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180 OF THE SHARPEST AND STICKIEST WAYS TO GET BETTER RESULTS AT WORK
“Flip the org chart and put the customer on top.”
“Write the press release before you start development.”
“Give someone busy more work to do.”

In 180 Business Hacks, you’ll find these and 177 other surprising, sharp and inspiring ways to get better results at work. These cheat codes will help you succeed by shifting the way you think about business problems. Conventional thinking gets you conventional results but often the stickiest ideas are small. And like tiny cracks, they eventually turn into in something bigger.

The hacks are organized into 9 themed chapters (Innovation, Strategy, Structure, Management, Analysis, Portfolio, Change, Impact and Effectiveness) so you can find them quickly, but for best results just flip through and open at random. You’ll always find something unexpected to add to your daily routine.

THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS WINNER 2022

“Don’t mistake being busy for being productive! Create time to read this important book and start spending your time where it counts.” Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times #1 bestselling author

How we spend our time is one of the greatest indicators of how successful we will be. We achieve our goals when we ruthlessly prioritise tasks and people that are important to us.

This book is for you if:
· You feel unrelentingly busy and overwhelmed.
· 3pm arrives and you’ve not done any of the tasks you intended.
· When you’re not working, you’re still ‘on’ – checking emails and always thinking about what you haven’t done.
· You over-commit and find it hard to say no.
· You sacrifice your own priorities for disorganised people’s urgent demands.
· Meetings, emails, and constant interruptions suck the life out of you.
· Your HR department’s emails about wellness week are the final straw: meditation won’t help your wellbeing, less meetings would.

If we focus our time, energy and attention on the wrong things we will never achieve the success or happiness that we aspire to. The problem is that the low value, low impact tasks that distract us from our priorities, are hard to ignore. They scream out at us all day: digital distractions, other people’s urgent demand for ‘five minutes’ that’s never five minutes, the meetings that you shouldn’t be in, the pointless email chains, the reports you write that don’t get read. We get a hit from ticking these tasks off a list. It’s got us hooked on crazy busyness. But all we are doing is scratching off a layer of fake work on top of the real, valuable work.

The Crazy Busy Cure is full of intensely practical tips to save you from this addiction and get productive again. It will show you how to have a laser focus on your priorities, manage others so they can get on with the work and find more head space. With tips for remote working and office working alike as well as productivity hacks for people with learning and thinking differences, this lively read is jam packed with solutions.

Zena Everett is executive coach and organisational psychologist and draws from her many thousands of hours and coaching and speaking to people about productivity blockers and how to shift them.

Stay energised, find your freedom from distractions and regain your productivity.

Based on the chart-topping BUSINESS WARS podcast re-imagined using Sun Tzu’s THE ART OF WAR as a guide, THE ART OF BUSINESS WARS features stories and lessons from history’s greatest business rivalries revealing why some companies triumph while others crumble.

Business is a fight for survival. In business as in war, leaders match their wills in pursuit of opposing outcomes, they devise strategies, and marshal resources for victory. Success can turn on the smallest of details; a single tactical blunder can topple an empire. Ultimately, one side triumphs – and victory is all that matters.

In The Art of Business Wars, David Brown, host of the hit podcast Business Wars, masterfully frames some of the biggest business rivalries in history using revered Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu’s insights and pragmatic advice. Each rivalry tells a story of combined wits, strategies, and resources. Brown chronicles the rise of companies as they vanquish rivals, formulate innovative plans, and adapt to keep up with shifting needs. The goal? Stay ahead of the competition and emerge victorious.

By compiling powerful insights uncovered over hundreds of podcast episodes and more than a year of in-depth research, Brown has developed a formula for business intrigue rich in popular history. The stories in The Art of Business Wars will inspire you, and the lessons you can draw from them – about determination, ingenuity, patience, grit, subtlety, and other traits that contribute to a victorious enterprise – are invaluable, whether you’re a creative freelancer or the CEO of a multinational manufacturer.

What if leaders stripped away all preconceptions about how business operates, allowing the organization to go back to its core and build itself back up to become something new – something so responsive, so innovative and resilient, it becomes virtually non-displaceable in the market? The Regenerative Business sets the stage for what is now only dreamt of by most of today’s forward-thinking leaders and paves the path to make it possible. The book features:

– Real stories from companies leading innovation and transformation across the globe including; Google, Colgate Europe, Seventh Generation, Nike and others

– A logical, comprehensive approach that factors in the complexities of the modern organization

– The work of internationally-recognized leadership expert Carol Sanford, who for decades has been designing and leading systemic business change

Tamara Ghandour, author, podcaster, keynote speaker and founder of innovation training company, LaunchStreet, used to believe that innovation was the domain of a select few, exclusive to certain industries, or relegated to a specific job role. But, as Tamara discovered in her 25 years of work and research, everybody has the capacity to innovate. It’s a person’s unique innovation style, which can be assessed and channelled, that can transform inertia into innovation.

Drawing on eye-opening data from her proprietary Innovation Quotient Edge Assessment, Innovation is Everybody’s Business is for those looking for solutions to the daily pain of “how do I prove my worth,” a reality for many people whether they work in the C-Suite or on the front-lines. This book will resonate with those that recognize that being more innovative is their ticket to being indispensable. It is also for leaders under pressure to build a culture of innovation but don’t know how. As organizations face pressure to innovate, the accountability for making it happen falls on senior and mid-level leaders. They are told what to do, but not how to do it. This book will give them a tool to build a team of innovators who make an impact every day in big and small ways.

