Book Reviews

Working in adversarial relationships

Working in Adversarial Relationships takes you through a highly practical, personal and insightful process. It will introduce you to a valuable set of tools which will enable you to step back from your day-to-day work and review how to operate more effectively with your key adversarial senior managers, peers and team members.


Created on: 12/10/2011 10:32

Building Influence in the Workplace

Do you lack influence at work? Do your values clash with those of your key workplace contacts? Do you find yourself getting into conflict with them over key decisions and problems? Do you waste time and energy arguing over what matters most and what might go wrong? Perhaps you want to know how to build influence with your key workplace contacts. Perhaps you want to know how to work effectively with people who approach things differently from you. Or perhaps you simply want to know how to make the differences between you and your main co-workers a point of active collaboration rather than a cause of tension and dissent. If so, this book is for you.


Created on: 11/10/2011 16:28

The Three Levels of Leadership

There are differing views on what it takes to be an effective leader. Some believe you need certain character traits. Others insist that you must have an “ideal” balanced style. Yet others say leaders just have to apply certain behaviours – but the trouble is, many leaders cannot and will not act like this, even after training, because of subtle, unnoticed psychological blocks.


Created on: 22/08/2011 14:04

Managers and Leaders Who Can

Ruth Spellman's book is a timely and long awaited outstanding addition to the management literature. This is a 'must read' for anybody in a leadership or managerial role.


Created on: 21/07/2011 15:39

The Speed of Trust

Like his father, Stephen M.R. Covey is unafraid of exploring difficult, yet critical topics. His book, The Speed of Trust, goes right to the heart of one of the most important issues of our time: the absolute lack of trust.


Created on: 08/06/2011 16:10

The Orange Revolution

The remarkable stories they tell about these teams in action provide a simple and powerful step-by-step guide to taking your team to the breakthrough level, igniting the passion and vision to bring about an Orange Revolution.


Created on: 26/05/2011 13:23

Leadership Team Coaching

Offering a practical road map with numerous examples, Leadership Team Coaching brings together the latest research to teach you how to develope people from disparate groups into a high-performing team to transform your business.


Created on: 26/05/2011 12:53

Get the Job you Really Want

It is possible to have the job of your dreams. Together we are going to set about getting you there. Before I joined the BBC's Dragons' Den, I spent thirty years setting up and running recruitment companies, placing hundreds of thousands of candidates in the jobs they really wanted.


Created on: 20/04/2011 12:59

Strategic Employee Surveys

The book's key concepts are illustrated with many specifics, especially survey content, and lots of fascinating 'war stories'. This book will become a well-thumbed volume by all who want to make the most of employee surveys.


Created on: 03/02/2011 15:20

Coping with Work Stress

By Philip J. Dewe, Michael P. O'Driscoll and Cary L. Cooper. With the insidious effects of workplace stress fully acknowledged and well-documented, Coping with Work Stress takes an important next step by providing coping techniques for improving the health and well-being of organisations and individuals alike...


Created on: 03/02/2011 12:44