Leadership is never more crucial than when corporate survival is at stake. But the days of the tough guys are over. The leaders who are driving today's sustainable turnarounds understand that the answers to a distressed company's problems lie almost always within the firm itself usually at middle manager level and below. The secret is cooperation.

Drawing on interviews with world leading, international company doctors and advisers, as well as on the authors' own experience, "Leading Corporate Turnarounds" explores seven key leadership and management skills required for successful turnaround, and shows why quickly gaining the buy-in and trust of all stakeholders is the key to ultimate success.

"This is an admirable guide to the increasingly specialized business of corporate turnaround; I wish I had it when I started at BT in 2001."
--Sir Christopher Bland, Chairman, BT Group

"Why wait for a crisis to hit before reading this book? There is so much good material here which can be used preventatively to stop your company going to the brink. If I had this book available when we faced our turnaround, I have no doubt that I would have moved faster to tackle the problems! This book is a must even for those seeking to stimulate change before the crisis begins."
--Patrick O'Sullivan, Group Finance Director, Zurich Financial Services

"This well researched analysis of the characteristics of leadership in turnarounds is a valuable and timely successor to Corporate Turnaround. It should be essential reading not only for those involved in company rescues but also for those who want to learn about crisis leadership without experiencing it themselves."
--Paul Thompson, Headof Lending Services, HSBC

Irony and self-reflectivity are central to Mounira Al Sohl's work, which explores feminist issues, tracks patterns of microhistory, also being socially engaged, political and escapist all at once. In a series of drawings, Al Solh collects personal histories and experiences that merge from humanitarian and political crises in Syria and the Middle East. The more than 150 drawings and embroideries presented here document deeply personal encounters and conversations between Al Solh and Syrian refugees as well as other refugees from the Middle East. Text in English and Arabic..

This book reveals the work of the artist and activist Yto Barrada. Her artistic practice draws upon the roles of activist, educator, architect, botanist and anthropologist to explore expressions of communality and individual being. The exhibition presented at Mathaf focuses on the threads of regeneration and growth moving between architecture, urban transformation, horticulture, experimental education and home economics. Weaving together these interdisciplinary methods of making and discovery, the exhibition articulates desires for equality, self-expression and exploration. The artist’s personal and collective experiences of Tangier are expressed through a multitude of mediums to investigate the structures and systems of life in that city. These work in parallel with similar investigations by the artist into systems in the US, to compose a critical and poetic reading of overlooked histories and realities. Barrada’s works in this exhibition offer an open dialogue on the possible restitution of basic democratic ideals such as shelter, sustenance and communality. Barrada’s work offers a mode of associative thinking and making, emphasising the right to exist, learn and shape the world around us. In the galleries, her works live together, presenting starting points for possible collective narratives, which recirculate within the spaces as a composition and as new stories in themselves. Text in English and Arabic.