What does it take to be an effective leader in today’s business world?

Mike Teke, the CEO of Seriti and well-known entrepreneur, has more experience than most as a leader. His opinion is heeded and followed by many. In The Future of Leadership is Collegiality, Mike shares some of his insights on leadership and the approaches that have made him successful. Indeed, it is a book that belongs on the desks of every existing and aspiring entrepreneur, CEO and manager.

Mike believes that ‘young leaders emulate and mimic experienced leaders – whether the habits they are copying are right or not so right. This happens because young leaders search for ways and means to be recognised, advance in their careers, or be seen as impressive leaders.’

He discusses concepts such as collegiality, fraternisation, ingratiation and self-respect, and illustrates his ideas with examples of South African and world leaders. On his own journey towards becoming a powerful leader, it was inculcated in him that one had to be ‘tough and ruthless’ in their approach to leading. However, times have moved on and the game has changed!

To be effective and deliver consistently in business, Mike has realised that collegiality is the way of the future. ‘There is no need to scream at others, bang tables or use foul language!’ He believes that collegiality works everywhere – as long as one is willing to lead effectively.

This fourth edition of Career Counselling and Guidance in the Workplace: A manual for Career Development Practitioners provides a perspective on career counselling and guidance approaches and practices relevant to career development support in the 21st-Century workplace. The text has been designed for postgraduate students, as well as career development practitioners, human resource practitioners, psychologists, psychometrists, and registered counsellors who are involved in providing career development services to individuals and employers.

Additional real-life case studies that reflect the diverse population groups of South Africa have been added to illustrate how the theory is applied in career counselling practice. This edition further incorporates the role and competencies of career development practitioners as outlined in the new national frameworks.

Are you looking to raise your leadership game and have a deeper and more sustainable impact on your team, your organization, and your career? Are you interested in learning time-tested principles that help you engage more fully with team members, improve individual and team performance, and are aligned with your values? If so, leading with empathy may be the perfect leadership style for you.

Empathetic Leadership is written "from the heart" for business, government, academic, and non-profit leaders who wish to enhance performance, productivity, and employee engagement in their organizations and lead with kindness, courage, and confidence while promoting the greatest collective benefit. Offering 47 practical lessons from the author's career as a Human Resources leader, adviser, confidante, and coach, it provides clear ideas in an easy-to-digest format and a down-to-earth, relatable style.

Topics cover key areas of leadership, including:

• Building A Team
• Managing Your Team
• Developing Your Culture
• Leading by Example
• Coaching & Mentoring
• Managing Your Career

Focus on these practical tips to bring out the best in your team and see your leadership skills and impact grow!

Public administration comprises two integrated components, namely the political process in terms of which government policy is formulated, and a management process in terms of how this policy must be implemented. The introduction of strategic and performance management systems and procedures in the public sector has become international standard practice, often resulting in a comprehensive redesign of the traditionally bureaucratic legislative framework - strategic management links the government organisation to the community, thus incorporating the actual needs of the community in government's planning, while performance management gears the organisation towards service delivery. Strategic and performance management in the public sector provides an integrated management model for 21st century government organisations. This title is a step-by-step presentation of the strategic and performance management process, starting with government policies and culminating in a comprehensive performance management system. It contains practical examples, activities, relevant legislation boxes and supplementary material for further understanding.

What is the relationship between logistics and supply chain management? What factors need to be taken into account when designing a supply chain? How do you forecast your supply chain requirements? What inventory concepts do you need to know?

Business Logistics Management fifth edition covers concepts and theories relating to the movement of goods, and the coordination of the supply chain.

Features:

• The text is based on South African expertise and research
• South African legislation and local industry examples are incorporated throughout the text
• New chapter on customer service
• New content that deals with strategic logistics management

Leaders of the African liberation movements proclaimed ambitious objectives and promised swift dismantling of colonial policies and practices. It was believed that poverty and underdevelopment were consequences of the exploitative policies of the colonial masters, who
had no interest in improving living conditions for local communities.

