Bøger af Amanda Scott

A practical way to build the network you need to succeedYou're only as good as the people you surround yourself with. But when did you last think about who exactly that is, and whether you've got the right people around you? How do you know how to select, from your network, the right combination of people to help your be truly effective as a leader and in your career.Drawing on their work with executives and on academic research on the networks of high performers, Zella King and Amanda Scott show how to home in on the 6-12 relationships that drive and sustain success.What you'll find in this bookDiscover the five steps to designing a Personal Boardroom.Learn how to choose 6-12 members from across your network.Discover the 12 roles you need in your Personal Boardroom, and decide who can play those roles for you.Find out how to make your Personal Boardroom stronger.Act on practical advice to start conversations with a purpose.Enabled by your own Personal Boardroom, use the same framework to provide help to others.Start choosing people, assigning roles and having purposeful conversations today!Reviews of Who is in your Personal Boardroom?"In this thoughtful book Zella and Amanda encourage us to think about what they elegantly describe as our 'Personal Boardroom'--our current and potential connections and how they may support us in what we want to achieve. Well worth reading."Piers Fallowfield-Cooper, Executive Chairman, Greycon Ltd"Zella King and Amanda Scott have nailed the secret of modern career success: having the right connections and knowing who to ask for help from and how to help others in equal measure. Who is in your Personal Boardroom? should become something of a corporate classic."Julia Hobsbawm, Honorary Visiting Professor in Networking, Cass Business School, and founder, Editorial Intelligence"A brilliant, simple and intuitive way to set about personal and career development."Matt Brittin, Vice President, Northern and Central Europe Operations, GoogleA powerful tool to create a culture of give and take, of collaboration, sponsorship, and mutual support, focused not just on individual performance but also on team and organisation success.Maria O'Donogue, Vice President, Global Learning and Talent Management, The Hertz CorporationAt last, some practical advice on networking! We know good networking drives success, but how do we get better at it? Simply trying harder is not the answer. We need a clear goal and a strategy for achieving it. The Personal Boardroom is a simple but powerful framework for doing just that. For anyone looking for a more effective network, this is essential readingJohn Wells, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School

A conspiracy against the throne unites a lady and a viscount at odds in this suspenseful Regency romance from a USA Todaybestselling author. Accompanied by her chaperone, her dresser, and her adored pet monkey, Lady Letitia Deverill comes to London to serve as maid of honor to the young Queen Victoria. An impassioned Tory in a sea of Whigs, Letty has no intention of changing her political views. The headstrong noblewoman soon discovers she has enemies at court, and none more formidable than the powerfuland irresistibleViscount Justin Raventhorpe.Justin, a staunch Whig, is enchanted by this outspoken woman. Brought together by a mysterious shared inheritance, Justin and Letty give in to their mutual desire. As scandal threatens their passionate union, a deadly conspiracy against the throne thrusts Letty into mortal peril, and Justin realizes how far he'll go for a love that has become his most dangerous obsession. Dangerous Lady is the 4th book in the Dangerous series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

A sheltered noblewoman unwittingly falls in love with a notorious spy in this Regency romance from a USA Todaybestselling author. It happens in an instant. One minute, Charlotte Tarrant is traveling across Cornwall in her luxurious coach. The next, shots ring out and her carriage goes over a cliff's edge. As she clings to the rocks, a savior appears. When they meet again, Charley recognizes him instantly. But she doesn't yet realize that the stranger who saved her lifethe handsome aristocrat who now vies for her hand in marriageis England's most notorious spy.He is called Fox Cub. Few know that behind the daring exploits of the elusive Le Renardeau, Antony St. John Foxearth is on a quest to prevent a political assassination that could topple the Crown. As desire flames into enduring passion, Antony undertakes his most critical mission yet: to safeguard the woman he loves from harm, and from himself. Dangerous Angels is the 3rd book in the Dangerous series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

THE KNIGHT'S TEMPTRESSis the second book in the Lairds of the Loch Scottish Highlander series from USA Today bestselling author Amanda Scott.

Lady Isobel Macleod is incurably curious and always speaks her mind. At the age of 12, she vowed never to marry and always to do as she pleases. When she stumbles upon Michael St Clair being beaten by a gang of men, she tries to intervene and finds herself taken captive along with him. The two escape, and she finds herself curious about him.

