Management: leadership and motivation

DISTINGUISHED FAVOURITE: Independent Press Award 2020 - Business General CategoryThe professional landscape is transforming, and the only way to maintain competitive advantage is to maximize the unique skills of your workforce.

In recent years, developing a value proposition has become a prime consideration for businesses.

LONGLISTED: CMI Management Book of the Year 2021 The business world is currently experiencing fundamental disruption, in part driven by the technology enabled Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Presidential Lessons in Leadership crystallizes the methods of leadership from six of America's greatest presidents during moments of personal challenge and turns them into concrete lessons that business leaders, and anyone interested in becoming a more effective leader, can use each day.

A basic dilemma confronting today's manager is how to be both profitable and moral.

In this updated and expanded edition of his groundbreaking book, Wharton Neuroscience Initiative director Michael Platt reveals how the latest advances in neuroscience-including new insights from artificial intelligence-are transforming our understanding of effective leadership.

Inspirational leaders make us want to achieve more.

WINNER: CMI Management Book of the Year Awards 2018 - Management Futures CategoryBuilding Digital Culture aims to answer a simple question: How can organizations succeed when the environment they operate in is changing so quickly?

Natural and human-made disasters appear to be increasing in frequency and scope, commanding extensive media attention.

The growth of the Internet has had a profound effect on the way business is carried out, and has provided an unprecedented opportunity for third-party individuals and organisations to attack brands with relative ease.

What is it to be truly human at work?

Understanding the Professional Buyer is a practical guide for sales people, giving them insight into the behaviour and strategies of buyers, so that they are able to deal with them more successfully and regain power in the buyer-seller relationship.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the spotlight is even more on the role and activities of the CFO.

Emotional Fitness Coaching is the practical approach to applying the principles of emotional intelligence to the workplace to create a healthy, positive and creative environment in every situation.

From Oil to Gas and Beyond chronicles the history of the petroleum industry in Trinidad and Tobago and appraises major policy decisions impacting its economy.

This book is about action, results and leadership.

Adopt a sales-orientated approach to your business and facilitate the same attitude throughout your company's culture, by ensuring the objective of generating business profit is embraced by the entire organization - not just the sales team - to achieve long term growth.

Internal branding is the cultural shift that occurs within an organization when employees become more customer-focused.

IQ and EQ (Emotional Intelligence) are not enough.

Marketing as a practice is facing unprecedented challenges: a changing media landscape, an increasingly complex customer journey, innovative technologies, start-ups which disrupt traditional channels and a new generation of tech-savvy clients.

Motivated staff are the lifeblood of every business.

Examine luxury branding on a global scale, with more than fifty cutting edge contributions from the foremost thought leaders in luxury management and marketing.

DISTINGUISHED FAVOURITE: NYC Big Book Awards 2017Content, in all its forms, is the single most critical element of any marketing campaign.

Conversion rate optimization (CRO) is about understanding people and behaviour, not simply website visits.

Lateral thinking can help you transform your ability to generate ideas, unlock the creative potential of your team and make your organization more innovative.

WINNER: NYC Big Book Award 2020 - Business GeneralCompanies that rapidly grow have one thing in common: their leaders create symbiotic relationships between technical, creative and business minds.

Inspiring communication can make the difference between poor performance and exceptional results.

DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE: NYC Big Book Award 2021 - Marketing & PRMany organizations and leaders struggle to respond effectively to fast-evolving customer expectations driven by innovations in products, services and technologies such as AI and mobile.

FINALIST: Business Book Awards 2019 - Leadership CategoryBusiness leaders' audiences - their customers, competitors and employees alike - live and breathe social media.

WINNER: Independent Press Awards 2021 - LeadershipBestselling and award-winning author duo Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren are calling it out.

WINNER: Independent Press Awards 2021 - Business: MotivationalDISTINGUISHED FAVORITE: NYC Big Book Award 2021 - LeadershipLeadership presence doesn't come with a title or promotion - good leaders develop presence over time.

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Business Book Awards 2021 - Change & SustainabilityNow, more than ever, how we work, the way we live, even how long we live are changing at rapid pace and only those who can embrace everything that's going on and reinvent themselves will survive and thrive.

LONGLISTED: CMI Management Book of the Year 2021 The business world is currently experiencing fundamental disruption, in part driven by the technology enabled Fourth Industrial Revolution.

SHORTLISTED: CMI Management Book of the Year 2017 - Commuter's Read Category (previous edition)The Trusted Executive helps leaders deliver outstanding results, create inspiring relationships and provide a positive contribution through the power of trustworthy leadership.

While many organizations understand the importance of having a clearly defined value proposition to help them become more profitable, many businesses struggle to use them effectively.

Trust is an invaluable commodity in any business environment.

Communicate in a Crisis is the definitive guide for any PR or marketing professional to recognize, plan and respond to a sudden wildfire of consumer-led reaction, 'manipulated outrage' sparked from interaction on news feed algorithms, fuelled by social media and the constant demand for an instantaneous response.

WINNER: CMI Management Book of the Year Awards 2015 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Category (1st edition)Many organizations approach customer-centic marketing and innovating their business strategy in isolation to one another, missing groundbreaking opportunities for advancement.

Service design is the activity of utilizing resources and people to build and sustain services that not only meet customers' needs, but also add that little bit of magic or true competitive advantage.

We are living in an age of continual motion and change, and as a result traditional strategy planning has become outmoded.

Essential Leadership is a practical, accessible book that tackles theory and practice in an integrated and stimulating way.

Marketing visionary Martin Lindstrom has been on the front line of the branding for over twenty years.

This book is about how great leaders can make purpose the beating heart of their organization and use it to power performance.

In a working life of 35 years, a manager can expect to make at least 10 job changes - or transitions - where the demands for rapid business delivery and effective leadership will only increase with each new job.

Mindfulness is a way of paying attention to the present moment, helping us become more aware of our thoughts and feelings so that instead of being overwhelmed by them, we are better able to manage them.

It is often claimed that 70% of organizational change efforts fail, despite the popularity of linear change models.

B2B marketing is functioning in an increasingly fast-paced and complex business landscape, with a wealth of new technologies, tools and channels, and where customers are more in control of the buying process than ever before.

Consumer-facing and business-to-business organizations know that if they get their approach to customers right, they will be rewarded with unprecedented customer loyalty.

Malcolm McDonald on Key Account Management explores the challenges of winning, retaining and developing key accounts.

Across the global economy, customers' expectations are continually rising - but many companies fail to deliver against those expectations.