July 08 Business Books eNewsletter - new and forthcoming Wiley, Capstone & For Dummies titles

Highlights include…
• The Accidental Pornographer – a story about having a go and succeeding...in failing
• Emotional Capitalists: the new leaders
• The story of how Whirlpool transformed an industry in Unleashing Innovation
• Winners in the Second Half: a guide for executives at the top of their game
• Art Kleiner returns with the second edition of The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management
• Uncover the extraordinary opportunities that lead to business breakthroughs with Tuned In

Game-Changing Strategies: How to Create New Market Space in Established Industries by Breaking the Rules

By Constantinos C. Markides
Published by Jossey Bass, July 08

Every company wants to achieve growth and profitability, and creating entirely new markets for a product is one of the best ways to do so. But many established companies fail in their efforts to move into these new markets. World-renowned strategy expert Costas Markides looks across 10 major industries to explain why it is so hard for established companies to innovate, and outlines the conditions for the successful adoption of new business models in his new book GAME-CHANGING STRATEGIES: How to Create New Market Space in Established Industries by Breaking the Rules.

Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candour

By Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman and James O’Toole 
Published by Jossey-Bass, July 08

In a time when the reputation of an organisation or a leader can be shattered by the click of a mouse, transparency is often a matter of survival in a world of global competition. But as stakeholders in different organisations increasingly clamour for transparency, what are they truly asking for? What is the promise of transparency? What are its very real risks? And why is it essential that leaders understand it? In Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candour, powerhouse leadership trio Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, and James O'Toole explore what it means to be a transparent leader, create a transparent organisation, and live in an ever more transparent world culture.

Sustaining Change: Leadership That Works

By Deborah Rowland & Prof. Malcolm Higgs
Published by Wiley, May 08

A huge amount of change initiatives fail. Now leaders who wish to implement change more intelligently and effortlessly can draw on a combination of four years rigorous research and practical application of the emerging findings, in Sustaining Change: Leadership That Works, the new book by Deborah Rowland and Malcolm Higgs.

The Philosophy and Practice of Coaching: Insights and issues for a new era

Edited by David B. Drake, Diane Brennan and Kim Gørtz
Published by Wiley, May 08

The coaching profession is maturing rapidly and the global conversation about the future of coaching and its contribution to the world is advancing as a result. Now a new book - The Philosophy and Practice of Coaching - draws on the work of 17 leading coaches from seven countries to focus more on the practices of coaching rather than the theories behind it.

May Business books eNewsletter - new and forthcoming Wiley, Capstone & For Dummies titles

   

MAY 2008 BUSINESS NEWSLETTER

Hello and welcome to Wiley’s May Business eNewsletter, which contains details of new and forthcoming titles.

Highlights include…

· How to decide if starting a business is really for you in So You Want To Be An Entrepreneur?
· Extreme Toyota: radical contradictions that drive success at the world's best manufacturer
· Constantinos Markides’ Game-Changing Strategies
· How leaders create a culture of candour in Transparency by Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman & James O'Toole
and much more...

The Best Service Is No Service: How to Liberate Your Customers from Customer Service, Keep Them Happy & Control Costs

By Bill Price and David Jaffe
Published by Jossey Bass, May 08

With over 40 years of combined experience and expertise in customer service, authors Bill Price and David Jaffe are challenging how companies identify, measure and address customer service issues in the new book, The Best Service is No Service.

Find Your Lightbulb: Mike Harris (Firstdirect & Egg) explains how to make millions from apparently impossible ideas

Published by Capstone, May 08

Find Your Lightbulb is for people who want to change their lives irrevocably by creating something valuable out of nothing more than a simple idea. There are many ways to make a living, but few are as satisfying as starting your own business and bringing something new into the world. Mike Harris has created three billion-pound businesses from scratch and been chairman of a fourth, which was sold for $10bn less than a decade after it started. He's currently working on his fifth business creation and enjoying every minute. For anyone that has dreamt of doing the same – making a million from unleashing an idea into the world - this book shows how.

