The Digital Playbook: How to Win the Strategic Technology Game, is a no-nonsense guide on how technology can make you competitive – and how it can also undermine your very existence. It will make you rethink many of the so-called “best practices” that have wreaked havoc in some many companies for so many decades. The book reveals how it’s so easy to waste money on the wrong technology at wrong time with the wrong leaders.

The Digital Playbook tackles digital transformation in three ways – incremental, modernization and disruptive – and sets expectations about what’s realistic. He asks tough questions about investments in cybersecurity and how no company on the planet can avoid cyberattacks – even if they spend themselves to death on zero tolerance.

The Digital Playbook is a set of short, no-nonsense “briefings” organized around 10 themes grounded in reality, instead of relying on theoretical aspirations about what should be done. It’s a practical way to understand what’s going on in business-technology, what you need to know and what you need to do.

Organisations want to maximise performance and employees want to maximise their career success. These goals are not one and the same. The key to keeping and growing employees is to help them develop their careers in line with the needs of the business. This relies on open, honest and effective two-way conversations. However, managers and employees can find it hard to talk about career development.

Confident Careers Conversations, answers the big question of how to have engaging career conversations that empower employees to take ownership of their own development while providing them with the information and support they need.

Showing emotions at work is notoriously seen as ‘weak’ or ‘unprofessional’. But the pandemic threw this outdated view into sharp relief – revealing the need for human connection, in order for staff to feel supported, psychologically safe and valued in a constantly changing and uncertain workplace.

HumanForce, is the ultimate guide to harnessing the power of emotions at work. Grounded in the latest academic research, this book reveals why leaders must grow their emotional intelligence to boost productivity, retain top talent, and ensure healthy and thriving teams.

There are moments throughout our lives when our confidence and creativity can make all the difference. Discover how to transform your career and grow your network by finding success  In The Moment.

Every meeting, presentation and conversation is an opportunity to embrace your confidence and show your creative flair. With insights on collaboration, risk-taking and organization, this book arms you with a complete repertoire of powerful communication tricks and strategies.

Neil Mullarkey is both a communications expert and a well-known comedian. In his new book he shares how to improve your creativity, communication and confidence to navigate a better career path and improve your professional life.

Strategy, culture and customers are the key elements of any business. But to truly succeed, they need to be effectively built, refined and aligned.

Studies show that organizations which are highly aligned are 72% more profitable than their competition. The Alignment Advantage shows how you can achieve this through a practical and proven framework which can be adapted to all businesses, whether it's a small start-up, multinational organization or somewhere in between.

Arguing that Simon Sinek's "start with why" approach is compelling yet flawed and Peter Drucker's claim that "culture eats strategy for breakfast" is a myth, Richard Nugent creates a clear, accessible blueprint for a more successful, collaborative and efficient organization. Illustrated with fascinating case studies from the likes of LEGOLAND, Wagamama and The Empire State Building, The Alignment Advantage cuts through organizational silos and inter-departmental tensions to provide an aligned and strategic approach that will allow you to build your success, refine your processes and align your efforts to target your customers and clients.

Conversations: the heartbeat of our organisations. They help us to create, innovate, and effect change together, and they help us grow as individuals, communities, and organisations. Planned or incidental, conversations have the power to change our lives.

Right now, we’re at risk of losing the art of doing it well. We need to radically change how we talk to each other, to create workplaces where people feel they belong and can thrive.

Conversational Wisdom is the new book from communication experts Sara Hope and Emily Cosgrove. Their aim is to help others to grow their conversational wisdom to create more inclusive and collaborative environments and to make work more meaningful.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) is simple, but not easy and it doesn’t change overnight. The work required can seem overwhelming – how can anyone be an expert in lived experiences that you’ve never had?

In Conscious Inclusion: How to 'do' EDI one decision at a time inclusion expert Catherine Garrod says the secret is that it takes a village. Everyone has a part to play to help shift change, from the person with no line management responsibility to the network leader, the inclusion manager, and the leader who wants to leave a legacy. Change isn’t purely up to HR, or the person with inclusion in their job title. Instead, it is about building conscious inclusion into every decision made for colleagues, customers and even the wider community.

Unless you're consciously including people, you're almost certainly unconsciously excluding people. Discover 99 decisions and 5 simple habits for creating a more inclusive organisation, inside and out.

Rather than top-down change initiatives involving huge teams, Catherine advocates for combining skill and will to guide people in their everyday thinking. Then developing reporting to create social accountability and track departmental progress.

When every voice is heard, every person is empowered and everybody takes action, the outcomes are extraordinary.

