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Humans are born with a circadian rhythm - a sleep-wake rhythm. Variations in human genes cause us to sleep and wake at different times of the day. Your circadian rhythm is therefore not something you choose. You are genetically predisposed to be either a morning person or an evening person. If we need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning, we are not only disrupting our sleep - we are living out of sync with our internal biological clocks. Living out of sync with our biological clocks makes us more vulnerable to infections, cancer, obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. And at work, it makes us less productive and effective.  This book shows you how you can use the knowledge of chronobiology to create healthier, more sustainable and more productive rhythms in the workplace. Knowledge-based societies requires an inclusion of different circadian rhythms, and there is much to be gained for individuals, for companies, and for society if we let go of prejudices and create social acceptance and respect for our diversity in circadian rhythms. Chronoleadership is a new framework for creating attractive (and productive) workplaces for both morning persons and evening persons.

Smart strategic thinking for easy and quick solutions - the latest book from bestselling author Kevin Duncan.

From changing a car tyre, keeping a house plant alive, extinguishing a fire to boiling a perfect egg, unshrinking clothes, painting a room, and wiring a plug - just how much practical and useful knowledge for life does the average young person have these days? This little book provides Gen Z - or indeed any generation lacking the knowledge of practical life - with [100 =- TBC] life hacks that will make your world suddenly a whole lot easier and manageable. Written by a father of two young adults who went out into the world without all the necessary life skills, this book will be invaluable for anyone embarking on the early stage of your adventure as adults. Bleeding a radiator? Unclogging a hair dryer? De-icing a car window? Unblocking the kitchen sink? Freezing food? Managing finances? This book covers it all!

What marketing lessons can we learn from the Greeks and Romans, their mythology, philosophy and vocabulary? In this book, a marketing expert and lapsed classicist casts new light on marketing through an exploration of ancient Rome and Greece.  Expect to be enlightened and enthralled by why "author" comes from the same Latin word as "authority", and what that tells us about storytelling. Why a segmentation based on Apollo and Dionysus might bring new insight to your comms. And why Socrates found out about cognitive dissonance the hard way. This book brings 2,000-year-old thinking, many of which formed the foundations of our society today, to provide creative and surprising insights into marketing and business today.

Business coaching is a global and rapidly expanding sector worth $5 billion. Between 2019-22, the industry grew by 54%. With an increasing number of professionals entering the coaching sector, this book is a timely guide for anyone who is already a coach or is  considering becoming one, and wants to ensure that they will be successful in it. Written by a Master Coach, the book sets out the building blocks of an impactful coaching business that will make a genuine difference to your clients - from understanding and embracing coaching, building your model, developing a code of ethics and accountability, to the engagement framework. It uses data from qualitative research on seasoned coaches and those at an earlier stage in their career, and highlights the significant impact these coaches bring to their clients. Ultimately, the author argues that business and leadership coaching, when at best, is a craft of passion, and those who succeed in this sector must reflect on the very essence of the coach-client experience.

This book is a concise guide to all aspects of modern marketing. It is designed for new marketers wanting to build their understanding quickly and for seasoned professionals looking to fill gaps in their knowledge. With crystal clear explanations of marketing concepts, ingenious frameworks and charming illustrations throughout, The Smart Marketing Book has become the indispensable handbook for anyone seeking to understand the secrets of great marketing and how to apply the latest thinking to drive business success.

Elephants today live on only 15% of the land they once roamed. With each passing day, another acre of nature is destroyed by human beings, replaced by agriculture, settlement and other man-made business. With each passing day, Asia's remaining wild elephants are squeezed onto smaller pieces of land onto which they're expected to survive.  Wildlife photographer Larry Laverty has followed the plight of the elephants for several decades, capturing the magnificence of this animal on film, while at the same time raising awareness all over the world of the danger of extinction that elephants face. For this book, Larry spent months travelling across Asia following elephants and recording extraordinary moments on his camera. The result is an amazing book of some 180 photographs, presented in landscape format, of one of Earth's greatest creatures. It's through his work and books that Larry hopes to give the elephants of Asia the respect they deserve..."We are finally acknowledging a force of nature that's been with us all along. Elephants are magnetic. But until now, we humans haven't had the ability to see, to appreciate this fact."

This inspiring book contains a series of "in conversations" with important personalities, change-makers, thought leaders and global influencers about the central theme of the climate crisis and sustainability, and the legacy that each of them hopes to leave. Through these high-profile voices, the book aims to inspire readers to take and create simple actions in their daily lives, to help foster a sustainable mindset and drive change to help mitigate the challenges of climate change.  The list of personalities and game changers include Julian Lennon (musician), Dr Kimberley Miner (NASA climate scientist), Rachel Cartwright (naturalist), Sunita Narain (Indian environmentalist and activist), and Nemonte Nenquimo (indigenous Waorani leader). In sharing their activities, wisdom and knowledge, the author presents takeaway tips to inspire readers to become "climate change aware" and help create a sustainable mindset for themselves

Presentations that are effective and can genuinely get across your message, ideas or information need to be powerful and delivered in a way that attracts immediate attention. This book, by a leading business trainer, provides an easy-to-follow method for developing powerful presentations that can used in any business presentation situation.  Based on the core idea that fewer slides and fewer words can achieve the greatest impact, the author shows you how to make your point or argument effectively in just ten slides. By being focused and on target with your message, you can present virtually anything, anywhere by using this dynamic and powerful method.

