Business

Engines That Move Markets is a comprehensive history of market-shaping industries and their impact on how we invest today. Now in (read more)

Engines That Move Markets is a comprehensive history of market-shaping industries and their impact on how we invest today. Now in its second edition, this modern investing classic highlights the history of industrial development and its impact on investors. By exploring key technological advances of the past and what they meant for investors - including electricity, the railroad, the telephone, the computer and more - it provides vital insights on how to appraise the new technology companies of the future.

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EQUAL is BBC journalist Carrie Gracie's urgent call to arms - a powerful story about how women can fight for equal pay, and how men (read more)

EQUAL is BBC journalist Carrie Gracie's urgent call to arms - a powerful story about how women can fight for equal pay, and how men and employers can help them. Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award 2019Gracie joined a group of high-profile BBC women who challenged the national broadcaster over equal pay after enforced disclosures revealed huge gaps between top men and women. Gracie had insisted on equal pay at the time of her China posting, and after trying with other BBC women to put things right through negotiation, she eventually resigned her post complaining publicly of a 'secretive and illegal' pay culture. (hide)

'Excerpts from Experts - Marketing' is a compendium of insight, advice and anecdotes from more than 200 of the leading names in marketing. (read more)

'Excerpts from Experts - Marketing' is a compendium of insight, advice and anecdotes from more than 200 of the leading names in marketing. These wonderful people have generously contributed their time and wisdom to raise money in aid of NHS Charities Together. Whether you're an aspiring graduate, experienced professional, marketing guru, or just vaguely interested in the magical world of brands and marketing, this book is a must read. (hide)

Employees around the world are deprived of honest objective feedback, and the higher you go in the organisation, the less feedback (read more)

Employees around the world are deprived of honest objective feedback, and the higher you go in the organisation, the less feedback you are going to get. Researchers confirmed that the less facetime employees have with their managers, the more impact seeking and receiving feedback will have on their performance. Gorbatov and Lane propose a simple, systematic approach to giving fair and honest feedback, in ways that improve performance and prove that, if done properly, feedback simultaneously improves performance while engaging and developing employees. (hide)

Family firms are to be found in every sector of commercial activity. Commitment, family values and pride in the business are typically (read more)

Family firms are to be found in every sector of commercial activity. Commitment, family values and pride in the business are typically their special strengths, yet they also face major challenges in reconciling the needs of the business with those of the family. Drawing on the author's extensive experience of working with and advising some of the world's most successful business families, this new and updated edition of Family Enterprises: The Essentials explains the pitfalls, tensions and competing demands that destroy too many family businesses.

These problems can be avoided, and Peter Leach reveals the techniques and strategies needed to do so. Running a successful family business is always a huge challenge, but this book offers real insight and guidance on how to keep both business and family united and buoyant. (hide)

Plenty of books offer useful advice on how to get better at making quick-thinking, intuitive choices. But what about more consequential (read more)

Plenty of books offer useful advice on how to get better at making quick-thinking, intuitive choices. But what about more consequential decisions, the ones that affect our lives for years, or centuries, to come? Our most powerful stories revolve around these kinds of decisions: where to live, whom to marry, what to believe, whether to start a company, how to end a war. Full of the beautifully crafted storytelling and novel insights that Steven Johnson's fans know to expect, Farsighted draws lessons from cognitive science, social psychology, military strategy, environmental planning, and great works of literature.
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The comparative numbers between male- and female-led start-ups are stark. Ninety-one per cent of venture capital money continues (read more)

The comparative numbers between male- and female-led start-ups are stark. Ninety-one per cent of venture capital money continues to fund businesses founded solely by men, with only one per cent of venture capital money invested in businesses founded solely by women. Yet being a female entrepreneur is not the preserve of Wonder Woman.

It's for every woman who wants to make it happen. Female Entrepreneurs: The Secrets of Their Success encourages every woman who has dreamt of being an entrepreneur but hasn't yet taken the leap to take the first steps towards realising her dreams - as well as encouraging every woman who has not yet thought about running her own business to consider it. Additionally, it encourages governments and the corporate world to recognise and embrace the huge value that female entrepreneurs bring to society and the economy.
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As a former training partner of multi-Olympic gold medal champion Mo Farah, Adam Strong knows what it takes to transform 'good' athletes (read more)

As a former training partner of multi-Olympic gold medal champion Mo Farah, Adam Strong knows what it takes to transform 'good' athletes into world-class top 1% winners. Adam Strong works with a variety of organisations from up-and-coming SMEs to major companies. By applying those same elite athlete time-management, team-building and physical and mental health training techniques to the business world, he helps 'good' performers transform themselves into 'Gold Medal' enterprises and dominant forces within their field.

This book will provide you with the techniques that will help ANY business, large or small, improve. Discover how a little physical fitness can result in a lot of business fitness by enabling you and your employees to generate more energy and focus. Discover how your organisation can become faster, more agile, more efficient and more competitive. (hide)

As leaders increasingly understand the importance of good safety practice to support their business objectives, safety and health (read more)

As leaders increasingly understand the importance of good safety practice to support their business objectives, safety and health practitioners develop better tools and solutions. However, there is still a gulf between these two groups where engagement, communication and shared understanding can be found lacking. From Accidents to Zero opens up the field of safety culture and breaks it down into bite-sized pieces to facilitate new, critical thought and inspire practical action.

Based on the concept of creating safety, as opposed to just preventing accidents, each of the 26 chapters in this user-friendly book includes explanation, commentary, reflections and practical activities designed to systematically and sustainably improve workplace safety culture. Core topics range from behaviour to values, daily rituals to unsafe acts, felt leadership to trust. Andrew Sharman's practical guide blends current academic thinking with authoritative guidance and sets up the opportunity for all parts of the organization to close the gap by providing very clear steps to thinking and acting differently. (hide)

Shortlisted for the CMI's Management Book of the Year Award 2018 and the Business Book Awards 2018 Twenty-five years after the arrival (read more)

Shortlisted for the CMI's Management Book of the Year Award 2018 and the Business Book Awards 2018 Twenty-five years after the arrival of the Internet, we are drowning in data and deadlines. Humans and machines are in fully connected overdrive - and becoming entwined as never before. In this Age of Overload, stalked by `infobesity' and time poverty, and surrounded by social networks, personal and professional lives face profound disruption - and dysfunction. (hide)