Around the globe, people are facing the same problem - that we are born as individuals but are forced to conform to the rules of society if we want to succeed. The author debunks the prevailing mythology of success and presents a radical new way to greatness. It also draws on interviews with world leaders.
An explanation of how to develop and take action on strategy, in business, politics and beyond. It dispels popular misconceptions about strategy - such as confusing it with ambitions, visions or financial goals - by showing that a good strategy focuses on the challenges a business faces, and providing an insightful approach for overcoming them.
Ask around in business circles, and you'll get a thousand different answers. But now, internationally-renowned leadership expert Dr Peter Fuda has created a single, coherent roadmap for greatness: after more than a decade's research and practice, Fuda shares the seven common threads that have enabled hundreds of CEOs across the world to transform themselves into effective, inspiring leaders.
Leadership Transformed uses seven easy-to-remember metaphors to distil Fuda's research into a pathway for real, lasting change. The Fire metaphor, for example, will help you shift from burning platforms (fear-driven leadership) to burning ambition (purpose-driven leadership).
Fuda has helped leaders on four continents achieve greatness. Previously available only to the select clients of his industry-leading consultancy, now Fuda's expert knowledge can help kick-start your own leadership transformation.
Great leaders have always understood the power of stories. Through the stories they tell, the most successful leaders educate, persuade and bring about change, but we rarely have the background knowledge to explore how they do so. In this hugely insightful guide to getting to the top, leading journalist Gavin Esler presents first-hand knowledge of the secrets of those who achieve power based on over thirty years' experience interviewing world famous figures from Bill Clinton to Angelina Jolie.
Introducing the questions every leader must answer - and the elements that the best stories must contain - Esler explains how creating a leadership story can promote success at all levels, whether running for the United States presidency or applying for a place at university.
Spanning fields from business and culture to the military and even taking in lessons from terrorism, Lessons from the Top offers a fascinating portrait of leadership in the modern world - and shows how the methods of the most powerful leaders could work for you.
We make decisions, and these decisions make us and our organisations. And in theory, decision-making should be easy: a problem is identified, the decision-makers generate solutions, and choose the optimal one - and powerful tools are available to facilitate the task. This guide to decision making aims to improve decision-making in organisations.
How does a good manager become a superb leader? Ask around in business circles, and you'll get as many different answers as you ask people. This title features seven stories for leadership transformation. It provides a fresh look at leadership, based on hard data and serious research.
Suitable for those who want to succeed and stand out from the herd, this book is for managers who know that their organisations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and whose so-called strategies that are little more than banal wish lists.
Looks at trends in the consumption and production of, and markets for, these goods. This book analyses where the power lies in terms of producers (resource rich countries and mining firms) and market players. It highlights the vulnerabilities of different societies and industries to the vagaries of commodity markets.
In "Perfumes: The A - Z Guide", Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez reviewed nearly 1,500 fragrances in their witty, irreverent and innovative handbook - separating the divine from the good from the monumentally awful. This title chooses their 100 greatest fragrances: some are very famous, some hardly known, for women and men.
A guide to how to build spreadsheet models for assessing business risks and opportunities. It provides practical help on how to build the best, most flexible and easy-to-use business models for analysing the upside or potential downside of various business projects, however small or large.
