Master the skills to be recognized as a leader in any professional setting

In The Highflier Handbook, renowned executive coach and advisor, Allen N. Weiner, guides readers through the essential qualities and behaviors that distinguish outstanding performers in the workplace. The book addresses the common challenge of being overlooked for leadership roles despite competence and hard work. Through practical advice and insights drawn from nearly 50 years of experience and interviews with CEOs, Weiner provides a roadmap for professionals to enhance their communication, behavior, and overall presence to be seen as potential leaders.

The author offers invaluable strategies for standing out in crowded professional environments. You'll learn how to project composure, competence, and charisma, communicate effectively, and exhibit the non-verbal cues that signal leadership potential. The book is structured around interviews with top executives, providing real-world examples of how successful leaders behave and communicate. Each chapter covers a specific trait or skill essential for leadership, from maintaining composure under pressure to demonstrating strategic thinking and providing impactful feedback.

Inside the book:

• Learn key behaviors and communication techniques that signal leadership potential
• Discover practical tips from interviews with CEOs and industry leaders
• Understand the importance of non-verbal cues in conveying confidence and competence
• Gain insights into how to provide and receive feedback most effectively

The Highflier Handbook is an essential resource for professionals at all stages of their careers who aspire to leadership roles. Whether you're a new employee aiming to make a strong impression, a mid-level manager looking to advance, or an executive seeking to refine your leadership skills, this book provides the tools and insights needed to be recognized as a highflyer.

Mindfulness has gained significant traction within the business community worldwide. Mindful Marketing and Strategic Management focuses on current advancements in the realm of mindfulness and its application for both effective marketing and strategic management practices. It presents readers with techniques to adopt mindfulness as a major driver for long-term success

This edited book includes various strategies for marketers and practitioners to engage customers in a thoughtful and meaningful way. Businesses that use a mindful approach may develop true relationships with their target audience, encourage positive consumer behaviour and loyalty, and have a beneficial social effect through their products or services.

The book is a great resource for management and practitioners as it provides practical tools and approaches for incorporating mindfulness into effective strategic management practices, such as leadership and workplace culture, which is vital for organisational success and employee wellbeing. The book provides suggestions on how to incorporate mindfulness into strategic planning, decision-making processes, and team cooperation. By using a mindful approach, practitioners may improve their efficacy, inventiveness, and overall performance, eventually contributing to long-term corporate success.

This new volume explores the multifaceted landscape of knowledge management, with a particular emphasis on its application in higher education. The book offers diverse perspectives, strategies, and tools to enable global institutions to succeed and remain competitive in today's disruptive business environment. Recognizing higher education as a conduit for global knowledge acquisition, propagation, and continuous learning, the book discusses the interplay between technologies, techniques, and people, the strategic value of knowledge, the role of reward systems, and the significance of tacit knowledge, presenting diverse global perspectives and showcasing strategies that foster better knowledge retention, aiming to elevate the standards of higher education.

In the contemporary landscape of Industry 5.0, where the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and human capabilities defines a paradigm shift in digital transformation, the pivotal role of mentorship has become paramount. Recognized globally as a highly effective learning and development process, mentoring is indispensable across various industries and sectors. While traditional mentorship models like senior-junior partnerships have had their time, the rapid evolution of the digital era is giving rise to new mentoring practices, particularly in Industry 5.0.

In Digital Mentorship, authors embark on a comprehensive exploration of digital mentoring within the landscape of Industry 5.0, elucidating the crucial interplay between human mentoring and AI in the digital age. Covering a spectrum of topics, this study begins with an overview of Industry 5.0 and the significance of mentoring in contemporary contexts. It navigates through the distinctions between traditional, online, and AI-powered mentoring, dissecting communication tools and technologies transformative impact on mentoring quality. The subsequent chapters delve into emotional competencies, leadership styles, recent trends, cross-cultural mentoring complexities, policy implications, multilevel impacts, ethical considerations, program evaluations, and speculative future scenarios. Drawing from diverse literature, this work serves as a compass, guiding readers through the multifaceted dimensions of digital mentoring in Industry 5.0, ultimately paving the way for nuanced discussions on the future of mentoring amidst the burgeoning influence of emerging technologies like AI.

