People find it difficult to express ideas and solve problems purely with words. They find it much easier to use diagrams. Distilled into this single, handy-sized volume are 100 of the most useful diagrams, which are used by consultants, academics, MBA students and smart managers globally to aid their problem-solving and thinking. The Diagrams Book has been a cult bestseller since it was first published. Now in its 10th year, this special anniversary edition includes 40 new diagrams. Triangles and pyramids, grids and axes, timelines, flows and concepts - the 100 diagrams are each visually presented and then explained in an accessible manner, including tips and advice on how you can apply them to your own situations.

To succeed and perform in today's business and work environment, you need to harness a broad spectrum of skills and people. This book enables you to highlight your self-improvement areas and establish how to work with your colleagues more effectively. It covers every aspect of high-functioning business performance - from attitude, action, creativity and communication to efficiency, empathy, strategy, and sustainability.

At the heart of this book is an ingenious diagnostic tool (ACES System(R)) that enables anyone to assess their personal strengths and identify self-development areas to perform successfully in the modern business world. Whatever your stage in your work life is, at whatever age, the methods in this book can help you play your best career game, give you the winning edge, and allow you to ace it.

All businesses today face increasing pressure from customers and legislation to improve their sustainability credentials. Moreover, companies' employees and shareholders are demanding the same. Yet, many companies are playing catch-up and urgently need to get on track for the future. This book explains how companies - small or large - can do that in a series of practical stages. The authors adopt a method that asks a series of questions that then require brutally honest answers to, that then go on to develop guaranteed actions for companies to implement. For any business owner or manager who realize the importance of running a sustainable business, but do not know where to start, this book provides an essential springboard. It all adds up to a roadmap towards the next decade - and for businesses to remain relevant and resilient.

If you work in business, the chances are you have fallen under the poisonous spell of business jargon. Very few of us seem able to avoid reaching out,  or touching base,  or shifting paradigms,  or thinking outside the box. No longer solely the province of management consultants, investors, and MBA types, business gobbledygook has mesmerized the rank and file around the globe. Help is at hand with this Dictionary of Business Bullshit, aptly described as the world's most comprehensive collection of the top 2,000 business terms that have infected us all. Stay sane in the face of business madness by having this dictionary by your side.

We can all be better in every aspect of our lives. Kevin Duncan (author of the bestselling The Diagrams Book and The Ideas Book) draws together 50 ingenious thoughts and inspirations to improve your attitude, your approach to life and work, the questions you ask, the decisions you make, and even your timing in the things that you do. We are the owners of our success, and the main source of that success is excellence. Practical and highly accessible, this is a life-affirming handbook to help you be the best you can be - whoever and wherever you are.

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim, and there are many areas in business where a decent strategy will be of value. Strategy is not complex, but it can be hard, because of the pain of having to make choices.

In this practical guide, bestselling author Kevin Duncan offers intelligent and quick solutions to tricky business issues through smart strategic thinking and action. He provides 50 smart ideas to help you arrive at your solution (and present it in a way that everyone can understand!).

So What? gets straight to the point so you can cut through the noise and nonsense of work. Much of what we learn in our formative years is unlearnt in later life. As grown-ups we are often unable to answer the simplest of questions in a clear, direct way, and frequently have no idea why we are doing something. This can lead to crippling inefficiency in business, and goes some way to explaining why so many people spend so much time doing things that have no bearing on the true purpose.

by behaving in a genuinely inquisitive way, you can get right to the heart of the matter and save yourself hours, days, and even months of anguish. The questions So what?, Why?, How?, and When? can be hugely effective when applied in the right context, and this book shows you how to use them.

Once all the right questions have been posed, there is a final sure-fire method for testing whether something is relevant and helpful. By completing the sentence Something must be wrong if..., it is simple to work out if you are wasting your time. For example, Something must be wrong if I don't want to go to work in the morning.

So What? shows you how to become truly inquisitive again. So let the questions roll. Pay attention to what the answers are. Learn from them, and you will immediately improve your prospects of finally getting somewhere in life.

Ever wanted to be an entrepreneur? Ever wanted to control what you do, when you do it and stop just making money for someone else?

