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.

Governance, or the quality of decision-making at the very top of organisations, is central to organisational success. It can not only drive commercial performance, but also foster a culture of positive social impact and economic value creation.

However, boards often fail their organisation – typically in the areas of risk oversight, strategy, the selection and support of the CEO and senior management, and integrity. Making boards more effective, therefore, is crucial to improving governance around the world.

In a world of geopolitical conflict, division, and social and economic uncertainty, now more than ever, boards need to adapt their own governance practice to anticipate and confront the challenges that lie ahead and steer the organisation with clarity.

High Performance Boards is a comprehensive manual for mastering best practices in modern governance, offering pragmatic guidance on improving board quality, accountability, and performance.

Author Didier Cossin is a professor of governance at the Institute for Management Development. He draws upon more than thirty years of experience working with boards across the globe to assess and improve governance – in large global companies, sovereign wealth funds, government bodies, international organisations, non-profits, family businesses, and tech start-ups. Prof Cossin reveals his Four Pillars of Board Effectiveness methodology: the quality, diversity, focus, and dedication of individual directors; sophisticated information architecture; well-functioning structures and processes; and healthy group dynamics and board culture.

This book covers both the diagnosis and treatment of governance problems and provides directors with a practical guide to making their boards more effective:

• Part I introduces the Four Pillars of Board Effectiveness methodology used to assess governance health.
• Part II addresses the most common areas of governance failure, and how boards can guard against these.
• Part III looks at the importance of board leadership and the role of the chair in ensuring quality governance.
• Part IV is a compendium of best-in-class governance practices, with each chapter covering a specific aspect of board work.

High Performance Boards has inspired more than 3000 board members around the world and is essential reading for professionals and managers interested in governance and board members, senior managers, investors, lawyers, and students of governance.

The world is changing, and so must our understanding of leadership. Through the stories of trailblazing female leaders, discover what leadership can look like and how you can become a catalyst for change.

In Leading Our Way, renowned executive and author Gaia van der Esch shares an inspiring collection of leadership stories from seven iconic women around the world. Stories that explore new leadership models, concepts and tools, to inspire action and solve global challenges.

Featuring exclusive interviews with Christiana Figueres, Gitanjali Rao, Becky Sauerbrunn, Diane von Furstenberg, Tawakkol Karman, Comfort Ero and Gloria Steinem, this book examines key trends in leadership, and in how female leaders from across the globe are redefining its meaning, surfacing essential patterns and ideas to re-imagine our present and future.

An inspiring and essential new exploration of leadership, Leading Our Way is a must read for both men and women in leadership positions and those who aspire to them. A stepping-stone to build your purpose, find inspiration, and lead in your own way.

When mines and quarries close, they shouldn’t become scars on the landscape or sources of pollution or leave their working communities on the brink of collapse. With imagination and determination, they can offer something radically different – hope.

102 Things to Do with a Hole in the Ground explores some of the world’s best examples of mine site transformation to repair damaged places and offer their communities new futures. There are over 100 inspiring examples including heritage and tourism attractions, ‘natural’ habitats, and new commercial uses – it shows what can be done when the remnants of mining are regarded as an opportunity rather than a liability. The examples are wide-ranging – from a salt mine cathedral in Colombia to an underground laboratory hoping to uncover the secrets of dark matter in Australia, from scuba diving through an old lead mine in the USA to an underground night club in Mexico. Each location is illustrated with details about its former usage and the positive impact of its regeneration on its surroundings.

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 Disruptors, leading business journalist Sally Percy investigates the stories behind 15 of the world's most innovative businesses. Businesses that took unconventional and trailblazing approaches to overtake the competition and achieve success.

A24, Crocs, Nintendo, Spotify and TikTok. These are examples of businesses that have taken disruptive pathways to success and redefined their industries in the process. The Disruptors dives into the strategies behind these businesses, offering valuable insights into innovative and daring entrepreneurship.

Many businesses simply conform, but others disrupt. They were founded to solve a specific problem and so achieve success through innovative, trailblazing strategies. The Disruptors investigates the stories behind these revolutionary businesses, uncovering the secrets of their success.

Citizens’ assemblies bring the shared wisdom of ordinary people into political decision making on the climate and ecological crisis. They are increasingly being used at local, national and even global levels. But with what impact? Can they take us beyond the shortcomings of electoral and partisan politics? Can they make a real difference? This book explains why climate assemblies have captured the imagination of governments and activists alike, exploring the ways they can have a meaningful impact on climate politics.

