LID Publishing has signed an important new management book by Paul Lambert. Entitled Alive: Cultivating Living Organizations for Success in a Digital Age, the book will be published in April 2025, and argues that organizations, like people, need to be seen as living, evolving organisms with an identity, mind, body and soul. It’s by embracing this mindset that we can shape “human centred organizations” and this provides leaders with a new way to develop and grow their businesses.

Paul Lambert comments: “For the past 20 years, I have seen many businesses crush rather than liberate the people they employ, because they view them as ‘cogs in a money-making machine’. The irony is that organizations that have a deep sense of purpose and embrace the breadth and diversity of people are the very ones that demonstrate both great impact and enjoy financial success. It’s my desire to help others ‘look under the bonnet’ to understand how to develop such ‘living, human centric’ organizations.”

Alec Egan, Associate Publisher of LID, comments: “We are pleased to be collaborating with Paul Lambert, who represents a new cohort of thinkers in management. Alive is an amalgamation of his consulting experience gained in management and organizational development. Paul deeply cares for people in organizations, and in Alive he shares a fresh outlook on how organizations can be both successful and sustainable.”

The author Paul Lambert is a management consultant and founder of Living Work Consulting. He is also the Programme Director of the People and Organization Change Executive Education Programmes at Henley Business School. Prior to that, he was a Senior Partner at Korn Ferry Organizational Consultants and a Partner at Prophet Growth and Transformation Consultants.