Learning and Development (L&D) professionals are uniquely placed in an organization to improve both individual employee performance as well as the overall performance of the business. To maximise the impact of learning, activities must be aligned with the goals of the organization and delivered in the flow of work so that performance improvement is...

Never work a boring job again!

Do you feel pressured to choose financial security over your dreams? Are you worried about wasting your life doing meaningless work?

Whether you have just graduated, are supporting a family or even approaching retirement age, this practical, step-by-step guide takes you through the whole process of earning money doing the...

In an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world, achieving sustainable competitive advantage has never been more important, or more difficult. However, the key challenge for CEOs, senior executives and HR professionals is how to unlock the potential of their people, building a culture that allows employees to perform to the best of their...

Want to change career paths but don't know how? Are your support networks giving you exactly what you need to help you create your dream career? The Squiggly Career will show you exactly how to make it happen.

Career ladders and jobs for life are a thing of the past. We're living in a world of squiggly careers, where moving frequently and fluidly between...

In today's hyper-connected world, any brand with a website or digital presence is 'global' by its very definition; yet in practice it takes an enormous amount of strategic planning and adaptability to successfully manage an international brand. Global Brand Management explores the increasingly universal scope of brand management. In an era when many brand...

The definitive, bestselling text in the field of change management, Making Sense of Change Management provides a thorough and accessible overview for students and practitioners alike. Without relying on assumed knowledge, it comprehensively covers the theories and models of change management and connects them to workable approaches and techniques that...

Learning and Development Practice in the Workplace is the ideal textbook for anyone studying CIPD L&D qualifications and apprenticeships at Level 3 or Level 5, as well as for practitioners new to an L&D role. It covers what is required of an L&D professional and how to meet and exceed these expectations, how to align L&D activity with organisational...

Becoming a partner in a professional services firm is for many ambitious fee-earners the ultimate goal. But in this challenging industry, with long hours, high pressure and even higher expectations, how do you stand out from the crowd? How do you build the most effective relationships? And how do you find the time to do all of this and still have a...

International standards ensure that organisations operate the right processes to support their objectives. International Standards for Design and Manufacturing is an accessible guide for manufacturing and production managers and students. It guides readers through the standards needed to build operating systems which are robust, integrated and used to drive...

Supply chains, including logistics, are the functional elements of an organisation's operations. To formulate a strategy for this operation to work seamlessly the organisation needs to align these operations with the corporate and business strategy. Strategic Supply Chain Management provides a discussion on effective supply chain strategic leadership for...

Traditional management practices, rooted in economics and psychology, have led to a focus on numbers and productivity rather than the people who make those numbers happen. This has resulted in trust in leaders and organizations being at an all-time low. What Philosophy Can Teach You About Being a Better Leader expertly counters this thinking and argues that...

Blockchain provides a secure ledger of transactions, programmable smart contracts, and real-time trustworthy visibility and insight into the supply chain process. For all the promises it offers to supply chain professionals, however, there's very little guidance available on how organizations should begin evaluating and using it. Integrating Blockchain into...

Forget everything you’ve been told about maximizing Lifetime Customer Value. 

To take your business to the next level, you need a brand strategy that’s focused on attracting new customers, not exploiting existing ones.

 In this transparent digital age, smart business leaders know that profitable growth comes from helping customers, not exploiting them. ...

Are you a Customer Success Executive or making your way up the Customer Success ladder? 
Do you want to transform churn into maximum recurring revenue and growth? 
Are you looking for a clear route to an established framework? 
Are you determined to be proactive, rather than constantly firefighting, with your customers? 
Is your company invested in or...

A call for the Left and Right — the business community and environmentalists, bankers and activists — to join together, reclaim capitalism, and force profits to align with the planet.

A warming climate and a general distrust of Wall Street has opened a new cultural divide: anti-market critics from Naomi Klein to the Pope target capitalism itself as a root...

Self Defense for Busy People provides a straight-forward real-world roadmap to protect you from the UGLY.

