Wearing the Coat of Change: Handbook for Personal Survival and Prosperity in the Unpredictable World of Work

"As we rapidly approach the 21st century, the working environment has never been tougher. Global competition, technological advances and a more flexible economy have made for a less certain future. This is a practical handbook to help readers prepare for today's tough climate of change.

Wearing the Coat of Change is an inspiring and practical handbook to help individuals regain control of their lives. It provides a powerful plan to enable us to cope with the new and unpredictable world of work. Part of this plan is to loosen the shackles of corporations, and to develop our own income streams by becoming 'Independent Business Generators'. This book also goes beyond coping with the financial challenges of the new work environment. It examines how we, as individuals, can become 'Active Social Contributors', giving - and taking - from the society we live in.

About the AuthorTowards the end of 1990, Tim Drake's bankers valued his share of Cobra Sports, the sports retail chain he co-founded 14 years earlier, at #5 million. Two years later, disaster struck, and Drake and his partner had to sell the business for the equivalent of 5 pence. Cobra Sports was to have been Tim Drake's life work - and pension - but was cruelly taken from him at the age of 48. Finding himself without a company or an income, and with a young family to house and support, Drake had some serious thinking to do. "

The Winning Streak Mark II: How the World's Most Successful Companies Stay on Top Through Today's Turblent Times

"Co-authored by: Walter Goldsmith

Today's business environment is increasingly becoming more challenging, competitive and fast-moving, and as a result companies are faced with a series of paradoxical demands and pressures that challenge conventional management thinking. In this, the long-awaited follow-up to the best-selling The Winning Streak, David Clutterbuck and Walter Goldsmith identify the ten key demands that companies must face, and explain that it is the way that companies confront these demands that determines whether or not they will remain successful as they approach the next millennium."

The New Rules: Eight Business Breakthroughs to Career Success in the 21st Century

"This 20-year study of the 115 members of Harvard Business School's Class of '74 identifies the factors that influenced their career decisions and explores the breakthroughs that brought them wealth, satisfaction and security during a time of intense economic volatility. "

The New New Thing: How Some Man You've Never Heard of Just Changed Your Life

"Michael Lewis sets out to find the most important technology entrepreneur - the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds Jim Clark, who aims to turn the healthcare industry on its head with his project. Lewis joins Clark on his yacht taking the reader on the trip of a lifetime. "

The Human Computer

"Computers could be like humans in every respect. They could have the intelligence to understand Shakespeare's plays, Napoleon's military strategy, Einstein's theories of relativity. They could have the creativity to paint pictures and compose symphonies, design buildings and invent devices. They could be appreciative of humour and beauty, sensitive to criticism and compassion, motivated by curiosity and ego. And computers could be conscious in the same way as humans. Such computers do not currently exist, but they will.

This book is about humans and computers, creativity, emotions and consciousness. It is about the intriguing possibility that the computers of the future will be as worthy of the epithet 'human' as their human creators. "

The Digital Enterprise: How Digitalisation is Redefining Business

"An exploration of the extent to which we are in a digital revolution - a revolution beyond the scale of the Industrial Revolution. The book investigates the impact of digitalization on industry and commerce, and on the potential for British economic growth and wealth creation in the 21st century. "