Whether seeking to enhance mentoring programs, understand the impact of emerging technologies, or address ethical considerations, readers will find invaluable perspectives and practical insights to inform their research, policy-making, and professional endeavours in an increasingly digital world.

Arts and cultural institutions are a unique organizational context. Managing creative people within that context requires considerations that are not standard in traditional human resource practice. This book is designed to provide arts and cultural administrators with an overview of the most pressing elements of human resource management for arts and cultural institutions.

Written by an arts management professor with an equity-focused human resources consulting firm, this book provides readers with knowledge they can immediately use to solve human resource management issues they will encounter.

Infused with practical considerations and real-world examples that are grounded in human resources and industrial psychology research, Human Resources in the Arts will benefit arts management students and practitioners alike.

Practical guide to effectively communicate financial data, ideas, and insights to executives

Communicating Financials to Executives delivers indispensable insights on how to clearly, effectively and productively communicate financials to executives across industries in an influential manner. In this book, finance practitioners and consultants Anders Liu-Lindberg and Christian Frantz Hansen deliver a five-step approach on how to get started, along with underlying theory explaining why each step is imperative to success.

Special attention is placed on not just presenting data but doing so in a way that brings significant value to the table and creates an impact that leads to greater business success for the organisation. Topics explored in this book include:

• The executive decision-making process and how to tailor your approach to seamlessly integrate into it
• Managing the amount of detail in communications and knowing how to structure data appropriately
• Visual elements that can help better communicate data to individuals who aren't "numbers people"
• Specific struggles that financial and accounting professionals face in the modern business environment
• How to build management reports that are easily understood by executives and drive significant business value

Communicating Financials to Executives earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all finance professionals seeking to better harvest the fruits of their labour by properly articulating ideas and insights to decision-makers within an organisation.

Discusses interrelations or confluences among communication flows as the Four Flows Model of organizational communication

The Four Flows Model illustrates how communication makes an organization what it is, presenting in-depth information on the Communicative Constitution of Organizations (CCO). Written by a team of renowned experts in the field, this comprehensive resource is designed for all those involved in the study of organizations, particularly advanced students and researchers in Business, Sociology, Communication Studies, and the subdiscipline of Organizational Communication.

Organized into eleven substantial chapters, the text clearly and thoroughly explains all key aspects of Four Flows Theory (4F) and provides a theoretical grounding in its parent, Structuration Theory (ST). The book draws upon original research and evidence to demonstrate that organizations are not constituted in merely one way, but rather by four analytically different yet interconnected characteristic flows: Membership Negotiation, Self-Structuring, Activity Coordination, and Institutional Positioning. Throughout the book, the authors describe their theoretical developments through discussion of other key schools of CCO thinking, as well as important issues such as critical perspectives on organizing.

Articulating the significance of the Four Flows Theory for CCO scholarship, this innovative volume:

• Discusses interrelations or confluences among flows and explores relations of the Four Flows Model with alternate perspectives
• Emphasizes the need to ask broader questions in CCO theorizing regarding the ways socio-material things are constituted
• Lays out the context of 4F theory and identifies the key issues CCO theories should address
• Describes how conlocutions allow sensitive exploration of relations
• Introduces the concept of transtruction to Structuration Theory, explaining how communication produces and reproduces organizations

Highlighting the importance of studying organizations as novel social entities that rule the world, The Four Flows Model: The Communicative Constitution of Organizations is an excellent textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses on Organizational Communication, Structuration Theory, Organizational Communication, Management, Organizational Studies, and Public Administration, as well as an invaluable reference work for researchers and practitioners in the field.

