English | July 24, 2026 | ISBN-10: 3032310237 | 159 pages| PDF This book examines how different forms of proximity influence the knowledge processes necessary for sustainable innovation. Exploring five key dimensions—geographical, cognitive, institutional, organizational, and social—it shows how the most effective combinations of these dimensions support strong, sustainability-oriented innovation networks. Through an analysis of how these dimensions interact, the book identifies common patterns in successful collaborations. It provides practical guidance for companies, policymakers, universities, and civil society organizations designing innovation networks or selecting partners for collaborative projects. Policy actors will find guidance for crafting strategies that promote sustainability more effectively. At its core, the book introduces a refined analytical framework for studying multiactor settings, which are typical of sustainable innovation. It addresses the complexity of sustainability challenges and the dispersed, context-specific knowledge they require. Drawing on innovation systems research and sustainability science, the book provides a deeper understanding of how sustainable innovations take shape and thrive.

English | May 12, 2026 | ISBN-10: 9819569265 | 227 pages| PDF The purpose of this book is to connect the three domains of (1) ESG investment, (2) Industrie 4.0, and (3) blockchain technology through the common concept of “data,” and to illustrate how these elements are transforming modern industrial structures and corporate governance. The book is organized into four parts, introducing the key concepts and theoretical models necessary for understanding its structure. First, the chapter reinterprets ESG investment through the lens of Max Weber’s ethics, positioning environmental, social, and governance factors not merely as indicators but as essential “information” that shapes corporate decision-making. It also examines the differences between ESG and SRI (using Euler and Venn diagrams), addresses the challenges of greenwashing and possible countermeasures, and discusses how pension systems incorporate future value.

English | July 8, 2026 | ISBN-10: 1394366272 | 352 pages| PDF An eye-opening collection of hands-on strategies for contemporary business leadership In Leading for Tomorrow, a group of accomplished executives, academics, and experts deliver a collection of persuasive, insightful solutions to common and difficult workplace problems. This compilation of essays charts a pathway to an understanding of what it takes to lead people effectively in the modern era. You’ll explore the latest leadership styles and strategies, learning how to lead yourself, lead others, and lead organizations. You’ll also discover how to harness the principles of self-actualization, manage mental health challenges in yourself and others, and identify the qualities that help you get and stay motivated at work. Inside the book

English | July 28, 2026 | ISBN-10: 1398628190 | 256 pages| PDF The most inspiring, fulfilled managers are those who are in control of their energy levels in a world that moves at a breakneck pace.Fully Charged shows how to manage your energy instead of just your time. You will discover how to restore focus, resilience and balance so you can lead with impact at work without running on empty at home.Written by performance expert Lieven van Linden, the book introduces his proven Heart Rate Variability method, a science-backed north star for tracking and boosting energy. With practical tools and simple daily shifts he reveals how leaders at every level can recharge in ways that last. You'll learn how to map out your current energy level, create an energy management blueprint, track your progress, and keep your habits up long term.Ignore your energy and burnout is inevitable. Master it and you unlock clarity, confidence and sustainable success.Themes include: energy management, sustainable leadership, resilience, stress recovery, high-performance habits and work-life balance.

English | July 28, 2026 | ISBN-10: 1398628476 | 288 pages| PDF How can sales professionals apply AI to build trust, optimize strategy and deliver impact in a digital-first world?AI Strategy for Sales Teams by Andy Hough, Richard Vincent and Richard Brooks is a practical guide for mid-career sales professionals, managers and consultants who want to strengthen credibility, apply proven frameworks and optimize selling strategies in an AI-driven marketplace. Focused on career impact and organizational performance, it shows how to develop and implement AI-enabled principles while staying true to the fundamentals of why people buy.Drawing on real-world examples from technology companies, professional services firms and global enterprises, this book equips you to:- Apply AI tools to prepare insightful questions and optimize prospecting- Develop data-driven insights that enhance, not replace, human intuition- Implement ethical negotiation strategies supported by AI at scale- Build credibility through personalized, customer-centred engagement- Apply frameworks that integrate technology with consultative selling modelsWith detailed chapters and actionable tools, AI Strategy for Sales Teams helps you harness AI innovations to elevate performance, strengthen customer relationships and advance your career in an evolving sales environment.Themes include: sales strategy, AI innovation, consultative selling, ethical negotiation, customer engagement, data-driven insights

