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Scaling Conversations: How Leaders Access the Full Potential of People delivers invaluable strategies for how leaders can make their (read more)

Scaling Conversations: How Leaders Access the Full Potential of People delivers invaluable strategies for how leaders can make their communications more inclusive and access the voices of those employees who rarely feel empowered to speak up. As constituent numbers scale, leaders have traditionally struggled to make communications a conversation with the entire organization, settling instead for small focus groups, talking at people in town halls, and delivering surveys after the fact. The result is exclusive, narrow decision-making that disengages and under-utilizes talent and human capital. (hide)

Want to be the next Ella Mills or Grace Beverley? Award-winning rising star entrepreneur, Angelica Malin shows you how. For a new (read more)

Want to be the next Ella Mills or Grace Beverley? Award-winning rising star entrepreneur, Angelica Malin shows you how. For a new generation of fiercely independent and ambitious career women, going at it alone and even thinking you could launch your own successful business remains a pipe dream. The business world, and the start-up scene in particular, remain ruthless, unwelcoming and scary.

She Made It is the secret weapon you need. With honesty, practicality and a helping of epic and successful women in business, this book offers you a voice of reason and encouragement that will allow you to square up to the big players in Silicon Valley or any of the tech entrepreneur scenes of the world. She Made It is your go-to guide to launching your own business, as well as to finding your feet and voice as a woman in business. (hide)

A refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like ... It's an amazing tale' Bill Gates'The best (read more)

A refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like ... It's an amazing tale' Bill Gates'The best book I read last year was Shoe Dog, by Nike's Phil Knight. Phil is a very wise, intelligent and competitive fellow who is also a gifted storyteller' Warren Buffett In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan.

Selling the shoes from the boot of his Plymouth, Knight grossed $8000 in his first year. Today, Nike's annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of start-ups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all start-ups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognisable symbols in the world today. (hide)

Forget the old concept of the 9-5. Companies around the world are redesigning the work week to increase efficiency, health and happiness (read more)

Forget the old concept of the 9-5. Companies around the world are redesigning the work week to increase efficiency, health and happiness in their workers. A growing number of businesses are shortening their working week to address problems with low productivity, poor mental health and unequal working opportunities.

Workers are still paid the same salary for a four-day week and the results are revolutionary. In Shorter, bestselling author Alex Pang studies these trailblazing businesses where managers are reporting their teams to be:- More creative in their problem solving- Happier and with lower stress and anxiety and cases of burn out- More productive Pang will reveal step by step, how they have gone about making these changes, the challenges and solutions and, most importantly, how you can do the same. (hide)

It's time to make your ideas a reality. Because if not now, when? * Are you feeling overwhelmed by all the information out there (read more)

It's time to make your ideas a reality. Because if not now, when? * Are you feeling overwhelmed by all the information out there about starting a side hustle? * Do you have a great business idea but no clue where to start? * Are you looking for advice to help you build the portfolio career you desire? Side Hustle in Progress: A Practical Guide to Kickstarting Your Business is a handbook packed full of inspiration, no-nonsense advice and fresh ideas to help you feel empowered and excited about your future business idea. It also includes case studies from female founders across a range of industries who have built their own businesses and thrived, including Emma Gannon, Fisayo Longe, Jamie Schmidt, Tania Boler and Victoria Prew. (hide)

This innovative book aims to bring the science of safety into a simple and practical approach to investigating workplace incidents. (read more)

This innovative book aims to bring the science of safety into a simple and practical approach to investigating workplace incidents. As a basis, it uses the ideas of some of the great safety science thinkers of our time. These include Sidney Dekker, Todd Conklin, Erik Hollnagel, Daniel Kahnemann, James Reason and Dylan Evans, alongside others and the author's own extensive industry experience.

Simplicity in Safety Investigations: A Practitioner's Guide to Applying Safety Science will better equip readers to deal with incident investigations by helping them understand the science behind investigation techniques, and by exploring coaching and leadership styles that help us ask better questions both before as well as after workplace incidents. The first two parts of the book focus on our mindset as we approach and undertake investigations, and the simple things we all must do before an investigation starts. The third part is a step by step guide on how to undertake both simple and more detailed workplace incident investigations. (hide)

Simplified TRIZ is a pragmatic book. It is in the first order a nuts and bolts how-to guide for finding and resolving everyday problems, (read more)

Simplified TRIZ is a pragmatic book. It is in the first order a nuts and bolts how-to guide for finding and resolving everyday problems, improvement of products, technologies and services, foreseeing the future, finding important knowledge from the deluge of information. It works as nuts and bolts or how-to guide for continuous improvement for produces and processes.

It also works as an introduction to the study of advanced tools and technologies that are useful and cost-effective in big projects. The new edition will generalize the experience of TRIZ applications worldwide for last 15 years in big and small companies and also in academy. This book gives a streamlined and updated toolkit, containing many easy-to-learn and easy-to-use tools for everyday problem solving and step-by-step improvements of work, in the spirit of kaizen. (hide)

Meetings are a crucial part of all our lives, but too often they go nowhere and waste valuable time. In Six Thinking Hats, Edward (read more)

Meetings are a crucial part of all our lives, but too often they go nowhere and waste valuable time. In Six Thinking Hats, Edward de Bono shows how meetings can be transformed to produce quick, decisive results every time. The Six Hats method is a devastatingly simple technique based on the brain's different modes of thinking.

The intelligence, experience and information of everyone is harnessed to reach the right conclusions quickly. These principles fundamentally change the way you work and interact. They have been adopted by businesses and governments around the world to end conflict and confusion in favour of harmony and productivity. (hide)

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF PROBLEM-SOLVING TOOLS, GAMES AND TECHNIQUES USED BY BRAINSTORMERS, GAMECHANGERS AND TRAILBLAZERS. (read more)

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF PROBLEM-SOLVING TOOLS, GAMES AND TECHNIQUES USED BY BRAINSTORMERS, GAMECHANGERS AND TRAILBLAZERS. As working life becomes more complex, we are increasingly faced with problems which may at first seem insoluble. The Smart Solution Book is your guide to solving these problems, whatever their size.

The Smart Solution Book explains each tool in detail - what it is, when and how to use it, its strengths and its limitations. The tools range from quick fixes, which can be used by someone working alone, to large scale solutions which can be used by groups of 100 and more. You can also use the tools separately or in combination with each other. (hide)

From three partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough business problems, proven at more than 100 companies. Entrepreneurs (read more)

From three partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough business problems, proven at more than 100 companies.

Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What's the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution?Now there's a surefire way to answer these important questions: the sprint. Designer Jake Knapp created the five-day process at Google, where sprints were used on everything from Google Search to Google X. (hide)