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Service design is the activity of utilising resources and people to build and sustain services that not only meet customer needs but can also add that little bit of magic …

Business decisions do not need to be made exclusively based on profit. Equally, protecting communities and the environment does not need to impact the organization’s bottom line. Traditionally, profit has …

Exploring the transformational power of the fourth age of humanity.

“We must declare a world-wide ban on the phrase, ‘Constructive Criticism’. It’s a true oxymoron,” argues Dr. Tim Irwin author of Extraordinary Influence: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Others.

WEconomy: You can find meaning, make a living, and change the world is a guidebook to the greatest evolution in business since the assembly line. In it, authors Craig Kielburger, …

In their new book, Build it: The Rebel Playbook for World-Class Employee Engagement, authors Glenn Elliott and Debra Corey share how the world’s most successful companies are doing things differently in order to bridge this engagement gap.

In 1948, the world’s great powers, 58 countries, came together at the UN to tackle the world’s problems. If today we brought together the 100 greatest economies to do the …

New book outlines what it takes for companies to facilitate internal innovation.

Leadership lessons from the past, present and future are the big themes running through the 25 titles short listed for the 2018 Management Book of the Year.

Written by psychologist Paul Boross, alongside rugby legend Scott Quinnell, ‘Leader on the Pitch’ takes psychology learned on the pitch and applies it to the psychology of business.

On 19th October, Random House Business Books are publishing tech giant Tim O’Reilly’s first trade book ‘WTF: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us’, which looks at the incredible impact of technology on work, social organisation, and our everyday lives.

Virgin Books has acquired world rights for Sir Richard Branson’s brand new autobiography Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography, to be released on October 5th, in a global publishing event with Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Random House USA.

Do the practices that made a leader exemplary in the (pre-Internet, pre-globalisation) 1980s produce the same effect here in 2017? The answer, according to Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner – who have researched the foundations of exemplary leadership for more than three decades – is a resounding yes.

A new book by Peter Taylor, ‘How to get fired at the C-level’, explains how mismanaging change is the biggest risk of all. It explores the challenge many leading executives face – the need to divide their time between strategy creation and implementation.

Wiley announces the publication of four new business and leadership titles: ‘Building the Internet of Things’, ‘Marketing 4.0: Moving from Traditional to Digital’, ‘Check-In Strategy Journal’, and ‘When Execution Isn’t Enough: Decoding Inspirational Leadership’.

Wiley is pleased to announce the publication of three new titles aimed at business leaders, decision makers and entrepreneurs.

Great Answers to Tough Questions at Work by Michael Dodd and The Negotiation Book by Steve Gates shortlisted for Management Book of the Year.

The Fear-Free Organization by Paul Brown, Joan Kingsley and Sue Paterson, describes why building a company “fearlessly” is now imperative.

OK – there are 15 not 50 of them but from Seth Godin to Adam Grant, Brian Solis, Patrick Lencioni, Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, Gloria Lombardi picks and reviews some of the best summer reads out there.

Much has been written about great leaders, but Higson and Sturgess want you to build competitive advantage by thinking differently.