The U.S. health care system is dominated by private and public (governmental) insurance which makes it difficult for many Americans to imagine access to health care without it. The health care system in the USA is sometimes mistakenly referred to as market-based, partly because of the previous lack of compulsory insurance.

As this book shows, however, even before ObamaCare it was a system heavily influenced by the government. This short and accessible book demonstrates that governmental long-term interventionism in the American health insurance market has led to many contemporary serious problems, such as significant and uncontrolled increases in health care costs, rising health insurance prices, marginalization of direct payments, limited competition, and problems with uninsured Americans. Many observers wrongly blame the market for this state of affairs and demand more regulation, which further deteriorates the situation. The study is divided into two parts: an analysis of the history of interventions (and their effects) in the private health insurance market, and an analysis of the genesis and evolution of governmental Medicare and Medicaid insurance. Thus, the book constitutes a unique synthesis of Austrian theory of interventionism and the history of health insurance in the USA.

This book is vital reading for health economists, managers, and policymakers, as well as those interested in the Austrian approach to economics.

This book expands understandings of how skills are defined, acquired, and utilized in Global South contexts. 'Skills' and 'skill development' are increasingly prominent focal points for governments in the Global South and international development bodies. Yet, policymakers and practitioners promoting skill development often overlook the everyday realities of how skills are learned and acquired, and how they are deployed and valued by individuals and communities. Frequently, they ignore the social and institutional barriers that prevent people from using their skills in meaningful or remunerative ways.

By focusing on the 'the social life of skills', the chapters in this volume invite a broader conceptualization of skills, their development, and their application in Global South contexts. They explore four main areas of theorization and practice:

1. The social and political processes by which certain types of work - and people - are labeled as 'skilled' or 'unskilled.'

2. The different ways people acquire skills: formal, informal, and nonformal.

3. The political economy of skills and skill development and their imbrication in forms of exploitation and intersecting inequalities.

4. The role of skills in the expression of aspirations, identities, and agency.

This book will appeal to students and researchers in the fields of development studies, sociology, anthropology, education, and labor studies, particularly those focusing on the Global South. It will also appeal to policymakers, practitioners, and development organizations working on skill development and vocational training.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

This book presents contemporary trends and challenges in agricultural land use, drawing on an array of global case studies.

This volume examines agricultural land use through a three-pronged approach: structural transformations, environmental challenges, and planning and policy. Reflecting the global relevance of contemporary challenges to agricultural land use, the book presents a wide range of novel case studies from across the world, including Poland, Hungary, Denmark, Slovenia, Czechia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Algeria, Northeast Africa countries, China, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA, and Brazil. Each chapter focuses on a particular issue related to agricultural land use in that country or region, including land fragmentation, reduction of crop land, agricultural intensification, desertification of soils, climate change, biodiversity loss, traditional agricultural systems, urbanization and rural development, and planning challenges for agricultural land. Together the chapters present a global view of the challenges facing the agricultural industry and offer solutions for developing sustainable agricultural practices to ensure food security and environmental and biodiversity conservation.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food and agriculture, land use and land management, rural studies, and sustainable development.

This book enables readers to confidently discuss and understand disability as part of the broader societal conversation on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The influence of mass media can raise awareness, educate, reduce stigma, facilitate advocacy related to disability, and activate attitude and behavior change. Recognizing that disability is a complex, multi-dimensional topic, this book presents case studies, original research, and practical applications related to society and cultural events about disability to highlight prominent issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. While previous work examined disability through activism or historical lenses, this book explores contemporary industry practices and how current conversations are driving trends in the field. Divided into three parts related to journalism and news reporting, strategic communication, and health communication, the book provides readers with the knowledge and skills to create conversation that gives space to disability and facilitates advancement in inclusion.

Filling a void in disability literature, this book will be of interest to scholars as well as undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of health communication, journalism, strategic communication, media studies, disability studies, public health, and medical sociology.

