Book Reviews

We cannot underestimate how critical strong leadership is in all aspects of our lives. It enables us to run our lives, homes, communities, workplaces and nations. Given its importance, it is pertinent to ask: What is the source of good leadership?

In celebration of DHL’s fiftieth anniversary as a world-leading delivery company, former CEO of DHL - Ken Allen – shares the inspiring story of his journey to the top of the industry in his recently launched memoir, Radical Simplicity. The book demonstrates how simplicity successfully transformed a loss-making mega brand into a world-class performer.

Starting a business is simple. You take a great idea and a passionate drive to see it come to life, combine it with a fantastic Go-To-Market Strategy and the rest is history, right? Unfortunately, not.

Roy Grace faces his most difficult case yet in The Hawk Is Dead, the gripping new instalment from number one bestselling author Peter James. Roy Grace never imagined that a murder investigation would lead him deep inside Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty, Queen Camilla, is aboard the Royal Train, travelling to a charity event in Sussex.

After hitting a brick wall in both his business and personal life in 2006, Pepe Marais discovered his purpose on which he rebuilt all aspects of his life over the course of the next fourteen years. The results of his purposeful approach to life have been nothing short of spectacular and in this, his second book, Pepe once again sets out to deliver on his personal purpose: to bring out the best in those around him.

Today the focus on ‘a job’ is more pronounced than it has ever been before in our global commercial history. We are living on a planet that is rapidly becoming less and less sustainable and which needs to progressively take better care of its people, and vice versa.

Running a business will likely be one of the most challenging things you’ll ever do. However, armed with the right advice and guidance, it can also be one of the most rewarding – providing a solid financial future for you and those you love.

Exit Strategy delivers exactly what long-time fans expect from Jack Reacher -  precision, unpredictability and trouble waiting around every corner. This new instalment keeps the pace tight while giving readers a fresh look at Reacher’s code of instinctive justice. The novel grips from the opening page and never loosens its hold.

Being the best doesn’t guarantee you’ll get the business. Having the best pitch does. Whether you’re looking for clients, investors or employees, you need to know how to pitch your products, services and ideas. Justin Cohen’s internationally acclaimed 6-step formula has been credited with winning some of the toughest deals and exponentially increasing sales.

What happens when a former liberation movement turned political party loses its dominance but survives because no opposition party is able to succeed it? The trends are established: South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) is in decline. Its hegemony has been weakened, its legitimacy diluted.