Happiness at work matters. But what does happiness mean? How can managers measure it and create more of it? And what happens to organizations when they get happiness right?

New book Happy Economics demonstrates the proven links between happiness and financial success. It provides a framework for creating happy teams and organisations, including practical assessments on where we’re going wrong and a roadmap to sustainable improvement, and explains exactly why they're needed.

You can expect to find advice and answers to questions like:

• What is happy economics, why is it important, and how could this new way of thinking improve our productivity, growth, and reputation?
• What is a corporate happiness plan and why should every business have one?
• What is the role of leadership in delivering a happy workplace and where are businesses going wrong with their engagement and recognition strategies?
• What’s missing in current workplace wellbeing initiatives, and what happens when they’re created with employee happiness at the centre?
• How to recruit, retain and develop the right people and build happy organisations fit for the future of work.

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.

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.