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.

Everyone who holds a position of leadership, regardless of their experience or scale, has five key Vantage Points from which they can build positive momentum and high performance. In Vantage Points: how to create a culture where employees thrive, author Paula Leach introduces these and provides highly practical examples of how leaders can use Vantage Points in their daily approach to optimise their unique position and lead teams of inspired and successful people.

The book invites leaders everywhere to consciously broaden their awareness via the exploration of the Vantage Points. With this heightened awareness, great leaders can learn to focus their attention on their two primary jobs: 1. Creating clarity and 2. Getting out of the way and creating space for individuals and teams to thrive. Vantage Points is a resource designed to support leaders in becoming more intentional in their actions and to be more human centred with their interventions to enable and celebrate the shared collective endeavour of their team. Think of this as a ‘return to leadership’ and the author as your coach.

The book is packed full of stimulating ideas and insightful opinions that leaders and executives can use as a very practical toolkit for building their leadership style. Paula shares cases from her professional life and presents practical ideas for creating clarity in a simple way. Her advice reshapes your leadership approach, shifts your behaviours, and facilitates your transformation. The impact and outcomes will unlock the potential to enable you and your teams to prosper and thrive.

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.

In Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging in Coaching, author Salma Shah provides coaches, CEOs, leaders and line managers alike the invaluable tools to support employees of all backgrounds – to create psychologically safe workplace cultures where under-represented and minority groups feel heard and thrive.

‘Coaching the lived experience through a wider systemic lens of inclusion, belonging, equity and diversity’

Packed with practical tips, case studies and easy-to-follow exercises, this book helps develop truly inclusive coaching skills – from reframing resilience to embracing vulnerability, confronting unconscious biases to acknowledging privileges and starting difficult conversations.

Uche Ezichi was an optimistic, upbeat individual pursuing his dreams - when one day he found that he couldn’t get out of bed. He was suffering from burnout, trapped in a downward spiral and feeling like a cheat for choosing not to continue with his dreams.

Uche made an effort to fight back and regain control of his life – and Count the Cost is packed with the lessons he learnt along the way. He explains the value in counting the cost of your dreams, and takes readers through his five key rules for sustainable success - recognise, realise, rest, review and (re)launch.

Count the Cost is a must-read for anyone looking to power up their life and embark on a journey of sustainable success. An international executive coach, speaker and facilitator, Uche works to build resilience and behavioural change in organisations.

Now, more than ever before, the world needs compassionate leaders. Drawing upon a wide range of case-studies and extraordinary stories, this brilliantly motivational, user-friendly, and highly practical book offers a one-stop guide to securing ‘the best for all’ through Compassionate Leadership.  

Manley Hopkinson has led teams to success in the world’s most challenging environments. Having skippered a crew in the world’s toughest yacht race 32,000 miles around the globe, served as an Officer in the Royal Navy, and set a record for the first skiing race to the Magnetic North Pole, he has led every kind of team possible. And it is his belief, that anyone can do the same.  

Compassionate Leadership is a comprehensive, life-changing, and life-fulfilling guide to developing actions and attitudes that are applicable across all situations and relationships.