Now is your chance. Starting up a business has never been more exciting.

This book explains what you really need to know to make your business a success:
- How you'll know if you've got a good idea
- The practicalities of setting up a company
- How to manage the money
- How to sell what you do
- How to make sure you stay soon through it all.

This is the book you need to swagger into the Dragon's Den full of confidence.

How many times have you thought of something crucial to do and then forgotten it completely?

That's why people invented lists. And very useful they are too. If, and only if, they are used effectively. Put thirty things on a list, and it becomes too daunting. Put three things on, and there's no point in having a list. And so we have refined the art of list writing to allow for about ten or twenty things to do.

But in truth, most lists are rubbish. Randomly assembled, they do little to help the author navigate their way through the maze of stuff to do. After all, the only point of a list of things to do, is to get things done.

Tick Achieve does just that. It shows you how to get stuff done, with lots of little techniques tried and tested on scores of individuals over 25 years. This includes the cathartic and highly effective process of writing a list of what you are not going to do.

The author has trained hundreds of people in the art of getting stuff done. There is no Big Plan as such (contrary to what many other books suggest). It's all about details, and they can be very easy to implement. Little things can make a massive difference.

Once you get the hang of it, life gets easier. In a business context, and personally. You can sleep better and worry less. Concentrate on the things that matter, and leave out the trivia and irrelevant. Learn how to celebrate little bits of progress, look down your list, tick off a job well done, and shout Tick Achieve!

EXAMPLE CHAPTER OUTLINE

1. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

• I'm too busy, I'm in a meeting professional time wasting and how to avoid it
• Teams; what's the point?
• The problem with the business world: other people
• How to think more and worry less
• How being organised lets you take it easy
• Action not activity
• Outcome not output
• If I do x, then y will happen...'

2. STRAIGHT TALKING AND GETTING STUFF DONE

• Permission to talk straight
• Cliché and jargon red alert list
• How to get to the point and get everything done quickly
• Some ways to say no politely
• How to liven up boring meetings
• Spotting business bull****
• Cutting through it and moving on

3. LEAVE IT OUT

• Less really is more
• How eliminating issues gets to faster answers in business
• Write a list of what you are not going to do
• Improving your time management
• Simplifying everything
• Being totally objective about the past
• How leaving it out forces the issue

4. ONE IN A ROW

• How breaking big problems down into small tasks really works
• How to eat an elephant - in stages
• Knock 'em down one at a time
• Rapid sequential tasking: an alternative to multi-tasking
• The one-touch approach
• Tick, achieve, move on

5. LOOK LIVELY!

• The value of energy: in business, and in life generally
• Getting your attitude right
• Why lazy people are unhappy people
• Speed, that's the thing
• Spotting pointless people
• Ditching the time wasters
• Don't waste time yourself: beware aimless net surfers
• Cutting out the irrelevant stuff

6. HOW TO OUTTHINK YOURSELF

• Pre-arranging tripwires
• Dealing with problems
• Pretend the job is finished
• It's urgent - pretend it's not
• It's not urgent - pretend it is
• The art of outthinking yourself

7. TICK ACHIEVE

• The art of great list writing
• The Priority Matrix
• The Growing Pane and how to use it
• Tick achieve
• So have you done it?

Start is a one-stop guide to getting your business of the ground. Written by someone who has actually been there and done it, it gets straight to the heart of launching your business, with no-nonsense ideas to help you start out with confidence and a clear direction. Pick up some essential tips like:
* Start with the idea. What is it and how will it realise your ambitions?What is the long-term plan? If you don't know where you are going then you won't get there.
* Simplicity is the key. Don't overcomplicate things so that the idea is pecked to death by ducks. If you can write it on a postcard and explain it to your mum, then you can get started.
* Make clear plans. Draw up One-page business and personal plans to work out what you want in the simplest and clearest possible way.
* Decide what you want. Flush out whether you are building to sell, or just want the business to fund your lifestyle, then take the leap of faith and get it underway. Work hard, but don't confuse being busy with being effective.
* Learn from experience. Realise when you are gaining speed but losing altitude, and have the courage to change things when they aren't working well.