Sheng- Hsun Lee develops a new way of understanding public health crisis communication through the lens of multimodal classification. He draws on examples from COVID- 19 press conferences in Taiwan and public online comments to outline multimodal classification as sorting pandemic phenomena into categorical types.

Lee argues that when public health officials classify health crisis phenomena into categories, they also set parameters for official responses and shape public perceptions of a crisis. He illustrates the argument by examining Taiwan's initial successes in keeping most infections at bay and subsequent challenges of obtaining enough vaccines for international border reopening. The successes and challenges are closely linked to multimodal classification, which includes using speech, gestures, and objects to make some categories travel broadly and impede the circulation of other categories. The book discusses a wide range of crisis categories from the three dreadful first times- the first confirmed case, the first community-acquired case, and the first death- to the politicized debate over vaccine brands. Lee emphasizes the importance of understanding how crisis categories are produced, circulated, and received. The comprehensive coverage looks beyond initial responses to the COVID- 19 pandemic and outside English- dominant places to redefine effective public health messaging. Based on the findings, the book highlights implications for communicating official messages and offers a list of ready- to- use strategies for updating existing guidelines on public health communication.

The book is an essential read for public health practitioners, researchers, and advanced students in discourse analysis and public health communication.

How can the strategic direction for an organization be supported and communicated if planning, and even strategies, are no longer sufficient options in the age of complexity? In this book it is argued that sense-making communication defines contemporary societies and organizations in a world where narratives and the ability to engage in strategic improvisation are crucial. In the book, new and old ideas about communication and management are integrated into a framework rooted in the humanities and fine arts. The result is a new conceptual mindset for management which claims that jazz music, narrative theory, and improvisational theatre have more to offer to the development of organizations than traditional managerial models.

Data has been called the 'new oil' of the 21st-century economy, yet knowledge of how to harness and comprehend data is lagging. This book presents a comprehensive guide for university students and business practitioners to acquire the core competencies to become data literate.

Data Literacy: The Essential Language in the Digital Era introduces a logical way to master the nature, features, characteristics, limitations, uses, and protection of data, as well as its legal, regulatory, and ethical concerns. The book helps readers to develop their data literacy skills, based on lessons learnt from the authors' professional experience in the banking and education sectors, together with doctrinal and empirical findings from research and observation.

With a structured methodology for interpreting data, practical case studies, and useful exercises, this textbook is an essential guide and reference for students, practitioners, and scholars in any discipline, as well as policymakers and regulators from all over the world.

It explores the integration of digital technologies into business models, offering innovative approaches for sustainable growth. This comprehensive guide delves into case studies and strategic frameworks that align digital transformation with environmental and economic sustainability. It presents actionable insights on overcoming challenges, leveraging technology for efficiency, and fostering a competitive edge. Designed for industry leaders, researchers, and policymakers, the book provides evidence-based strategies supported by real-world applications, making it an essential resource for those looking to drive meaningful change in today's evolving business landscape.

Book publishing is big business, contributing significant employment in the creative industries and adding billions to the global economy. Despite this, the sector is often overlooked in the creative industries' research tide. This book remedies this gap in knowledge, providing an examination of book publishing in the UK within the wider context of the creative industries and the existing academic discourse.

Balancing the tensions of art and commerce perhaps more than any other creative field, this book considers the position of the book publishing industry within the contemporary cultural economy. Through this focused analysis on the culture(s) and organisation(s) of book publishing in the UK, the author demonstrates how this creative industry reflects, and perpetuates, many of the key issues and challenges, including inequalities in representation, cultural and economic dominance of global conglomerates, and hierarchies of value, already recognised as central within the creative industries in the UK and beyond.

This concise book will be essential reading for academics, researchers, and students with an interest in the publishing industry and its position within the UK Creative Industries and cultural economy.