In the relentless world of sales, where targets loom large and rejection can be a constant companion, the toll on your mind is often underestimated. This book is a transformative resource in the challenging world of sales. Unlike traditional manuals fixated on skillsets, this book delves into the overlooked realm of mental and emotional tools, fostering a healthy and high-performing mindset essential for getting results and developing a career in sales. The author addresses unspoken challenges in sales, offering essential insights, stories and tools to unlock full potential in mind management and nurture success. From overcoming limiting beliefs and reframing stress to building resilience, leveraging imposter syndrome and combating burnout-the silent sales killer - the book stands as a go-to resource for any salesperson. In fact, Sales Psyche is more than a guide - it's a comprehensive resource for any salesperson wanting to build a successful and sustainable career.

A wide range of people - from consultants, coaches, executives to academics, authors, journalists and scientists - are also speakers today. Indeed, anyone with expertise, knowledge or the motivation can and should become a public speaker. But to become a successful speaker requires a certain savviness and understanding of what really oils the engine of the speaking world. Written by one of the world's most in-demand business speakers, this book presents 10 essential rules to guide anyone who wants to launch themselves as a speaker. 'Thou shalt wander the earth and do a hundred bad speeches', 'Thou shalt prioritize exposure over fees', 'Thou shalt build a product, not a persona', 'Thou shalt seek the holy grail...of customer feedback' - this guide is the result of the author having done thousands of speaking gigs around the world and knowing the industry inside-out. Whether you intend to become a speaker in your own niche sector or want to travel the world speaking and spending only two weeks at home, this book contains proven strategies, smart advice and practical tips for turning your speaking ambition into a successful venture.

To succeed and perform in today's business and work environment, you need to harness a broad spectrum of skills and people. This book enables you to highlight your self-improvement areas and establish how to work with your colleagues more effectively. It covers every aspect of high-functioning business performance - from attitude, action, creativity and communication to efficiency, empathy, strategy, and sustainability.  At the heart of this book is an ingenious diagnostic tool (ACES System®) that enables anyone to assess their personal strengths and identify self-development areas to perform successfully in the modern business world. Whatever your stage in your work life is, at whatever age, the methods in this book can help you play your best career game, give you the winning edge, and allow you to ace it.

Harry Hill is one of the few foreigners to have created an enormous impact that reached nearly every household in Japan through his marketing prowess, business leadership as well as through his personal philosophy to living life. Under Harry's leadership, Shop Japan - today, one of Japan's biggest retail channels - experienced explosive growth with numerous hit products that completely changed the Japanese consumer retail market.  This book is a compelling tale of hope, resilience and success, inspiring readers to embrace optimism and turn life's challenges into opportunities for personal growth and triumph. Based on Harry's personal and unique business journey, it serves as a testament that, with the right mindset and determination, one can conquer any obstacle and create an extraordinary life.

Duke Corporate Education is one of the world's leading providers of executive education (ranked number 1 by the Financial Times in 2023) and the co-publisher (with LID) of the leadership journal, Dialogue. This book (published to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Dialogue) contains 20 of the most influential articles from Dialogue about modern leadership.  Covering the five key topics of leadership, strategy, innovation, finance and marketing, the articles are written by well-known thinkers and practitioners from within Duke University and elsewhere. The result is a collection of authoritative and highly informative readings that will provide managers and executives with a solid briefing and review of current and future issues in management and leadership.

Sujin Lee is one of Asia's most successful entrepreneurs of recent times. Starting with two desks and capital of only $50,000, Lee founded Yanolja, the South Korean super-app that provides hotel and travel bookings, and which today has revenues of $350 million. Before this, Lee was an orphaned child who spent his early 20s working as a hotel janitor. This book contains insights, thoughts and the experiences of Sujin Lee. Often candid and honest, it offers a rare and vivid look into the mind of an entrepreneur and the start-up of a company and its spectacular growth. Like most entrepreneurs, Lee experienced crises along the way, that forced him to start from scratch again. But he was able to continue going forwards, turning crisis into opportunity, and today Yanolja has evolved into a global, one-stop travel tech company, with further plans to expand into the cloud-based business

Just like most people, CEOs and top executives have doubts, fears, questions, not to mention shortcomings. But most of the time, they want to hide them, even to those closest to them, probably to convince others-and above all themselves-that the situation is under control and that they are invincible. Yet no one is fooled: successive crises remind us that we must all deal with vulnerabilities, complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty. Based on 20 years of coaching top executives, this book takes you behind the scenes of effective leadership and personal development. Far from being just a confessional list of vulnerabilities, the book will give you access to the secrets of great leaders in overcoming obstacles, staying healthy, promoting agility and autonomy, being eco-friendly, being demanding and fair, and developing kindness and empathy. In such uncertain times, this inspiring and enlightening book is a guide to helping leaders and managers to develop resources, awareness, self-confidence and skills-the key landmarks-for anew style of leadership, one that is kinder, more respectful and relevant to todays environment.