Managing Creative People: Lessons in Leadership for the Ideas Economy

By Gordon Torr
Published by Wiley, May 08

Drawing from the leading lights of creativity research and a lifetime of experience in creative businesses, in Managing Creative People, Gordon Torr takes a scalpel to the institutionalised idiocy that is stifling the generation of ideas in today’s corporations. The curse of the brainstorm, the commoditisation of creative talent, the deskilling of the imagination, the startling inadequacies of management theory – these and other horrors of idea-assassination are dissected and disembowelled in this cutting expose of the drama that unfolds every time a new idea slides across the boardroom table.

Product companies fail profitability test on move into services

For 30 years product companies in Western economies have been moving into services, but many face years of depressed margins as a result, says Laurie Young in his new book, From Products to Services: Insight and Experience from Companies which have Embraced the Service Economy (published by Wiley, April 08).

Cadbury's Purple Reign: The Story Behind Chocolate's Best-Loved Brand

By John Bradley
Published by Wiley, May 08

The story of how Cadbury came to be the world's pre-eminent chocolate brand and its definitive history are to be told for the first time in the new book by John Bradley, Cadbury's Purple Reign. This is a no holds barred account of the rollercoaster ride the organisation has experienced, and how it ultimately led to its success.

The Levity Effect: Why it Pays to Lighten Up - by Adrian Gostick & Scott Christopher

Published by Wiley, May 08

Most people think work is serious business. But ironically, data on one million employees proves instead that being less serious at work is something to take seriously: entertaining workplaces have more loyal employees and customers; leaders who are lighthearted earn more money and more trust; and employees who are considered humorous are vastly more likely to get promoted.

Including case studies with Fortune 500 firms and surprising data from The Great Place to Work Institute® and other sources, THE LEVITY EFFECT: Why it Pays to Lighten Up by New York Times bestselling author Adrian Gostick and humorist Scott Christopher shows that lightness in the workplace can achieve bottom-line results that no sceptic can afford to scoff at.

Business Genius: A More Inspired Approach to Business Growth - by Peter Fisk

Published by Capstone, May 08

Peter Fisk, author of the bestselling Marketing Genius, hits the shelves again with Business Genius - helping readers drive more profitable, sustainable growth in today’s crowded and connected markets. Business Genius explores the challenges of strategy and innovation, leadership and change as readers grow their businesses, and themselves, in order to achieve high performance.

From the craze for Crocs to the cool of Diesel, the secrets of Kikkoman and energy of Red Bull, the vision of Google and disruption of Current TV, the revolution of Proctor & Gamble and the phenomenon of Umpqua Bank – the book captures the best insights from around the world, and a new agenda for today’s business.

Making a Fortune: Learning from the Asian Phenomenon, from Spinder Dhaliwal

Published by Capstone, May 08

For two decades, entrepreneurs have been eulogised in the popular press. At a time when real heroes are hard to find, it is the entrepreneur, the dynamic go-getting risk taker, who has become the hero of free enterprise. At the cutting edge of the British entrepreneurial community are the Asian businesses featured in the new book by Spinder Dhaliwal - Making a Fortune: Learning from the Asian Phenomenon. It takes in businesses from manufacturing to finance, from food to hotels, from pharmaceuticals to fashion. It includes first-, second- and third-generation achievers. It provides the definitive guide to ‘who’s who’ in the Asian business world.

Relational Coaching: Journeys towards mastering one-to-one learning from Erik de Haan of Ashridge business school

Published by Wiley, March 08

The importance of the relationship between coach and client for achieving success in executive coaching is explored in a new book by Dr Erik de Haan, Director of the Ashridge Centre for Coaching. Relational Coaching: Journeys towards mastering one-to-one learning, based on de Haan's own quantitative research and that of others, proposes ten ‘commandments’ for executive coaches to improve their practice and most importantly, improve the outcome for the coachee.

Wiley March 08 Business Books eNewsletter- new & forthcoming Wiley, Capstone & For Dummies titles

MARCH 2008 BUSINESS NEWSLETTER

Hello and welcome to Wiley’s March Business books eNewsletter, which contains details of new and forthcoming Wiley, Capstone & For Dummies titles.

