CATEGORY WINNER: Business Book Awards 2021 - HR & Management CategoryAn engaged and productive workforce is essential for organizational growth and business success.However, record levels of disengaged staff, a lack of motivation and employees feeling that they lack the necessary skills and support to excel at their jobs is putting this in jeopardy. HR practitioners are ideally placed to address these issues and boost productivity ...

Create an Organization That Runs on More than Intuition and GuessworkMost companies today have access to reams of data: marketing, supply chain, finance, as well as critical data about their workforce. Yet research shows that leaders at these companies lack the confidence to effectively integrate and use this data to compete more effectively in the marketplace. While executives know the results they need to achieve, they often fail to analyze the impact of...

Paradise LostIn the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise—and then, in amoment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have neverknown a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive.But scattered across the face of the earth are communities which have returned to the natural life of soil andsmall farm. In the village of Raven’s Mill, Edmun...

Swords, Sex, and Rockets!Paradise falls. Humanity is thrown back to an age of steel and blood. Now the fuel that powers the "changed" world is up for grabs in an orbiting spacecraft. With only days to plan, rough and ready paladin Herzer Herrick must assemble ateam of expert warriors capable of both seat-of-the-pants engineering and handto-hand combat in space. In the meantime, Herzer must face his own demons as he waits for his emotionally-scarred fiancé to recover and fina...

Problems, problems, problems …The world had been a paradise until the Fall, when the holders of the control codes for the world-spanning program called "Mother" fell out in civil war.The United Free States felt well defended behind its screen of elite Dragon carriers that held sway in the Atlantis Ocean. But when New Destiny proved to have dragon carriers of its own, and more of them, the linch-pin of the UFSdefense went out the window.Now, with the UFS' back...

The Battle Against Those Determined to Rule the World—or Destroy It—ContinuesIn the future the world was a paradise—and then, in a moment, it ended. The council that controlled theNet fell out and went to war, while people who had never known a moment of want or pain were left wondering howto survive.Duke Edmund Talbot has been assigned a simple mission: Go to the Southern Isles and make contact with thescattered mer-folk—those who, before the worldwide...