Careers

The Family Business Book

Alfredo De Massis and Emanuela Rondi

Publisher: FT Publishing Released: 11/10/2024

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Families are the most prevalent type of business owners in any global economy. They collectively control a huge proportion of the world’s wealth and play a significant role in shaping wider society.

However, succeeding across generations is difficult. Family dynamics and emotions add an extra layer of complexity to leadership and decision making, and only few family businesses continue to prosper beyond the first generation.

So why is it that some families are able to build a legacy that will last far into the future, while others fade away?

Now a new book, written by professors and world-leading experts in entrepreneurship and family business Alfredo De Massis and Emanuela Rondi, provides a practical roadmap to help families navigate these challenges and thrive across generations. The Family Business Book blends over 20 years of research with practical, real-world experience, to provide a unique combination of academic rigor and actionable insights.

Readers will discover how to understand the subtle nuances, complexities and key challenges of the journey undertaken by entrepreneurial families across generations. Through its entrepreneurial family galaxy concept, the book shows how to disentangle complicated and emotionally-charged family dynamics, to build a strategic plan that will ensure long-term success and a lasting legacy for the future.

The book is full of practical templates, worksheets, reflection questions and actionable strategies to guide readers in the development of a roadmap that allows their family business to prosper.

The Family Business Book takes a deep dive into the complex world of family business and is an essential read for family entrepreneurs, managers, professionals, business students and anyone interested in the dynamics of entrepreneurial families.

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Risk Roulette: The suprising reasons why some businesses work and others fail

Graham Ruddick

Publisher: Kogan Page Released: 03/10/2024

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Success requires taking a risk, or two. But have you ever bet the house on a seemingly good idea for it to become a bad business decision?

Risk isn't just about being risky and having a blasé attitude to responsibility. It's about understanding risk more broadly, from the level of risk involved in a decision and how to reduce it, to the difference between short-term and long-term risk.

Based on fifteen years researching and interviewing leaders, including the founders and chief executives of some of the biggest businesses around the world, award-winning journalist Graham Ruddick, has found that there's a pivotal trait leaders have when it comes to success: they understand risk.

Join icons from the worlds of business, finance, journalism and sports who know how to make risk work for them and push the boundaries so you can elevate your business.

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How to Build Winning Teams Again and Again

James Scouller

Publisher: Hawkhurst Publishing Released: 11/01/2024

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Drawing upon thirty-five years of experience in team development, James Scouller, author of new book series HOW TO BUILD WINNING TEAMS AGAIN AND AGAIN offers breakthrough answers on team success. Using easy-to read, concise language, he sets out the psychological keys, action principals and road map to building outstanding teams.

This unique book series is broken into three practical handbooks:

• Book One explains what you need to KNOW about teams.

• Book Two explains what you need to DO in building and sustaining teams.

• Book Three explains HOW to do it by guiding readers on the best sequence of actions

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Revolting Women: Why midlife women are walking out, and what to do about it

Dr Lucy Ryan

Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing ISBN: 9781788603980 Released: 05.09.2023

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Professional women over 50 are faced with a triple-whammy of discrimination: they are not male, young, or linear in their career paths. As a result, they are leaving corporate life and taking their career into their own hands. And with it, they take their abundant wisdom, energy and ambition.

Drawing on new research by Dr Lucy Ryan that fills a longstanding data gap, this book shows that assumptions about declining midlife motivation and energy just aren’t true for women and reveals how you can retain and develop this invaluable talent pool with a better understanding of their challenges and a few simple changes.

In Revolting Women, Dr Lucy Ryan shows how professional women have transformed our world and how women over 50 are deserving of your attention and ready to step up in your business.

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Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot

Matt Abrahams

Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781035024957 Released: 26.09.2023

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Communication is crucial to success in life and business. However, it is not just big speeches that matter: it is also those critical, spur-of-the-moment situations for which we cannot prepare.

A prospective client asking unexpected questions during a sales pitch, a teacher singling you out for an answer during a class, a high-pressure meeting with senior executives at work, or even a heartwarming toast to deliver on the spot. All are fraught scenarios that might cause you to freeze up. The pandemic has only boosted this fear, by stripping the spontaneity from communication during lockdown, and then changing the communication landscape.

In this invaluable guide, Matt Abrahams – Stanford University lecturer and creator of the hit podcast, Think Fast, Talk Smart – provides a six-point methodology that will enable you to cut through the anxiety arising from these stressful, impromptu circumstances to create and deliver crisp, compelling and calm communication.

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The Seven Games of Leadership: Navigating the Inner Journey of Leaders

Paolo Gallo

Publisher: Bloomsbury ISBN: 9781399405478 Released: 12.10.2023

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The disruptive moment in which we find ourselves living demands that we are our own agents of change. The Seven Games of Leadership is a guide for readers through seven key phases of personal and professional development, with the aim not of climbing a corporate ladder but of finding true and lasting satisfaction in what they do.

