Internationally recognised leadership expert, John C. Maxwell teaches readers how to shift their leadership to keep innovating, improving, and influencing others in today’s fast-paced world.

Change is so rapid today that leaders must do much more than stay the course to be successful. If they aren’t nimble and ready to adapt, they won’t survive. The key is to learn how to leadershift.

In Leadershifts, John C. Maxwell helps leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organisational and personal growth. He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Each shift changed his trajectory and set him up for new and exciting achievements, ultimately strengthening and sustaining his leadership abilities and making him the admired leadership expert he is today.

Among those leadershifts are the Adaptive Shift from Plan A to Option A, the Production Shift from Ladder Climbing to Ladder Building, and the Influence Shift from Positional Authority to Moral Authority. Maxwell gives specific guidance to readers about how to make these shifts in their own lives. Each one requires them to change the way they think, act, and ultimately lead so they can be successful in a world that never remains the same.

Straight talk and advice on building and running a startup from Ben Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s most respected voices.
A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one.

In The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, draws on his own story of founding, running, selling, buying, managing, and investing in technology companies to offer essential advice and practical wisdom for navigating the toughest problems business schools don't cover.

His blog has garnered a devoted following of millions of readers who have come to rely on him to help them run their businesses. A lifelong rap fan, Horowitz amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs and tells it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, from cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.

His advice is grounded in anecdotes from his own hard-earned rise - from co-founding the early cloud service provider Loudcloud to building the phenomenally successful Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm, both with fellow tech superstar Marc Andreessen (inventor of Mosaic, the Internet's first popular Web browser). This is no polished victory lap; he analyses issues with no easy answers through his trials, including:

• demoting (or firing) a loyal friend;
• whether you should incorporate titles and promotions, and how to handle them;
• if it's OK to hire people from your friend's company;
• how to manage your own psychology, while the whole company is relying on you;
• what to do when smart people are bad employees;
• why Andreessen Horowitz prefers founder CEOs, and how to become one;
• whether you should sell your company, and how to do it.

Filled with Horowitz's trademark humour and straight talk, and drawing from his personal and often humbling experiences, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures.

Consumer trust is more important than ever, as digital platforms and social media have redefined the relationship between businesses and consumers. In this new and disruptive commercial environment, consumers have developed an expectancy of direct, transparent communication through social media. The traditional means of building and maintaining trust have been rendered obsolete by the chaotic, competitive magnitude of multiple online platforms.

With a unique combination of academic rigour and practical guidance, Digital Trust is the definitive guide to effectively using social media to build an authentic, trustful connection with your consumer base. Drawing on his extensive experience in marketing and communications, Barry Connolly demonstrates how to harness the commercial opportunities provided by social media, while also showing how you can avoid its most common mistakes and pitfalls. With original research and illuminating case studies, Digital Trust provides adaptable and accessible social media strategies that will strengthen and expand your consumer base.

The Wider World in which Business Operates.

The political issues impacting our global economy have changed dramatically since Peter F. Drucker first wrote the essays in this book decades ago, but the relationship between business, government, and society remains a potent driver of national and global prosperity.

In this collection of essays, Drucker reminds us how economic and political shifts shape the context in which business must operate - as well as the specific challenges that leaders face. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, this book equips executives to better understand and address:

• Structural changes in society
• Paradigm shifts in presidential politics
• The wider world outside the corporation
• How politics, economics, and society must be viewed together as a system

Timeless in its insight and practical wisdom, Peter F. Drucker on Business and Society offers a revealing lens to view our world today.

Everybody negotiates at various points every day, be it in life or business, and it’s important to get it right. Finding the Sweet Spot walks people of all skill and experience levels through simple and proven techniques that are sure to result in better outcomes for all parties and that uncover the hidden value that exists in any negotiation.

On average, people leave about 20% of potential mutual gains untapped in any negotiation. This is akin to taking 20% of the value in any deal and dumping it into a garbage canister. Finding that hidden 20%, the 'sweet spot', is a skill that takes practice but is also one that anybody can learn. In Finding the Sweet Spot, Leigh Thompson offers surefire best practices and tools to use in daily negotiations and conflict situations. She calls these strategies 'hacks' because they work but don’t require a lot of investment, training, expense, and time. You don’t have to be a CEO, senior VP, or regional brand manager to learn how to find the sweet spot in life’s negotiations.

Benefits include learning the following:

• Understanding where the sweet spot is in the deals you negotiate
• Adopting a big-picture mind-set when approaching any negotiation
• Seeing negotiations less as win-lose battles and more as opportunities to use problem-solving skills
• Utilising a tool kit of 'hacks' that will work in any negotiation and have been proven effective by a top expert in the field

Discover the lost secrets of accomplishment and achievement!