Company strategies and initiatives are crucial for success, yet an astonishing 80% of such initiatives fail in execution. Implementing and executing a strategy or initiative is one of the most challenging tasks for any manager or executive. This is a highly practical book that serves as a compass for managers and executives to guide them through the complexities of executing strategies for their business. The book empowers them with actionable insights, equipping them to lead their teams more effectively and drive tangible and timely results.  By addressing both the macro and micro aspects of management, the book aims to provide a holistic view that can transform not just individual managers, but entire management teams and, by extension, the organizations they lead. It shows how managers can harness the power of prioritization, and to lead with purpose, passion, and precision. By embracing the principles of this book, managers can execute their plan with unwavering focus, even when the winds of change threaten to knock them off course.

Neoclassical economics assumes that most people have well-defined preferences and make well-informed, self-interested decisions based on those preferences. But in the real world, this is often not the case. This book combines elements of economics and psychology to help you understand how and why consumers behave the way they really do. Using behavioural economics as the foundation, the author explains the anomalies in consumer choices and what really influences human behaviour, preferences and decision-making. Often the case, emotional as well as economic factors play a vital role in consumer behaviour. Therefore, behavioural economics can be an important aid to business and marketing strategies by understanding how consumer decisions can be influenced.

For a special decade, from 1965 (when the author was 15 years old) to ten years later in 1975, David Chudwin was at the centre of many events which have shaped American life, culture and history. Like the fictional character Forrest Gump, he happened to be in the right place and time to experience first-hand great events and changes that have had a profound impact on society. From attending the Beatles concert in Chicago in 1965 to being tear-gassed during Vietnam War protests; from reporting on site the first Moon launch in 1969 to experiencing revolutionary changes in technology thereafter; from growing up in segregated Chicago to observing liberation movements for women, African-Americans and gay Americans-these were the times the author attended high school, college and medical school in 1965-75. In this book, he synthesizes by topic his memories of the time with brief histories of the events and their backgrounds, making this a unique personal memoir of a life-changing decade for many people in America

Leadership and future-of-work expert Erik Korsvik Ostergaard's new book explores Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight. It shows how these important processes can be used inside of organizations to support leaders in shaping and transforming their company structures, cultures and governance.  This important book helps business executives, managers and entrepreneurs to answer the following critical questions: How do I use my understanding of trends and signals in society and technology to design my organization, culture and governance? How do I look for signals inside of my organization? How do I challenge and revisit our assumptions and anticipations which we build our view of the future on? And what kind of leadership skills and style is required to be futures literate inside of my organization? This book is essential for any leader participating in the tactical world of organizational change management. It builds on important academic approaches like Anticipation-for-Emergence, on business approaches like strategic foresight, and on real-life cases of tactical foresight in large companies and scale-ups.

In this highly informative and practical guide, sleep expert and busy professional, Giles Watkins, explores the issues around sleep disorder from a personal and expert perspective. An experienced management consultant and coach, Giles' own sleep struggles encouraged him to refocus his research and training activities and he now works almost exclusively with leaders and organizations to promote positive sleep. In the new and updated edition of this enormously popular book, he shares the techniques and personal tips that transformed his life and helped him to sleep better. Along the way he explains the importance and function of sleep and how lack of sleep typically affects professionals. The book also examines how organizations can promote better sleep. As challenges with sleep for professionals reach epidemic proportions in the 21stcentury, this book provides an invaluable guide for those in positions of responsibility and encourages employee wellbeing inorganizations.

This challenging and original book blends interdisciplinary insights from technology, the arts, popular culture and more, in order to unlock the secrets to genuine innovation and creativity. For anyone wanting to move beyond merely competing, this book contains compelling insights and inspirations to help effect real change.

Written by one of the world's leading business coaches, the new and updated edition of this book provides authoritative and proven guidance and techniques for any manager, executive or indeed coach who wants to bring out the full potential of their employees and clients through coaching. Individual performance is a cornerstone of corporate performance and the need to achieve more- be that productivity or innovation- from fewer is becoming increasingly vital. Coaching is a demonstrably successful approach to helping individuals to perform to higher levels. This classic and inspiring book aims o develop managers and executives into great coaches, who can transform the performance of individuals and teams in their organizations. The author looks at the art of coaching from different perspectives and provides practical tips and models (such as the "Spectrum of Coaching Skills" and " GROW" ).

While society has made some progress in moving beyond gendered workplace barriers, significant barriers remain and women's progress continues to be slow. Workplace gender equity has even suffered significant setbacks due to the global pandemic and these challenges are even greater for women of colour. Women need to hear from someone who understands their lived experience, has experienced the same very real frustrations, has their backs, and has real strategies to help them get ahead. This book gets tough facts out in the open so women know what they are up against and then equips them with the support and proven strategies to navigate up, over and around professional barriers to accelerate their own success. It is a candid and personal playbook that ambitious, talented women can turn to for actionable insights on all things professional, with special attention to the unique challenges faced by women of colour.