How to Get What You Want Without Having To Ask

Features

• With its fresh thinking approach and updated with the latest business messages and new examples, Funky Business will ensure that you are always on the right side of change.
• This new edition will rewrite the future for organisations and leaders.

Funkster 1: Kjell Nordström Kjell is based at the Institute of International Business at the Stockholm School of Economics. He received his PhD before helping to found the prestigious Advanced Management Program, which attracts the elite of Scandinavian business leaders. His research has focused on internationalization, and, his ideas work; he makes things happen. He is also on the board of directors of Stokke Fabrikker, Swedish Internet company Spary Ventures and US digital change agent Razorfish. His advice has been key to many other organizations across the globe.  

Funkster 2: Jonas RidderstrSle Based at the Center for Advanced Studies in Leadership at the Stockholm School of Economics, Jonas is at the forefront of the new generation of European-based business gurus. He has an MBA, a doctorate and a book on global innovation under his belt. He has run the Advanced Management Program and has been lecturer, adviser and consultant to many international companies - enabling them to look to the future creatively and develop dynamic strategies and solutions. In his spare time (yes really) he is an art collector and backs one of Sweden's funkiest galleries.

·         The Truth About Series helps you gain an advantage in the areas of your life that really matter to you. Each book contains approximately 50 Truths and every Truth is a tool to make you more successful

·         There are many books on the hot topic of innovation but none are focused, practical and fun. There is a real need for a definitive guide, based on real research that isn't too long and academic for the busy, real-world audience of managers and professionals. 

·         Includes invaluable lessons from over 100 interviews with leading innovators.

·         The author works with very large organisations (Microsoft, Toyota, etc) and so has gained a huge network of potential readers.

• Focussed on market needs - evidence-based and developed entirely from customer information.
• USP - 15 most common mistakes.
• Sales channel through author's own company and publicity.
• Added value - templated and website material.

A leadership book with a difference, Living Leadership delivers an insightful and practical lesson in how real leaders behave, day by day.

·         Quality executive-level treatment of an in-demand subject. Leadership development is what companies are spending money on.

·         Both practical and profound – enough "how-to" to gain continuing sales and enough powerful insights to win publicity.

·         Based on unique and robust research – featured in Economist and Financial Times.

·         The perfect antidote to the masses of heroic leadership biographies about the cult of charismatic, transformational leaders.

·         Leadership is rarely taught well (or at all) at business school. Yet the challenge of leadership has never appeared so individually demanding, or so publicly crucial to the success of an enterprise.

• Everybody likes to feel they are getting ‘special’ advice tailored for their specific personality ‘type’. The popularity of horoscopes reflects this. 
• Personality profiling in still very much in vogue in the business world.  
• Solid research base – the book is based on a profiling model. 
• Now Discover Your Strengths is high up in the business chart. 
• Author success: Confidence 9780273715139 is ranked 14th in the Popular Psychology market and has sold over 18,000 copies since it's publication in July 2008 (TCM Full Year 2008).
• Benchmarks: Now, Discover Your Strengths 9781416502654 is ranked 16th in the Popular Psychology market, 17,280 copies sold (TCM Full Year 2008).

• What sets truly great leaders apart from just good leaders is that they don’t just act differently, they think differently. This practical, results-focused book will show readers how to think differently and think like a leader.
• Using case studies, examples and interviews with great leaders, such as Dennis Nally, the Global Chair of Price Waterhouse Coopers and  Irene Dorner, President and CEO of HSBC in the US, Think like a Leader identifies five steps to help the reader think like a leader

• In the fourth edition of this easy-to-read and logically structured guide, Richard Koch leads you through each critical step in creating, delivering and understanding successful strategy.
• Suitable for both business unit strategy and corporate strategy, this book shows readers which questions to ask, how to go about answering them and what action to take as a result.
• With two separate A-Z sections on key strategic thinkers and on key strategic tools, techniques and models, this unbeatable handy reference gives the reader a thorough, straightforward grounding in strategy.

·         Condensing management MBA theory to provide support on 112 critical business topics, The Mobile MBA focuses on what works in practice, giving readers everything they need to be effective in business.

·         The book breaks down the key ideas of the MBA into bite-sized chunks and shows readers how to use them in practice and the second part fills the holes left by the MBA to give readers a quick reference check to the survival skills of management.

·         Demystifying the mysteries of the MBA and laying out the simple principles which lie behind the grand theory and the big talk, this is a book readers can dip into to give ideas and refresh their thinking when they face a tough challenge.

·         Aimed at anyone who is lacking confidence, feeling powerless, afraid of conflict or feels they could do with learning the secrets of persuading, influencing and getting their own way without any unpleasantness.

·         Contains 100 principles and strategies covering a range of situations both inside and outside of work.

·         With a double page spread dedicated to each of the 100 points, the book is easy to read in bite size chunks, enabling readers to dip in and out as they wish.

·         Lots of simple, easily achievable strategies, which readers can put into practice at whatever speed they chose.

·         No tedious theory, no elaborate, complicated techniques or faddy jargon, just insightful, practical, wise guidance – and lots of it with plenty of ideas from the start.

·         Introduction