Chris Dalton – författare

Finding Your Groove is an inspiring guide that challenges you to rediscover your innate rhythm amid today’s disjointed, fast-paced world. Drawing on the timeless language of music and the universal patterns of nature, this book reframes everyday challenges as opportunities for creative transformation and genuine connection.Author Barry van Zyl, a veteran drummer and creative thinker from South Africa, and his co-author, UK business school academic Dr Chris Dalton, invite you to explore the profound impact of aligning your personal and professional lives with natural rhythms. Their insights blend personal narrative with practical reflection, offering a fresh perspective on leadership, collaboration, and self-awareness. By embracing the principles of Groove – from the beat of an individual’s heart to the synchrony of a well-led team – you can foster resilience, spark innovation, and build more harmonious relationships at work and beyond. Whether you are seeking to enhance your creative potential or to inspire collective change in your organisation, this book provides a compelling, entertaining, and thought-provoking realignment with the pulse of life.Finding Your Groove is a call to reclaim the joy of connection, balance, and mindful presence. It invites you to lead with authenticity in an increasingly complex world.

Finding Your Groove is an inspiring guide that challenges you to rediscover your innate rhythm amid today’s disjointed, fast-paced world. Drawing on the timeless language of music and the universal patterns of nature, this book reframes everyday challenges as opportunities for creative transformation and genuine connection.Author Barry van Zyl, a veteran drummer and creative thinker from South Africa, and his co-author, UK business school academic Dr Chris Dalton, invite you to explore the profound impact of aligning your personal and professional lives with natural rhythms. Their insights blend personal narrative with practical reflection, offering a fresh perspective on leadership, collaboration, and self-awareness. By embracing the principles of Groove – from the beat of an individual’s heart to the synchrony of a well-led team – you can foster resilience, spark innovation, and build more harmonious relationships at work and beyond. Whether you are seeking to enhance your creative potential or to inspire collective change in your organisation, this book provides a compelling, entertaining, and thought-provoking realignment with the pulse of life.Finding Your Groove is a call to reclaim the joy of connection, balance, and mindful presence. It invites you to lead with authenticity in an increasingly complex world.

In Business, strategy is king.  Leadership and hard work are all very well and luck is mighty useful, but it is strategy that makes or breaks a business, organisation or team. Of course, it is easier to talk a good strategic game than it is to execute one. This book will help you turn your words into effective and successful actions.

MBA Day by Day will revolutionise how you work with the very best learning from the world’s leading business schools. Learn how to apply MBA strategies, models and thinking to transform your career.

An MBA can boost your salary, increase your professional reputation and expand your networking opportunities but it ‘s also very expensive. MBA Day by Day delivers many of the key benefits of a top-notch business education, without the hefty price tag and big-time investment and will guide, challenge and inspire you to better results, wherever you are in your career.

Use the powerful combination of the best business models with your own experience and awareness to quickly develop the same game-changing thinking, tactical behaviours and dynamic strategies that MBA graduates know really work.

Covering leadership, decision making, strategy, marketing and finance, you’ll find out what it really takes to be a leader in business and use MBA strategies, models and thinking to take your business knowledge and practice to a brilliant new level – today, tomorrow and every day.

Why invest years and significant money in business school when you can learn MBA essentials day by day? MBA Day by Day distils world-class teaching into practical lessons you can apply immediately. Whether you want a sharper strategy, stronger leadership, or a clearer grasp of finance and operations, this book makes elite thinking accessible and actionable. 

The book is organised into parts that help you think about work and leadership in practical ways.  The examples reflect current topics such as AI, diversity, and sustainability.  Short exercises help you apply the ideas to everyday work situations.  Key business ideas are explained clearly so they are easy to review and understand.  The book is written by the leader of the Henley Business School MBA.  It is useful as a pre-MBA primer, mid-career refresher, or as a quick reference at work. 

MBA Day by Day, by Associate Professor Chris Dalton, packages an elite business-school curriculum into one practical handbook. 

Structured in four parts: Tactical, Strategic, Visionary, and Personal thinking skills, the book blends global cases, reflective prompts, and refreshed chapters on digital tools and inclusive leadership. Dalton’s conversational style demystifies finance, marketing, operations, and data without dumbing them down. 

This book equips readers with an actionable toolkit. It helps to craft sharper questions, choose smarter metrics, and lead diverse teams through constant change. You gain an MBA-level mindset without the fee, the jargon, or the two-year wait. 

Perfect for MBA students, rising managers, and seasoned leaders wanting a fast, credible knowledge upgrade. 

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In this book the authors first describe the background of trusted platforms and trusted computing and speculate about the future. They then describe the technical features and architectures of trusted platforms from several different perspectives, finally explaining second-generation TPMs, including a technical description intended to supplement the Trusted Computing Group's TPM2 specifications. The intended audience is IT managers and engineers and graduate students in information security.

In this book the authors first describe the background of trusted platforms and trusted computing and speculate about the future.

The Integrated Leader is a contemporary search for the questions to which 'leader' or 'leadership' is an answer. Taking a thoughtful approach to management education and learning, this book explores and explains ideas not usually found in books written for managers. Its purpose is to provoke the kind of reflection and thinking that experience (and most leadership training) tends not to reach.The book will get leaders and managers to stop and think. This may not sound like much, but it is very important and significant. It represents a shift in gears in personal leadership thinking and is written for anyone who wants to ask better questions of themselves. The Integrated Leader is practical and also philosophical. It is easy to read and will reward multiple readings. Informed by the experience of practicing managers who re-enter education, it does not simply regurgitate tired old leadership theory. It neither talks down to the reader nor dumbs down any of the complex concepts needed to sustain organisational and personal health and well-being. The book includes between-chapter reflections on the Integrated Leader's Manifesto, an eleven-point declaration for leading self in various contexts.The Integrated Leader is a must-read for anyone sincere in their need for sustainable personal development.