English | July 28, 2026 | ISBN-10: 1398628999 | 232 pages| PDF AI is rewriting the rules of success. It's time to learn the seven skills that will allow you to thrive in the new world of work.As AI continues to revolutionize business and work, it has never been more vital for professionals and leaders at every stage to futureproof themselves in preparation for what is to come. SuperSkills empowers you to build on your experience with the seven essential skills for the future of work and learn to recognize when you are drifting with the algorithm rather than designing your own path.Once you've mastered these traits, you'll be equipped with a resilient, future-focused skillset, essential for navigating the upcoming technological shift. Drawing on his experience as a future-of-work strategist, Rahim Hirji shows you how to build the confidence to chart a path forwards. By the time you've finished, you won't just be prepared for the future - you'll be prepared to shape it.Themes include: AI transformation, future of work, adaptability, lifelong learning, innovation mindset, human skills

English | July 28, 2026 | ISBN-10: 1398626074 | 320 pages| PDF Implement a digital communications strategy that boosts engagement, retention and productivity in a hybrid workplace.Digital Communications at Work is the practical guide for internal communications managers, HR business partners and mid-level leaders who want to optimize how employees connect, collaborate and access essential information. Written by two leading digital communications experts, it combines proven principles, actionable frameworks and real-world examples help you deliver measurable results and strengthen your professional credibility.Drawing on examples including from universities, global banks, professional institutes and international charities, this book will enable you to:- Develop a tailored channel strategy aligned to business goals and culture - Build and present a compelling business case to secure leadership buy-in - Apply frameworks to select, integrate and optimize digital tools effectively - Implement content plans that sustain engagement and talent retention - Measure, analyze and refine for continuous improvement and ROIWith step-by-step guidance and actionable tools, Digital Communications at Work equips you to navigate the planning, politics, finance and IT challenges and create a seamless digital employee experience that supports organizational performance.Themes include: Internal communications strategy, hybrid workplace engagement, content planning, channel optimization, employee experience, communications ROI

English | July 28, 2026 | ISBN-10: 1398627844 | 248 pages| PDF Build a customer culture that drives consistent, human-centred business results.Customer Passion by Steven Van Belleghem is a practical, evidence-based guide for managers, team leads and business strategists who want to translate customer-centric principles into measurable performance. Moving beyond theory, it offers a framework for embedding customer-first behaviour into everyday operations through 101 actionable steps, proven strategies and real-world case studies.You'll discover how to:- Apply customer experience principles that improve engagement and loyalty- Implement practical models that turn empathy into operational excellence- Optimize processes to align automation with authentic human connection- Develop consistent habits that create emotional impact and brand trust- Build credibility by applying frameworks used by leading global organizationsGrounded in real-world insight and shaped by global best practice, Customer Passion helps professionals bridge the gap between intention and execution. It equips leaders to implement change, influence culture and strengthen business value through a customer-first approach.Themes include: customer strategy, experience design, behavioural frameworks, culture change, AI integration, service optimization

English | July 3, 2026 | ASIN: B0GX36WY7G | 351 pages| PDF Build a future-ready workforce that delivers business impact today and long-term resilience tomorrow.Future-Ready Talent by Tania Lennon and Ric Roi is a strategic guide for senior HR leaders, executives and business partners who must align talent pipelines with shifting organizational priorities. Written by experts from the world-renowned IMD Business School, it combines psychology, neuroscience, technology and academic research into a practical, evidence-based framework for securing the talent your business needs.With a clear focus on the demands of a rapidly changing world of work, this book shows why traditional HR approaches to talent development are no longer sufficient and how leaders can adapt to build sustainable, future-proof capability.You'll discover how to:- Redefine expertise, skills and knowledge in an AI-enhanced workplace- Apply advanced talent assessment and psychometrics for smarter decisions- Build diverse and inclusive talent pools that strengthen innovation- Balance buy-versus-build strategies to accelerate capability development- Manage succession planning across a multigenerational workforcePacked with global real-world examples, tools and actionable models, Future-Ready Talent gives you the insight and confidence to design a workforce strategy that strengthens leadership pipelines, drives organizational performance and secures competitive advantage.Themes include: talent strategy, succession planning, workforce diversity, future skills, HR leadership, organizational resilience

