Every leader is at some point called upon to manage change-that vast, complex project that could be a game-changer for the organization. Imagine for a moment it's your turn. Chances are you've been selected based upon your reputation, experience, and expertise. But implementing with excellence isn't enough this time. You need your audience to see the value-and you need them to get on board. The Method and the Magic conveys our proven method that ensures the success of challenging organization-wide transitions. It's a proven multi-disciplinary strategy integrating change management and communications, evolved from years of practical experience helping organizations navigate change successfully. Based upon common-sense principles, informed by the best thinking in our field and guided by knowledge of human behavior, it's more than a method. Much more. There's an element of magic that comes from knowing your audience, listening to their needs and being creative in how you reach them. Unlike many magicians, we're willing to reveal in this book how we pull the rabbit from the hat-and share proven strategies to help you confidently lead people through change.

Polly loves words. And she loves writing stories. So when a magic book appears on her doorstep that can make everything she writes happen in real life, Polly is certain all of her dreams are about to come true. But she soon learns that what you write and what you mean are not always the same thing! Funny and touching, this new chapter book series will entertain readers and inspire budding writers.

The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart. Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.

The word-of-mouth bestseller * Published in more than 30 countries * 3 million copies sold worldwide Are you stressed out, overbooked and underwhelmed by life? Fed up with pleasing everyone else before you please yourself? Finding it hard working from home? Then it's time to stop giving a f**k, and care less to get more. This irreverent and practical book explains how to rid yourself of unwanted obligations, shame, and guilt - and give your f**ks instead to people and things that make you happy. From family dramas to having a bikini body, the simple 'NotSorry Method' for mental decluttering will help you unleash the power of not giving a f**k and will free you to spend your time, energy and money on the things that really matter. 'The anti-guru' Observer 'Absolutely blinding. Read it. Do it.' Mail on Sunday 'Genius' Cosmopolitan 'I love Knight's book even before I start reading . . . Works a charm' Sunday Times Magazine 'Life-affirming . . . The key practice she advocates is devising for yourself a "fuck budget" . . . It's a beautiful way of streamlining your psyche' Lucy Mangan, Guardian ALSO AVAILABLE FROM SARAH KNIGHT: YOU DO YOU: how to be who you are and use what you've got to get what you want AND Get Your Sh*t Together - the New York Times bestseller helping you organise the f**ks you want and need to give

For forty-five years, Maxine Taylor has counseled people as an astrologer and a spiritual coach. She has devoted her life to helping her clients and students identify and release the subconscious programming that prevents them from leading more successful, fulfilling lives.In Move Into The Magic, Maxine shares the transformational methods she teaches. In part one, she shows you how to uncover and let go of the commitments you unknowingly made as a child. These commitments created your current life 's story.In part two of this insightful book, Maxine empowers you to rediscover your passion, awakening you to the truth of who you are and why you are here on planet Earth.