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Better Management
Management guru Henry Mintzberg defines “management” as the art, science and craft to get work done. In that sense, management touches everyone, everywhere, anytime. For all business leaders, management is one of the most basic and important processes to achieving your goals. This important book shows how management can be turned into your competitive advantage.
For management to be a competitive advantage, it must be better management. Recent research has shown that companies that have established agile, people-centric and dynamic capabilities – and have got rid of traditional management methods – outperform others by a huge margin. From this, the author offers six key principles of better management, that will provide the platform for all business leaders and organizations to make the shift towards greater performance.
Author: Lukas Michel
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ER Doctor
Paul Weinberg spent 30 years in the Emergency Room (or ER) as a medical doctor and has seen everything, Described as “a strange career” by the author, entry into the field is unrestricted and open to all who are brave (or foolish) enough to start into the stream without the knowledge of the tsunami ahead. The strangeness of the practice is apparent from the very first visit to a busy urban ER. The swarm of commotion and great vividness of the scene can be dizzying. The relentlessness of the torrent and its strange day and night rhythms can enthral and repel like no other practice or job.
In turns shocking, sad and funny, this book contains remarkable tales, inside stories and the experiences of a doctor’s career in ER. Emergency medicine in America is a critical asset to its healthcare system. The ER doctor is located at the interface of the public and the first point of healthcare. If a doctor is needed outside of office hours, nights, or holidays, if the patient is uninsured or has inadequate insurance, or is of such a social state that they might be unpleasant to be around, no one is turned away at the ER. In short, the life of the ER doc is one where no situation is off limits.
Authors: Paul Weinberg
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The Enabling Manager
A practical, modern book for managers and leaders, at any level and in any department or company, who need to know how to get the best from their teams in a 21st Century business world. The world of work and the needs of people in the workplace have changed to the extent that the old models no longer work. Today’s manager cannot rely on “command-and-control” and a culture of compliance to get their job done.
What is the answer? Much of what Millennials are asking for – development and growth, transparency and connection, work that has meaning and purpose, empowerment. These things suggest something very simple: a change in management style, that is fitting to today’s business environment, that seeks to align rather than control, to enable rather than constrain, to coach rather than command. The authors/leading business coaches apply the concept of coaching to modern-day management, showing managers how to motivate and enable teams and team members to achieve their goals.
Authors: Myles Downey (with Ian Harrison)
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Group Dyna-Mix
Since the 2008 financial crisis, existing methods of executive leadership have experienced in-depth scrutiny beyond their control. In reference to Patrick Lencioni, to understand teams is to comprehend an “inattention to results, an avoidance of accountability, and a lack of commitment”. Executive leaders have been operating through silent, lucrative and confidential team dynamics that are difficult to access and subsequently difficult to challenge and understand.
Dr Katsarou-Makin explores the team-to-trust and trust-to-team relations between executives and their associates – pertaining to the familial relations between these members and their unconventional codes of conduct. Under this umbrella of governance, directors, leaders and corporate gatekeepers operate in teams that are selected and trusted through unorthodox relations which must now come to light. Dr Katsarou-Makin seeks to explore how these teams operate through a collective consensus of trust and the values this trust demands.
Author: Dr Maria Katsarou-Makin
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PANOS
This is a rags-to-riches story about a man who came from a Greek village, born to a father with three years’ schooling and an illiterate mother, whose down-to-earth Greek values formed the foundation of an entrepreneur who went on to build a multi-million-dollar fashion empire.
Today, Panos Emporio is one of the most established luxury swimwear brands in the world, being the choice of celebrities and royal families amongst others. Panos Papadopoulos created this empire in his new country of Sweden in record time, introducing the winning combination of innovative design, skillful entrepreneurship and ground-breaking marketing, which elevated the brand to its world-leading position. Panos’ life as an entrepreneur is a tale of passion and total commitment. In telling his story, he also provides success lessons and valuable advice to other entrepreneurs, that can be applied to sectors beyond fashion.
Author: Panos Papadopoulos
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The Smart Strategy Book (5th Anniversary Edition)
Most strategies are too long and boring. Far too many contain language that most of us can’t understand.
Bestselling business author Kevin Duncan has read over 500 business books, and much of that wisdom is celebrated in this 5th anniversary edition. Here he covers seven of the most common strategic areas: commercial, brand, customer, sales, people, innovation, and communication.
His trademark no-bullshit approach debunks strategic nonsense and provides any strategist with a brilliant handbook to generate smart strategy at any time.
