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Leadership, yes, but what for?What now determines stand-out performance and a clear sense of identity in organizations? Beyond the essentials of profit and impact, leaders have as many as twelve drivers to pursue. They can choose, as many do, to give them all equal weight. However, their organizations are likely to end up being lost in the middle and suffering from a lack of identity. Their intentions as leaders will fail to cascade. Everyone's sense of direction will vary. Customers won't be sure what to expect. Instead, the best performers in today's complex and volatile conditions commit to three drivers at most. Everyone then knows what the organization is about, whether it is innovation, efficiency or inclusivity. In this book, Patrick Faniel discusses how leaders can align their organizations around each of these twelve drivers. In a series of clear, easy-to-implement models, he highlights the potential for those who focus to create a distinctive sense of purpose and to inspire stand-out performance.

How IP is inspiring and fuelling the next wave of high growthGrowth is ever more centred on intellectual property. In tech. In innovation. In people. In disruptive models. In data. In value propositions. Those who integrate IP into their strategy, culture and mindset are significantly more likely to grow at pace. This book highlights how entrepreneurs, innovators, executives and investors can source the right ideas, create intellectual assets of value, negotiate the best deals for themselves and knock back any challengers. It draws on the knowledge and experience of 20 leading IP players of today and tomorrow, including the high-growth team at the EPO's patent academy, to give a series of insights and lessons into how IP inspires and fuels growth of 10 percent, 20 percent, 50 percent and more, not just this year, but next year and into the future.

ABOUTMany dream of high growth. Few achieve it. The reality is that it's a harder cycle to complete than entrepreneurs and founders expect. The risks are numerous and intense. The right investors will give you the space and the fuel to perfect your idea and connect with your market. However, they are going to ask you a series of searching questions about how you are actually going to perform. Kevin R Smith knows all about the pressures that entrepreneurs and founders face. He has helped hundreds of them to plan, fund and scale their ventures. Often when they're short of time or not sure which way to turn. Based on all these experiences, his book highlights the decisions and the capabilities that make the difference between those who accelerate and those who plateau. Written as a realistic guide to meeting the expectations of investors, he gives you a step-by-step guide to what you have to put in place to become fundable and put yourself on the path to scaling up.THE AUTHORKevin R Smith specializes in lining up the money for entrepreneurs and founders as they grow their ventures. Originally a banker, he has acted as an independent mentor and advisor for the last 24 years, helping to join up all the pieces for start-ups and scale-ups, so they can present the best possible version of their story to investors. Kevin is the founding partner of Boom & Partners, a multi-award winning business advisory firm, a mentor at the Nat West Entrepreneur Accelerator and at The Prince's Trust, as well as being a mentor and guest lecturer at Bayes Business School. He is a columnist on Start-ups Magazine and is a regular speaker on funding for growth.COMMENTS 'I wish this book had been around when I first started my business ... I couldn't recommend it more highly', Anna Daniels, chief executive, Involved Investors 'This incredible book should be the first thing anyone reads before starting a business or by anyone seriously wanting to scale', Emma Mattocks, advisor at Federation of Small Businesses, director at The One Network 'Kevin's expertise in scaling and funding start-ups is clear to see ... a must-read for all founders and entrepreneurs', Anna Flockett, editor, Startups Magazine 'A comprehensive text about how to scale your business ... an easy read that makes the entrepreneurial journey more accessible', Dr Stefania Zerbinati, Bayes Business School, City UniversityCONTENTS(1) Entrepreneurs and founders (2) Your business idea and vision (3) Ready for the challenges (4) Getting help (5) Your business shape (6) Business plans (7) Customers, markets and data (8) Financials, assumptions and forecasts (9) Build your markets (10) International sales (11) Valuing early-stage businesses (12) Your fundraising campaign (13) Early-stage alternative funding (14) The right investor (15) Angel finance (16) Crowdfunding (17) Pitch decks (18) Tell your story (19) Build your team (20) Build your network (21) Your operating platform (22) Cashflow management (23) Why it's hard to grow (24) How to adapt and pivot (25) Growth funding

A digital manufacturer's guide to gaining a tech advantage and taking a commercial lead with Industry 4.0Manufacturing is in the midst of a revolution. Whole supply chains are becoming visible. Innovation is speeding up and becoming more open. Data is being shared and value is being created in real time. Potentially, performance can be transformed and new markets created, either by existing players or disruptive ventures. For all the excitement of the Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0, the risks are too often overlooked. Like other digital markets, value can just flow to the top, leading everyone else to struggle as commodities. Manufacturers can adopt all the technologies, but still find themselves falling back, as many now are. Their challenge is to start playing by the new digital rules and capture the value in their performance. This book, written by a leading expert and practitioner in Industry 4.0, gives those on the manufacturing frontline a set of tools, templates and guidelines to start gaining a technology advantage and taking a commercial lead.Based on a comprehensive review of how manufacturing contracts are currently being written and negotiated, it highlights the questions for manufacturers to ask and reviews their options for managing innovation, designing business models, managing intellectual property and gaining a lasting source of competitive advantage.COMMENTS'Essential reading for anyone embarking on an Industry 4.0 transformation', Brian Reilly, head of business development, Flags Software.'A compelling book that offers intelligence and practical tools for creating new value chains from the Industry 4.0 eco-system', Deepak Farmah, head of industrial innovation, Coventry University.'A valuable read that signposts how you and your team can make the right decisions at the right time', Christopher Greenough, chief commercial officer, SDE Technology.'Recommended for young engineers looking to get ahead of the curve in manufacturing', Babak Jahanbani, managing director, Festo Didactic. CONTENTS(1) The fourth industrial revolution (2) Defining characteristics of Industry 4.0 (3) Transforming digital value (4) The human dimension of Industry 4.0 (5) Competitive Industry 4.0 (6) Innovation models (7) Appropriability regimes (8) Connecting value chains (9) Four cases of appropriability (10) Gains and losses (11) Your Industry 4.0 project (12) IP in the value chain (13) Managing IP for Industry 4.0 (14) Managing valuable assets (15) Protecting IP in value chains (16) A model to profit from Industry 4.0

It's the human challenges that will define your career. In this book, a top workplace communicator gives a real-life account of the personal skills and behaviours that really count in global organizations. Crises and upheavals, anxieties and fears, are an inevitable part of today's workplace. Through a series of highly readable stories from his own 60,000 hours of corporate experience, James Weekley highlights the human qualities that can resolve situations for the better or worse, sometimes the much worse. Your workability depends on how you communicate and behave, he says: what you do matters less than how you do it.Drawing on his knowledge of psychology, language, behaviour and communication, his book equips you with unexpected ways to think about how to manage the human challenges you will encounter and how you can speed up your career without losing yourself. In reality, he says, most of us will find ourselves following more than we lead. We will face a crisis every two to three years. We will suffer from anxieties. We will lose ourselves in gobbledygook. We will have to influence without authority. We will be subject to bad behaviours and toxic cultures. Written for anyone building a career, Workability gives you the power to engage yourself, inspire others, master anxieties, bring in talent, overcome resistance, think unconventionally, manage expectations and connect with your audience, as well as deal more constructively and creatively with the catastrophes and upsets that might otherwise hinder your performance and stall your career.

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