Independence and freedom were anticipated to eradicate poverty, ignorance and disease, and the new leadership would accelerate economic development and prosperity.

However, after more than 50 years of independence, most African countries are still poor and underdeveloped and this poses a few questions:

• Have African leaders abandoned their ambitions?
• Are African challenges more complex than in other regions?
• Has the political leadership failed to rise to the challenge?

Eddie Jones is one of the most successful sports coaches of all time. From coaching three different nations to Rugby World Cup Finals and with a winning record with England of nearly 80%, Eddie Jones knows what it takes to lead and manage high performance teams.

For the first time, Eddie Jones shows just what it takes to be a leader in a high performance and high pressure environment and how these lessons can be applied to every walk of life, from coaching the U9 rugby team to leading a multinational organization to simply doing your job better.

As he explains the High Performance Cycle of Success at the heart of his philosophy, Eddie Jones reveals the lessons he has learnt from Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, Pep Guardiola as well as from the founder of Uniqlo and Ron Adams from the NBA. He also gives a detailed analysis of his own performance as a coach as well as how he gets the best out of the players and coaches around him and what he saw in Tom Curry that no one else saw, which makes him think that he could be the next Richie McCaw.

Drawing on stories of nearly thirty years of coaching, including the 2003, 2007, 2015 and 2019 World Rugby campaigns, the full story of England's 2021 Six Nations campaign as well as why it takes humour, humility and relentless curiosity to lead an eclectic mix of superstars from Maro Itoje to James Haskell, George Smith to Kyle Sinckler, to create teams that are relentlessly hungry to win, Leadership is the ultimate rugby book about what it takes to be the best.

Written with Donald McRae, two-time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, Leadership is the book for anyone who wants to learn how to build and lead a team to success.

The second edition of Introduction to Business Management: Fresh Perspectives is suitable for first-year courses in Business Management. It covers core theory on the business environment, management theory, management tasks and business functions and is divided into four parts. Each of the four parts is introduced with an infographic that provides an overview of the topics in that part.

Building on students’ existing knowledge, the ‘Before you start’ and ‘Think about it’ activities encourage students to think about key topics and to contextualise them. Up-to-date examples from private, public and nongovernmental organisations in South Africa help students apply concepts and at least two new case studies per chapter provide further opportunities for application. To support students, key concepts are highlighted and explained in a textbox, while vocabulary is promoted through a glossary at the back of the book. The review feature includes a chapter summary, critical reflection question, self-assessment questions and case study, with solutions provided at the back of the book.

Prescribing lecturers have access to customisable test banks (multiple-choice questions, essays and case studies) with answers and PowerPoint® slides of the main ideas and graphic material in the textbook.

After many years of continuous development, operational risk management can now be regarded as an important and independent management discipline in its own right. It is a value-adding activity that has a direct or indirect impact on bottom-line performances of organisations and is fundamentally concerned with good governance and involves consistent alertness and continuous improvement. As a result, it is essential for business managers at all levels to understand the concept of operational risk management and its methodologies. Operational risk management will assist organisations to develop and implement an operational risk management process that will support the achievement of business objectives. In addition, Operational risk management attempts to bridge the gap that exists between some of the theoretical concepts of operational risk and the practical implementation. It firstly deals with the development phases of operational risk, and then illustrates the effective application of an operational risk management process. It also discusses relevant issues in the field and how to deal with current risk exposures. Operational risk management is aimed at undergraduate students as well as managers interested in the management of operational risk. Jackie Young is a professor in risk management at the University of South Africa, specialising in operational risk management.

Are you ready to scale your business but not entirely sure how? Then Jason Goldberg’s book, The Art of Scale, is what you need.

