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Attention! is a practical guide for reclaiming the power of our time and attention.
In a world of endless distraction, we have given away two of our most valuable assets: time and attention.
Technology has given us the incredible gift of access to an ever-increasing amount of information and has opened the door to a vast array of choices and opportunities.
However, having more options doesn’t correlate to an increase in our success. Research shows that having more to choose from causes anxiety and decreases our likelihood of taking action. We have become paralyzed and polarized, reacting instead of acting and ceding control of our decisions to a continuous onslaught of information, marketing, and interruption.
We live in an age where we struggle to decide which information is real or fake. We find it challenging to make even the most straightforward decisions for our happiness and success in our lives and business.
This book will help you reframe your relationship with the demands on your time, overcome decision fatigue, and understand the value of creating space.
Rob Hatch sets out a powerful framework and flexible approach that gives you the space to focus your attention on what is important, the power to make decisions aligned with your goals, and the ability to take action with confidence.
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It’s never too early to start thinking about how you’re going to exit your business.
The Beginning of the End guides you step by step through thinking about your options and preparing both mentally and financially, to setting up your business to sell as simply and profitably as possible.
As you discover more about your business’s potential, you may decide to take an alternative route to retirement – fretirement, retiring from your business without selling it. This book helps you to consider all your options.
Dr Terri Bourne, entrepreneurship expert and business owner for over 20 years, shares her experience and insights to assist business owners in successful retirement and exit planning.
From special duties selection to an earthquake on the side of Mount Everest, from a gunfight in Afghanistan to a year of endurance challenges, Tim Bradshaw has had to develop a robust toolkit and mindset to enable him to overcome serious challenges in hostile circumstances.
What’s remarkable is that he achieved these feats in the face of imposter syndrome and depression. Tim’s mantra is ‘Because I can’, because whatever you’re facing, you can do so much more than you think. This is a toolkit to help you take on any challenge. Whether you’re making an attempt on Everest or taking the next big career step this toolkit will make you more effective.
Tim attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst aged just 19. His first job was to lead 37 soldiers. Since then, he has served as a surveillance and target acquisition patrol soldier and covert human intelligence officer. In 2015 he attempted to climb Mount Everest to persuade mental health sufferers to ask for help. After a year of physical endurance challenges, he is now a Director of Sandstone Communications, an international leadership and team building consultancy.
Business Book Awards 2026 Shortlisted in Business Self Development category
How do you advance your career when AI is rewriting the rules of success?
As AI and automation revolutionize the global workforce, professionals everywhere are asking the same urgent question: How can I stay relevant in the age of AI?
Artificial Death of a Career: A Tale of Professional Obsolescence and Reinvention blends storytelling and strategy to explore the human side of technological disruption. When Shey Sinope’s world collapses under the weight of the AI revolution, his personal fight to adapt becomes a roadmap for every professional determined to stay valuable, visible, and future-ready.
Award-winning authors, Drs. Schuster and Oxley, combine their behavioural science expertise with decades of experience as HR leaders and advisors to entrepreneurs and start-ups around the world, all delivered with their trademark wry sense of humour.
Inside, you’ll discover how to:
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Stay relevant in the age of AI by mastering adaptability and continuous learning
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Reinvent your career before technology or automation forces the change
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Build a leadership mindset for the AI revolution and beyond
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Recognize early signs of professional obsolescence—and counter them fast
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Develop resilience and confidence that withstand economic and technological shifts
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Transform your work identity from outdated to indispensable
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Career and professional life advice rooted in authenticity, respect, and inclusion—championing a world where being true to yourself is the foundation for realizing your fullest potential.
Equal parts insightful and entertaining, this book helps readers future-proof their skills, reimagine success, and thrive through change rather than fear it. The future of work isn’t coming—it’s here. Learn how to adapt, evolve, and lead in the age of AI. Your career reinvention starts now.
Forget everything you’ve been told about maximizing Lifetime Customer Value.
To take your business to the next level, you need a brand strategy that’s focused on attracting new customers, not exploiting existing ones.
In this transparent digital age, smart business leaders know that profitable growth comes from helping customers, not exploiting them. Attractive Thinking sets out a ground-breaking methodology, developed during 30 years’ experience transforming brands for Pepsi, Mars, Miracle Gro and many high-end service businesses, to achieve exactly that.
Discover the five key questions you must answer to create a better brand strategy and the tools to deliver it: clarity on what matters to customers; products and services that customers love; marketing that attracts them; and a team that is committed to delivering it.
Attractive Thinking is a practical handbook for CEOs, managing directors and marketers who want to make the big-brand techniques work for them.