Menopause Working, written by HR expert Cathy Hastie, helps women and employers to improve their understanding of the menopause and introduce changes that can help women thrive during the menopause transition in the workplace, and continue to make major contributions to their companies.

Written in a friendly, approachable style yet packed with insightful data, Menopause Working is a comprehensive guide that provides a wealth of information about managing the menopause in the workplace. Author, Cathy Hastie, draws on knowledge amassed during more than thirty years as a Human Resources practitioner and from her own experience of the menopause.

The book covers topics including:

• Managing menopause symptoms at work
• Rights and responsibilities
• Managing performance and promotion
• Workplace culture and change
  

Menopause Working is an essential, practical guide which provides everything an employer needs to know about managing menopause but had never thought of, or had dared to ask. It is also provides practical insights and information for those who are suffering menopausal symptoms to help them thrive in their mid-life careers.

From global pandemics to extreme storms – disasters are inevitable, but businesses don’t have to face them unprepared. The Flexible Method – Prepare to Prosper In The Next Global Crisis offers a practical guide to preparing for a crisis, with unique insights from leaders across the board – including media, health, hospitality, travel and non-profit. The tried and tested methods not only offer pathways to survival – but reveal opportunities for growth.

Author James Burstall runs one of the most successful TV production companies in the UK, producing shows like Dispatches and The Masked Singer. During his time at Argonon he has dealt with a variety of existential crises: from terror attacks to recessions, natural disasters and of course, pandemics. Through them all, he has managed to guide his team out the other side and set strategies for the next time something like this happens: because it will happen again.

The Flexible Method covers sixteen tried and tested methods to futureproof businesses, including:

• Preparing for Disasters
  Disasters can be predictable, so game plan across your organization in calm times. Heed signs of the coming storm. Keep your business continuity and disaster recovery plans up to date.

• Collaborate and Connect

The temptation is to baton down the hatches and wait for the storm to pass – but both experience and research from the pandemic and the 2008 financial crisis show that collaborating with others can be a path to growth during disaster.

• Put Your People First

Your people are everything. When disaster strikes get them to safety – you need them healthy and onside. Leave no one behind.

• Adapt

Be open to new ways of working and be willing to change your business practices. Act like a start-up to allow your business evolve alongside the situation.

In Equality vs Equity: Tackling Issues of Race in the Workplace, Jenny helps readers unpack the concept of racial equity and understand it’s importance in moving the dial up on inclusion in the workplace. Companies that strive for equality (treating everyone the same without discrimination) rarely factor in the need for equity, and yet it is equity that is the true capstone of the journey to achieve a fair work environment. Equity stands for fairness, yet what is fair is not necessarily equal, and what is equal is not necessarily fair. The best part about achieving equity is the unique and intangible sense of community and engagement it creates.

Equality vs Equity is the one-stop guide to help companies and leaders step away from making performative targets and statements, and do the real work required to make a fairer future for all.

This book not only gives a clear explanation as to the importance of achieving equity in the workplace, but provides the essential education needed for those who want to learn true allyship, and influence others in the ongoing work to eliminate racism in the workplace.

Jill Bausch was an executive living the "dream life''. She sipped champagne at the luxury hotels where she worked as a senior executive, traveled the world, and on the outside, looked as though she had achieved success. So why did she walk away? Bausch knew she wouldn't be fulfilled until she set her sights on much bigger missions: combatting the HIV pandemic and helping to uplift sex workers and women throughout the world.

Taking on the challenges facing sex workers and HIV+ people requires bravery. Going against what is expected from you, either as a woman, wife, mother or corporate executive, requires bravery. But Bausch knows that brave women really do win.

In Why Brave Women Win, Jill Bausch shares her story as a woman who used bravery to tackle imposter syndrome, find joy in failure, and transform into a real life hero. In this inspiring self-help book for women aiming to achieve all types of wins, you will learn:

• Why it's important to learn to mirror confidence until it is natural and how to do it
• Different levels of listening, and how they bring you closer (or pull you away) from reaching success
• The seven habits of highly successful women and how you can practice them
• What it takes to package yourself in a way that produces maximum impact without compromising your integrity or authenticity or your voice
• How to be a lasting leader during turbulent times

Jill's story does not start with her on a direct path to success; she is proof that any woman can be a hero with a little bit of bravery. Allow yourself to be inspired by her experiences throughout the world, absorb her advice, and march forward into the world on your own hero's journey.

Ground-breaking new book, The Answer Is A Question, reveals how managers all over the world can ditch the command-and-control leadership model and adopt an enquiry-led approach that cultivates a new wave of engaged, problem-solving employees – and it starts with how we use questions in a more purposeful way.