"Beyond the Dress: A Comprehensive Guide to Inclusive Wedding Planning for Gay Men" is your go-to companion on the journey to your dream wedding. This guide is exclusively designed for engaged gay men, ensuring each chapter resonates with the authenticity, inclusivity, and celebration your love story deserves.From navigating the evolving landscape of gay weddings to selecting the perfect venue, this guide addresses the specific needs and nuances of gay couples. It goes beyond plann...

Embark on a journey to plan the wedding of your dreams with 'Authentic Love: A Guide to Wedding Celebrations for Trans Couples.' Tailored just for you, this comprehensive handbook spans 10 carefully crafted chapters that cover everything from defining your unique vision to navigating family dynamics, choosing trans-friendly vendors, and crafting inclusive rituals.Discover the secrets to expressing your authentic self in attire choices, family relationships, and ceremony planning. D...

The Innovation CodeThe Creative Power of Constructive ConflictHarmony is sublime in music but deadly to innovation. The only way to create new, hybrid solutions is to clash. Innovation happens when we bring people with contrasting perspectives and complementary areas of expertise together in one room. We innovate best with people who challenge us, not people who agree with us.It sounds like a recipe for chaos and confusion. But in The Innovation ...

A revelatory guide on how to build, sustain and grow a brand.A brand is either beloved, or it’s noise. We live in a fast-paced world of immediate gratification where consumers can listen to any song, watch any movie, or read any article, with the touch of a few buttons. They are peppered with hyper-personalized targeting for products that can be ordered seamlessly and arrive within hours. And if your brand isn’t the first to come to mind, they’ll click that button ...

Did you know 64% of Gen Zers and millennials feel better understood by the specialized online communities than by their family and real-world friends?Today, more people seek connection online, but not every online group flourishes. As a community builder, you can’t just throw people in a group chat and hope community will magically form. Digital communities are like gardens that need careful tending; one results in beautiful flowers and the other offers a space where members are un...

The globalization of the world’s markets has forced luxury brands to, in turn, become global and accessible in many developing countries and emerging markets. As a result, the demand for these luxury products has increased globally, creating a need for an education in luxury that acknowledges the global perspective yet, at the same time, incorporates subtle regional nuances into luxury and fashion marketing.Keeping this global and regional perspective, Luxury and Fashion Market...

The Artist's Way for the 21st century—from esteemed creative counselor Beth Pickens.If you are an artist, you need to make your art. That's not an overstatement—it's a fact; if you stop doing your creative work, your quality of life is diminished. But what do you do when life gets in the way? In this down-to-earth handbook, experienced artist coach Beth Pickens offers practical advice for developing a lasting and meaningful artistic practice in the face of...

You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you’re busy executing on today’s demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it’s easy to let immediate problems and old mind-sets get in the way. Herminia Ibarra-an expert on professional leadership and development and a renowned professor at INSEAD, a leading international business school-shows how managers and executives at all levels can step up to leadership ...

A comprehensive postgraduate textbook for understanding and marketing luxury brands in a global context.Luxury Marketing gives postgraduate students in marketing, business, and fashion management practical insight into how luxury brands create value, connect with culture, and stay relevant within a fast-changing market. Written by Kent Le, it bridges theory and practice to show how digital innovation, sustainability and gl...

Create your own guide to mastering the disciplines of organizational learning with this invaluable guide based on the national bestseller The Fifth Discipline.“The Fieldbook is a must read for anyone serious about building communities of common purpose, collective action, and continuous learning.”—H. Thomas Johnson, author of Relevance Lost and Relevance RegainedPeter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline...

Modern culture’s worship of “how-to” pragmatism has turned us into instruments of efficiency and commerce—but we’re doing more and more about things that mean less and less. We constantly ask “how? and still struggle to find purpose and act on what matters. Instead of acting on what we know to be of importance, we wait for bosses to change, we seek the latest fad, we invest in one more degree. Asking how keeps us safe—instead of being led by our hearts into uncharted territory, we keep our...

“In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell presents an important idea without any ‘how to.’ Now Bertrand Cesvet provides the ‘how to’ you need to create ‘Tipping Points’ for your business and success. This book is a compelling presentation of a powerful idea. This is how the new world will do business. Highly recommended if you care about your future.”Stewart Emery, coauthor of international best-seller Success Built to Last“Ultimately, magic is unex...