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04 November 2014

• Managerial Fraud: Executive Impression Management, Beyond Red Flags

  In Managerial Fraud, Dr Terry Sheridan reports the findings of her study of fraudulent executives. Her work illuminates the particular methods fraudsters employ to appear more authentic than the average person and reveals two types of executive fraudster with very different behaviours.

31 October 2014

• The Digital Renaissance of Work: Delivering Digital Workplaces Fit for the Future

  Paul Miller’s follow up to his critically acclaimed The Digital Workplace picks up the story to provide organizations with an understanding of the structural and organizational implications the emerging technology has for the workplace. His insights, backed by the considerable research of the Digital Workplace Forum, offer a lifeline to organizations needing to make better sense of a very uncertain future.

• Open Design and Innovation: Facilitating Creativity in Everyone

  The book offers a critique of the hype surrounding some of the emerging phenomena and a framework to help understand the emerging relationship between citizens and designers.

• Managing the Urgent and Unexpected: Twelve Project Cases and a Commentary

  Managing the Urgent and Unexpected explores what is different managerially if work is unexpected, its implementation is urgent and an immediate start it is required. The lessons offered here will help private and public organizations plan how to authorize and support future urgent work to take advantage of immediate new business opportunities or to protect or restore systems and services.

• Leadership Meta-Competencies: Discovering Hidden Virtues

  The meta-competencies discussed in this refreshing book are timeless virtues of which effective leaders seem to be possessed, but which are rarely if ever included in lists of competencies in the vast business leadership literature. For anyone wishing to consider hidden or forgotten aspects of leadership competence this book introduces the notion of meta-competences and deals in detail with them.

30 October 2014

• Corporate Strategy in the Age of Responsibility by Peter McManners

  This book steers senior business leaders towards radically new strategic thinking for surviving and thriving in a challenging and changing environment.

• Cyber Security Management: A Governance, Risk and Compliance Framework

  Cyber Security Management enables those with a limited knowledge of cyber security to develop a comprehensive understanding of the subject. They will be guided into devising and implementing relevant policy, systems and procedures that make the organization better able to withstand the increasingly sophisticated forms of cyber attack.

24 October 2014

• Industrial Poverty: Yesterday Sweden, Today Europe, Tomorrow America

  Conventional wisdom says that Europe’s crisis is a financial crisis. But is this really the case? In Industrial Poverty, economist Sven R. Larson, challenges this view and suggests instead that Europe is in a state of permanent economic decline.

• Shoppernomics: How to Shorten and Focus the Shoppers' Routes to Purchase

  What happens from the moment the thought of a purchase occurs, to ownership, is a journey that is impacted by media, advice, packaging and now even experiencing the product or service. Many of the impact messages are way off the target - brand managers, agencies, retailers would give their eye teeth to know when to supply what message, in what order, by what means, to persuade ‘the gatekeeper to the family budget’ or the B2B buyer to part with their money as they reach the point of sale.

• University Halls Warm To Thermaskirt

  One of Cambridge University’s oldest purpose built student residences, Cripps Court, has recently undergone a complete refurbishment to bring it up to 21st century standards.