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For those looking to be the best leaders they can be, sevendysfunctions stand in the way. These patterns of behaviour repeatedly undermineperformance and derail careers, even for those with the best intentions. In 35 years as an international coach, Olivier Courtois hasseen all the traps into which leaders can fall. To keep your career, your team,your organisation and your life on track, he says, it takes constant vigilance.In this self-coaching guide, you will learn how eachdysfunction can drag you down, how you can defeat it and what gains you can make.Through a series of 21 questions, it gives you the tools, the practices and theskills to let you realise your potential as a leader who can transformperformance in the workplace and keep making a difference in life.

Anuplifting and inspiring account of what it takes to perform when it reallymatters and achieve your lifetime goal after 20 years of effortWhen the moment arrives to realise a dream, will you beready? Will the years of effort pay off? Will you be able to peak yourperformance, technically, mentally and emotionally? Will you be able to handlethe pressure?For 21 years, Alex Tofalides pursued a dream of fencing atthe Olympics, first as part of the British elite programme, then for Cyprusunder his own direction. He had become a British and European champion, but had narrowlymissed going to London, Rio and Tokyo. Now he was in the final of the Europeanqualifier, one fight away from Paris 2024. In this book, he shares what it takes to finallyrealise your dream to perform at the biggest games of all. The psychology. Yournarrative. The analysis. The processes. The regime. Your resilience. As hefinally overcomes his doubts and limitations, you will learn what it takes toperform in the moment when it all really matters.

How IP is igniting the next wave of growth and anchoringits valueFor ventures now scaling, at least 80 percent of their valueis ultimately going to rest on their intellectual property, if all goes toplan. Yet it’s a far from certain outcome. Time and again, IP can appear strongon paper but unravel at different points through the growth cycle. No one sizeor shape of solution fits all. It varies for each venture, depending on how theprincipals find the right combination of IP to give themselves freedom tooperate, the leverage to negotiate, the framework to collaborate, the strengthto hold their ground and the flexibility to pivot. In this book, IP leaders oftoday and tomorrow draw on real-life commercial scenarios to map out howventures can make the right calls to turn their IP into a high-growth assetwith the capacity to double or triple in value, not just once, but repeatedly.

For those who want to live more authentically,courageously and wholeheartedlyYou might not be particularly unhappy in life, but you'renot exactly loving it either. You know there has to be more than what's on thesurface. If this is you, this book will help you find your answers.Life on Your Terms isa practical guide to designing a life that feels deeply aligned,purposeful and fulfilling. It will empower you to take control of yourdirection, decisions and destiny. Drawing on behavioural science,self-awareness, and actionable life design frameworks, it helps you uncoveryour inner why, rebuild your belief system and create a lifestyle thattruly reflects who you are. In this book, Lewis Connell shares his experience of whenlife crashed to a halt, causing him to uncover his true direction and build thesystems to bring his dreams into reality. He has written this book for thosewho know there's a better life waiting for them, but they just don't know howto get there.

When all seems too uncertain, too demanding and tooimperfect, upwilling is the inner strength to remain open, curious andavailable. In this book, Iva Biondic combines mind, body and meaningthrough five forms of intelligence, emotional, cultural, positive,conversational and collaborative. Together, they create the conditions forwillingness to emerge, where there is space for disagreement without rupture,learning without humiliation, engagement without exhaustion and collaborationwith AI without fear or domination.Drawing on her work across leadership, neuroscience and holistic practice, Ivashows how individuals and leaders can restore and protect this inneravailability, so they can remain present and responsive without feeling trappedby past regret or driven by future anxiety. This is not a book about beingbetter, faster or more positive. It is aboutstaying human, available, and in relationship with yourselfand others.

As the potential for discovering and commercializing innovation is transformed by data modelling and digital simulation, the rewards are going to those who can re-think their intellectual property, managing it more actively as a live asset and as a proposition ready for market. In this book, 24 top-level IP performers, including the innovation support team at the European Patent Office, discuss how IP is opening up new paths to growth, bringing you up to speed with the impact of transformative technologies, such as artificial intelligence, the metaverse, Industry 4.0, net zero and personalized medicine. Some ventures are just starting to adopt an IP mindset in growing their innovations, brands and designs. Others are struggling to switch, putting themselves at risk of sliding towards commodity status. For those who are learning to invent digitally, IP creates a powerful and flexible system for breaking into new markets, trading at a premium and building up future value.

Growth is ever more centred on intellectual property. In tech. In innovation. In people. In disruptive models. In data. In value propositions. Those who integrate IP into their strategy, culture and mindset are significantly more likely to grow at pace. This book highlights how entrepreneurs, innovators, executives and investors can source the right ideas, create intellectual assets of value, negotiate the best deals for themselves and knock back any challengers. It draws on the knowledge and experience of 20 leading IP players of today and tomorrow, including the high-growth team at the EPO's patent academy, to give a series of insights and lessons into how IP inspires and fuels growth of 10 percent, 20 percent, 50 percent and more, not just this year, but next year and into the future.

Leadership, yes, but what for?What now determines stand-out performance and a clear sense of identity in organizations? Beyond the essentials of profit and impact, leaders have as many as twelve drivers to pursue. They can choose, as many do, to give them all equal weight. However, their organizations are likely to end up being lost in the middle and suffering from a lack of identity. Their intentions as leaders will fail to cascade. Everyone's sense of direction will vary. Customers won't be sure what to expect. Instead, the best performers in today's complex and volatile conditions commit to three drivers at most. Everyone then knows what the organization is about, whether it is innovation, efficiency or inclusivity. In this book, Patrick Faniel discusses how leaders can align their organizations around each of these twelve drivers. In a series of clear, easy-to-implement models, he highlights the potential for those who focus to create a distinctive sense of purpose and to inspire stand-out performance.