An uncertain bride looks for love with a man as wild and mysterious as his Highland home in this new Scottish romance from a USA Todaybestselling author. Ordinarily, Lady Fiona Ormiston wouldn't think of forming an alliance with an ungroomed, barbaric Highlander, despite the protection he offers. But now, by request of the king, Sir Adham MacFinlagh, a brazen stranger and outsider unlike anyone she has met before, is to be her husband. Torn from solitude and the comfort of her family to make a home with the rugged knight, Fiona surrenders to Adham's powerfully passionateand shockingly tendertouch, only to discover her new husband's family ties may lie with an enemy of the king. A sense of duty may have brought Adham to the marriage bed, but it's his powerful feelings for his beautiful, willful wife that will be his undoing. Ultimately, the bold knight will have to decide: Does his allegiance lie with his blood ties to the man who hopes to bring down the king or with the bride who has stolen his heart? From the author ';frequently credited with creating the subgenre' of Scottish romance with her Lairds of the Loch and Secret Clan series, The Reluctant Highlander is a rich historical tale of intrigue and desire (Library Journal). The Reluctant Highlander is the 1st book in the Highland Nights series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

A woman auctioned off to pay a gambling debt finds her only hope lies with a seductive stranger in this Regency romance from a USA Todaybestselling author. When her father auctions her off to pay his gambling debts, Melissa Seacourt vows that she will be no man's bought bride. Desperate to escape her fate shackled to someone she could never love, Melissa instead is forced to honor and obey the seductive stranger who comes to her rescue.Purchasing a wife for 20,000 guineas wasn't the end game Nicholas Barrington envisioned when he walked into the notorious Newmarket gambling club. But the innocent Melissa arouses much more than his protective instincts. It will take all of Nick's skill and daring to best a cunning adversary hell-bent on his destruction. With two lives now hanging in the balance, Nick's playing for the highest stakes of all: his future with the woman who won his heart. Dangerous Games is the 2nd book in the Dangerous series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Passion and treachery give this Regency romance a gothic twistfrom the USA Todaybestselling author, ';a most gifted storyteller' (RT Book Reviews). As the third and last unwed daughter of an earl, Lady Anne Davies doesn't expect her marriage to be a love match. She is in need of a husband. Lord Michael St. Ledgers needs a woman to run his home and be a mother to his orphaned niece and nephew. It seems the ideal business arrangement.When Anne travels to Michael's ancestral estate, the Priory, deep in the Derbyshire countryside, she starts to uncover his disturbing secrets. Michael's brother perished under mysterious circumstances, and now someone at the Priory is stalking her. As Anne begins to fear for her life, she realizes that the greatest danger may come from the man she has come to trustand love.

From the battlefields of Waterloo to the ballrooms and boudoirs of London, a deadly deception unfoldsand threatens to destroy a budding romance ... Engaged by proxy to a man she's never met, Lady Daintry Tarrant is dismayed when the war hero returns, introducing himself as her fiance, Lord Penthorpe. She cherishes her independence and has turned away many suitors, but this one she must marry. Penthorpe is completely captivated by Lady Daintrybut he's not who he claims to be.Penthorpe and Lord Gideon Deverill fought together at the battle of Waterloo, and when Penthorpe fell, Gideon assumed his identity in order to see the beautiful Lady Daintry. Gideon knows there's bad blood between Lady Daintry's family and his own, but he's smitten with Daintry and determined to reunite the bitterly feuding clans. When a ghost from Gideon's past appears, he could lose everythingincluding Daintry's love. Dangerous Illusions is the 1st book in the Dangerous series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

A sizzling novel of passion, danger and intrigue in the Scottish Highlands.

A new historical romance set in medieval Scotland from USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Scott.

Some brides have all the luck, but Adela got the short end of the stick, having stuck out not once, but twice, in this new historical romance set in medieval Scotland

The first book in a great new Scottish Highlander historical series

Plan, manage and evaluate an organizational resource centre, supported by detailed costings and practical advice.

Set amidft the political turmoil of the Scottish border, bestselling author Amanda Scott brings to life a new series full of the history and passion for which her fans know and love her.