Icon Books Ltd: 338 books
A Practical Guide to Business Creativity
Build your business on ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Introducing Business Creativity: A Practical Guide provides innovative techniques and proven theories to help you improve your creative thinking and get more out of yourself and your business. Whether you are trying to develop entirely new initiatives or redesign the way you operate, this book will...
Introducing Emotional Intelligence
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Effectively understand yourself and others, to achieve a happier, healthier life. Improve your personal and professional relationships by learning a range of mental skills that can help you to successfully manage both yourself and the demands of working with others. Teaching you to stay in control,...
Negotiation
How to craft agreements that give everyone more
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Think negotiation is a boardroom battlefield? Think again.
We all need to negotiate in our professional and personal lives, but negotiation doesn’t have to be a fight to get what you want. In fact, you’ll create better deals and better relationships through collaboration.
In Negotiation,...
Introducing Productivity
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
To do:
take the stress out of work
defeat ‘information overload’
be more efficient.
Whether you are overwhelmed by your to-do list, or get stressed just looking at your full inbox, this Practical Guide from productivity expert Graham Allcott reveals how to think, and act, more...
Mindfulness
Your step-by-step guide to a happier life
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Mindfulness is the popular practice that helps you to appreciate your life, and to live with more joy and less stress. By bringing mindfulness into everyday actions – by listening to your body, becoming more aware of what’s happening in the present moment and letting go of negativity – you can...
Big Data
How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Is the Brexit vote successful big data politics or the end of democracy? Why do airlines overbook, and why do banks get it wrong so often? How does big data enable Netflix to forecast a hit, CERN to find the Higgs boson and medics to discover if red wine really is good for you? And how are companies...
High Street Heroes
The Story of British Retail in 50 People
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
WHEN BUSINESSMAN John Timpson started his retailing career in 1960, there were no supermarkets, no out-of-town shopping centres and not even a hint of internet shopping. The British high street was full of made-to-measure tailors and traditional grocers. Among the household names were Mac Fisheries,...
A Practical Guide to Persuasion
Influence others and lead change
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Make other people say ‘Yes’! Yes to your requests. Yes to your ideas. Yes to your products. Yes to your proposals.
A Practical Guide to Persuasion uses psychology, expert advice and practical techniques to teach you how to influence the people around you in an ethical way.
Learn...
Lobbying for Change
Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
'We need effective citizen-lobbyists – not just likers, followers or even marchers – more than ever. I have no hesitation in lobbying you to read this book.'
Bill Emmott, former editor in chief, the Economist
Many democratic societies are experiencing a crisis of faith. Citizens are making...
How Thinking About Sex Helps You Write Essays
From How to be a Knowledge Ninja
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Essay writing is a drag, right? Not if it’s done the ninja way! In this short ebook, an edited extract from Graham Allcott’s brilliant How to be a Knowledge Ninja, you’ll learn how to write an essay - whether it’s for an article, a dissertation or an assignment. Allcott shows how the best...
Positive Psychology
A Toolkit for Happiness, Purpose and Well-being
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Positive Psychology will help you to look on the bright side and to find your place in the world around you. With expert encouragement and guidance, you will set out your own positive psychology project to discover your strengths, overcome negative attitudes, focus on what gives you purpose, and take...
How to be a Knowledge Ninja
Study smarter. Focus better. Achieve more.
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
In the world of smartphones, instant internet access and on-demand documentaries, studying should be easier than ever. Yet all this background noise can make us unfocused and inefficient learners. So how can you cut through the distractions and get back to productive, rewarding learning? Four little...
by Rasmus Ankersen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
'A great read and a fascinating insight into performance.' Sir Clive Woodward We all want to discover our hidden talents and make an impact with them. But how? Rasmus Ankersen, an ex-footballer and performance specialist, quit his job and for six intense months lived with the world's best athletes...
A Practical Guide to Building Self-Esteem
Accept, Value and Empower Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
This Practical Guide shows you how raising your self-esteem can make you feel better about yourself; let you stop you worrying about whether you are doing the right thing or whether you are good enough; help you engage in relationships constructively without putting yourself down and allow you to...