The cookbook for a better working life
From sustained energy to improved focus and mood, each chapter in this extraordinary cookbook pairs the latest nutritional research with practical culinary applications, offering readers scientifically backed recipes designed to address the challenges they face in their day-to-day lives.
Whether you need a morning boost, an afternoon pick-me-up or a calming meal after a stressful day, you will have a deeper understanding of why certain foods can enhance your mental and physical states. This is more than just a collection of recipes; it’s a tool to help you make mindful, informed decisions about your diet. Blending culinary expertise with scientific rigor, this cookbook equips you with the knowledge and recipes to nourish both your body and mind.
**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**
‘This book will transform the way you lead’ – Simon Alexander Ong, bestselling author of Energize, international Keynote Speaker and award-winning Coach.
To be the kind of leader that inspires others to grow, you need to embody the timeless principles that allow you to evolve and elevate continuously.
In our unpredictable and uncertain world, where the only constant is change, your commitment to evolution isn’t just a personal advantage — it’s an organizational necessity. So, keep evolving, because every new version of you offers fresh perspectives, richer experiences, and greater resilience. And in that continual evolution, you’ll find not just success but a deeper, more meaningful form of leadership.
TALES FROM THE ‘INDIANA JONES OF CULTURAL ADVENTURES’…
From New York to Beijing, Paris to Juba, Moscow to Mexico City, Ken Pasternak’s distinguished career as a banker, management consultant, executive educator, author and keynote speaker has provided a wealth of experience with people and organizations internationally. In this book he shares some of the most memorable stories from his wide-ranging travels and his many encounters with different cultures, and draws out truths that still apply today in both life and business.
‘Inspiring!… Stories that pack profound insights… A great read for the fundamentals of business.’
MARSHALL GOLDSMITH
New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.
A former Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Vice President at Citibank, Ken’s unique background combines experience in executive development, management consulting, institution building and corporate banking.
He is the co-author of Managing Your Strengths and Performance at the Limit, Business Lessons from Formula 1 Motor Racing.
If no one’s paying attention, it doesn’t matter what you’re saying.
In today’s fast-paced world, we tend to rush through interactions without building genuine connection. Whether it’s ignoring the receptionist or breezing through sales conversations, our engagement muscles have become weak. This ‘engagement gap’ is widening as technology reduces our need to interact with others, while our attention is constantly fragmented by digital distractions.
But the opportunity cost of not engaging can be steep, both personally and professionally.
This book is designed to help you bridge the engagement gap by teaching you how to command attention and deepen connection. Whether you’re trying to keep your prospect’s attention during a sale, presenting content in a boardroom or trying to motivate your teams, discover how to get more out of every interaction.
Anders Boulanger CSP is founder and CEO of Engagify, a company dedicated to rehumanizing business through engagement. After spending thousands of hours engaging with people at events around the world, he has codified engagement and now trains teams on how to deepen connection and command attention.
Eat the Beach is a uniquely informative, practical guide to coastal foraging, essential for anyone interested in survival skills or just wanting to get more out of messing about in rock pools.
Fraser Christian runs the UK’s only specialist Coastal Survival School. He is a fully qualified chef who has led courses for the famous River Cottage and now regularly forages for some of the UK’s top Michelin restaurants. In this book he shares his expertise on safety, particularly with regard to weather and tides, techniques for fishing from the shore, finding, identifying and cooking sea plants (including seaweed) and shellfish, and takes the reader step by step through the process of building a clam oven for the ultimate beach feast.
Essential reading for anyone likely to be wild camping by the seashore, or who wants to be equipped for any survival situation (the Coastal Survival School was formed in response to requests from those who found themselves in just such a situation after the 2004 tsunami). The seashore is a rich source of food: this book teaches anyone how to collect it, catch it, prepare it, cook it and enjoy it.
“This book is written so anyone who wants to know about living by the coast, with information and advice any coastal dweller should know (and I didn’t).
Useful for foragers, bushcraft types, survivalist enthusiasts, preppers or just folks that want to expand knowledge.
Simply presented and easy to read and understand.”
