Books

Global human capital management (HCM) consultancy, Smart WFM, has announced the launch of company founder and CEO Jarrod McGrath’s second book, 'The Modern CEO.' Leveraging insights from business leaders worldwide, the book offers practical advice on leading, evolving and driving organisational success by adopting a people-centric philosophy.

Aussie employment services provider, Asuria is proud to acknowledge its Self-Employment Assistance (SEA) program participant, Rebecca Sutton’s incredible feat of launching her limited-edition handmade book 'Closer than Breathing, Seven Tales' this weekend. Since 2016, Harcourt author Rebecca Sutton has worked towards realising her collection of stories as an independent enterprise. Employing techniques like typesetting using movable type, letterpress printing, paper marbling and bookbinding, Rebecca wanted to publish her book in Bendigo in the medium best suited to its spirit as a characterful work of art.

A new book Great People Great Business by HR expert and founder of Amplify HR, Karen Kirton, reveals a tried and tested recipe for businesses to improve workplace culture and engagement, enabling lower employee turnover and higher productivity. The methodology has been successful for Australian organisations ranging from 10 to 100 or more employees across different service-based industries, and here Karen shares key secrets to her formula. 

‘Money with Jess’ by Jess Irvine has won Business Book of the Year at the fourth Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards. The Awards were presented in a virtual ceremony held on 22nd November and saw more than $12,000 donated to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. The awards were founded by bestselling business author Andrew Griffiths and publishing expert Michael Hanrahan. They enable non-fiction business authors to share wisdom with colleagues and public. The Awards donate all profits to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, which invests in more than 400 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote communities to provide tools and resources to shape the direction of their children’s literacy future.

It took successful Gold-Coast based entrepreneur, Nina Concepcion, 11yrs working as the “Conscious Sales Coach” before Covid encouraged her to finally put the book on paper that has been in her head for so long. “Like most, I was stuck at home, thinking about pivoting & virtual ways to broaden my business, but this was when it occurred to me to finally write: The Naked You: A guide to embracing your imperfections in life & in business,” she said.

A book with huge potentials to address leadership advancement has been published. Dr. Dayo Olomu, leadership trainer and the best-selling author of ‘THE PREMIUM LEADER: Leadership Attributes and Strategies for Today's Volatile World’ (London UK, 2021) has collaborated with his Nigerian counterpart, corporate leadership consultant, Dr. Taiwo Ojo, to release ‘Leading Through African UBUNTU’.

With the ALP’s Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill introduced, the possibility of re-introducing multi-employer bargaining (MEB) became the focus of a heated discussion at this year’s Australian Institute of Employment Rights’ (AIER) 12th Annual Ron McCallum Debate on Monday, 24th October 2022, giving a litmus test of unions’ and employer groups’ contrasting views.

Published in August 2022, The Story Habit enables leaders from micro-businesses and up to understand how to embrace new habits, which are further developed into skills that then have the potential to reframe business success.

Dane Thorburn is a dashing young knight whose harrowing tales of battles with dragons have readers hooked till the last page. The Dane Thorburn books are aimed at young adult readers but they have also found a large readership amongst adults. There are many benefits for adults in reading kids’ fantasy fiction adventure books – the main one being mental health.

To help improve literacy rates in Australian young people in out-of-home care (OOHC), Life Without Barriers launched the 2022 Hook into Books campaign. Hook into Books promotes a love of stories: sharing, telling, reading and listening to stories with young people in out-of-home care to enhance their literacy skills and give them a solid foundation for future learning.