“This is the Indiana Jones of international business.” Csaba Toth

An unvarnished, story-driven, practical guide to working across cultures. The book features real stories of companies going global and highlights the realities of doing business overseas in a post-globalization world. Each story gives fascinating insights and lessons into the cultural realities and unexpected surprises of modern globalization.

The Accidental Business Nomad is for anyone working in a more global environment and who is looking to gain critical insights and communications skills needed for a shrinking world.

As Managing Director of TSL Marketing’s Leadership Nomad group, Kyle Hegarty has deciphered the culture code of doing business in Asia and the fastest growing markets. Hegarty reports on his triumphs and failures, including tales where unexpected lessons abound. The result is a no-holds-barred, gritty, and unvarnished guide to doing business across cultures.

Readers will learn:

· Why up to 70 percent of international ventures fail due to cultural issues, and how to avoid becoming a casualty
· How to navigate the invisible language of cultural misunderstandings
· Cross-cultural communications skills everyone in business needs to know
· The art and science of personality profiling and quick short-cuts to understanding people
· What outsourced call centers can teach us about the future of global communication
· How to find inspiration and innovation in the most unlikely of places

Reliable, authoritative, and designed to ease grammar anxiety!

Words are the currency of every business transaction. They persuade, inspire, educate, and clarify. Essential Grammar for Business offers guidance to professionals perplexed by proper comma placement, dangling modifiers, or the difference between who and whom.

With a better understanding of the building blocks, readers will be better equipped to focus on the other ingredients of good business writing such as content, clarity, and style. This book is fun, fast-paced, and easy to use.

Build essential skills and write with confidence at work!

Immediately practical guide to better business writing designed to help you develop a clear, direct, natural communication style that supports rather than obscures what you want to say.

Writing for Business covers writing principles that are relevant for a wide range of business documents, including email, letters, memos, reports, proposals, and more, while also offering editing tips to ensure you come across as professional and polished. The book features examples and tips straight from the workplace.

The world is full of business ideas. But how do you know which the best ones are? And how do you find time to read them?

100 BUSINESS TOOLS FOR SUCCESS may be a little book, but it contains the very best business tools from the very best business brains on the planet. Each one is summarized over just two pages, so that you can quickly enjoy the insights that are driving the most successful people in all walks of life.

Discover and start using all of these tools and more straight away:

* The GROW model for coaching
* The six steps of delegation
* SWOT analysis
* Scenario thinking
* The 7s model
* The Six Rs of business
* The Pareto principle
* Blue Ocean Strategy
* The Six Thinking Hats
* The 4 Ps of marketing
* The Tipping Point
* Six Sigma
* The seven habits of highly effective people

How would you like to get business startup advice straight from the man who co-founded Global Entrepreneurship Week and StartUp America? Well now you can.

Carl Schramm, the man described by The Economist as ‘The Evangelist of Entrepreneurship’, has written a myth-busting guide packed with tools and techniques to help you get your big idea off the ground.

Carl believes that entrepreneurship has been completely misrepresented by the media, business books, university programmes and MBA courses. He believes that the perception of what it takes to start a business no longer matches the reality – which is bad news for everyone because it stops great ideas coming to life.

Burn the Business Plan punctures the myth of the cool, tech-savvy 20-something entrepreneur with nothing to lose and venture capital to burn, showing that most people who start businesses are juggling careers and mortgages just like you.

Burn the Business Plan is written to encourage you to get started. It demystifies the entrepreneurial process portrayed on television shows like Dragon’s Den. It doesn’t rely on largely irrelevant stories of overvalued tech startups, nor does it build on the largely mistaken narrative of a linear path from cold start to great success that is the essence of business planning, as taught in universities. This is the guide to starting and running a business that will actually work for the rest of us.

Burn the Business Plan is for regular people who just want practical, real-world advice on how to start and run a successful business. It shows you how to avoid the common mistakes and what you need to do to put your enterprise on track for success.

What do great enterprises have in common? What sort of person starts them? A single idea can help you find the next big thing, but it takes time to trawl through hundreds of business books to find inspiration.

With insightful commentaries on the landmark writings of old and new, 50 Business Classics presents the great entrepreneur stories, the best management thinking and the proven ideas on strategy, innovation and marketing – in one volume.

50 Business Classics presents the key ideas from classic texts such as My Years with General Motors and Michael Gerber’s The E-Myth Revisited to contemporary business lessons from the rise of tech giants like Google, Apple and Amazon. It contains revealing biographies of luminaries like Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett, as well as lesser-known stories including creation of publishing giant Penguin and Chinese behemoth Alibaba.

Here you’ll find the texts and ideas that matter in:
· Entrepreneurship
· Leadership
· Management
· Strategy
· Business history
· Personal development
· Technology and innovation

Summarising the smartest thinking for today’s professional success, 50 Business Classics provides inspiration and insights for entrepreneurs, executives and students of business and management alike.

50 common cultural mistakes made in business are presented in the form of short conversations which show that there’s always a reason why people do the strange things they do, the reason is almost never to upset you, and there’s always a way round.

The Art of Doing Business Across Cultures presents five brief, unsuccessful conversational exchanges between Americans and their business colleagues in 10 different locations-the Arab Middle East, Brazil, China, England, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, and Russia.

Business Beyond the Box makes note of the self-imposed limitations each of us places on ourselves unconsciously. With a focus on applying new mindsets and achieving breakthrough results, O’Keeffe suggests working with–rather than within–boundaries. Applicable to both individuals and organizations, Business Beyond the Box will improve readers’ ability to innovate.