Business

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)

Global and Culturally Diverse Leaders and Leadership explores diverse cultural leadership styles and paradigms that are dynamic, (read more)

Global and Culturally Diverse Leaders and Leadership explores diverse cultural leadership styles and paradigms that are dynamic, complex, globally authentic and culturally competent for the 21st century. An outstanding group of scholars considers how the different worldviews and lived experiences of leaders influence their leadership styles. They discuss several dimensions, models and initiatives for examining leadership in a global and diverse world, ultimately offering ways in which these leadership processes may be assessed and cultivated in a culturally sensitive and ecologically valid manner.

Redefining leadership as global and diverse, this book imparts a new understanding of the criteria for selecting, training and evaluating leaders in the 21st century.
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Koch Industries is one of the largest private companies in the world with an estimated worth of $100 billion. But what makes this (read more)

Koch Industries is one of the largest private companies in the world with an estimated worth of $100 billion. But what makes this company so profitable? You won't find its name on the connectors in your smartphone or your baby's ultra-absorbent nappies, but Koch makes these and many other innovations, driven by its Market-Based Management (R) system for generating good profit. Good profit results from products and services that improve people's lives. (hide)

Green Logistics analyzes the environmental consequences of logistics and how to deal with them. Written by a leading team of logistics (read more)

Green Logistics analyzes the environmental consequences of logistics and how to deal with them. Written by a leading team of logistics academics, the book examines ways of reducing these externalities and achieving a more sustainable balance between economic, environmental and social objectives. This new edition introduces new contributors and international case studies, includes downloadable supporting materials, technical information and guidelines for teachers/lecturers.

The editors have added new material on e-business, e-logistics and the environment and new chapters on green performance and environmental reporting, nature-inspired network design for distributed logistics, Green Logistics developments in different parts of the world and Future Scenarios for Green Logistics. (hide)

So, you're feeling ready to start scaling up your business. But how can you be sure your finances are properly primed to make this (read more)

So, you're feeling ready to start scaling up your business. But how can you be sure your finances are properly primed to make this momentous step the success it deserves to be? This authoritative, motivating and highly practical guide will take you step-by-step through everything you need to think about, know and do to get your business into the best possible shape for growth. Leading business finance mentor, Della Hudson FCA, will walk you through a tried, tested and rigorous process that will help you: Get organised, plan and strategise for success. (hide)

"A compelling methodology...to increase market share quickly". (Eric Ries, bestselling author of THE LEAN STARTUP). "A must-read (read more)

"A compelling methodology...to increase market share quickly". (Eric Ries, bestselling author of THE LEAN STARTUP). "A must-read for anyone in business".

(James Currier, managing partner, NFX Guild). "Will teach you how to think like a marketer of tomorrow". (Josh Elman, partner, Greylock Partners).

Growth is now the first thing that investors, shareholders and market analysts look for in assessing and valuing companies. HACKING GROWTH is a highly accessible, practical, method for growth that involves cross-functional teams and continuous testing and iteration. Hacking Growth does for marketshare growth what THE LEAN STARTUP does for product development and BUSINESS MODEL GENERATION does for strategy. (hide)

Internal auditing is an essential tool for managing compliance, and for initiating and driving continual improvement in any organization's (read more)

Internal auditing is an essential tool for managing compliance, and for initiating and driving continual improvement in any organization's systematic HSEQ performance. Health and Safety, Environment and Quality Audits includes the latest health and safety, environmental and quality management system standards - ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. It delivers a powerful and proven approach to risk-based auditing of business-critical risk areas using ISO, or your own management systems.

It connects the `PDCA' approach to implementing management systems with auditing by focusing on the organization's context and the needs and expectations of interested parties. The novel approach leads HSEQ practitioners and senior and line managers alike to concentrate on the most significant risks to their objectives, and provides a step-by-step route through The Audit AdventureTM to provide a high-level, future-focused audit opinion. The whole approach is aligned to the international standard guidance for auditing management systems (ISO 19011). (hide)

Health and Safety: Risk Management is the clearest and most comprehensive book on risk management available today. This newly revised (read more)

Health and Safety: Risk Management is the clearest and most comprehensive book on risk management available today. This newly revised fifth edition takes into account new developments in legislation, standards and good practice. ISO 45001, the international health and safety management system standard, is given comprehensive treatment, and the latest ISO 9004 and ISO 19011 have also been addressed.

The book is divided into four main parts. Part 1.1 begins with a basic introduction to the techniques of health and safety risk management and continues with a description of ISO 45001. Part 1.2 covers basic human factors including how the sense organs work and the psychology of the individual.
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