An unusual management book that could help readers understand how to create an effective team by telling a story.

The book introduces a process that allows organizations to identify, manage and reduce potential threats that come with employees, including contractors, volunteers, interns and temps.

This book seeks to eliminate information stress in the modern workplace, and examines ways to improve our relationship with information at work so as to boost our productivity.

A book of challenges that could help the budding entrepreneur spot opportunities and turn them into a commercial success.

Organizations face challenges in the workplace that require a paradigm shift in management and leadership thinking. Problems are outlined and solutions offered in this book.

This book deals with delivering strategy through people and change through participative interventions that engage the right people.

The book deals with corporate burnout in middle and senior leaders, and describes what to look for, how to deal with it and provides recovery strategies for coping with burnout.

This book explores the creative power of dreaming, and in particular, how to build confidence by examining your inner self, and utilizing your ideas and visions purposefully in the workplace.

The aim of this book is to help you to fulfil your true potential, by showing you how to build your own mindset through a structured set of tools and techniques.

The book deals with the impact of technology on our lives, as well as helping us to understand the worst consequences of change and how to embrace its best effects.

The book deals with decision-making and how unconscious biases can distort our thinking.

The book seeks to defend the role of middle management and show how this has changed due to technological, commercial and generational influences.

The book provides an in-depth study of how to embed a culture of innovation in your business, using a six-stage framework as a practical tool to make it happen.

Book shows how leaders who communicate a defined mission, with clear and genuine values, encourage their employees to feel a sense of purpose that inspires engagement, loyalty and higher performance.

The book looks at managing uncertainty and analyses the sources and triggers of business turbulence. Case studies are based on in-depth interviews with practitioners, academics and consultants from a variety of organisations.

Diversity and talent are the themes addressed in this book, how they are managed in organisations, and the problems of homogeneity. They provide insights, based on case studies on how to redress the balance by encouraging better use of people’s talent and skills. The book offers a fresh perspective.

This book sets out to transform your understanding of decision making, how to use your brain differently to make better and faster decisions. Each of the 10 chapters ends with a decision-making principle setting out rules that challenges established concepts. A stimulating read.

This book aims to demystify the concept of strategic planning so that those leading an organisation know where to start, what approach to take and how to go about the process. It seeks to demystify the process so that it has the flexibility to adapt and focus on what really matters.

The argument is that intangible investment is fundamentally different, and by understanding its steady growth in our economy, it helps us to appreciate some of the key issues facing us today: innovation and growth; inequality; the role of management; financial and policy reform.

The book describes a unique style for running a business, called “Upside down Management”. There is also a theme running through the book that management is about people not process; an art not a science.

Organisations operate in an environment that is changing quickly, and with it the technology; the question is, how can they succeed? This book aims to answer how, or how not to deliver this change through digital transformation.

This book encapsulates Vlatka Hlupic’s new thinking of a consensus philosophy that you can do well in business by doing good.

These two writers teamed up to produce “The Leadership Lab”, which is based on exclusive interviews with senior leaders faced with critical decision making in a fast-changing global landscape, beset by economic challenges. They aim to provide leaders with additional insight and understanding that comes from joining things up. From their analysis they identified eight major paradoxes that could help leaders manage change more effectively.

“The Everyday Leader”, is a practical book, which explains that everyone, whether they recognize it or not, is a leader; a leader of emotions, of behaviours, of values and beliefs.  This is a different slant from your normal leadership books that could help you to identify, understand and promote your own leadership skills

In the book the authors have applied philosophy to the question of ‘what it means to live the good life at work’, which challenges readers to think differently about their role as leaders, questions conventional leadership thinking, and asks new questions that could help to change priorities and transform leadership practices.

The book is about how to shift and manage organizational change, and outlines what it takes to oversee sustainable culture change in an organization. It explores how to do things differently so that culture does shift and is at the core of running a business. Investigates the communication of cultural expectations.

Leaders currently face a series of unpredictable international and domestic economic unknowns, amplified by the ‘4^th Industrial Revolution’.  This book highlights some of these issues with solutions of how to survive and thrive in such challenging environments.  It is about taking back control, by empowering leaders to take charge and shape the future.

A thinking person’s book that makes us take a different look at the future and its ineradicable uncertainty. Life is complex and full of ambiguity so we are constantly looking for sources of certainty. Relying on technology and automation is not the answer so we need to find the freedom to forge our own identity and our future; this book tells you how – a very optimistic book.

The book is about building relationships, how we manage our egos, our anxieties and fears so as to consciously enhance the impact we have on others. For the leader there are many useful insights addressing challenges in the workplace and the building of your own personal confidence to lead and make change happen.

This book is an essential read for leaders in our current climate of continuous and overlapping disruptions, and who at the same time have to prepare their organisations to be ready to engage in continuous radical change. The book poses questions and provides answers to situations where different skills and strategies are called for to replace those that served in the past. Thus, the focus is on the “how to” prepare organisations for the new normal, and to build on the agility required to succeed in such an environment.

Complexity and change in organisations is not new, but what makes the approach in this book different?  It explores complexity as a science making it easier for managers and professionals to grasp the implications of the science of uncertainty.  The book is timely, and a practical handbook of how to engage with complexity and work through it.

“Elites: Can you Rise to the Top Without Losing Your Soul?” is written in the form of a detective story of sociological ideas. It provides an insider’s view of how to rise to the top of organisations or professional fields and explains why meritocracies produce glass ceilings. In his book Douglas seeks to solve these riddles, which are presented in his unique stye of writing.

The book, “Know Thyself: The New Science of Self-Awareness”, provides a guide to the building blocks of self-awareness, drawing on research from psychology, computer science, and neuroscience. A new science, its aim is to help us unravel the mysteries of how self-awareness works, and apply it in other areas of our lives. In addition, it explores the lack of metacognition in computers, and in machine learning for AI devices.

The book provides guidance on how to break into the C-Suite, and takes you through a combination of models, case studies, and tables that illustrate key points in a practical and meaningful way. The book challenges existing thinking, while bringing new ideas to corporations and digital giants.

The book presents a new way of working, thinking and investing is people by organisations. In her book, Duena Blomstrom explores team dynamics, using Psychological Safety as a high-performance lever; making HR great again; having an Agile mindset, etc. The emphasis in the book is on people, technology, and much more – a fascinating read.

The Power of Difference weaves a story of the author’s personal experiences, plus insights from research to show how to build genuine inclusivity in the workplace. In addition, he describes what inclusivity means and how it works in practice. A very readable and timely narrative.

Reading this book will act as a refresher and reminder of how to engage your mind to produce radical results for solving problems. Topics looked at include: the dangers of conformity, group think and conventional thinking, with examples to illustrate lateral thinking in practice.