Highlights include…

·         Peter Fisk returns with Business Genius: A More Inspired Approach to Business Growth

·         Making a Fortune learning from the Asian phenomenon, by Spinder Dhaliwal

·         Managing Creative People – lessons in leadership for the ideas economy

·         New York Times-bestselling authors Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher reveal The Levity Effect, and why it pays to lighten up

·         Transform the way you present with James Caplin’s I Hate Presentations

·         Egg & FirstDirect founder Mike Harris shows how to Find Your Lightbulb and make millions from apparently impossible ideas

and much more...

Out of the Ashes: Tools for Recovering Corporate Health from Jean Frédéric Mognetti

Published by Wiley, March 08

Take a management journey to the heart of the restructuring of SN Brussels Airlines, sharing the dos and don’ts of Jean-Frédéric Mognetti’s three years of hands-on experience as restructuring catalyst to the company, in his new book; Out of the Ashes: Tools for Recovering Corporate Health...

'Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower' by Cynthia Cooper, former Vice President, WorldCom

Published by Wiley, March 08

"My team and I were ordinary people who found ourselves facing extraordinary circumstances." — Cynthia Cooper, former Vice President, WorldCom

The longer WorldCom Chief Audit Executive Cynthia Cooper stares at the entries in front of her, the more sinister they seem. But the CFO is badgering her to delay her team's audit of the company's books and directing others to block Cooper's efforts. Still, something in the pit of her stomach tells her to keep digging... Cooper takes readers behind the scenes on a riveting, real-time journey as she and her team work at night and behind closed doors to expose the largest fraud in corporate history. Whom can they trust? Could she lose her job? Should she fear for her physical safety?

Tribal Business School: Lessons in Business Survival and Success from the Ultimate Survivors, by Jo Owen

Published by Wiley, March 08

Tribal Business School, the new book by Jo Owen (bestselling international author of How to lead), is a series of journeys in search of the ultimate business secret: the secret of survival and success. From some of the best, and one or two of the worst, organisations on our planet, to tribes in Papua New Guinea, Tuareg in the Sahara, Saami in the Arctic and nomads in Mongolia. The book's journeys show why tribes survive in extremely harsh conditions for generations, while business empires rise and fall steadily.

Re-energizing the Corporation: How Leaders Make Change Happen

By Jonas Ridderstråle & Mark Wilcox
Published by Wiley, March 08

Some business books ask why. Others tell you how. Re-energizing The Corporation, by Jonas Ridderstråle, co-author of the international bestseller Funky Business, & Mark Wilcox explains why you must lead change and how to do it. The authors have teamed up to provide their own potent blueprint for re-energizing any organisation.

Knowledge for Generations: Wiley and the Global Publishing Industry

A distinguished team of authors and editors brings Wiley’s rich history to life in a book that marks the culmination of an extraordinary bicentennial year. KNOWLEDGE FOR GENERATIONS: Wiley and the Global Publishing Industry, 1807-2007 by The Winthrop Group, Inc., Timothy Curtis Jacobson, George David Smith, and Robert E. Wright; and edited by Peter Booth Wiley, Susan Brophy Spilka, and Barbara L. Heaney, depicts Wiley’s pivotal role in the evolution of publishing against a social, cultural, and economic backdrop.

Wiley Business Books - January 2008 newsletter

Welcome to Wiley’s January Business eNewsletter, which contains details of new and forthcoming titles.

Highlights include…

* Why Women Mean Business: understanding the emergence of our next economic revolution
* Lessons in business survival and success from the ultimate survivors in Jo Owen’s Tribal Business School
* The welcome return of Jonas Ridderstråle, with Re-energizing the Corporation
* Cadbury's Purple Reign explores the story behind chocolate's best-loved brand
* Edison on Innovation: 102 lessons in creativity for business and beyond

And much more...

Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of our next Economic Revolution

By Avivah Wittenberg-Cox & Alison Maitland
Published by Jossey Bass, February 08

Until now, very little has been written about the global economic and political influence of women for an audience which includes the men currently in power. The forthcoming book, Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of our next Economic Revolution, proposes a reframing of the gender debate, taking it out of the various boxes into which it has been awkwardly pushed for the past decades – whether as a ‘women’s issue’, a dimension of diversity, or an equal opportunity argument. All of these categories, say the authors, underestimate the impact of women on the world and the opportunities available from better harnessing their potential as employees, leaders and consumers.

