Impeccable Leadership ‘An inspiring and practical approach to leadership development’.

Impeccable Leadership is appropriate for modern times, which call for a form of leadership based on connection, creativity and commitment. This practical approach provides leaders with concrete tools that give them insight into what they need to take their teams further in development and performance. Impeccable Leadership offers a step-by-step process for achieving aspirations.

The guiding question is:...

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.

From Big Ideas to Giant Leaps

Big Ideas have conquered the world. New products, services and concepts were able to reach the heads and hearts of large groups of people ever better and ever more quickly. But what used to be Big Ideas are currently not much more than ‘less bad’ designs: changes, yes, but hardly improvements. We react to that which already exists and stumble along behind the consequences of our decisions. What the world really needs are Giant Leaps: quantum leaps.

In From Bi...

Written to challenge, stimulate and inform, this book takes a critical look at the rapidly-growing field of coaching and mentoring.

This book offers a number of ground rules for being successful at work, based on Eastern philosophies and martial arts, at the heart of which lies the right balance between reason and intuition. Concepts such as efficiency, the overall picture, proactive behaviour, breathing, the here and now, peace, freeing yourself of hindrances and perceiving what is true are the underlying principles of the classic Eastern martial arts, but they can also be directly applied to modern (business)life. The g...

Provides a bridge between strategic thinking and leadership.

`If you`re ready to create a culture of engagement and connectedness at your company, this is one to read.` - Jenn Lim, CEO and Chief Happiness Officer at Delivering Happiness`

People who feel happy at work are keen to learn, creative, productive, self-confident and equipped to deal with changes and stress. Flourishing at work doesn't just make things more pleasant. It's good for you, your colleagues and your company.

The authors invite you to use the happiness compass to determine which steps ...

A great player doesn't necessarily make the best coach. So why should a hard-driving professional automatically be an effective manager? As an executive, you juggle challenges on a daily basis. What deserves your attention, and what doesn't? You want to delegate, but you find some tasks difficult to let go of. You see the differences between your employees, but you also want to treat everyone equally.

And hiring new employees - how do you decide? Servant-Leadership offers a clear and workable...

The first-line supervisor and safe work behaviour is an English translation of Daalmans` book De eerstelijns leidinggevende en veilig werkgedrag. The English translation was done to meet the demand from Dutch companies (for their foreign employees) and also because of international interest. The fact is, the concept of Brain Based Safety which the author has developed is enjoying increasing interest abroad. This method translates recent knowledge of the brain into the encouragement of safe be...