Degree apprenticeships: how to find opportunities and applyGain a degree while being paid and make a fast start to yourcareer? Degree apprenticeships have become an exciting option for when youleave school. How can you develop the skills to compete? How can you exploreall your options to ensure you have choices? Written for you by a champion of under-represented talent,this book tells you where to look, how to apply and how to present yourself.You will hear too from leading employers about how they recruit talent likeyours and current apprentices will give you an idea of what it’s like being adegree apprentice.

How referrals can supercharge flows of work acrossextended networks in the modern workplaceRecommendations, introductions and networking are widelyrecognised as the surest ways to build a career, grow a business and createmultidisciplinary teams. Referrals are the human links that turn collaborationinto a superpower. For all their potential, however, they regularly founder onthe difficulties that we all have when working with strangers. Trust is easilylost, networks lose their purpose, systems break down and everyone returns tothe comfort of their own silo.In the modern workplace, you can't just leave referrals to chance.They won't happen automatically and no one teaches us how to make them. So howyou can do it differently? how does a modern referral strategy now look? Howare dynamic small practices using them to grow their operations? In this book, written by the founder of a global referralnetwork of over a hundred specialist professional firms, you will learn how tosupercharge flows of work across extended networks by creating a referralstrategy, following four key metrics and using tech to automate the connectionsyou are making.After reading Working with Strangers, you will be able toidentify the different types of referral partner and know how to work withthem, so you can:Grow your business withthe high-quality clients you really want.Identify your bestreferrers, measure their impact on your business and convert morereferrals into clients.Collaborate better withother service providers.Make the most ofnetworking events by targeting referrersExploityour website and marketing budget as part of your referral strategy.Usetechnology to reinforce human interactions, not replace them.The book includes template emails andstrategies for you to use in building your referral strategy.

Following lockdown, the digital trust that blockchain creates for networks of remote users started to re-define relationships between customers, suppliers, partners and funders in earnest. As a technology, its ingenuity is already widely recognised. The question now is who can best deploy it in the market to raise money, make payments, negotiate deals, engage customers and manage suppliers. This title draws on the knowledge and experience of 15 top-level blockchain performers to bring a wide audience up to speed with the options and actions for building and growing a business with blockchain.

It's the human challenges that will define your career. In this book, a top workplace communicator gives a real-life account of the personal skills and behaviours that really count in global organizations.Crises and upheavals, anxieties and fears, are an inevitable part of today's workplace. Through a series of highly readable stories from his own 60,000 hours of corporate experience, James Weekley highlights the human qualities that can resolve situations for the better or worse, sometimes the much worse. Your workability depends on how you communicate and behave, he says: what you do matters less than how you do it.Drawing on his knowledge of psychology, language, behaviour and communication, his book equips you with unexpected ways to think about how to manage the human challenges you will encounter and how you can speed up your career without losing yourself.In reality, he says, most of us will find ourselves following more than we lead. We will face a crisis every two to three years. We will suffer from anxieties. We will lose ourselves in gobbledygook. We will have to influence without authority. We will be subject to bad behaviours and toxic cultures. Written for anyone building a career, Workability gives you the power to engage yourself, inspire others, master anxieties, bring in talent, overcome resistance, think unconventionally, manage expectations and connect with your audience, as well as deal more constructively and creatively with the catastrophes and upsets that might otherwise hinder your performance and stall your career.

Manufacturing is in the midst of a revolution. Whole supply chains are becoming visible. Innovation is speeding up and becoming more open. Data is being shared and value is being created in real time. Potentially, performance can be transformed and new markets created, either by existing players or disruptive ventures.For all the excitement of the fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0, the risks are too often overlooked. Like other digital markets, value can just flow to the top, leading everyone else to struggle as commodities. Manufacturers can adopt all the technologies, but still find themselves falling back, as many now are. Their challenge is to start playing by the new digital rules and capture the value in their performance. This book, written by a leading expert and practitioner in Industry 4.0, gives those on the manufacturing frontline a set of tools, templates and guidelines to start gaining a technology advantage and taking a commercial lead.Based on a comprehensive review of how manufacturing contracts are currently being written and negotiated, it highlights the questions for manufacturers to ask and reviews their options for managing innovation, designing business models, managing intellectual property and gaining a lasting source of competitive advantage.

Many dream of high growth. Few achieve it. The reality is that it's a harder cycle to complete than entrepreneurs and founders expect. The risks are numerous and intense. The right investors will give you the space and the fuel to perfect your idea and connect with your market. However, they are going to ask you a series of searching questions about how you are actually going to perform. Kevin R Smith knows all about the pressures that entrepreneurs and founders face. He has helped hundreds of them to plan, fund and scale their ventures. Often when they're short of time or not sure which way to turn. Based on all these experiences, his book highlights the decisions and the capabilities that make the difference between those who accelerate and those who plateau. Written as a realistic guide to meeting the expectations of investors, he gives you a step-by-step guide to what you have to put in place to become fundable and put yourself on the path to scaling up.

Women are lifting the limits on what they can achieve and are learning to create their own identity as leaders. For them, leadership no longer just comes in a box or on a course. It is happening in life. They are finding the authenticity, the confidence, the resilience and the courage to become the leaders they want to be and to exercise power on more genuinely equal terms. In this book, Hilarie Owen combines lessons and insights from 30 high-achieving women with techniques and tools from the world's foremost thinkers on leadership. In nine steps, she opens up a path that all women can take to realize their potential as leaders.