Studies show that 80% of us are increasingly pressured to be productive rather than creative at work. Sparking Success uncovers the importance of creativity as a tool for innovation and demonstrates how it can be a driving factor for success. In order to adapt to fast-moving trends and disruptions in the modern business landscape, you need to spark your creative outlook.

In Sparking Success author Adam Kingl profiles the business leaders who are redefining themselves as creative pioneers. From media powerhouses such as Pixar and Disney to major manufacturers such as Bosch and Panasonic, this book shows the universal importance of creativity for business leaders across the world. Each of the chapters poses a challenge or opportunity that will help you tap into an innovative mindset, before offering fascinating insights from leaders across the creative industries. Discover how you can become a dynamic, creative and empathetic leader by Sparking Success. 

The Next Leadership Team, is the product of a ten-year research program into how different organisations have successfully built, organised, managed and motivated leadership teams for their own unique set of circumstances – and how others have got it wrong. It goes beyond academic theory to unpack the human element of leadership, examining issues such as boardroom diversity, demographics, power dynamics and valuable skillsets, and explores what could be set to change, to enable leaders and organisations to future-proof their strategy.

Written by internationally recognised authorities on CEO and leadership topics, Thomas Keil and Marianna Zangrillo, The Next Leadership Team is illustrated with real-life examples and interviews with CEOs, C-Suite executives, and top head-hunters. Exclusive insights from executives working in well-known organisations including Allianz, Amazon, Danone, Ferrari, HSBC, Huawei, Microsoft, Nestlé and Zurich Insurance help bring the ideas life, before the authors distil the lessons down into practical advice that leaders can use in their own business.

This book is an invaluable resource for CEOs and senior executives who need to build and develop leadership teams in a way that will drive success in the organizations they lead. It is also highly relevant to head-hunters to stay ahead of the competition in the appointments of members of senior leadership teams around the world.

The Solutionists sets out what it takes to join the new generation of entrepreneurs, CEOs and leaders transforming business to create a more sustainable society. Using a change blueprint, this book coaches you through the steps, mindsets and strategies that will put your organisation at the forefront and help you take personal ownership of sustainability solutions.

With an inspiring selection of stories from leading entrepreneurs and organisations, this book illustrates how sustainability solutionists are paving the way to solving the biggest crisis our planet has ever faced whilst driving business innovation and growth. Including plant-based food sources, net-zero technologies and circular platforms, these stories demonstrate how sustainable disruption can transform your business, regardless of size or industry.

Sustainable Investing in Practice provides a pragmatic steer for how finance professionals can navigate the realities of ESG investing so they can achieve the impact they desire. It addresses the obvious problems - a lack of common standards, opaque vocabulary, irrelevant data - that investors face. And it explains the skewed incentives and compromises that have held sustainable investing back. Yet it does not dwell on obstacles and defeat. Instead, it shows readers how to develop sustainable strategies and improve outcomes, covering critical topics such as ESG ratings, data and disclosure policies and multi-asset portfolios, while also documenting successful practices and pointing out how to modify inadequate ones.

Packed full of insightful examples, analysis and interviews from expert commentators such as Paul Polman KBE, Richard Curtis OBE, and Gillian Tett, the book provides useful ideas and plans for how to take sustainable finance forward while balancing credibility and commerciality in equal measure. Written by two pioneering leaders within sustainable investing, this is a must-read for every finance professional, investor and regulator-whether they are seeking to fast track their careers, bring commercial and sustainable learning to their organization, or upgrade their understanding of this crucial but complex topic. It will also be of interest to students taking modules on sustainable finance.

Sales needs a rebrand in the creative industry. Creatives tend to shy away from sales, seeing it as a ‘dirty word’ that dilutes their integrity – but the art of selling is fundamental for any founder or leader to successfully scale their business.

Packed with expert advice, practical tips and step-by-step sales methods Selling Creativity is the ultimate guide not only for creatives, but for startups, SMEs and CEOs in any industry to master the art of sales. From creating a winning sales strategy to finding, engaging and winning clients, this book takes readers through every step of the sales journey towards business success.

Author Rob King has distilled his 25 years’ helping big brands, business leaders and FTSE 500 CEOs drive revenues and business growth into this pragmatic, accessible handbook to the sales process.

He debunks the stigma surrounding sales and provides tried-and-tested techniques to develop your sales superpower – from finding your brand voice to generating leads, acing negotiation to handling rejection and keeping your sales engine running.

In Amplify Your Influence: Transform How You Communicate and Lead, celebrated keynote speaker, trainer and leadership coach Rene Rodriguez delivers an eye-opening roadmap to using applied neuroscience to improve readers’ communication ability, critical thinking, cultural awareness, and leadership skills.

