Year: 2018

Icon to publish innovation and productivity expert Bec Evans’ How To Have a Happy Hustle

Innovation expert, startup founder and Futurebook judge Bec Evans is to publish her first book, How To Have a Happy Hustle: The Complete Guide to Making Your Ideas Happen. In the book she will lead readers through the process of generating life-changing ideas and the crucial steps to getting them off the ground.

Designed for anyone who is looking for fulfilment beyond the 9-5 career-track – either in a side-hustle alongside a main job or in a startup, How To Have A Happy Hustle will focus on practical skills and mindset. Using examples from successful innovators, Evans will explain how to use feedback to improve ideas, understand the psychology of being productive, find the best problems to solve and gain motivation to follow through on ideas, even in the face of set-backs and failures.

Kiera Jamison at Icon bought world rights (excluding USA and Canada) from Michael Alcock at Johnson and Alcock for an undisclosed sum. Icon will publish in May 2019.

Jamison says:

‘Bec’s approach really resonated with us, as we’re sure it will with readers looking to develop their ideas. We often tend to think of start-ups as created by these exceptional innovators who have a Eureka-moment and then wild success, but the reality entails a lot of graft to find, develop and launch the right idea. In the book, Bec guides us through every step: from coming up with and testing ideas to launching and growing them, and – most importantly – enjoying the process.’

Evans says:

‘Ideas are the easy bit, what people struggle with is making them happen. Working with people taught me that everyone has the ability to be creative – they just need to skills to make it happen. This book helps people get off the starting blocks by sharing the ‘secrets’ of innovation. Whatever your background or experience, whether you’ve got a great idea you don’t know how to develop, or a problem you’d like to solve, these tried-and-tested techniques will help you to innovate and thrive.’

 

Bec Evans is a consultant on innovation and the co-founder of Prolifiko, a digital coach that helps writers to be productive. Formerly Head of Innovation at Emerald Publishing, Bec is a judge for the FutureBook Awards 2018 and writes and speaks on innovation, startups and productivity. She was selected as one of Business Cloud’s Top Female Founders of Tech in 2017 and mentors students on entrepreneurship at Leeds University Business School.

Negotiation expert Natalie Reynolds launches the ‘Make Your Ask’ project

Negotiation expert, and author of We Have a Deal, Natalie Reynolds is on a mission to democratise world-class negotiation training and to challenge the idea that the best negotiators are the loudest and most aggressive in the room.

 

On Monday 10th September, Natalie will be launching the Make Your Ask Project, bringing her corporate negotiation training masterclass direct to users for only £10 from the website, makeyourask.com. The course, Mastering Negotiation: The Art of Making Your Ask, is based on Natalie’s DEALSTM negotiation training method and comprises eight, 30-minute masterclass lessons, downloadable toolkits and worksheets.

 

For every course purchased, the Make Your Ask Project will gift the same course via one of its charity partners to a woman around the world who really needs it. The project’s goal is to gift 1 million courses and empower 1 million women to make their ask.

 

Natalie says:

For too long, negotiation has been seen as a skill requiring aggression, bullying behaviour and tough talk and as a result many people are frightened and intimidated by it. The Make Your Ask Project is all about demystifying negotiation and providing an easy to use framework focused on creativity, problem solving and resilience that anyone master. In addition, I want to harness the power of negotiation as a tool for empowerment and change.

 

To find out more about the Make Your Ask project, visit: Twitter: @makeyourask | Instagram: @makeyourask

 

***

 

Natalie Reynolds is the Founder and CEO of leading negotiation training firm advantageSPRING, and an honorary visiting lecturer at Cass Business School. She advises governments and institutions including the United Nations, the Clinton Foundation, the UK and US governments, European Investment Bank, Wall Street Women’s Alliance and Women’s Foundation of Hong Kong.

Natalie’s book We Have a Deal: How to Negotiate with Intelligence, Flexibility and Power is available as an £8.99 paperback and £6.99 ebook. It was shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year 2017 in the ‘Best Commuter Read’ category, and is an ideal guide for anyone looking to start their negotiation training.

 

Testosterone Rex Longlisted for the Orwell Book Prize 2018

‘What I have most wanted to do is to make political writing into an art’ – George Orwell

Cordelia Fine’s Testosterone Rex is one of 12 books longlisted for the Orwell Book Prize 2018.


Awarded every year by The Orwell Foundation, The Orwell Prize is Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing awards prizes for the work which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’.