English | 2026 | ISBN: 3119144428 | 134 pages | PDF In an era of AI disruption, economic volatility, and workplace burnout, traditional problem-solving methods are failing. Reverse Thinking offers a groundbreaking toolkit for tackling modern challenges by merging logic with creativity, structure with spontaneity, and analysis with intuition. At the core of the book are the Seven Dimensions of Reverse Thinking and the 4D Process: Defuse, Disrupt, Dance, and Distill. These tools push readers to imagine future failure before it happens, trace problems backward from their point of impact, force rational analysis to confront moral intuition, and integrate competing viewpoints under pressure. Through engaging real-world case studies, readers learn to balance top-down vision with bottom-up innovation, fast instincts with slow deliberation, and emotional drive with practical grounding. Each chapter includes actionable exercises to transform theory into habit. Designed for professionals navigating AI-driven industries, educators fostering agile mindsets, and creatives battling blocks, Reverse Thinking bridges the gap between rigid logic and untamed imagination. Whether you’re launching a startup, redesigning a curriculum, or reinventing your career, this book equips you to thrive in uncertainty, transforming friction into fuel for breakthroughs.

English | ISBN: 1138236403 | 2018 | 326 pages | PDF | Through the focus on organizational space, using the reception and significance of the seminal work on the subject by sociologist Henri Lefebvre, this book demonstrates why and how Lefebvre's work can be used to inform and elaborate organisational studies, especially in view of the current interest in the "socio-material" dimension of organisations. As the "spatial turn" in organisational research exposed the importance of spatial design in inducing power and cultural relations, Lefebvre's perspective has become an inspiring, theoretical framework. However, Organisational Space and Beyond explores how Lefebvre’s work could be of a much wider relevance, especially given his profound theoretical engagement with diverse schools of philosophical and sociological thought, including Nietzsche, Marx, Sartre and Foucault.

English | 2020 | ISBN: 1636765521 | EPUB | pages: 332 | Venus Genius: The Female Prescription for Innovation is a winner of the 2023 Goody Business Book Awards that honor 100% Social Impact books and authors making a difference with words! It’s a winner in the ‘Women in Business’ category and was a finalist in the ‘Thought Leader’ category. The book explores innovation from different perspectives: historical, scientific, sociological, cultural and practical — all through the feminine lens. It addresses the shortage of women in innovation and how important it is to address this as a first step to inclusion. This book reveals that any innovator can acquire the necessary skills to create meaningful innovation. Venus Genius is about celebrating the duality of the feminine and the masculine in all human beings and dares us to activate both energies to create innovation that brings true value to our world.

2001 | English | 305 Pages | ISBN: 0471411248 | PDF | AT LAST, SOUND, INFORMED, REALISTIC ANSWERS FOR RETIREMENT FINANCEUse the simple, step-by-step guidance in J.K. Lasser's Your Winning Retirement Plan to double your money for your golden years. Whether you're forecasting how much you need to be saving for retirement or are deciding how much you should be spending once you're there, acclaimed planning expert Henry K. Hebeler can get you the results you need. You'll analyze your investments and start getting the highest possible returns--with the least amount of risk; take a real-world look at your total financial picture, without inappropriate planning assumptions; and make use of a new concept called the Retirement Autopilot, which can help you budget more wisely today and ensure that your investments will last a lifetime.Key coverage will help you:* Beat reverse dollar-cost averaging so your money will continue to grow*

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1838676201 | 217 Pages | PDF As the world becomes increasingly interconnected and cross-cultural contexts gain prominence, leaders can no longer ignore the global dimensions of leadership. The way we study leadership must be informed by processes that take place beyond and across borders. The way we practice leadership cannot ignore the cultural basis of our thoughts and actions. This book provides cutting-edge perspectives on the impact that globalization is having on the study and practice of Global Leadership.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1950863514 | 180 Pages | PDF This may be your experience. You've advanced to a specific level in your career, but now you've stalled. In Climbing the Spiral Staircase, author Leanne Meyer shares specific, actionable strategies that will help you build the career you aspire to have. This book will help you gain control of your career by reclaiming the passion and ambition with which you began. Leanne's executive coaching strategies are firmly grounded in pragmatic, evidence-based thinking. Her goal is to equip you to be intentional in recognizing your sources of strength, assessing your impact, and achieving your ambitions.

English | June 23rd, 2026 | ISBN: 1969935316 | 196 pages | PDF Your business is bleeding marketing dollars—but it doesn't have to. Most small businesses waste money on marketing that was never built for them. Behind every company is a pile of invoices for services sold through persuasion, not strategy. The result? Lost time, energy, and opportunity. Entrepreneurs everywhere are navigating the marketing jungle without a map—and it's time to change that. Empower Your Marketing is your guide for spending smarter, helping you determine when to say yes and when to say no. Drawing on insights from hundreds of entrepreneurs, Sacha Awwa shows you when to start each initiative, what to prioritize, and how to make every dollar count. Inside, you'll find • A framework for real businesses with real constraints • Tools to reach customers who truly need what you offer • Stories of owners who found clarity and success through focus Because lasting growth doesn't come from spending more—it comes from marketing with purpose, precision, and power.

