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Business Book Extracts

Read extracts from top business books written by IIDM's network of contributors. Download of a chapter or more for each book. Review the book contents and purchase the book online. New business book extracts will be regularly added to the following list ... so remember to visit this web page again.

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Latest Book Extracts

The Future Of Service Is 5D

With the ongoing disruption from AI and automation, it’s easy to assume that machines will replace humans in almost every field. Service industries... READ MORE

Book Extract: Toolkit For Turbulence

The only certainty modern leaders have is uncertainty. As turbulence continues to sweep workplaces across the globe, leaders are bunkered down:... READ MORE

Elevate

Elevate is not just a book; it’s a powerful mantra that you can carry with you every day, in every action, and apply to every aspect of your life. READ MORE

Career Unstuck

Do you feel stuck in your career? Do you long for more purpose? More freedom? More autonomy? Even more joy? Maybe you don’t have the opportunity to... READ MORE

 
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Business Book Extract: Liberate Leadership

By Suzanne Mercier

Leadership is critical to business success. It impacts every measurable dimension of business from employee engagement to innovation to effective utilisation of the organisation's assets. However, in spite of the significant investment organisations are making in identifying and developing emerging leaders, up to 75% of leaders are rated by their followers as incompetent.

Business Book Extract: The Encore Effect

By Mark Sanborn

You know what an encore is ... You are so moved by a performance that you and the rest of the audience start clapping, cheering, and yelling, "Bravo!" - refusing to let the artist or performer leave the stage. The audience wants - demands - more of that artist. What if that artist was you?

Business Book Extract: Up, Down Or Sideways

By Mark Sanborn

Up, Down, or Sideways looks at the mindsets and methods that enable us to succeed come what may. It teaches a practical way of preparing for and dealing with change by focusing on those things that should never change.

Business Book Extract: Out Of Office

By Gihan Pererra

The Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries created the need for workers to come to offices every day. Until recently, many office workers had no choice except to work in the office, because that's where they could find files, telephones, the secretarial pool and their colleagues.

Business Book Extract: Get In The Go Zone

By Mark McKeon

The Go Zone is an easy to implement, yet powerful habit and mindset that will enable you to do the important things at the right times, and the less important things when you have time. The bonus is that you will also create more time to do the things that you want to do for you, or time just to do nothing at all.

Business Book Extract: Execution To Die For

By Graham Haines

This book is about overcoming the barriers to execution; the barriers that frustrate managers the world over as they see their plans and strategies undermined by poor implementation.

Business Book Extract: Speedlights & Elephants

By Eddie Yu

Why do most online businesses fail and what makes the successful ones great? Every entrepreneur who has an online presence or is thinking of a new online venture will want to know the answer to this question. Eddie Yu presents a very personal look into the mindsets and strategies which have worked for him and demonstrates how anyone with a good idea can create an online business worth shouting out loud about.

Business Book Extract: Recommended

By Andy Lopata

We all know that a recommendation from a friend or trusted contact is worth far more than what we hear from an advert or a salesperson. Recommended shows you new ways of generating referrals which make getting recommended faster, cheaper and more valuable.

Business Book Extract: Building Resilience At Work

By Kathryn McEwen

Our resilience, or capacity to bounce back and even thrive in pressured times, is critical in workplaces today. With higher workloads, declining resources and frequent change, together with the hectic pace of personal lives, resilience is almost a key to survival.

Business Book Extract: Stepping Stones To Success

Business Book Extract: Fusion - The New Way Of Marketing

By David Taylor and David Miles

Confused by online marketing? Think social media is for kids? Worried your website is not up to the job? Want to know how to reach the widest possible audience for the lowest possible cost? Then it is essential that you read this book.

Business Book Extract: Hardwired Humans

By Andrew O'Keeffe

Leadership is easier when you understand the nine instincts that still drive human behaviour. Hardwired Humans shares a practical framework that helps makes sense of human behaviour and allows leaders to manage more effectively.

Business Book Extract: Think Again

By Roger LaSalle

A structured roadmap for process innovation. Innovate your processes and harvest untouched wealth.

Business Book Extract: The Ultimate Book of Phone Scripts

By Mike Brooks

This powerful resource is packed with word-for-word scripts to help you overcome all the brush offs, put offs, resistance and objections you get every day.

Business Book Extract: Transforming Organisational Human Capital

By Colin Beames

This book is a must read for executives, managers, leaders and professionals assisting them to address the challenge of managing their human capital in response to the GFC and its aftermath, maximising the flexibility and commitment of their workforce, and developing and retaining valuable skills.

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