Tailored for scale-ups in the tricky 10 to 200 headcount zone, and catering for the important differences faced by emerging market businesses, this comprehensive guide demystifies the obstacles to scale, the path to scale, the science of scale, and the art of scale, giving you the practical toolkit you need. The Art of Scale distils vast amounts of collective scale-up expertise from a network of seasoned scale-up leaders and coaches, and the top 120 business growth books. It skips the theory and cuts straight to proven principles, leadership models, and actionable tools that successful scale-up leaders use every day.

The book is divided into six parts: Part 1 covers the science of scaling a business; Parts 2 to 6 are playbooks for the five critical disciplines in the ‘Art of Scale’ – Strategy, People, Execution, Money and Scale-Up Leadership. Each chapter offers essential principles, ready-to-use downloadable tools, and handpicked reading recommendations for those craving deeper mastery. With real-world stories woven throughout, this book is an engaging, practical guide that invites you to dive in and immediately start applying what you learn.

Coupled with over 50 free tools and 150 book summaries available online, this scale-up guide is what you need to grow with confidence and clarity, armed with the proven principles and tools you need to turn your vision into reality.

Performance management is, by its very nature, a contentious and emotionally charged topic. Because the lines between management and appraisal are often blurred, performance management tends to get cast in a harsh and negative light, creating anxiety and distrust that defeats the object. Performance management: A contemporary South African perspective examines the practice of performance management in the modern South African workplace and how to balance the positive with its more challenging negative facets.

Performance management: A contemporary South African perspective explores various aspects of performance management systems and processes. It highlights best practice and innovative ideas for implementation that will enable managers, employees and teams to achieve success and improve results. Examples and real-life scenarios provide practical guidelines and applications.

Contents include the following:

• Understanding performance management
• Business strategy and performance
• Creating a high-performance culture
• Performance management process
• Development and implementation of performance management systems
• An overview of performance measurement
• Performance measurement in practice
• Team performance management
• Performance management skills
• Dealing with underperformance
• Performance development
• Rewarding good performance
• Monitoring and evaluation
• The future of performance management in the new world of work

Performance management: A contemporary South African perspective is aimed at senior undergraduate as well as postgraduate students at further and higher education institutions within South Africa. It will also serve as a valuable resource to human resource practitioners and managers.

Management is a core undergraduate textbook which is focused on preparing students with the necessary knowledge, skills and competencies necessary for the field of management.

This new edition takes into account recent shifts in the world of work brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Covid-19, an increasing emphasis on ethics, sustainability and governance, and the changes to the very essence of organisational structures and the nature of work.

Examples and case studies have also been updated to reflect these changes.

This essential new book is a practical "how-to" guide to enhancing the quality of relationships between leaders and individuals in organisations – the proven key to maximising performance, building resilience, and retaining talent.

Integral vision, seen through each of the four quadrants described in this book, gives access to a range of perspectives, irreducible to one another but each significant in adding a kaleidoscope of understanding to a topic or body of knowledge. The author draws on recent research which focuses on Integral theory and emphasises the benefits to an organisation, including cultivating, at several levels, leaders and teams through coaching, improving the quality of meetings, introducing an understanding of emotional intelligence, and more recently, addressing adult stages of development. The book also demonstrates how the Integral quadrants can bring clarity to interpersonal and cross-sector communication, especially in diagnosing, planning, and implementing team and organisational strategy.

The concepts and practical skills explored in this book will be a valuable resource for senior leaders, human resources specialists, and in-house and external coaches focusing on leadership development, as well as students and trainers of coaching.

Principles of Business Management offers an excellent foundation for students who plan to go into management in the private sector, the NGO sector, or intend on becoming entrepreneurs.

The textbook is aimed at entry level Business Management students at universities and universities of technology and is suitable for both commerce and non-commerce courses. It introduces students to the components of organisational management (planning, organising, leading and controlling) and also introduces the different business functions.

