Your relevance is fading. Your future is unwritten. Will you evolve and lead … or will your business disappear? The choice is yours — will you become ambidextrous?The 21st century has seen many changes in how we live, shop, work, and communicate. To stay on top of these changes, we have had to adapt, learn, and reconsider traditional strategies, especially in the business world. Those companies that did not embrace new technologies or methods collapsed … think Blockbuster Video, Ko...

Adrian Brown has created 'The Concise Management & Leadership Guide' to empower an individual being able to make a difference in an organisation, not just for yourself and your employers, but for the people around them.After being involved over and around a variety of managerial techniques through his lifetime throughout hugely differing organisations, Adrian thought he could share what he has picked up in various courses and experiences along the way through over 35 years within t...

Adrian Brown created The Concise Guide Calibration & Test Equipment Management Guide as a guide to setting up and running a Test Equipment Management (TEM) process within any size of the organisation.After being involved in and around test equipment throughout his engineering career, and after noticing some members of organisations, even the organisation itself, have issues understanding, creating, then subsequently sustaining a robust workflow to protect the Test Equipment Managem...

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, what made organizations successful yesterday may threaten their survival tomorrow.Technological disruption, evolving customer expectations, and new business models are reshaping industries at unprecedented speed. Companies that fail to adapt risk the fate of once-dominant brands like Blockbuster, Kodak, and BlackBerry.For leaders, the challenge is clear: how do you deliver operational excellence today while preparing your orga...

Sometimes you have to get kicked by the horse before you realize that they can hurt you. Its like that with the consequences of frustration, it’s just you seem to need to be kicked by frustration a lot more than one time before you realize how damaging it is. A horse has kicked me once, it hurt and now I have a very healthy respect for the back end of horses. With frustration I was not so fortunate. It wasn’t until the fifth kick when I finally woke up to the damage that frustration caused...

KISS OF MIDNIGHT: One touch is just the beginning...He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual, black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell's deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night - or this man - is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly and in that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed - a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is s...

A gritty and epic adventure to appeal to fans of Mark Lawrence, Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher and Joe Abercrombie - The Winter Road is a fantasy novel which remembers that battles leave all kinds of scars.**'A bold, assured storyteller'**PETER NEWMAN author of The VagrantThe greatest empire of them all began with a road.The Circle - a thousand miles of perilous forests and warri...

'Contemporary and as grimdark as it comes'British Fantasy SocietyThis debut epic fantasy from a British writer of incredible talent tells the tale of the Twenty, a band of mercenaries hunted by an unknown killer. Filled with unique voices and incredible worldbuilding, this stunning novel will delight fans of Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher, Joe Abercrombie or Mark Lawrence.Once they...

In "John Brown: An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College," Frederick Douglass presents a poignant and stirring tribute to the abolitionist John Brown, a figure emblematic of the fight against slavery in America. Douglass employs a powerful rhetorical style, seamlessly intertwining historical analysis with impassioned oratory, to highlight Brown's profound commitment to justice and equality. This address, delivered in 1886, reflects the broader context of post-Civil War America,...

In "John Brown the Hero: Personal Reminiscences," J. W. Winkley crafts a profound narrative that intertwines personal reflections with a biographical account of the renowned abolitionist John Brown. Employing a vivid and evocative literary style, Winkley not only recounts Brown's pivotal role in the fight against slavery but also delineates the societal tensions of the antebellum United States. The book is steeped in historical context, presenting Brown not merely as a figure of lore but a...

When a mother is targeted by a dangerous group of masterminds, she must commit a crime to save her kidnapped daughter—or risk losing her forever—in this "propulsive and original" award-winning thriller (Stephen King).It's something parents do every morning: Rachel Klein drops her daughter at the bus stop and heads into her day. But a cell phone call from an unknown number changes everything: it's a woman on the line, informing her that she has Kylie bound and gagge...

Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.