Drawing on examples from sport, diplomacy, business and more, the authors explore how strategic thinking can guide clear- sighted decision-making.

From politicians seeking re-election, to statespeople craving spheres of influence, to business executives, military generals and sports coaches, we all employ strategy in our day-to-day activities. Strategic treatises on the art of war, politics or leadership have a long history, including those by Thucydides, Xenophon, Kautilya, Machiavelli and Clausewitz; yet, while recent decades have seen the proliferation of books on business strategy, there has still been no single volume, ancient or modern, combining all strands of the human strategic experience- until now.

The Art of Strategy encapsulates and conveys the logic of strategy in easily accessible prose, and applies it to virtually every form of human endeavour. It builds upon the existing strategic wisdom produced by the great masters to present a holistic theory of strategy that is relevant to practice: a sprightly yet sober analysis of fifty maxims, drawing on examples from chess to psychology.

Platias and Koliopoulos offer the reader a guide to strategic behaviour in all areas of life, while at the same time building a comprehensive theory of victory. They provide a framework that helps the reader to understand the nature of strategy, to think strategically, and to act strategically-and successfully.

Building the City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world.

The book offers complementary blending of longstanding political-economic accounts of migration, gender, labour, and urban life alongside advances in feminist, postcolonial, post-structural, materialist, and more-than-representational theories. Drawing on these critical resources the authors explore the complexities of migrant's everyday past, present, and future lives. More specifically, they interrogate diverse and heterogeneous connections between work, domestic, and family times and spaces as well as foregrounding new theoretical and empirical terrain regarding consumption, pleasure, leisure, fashioned, sexual identities, and digital lives within and beyond cities.

Premised on ethnographic research undertaken in cities across China the authors develop a detailed relational comparative dialogue with the most up-to-date international interdisciplinary research.

This critically challenging yet engaging and accessible research monograph provides an excellent resource for scholars at all career stages as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in diverse disciplines including anthropology, cultural studies, economics, management, organisation, and business studies, human geography, planning, political science, sociology, and urban studies.

In 2019, a National Health Service Trust in England lost 11 members of current and former staff members to suspected suicide. Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book is a case study of how one workplace was affected. It offers a critical examination of how management responded, reflecting on their missteps, their desire to learn, their uncertainty about what actions to take or where to begin and how they ultimately relied on staff guidance to chart a path forward.

Based on research conducted in 2021, this book presents a series of recommendations outlining how to integrate suicide prevention and postvention into organisational policies and wellbeing strategies. The book includes a 'Seeking Support Framework', 'Postvention Communication Strategy Model' and a 'Healthcare Workforce Postvention Toolkit', which are practical tools that readers can embed in their own workplaces quicky and efficiently to prevent suicide. This book reveals to the reader how anti-suicide measures can be put in place in a healthcare setting or any organisation.

Workforce Suicide: Barriers and Postvention in the Healthcare Sector is a sobering yet vital read for any student, researcher or practitioner in the fields of occupational health and safety, healthcare and healthcare management, nursing, medicine, social care or occupational therapy.

In the fourth edition of Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present, Abramovitz traces how the welfare state regulated the lives of women from colonial times to the present.

Drawing on important feminist concepts-social reproduction, the gender division of labor, and patriarchy-Abramovitz successfully exposes the gendered and racialized myths and stereotypes built into welfare state programs. The book carefully explains the contextual conditions that contributed to the precursors of the modern welfare state, its rise and expansion after World War II, and the recent neoliberal effort to dismantle the cash assistance programs most likely to lift women out of poverty. This edition marks the most extensive overhaul to date. It revises the conceptual and background chapters, discusses cash assistance programs, and considers emerging ideas such as the role of economic crises in the development of the US welfare state. It also considers the future of the welfare state under the second Trump Presidency.

Regulating the Lives of Women is an essential resource for all students of social work, sociology, history, political science, public policy, and gender studies.