Leadership today is measured not by control, but by adaptability. Organizations that cling to rigid habits fall behind. Those led by adaptive leaders move forward with clarity, confidence, and resilience.
In The Adaptive Leader, Giles Lindsay shows why the future belongs to leaders who embrace adaptability as their greatest strength. He reveals how agility is no longer a process to be ‘done’, but a mindset to be lived—woven into culture, strategy, and execution.
Blending insight with practical tools, it equips leaders with proven frameworks including the CLEAR Model®, the Team Empowerment Checklist, the Leadership Moves Map, and the Business Agility Roadmap. These tools help you:
- Replace outdated habits with adaptive leadership practices.
- Build trust and empower teams to act with autonomy.
- Focus on outcomes that matter, not rituals that drain.
- Extend agility across every function, from HR to finance to product.
- Lead with calm and purpose in uncertain times.
This is not another manual on frameworks. It is a leadership playbook for creating resilient, innovative, and human-centred organizations.
The Adaptive Leader is your guide to thriving in complexity.
** Business Book Awards 2023 Finalist **
If you have an interest in agility but you’re not working specifically in IT, this book is for you.
It shows how agile principles can be adapted and applied in almost any sector to manage projects more effectively. It explains what agility looks like for ALL aspects of the management of projects – from leadership, roles and responsibilities through planning, implementation, change control, risk management and more.
Whether you’re a new or seasoned project professional, or an executive or senior manager seeking to generate value by bringing agility beyond the IT department, Adrian Pyne shows you how an organization can become agile for projects, and what that journey looks like.
Based on over 30 years’ experience and drawing on case studies from multiple sectors, this is the essential guide to managing projects more effectively at a time when agility and sustainability matter more than ever.
A project professional for over 30 years, Adrian Pyne has led change in 11 industries and in the public sector, in the UK and abroad. The author of books on programme management and agile governance and assurance, he has contributed to the evolution of programme, portfolio and PMO standards and is a regular speaker, visiting lecturer, blogger and researcher.
**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist**
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You have been given about 20 more years to live than your grandparents. But does that just mean a longer decline?
Berit Lewis shows that the story we so often tell ourselves about ageing – that it’s all downhill from 50 – is simply wrong. In fact, research reveals we are at our happiest aged 80! Combining her extensive experience in teaching mindfulness with her knowledge of how to live and age well, she reveals a simple framework that can help you make the most out of those extra years of living. Rather than wait for society to solve the challenges of longevity, she invites us to explore what each of us can do to take responsibility for our own life and ageing process.
Ageing Upwards will help you navigate life after 50 with acceptance, self-compassion and mental flexibility. It’s also invaluable to leaders who wants overcome unconscious beliefs, limitations and discriminations related to age to create more diverse organizations.
Boost your AI quotient for AI-ready leadership.
Most leaders know that AI can deliver efficiency gains, making it a company priority in a challenging business environment. But the pace of change is outstripping their ability to adapt. More than 75% of leaders report that AI is creating challenges they have never faced before and these new challenges, anxieties and uncertainty about the future are creating a ‘readiness gap’.
AI-Q, your AI Quotient, is both a new metric for assessing readiness and a framework for building it. Use the AI-Q MAP (Mindset, Abilities and Practices) to:
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assess where you are today
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identify the critical gaps, and
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build the leadership and organizational capabilities you need to ensure your AI investments deliver returns.
Futurist and economist Athena Peppes draws on research from leading institutions and expert interviews to offer a new approach to AI-readiness, the new critical leadership capability in the human+AI era.
If you’re at the sharp end of management, juggling conflicting demands to keep your organization’s promises to customers, with ever-reducing resources whilst implementing the latest digital change programme and keeping your team happy – this is the book for you.
Active Operations Management gives you the framework and tools to help you take control and make the most of the evolving world of service operations. The challenges of robotics, remote working and lean operations demand a new approach to give people and organizations the confidence they need to thrive and deliver in the agile age.
This ground-breaking playbook specifically addresses the practical needs of operations managers. Discover:
- The four critical activities for effective control, and the daily and weekly rhythms which make them effective and sustainable.
- Practical measures of work and performance which enable like-for-like comparisons and resource balancing across diverse teams.
- Real-world examples showing you how to raise productivity, improve staff engagement and wellbeing.
- Online resources which support your control of the truly agile operation.
Neil Bentley and Richard Jeffery have spent over 30 years working with operations managers to simplify and bring structure to the challenges of managing in complex organizations. Today their Active Operations Management methodology is used by thousands of managers, raising performance and ensuring the wellbeing of those involved.