It encourages the realization that revolutionary change is not about destroying the current status quo, but about co-designing and rebuilding different paths for individuals to thrive, and go on to have a positive impact on society at large. The objective is to allow people to identify a career that is better aligned not only with their individual values, but with a broader purpose centred on a wider sense of humanity and sustainable prosperity for all.

The Seven Games of Leadership provides the tools and practical advice you need to reassess your priorities and take the steps necessary to refocus your life, your career and the issues of the world around you.

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A Career Carol: A Tale of Professional Nightmares and How to Navigate Them

Dr David Oxley and Dr Helmut Schuster

Publisher: Austin Macauley ISBN: 9781035822478 Released: 13.10.2023

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A Career Carol is an irreverent take on the classic Christmas Carol, graduation commencement speakers, and Generation Z expectations. A wry and insightful take on how to successfully navigate a 30-to-40-year professional career.

A Career Carol, bridges analogue and digital eras. What constitutes a successful career may have dramatically changed over the last 50 years, but the deeper journey we make as human beings across different life cycles, is eternal.

Drs Schuster & Oxley's take a different and decidedly modern approach to business and life advice. They set out to share real stories of how to navigate the big crises that most of us will have to navigate at some point. In the process, they give the past an entertaining and relevant future.

The world, and business literature in particular, is overdue for Shey Sinope. As we witness his journey from reclusive cynical social critic to tentative member of a flawed, and sometimes unkind society, we are amused, provoked, saddened, but ultimately uplifted.

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Leading with the Right Brain

Yda Bouvier

Publisher: Yda Bouvier ISBN: 9781399942911 Released: 13.03.2023

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Many leaders are especially capable ‘left brain’ thinkers, a trait that has served them well in their careers, allowing them to build strong strategic, problem-solving and goal achievement track records. And yet the challenges facing today’s workplace – the rise of remote working, the evolution of AI, the need for more emotional connection, the drive for truly inclusive cultures – increasingly require different thinking using the ‘right brain’.

Executive Coach Yda Bouvier has distilled her 25 years’ experience helping leaders use their right brain into the inspiring new book, Leading with the Right Brain – the ultimate guide to activating right-brain thinking.

She breaks down the neuroscience behind how the left and right brain work, and provides case studies, techniques and tools that leaders, coaches, and employees alike can practice to engage their right brain, in order to see more, think differently and bring new insights, gain a better emotional understanding about ourselves and others and build stronger team connections – especially virtually – making remote working more fulfilling – activating the right brain is critical for our wellbeing.

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Confident Career Conversations: Empower your employees for career growth and retention

Antoinette Oglethorpe

Publisher: Rethink Press ISBN: 9781781337813 Released: 15.06.2023

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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.

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Menopause Working

Cathy Hastie

Publisher: Cathy Hastie ISBN: 9798358210523 Released: 19.10.2022

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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.

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Humourology: The serious business of humour at work

Paul Baross

Publisher: Genius Media ISBN: 9781908293589 Released: 07.09.2022

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Written by leading business consultant, comedian, keynote speaker and podcast host, Paul Boross, Humourology: The Serious Business of Humour At Work explains why finding your funny can be the secret to survival and success. Filled with anecdotes and advice from leaders in business, comedy, and sport, this book is a must-read guide for tips and tricks on becoming a finely honed weapon of mass amusement. From being more likeable to becoming more resilient, Paul explains how having a sense of humour will put you ahead in the future of work, where automation and emerging technologies mean social interactions and decision-making are based more on feelings than facts.

This book also covers key issues around employee engagement and wellbeing, with advice for team leaders, HR managers and CEOs on how to create a happy and healthy work environment. It explores how laughter prevents a socially distanced workplace and encourages collaboration and employee loyalty, as well as helps teams deal with failure and organisational change.

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Explore: A Life of Adventure

Sue Stockdale

Publisher: Albert Bridge Books ISBN: 9781909771321 Released: 14.04.2022

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Many people wonder if there is more to work and life. Perhaps they feel unfulfilled at work or in their personal life and need to challenge themselves in some way. Many want to change, but self-doubt and fear stands in their way.

EXPLORE: A Life of Adventure encourages and inspires readers to explore their own potential without fear, to step out of their comfort zone and to be courageous in taking risks and trying new things.

EXPLORE is a compelling memoir, describing how the author, Sue Stockdale, has embarked on a lifetime of adventure, exploring some of the world’s most extreme environments including the North Pole, Antarctica, and Greenland.

Sue shares the crucial life lessons which she has learnt from her adventures and describes how the mindset, discipline and commitment needed for adventurous activities is also useful in professional life. It covers important key areas, advising readers on: exploring with questions; self-discipline; being adventurous; networking; overcoming fear; seizing opportunities and self-compassion.

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