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CMI Management Book of the Year.THE SHORTLIST.

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WELCOME.The Management Book of the Year exists to help managers find the brightest and best pieces of ‘Management Gold’ amongst the vast array of management and leadership books published every year. With this year’s shortlist, we’ve hit a rich seam of writing focused on the big challenges that managers face day today.

A record 160 books were entered in this year’s competition across our five categories, so every author who made the shortlist deserves congratulation. Every one of those entered was given thorough consideration by the team of volunteer reviewers – around 150 in total, from across CMI’s membership – who give their time to the competition. We profile the panel judges in this brochure, but the dedication of all our reviewers is much appreciated.

Not only did we see more books entered this year, but the judges reported that the quality of entries was higher than ever. From ‘big ideas’ on the future of management and leadership to some really practical handbooks on the day-to-day issues facing managers, there are brilliant books across every category.

Our thanks go once more to our partners, the British Library, for their ongoing commitment to making the Management Book of the Year a success, and to our sponsors, Henley Business School, for their support and generous donation of the £5,000 prize for the author of the overall winner.

This year’s competition has uncovered some fantastic writing, brimming with ideas and inspiration about how you can be a better manager and leader every day. Dig into any of our winning titles and you’re sure to hit ‘Management Gold’ . Happy reading.

Ann FranckeCEO, Chartered Management Institute

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IAN MACEACHERN OBE CMGR FCMIDIRECTOR, ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY (MAURITIUS BRANCH)MANAGEMENT FUTURES CATEGORY JUDGE

A WORD FROM OUR REVIEWERS AND JUDGES.

