guides us collectively to the brighter future we all want.
April 2026FREE
Navigating the Mystery
A response to the trend of non-duality, acknowledging the power of unity consciousness and also the blessing of human agency.
March 2026FREE
Where the Light Gets In
A short eBook written in response to the darkness of too many conflicts in the world. It features several of my poems.
2026FREE
HOPE
Inspired by the work of the Centre for Wisdom and Balance, whose founders encouraged me to contribute thoughts on this timely topic.
Open Arms edition, April 2024FREE
Leading a Purposeful Life
Written during lockdown in 2020, and offered free to read, download and share.
2026 editionFREE
Designing a Purposeful Career
Co-authored with Nathan Cornwell, incorporating thinking and research by Harleen Kaur Chawla.
Second edition, Nov 2024FREE
Designing the Purposeful Organization
First published by Kogan Page in 2015. For a limited time, read, download and share this free second edition, published with Primeast.
Published by Routledge
Available in hard copy and as eBooks from the publisher.
Routledge, 2024
Leading Beyond Sustainability: Six Aspirations for a Brighter Future
The 2020s present a decade of unprecedented disruption. It's time for leaders to tell a different story of six powerful aspirations: connection, vitality, peace, abundance, opportunity and wisdom.
Routledge, 2018
Designing the Purposeful World: The Sustainable Development Goals as a Blueprint for Humanity
Extrapolates the UN's seventeen Sustainable Development Goals into the idea of a purposeful world: for humanity to thrive sustainably alongside other life forms, and consciously celebrate the process.
Clive's poetry collections are on the Poetry page.