Profile Books imprint: 206 books
by Patrick Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
The pace of change in the past two decades has been extraordinary and it has become much harder for businesses to anticipate the environment in which they will be operating not far down the line - how markets and marketing will change, how employees and consumers behaviour and attitudes will change....
The Stupidity Paradox
The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Functional stupidity can be catastrophic. It can cause organisational collapse, financial meltdown and technical disaster. And there are countless, more everyday examples of organisations accepting the dubious, the absurd and the downright idiotic, from unsustainable management fads to the cult of...
Enterprise Rules
The Foundations of High Achievement - and How to Build on Them
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
The messages of Enterprise Rules are hugely important. Organisations that manage to provide meaning to employees, satisfaction to customers and a net contribution to society can expect to prosper in the long term. This has been known for a long time, ever since the great Quaker entrepreneurs of the...
I Love Mondays
The autobiography of Sir Alec Reed CBE
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Alec Reed, founder of the internationally successful Reed Employment and its sister company Reed Executive, is now in his late seventies but still a dynamic and imposing figure, with an engaging personality that conceals his shrewd flair for business. From humble beginnings, he seized every opportunity...
The Arab Spring and the Gulf States
Time to embrace change
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
The most challenging question today for the citizens of any country in the Gulf region is whether it is heading in the right direction to become a durable, sustainable system, fully supported by its people and capable of being defended from internal and external threats. In The Arab Spring and the...
Family Enterprises
The Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Family firms are to be found in every sector of commercial activity. Commitment, family values and pride in the business are typically their special strengths, yet they also face major challenges in reconciling the needs of the business with those of the family.
Drawing on the author's extensive...
Africa's Future: Darkness to Destiny
How the past is shaping Africa's economic evolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Many seek to "fix" Africa - economists, experts, politicians, gurus, cognoscenti and glitterati. But the continent conceals multiple secrets, including the Holy Grail: explanations of its saga over the previous centuries.
Africa's Future tells the tale of Africa's economic evolution,...
The Great Indoors
At home in the modern British house
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
'House' has long been synonymous with 'home': the significance of four walls and a roof lies far deeper than simply shelter from the elements. A house stands for sanctuary, family, belonging, privacy and our pasts: even when standardised as a 'Barratt Home' or modern housing estate, every house bears...
State Building
Governance and World Order in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent...
Europe's Decline and Fall
The Struggle Against Global Irrelevance
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
The European Union is in inexorable decline. The outlook is gloomy for the economy and nobody listens to European politicians. Any authority or power that it once had on the world stage is being lost, and its claims to the moral high ground in international affairs are increasingly shaky. But this...
The Switch
How solar, storage and new tech means cheap power for all
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
How will the world be powered in ten years' time? Not by fossil fuels. Energy experts are all saying the same thing: solar photovoltaics (PV) is our future. Reports from universities, investment banks, international institutions and large investors agree. It's not about whether the switch from fossil...
Investing in Change
The Reform of Europe's Financial Markets
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
These are tumultuous times for the banking industry in Europe. The financial crisis that erupted in 2008 has rarely been out of the headlines since.
Yet this has not been solely a period of crisis management. It has also been a time of positive change and reform, involving self-examination...
by Professor Anthony Giddens
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
'Before the current global era it is impossible to imagine that comparable events [like September 11] could have occurred, reflecting as they do our new-found interdependence. The rise of global terrorism, like world-wide networks involving in money-laundering, drug-running and other forums of organised...
The Future of Almost Everything
How our world will change over the next 100 years
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
From the man the Wall Street Journal describes as a 'global change guru', more than one hundred of the trends that touch every aspect of our lives. This new and updated edition looks even farther into the future, predicting trends past the first decades of the 22nd century. Patrick Dixon looks at...