Relational Team Coaching is a state-of-the-art reference book detailing what makes team coaching effective, with a focus on being able to work at a relational level within the here and now, about what is going on in the present in the team and between the team and the coach.

Heroic Leadership is a celebration of our greatest heroes, from well-known legends to unsung heroes who transform our world quietly behind the scenes. Now in its second edition, it offers a compelling conceptual framework for understanding heroism and heroic leadership, drawing from theories of great leadership and heroic action.

"Ball's lucid and timely book offers a portal into a new realm."—The Economist

The essential guide to dealing with people Ever wished you could persuade people more easily, have more constructive conversations, or connect better with those around you? Let's face it, if you want to achieve success in life, you're going to have to deal with people. That's why great interpersonal skills will give you a huge advantage in life. They can make the difference to getting ahead at work, getting the best from your team, and even improving your family relationships. But dealing wit...

An accessible, entertaining and definitive account of the amazing role hormones play at every stage of our lives

Organizations act, but what determines how and when they will act? There is precedent for believing that the organization is but an extension of one or a few people, but this is a deceptively simplified approach and, in reality, makes any generalization in organizational theory enormously difficult

Presenting the developments in QRM since the publication of Rajan Suri's landmark text, Quick Response Manufacturing, this book illustrates how QRM can not only reduce lead times but also improve quality, reduce operating costs, and enable companies to gain a substantial market share. It explains how factories in advanced nations can us

Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the 'Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.

The theoretical foundations of management strategy are identified and outlined in this text. Five theories are considered in the light of questions about how organizations operate efficiently, cost minimization, wealth creation, individual self-interest and continued growth.