Covid-19 has upended the world of work and the need to think differently, plan differently and execute differently is paramount for today’s organisations. Added to this, African countries in general and South Africa in particular are faced with other challenges – infrastructure, corruption, service delivery and an uncertain political environment. Business is increasingly confronted with challenges from external environmental forces and the internal nuances of the southern African context. Our environment is characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, and strategy is of the utmost importance for any organisation to survive and thrive. Strategic management explains the principles and application of the strategic management process that are vital for sustaining successful organisations.

This fifth edition of Strategic management emphasises various relevant and topical strategic challenges (such as corporate governance) and appropriate southern African examples and case studies are used throughout the text to illustrate the latest trends and to support the theory. A cohesion case study of Shoprite Checkers and its strategic choices (such as the Sixty60 concept) runs throughout this book. Key terms, summary questions and answers, relevant websites and recommended reading lists are also provided.

Strategic management: Southern African concepts and cases will be invaluable not only to students of business management, but also to organisations, from corporate organisations with management training programmes to small business ventures struggling to hold their ground in a competitive environment.

"Hollis's writing is beautifully blunt, and she humbly thanks her fans for her success. Her actionable ideas and captivating voice will encourage women to believe in themselves." - Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

"I believe we can change the world. But first, we've got to stop living in fear of being judged for who we are."

Rachel Hollis has seen it too often: women not living into their full potential. They feel a tugging on their hearts for something more, but they're afraid of embarrassment, of falling short of perfection, of not being enough.

In Girl, Stop Apologizing, #1 New York Times bestselling author and founder of a multimillion-dollar media company, Rachel Hollis sounds a wake-up call. She knows that many women have been taught to define themselves in light of other people--whether as wife, mother, daughter, or employee--instead of learning how to own who they are and what they want. With a challenge to women everywhere to stop talking themselves out of their dreams, Hollis identifies the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt, and the skills to acquire on the path to growth, confidence, and believing in yourself.

Leadership is an increasingly important concept which is being heralded as a necessary topic to be included in undergraduate courses at South African institutions.

The purpose of this textbook is to identify the principles of leadership in contemporary business organisations and to develop the students’ understanding of the interrelatedness of leadership and management in order to achieve organisational goals.

The textbook also covers contemporary issues in practicing leadership for success, including the importance of effective leadership in modern organisations, understanding that leadership skills are necessary in modern organisations, appreciating the role of leaders in workplace relations and the role of leaders in teamwork, realising the importance of leadership ethics and the formulation of leadership standards, as well as knowing more about the evaluation of leadership performance.

Why are some people and organizations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others? And why are they able to repeat their success again and again?

Because in business it doesn't matter what you do, it matters why you do it.

Steve Jobs, the Wright brothers and Martin Luther King have one thing in common: they STARTED WITH WHY.

This book is for anyone who wants to inspire others, or to be inspired.

Based on the most-watched TED Talk of all time.

'One of the most useful and powerful books I have read in years' William Ury, coauthor of Getting to Yes

'This book is so impactful, I consider it required reading' Tony Robbins, bestselling author of Awaken The Giant Within

The business environment can change at any given time and organisations need to be ready to respond if they want to survive. Strategic management is an important and ongoing process of formulating and implementing strategies that help an organisation position itself optimally and so maintain a competitive advantage that results in profit. It creates harmony between any organisation, big or small, and its environment. The strategic management process: a South African perspective explains strategy in such a way that every reader will understand not only how vital the strategic management process is to any organisation but also exactly what it entails. The strategic management process: a South African perspective follows an understandable and practical approach, making use of numerous figures and "strategy in action" case studies to support the theory. Two important new chapters have been added to this second edition, namely risk management and scenario development, both of which have become increasingly important in today's business environment. Contents are divided into the following four parts: Strategic direction and environmental analysis; Strategy formulation; Strategy implementation; Strategy control and evaluation The strategic management process: a South African perspective is aimed at students in strategic management as well as at organisations, from corporate and public companies with management training programmes to small business ventures that are trying to gain a competitive advantage in a cut-throat environment.