This fully revised volume provides a rigorous assessment of the latest research relating to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, along with the practical and policy implications of the findings.

Leading researchers and practitioners from diverse and international backgrounds offer critical commentary on these findings gathered from both field and laboratory research. Building on the first edition, this book presents the research from the past twenty years on why delayed disclosure or denial is so common and what we can do about it. Chapters focus on field research interviewing reluctant children, including suspected victims of sexual abuse and other crimes, victims of trafficking, as well as young, suspected perpetrators of sexual abuse. Adding emphasis on research-based methods for overcoming reluctance, it also explores the different dynamics and circumstances which affect disclosure patterns and the ways in which interviewers can facilitate disclosures.

Child Sexual Abuse is for researchers and practitioners from child, forensic, and clinical psychology, social work, and all legal professionals who need to understand this crime. It will also be of interest to trainee social workers specializing in child welfare and intervention.

This book explores how digital marketing can drive disability inclusion in consumer culture by addressing accessibility, representation, and research methodologies. It offers practical and theoretical insights for academics, practitioners, and policymakers interested in marketing, communication, sociology, and public policy.

The first part, Digital Marketplace Accessibility, examines strategies for reducing the digital divide, including inclusive hiring practices and accessible platform development. The second part, Digital Representation, focuses on how people with disabilities are portrayed in digital media. It analyses topics such as aesthetics, influencer marketing, mental health advocacy, and neurodiversity. The third part, Digital Methodologies, highlights research approaches like netnography and offers reflections on methodological challenges when researching consumers with disabilities. Contributors discuss practices for conducting ethical and inclusive research involving people with disabilities, providing a roadmap for scholars. The final part, Poetic Epilogue, takes a poetic turn, offering an ecopoetic reflection on lived experiences of Alzheimer's disease.

This book encourages readers to reconsider disability as a complex and intersectional category. It inspires marketers, researchers, and advocates to adopt more inclusive and socially conscious marketing practices, ultimately contributing to a more equitable digital consumer culture.

Despite its current dominant status, economic growth emerged as a field of study and as a political objective only after the Second World War. This book provides an alternative perspective to the Anglo-centric historical analysis of growth by turning the focus on Finland and other Nordic countries from the late 19th century until the Second World War. Moreover, it provides a conceptual history perspective to how economic growth can be examined before the emergence of economic growth as a concept.

This book places Finland in the context of emerging nation-states of the early 20th-century Europe and constructs five competing growth conceptions: classical liberal, agrarian conservative, social liberal, social democratic, and communist. With a methodology derived from conceptual history, this book presents a framework to study economic growth in the context of nationalism. It showcases how ideas related to growth have not been synonymous with capitalism, but rather they have been connected to state-building and to comparison of economic systems. The findings of the book highlight the interwar period as a key turning point in historical analysis of growth.

This book provides a fresh and a thought-provoking account that will be of interest to students and scholars of economic history, history of ideas, development studies and degrowth, and history of capitalism.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

By the end of the 19th century, there were already some countries in southern Europe whose economies benefitted from the arrival of tourists. But it was during the 20th century, and particularly after the Second World War, that the phenomenon of mass tourism arrived and dramatically impacted the economies of southern Europe.

This edited volume analyses when, how, and why tourism gained an important role in the economy and social life of Southern Europe. It contributes to a reassessment of mass tourism focusing on two main dimensions: first, the impact on the economic development of the different southern European countries and second, the building of a new sociality focusing on the rituals and values of middle and the working class. This book adopts a comparative approach that opens with a comparison of European countries in terms of international market share and tourist products. The other chapters focus on national case studies that allow the reader to better understand not only the similarities and differences between some countries and others, but also the phenomenon as a whole. Since tourism is a transnational phenomenon, this book makes an important contribution to not only the study of tourism development and its economy but also social, impact in Southern Europe.

The book will be of great interest to readers of economic history, business history, tourism history, and European history more broadly.