KATE BROOKES CMGR MCMIEXECUTIVE COACH AND LEADERSHIP TRAINER (WWW.KBCD.CO.UK)BOOK REVIEWER

Dr Sundaramurthy Angappan MCMI

Mr Rishi Athreya AIC

Ms Kris BachooMr Robert Baker MCMI

Mr Paul Bennett CMgr FCMI

Dr Natalie Benton CMgr MCMI

Ms Jean Billingsley CMgr FCMI

Ms Stella Bowdell FCMI

Mrs Victoria BradleyMr Grant Bremer FCMI

Mr Lee Brocklehurst MCMI

Mrs Kate Brookes CMgr MCMI

Mr Andrew Brown CMgr MCMI

Mr Donal CarrollMr Charlie Casey ACMI

Mrs Wendy Chamberlain MCMI

Mr Steven Chambers CMgr FCMI CMC FIC

Mr Colin Cheek MCMI

Mr Philip ClarkeMr Asha Cleavely MCMI

Mr Michael Coleman MCMI

Ms Sharyn Coleman CMgr FCMI

Mrs Linzi Conway CMgr FCMI AIC

Mr Gary Cook Mrs Marie Coombes CMgr FCMI

Mrs Marie Corner MCMI

Mr Damian Culhane CMgr FCMI

Mr Stuart Dainton FCMI

Mrs Jennifer Dalby CMgr MCMI

Mr Peter Dalziel CMgr FCMI

Mr Edward Darroch MCMI

Mr Allan Deacon FCMI

Squadron Leader Darryl Denyer CMgr MCMI

Mrs Helen Dicker MCMI

Mr Thomas Doran CMgr FCMI FIC

Miss Lisa DyerMrs Pamela Dyson CMgr FCMI

Mrs Sue Egan FCMI

Mrs Jane Elliott-Poxon CMgr MCMI MIC

Dr Steve Ellis CMgr MCMI

Ms Diane Ellison FCMI

Dr Kathryn FraserMr Clive Gamble CMgr FCMI

Dr Eva Gkenakou MCMI

Mr David Godfrey MCMI

Mr Mark Grayling CMgr FCMI

Dr Roger Hall CMgr FCMI FIC

Mrs Elaine Harris MCMI

Mr Robert Hartley CMgr FCMI

Miss Deanne Haseltine CMgr MCMI

Ms Nicki HayesMrs Valerie Hazlett CMgr MCMI

Mrs Azalina Hinson MCMI

Mr Paul Howard CMgr FCMI

Mrs Dawn Hudd CMgr MCMI

Mr Ian Hunt MCMI Mr Lowellyne James MCMI

Eur Ing Ian Jenkinson CMgr MCMI

Mr Malcolm Johnston CMgr FCMI

Mr Gavin Jones MCMI

Mr Matthew Jones MCMI

Mrs Lisa Jones-Tinsley FCMI

Chief Dr Mansour Olawale Jumaa CMgr FCMI

Mrs Mae Keary MCMI

Mr Martin Kellaway FCMI

Ms Ann Kelly FCMI

Mr Timothy Kitching MCMI

Mr Quentin Kopp MCMI

Mr Andor Kovacs MCMI

Mr Andrew Kowalski MCMI

Miss Vicky Kufeldt CMgr MCMI

Mr Howard Lane MCMI

Mr Alan LaurieMiss Jacqueline Le Fèvre FCMI

Mr John Leighton CMgr FCMI

Mr Keith Lester FCMI

Mr Michael Lewis FCMI

Mr Jeff Lockhart FCMI

Mr Matthew Longman MCMI

Mr Roger Lowe CMgr FCMI

Mr Richard Luck FCMI

Mr Arthur MacdonaldDr Jennifer Maiden-Brooks MCMI

Colonel Michael Manson CMgr FCMI

Mr Simon Mathias CMgr FCMI

Mrs Bernie Mayall FCMI

Ms Karen McAraMiss Andrea McIntoshMr Gordon McIntosh CMgr FCMI

Mr David McLaughlin CMgr FCMI

Mrs Kate Michell MCMI

Dr Siân Miller MCMI

Mrs Eszter Molnar Mills CMgr FCMI

Mrs Laura Murphy MCMI

Ms Jane Noakes CMgr MCMI

Mrs Julie O'Donnell CMgr FCMI

Mr Geoffrey O’Sullivan CMgr MCMI

Mr Robert Owen CMgr MCMI

Ms Victoria PaganDr Gregory Park FCMI

Mr Andrew Parrock MCMI

Mr Robert Parsonage MCMI

Mr David Price MCMI

Ms Fiona Reed ACMI

Mr Sean Reilly MCMI

Mr Derek Reynolds CMgr MCMI

Mr Martin Rice CMgr FCMI CMC CBA FIC

Dr Paul Riley CMgr MCMI

Mr Geoffrey Roberts MCMI

Mr Ronald Robins FCMI

Mr Andrew Rodden CMgr MCMI

Mr Norman Rose FCMI

Mr Robert Ryan MCMI

Ms Ruth Sacks FIC

Mr Geoffrey Sadler CMgr FCMI

Ms Emma Scopes MCMI

Mr Richard Scott CMgr MCMI

Miss Josephine Shaw FCMI

Mr Raymond Smith MCMI

Dr Andrew Smith MCMI

Miss Helen Smith CMgr MCMI

Mr Jason Sprague CMgr FCMI

Mr John Spriggs ACMI

Mrs Miranda Stephenson CMC MCMI FIC

Miss Sarah Stocks MCMI

Dr Nikolaos StylosMr Dominick Sutton FCMI

Mr Paul Taylor CMgr MCMI

Mr Richard Thomas CMgr FCMI

Mr Ray Thompson MCMI

Ms Karen Trem CMgr FCMI

Mr Frank Vaughan CMgr FCMI

Eur Ing Henry Wang MCMI

Mr Ru Watkins CMgr FCMI

Mr Martin West FCMI

Mr Peter Wheatcroft FCMI

Ms Bo-Lin WongMr Anthony Wright MCMI

We would like to thank our 138 volunteer, book reviewers who have this year worked tirelessly to read over 160 submitted books and provide detailed reviews and recommendations. We would like to thank them for their commitment, giving up their time and contributing to the success of this years event.

My voluntary involvement with CMI has spanned a wide range of activities, from Branch Honorary Officer through to Board Member & Trustee, over many years. In particular, I have been involved with the Management Book of the Year competition as a category judge since 2011. This has been a very pleasurable and rewarding role with the added benefit that it has afforded me many opportunities to develop and maintain my professional knowledge and competence – a fundamental requirement of CMI’s Code of Conduct and Practice. Through reading books from across the field of management writing, I have broadened my professional knowledge and gleaned many valuable and practical insights to help me meet new management challenges posed by the changing nature of work, and especially those posed by technology, diversity and globalisation. Moreover, judging has enabled me to hone key communication and analytical skills; particularly as short listing and selecting a winner from the many entries necessitates critical review, reasoned discussion and concise argumentation with fellow category judges. Also, through meeting other judges and competition stakeholders I have enhanced my network of business contacts. In sum, volunteering to be a judge offers many personal benefits not least of which is the chance to read some of the very best management books.