Leaders at All Levels: Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis

By Ram Charan
Published by Jossey-Bass, January 08

A crisis looms in American management today. More and more CEOs are failing; there remains an acute shortage of capable replacements. The true dilemma in leadership is the stagnant state of corporate leadership development. Because companies fail to hone their unit managers' leadership abilities, they are never able to fill their succession pipelines. With unit managers stagnating, companies have difficulty executing at every level, compounding the crisis. In Leaders at All Levels, bestselling author Ram Charan shows how top companies approach leadership development as a core competency, recognising that an adaptable leadership pool is a competitive advantage, and focusing their attention on bringing out the best in the leaders they have.

Corpocracy: How CEOs and the Business Roundtable Hijacked the World's Greatest Wealth Machine – And How to Get It Back

By Robert Monks 
Published by Wiley, January 08

Instead of being ruled by laws, many corporations today write their own regulations, reward CEOs with exorbitant pay, disdain their real owners, and despoil the political process and the environment, all in the name of "wealth creation" and "corporate welfare." Corpocracy, a clear and careful analysis by one of America’s leading shareholder activists, shows how corporations seized control, how they have abused their power, and what we can do to rein them in again. The excesses of Big Business are sure to be a key issue in the 2008 US presidential campaign, and Corpocracy is set to lead the debate…

Ade McCormack, author of 'The IT Value Stack: A Boardroom Guide to IT Leadership' and FT opinion columnist is available for interview

Ade McCormack, author of The IT Value Stack and IT Demystified is available for interview and market comment. Ade is an IT market commentator, leadership adviser and FT opinion columnist.

In The IT Value Stack: A Boardroom Guide to IT Leadership (published by Wiley, December 07) Ade pushes for organisational leaders to take responsibility for the business value extracted from their IT investment.

Stephen Denning, author of The Secret Language of Leadership, in the UK and available for interview w/c 10th December 07

Stephen Denning, author of The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through Narrative (Jossey-Bass, November 07) - today revealed as one of the FT's Business Books of the Year - is in the UK next week and available for interview: w/c 10th December 07.

Read the FT article here: FT.com/Business Books of the Year

In this sequel to The Leader's Guide to Storytelling, business narrative expert Steve Denning explains why traditional approaches to leadership communication don't work and reveals the hidden patterns that effective leaders use to spark change. The Secret Language of Leadership shows how anyone can inspire enduring enthusiasm for a cause, even in sceptical, cynical, or hostile audiences…

The Green Marketing Manifesto: Sustainability, New Marketing and The Beautiful Coincidence

By John Grant

Published by Wiley, November 07

Now that we are eating, sleeping and breathing this newfound religion of everything ‘green’, with industry and commerce bearing the brunt of the responsibility, everyone’s racing to create their ‘environmental’ business strategy.

In line with this awareness, there is much discussion about the ‘green marketing opportunity’ as a means of jumping on the bandwagon. In the new book from John Grant, The Green Marketing Manifesto, readers will find a roadmap on how to organise green marketing effectively and sustainably, whilst avoiding that dreaded bandwagon...

GERALD RATNER: The Rise and Fall…and Rise Again

Published by Capstone, November 07

“In 2006, a book was published called History’s Worst Decisions. Alongside Nero burning Rome to the ground, Eve eating the apple, and the choice not to install a Tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean, was a speech I made in 1991. Despite the fact I didn’t kill anybody, I didn’t do anything illegal, and I didn’t even say anything that I hadn’t said before, that speech caused me to lose my business, my reputation and my fortune.” Gerald Ratner

In The Rise and Fall…and Rise Again retail giant Gerald Ratner tells the story of his family’s jewellery business, the ups and downs of his own career, and how he has come full-circle to enjoy success the second time round...

Detox Your Desk: Declutter Your Life and Mind

By Theo Theobald and Cary Cooper - Published by Capstone, December 07

“Why is there never enough time in the day to do all the stuff you want to?

Why does your in-tray just keep growing? Is it alive?”

We used to allow work to fill the time allocated to it, but most of us are now embarked on a voyage of self-sabotage where we unconsciously leave tasks permanently undone, as if to give ourselves something to stress over. Changes in society, technology and culture have driven a horse and cart through the traditional boundaries of the working day, so that it’s pointless pretending any more that there’s a work/life balance to be struck – work is interwoven with our existence. So, it follows that if we detox our desks, we’ll declutter our lives and minds.