All vital stuff, packaged and presented in a way that will help you put it into practice right away. So what are you waiting for? It's time to Start.

Today thousands of marketing books exist ready to bombard you with buzz words and secrets to marketing success, but by condensing and summarising current thinking in marketing this book gives you the chance to become an authority yourself - quickly and efficiently.
This book presents marketing ideas from the profiled books clearly and accurately and will allow you not only to put these ideas into place but also explain them authoritatively to colleagues. Books profiled include The Long Tail, Meatball Sundae, Buzz, Affluenza and Blink. Saving you hundreds of hours of reading time Marketing Greatest Hits is vital for anyone looking to keep up with marketing practices NOW.

Sunday: Get started with realistic goals and a detailed business plan, and do your market research

Monday: Learn strategies for building a network of contacts and how to handle meetings

Tuesday: Learn how to get the product or service right and increase your margin

Wednesday: Choose the most effective ways to communicate with customers and prepare useful marketing materials

Thursday: Market yourself and your business and learn how to cut the jargon and describe what you do in 30 seconds

Friday: Motivate yourself to work hard and ignore distractions and make a good impression as the face of your business

Saturday: Avoid difficulties and problems through using personal planning and business planning tripwires

Presentations that are effective and can genuinely get across your message, ideas or information need to be powerful and delivered in a way that attracts immediate attention. This book, by a leading business trainer, provides an easy-to-follow method for developing powerful presentations that can used in any business presentation situation.

Based on the core idea that fewer slides and fewer words can achieve the greatest impact, the author shows you how to make your point or argument effectively in just 10 slides. By being focused and on target with your message, you can present virtually anything, anywhere by using this dynamic and powerful method.

In a city haunted by dark secrets and ancient powers, a new Kamen Rider emerges to confront a growing tide of sinister forces. Wataru Kurenai, a young man with a mysterious past, finds himself drawn into a battle against a hidden world of monsters known as the Fangires. As the Kamen Rider Kiva, Wataru must balance the weight of his legacy with the terrifying truth about his own origins.

When a series of bizarre disappearances begin to plague the city, Wataru uncovers an unsettling connection to the Fangires-an ancient race of creatures that feed on human life energy, lurking in the shadows of society. However, the true nature of the threat runs deeper than he could have ever imagined. With every case he unravels, the line between friend and foe begins to blur.

As Kamen Rider Kiva, Wataru is bound by a mysterious pact with the powerful Kiva armor, but each transformation takes a toll on him, bringing him closer to a dark fate. He begins to question whether he is merely a puppet of fate or if he can break free from the curse that ties him to this ancient war. Along the way, he forms uneasy alliances with those who have their own secrets-such as the enigmatic Mio, whose connection to Wataru seems to reach beyond simple coincidence.

Wataru's journey becomes a race against time, as the truth behind the Fangires' resurgence and the shadowy conspiracy that controls them begins to unfold. Each clue he uncovers only deepens the mystery, and soon he realizes that the key to defeating the Fangires may lie in the truth about his own bloodline-if he can survive long enough to piece it together.

In a world where nothing is what it seems, Kamen Rider Kiva must face not only the monstrous threats from beyond but the darkness within himself. With every battle, Wataru finds himself closer to the truth-but will he survive long enough to confront the horrifying secrets lurking beneath the surface?

Kamen Rider Kiva is a thrilling mystery that blends supernatural action, ancient conspiracies, and the struggle for identity in a city where nothing is as it appears, and everyone has something to hide.

You are about to embark on one of the biggest adventures of your life. It's a daunting prospect, isn't it? An empty desk, no customers, no confirmed money coming in, and no one to gossip with. Welcome to running your own business. Every issue is now yours to wrestle with, and yours alone. But then so is all the satisfaction when things go well, whether that is mental or financial.

This book expertly guides you through the principles of running and growing a successful business - including what to do when it's not going exactly as you wish. Crammed with practical advice - from assessing pros and cons to motivating yourself and adopting effective practices - it will help you find clear, practical solutions and prove invaluable as you tackle this great adventure.