Through dozens of examples, stories and strategies you will gain a refreshing new insight to defend yourself at home, on the street, at work, in your car and when travelling.Learn the STUN AND RUN system of self-defense to stop any size attacker in...

How do you sort through the myriad of “green” advice available to find what works for you and your business? So many small businesses are paralyzed, without guidance on what to do, how decisions impact the environment, and where to even start. In 'Ethical Profit', Samantha Richardson has done the work for you. Outlining changes from small to large, she...

Whether creating a product from nothing or making a stepped change to an existing product, the task presents many opportunities to ask and seek answers to fundamental questions that will steer the final outcome.

Bringing New Products to Market takes you through the journey in incremental steps that enable you to learn quickly and put that learning into...

Change your work ~ Change your life!

Does the thought of going to work fill you with dread or excitement?

Work Quilting is all about using every one of your unique talents and skills to turn your dreams into reality. The work you do should be one that supplies you with a lifestyle of financial freedom, flexibility, and fun!

The World of Work is Changing!

"As...

Everyone wants to achieve long-term success, yet many people fall short. The question is, why? The answer is simple: it’s a lack of performance consistency. Consistency is the baseline skill that unleashes all the others. And until this skill is mastered, true potential is never realized. Yet most people struggle to keep up any kind of consistent effort...

There is no use kicking and screaming like a 2 year old in the throes of a marathon tantrum – the e-book revolution is here to stay, for better or worse. While every author’s ultimate dream is to sniff the glue binding of the crisp, off-white pages of their first glossy masterpiece, the reality is that most of us will never write a book that exactly fits a...

Organisations that make it big and survive the test of time are shapeshifters. Shapeshifters generate a strategy supple enough to adapt to changing environments and they disrupt themselves and the world around them to bring about positive change. In a volatile world that is changing at an ever-accelerating rate, it’s time our approach to strategy and...

Raise Your Innovation IQ – a new book by Leena Patel, a prominent innovation consultant and CEO of Sandbox2Boardroom.com – is a page-turning solution set of twenty-one strategies that will lead you to think differently in times of change.

In her easy-to-read conversational style, Leena draws you in and takes you on a journey that opens your eyes to the big...

No longer just for CEOs, celebrities, and the socially savvy, building a personal brand is now everyone's business. In today’s era of brand you, customers search your virtual identity before they meet you, unqualified competitors work to outrank you online, and the global marketplace compels you to select a specific field of expertise.

Drawing on two...

Does travelling the world while earning a living sound like something you could get used to?

We’ve all been there. The classic bore of the 9-5 workday, day after day, week after week, and month after month. It’s like no matter what we do we just can’t seem to escape.

If you don’t love your job it gets even worse. Working for someone else’s dream just so that...

“…There are few that have made significant strides on making ‘knowing yourself’ operational and real as Lee and Hugh have in this marvelous book. Reading this book is a compelling adventure. If you follow the path, you will change for the better!” — Richard Boyatzis, Co-author of the international best seller, Primal Leadership and the new Helping People...

Do you feel the frustration?

Perhaps the most promising technological innovation in over a generation, blockchain has become a mud puddle where scoundrels, cheats and market manipulators wallow without shame.

The cryptocurrency industry sports a collection of scammers that would feel more at home in the White House than in any self-respecting used car lot...

The Byzantine Pineapple presents a whole new governmental tax and spend system that treats all Citizens equally and provides 100% Quality Coverage for:

a) Monthly Income for all citizens
b) Health Care (not health insurance) for all citizens
c) Housing coverage for Citizens in need

While also balancing the governmental budget.

This presentation is so simple...

Are you happy? Like your job? Most people report low engagement and enthusiasm in their careers. And point their finger at a negative work culture, a mean boss… coworker… or customer. Mean people suck.

Some leaders believe that they need to be mean in order to be effective. Their lack of compassion creates negative relationships that lowers performance and...

If life gives you lemons ... add gin.

Life’s a Banquet is the unofficial but essential ‘guide book’ to negotiating your way through life – through education, family life and business, to relationships, marriage, failure and rejection.

Aged 21, Robin Bennett was set to become a cavalry officer and aged 21 and a half, he found himself working as an assistant...