We Need To Talk About Climate: How Citizens' Assemblies Can Help Us Solve the Climate Crisis charts the development of climate assemblies across Europe and beyond. It explores what ordinary people want, highlighting the ways in which assembly recommendations take us beyond current government policies and offer new visions and directions for change. It shows that not all assemblies are the same and that the context and design of climate assemblies have differed quite profoundly – as have their impacts on policy and public discourse. The book also lays out the key elements needed for climate assemblies to have sustained impact, providing essential insights for anyone wanting to run or advocate for them, and concludes with reflections on what we can expect from assemblies as they evolve.

Strategy and Leadership as Service isn’t just a nice idea; it is a practical, alternative vision of the future of work for senior executives that is starting to gain significant interest and is being adopted by businesses globally. Disrupting and challenging the traditional full-time employment model, the Strategy and Leadership as Service framework provides businesses with access to the complete range of functional, emotional, and collective intelligence at the C-suite level by moving their positions from the “pay-roll” to an “access-role.”

Many entrepreneurial and growing businesses don’t need, don’t want, and can’t afford full-time C-suite executives. For larger organisations, it is becoming harder to find the skills and knowledge required to fulfil all the obligations of a functional C-suite with a fixed group of individuals. By moving to the Strategy and Leadership as Service framework, the outcomes are better for all stakeholders: more engagement, access to the right skillsets and mindsets at the right time and in the right quantity to match the changing business agenda, more flexibility for senior leaders, and strengthened risk management. Through presenting a working business model, and real-world case studies throughout, this book provides executives and leaders with a complete understanding of this ground-breaking approach and its key benefits, the theory upon which it is based, its essential ingredients, the mindset change required and, most importantly, how to apply it in practice.

The Secret Language of the Body shares how to recover from stress, move out of survival mode, desensitize your nervous system and heal your mind and body through three fundamental steps of getting to know yourself and taking back control of your health and life.

Mind-body practitioners Jennifer Mann and Karden Rabin, co-founders of Somia, now provide the first in-depth look at nervous system regulation, somatic therapy, Polyvagal theory, the vagus nerve, and the mind-body connection. Combining science-backed insights and hands-on techniques, The Secret Language of the Body teaches you how to move out of survival mode, regulate your nervous system, and heal your mind and body.

Rabin and Mann don’t teach stress management, but something far more powerful–how to control your body’s nervous system. This revolutionary book will lift the veil on how to speak the language of your body and train it to not only manage stress but also achieve personal transformation.

A groundbreaking new book, Taming the Machine, uncovers how to responsibly harness the power of AI with confidence. Written by Nell Watson, a trailblazer in emerging technologies such as machine vision and A.I ethics, it delves into the ethical issues of unbridled AI, highlighting the challenges that it will bring to society and business unless we fortify cybersecurity, safeguard our data, and understand the dangerous potential it has.

Taming the Machine provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to AI. It is an informative and highly entertaining book which clearly explains concepts in a straight-forward manner along with supporting diagrams. It explains real-life opportunities to leverage AI and helps readers understand its implications in a range of sectors, circumstances and contexts. Each chapter end provides a useful summary and list of actionable steps to take.

From unexpected scams to overnight riches, fintech is a captivating world full of fame, fortune and failure.

Fintech Wars delves into one of the world's most lucrative and fast-growing sectors. Witness the bold strategies, groundbreaking innovations, and relentless drive that propelled fintech unicorns like PayPal, Nubank and Monzo to transform the world. Featuring interviews with generational founders including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Nigel Morris (Capital One), and Martha Lane Fox (Lastminute.com), the narrators of this book have built companies that represent over one trillion dollars in market capitalization.

As the founder of a digital bank, James da Costa is a fintech insider. He draws upon his network and first-hand experiences to offer a fascinating look into the intricacies and motivations behind building billion-dollar disruptors. Step into the fascinating, unpredictable and inspiring world of fintech.

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.

From the expert creators of Sunday Times Bestseller The Complete Air Fryer Cookbook, Air Fryer Easy Everyday: 140 super-simple delicious recipes this is the ultimate solution to busy mealtimes, featuring 140 simple, straightforward air fryer recipes.

This no-frills beginner guide is full of effortless and practical recipes that absolutely anyone can follow, regardless of experience, showing you how easy it is to feed yourself, your friends and family all day long using only the air fryer. Instructions are included for both basket and dual air fryers – as well as a chapter on cooking in the air fryer oven.

Written by the air fryer experts Sam and Dom Milner, who have lived and breathed air fryer cooking for more than 12 years, this smart cookbook focuses on the essentials. As the creators of the highly successful website RecipeThis.com, Sam and Dom know exactly what makes the best recipes so simple and effective, along with which techniques you need to easily achieve the best results.