Managing Millennials: Shaping a New Work Paradigm

$28.99

Leadership. Engagement. Retention. Recruitment. Diversity. The key challenges facing workplaces today.

Underpinning these challenges are the millennial workforce.

  • A generation who are experiencing global challenges like the economic crisis, debt, job insecurity and housing unaffordability.
  • A generation who are experiencing personal challenges like social media addictions, pressure, and mental health crisis.
  • A generation who has been put in the “too hard” basket by a lot of workplaces.
  • A generation who are soon to become the dominant global workforce.

To future proof workplace performance and engagement, workplaces must act.

Getting the best out of the millennial workforce, means creating an environment where they can thrive. Critical to this, is good management and leadership. Without it, workplaces will not resolve the current challenges.

This book provides a solution. It’s designed to educate readers on the current and future millennial workforce: who they are, what they want, what they need and how to get the best out of them. It offers clear cut guidance and best practice techniques for both managers and millennials as they continue to navigate the current and future landscape of work.

Sustainable Investing: An ESG Starter Kit for Everyday Investors

$28.99

The Essential Starting Point for Values-Driven Investors

You are passionate about the important issues facing our world: Climate change. Racial justice. Gender equality. And you do things to reflect those passions – volunteering, donating, voting, recycling. But there’s an even more powerful way to advocate for what matters to you: Changing your investments.

This book is perfect for individuals looking to make their first investments in “ESG” funds, which consider the Environmental, Social, and Governance aspects of the companies they invest in, as well as their financials. It contains useful and practical guidance on how to understand your choices in the rapidly expanding world of sustainable investing, and it offers concrete steps to invest in funds and companies that reflect your values.

Catalyzing Transformation: Making System Change Happen

$34.99

Here’s how to make purposeful system change happen!

The world faces a multitude of crises that demand transformative changes in how we live and do business. Yet a core question is…how to make purposeful transformation happen? Catalyzing Transformation shows the way through:

  • Innovative organizing processes that anyone can use to catalyze purposeful whole system transformational change for a better world.
  • How transformation catalysts work to organize purposeful, self-aware transformation systems that can tackle complex systemic challenges.
  • Three processes—connecting (seeing, understanding, and making sense of the system), cohering (co-creatively developing shared goals and action plans), and amplifying (implementing, evaluating, and elaborating effective transformative action).
  • Design guidelines for leaders stewarding change efforts in context-appropriate ways.

Whether you catalyze social changer, responsible businesses, activists, policymakers, or students of change, Catalyzing Transformation can help!

Sales Excellence: Adapting to a New Way of Selling

$37.99

A book for all true salespeople who want to tackle the new global changes and enhance greater sales with less stress.

Selling today has gone through profound changes in the past 3 years, culminating in new changes in methods and company employee arrangements. This book brings together the changes to selling post pandemic and lays out the new approaches to selling under what have been difficult circumstances for all sales professionals.

A Profile of the United States Toy Industry: Serious Fun, Third Edition

$31.99

The toy industry is one of the most consistently misunderstood sectors of American business, comprising a wide range of businesses under one banner—entertainment, commodities, fashion, and licensing—that each behave differently. Unlike other industries, more than 40 percent of products are new every year, and success often depends on the whims of a child.

Currently about $22 billion per year at wholesale for traditional toys, the United States toy industry has remained relatively constant since the 1990s, with a short-term boom in 2020 and 2021 in response to a global pandemic.

This edition has been updated to reflect these and other dynamic changes in recent years, including the impacts of shifts in marketing, technology, consumption, and retailing. It offers an introduction to the structure, practices, and market forces that impact the toy industry, including a short history, a description of the current market landscape, product trends, emerging opportunities and threats and expectations for the future.

The primary focus is the U.S. toy industry, but one cannot ignore the global scope of the business, particularly with respect to manufacturing and opportunities for growth in emerging markets. It is intended to provide a foundation for understanding the diverse and dynamic nature of the toy industry and many things that make it unique and to introduce this fast-paced, always changing and fiercely competitive business where success is often more an art than a science.

Critical Leadership and Management Tools for Contemporary Organizations

$28.99

A massive paradigm shift in the world of work and the way we manage people. What’s changing – everything!

All of this has been brought about by several converging factors. The impact of COVID on how we work; causing a shift from where work is done. Recent significant changes in Artificial intelligence, Chat GPT and robotics will impact on every area of work worldwide – it’s happening now.

Predictably, fewer people are now required in the world of work; those with a potentially amazing career will be talented people who will be paid on what they do rather than what they know – a huge change.

A new type of management. Inspirational leaders with a special skillset will be in high demand. Managers of the past are unlikely to have the skills or personality to get the best from the new breed of super employees.

In this book we will look at all these issues and provide readers with the current facts, case studies form the world’s leading companies, worked examples and most importantly practical advice on how to do it.

