Leadership & Management

Positive, provoking and profit-driven, here are over 100 ideas to challenge your preconceptions and to help you build your business to be stronger, fitter and quicker.

This book - by an insider with plenty of experience of hiring coaches and acting as a coach - provides a pragmatic insight into executive coaching for those who are contemplating a career move and becoming an executive coach

Who are the great leaders in history and what have they got to teach us today about the nature and practice of leadership? John Adair explores a wide range of inspiring leaders, from Lao Tzu and Machiavelli, to Thatcher and Mandela.

A one-stop guide to the world's most important thinkers and writers on business strategy. It expertly summarises all the key strategic concepts and analyses the pro's and con's of many of the key theories in practice.

A one-stop guide to the world's key writers on leadership, their thoughts and contributions.

Managers have to manage people. It is the most difficult and yet the most rewarding function. This is a one-stop guide to the world's most important writers on managing people, summarising all the key concepts and the contribution of each.

Based on extensive research, this book challenges accepted 'norms' and establishes the 7 key competencies required for successful leadership today

Learn how to reshape and reposition your company to meet tougher challenges and competitors, when to confront and when to retreat, how to assess risk and opportunity and how to move to seize opportunities and knock out the competition.

Absolutely everybody in all types of organisations has to make the critical leap to managing people for the first time.

Practical techniques for profiling your business and the competition, analysing the market, mastering strategic thinking, positioning for marketplace success, option appraisal and strategic decision-making, as well as implementing and managing change.

Without a grasp of what true leadership implies you cannot hope to develop a really effective team. This book shows what distinguishes truly high-achieving teams from the rest of the pack.

All the skills and techniques you need to stay one step ahead: the book provides a clear framework for effective negotiation and shows you how to develop your negotiating skills to achieve the best possible results and profitable agreements that stick.

How to build and develop a successful team by motivating, empowering and leading people. Based on in-depth experience of developing people and initiating change within many organisations, Mark Thomas provides a shrewd, practical guide to mastering the essential techniques of people management.

A master-class in how to achieve your full potential which takes a practical approach to managing change, personal development, achievement and fulfilment.

Transform yourself from being just another coach into someone who stands out to your clients as the natural and only choice.

Punch above your weight! addresses the important idea that in reality each one of us can be thought of as a business. This inspirational book gives you a route-map to success.

Based on the authors' extensive research, the book builds on the GROW coaching model and introduces a new model which involves 5 core capabilities and a 7-step process - The Achieve Coaching model.

A complete guide to Successful Career Management relevant for organisations, leaders and individuals.

This book aims to provide a simple but valuable framework the 2-by-2 matrix which can be used by any manager or executive in varied situations in business to resolve such issues and problems.

This new edition is a goldmine of ideas, advice and techniques from one of the world's leading writers on management and leadership. It brings together all of John Adair's thinking on leadership, teambuilding, creativity and innovation, problem-solving, motivation, communication and time-management.

This book encapsulates John Adair's writing on the art and skills of effective communication. You will find it equally valuable whether you are beginning your career or looking for an expert refresher course.

Encapsulates all of John Adair's writing on how to recognise and enhance creativity in your organisation. It focusses on team training, generation of ideas, communication and overcoming obstacles, the key characteristics of innovators and how to organise and use them to best effect.

The Concise Adair on Leadership encapsulates his writing on how to develop your own leadership potential, to motivate your colleagues and to build a creative and high-performing team.

Valuable ideas on how to establish clear long-term goals and link your daily action planning to their achievement. It provides you with the tools, techniques and framework needed for continuing personal development.

An insightful and amusing book about management fads – past and present.

Geoff Marsh is a master of presentation skills. In this book he gives the reader the knowledge and techniques needed to engage with audiences and deliver inspirational presentations in all situations.

This unique book brings together the most valuable management theories and tools in one volume.

The Mobile Boardroom covers the challenges business owners and directors will face when they involved in Buying, Growing or Selling a company. Top tips on all aspects of the business cycle will take you through everything you need to know.

A complete guide to people management - helping managers along the most difficult of paths: leading, motivating and running a team of people. This book takes the form of a clinic during which you can ask an experienced people management consultant how to approach any number of issues and problems that face you on a daily basis.

This practical and succinct book presents all the essential theory, practice and techniques taught to MBA students and is ideal for the busy practising executive. The book is divided into three main parts: personal development, management skills and business development.

A complete guide to working for yourself which includes running a business, starting a company or being self-employed.

This inspirational book provides a refreshing approach to making the decisions that affect both your business and personal life and your level of success.

This book provides a framework for understanding any culture in the world, offering strategies and tactics for getting people from different countries on your side, and detailing the knowledge you need to make the right impression and avoid giving offence.