Inspired by author Sophie Williams’ viral TED talk on the same subject, this book is the first commercial exploration of the social phenomenon known as the Glass Cliff – a shocking pattern of hidden bias against women in the workplace.

Based on nearly two decades of global research, the Glass Cliff is a proven phenomenon where women are frequently appointed to leadership positions in struggling businesses, restricting their chances of success from the outset.

But it doesn’t need to be this way. Not all is lost. By understanding the Glass Cliff, and by telling one another about it, we can affect the conversation, we can empower one another to overcome societal bias and, ultimately, we can change the world

So many of us grapple with self-doubt. Perhaps you’re an exhausted achiever? You’re delivering results and progressing in your career, but you feel utterly worn out. You’re compensating for a lack of confidence with excessive effort and punishingly high standards.
Or perhaps you’re feeling frustrated and unfulfilled? Self-doubt is making you hold yourself back, you're avoiding challenges that could demonstrate how good you really are.
This book can help. Distilling over a decade of real-life research into clear insights, practical tools and impactful activities, Julie Smith shows you how to Coach Yourself Confident.

The Leader’s Guide to Resilience is your essential toolkit to build authentic strength within your business, so you can thrive in a changing and challenging world.

Resilience is the core of growth and regrowth. It is what contributes most to the advancement of your organisation and your role as leader. Your personal resilience, and that of your teams, organisation and broader community network, must be actively nurtured to give you the tools to face anything that comes your way.

This book will give you clear, effective and adaptable methods to initiate your first steps in building resilience, as well as advanced practical ways to refine, develop and future-proof your progress once on the path.

Whatever life throws at you, resilience will help you bounce back.

How can legacy firms remain relevant in the digital era? In The Future of Competitive Strategy, strategic management expert Mohan Subramaniam asserts that the answer lies in how well they can unleash the newfound power of data and digital ecosystems to forge a new competitive strategy. Drawing on the experiences of a range of companies, including Caterpillar, Sleep Number, and Whirlpool, he explains how firms can benefit from data's enlarged role in modern business, develop digital ecosystems tailored to their unique business needs, and use new frameworks to harness the power of data for competitive advantage.

Subramaniam shows how legacy firms can use interactive data in addition to their traditional use of episodic data. Episodic data come from discrete events - such as the sale of a product, or the shipment of a component. Interactive data is streamed continuously – such as by browsing on Amazon or posting likes on Facebook. By generating and sharing interactive data in their platforms’ digital ecosystems, companies such as Amazon and Facebook have generated enormous value. Now, with the proliferation of sensors and IoT, legacy firms also have the opportunity to benefit from interactive data and digital ecosystems. They must however craft their competitive strategy in ways that enable harnessing their prevailing product-footprints and value chain infrastructures to fully unleash the powers of data and digital ecosystems. This book details how firms can do so.