International Trade and FDI: An Advanced Introduction to Regulation and Facilitation

$37.99

This book is for use in IMBA, MIB, LLM and other graduate programs; in university-based executive development programs; and in in-company seminars — and for use as a handbook and reference book by managers, executives, board members, consultants, and legal counsel who are engaged in the practice of international trade and/or foreign direct investment (FDI).

The authors provide an advanced introduction to international trade and FDI terms, concepts, principles, and practices — and to the governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental factors that regulate or facilitate the conduct of international trade and FDI. These factors include, inter alia:

  • tariff barriers, non-tariff barriers, and other barriers to trade;
  • entry and post-entry barriers to FDI;
  • provisions contained in the GATT and other trade instruments;
  • the functionalities of the WTO, other global mechanisms, and regional trade blocks; and
  • international standards, the harmonization of laws, and the settlement of disputes.

The material in the book is drawn from multiple disciplines, which include international relations, international trade, international law, and economic and diplomatic history; relies primarily on original source materials; makes extensive use of examples; and is formatted to facilitate its use as a textbook, handbook, and reference book.

Click HERE for International Trade and FDI supplemental reading and bibliography

Warp Speed Habits: A Brain-Based Roadmap for Leveraging Change in Organizations

$34.99

What if you could adapt rapidly to change, design your destiny, plot your own North, systematically design the roads you wish to travel and go the distance, improving your health, your work, and your life?

Change means that you will have to create habits, and as both individuals and organizations have found, this is an extremely challenging venture. You may feel that procedures and methods, allied with inspiration, willpower, and motivation will be enough, but the up and down nature of the latter qualities can lead to repeated failed attempts.

For individuals, leaders, managers, or anyone who wishes to build or change habits and behaviors and acquire new competencies, the answer lies in Warp Speed Habits, a revolutionary brain-based strategic-tactical approach to creating habits and changing behaviors.

Intersecting neuroscience and psychology, this guide leverages business management lessons at an individual level, promotes the development of a “habit mindset” and reshapes environmental contexts. In this quest, as you learn to design, build, and implement sustainable habits, you will travel to worlds and dimensions in different realms.

Ready? Begin your first voyage, but make no mistake, as you execute missions in your travels to different worlds, do not illude yourself by biographies of overnight success—these are myths that blur the mindset of energy and resilience you will require.

But with the Warp Speed Habits practical and pragmatical roadmap, you will overcome brain traps and obstacles along the way, and ultimately contribute to thriving behaviors that deliver results!

The Strategy Legacy: How to Future-Proof a Business and Leave Your Mark

$31.99

NOW A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST SELLING BOOK

“Strategy is critical to the success of any business, yet creating a plan, rallying your team behind it, and executing it can feel confusing and overwhelming. Alex’s latest book takes the guesswork out of developing a winning strategy in this powerful guide. Full of practical advice and relevant research, The Strategy Legacy will leave you equipped and ready to start making a real difference for yourself, your team, and your business today!”​ –MARSHALL GOLDSMITH, New York Times #1 Bestselling Author

A ground-breaking book at the intersection of strategy and leadership!

This insightful guide provides a proven process for strategy design combined with The Nine Elements of Organizational Identity framework to align action for success. Whether you’re a seasoned executive or a budding entrepreneur, this book is packed with valuable resources, practical illustrations, and humorous cartoons.

The Strategy Legacy is a must-read to future-proof your organization and become a strategic leader.

Nurturing Equanimity: Building A Caring Culture

$28.99

Nurturing Equanimity: Building A Caring Culture provides a much-needed blueprint for organizations looking to create a calm, balanced, and focused environment inviting people to thrive in both their personal and professional lives.

This blueprint of nurturing equanimity to build a culture that cares is a necessity for any organization concerned about identifying, recruiting, and retaining the human capital required to create a sustainable future in today’s post-COVID marketplace. Securing the right people for any organization is difficult in most markets; doing so as the economy emerges from the pandemic induced global recession challenges even the most satisfied workplace cultures. The pandemic’s disruption and residue created an unstable and imbalanced culture across organizations of all sizes and in each industry that exposed numerous negative workplace characteristics many either knew, or never stopped to consider.

Examples included low wages, long and unnecessary commutes, bad management, and unfulfilling work. These characteristics were symbolic of organizational cultures outdated, toxic, and imbalanced created by incompetence, inertia, and ineptitude. The pandemic allowed employees to pause, consider their life situation, and realize their lives had been imbalanced for far too long.

Required reading for individuals from small-to-medium sized businesses, large corporations, non-profit organizations, and government offices, Nurturing Equanimity: Building A Culture That Cares offers employers and employees alike a valuable resource to use as they chart a course forward in a post-pandemic marketplace.