A poignant, uplifting, brilliantly insightful story of one woman's end-of-life reckoning with her past, her lost daughter and herself, for readers of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Still Alice and Elizabeth Is Missing.When her husband left her with a baby, a toddler and a fledgling business, Francesca managed--she wasn't always gentle or patient, but the business thrived and Chris and Angelina had food to eat. At nearly 70, she fe...

This book is your essential guide to the theory and practice of leadership. Whatever your level in an organisation, this is your practical handbook for getting to the top and staying there.Anyone can learn to be a great leader. And everyone can learn to lead better. This book will show you how.Its clear focus on practical, straightforward advice and guidance, delivered with refreshing honesty and humour, and with a relentless focus on the practical skills of leadership, wil...

Jo Owen has set up four national charities in the UK, including Teach First – one of the top five graduate recruiters in the country. Jo has built business in Japan, created a bank, was a partner at Accenture and has worked across the world in most industries. A top corporate coach and speaker on leadership, tribes, global teams and influence, his other books include How to Lead, How to Manage, How to Influence and How to Sell.

Featuring everything you need to know about being an effective leader, The Leadership Skills Handbook will help you develop signature strengths and accelerate leadership success.The Leadership Skills Handbook gives you the 100 essential tools you need to be an outstanding leader. Taking you beyond just theory, it shows you what works in real life, in a concise, easy-to-follow format. Based on research from over a thousand leaders ...

How to Manage is the definitive how-to of management. Based on years of management practice in some of the world’s leading organisations, it cuts through the theory to show you how to develop the skills, behaviours, political abilities and emotions to thrive as a manager.

This book is your essential guide to the theory and practice of leadership. Whatever your level in an organisation, this is your practical handbook for getting to the top and staying there. Learn how to:Get promoted, and survive promotionInfluence and persuade someone, particularly when they're not your direct reportHandle a crisis and survive adversityStep up and know when to step back in moments of risk, opportunity and uncertainty

From the man behind the bestselling How to series comes more essential business wisdom…and this time, it's nicely broken up into 50 digestible nuggets. This is dip-in, dip-out content – easily read, understood and implemented and complete with engaging illustrations.There are a handful of truly inspired and inspirational leaders in the world – you know who they are… and probably wish you were one of them. But leadership isn't easy – some say it's an innate quality,...

Transform your leadership mindset and move from competent manager to standout leader.The Mindset of Success is your guide to making the leap. It shows how high-performing leaders think and act differently from good managers, and how you can adopt the same mindset to lead with clarity, courage and impact. Because in today's fast-moving world, what got you here won't get you there.Written by award-winning leadership expert Jo...

Let's face it, if you want to get ahead in business you cannot avoid people management – but we're often promoted because we're good at what we do, not because we display great management skills. We owe it to the people we manage to read up on the subject and get skilled! Luckily Jo Owen has laid out 50 essential lessons we need to learn to become the best manager we can be.Jo has studied what makes a good manager everywhere from British soap powder companies, to inner city schools...

We are at the start of a new wave of management. The recent financial crisis highlighted problems not just in the economic system, but also in the way that many companies are governed and managed. Now modern management has reached its end game and we approach a new era in leadership. Rather than the certainties of command and control, this new epoch will be based on co-operation and commitment. There has been a strategic revolution - instead of following the rules, we now have to make them...

You are living proof that you are already a smart thinker – you've navigated life well enough to have survived so far. From the author of Smart Leadership, Smart Thinking gives you the tools to be an even smarter thinker so that you can thrive, not just survive, in a challenging world.Smart Thinking focuses on common thinking challenges – both rational and emotional – and gives you an array of practical s...

Feel good and function well with the help of Resilience.Resilience is your key to surviving and thriving in an ever more challenging world. This highly practical book gives you the tools and techniques to deal with the minor irritations and major events which life throws at us.Based on the latest research and original cases from around the world, Jo Owen reveals the 10 habits of mind which anyone can learn to bounce back and sustai...