Trends have become a commodity—an element of culture in their own right and the very currency of our cultural life. Consumer culture relies on a new class of professionals who explain trends, predict trends, and in profound ways even manufacture trends. On Trend delves into one of the most powerful forces in global consumer culture. From forecasting to cool...

The Investing QuickStart Guide offers a simplified but expansive introduction to the world of investing.

Author Ted Snow brings 30 years of experience in the finance industry, much to the benefit of novice learners and experienced investors alike.

Snow provides readers with the complete picture on stocks, bonds, treasuries, ETFs, mutual funds, indexes...

This is the revolutionary book that expertly simplifies accounting fundamentals. It’s an invaluable resource for accounting students,business owners, bookkeepers, and other finance and recordkeeping professionals worldwide!

Whether you are a business owner looking to boost your bottom line or an accounting student looking to boost your grade, this book will...

“There is no other book available anywhere in the world that contains this much entrepreneurial experience, insight, and wisdom in it.” —from the Foreword by Jack Canfield, multiple #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Success Principles™ and the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series

Based on face-to-face interviews with over 20 self-made billionaires.

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In the 1980s, real estate developer and banker Charles H. Keating executed one of the largest savings and loans frauds in United States history. Keating had long used the courts to muzzle critical reporting of his business dealings, but aggressive reporting by a small trade paper called the National Thrift News helped bring down Keating and offered an...

The landscape of workplace learning is transforming. Organizations today understand that formal training is not always the best solution in the fast changing world of innovation and new technology. The rise of social and informal learning, gamification of training, dealing with big data and creating value within the supply chain are just some challenges L&D...

The middle class makes up most of the population. Defined as a household that earns a yearly income that hits above the poverty line but falls shy of the upper class, people in the middle class come from all walks of life, hold various types of jobs, and lead vastly different lives. One aspect does tie them together: they work hard to live well, and without...

Traditional business structures love stability and predictability. Yet many organizations believe the two essential ingredients for long-term success are creativity and innovation. Kiirsten May and Alex Varricchio, founders of the marketing agency UpHouse, call the relationship between these two opposing expectations the Proximity Paradox™ — the belief that...

Start-Ups, Pivots and Pop-Ups is a must read for anyone with a business idea and the desire to be successful. It gives the reader the skills and knowledge to survive in today's innovation and entrepreneurial-focused world. This book is about starting a business. It's about putting your toe in the entrepreneurial water - perhaps through doing a short term...

Social networks are the new norm and traditional marketing is failing in today's digital, always-on culture. Businesses across the world are having to face up to how they remain relevant in the choppy waters of the digital ocean. In an era where a YouTube star gets more daily impressions than Nike, Coca-Cola and Walmart combined, traditional marketing as we...

SHORTLISTED: PMI UK National Project Awards 2019 - Project Management Literature Category

The business analyst role can cover a wide range of responsibilities, including the elicitation and documenting of business requirements, upfront strategic work, design and implementation phases. Typical difficulties faced by analysts include stakeholders who disagree...

Faced with the compliance requirements of increasingly punitive information and privacy-related regulation, as well as the proliferation of complex threats to information security, there is an urgent need for organizations to adopt IT governance best practice. IT Governance is a key international resource for managers in organizations of all sizes and...

Create your dream job by turning your passion into a profitable business.

The business world has completely changed. The old routes to building a successful organization have been entirely revolutionized. In a world which is being transformed with a speed that was unthinkable barely a generation ago, the doors have been thrown wide open to serial...

WINNER: CILIP's Knowledge and Information Management Award 2019 - Information Resources Print Category

The way an organization manages and disseminates its knowledge is key to informed business decision-making, effectiveness and competitive edge. The Knowledge Manager's Handbook takes you step by step through the processes needed to define and embed an...

Traditional organizational structures and cultures are no longer fit for purpose in a digitally empowered world. The number of new and disruptive technologies is increasing, the speed of change shows no sign of slowing down and business leaders and organization development practitioners need to act urgently to enable their companies to succeed in the...