Based in the author’s proprietary AMPLIFII system and methodologies he has taught to over 100,000 participants around the world, the book offers practical tips, useful frameworks, guided practice, and simple application exercises to help readers create new and lasting behaviors that effect change in their life and work.

Perfect for executives, managers, sales professionals, and other business leaders, Amplify Your Influence is required reading for anyone seeking to improve their ability to effect change in the people around them, whether they’re in the office, the boardroom, the classroom, or at home.

Many start-ups and new businesses need more money to move forward but choosing where to get that money from can be a minefield. Inexperienced founders seeking support from seasoned investors can lead to a loss of control and false hope for success.

How do you choose the best investor for your business? The new book, The Money Train: 10 Things Young Businesses Need to Know About Investors, is the essential roadmap for any entrepreneur seeking funding for their company’s future.

Drawing on his extensive real-world experience founding, chairing and mentoring businesses looking to raise funds, author David Pattison reveals simple but powerful techniques for start-ups to navigate the complicated world of corporate finance and stay in the driver’s seat on their journey to financial success.

Ever feel like you aren’t Enough? Overwhelmed by too many demands? Concerned about over-consumption and the climate crisis? You’re not alone. The Art of Enough is the challenge of our age.

In a world full of pressure to be more, do more and consume more, this practical guidebook will help you find your own version of Enough. Enough is a springboard for self-belief, a healthy work pace and sustainable living, so you can move from striving to thriving.  Becky Hall helps readers to find the balance with what you have, what you need and what you consume.

Do you ever feel there should be more to running a business than generating profits? Do you wonder why you work so hard, yet still feel that something is missing?

At a time when the world is recovering from a global pandemic, facing ongoing climate and equality crises, and now reeling from major international conflicts, many business leaders are beginning to re-evaluate their purpose – on both a personal and a professional level.

In this uniquely honest and ground-breaking book, entrepreneur Andrew Thornton and coach Eudora Pascall propose a better way of being in business. Putting The Heart Back Into Business provides a blueprint for companies to empower people to truly be themselves, harness their strengths and individuality, and puts people and planet first, while trusting that profit will still follow.

With the inspiring story of the transformation that took place in a multicultural North London supermarket as a backdrop, Andrew and Eudora demonstrate the huge impact and positive difference that running a heart-centred business can make on the lives of the people you work with and the world you live in too.

Leaders in the digital era are faced with breaking into new markets, disrupting existing ones, and doing so with more precision than ever before just to keep up with their competitors. To innovate more quickly, to rapidly experiment with ideas and technology, to pivot seemingly overnight, you need to have a system in place that can help you execute your most ambitious strategy. While OKRs (Objective and Key Results) have made huge waves recently, practical implementation of OKRs remains elusive for many.

Lean OKRs presents insightful anecdotes, creative exercises, clear figures and step-by-step models. Designed as a comprehensive guide, it covers everything from theoretical roots to practical execution, including company-wide strategy alignment and emotional management. Applicable to small companies as well as large organisations, Lean OKRs drives innovation through behavioral changes, empowering and motivating teams through focused daily OKR practices that are simple to put into action. Practical and to the point, this book integrates a unique combination of structural and leadership strategies, resulting in a new approach to OKRs that conquers the hurdles experienced by most business leaders today.

We are living in a digital age, where new technologies and evolving customer expectations offer tremendous opportunities for growth, but also the threat of being left behind. Leaders need to make bold decisions – only which ones?

Disruption in Action reveals how to take on digital and win. It tells seven company stories that go to the heart of digital transformation, exploring the high-level strategy through to the operational nitty-gritty, all based on the authors’ inside experience as Europe’s leading digital transformation experts. A unique, fictionalised approach is used to dig deep into what really happens on digital projects – covering not just the tech, but also the people and politics, including the blunders, breakthroughs, and inter-personal dynamics that typical case studies gloss over. For example, what makes some leaders act and others not? Why does change so often meet internal resistance, and how do you deal with that? What does it mean to organise for innovation, and who has the ideas?

In Life’s Non-Conformities, Salman Raza shares the skills needed to ensure a harmonious and happy workplace. He offers simple, practical advice on how to develop positive attitudes as well as identify your own behaviour such as the destructive ego!

Life’s Non-Conformities offers a toolkit for readers to navigate conflicts and confrontation, advising readers how to respond effectively, avoiding negative reactions such as being defensive, attacking, or sulking. Sharing insights around personality types, the ego, ego triggers, emotional intelligence, actuality and reality, Life’s Non-Conformities provides an inquisitive guide on the best questions to ask, the right ways to listen and the quintessential way to charm and disarm the people you interact with. It is the essential playbook for anyone wishing to develop productive professional and personal relationships.