Global customers, supply chains and more integrated business functions mean that work now cuts across the traditional vertical silos of country and function. But the 'solution' of the matrix structure also brings multiple bosses, competing goals and higher levels of complexity. Traditional management training prioritizes clarity, predictability and control.In a matrix we need to be able to balance this with the ability to tolerate ambiguity, manage uncertainty and decentralize cont...

Today's managers waste an estimated 40 per cent of their time on unnecessary cooperation, communication and control. Old-fashioned management skills are too expensive and slow to use in today's complex companies. When great companies grow they become more complex. This complexity starts to undermine what made the company successful: the organisation slows down, it is more difficult to get things done and it becomes a less satisfying workplace. In his work with talented people from hundreds...

Do you ever feel your life and career is out of balance, or that there must be more to it all than this?If you want to take control, this book will help you systematically design the next stage of your life and career to maximise your own happiness and fulfilment.FIND YOUR PURPOSE will:· help you clarify your values, strengths and purpose and understand what brings meaning for you personally· introduce principles and techniques for actively d...

How to work and manage others successfully in matrix organisations operating across regions and functions, with global teams, customers and supply chains.Traditional management training prioritizes clarity, predictability and control. In a matrix we need to be able to balance this with the ability to tolerate ambiguity, manage uncertainty and decentralize control. Managers need an expanded toolkit to help them move from the hard to the soft, from the concrete to the ambiguous and b...

CUT 50% OF YOUR MEETINGS AND IMPROVE THE ONES THAT REMAINMeetings are essential to collaboration and decision making, but they are often irrelevant, time consuming and badly run. People spend an average of 2 days per week in meetings and 50% of it is wasted. This book will help you win back that wasted day a week by cutting out the half of face to face and virtual meetings that do not need to happen and radically improving the ones that remain.The two autho...

Do you ever feel your life and career is out of balance, or that there must be more to it all than this?If you want to take control, this book will help you systematically design the next stage of your life and career to maximise your own happiness and fulfilment.FIND YOUR PURPOSE will:· help you clarify your values, strengths and purpose and understand what brings meaning for you personally· introduce principles and techniques for actively d...

A decade on from its first publication, the book that inspires and enables people to succeed in complex organisations is now updated for Agile working.How to work and manage others successfully in matrix organisations operating across regions and functions, with global teams, customers and supply chains.Traditional management training prioritizes clarity, predictability and control. In a matrix we need to be able to balance this with the ability to tolerate...

She fears she’s apprenticed to a monster. But one way or another, this young witch won’t let the world fall into darkness.18th-Century Boston. It’s only a matter of time before Kate Finch’s magical secrets are public knowledge. And with the new governor determined to chase her from Salem, she’s worried she won’t be around to deal with her mentor’s increasingly disturbing signs of demonic possession. But the rifts between worlds are shifting so dangerously that unle...

Today, over 3,000 protected areas around the world contribute to the protection of biodiversity, peaceful relations between neighbouring countries, and the well-being of people living in and around the protected environs. Historical and geo-political constraints are disappearing in a new spirit of collaboration to address common issues confronting ecosystems, species, and communities. Managing across boundaries is seen as the only way to ensure the long-term viability of ecological systems...

She fears she’s apprenticed to a monster. But one way or another, this young witch won’t let the world fall into darkness.18th-Century Boston. It’s only a matter of time before Kate Finch’s magical secrets are public knowledge. And with the new governor determined to chase her from Salem, she’s worried she won’t be around to deal with her mentor’s increasingly disturbing signs of demonic possession. But the rifts between worlds are shifting so dangerously that unle...