The prize describes Testosterone Rex as ‘A book explaining why past and present sex roles are only serving suggestions for the future. It reveals a much more dynamic situation through an entertaining and well-documented exploration of the latest research that draws on evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology, and philosophy.’


Already the winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2017, we wish Cordelia, and all the other longlist-ees, the best of luck!


Click here to see the other books in the longlist and here to read more about the prize, and previous winners here.


The shortlist will be announced in May, with the winner announced in June.

 

Praise for Testosterone Rex:

‘The expression “essential reading for everyone” is usually untrue as well as a cliché, but if there were a book deserving of that description this might just be it.’
Financial Times

‘Fine takes on this king of all biases with admirable vigor, and it’s a pleasure — albeit a strenuous one — to follow the action as she dismembers the beast.’
New York Times

‘Ms Fine’s is a provocative and often fascinating book.’
Economist

‘Testosterone Rex is a debunking rumble that ought to inspire a roar.’
The Guardian

ICON BOOKS ACQUIRES SELF-CARE GIFT BOOK BY BUZZFEED UK EDITOR

Kiera Jamison, senior commissioning editor at Icon Books, has acquired World English language rights from Juliet Pickering at Blake Friedmann Agency to 101 TINY CHANGES TO BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY by Ailbhe Malone, Lifestyle Editor at BuzzFeed UK.

101 TINY CHANGES TO BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY is a beautifully packaged gift book filled with practical self-care tips for when you need a simple pick-me-up. It will offer help on how to look after yourself and your mental health, in an age where we too often forget to pause and take a breath.

With small actions, you can make a big improvement to your wellbeing – whether it’s making your phone a source of positivity instead of stress, engaging in habits that make you feel healthier and more positive, or preparing for darker days. Malone’s simple tips combine with witty illustrations from Naoise Dolan to create a resource you’ll dip into whenever you need a helping hand.

Jamison said: ‘The self-care trend is such a positive addition to the self-help and gift market, but what really struck me about Ailbhe’s approach is how practical and forgiving it is. You don’t need to subscribe to a radical new plan; it’s not about making sweeping new year’s resolutions; it’s just about making life better, one tiny act at a time. I love that. We’ll be publishing in October, a time when most people aren’t prioritising looking after themselves and could use a friendly guide to brighten their days.’

Malone said: ‘I’m passionate about accessible, affordable self-care tips, and about finding out what works for you. So I’m delighted to work with Icon on this project. I’ve been a fan of Naoise’s work for a long time, so it’s a dream collaboration for me all round. I hope this book can find a home on your bookshelf, in your backpack, or on your desk at work – there for you whenever you need it.’

101 TINY CHANGES TO BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY will be a totem for your bedside table, backpack, or to give to a friend in need. It believes that you are worth looking after, even when you don’t.

Icon will publish as a £9.99/$12.95 160mm x 118mm hardback, and as an ebook, in October 2018 (UK), November 2018 (North America).

John Timpson WINS the Commuter’s Read category at the CMI Management Awards

Keys to Success by John Timpson has won Commuter’s Read at the 2018 Management Book of the Year Awards.

Launched in 2010, the Management Book of the Year signposts managers and leaders to the books that are breathing new life into management and leadership thinking. The Awards are hosted by the Chartered Management Institute in association with The British Library, and are sponsored by Henley Business School. This year, more than 140 titles were entered into the competition, with books judged by a panel of business academics and senior figures from the world of business..

Liz White, Head of Strategy at the British Library, said: “Many congratulations to Keys to Success for being awarded Commuter’s Read. With the British Library’s unparalleled collection of management and business resources, we are delighted to be hosting the award once again this year, and we are pleased to be supporting CMI in their mission to develop management and leadership.”

Ann Francke, CEO of CMI said: “As business and politics continues to struggle with winning back public trust thanks to high-profile examples of poor corporate management and erratic leadership, we need books like this to change how managers and leaders think and act. This an essential read for every professional to deal with today’s uncertain business and political climate.”

Judge Delroy Beverley described the Commuter’s Read category as “good to read for commuters to dip into at odd moments and you could easily leave this on your desk to browse through when you need a boost or quick word of inspiration. Whoever is behind this award may be someone who we all know, or at least, will know one day!””

For more information on CMI’s Management Book of the Year visit  here

Find out more about the book and pick up a copy for yourself here

Congratulations John!