Author: Kevin Duncan
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The Storytelling Workbook
The Storytelling Workbook is a practical, nine-week programme (based on Anthony Tasgal’s “rule of three”) to help you learn to tell your own narrative and present your story, whether it be for your CV, your dating apps or your own personal writing. It is an entertaining, instructive and interactive guide to becoming a better storyteller across all facets of your personal and professional life.
Including a mix of case studies, advice and exercises, this workbook is structured into three sections: before, during and after. In the before section, you will learn to free yourself from reductionism, obsession with numbers, facts, data and ‘messaging’; in the during section, you will concentrate on finding simplicity, meaning and depth; while finally, in after, you will come to understand how to write less and think more and ultimately how to keep writing again and again.
Author: Anthony Tasgal
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Great Networking
If you really want to build your career and achieve professional success, being able to network effectively is crucial. Based on first-hand experience of a successful and dynamic professional, whose focus remains on developing her network of contacts even as she enters the senior stage of her career, this book is a modern-day, highly practical guide for anyone seeking the networking skills and confidence required to succeed in their career.
In order for you to obtain valuable information or help from your contacts, you yourself must be valuable and generous to others. Therefore, one of the key points of the book is building the right kind of professional relationship – and here, authenticity should be at the core of your networking. The author provides proven advice on how to build relationships strategically, that will last for the long term, and will bring mutual benefits. At the same time, the author stresses the importance of you remaining true to yourself and your core beliefs.
Author: Alisa Grafton
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Leader As Healer
Leaders of today must possess potent powers for logic, reason, discernment and strategic forecasting. Yet, they must also be empathic and therefore embodied; grounded and therefore intuitive; present and therefore awake. They must be skilled in mindfulness and deep listening, able to inspire authentic engagement and collaboration, and possess a clear and wholehearted sense of service, mission and purpose – restoring coherence where there is fragmentation and unity where there is division. Nicholas Janni presents this new and necessary leadership style as the Leader as Healer.
The book outlines both a theoretical and practical map towards a new form of leadership, one that embodies the ‘skill, heart, and wisdom’ that the current moment demands. The pathway Janni describes is one of integration and restoration, which is designed to reawaken the innate human capacities – physical and emotional, individual and transpersonal – that were previously discarded and forgotten during our perilous journey towards profit-maximization and “infinite” economic growth. It offers a way to grow ourselves as leaders and to heal our organizations.
Authors: Nicholas Janni
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Disruption
One of the worst recessions for the past 100 years, businesses failing, a revolution in technology, increasing financial constraints, compliance stifling the ability to be nimble, changing consumer behaviour, and a market driving products towards commoditization – this is the perfect storm facing the banking industry.
Disruption provides a critical understanding of the impact of the current economic crisis and the current industrial revolution on financial services, the new trends in the sector, and the opportunities for banks to leverage their unique assets and pre-empt challengers from gaining meaningful market share. The book also provides top-level advice about transforming financial services organizations by finding the right balance between short-term requirements and the imperative of long-term change. This balancing act is what the authors call the “ambidextrous approach”, which requires focus on two strategic initiatives: performance and innovation.
Authors: Ignacio Garcia Alves, Philippe De Backer & Juan Gonzalez
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Mastering Decline
Compounded by the pandemic-induced economic recession, many companies find themselves operating in declining markets – markets that have no real long-term prospects for growth, and where the demand for certain goods and services are stable at best but are not increasing. Yet, in such an environment, it is not impossible for companies to survive and make profits.
In this book, a former management consultant and current CEO of a company that survived decline in its market provides practical and hard-won advice for managers and owners of any company in a declining market or situation. In doing so, the author highlights key activities that companies in declining markets should focus on in order to secure their future and remain profitable.
Author: Alain Liebaert
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We, Me, Them & It (21st anniversary edition)
It’s no good having a good idea if you cannot communicate it to someone else. John Simmons, in this stimulating and readable book, demonstrates how we can write and use words more creatively and persuasively in business today. From differentiating your company from another, to injecting life and vibrancy into your products and services, to writing everyday emails, this cult business book by the modern-day guru of business writing (now released as a new 21st anniversary edition) shows ways in which we can use words to gain competitive advantage in business life through “tone of voice”.
John Simmons’ method of writing powerfully for business is based on his “WE, ME, THEM and IT” model, which over the past 25 years has been adopted by tens of thousands of marketers and other professionals around of the world. Simmons argues that effective business writing is about learning to love writing and words, and bringing more of our real selves to working life.
Author: John Simmons
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