A couple of years ago I saw a request for people to become book reviewers for the CMI. I was about to retire as a police leadership trainer and wanted to keep active and informed, so reviewing books seemed a good idea, although I hadn’t any idea of what to expect. I let CMI know my areas of expertise (including coaching, leadership and training) and areas of special interest (including learning, women in the workplace, progression at work) and waited. In due course, a new book arrived through the post with a request for a 200 word review to be submitted within a month.Most of the books have been interesting, informative, thought provoking and well worth sharing with friends, colleagues and in the classroom. The subject matter is often an area where I wouldn’t have purchased a book and I find it exciting to have to objectively review its content. The key thing is – they haven’t all been good books, but the ones I didn’t like have made me look at my preferences when reading, consider my own stereotypes and opinions and consider whether that has influenced my perspectives on the subject.The review writing process is straightforward and guidance is given. You get to keep the book, which is great, as I then go on to share them with friends and refer back to them. I have gained a really interesting selection of extra books from my reviewer role. If you are not sure about it I would encourage you to give it a go. You are always emailed in advance so if you won’t have time to review a book at that time, you don’t have to accept it.

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VALARIE DIAS CCMIValerie Dias, a member of the Visa Executive Leadership Team, is Chief Risk and Compliance Officer of Visa Europe, based in London. Her remit includes all corporate risk and compliance.

Valerie, having joined Visa in 1993, was executive vice-president and chief

financial officer from 1999 to 2005, covering all aspects of finance, treasury, pricing and member profitability studies and interchange. Prior to that she led one of Visa’s e-commerce initiatives based in Paris, France for a year and a half, and she has also worked in various roles in Finance including that of Financial Controller.

Valerie was a key player in leading the company through the many steps to successfully achieve incorporation of Visa Europe in 2004. She has represented management on the Visa Europe Board’s Audit, Risk and Finance Committee since its inception. She chairs and/or sits on various Visa Europe standing committees under delegated authority from the Executive Management: Risk Committee, ALCO (Asset and Liability Committee), Reputational Council, Compliance Council among others.

Before joining Visa, Valerie worked for two publishers, Marshall Cavendish from 1989 to 1993 and prior to that with William Collins plc (now HarperCollins).

Valerie is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Certified Accountants, is married and has one son. She is actively involved with various charities and presently sits on the board of World Vision UK, and the Board of Companions for the Chartered Management Institute.

PATRICK DUNNE CCMIPatrick has extensive experience of working with boards in Europe, Asia and North America. He is Chair of the Board of Companions for CMI, Chairman of D3O, Chair of EY Foundation, Chair of Leap Confronting Conflict, and the Founder of Warwick in Africa.

His executive experience includes 26 years in a variety of roles with 3i Group plc where until 2012 he was Communications Director and a member of its Operating committee. 3i has £7bn of Assets under management. He continues his involvement in the venture industry as a member of the advisory board of Entrepreneurs Fund.

From 1990 to 1997 he built a resource of over 600 experienced directors who were appointed to over 2,000 boards for 3i in 14 countries across Europe, Asia and North America. The programme he established became a model of adding value and a leader in best practice.

Patrick is the author of three successful books, a member of the Financial Times NED club’s advisory board and a tutor on the FT NXD certificate. He has helped to establish many successful courses on board skills and over the last 20 years helped Chairman across a wide range of sectors to transform the effectiveness of their boards. These have included start-ups; buy out businesses, long established family companies and major public organisations. As a member of the Higgs review in 2003 Patrick has played a role in shaping governance policy for UK listed companies.

He has a passion for education and is a member of the General Council of the University of Warwick and a Visiting Professor at Cranfield School of Management.Patrick has extensive experience of developing social enterprises using venture philanthropy techniques, most notably as Chairman of Leap and with Warwick in Africa which he founded in 2006. He is also a member of the advisory board of Bridges Ventures Social Entrepreneurs fund.