English | 2026 | ISBN-10: 1787786331 | 336 pages |PDF AI Firing Freeze: Why fully-staffed organizations thrive in an AI-driven economy challenges one of the biggest assumptions in modern business; that artificial intelligence capabilities should automatically lead to workforce reduction. As organizations race to implement AI chatbots, AI agents and agentic AI solutions, many are planning layoffs and hiring freezes in pursuit of short-term cost savings. But what if that strategy is fundamentally flawed? Drawing on proven patterns of technological transformation, innovation, market expansion and real-world operational risks, AI Firing Freeze argues that the organizations most likely to thrive in an AI-driven economy will not be those that aggressively reduce headcount, but those that retain, repurpose and upskill their teams to work alongside AI for exponential results. AI Firing Freeze shows you how to combine the strengths of AI with the human insight, critical thinking, experience, curation and governance your organization needs for success.

English | 2025 | ISBN: 152921792X | 207 Pages | PDF | Since the 1980s, Human Resource Management (HRM) has risen to prominence as a highly influential area of practice and scholarship, yet critical examinations remain rare. This book applies psychoanalytic ideas to challenge HRM’s core theories and practices, exposing the dark side of organizational life and human motivation.

English | ASIN: B0H46MNVX8 | 2026 | 5 hours and 3 minutes | The classic guide that helps you communicate your thoughts clearly, concisely, and effectively. Essential for every professional, from entry-level to the executive suite, Writing That Works, 3rd Edition includes advice on all aspects of professional writing and business communication—including business memos, letters, reports, speeches and resumes, and e-mail—and offers insights into political correctness and tips for using non-biased language that won’t compromise your message. Concise and easy-to-use, Writing That Works, 3rd Edition features an accessible, at-a-glance style, full of bulleted "tips" and specific examples of good vs. bad writing. With dozens of samples and useful tips to sharpen your writing skills, Writing That Works, 3rd Edition will show you how to improve anything you write.

English | August 1, 2026 | ISBN-10: 3032308623 | 355 pages| PDF Baltic DB&IS 2026 proceedings on Information systems, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Data management systems, Human computer interaction. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Baltic Conference, DB&IS 2026, Tartu, Estonia, June 28–July 1, 2026. The 20 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are centered around topics like Foundations, Methods, and Systems Engineering,Applications of Intelligent Systems,Human-Centric Intelligent Systems,Socio-Technical Systems,Data Science and Analytics in Education and Digitalization and Intelligent Systems for Organisations.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1915261058 | 116 Pages | PDF Economics teachers often work by themselves or in small departments. This can mean they are forced to plan a lot of lessons from scratch with limited scope for shared planning or collaboration.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1544532822 | PDF | pages: 140 | Chances are someone is cheating you out of your money. You want to be financially successful, but without understanding the ways banks, financial institutions, and financial advisors operate, you could be paying for products or services you don’t need or want—even ones that are ticking time bombs. Anyone can call themselves a “financial advisor,” but taking advice from non-experts who don’t put your interests first can lead you down a path of financial ruin. Certified Financial Planner Kevin MacLeod is here to help. Money Made Easy offers insider information on everything you need to know about accumulating, spending, and protecting your hard-earned money. Learn how to maximize your accumulation of assets, distinguish bad financial advisors from trustworthy ones, and other tools to ensure no one can ever cheat you out of your money again.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 178904779X | 214 Pages | PDF In an advanced digital era, with data available on almost everyone and everything, knowing how to bring these different technologies together into a cost-effective integrated marketing strategy that works to create new business sales is paramount to the success of any firm. Understanding what needs to be done to get good results, without spending a king's ransom or burning the midnight oil to generate those sales, is at the very heart of what Integrated Business to Business Marketing is about. Whether you run an established enterprise or business start-up, Philip Allott will provide you with a blueprint for success.

English | ASIN: B08XDRFC1W | 2021 | 5 hours and 35 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | This book focuses on what makes a successful CEO and the paths to becoming one in today's global economy. Chapters in the book include insights by 20 top CEOs - one from each G20 country - gathered from an extensive global qualitative research project. Through seven easy-to-digest "master classes" that demystify the role of the 21st-century CEO, the authors present their findings in an accessible, conversational style that serves as a step-by-step guide for those who aspire to become CEOs and develop essential character traits, experience, and skills required of the role.