Are there actually tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over 50 years, and in the 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, he teaches everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach our potential.

In his trademark style, Maxwell covers:

• The Law of the Mirror: You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to Yourself
• The Law of Awareness: You Must Know Yourself to Grow Yourself
• The Law of Modeling: It's Hard to Improve When You Have No One But Yourself to Follow
• The Law of the Rubber Band: Growth Stops When You Lose the Tension Between Where You are and Where You Could Be
• The Law of Contribution: Developing Yourself Enables You to Develop Others

This 10th anniversary edition comes with an updated foreword from John Maxwell. The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth will help you become a lifelong learner whose potential keeps increasing so you can lead others with passion and get results.

Change is the distinguishing characteristic of the business environment across the world and it affects how contemporary organisations operate. While organisations need to do more with less, they also have to satisfy the needs of their customers who, with more exposure to local and global markets, have higher expectations relating to the cost, quality, speed and innovation of the services and products they purchase from these organisations.

In response to the changes in their business environment, organisations are becoming flatter, networked, global, more flexible and diverse and managers have to acquire the skills to face the challenges associated with these features.

The contemporary management principles offered in this publication integrates discussions on vital managerial competencies and skills with information on traditional and essential managerial concepts that have been effective in the past and are still relevant.

In our interconnected world, mastering global branding is essential for success. International Brand Management is your comprehensive guide, covering key aspects of international branding to help you navigate the complex global marketplace.

Beginning with brand identity and positioning, the book emphasizes the importance of cultural sensitivity, market research, and strategic alignment in crafting a compelling brand narrative that resonates across diverse cultures. From there, it explores brand architecture, demonstrating how to manage complex brand portfolios while maintaining coherence and synergy.

Brand equity and its value chain are examined, providing insights into measuring brand equity and evaluating the impact of branding investments on financial performance and consumer perceptions. The text also covers brand communication strategies, showcasing how effective communication can amplify brand resonance and foster meaningful engagement with global audiences

Make ethical decisions with Ferrell/Fraedrich/Ferrell's BUSINESS ETHICS: ETHICAL DECISION MAKING AND CASES, 14th Edition.

Examples and exercises show students how morals and values can affect choices made in real organizations. Integrate ethics into strategic business decisions with reorganized, up-to-date chapters that present the ethical decision-making process in today's complex legal, social and political environments. New scenarios highlight economic and technological realities and the challenges that new managers are likely to encounter.

Updates address the processes and best practices behind successful business ethics with the latest legislation and new coverage of global sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

Bestselling author Sean Covey has made it his mission to understand trust in organizations. In his new breakthrough leadership book Trust and Inspire, Covey shows that though our world has evolved, our style of leadership still has not—but it’s time to change that.

Traditionally, businesses have relied on a “command and control” management style, focusing on rigid hierarchies and compliance from employees. Covey argues we must shift from a “command and control” to a “trust and inspire” leadership model. Trusting and inspiring your team is defined by commitment from both sides, with a focus on effectiveness and fostering a growth mindset. It is based on the belief that employees are creative, collaborative, and full of potential; through trust, you can inspire them to do their best work.

Trust and Inspire is a simple yet radical shift in how business must be done in the 21st century and an expansive, visionary, and inviting guide to the future of leadership.

Michael Barber has spent many years advising governments, businesses and major sporting teams around the world on how to achieve ambitious goals on time. In this inspiring and practical guide he applies the wisdom he has gained from dealing with large, complex organizations and elite athletes to help anyone tackle their most challenging goals.

Drawing on the stories of historic visionaries and modern heroes - from Galileo to Rosa Parks, Harold Macmillan to Paula Radcliffe - Barber uses personal anecdote and proven strategy to map the route to success and navigate the difficulties that arise along the way.

Whatever it is that you aspire to do - run a marathon, transform a school or provide a business of public service to millions - this book will inspire you to get going and to bridge the gap between hope and reality.