Featured books

A Friend in Every City

Networking is the key skill for the 21st century worker. A Friend in Every City, by Penny and Thomas Power, founders of Ecademy, and Andy Coote, is an inspirational and practical guide to the art and science of networking.

Blog on to change your career

Margaret Stead, career coach and self-styled 'dream architect' has produced the first comprehensive guide to self-promotion by blogging. Blogs (weB LOGs) are the fastest-expanding feature of the Internet, easily out-pacing porn and gambling in their rate of growth. Margaret's book 'Blog on to a career change' describes how you can use blogs to build your profile and become widely known as an expert in your particular area.

Sun Tzu and the project battleground

In his first book David Hawkins explores the lessons that the classic book on Chinese warfare, by General Sun Tzu, has for people involved in setting-up and managing projects.

There have been many business books based on the works of Sun Tzu and a lot of them turn out to be rather stodgy and contrived. This book however uses the Chinese original as a basis on which to build a series of penetrating insights into the rough and tumble of modern business and project management.

Winning by sharing

Based on the personal experience of the author, Leon Benjamin, Winning by Sharing describes the new ways in which freedom-loving individuals are choosing to work, buy and invest. A collection of true stories combined with market research and analysis about the future of work, it shows how profoundly this revolution will affect people in the next decade, and how this will take most people by surprise.

The Bending Moment - energizing corporate business strategy

David Hawkins

This book is about how pressures and stresses from both outside and within can act to change the shapes of organisations - the 'Bending Moment' of the title. It develops the idea of an holistic business strategy as being essential to build success in today's highly complex global market place. The book has fascinating things to say about mergers and acquisitions, risk management, leadership, change management, business networks and alliances.