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THE FEARLESS
ORGANIZATION:
CREATING
PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY
IN THE WORKPLACE FOR
LEARNING, INNOVATION,
AND GROWTH
By Amy C. Edmondson
According to a 2017 Gallup
poll, only three in 10 employees
believe their opinions count
at work. Even if a company
hires creative individuals,
innovative ideas will never
have a chance unless people
are encouraged to speak
out without fear of being
discounted or demeaned. In
this book, Amy C. Edmondson
delves into the foundation
essential for innovation to
flourish: a workplace where
knowledge workers are able
to share their knowledge – and
their concerns, questions and
mistakes. She sheds light on
the crucial workplace factor
of psychological safety: what
it is (and isn’t); how it affects
employee performance in
wide-ranging organisations at
every level, from the factory
floor up; and what business
leaders need to do to build it –
and get it back when it’s lost.
Published byWiley, £22.99
WHAT’S YOUR
COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGE? 7
STRATEGIES FOR
RUNNING A MORE
PROFITABLE BUSINESS IN
A COMPLEX WORLD
By Professor Cliff Bowman and
Dr Paul Raspin
Leading business consultants
Professor Cliff Bowman and Dr
Paul Raspin have identified the
seven key strategies that have
allowed both new and established
businesses to thrive through
uncertainty. In this practical new
book, they provide a guide to
successfully implementing and
creating lasting value through
each approach, with real-life
case-study examples, including
fashion companies Zara and Long
Tall Sally, Lexus and Aldi.
What’s
Your Competitive Advantage?
not
only helps readers to identify the
strategy right for a business, but
also outlines the cultural, structural
and systems requirements for
successfully following each
approach. It goes beyond the
theory of business strategy to
provide practical, accessible
guidance on how to turn strategy
into action, through leading
practices that evolve as events
unfold.
Published by FT Publishing, £19.99
UNLOCK YOU: BE CALM,
CONFIDENT AND HAPPY
IN JUST 10 MINUTES
A DAY
By Andy Barker and BethWood
If you’re suffering from stress,
anxiety or negative thoughts, then
Unlock You
is your simple, six-week
plan to feel calm, kick that bad
habit and release your potential
to be your best.
Unlock You
is a
special programme designed
to give you the skills and tools to
be calmer, happier andmore
confident. When challenging
situations arise, you will be able to
deal better with them, and cope
in a crisis. This unique and easy-to-
follow programme gives you a host
of simple techniques and exercises
to beat stress and negative habits,
and release potential beyond
that which you knew you had!
Designed to fit easily into your
daily life, you’ll quickly learn how
to step out of your own way.
Usingmindfulness, emotional
intelligence, CBT and the latest
findings from neuroscience, this
book doesn’t just change the way
you feel, but the way you act and
react. By building the programme
into your daily routine, you’ll be
a better partner, parent, friend,
employer and employee.
Published by Pearson, £12.99
UNLEASH YOUR LEADER:
HOW TO WIN IN BUSINESS
By Emmanuel Gobillot and
Katherine Thomas
Whether you are about to
take a step up to a leadership
position, or just setting out on
your management career,
Unleash Your Leader
is an
essential guide to help the
reader succeed in their business
ambitions. The book declares
from the start that the secret
to executive status is to do the
things leaders do, speak the
way leaders speak and behave
the way leaders behave. It
explains how to do these things
so naturally that no one ever
questions why you should be
a senior leader, but instead
questions why you are not one
already. Featuring examples
of real paths to leadership and
promotion, the authors provide
a fresh, pragmatic and above all
useful handbook for succeeding
in today’s fast-evolving world of
business management. This book
is aimed at the ambitious leaders
of the future, revealing what it
takes to get to top – and how
to be a successful leader when
you’re there.
Published by Urbane Publications,
£12.99
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