This book gives the reader a step by step guide on how to obtain and maintain sustainable competitive advantage through the correct management of individuals in today’s workplace. More importantly, it’s about giving purpose to people at work and increasing their engagement to both you as their manager and the organisation as a whole.Engagement or the lack of it is one of the major challenges that companies face today and for the foreseeable future. This lack of engagement results i...

Helping Sophomores Succeed offers an in-depth, comprehensive understanding of the common challenges that arise in a student's second year of college. Sponsored by the University of South Carolina's National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience® and Students in Transition, this groundbreaking book offers an examination of second-year student success and satisfaction using both quantitative and qualitative measures from national research findings. Helping Sophomores Succeed...

Hunter Davies’ childhood lived amongst the post-war dirt and grime of Carlisle was immediately hailed as a classic memoir from one of Britain’s foremost columnists of the past half century. The Co-op’s Got Bananas! left our protagonist at the cusp of working for one of the world’s greatest newspapers – The Sunday Times. In this much-anticipated sequel, Hunter now looks back across five decades of successful writing to reflect on his colourful memories of the living in Lon...

Bloomsbury presents Letters to Margaret: Confessions to my Late Wife by Hunter Davies, read by James Cameron Stewart.At the end of almost every day of their fifty-five years of married life, the publicity-shy author Margaret Forster would ask the naturally gregarious and outgoing Hunter Davies to describe to her the highlights of his day in the worlds of journalism and publishing. In the six years that have elapsed since Margaret's death, Hunter has continued these convers...

The race to reach the South Pole for the first time was an unparalleled adventure in the early twentieth century. South, by historian Hunter Stewart, chronicles the competition between two fierce rivals - Robert F. Scott and Roald Amundsen - to secure their place in history as the first man to lead an expedition to the most uninhabitable place on earth. South dramatically tells the story of the quest that is marked by heartbreak, greed, ego, and bravery - not only by Scott and Amundsen but...

From McDonald's to Real Estate Wealth is the true story of how one young hustler turned fast food paychecks into property ownership twice at the age of 19. Packed with practical strategies, mindset shifts, and real world lessons, this blueprint shows how grit, discipline, and smart moves can turn minimum wage into maximum opportunity. If you've ever felt stuck or underestimated, this book proves you don't need a fancy job to build real wealth, you just need the right game ...

This is a book about the incredible source of largely untapped power which exists within organisations and companies today, namely your employees. It explains why this is the case and what to do about it. The main paradigm of the book is that employees are the most important resource for any organisation and should be treated as such; companies need more than ever to become employee centric.Both now and in the future, key themes such as autonomy, empowerment and employee engagement...

This is no ordinary time management book as first appearances might suggest. This book is designed to give you all the information that you need to create an agenda for effective and successful leadership.The title of the book itself, Time to Manage, has not one but two clear meanings. The first meaning is about how to manage time. The second is about how to manage people. These two are by no means mutually exclusive, and this book will explain not only why this is the case but als...

This book is not entirely a book of fiction. The incidents are based on the real life andhappenings in the life of pilot Stuart James McRorie, but the names and characters areproducts of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actualpersons is entirely coincidental.Come along and see the life of a young man infatuated with flying. How he got startedflying and the experiences he had in the great expance of Canada. From ea...

Have you ever wondered why when you have an argument, you bring up every past argument, and it is as fresh as it was the day you had it? Then read this book. Taking ownership will help resolve and dissolve situations to help lead a more peaceful and fulfilled life. Experiencing a major setback a few years ago, Stuart discovered that life doesn’t always go as planned. As he was temporarily unable to change his course at the time, he in turn headed for the road of self-destruction and isolat...

Although largely unseen, the industrial revolution taking place before us is picking up steam ─ dramatically. Dissolution of traditional global trading partnerships, the effect of COVID-19 on supply chains and the formation of new trading blocks, such as China’s Belt and Road initiatives, are creating turmoil and rapid change in the international business domain. Continual advances in technology, health treatments, political and societal change are underpinning these transformations. It is...

'As long as I’m alive, I’ll be with her, and she’ll be with me.' Hunter Davies on Margaret Forster.Happy Old Me is a moving yet uplifting account of one year in Hunter Davies’ life, navigating bereavement and finding hope in the future.On 8th February 2016, Margaret Forster lost her life to cancer of the spine. The days that followed for her husband, Hunter Davies, were carried out on autopilot: ar...