Do you want to do more, accomplish more? Of course you do, everyone does. So, what's stopping you? Get Sh*t Done not only shows you what's preventing you from daily achievement, it provides the tools and the strategies to help you get to where you want to be. Get Sh*t Done is much more than just the title of this book, it's the method that unlocks the secrets of accomplishment and achievement - the GSD Secret Formula. In this book, you will learn to identify and implement the elements of superior productivity, eliminate the causes of procrastination, and achieve the best possible outcomes in business and in life.

This valuable guide gives you a comprehensive, step-by-step plan for achieving maximum productivity. Bestselling author and 'King of Sales' Jeffrey Gitomer guides you through each aspect of the GSD process, from attitude, desire, and determination, to goals, productivity, resilience, and fulfillment. Engaging and easy to read, this book shows you how to discover the best ways to invest your time into productive and profitable actions -and feel great about your achievements. Using the proven, immediately-actionable GSD Formula, you're on your way to:

• Doubling your achievements, your work habits, and your income
• Implementing simple shifts and simple actions that increase positive outcomes
• Recognising the early warning signs of procrastination and reluctance
• Eliminating the major GSD distractions that hold you back
• Discovering how to select, set, and achieve your goals

Get Sh*t Done: The Ultimate Guide to Productivity, Procrastination, & Profitability is a must-have resource for anyone who wants to never again say 'I'll do it later' and just get it done.

In a global age of disruption, future organisational change is not avoidable. Organisational effects will be immediate and transformational across companies, and due consideration and preparation ahead of these changes may be paramount for the survival of organisations and their leaders of tomorrow.

Leading and Managing Change in the Age of Disruption and Artificial Intelligence modernises the topics of management, leadership and organisational change to inform those leading and managing organisations into the future. The book covers modern disruptions ranging from Trump and other geo-political changes, to Brexit, new currencies, trade wars, and even knowledge mobility. It also considers the broad scope of potential impacts posed by artificial intelligence. Including strategies that the modern manager of the future can implement in their daily work, the book provides critical thinking that will future proof organisations with practical models.

This book will be both interesting and informative to managers and leaders across small and large organisations. It will also prove useful and thought-provoking to those studying in business related disciplines such as management, leadership, and organisational change.

How businesses and other organisations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think

What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do in order to make society more integrated and just? What if diversity can also improve the bottom line of businesses and other organisations facing complex challenges in the knowledge economy? It can. And The Diversity Bonus shows how and why.

Scott Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose ideas and advice are sought after by corporations, nonprofits, universities, and governments around the world, makes a clear and compellingly pragmatic case for diversity and inclusion. He presents overwhelming evidence that teams that include different kinds of thinkers outperform homogenous groups on complex tasks, producing what he calls 'diversity bonuses'. These bonuses include improved problem solving, increased innovation, and more accurate predictions - all of which lead to better performance and results.

Page shows that various types of cognitive diversity - differences in how people perceive, encode, analyse, and organise the same information and experiences - are linked to better outcomes. He then describes how these cognitive differences are influenced by other kinds of diversity, including racial and gender differences - in other words, identity diversity. Identity diversity, therefore, can also produce bonuses.

Drawing on research in economics, psychology, computer science, and many other fields, The Diversity Bonus also tells the stories of people and organisations that have tapped the power of diversity to solve complex problems. And the book includes a challenging response from Katherine Phillips of the Columbia Business School.

The result changes the way we think about diversity in the workplace - and far beyond it.

Lead your business through the crisis and prepare it to rebound in the recovery.

As the pandemic is exacting its toll on our lives and wreaking havoc in the global economy, forward-looking organisations are moving past crisis management and positioning themselves to leap ahead in a transformed economy after the 'Great Pause'. What should you and your business be doing now to balance staying afloat today with and pushing forward to tomorrow?

Coronavirus: Leadership and Recovery: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review provides you with essential thinking about managing your company through the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping your employees (and yourself) healthy and productive, and challenging your business to continue innovating and reinvent itself ahead of the recovery.

Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind? Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues -blockchain, cyber security, AI, and more - each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organisation needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow.

You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas - and prepare you and your company for the future.

In today's modern global economy, companies and organisations in all sectors are embracing the game-changing benefits of the remote work­place. Managers benefit by saving money and resources and by having access to talent outside their zip codes, while employees enjoy greater job opportunities, productivity, independence, and work-life satisfaction. But in this new digital arena, companies need a plan for supporting efficiency and fostering streamlined, engaging teamwork.

In Work Together Anywhere, Lisette Sutherland, an international champion of virtual-team strategies, offers a complete blueprint for optimising team success by supporting every member of every team, including:

• Employees advocating for work from home options
• Managers seeking to maximise productivity and profitability
• Teams collaborating over complex projects and long-term goals
• Organisations reliant on sharing confidential documents and data
• Company owners striving to save money and attract the best brainpower

Packed with hands-on materials and actionable advice for cultivating agility, camaraderie, and collaboration, Work Together Anywhere is a thorough and inspiring must-have guide for getting ahead in today's remote-working world.