Written for the time-starved and terminally untidy, Detox Your Desk: Declutter Your Life and Mind, the forthcoming book from Cary Cooper & Theo Theobald, provides the prefect antidote to the pressure cooker of the modern office, by...

The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Complete Reference Guide to Concepts, Codes and Organisations

By Wayne Visser, Dirk Matten, Manfred Pohl & Nick Tolhurst
Published by Wiley, December 07

The “A to Z of CSR” is the vital, definitive “must have” compendium for practitioners both in business and government and civil society as well as academics and students in the fields of CSR, sustainability, corporate governance and business ethics.

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life®: Making Money in the Metaverse

By Daniel Terdiman

Published by Wiley, November 07

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life gives readers an in-depth look at businesses and other economic opportunities in Second Life, explaining the business operations of each, and showing readers how to identify, develop, launch, and profit from their own business. Written by an award-winning author and Second Life expert with deep ties to the business community, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life begins with an overview of the virtual world and its flourishing economy as well as the challenges it presents to entrepreneurs...

The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through Narrative

By Stephen Denning

Published by Jossey-Bass, November 07

How do leaders connect and engage with their audiences? In this sequel to The Leader's Guide to Storytelling, business narrative expert Steve Denning explains why traditional approaches to leadership communication don't work and reveals the hidden patterns that effective leaders use to spark change. The Secret Language of Leadership shows how anyone can inspire enduring enthusiasm for a cause, even in sceptical, cynical, or even hostile audiences…

Guinness: The 250-Year Quest For The Perfect Pint

By Bill Yenne
Published by Wiley, November 07

Guinness Stout has a unique place in global beverage folklore. It’s a beer with a long and colourful history and mythology that maintains a passionate following among beer connoisseurs around the world. Indeed, two billion pints are poured and enjoyed around the world each year. Guinness is also a remarkable family of brewers and entrepreneurs whose story is worthy of legend, and whose name is an integral part of Irish history.

In his new book, Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint, famed beverage and beer writer Bill Yenne traces the 250-year history of the family and the brewery...

Sales Therapy: Effective Selling for the Small Business Owner

By Grant Leboff
Published by Capstone, November 07

In Sales Therapy: Effective Selling for the Small Business Owner, author Grant Leboff has a revolutionary message for the small business community – stop ‘selling’ to customers if you want to make a profit, stop trying to ‘close’ a sale, and get customers on the couch to talk about their ‘issues’ instead...

Family Business on the Couch: A Psychological Perspective

By Manfred F.R.Kets de Vries & Randel Carlock
Published by Wiley, October 07

Across the world, 60% to 95% of businesses are owned or controlled by families, yet only three in ten survive into a second generation and only one in ten is handed down to a third generation. Yet the intractable issues that lead to these statistics are not the business problems the organisations face, but the emotional issues that compound them. Written by INSEAD professors Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries and Randel Carlock, Family Business on the Couch: A Psychological Perspective presents a new understanding and broader perspective on the human dynamics of family firms…

The Three Signs of a Miserable Job

By Patrick Lencioni
Published by Jossey-Bass, September 07

In his sixth fable, The Three Signs of a Miserable Job, bestselling author and acclaimed management expert Patrick Lencioni takes on a topic that almost everyone can relate to. Millions of workers, even those who have carefully chosen careers based on true passions and interests, dread going to work, suffering each day as they trudge to jobs that make them cynical, weary and frustrated. It’s a simple fact of business life that any job, from investment banker to dishwasher, can become miserable…

A Year Without “Made In China”: One Family’s True Life Adventure In The Global Economy

By Sara Bongiorni
Published by Wiley, September 07

“We kick China out of the house on a dark Monday, two days after Christmas, while the children are asleep upstairs. I don’t mean the country, of course, but pieces of plastic, cotton, and metal stamped with the words Made in China.” So begins A Year Without “Made In China”: One Family’s True Life Adventure in the Global Economy, a thought-provoking and lively account of what happened when Sara Bongiorni’s family began a year-long boycott of Chinese goods on January 1, 2005, as a way to test their personal connections to China’s vast and booming export economy…