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.

Fearless, innovative, driven and daring. These are the qualities of a disruptor: a business that is willing to take risks to achieve incredible success.

In The Upside of Disruption, renowned disruption thinker and best-selling author, Terence Mauri delivers a compelling set of mindset shifts for today's unique leadership challenges.

Terence shares future-ready insights and tools for leaders to get started with today and prepare their organisations for tomorrow. He explains why so many of us continually overestimate the risks of bold decisions while underestimating the downsides of standing still for too long in an increasingly complex and volatile world.

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.

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.

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.

Powered by your personal data, social media has transformed our way of life, from how we get information, meet people and create increasingly siloed communities. This has had a profound impact on democratic society. Our shared reality – the way we collectively understand the world – has rapidly been replaced by conflicting micro-realities that are often fueled by conspiracy theories, lies and “fake news.” This has been driven by a business model that supposedly gives us everything for free. All we have to do is give up our personal data and privacy. If you aren’t paying for the product, then you are the product.

The Little Black Book of Social Media demystifies these seemingly complex topics to help readers understand how our very way of life is under threat and what you can do about it before it’s too late.

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.

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.