A new approach for integrating operational risk management
Accountability continues to be a key factor in corporate scandals. While today’s governance structures are sufficient, their deployment within the operating environment may not be effective. This is because current thought leadership views accountability and empowerment from a talent management perspective. While this view remains important, organizations need to establish accountability more effectively within the context of the operating environment.
By Empowering Accountability, organizations can more effectively deploy their accountability structures. As a result, they can better achieve their business and ESG objectives. This book outlines practices that enhance the “G” of ESG by addressing today’s accountability pitfalls and providing a stronger platform to integrate ESG risk management. These practices also advance the “S” of ESG beyond the essential and fundamental concepts of equality and acceptance to drive a high-performance organization.
**WINNER: BEST BUSINESS BOOK 2025 – Next-Generation Indie Book Awards **
Is it possible to run a successful business without sacrificing your mental and physical health?
Most business owners and leaders have a habit of overcoming their company’s challenges at the expense of their own wellbeing. They work long hours, try to do too many things, and struggle to reconcile the excitement of the early days with the stress and exhaustion they feel now. Their businesses may be profitable, but those profits have come at a high personal cost. In other words, they’ve run up an emotional overdraft.
If this is you, you can be sure that not only is this damaging for your health, it’s also masking some of the issues that need to be resolved in your business. Because reducing your emotional overdraft is as much of a lifesaver for your company as it is for you.
While it’s common to feel this way, it’s not inevitable. This book explains why you’ve run up an emotional overdraft and how you can reduce it, so that you can create a healthier relationship with your business, your loved ones, and yourself. In the process, you’ll be helping your company to thrive in ways you could never imagine — and without having to try so hard.
Andy Brown is an award-winning adviser and coach for people-based businesses, helping them to grow sustainably and increase their value.
‘Essential reading for any retail leader’ – Paula Bobbett, Chief Digital Officer, Boots UK
The pace of change in retail is accelerating. Will you be a passenger, or the driver?
Retail leaders face disruption on every side: rapidly changing consumer habits, a fiercely competitive and dynamic environment, market volatility and more. But transforming in response, while necessary, is easier said than done.
Driving Retail Transformation gives you the strategies and techniques you need to lead your organization through the journey of transformation in an age of uncertainty.
Discover the ‘how’ of transformation through a flexible framework that can be applied to any type of retail change, and at all stages of the journey. Overcome the common challenges and avoid the critical mistakes that derail so many transformation initiatives. Featuring road-tested practical tools and techniques, Driving Retail Transformation allows retail leaders to accelerate progress, deliver successful business transformation and build a better future for customers, colleagues and the business.
‘Like condensing a whole degree in strategic change management into one book’– Joe Murray, Former CEO, Internet Fusion Group, Worldstores
Oliver Banks is an expert consultant working with senior leaders to transform retail businesses and operations. One of the most influential voices in retail, Oliver is a LinkedIn Top Voice, host of the Retail Transformation Show podcast and keynote speaker, and advises on navigating transformation and the ever-evolving world of retail.
“Amber’s robust research, precise definitions, and extensive citations make for an intellectually rigorous read…a well-researched examination of consumer behavior.” – Kirkus Reviews.
“Achieving meaningful change demands advocacy for new thinking and public demonstration that sustainability and profitability need not be mutually exclusive. Amber’s bold, optimistic vision is inspiring.” – BookLife by Publishers Weekly.
A groundbreaking guide for the next generation of business leaders, founders, and innovators, this book unveils 50 innovative strategies to revolutionize consumer behavior to achieve the triple win: for people, the planet and universal prosperity. How can we transform impulsive buying into meaningful action-taking, empowering people to navigate the consequences of economic growth? Essential reading for business leaders dedicated to making a significant difference, this book is a blueprint for a brighter, more sustainable world. Elena V. Amber is a founder, researcher and award-winning author whose work sits at the intersection of leadership, psychology and neuroscience, aiming to promote sustainable consumption and business practices.
**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**
Most managers who’ve tried to deliver business change have felt frustrated and disempowered by the experience. If you want to stand up and make a difference igniting and inspiring successful change but don’t know where to start, this book is for you.
Discover why change so often fails, and how to overcome those problems and make change stick. Chartered psychologist and change expert Lucinda Carney will help you change the way you do Change, in just 6 minutes!
