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Bennis, it's no slip of a copywriter's pen that the Financial Times Handbook of Management is subtitled "The State of the Art". Now an international bestseller in its second edition, the Handbook is a heavyweight in every sense--a strategic business resource containing think pieces from a breathtaking array of modern management gurus; business minds from academic, consultancy and media backgrounds many of whose books are bestsellers in their own right. Every aspect of modern business is covered from management and marketing to finance and distribution. Even at 800 pages it doesn't pretend to be definitive or exhaustive. "The boundaries are gone. The game has changed. The rule book is out of date," as Professor Gary Hamel notes in his foreword from the first edition. As a primer to 21st-century business techniques, though, it's required reading. In addition to contributions from the likes of Fons Trompenaars, Marcus Alexander, Paul Argenti and Sandra Vandermerwe there is also extensive coverage and analysis of the work of many major gurus such as Tom Peters, Gary Hamel and Charles Handy. The Financial Times Handbook of Management will provide managers and business commentators with a powerful set of actions, solutions and ideas. --Alex Benady
the allure of Benny and Bjorn's (from Abba) sadly never released concept album about life as a middle manger in a multinational conglomerate. There is something very earnestly hip about the way that Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale of the Stockholm School Of Economics present themselves. "They do gigs not seminars. These gigs sell out. They have shaved heads and wear black", says the blurb.But that's what makes Funky Business worth reading. It's not so much the novelty of its argument--which boils down to the idea that in an oversupplied world, ideas are what separate successful companies and successful individuals from the failures. It is the vitality of the argument and, dare I say it, the rhythm of the language that make it so compelling. "Traditional roles, jobs, skills, ways of doing things, insights, strategies, aspirations, fears and expectations no longer count. In this environment we cannot have business as usual. We need business as unusual. We need different business. We need innovative business. We need unpredictable business. We need surprising business. We need funky business."The book, which is almost a virtuoso display of rhetoric and intellectual power, bursts at the seams with the exuberant force of its argument and the weight of its highly colourful supporting evidence. Sources quoted range from the Pope to the Prodigy. Funky Inc, they say, "isn't like any other company. It is not a dull, old conglomerate. It is not a rigid bureaucracy. It is an organisation that actually thrives on the changing circumstances and unpredictability of our times."This is great entertainment. But the slick veneer does not invalidate the way that the book pulls together many existing strands of thought about how business is developing and evokes a coherent and intriguing vision of a future whose main feature will be incoherence.This really is one for all the family. Or at least all those old enough to have a job. --Alex Benady
Advantages: Comprehensive and well presented Disadvantages: Needs more internet coverage
...Information Systems published by the Financial Times. This text is absolutely essential if you are studying HNC/HND/Degree in Information Systems, Information Technology or even as a general book for Business students.
The text covers in detail the elements of how information is distributed in the business environment. There is structured and comprehensive coverage of business applications of information technology, information systems building, ... ...to a modern business environment.
I have searched high and low to find other relevant books covering this area of business, but Business Information Systems is the only book which provides adequate coverage to both the strategic and operational aspects to the management of information systems and technology.
I'm now studying a degree in Business Information Technology and I continue to use this book as a reference. The diagrams and well written ...
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Advantages: An excellant introduction to basic principles Disadvantages: Lacks some of the detail and maths required for degree level
...to the technical area of the subject.
The ' How to read the FinancialTimes' supplement is also a nice addition which offers a brief and simple introduction to data the FT offers. A must read before picking up the FT for the first time.
All in all a great introductory text, that can be dipped into again and again.
Think it is about £30, but it was a while ago when I bought it....
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Advantages: Lighthearted and amusing Disadvantages: No story - Just a compilation of amusing snippets
...Jack Crossley worked in Fleet Street for around 40 years, first as a reporter and then later as a news editor. During that time on his own admission he had a lot of fun because, in amongst the front page headlines on wars, disasters and scandals lurked some interesting items that amused. He has taken some of these and compiled them into a range of books of which this is just one. Other titles in the series are:
You couldn't make it up
You really couldn't make it up
You positively couldn't make it up
The concept of the books is very simple, it is a collection of extracts from newspapers grouped into various chapters each based on a theme. The intention is that these will surprise and amuse you. Typical chapters are 'Best of Britishness' with gems like "A FinancialTimes report on publisher Dorling Kindersely in 1993 revealed...
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Advantages: Helps a writer better understand the concept of Fiction. Disadvantages: None.
...putting them all together to create a masterpiece of logical thinking which helps the writer to become a better writer, and teaches the skills that a fiction writer needs to know.
For me, this is not a pompous criticism of great writers, not at all. What David Lodge does is explain how something works by giving good examples from well known writers. It is not an academic book, although I would imagine it would make academic study easier, since the illustrations that he gives are clear to follow and very useful as a teaching tool to anyone wishing to further their career in fiction writing.
This is a Penguin Paperback and is available from £8.99 which is a small price to pay for a masterpiece of "scholarship made human" as quoted from the FinancialTimes' Nigel Andrews, and I here I cannot agree more.
Whilst David Lodge has written many...
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