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Sometimes You Should Be Late invites you, dear listener, to become more aware of the scripts you’ve inherited about time—and to choose, with intention, how you want to move through it. It honors the care beneath urgency culture but also what we might gain by giving the rabbit in us a break and embracing, a bit more often, our inner sloth.

Why do smart, capable and caring financial professionals sometimes make ethical mistakes? In this groundbreaking work, a seasoned financial services lawyer joins forces with a neuropsychologist to expose the hidden psychological currents and power dynamics that threaten to drive high-stakes ethical failures. Through riveting case studies of real-world frauds and moral crises, they take you beneath the surface of everyday decisions to reveal the invisible forces that can compromise even the most principled professionals.

The Children’s Fire forges a trail into Britain’s wild and ancient Celtic past. In the winter of 2009 Mac Macartney walked from his birthplace in England across Wales to the island of Anglesey, once the spiritual epicenter of Late Iron Age Britain, navigating by the sun and the stars, with no map, compass, stove, or tent, and in the coldest winter for many years. The Children’s Fire records that journey, and seeks to lay bare the aching loss of knowing and understanding sacredness as it applies to everything ordinary that brings joy to the human heart.

Handling conflict well is the most neglected but most transformative professional skill of all–here’s the blueprint for doing it better.

Organizations run on confidence. When people’s self-belief matches their capability, they feel able to step forward, take on new challenges, stretch themselves. When teams are connected by trust and respect, they are more ambitious in what they deliver together. And thoughtful, wholehearted confidence in the organization’s mission acts as oxygen for collective performance. Unleash a confidence contagion and unlock the strongest level of contribution from your team.

Packed with ideas, stories and practices to help close the confidence gap, Coach Yourself Confident is a guidebook for individuals who recognize that their confidence lags behind their capability.

Are you fed up of feeling tired, wired and unable to manage your mood? Worried that your mental health is having an effect on your relationships or your ability to perform at work? You are not alone. Many successful career women believe they thrive under pressure yet become susceptible to the negative effects of stress. Despite unexplained changes in their health, some ignore the warning signs and burn out. At best this leaves them unable to function, and at worst it can lead to infertility, heart attack, stroke, or dementia.

The safeguarding and child protection challenges in education have never been more complex, nor the legal duties on schools and colleges more stringent. The criminal and sexual exploitation of children, FGM, radicalization, and online safety are sadly all now part of the remit, as are self-harm and mental health issues. And these safeguarding challenges are found not only in urban communities but also in leafy suburbs and rural idylls throughout.

The essential handbook for frontline salespeople who want to improve, and the sales managers and leaders who want to help them.

Unless you’re consciously including people, you’re almost certainly unconsciously excluding people. Discover 99 decisions and 5 simple habits for creating more inclusive organisations, inside and out. Rather than top-down change initiatives involving huge teams, Catherine Garrod advocates for combining skill and will to guide people in their everyday thinking. Then developing reporting to create social accountability and track departmental progress.

By exploring your subconscious patterns of response to failure, Faceplant brings a fresh new mindset to life's tripping hazards. It's time to edit your story and let the adventure begin. Discover tools to define new patterns for yourself, create fresh opportunities for engaging in life, and support others as they navigate the gravity of their failures.

If you want to move products, you need to move people. And if you want to move people, you need to move minds. This is what modern B2B marketing is all about. It’s time to wake up to the power of branding, purpose, stories, emotion, people and culture to drive growth. There is something incredibly exciting happening in B2B land. Freed from a narrow focus on performance marketing, brands are becoming more interesting and more relevant. This book brings together the latest thinking on humanized B2B marketing.

Ask a business leader about their HR partners and you'll hear, "They don't understand us." Ask an HR leader about their business partners, and you'll hear, "They don't listen to us." This disconnect is not just a communication breakdown–it's a systemic dysfunction that keeps the greatest engine of a company (its people) sputtering. The Great Leadership Disconnect reveals that transforming HR from a perceived support act into an indispensable commercial force is the responsibility of both business and HR leaders.

What if the career you've built isn't the one you want to keep? Whether you're a senior leader questioning the cost of success, or a professional at any stage sensing you've outgrown the path mapped, this book is your roadmap to Uptick what comes next. A career pivot isn't about throwing everything away; it's about harnessing your transferrable skills, experience, knowledge and credibility to create an uptick, a new, planned direction built on what came before, one which aligns more with who you are today.

In a world of ambiguity and constant change, teams are the critical glue for solving complex problems, delivering in challenging environments and supporting each other to grow, develop and be engaged.

This audiobook is for managers who have tried to deliver business change but felt frustrated and disempowered by the experience. It is for people who want to stand up and make a difference igniting and inspiring successful change but don’t know where to start. This audiobook is a complete toolkit for aspiring change superheroes!

Talk to anyone about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and it sparks a whole range of emotions. Why? Because DEI, at its very core, is about values and beliefs, and it’s about change. So it is no surprise then, that despite putting in place a DEI strategy and multiple initiatives, so many organizations get stuck. Beyond Discomfort reveals a new model of inclusive leadership, which describes four belief systems and associated emotional responses to DEI.

You have a distinctive vision for your business, which means you need a distinctive financial plan and benchmarks to get you there. And that means making finance a core part of your business, not a support function. Stop comparing yourself to other businesses, start getting clear on what results you want and confident about how to get them.

This is the book that guides you on your journey to becoming a successful self-help author. It gives you everything you need to write, publish, and promote a book that does justice to your ideas and expertise.

When you have an idea for a new product, it’s a pivotal moment. This device of yours will enhance the lives of the people who use it, earn you extra money, and have a significant impact on the world. However, there’s much more to a successful product than the quality of the original idea. Why do some products fly off the shelves and others not even reach the market? That’s what this book will explain.