Leap is the leading UK charity in the youth and conflict space, pioneering a number of innovative approaches to working with gangs and young offenders as well as helping thousands of young people to make more positive choices about their futures. Warwick in Africa is transforming the teaching of Maths and English in township schools in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania. It has benefitted over 120,000 young Africans and is achieving dramatic improvements in attendance (c. 50%) and performance (30 to 40%).

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DIANE LEES FMA FRSA CCMIDiane has been Director General of the Imperial War Museums since October 2008, and is leading on the Museums’ international programme and cultural festival for the First World War centenary.

Before joining IWM Diane was Director of the V&A Museum of Childhood, at

Bethnal Green. Diane had a specific brief to transform the Museum and create a sustainable future for this east-end site; she also chaired the V&A’s UK Steering Group.

Diane began her career as an historic buildings researcher moving into exhibitions, education and interpretation. Diane has worked on some of the most challenging and exciting projects in the country, including the rescue and relocation of a hat block manufacturer’s workshop in central Manchester, the recovery and display of the Mary Rose flagship in Portsmouth Harbour and redisplay of the Nelson Galleries at the Royal Naval Museum. Diane project-managed the creation of the UK standard for the recording of information about museum collections (SPECTRUM) and was responsible for the creation of the only museum of law in the country, the multi-award winning Galleries of Justice in Nottingham.

Diane is a Trustee of: IWM Development Trust, The Gerry Holdsworth Special Forces Trust, Army Museums Ogilby Trust and a Vice President of the American Air Museum in Britain.

Diane is also a key member of South Bank and Bankside Cultural Quarter Directors forum, Women Leaders in Museums Network (WLMN) and the Arts Council’s external advice panel. She is a judge on the Museums and Heritage awards.

Diane has recently been elected as Chair of National Museum Directors’ Council (NMDC) from April 2013.


PROFESSOR REBECCA TAYLOR PhD CCMIProfessor Taylor is Dean and Director of Studies at the Open University Business School. She holds a degree in Economics from Queen’s University, Canada, an MSc in Economics from the University of Toronto, Canada and a PhD in

Economics from the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Rebecca started her career in financial services at the Toronto Dominion Bank. Following the completion of her PhD she spent several years lecturing in quantitative economics, international trade and economic development. She joined the Open University in 2011 from Nottingham Business School where she was Head of Economics for seven years and Associate Dean for a further year.

Rebecca is a highly experienced educator at undergraduate and post graduate level. She has taught a range of courses, including: Doctorate in business administration - survey based statistical research; economics of international trade; and fundamentals of quantitative economics. Rebecca has designed and directed a number of Higher Education Funding Council for England funded projects focused on innovative approaches to the teaching and learning of mathematics and statistics in economics programmes. She has also worked with the Economic and Social Research Council and the Higher Education Academy on addressing the identified skills deficit in quantitative methods across Social Sciences.

Rebecca is a Board member of the European Foundation for Management Development and sits on their Technology Enhanced Learning and Accreditation Task Force. She is also on the Board of the Chartered Management Institute. She regularly contributes to conferences and workshops related to developments and innovation in education.

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PHILIP CRISP CMgr FCMI FIC CMC Chartered FCIPD

The founding director of Development Professionals Ltd, Philip is responsible for helping clients to improve organisation, team and individual performance. This is achieved by facilitating the design of business strategy; by developing management and teamwork skills; and by

integrating leadership, learning and action through coaching.

For the last ten years Philip has provided business coaching to a significant number of high growth organisations in diverse sectors including point of sale, advanced engineering and digital marketing. Philip also provides one-to-one executive coaching to business leaders with clients from the NHS, financial services, a major supermarket, a leading utility company and the exhibition industry.

Philip is experienced working at board level and with senior management teams to formulate strategy and then implement change to create a culture of continuous improvement, teamwork, lean operations, learning or engagement.

Philip is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, the Institute of Consulting and the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development. He is a Chartered Manager as well as a Certified Management Consultant and is a member of the National Assessment Team for the CMC award. Philip led the Management Team of the Leicestershire and Rutland Branch of the CMI for several years and was also member of a CMI board advisory committee.

An enthusiastic (though not competitive) cyclist, Philip uses a range of bikes – e.g. a folding bike for commuting, a mountain bike for hills and a range road bikes for everything else.

BEVERLY LANDAIS CMgr FCMI

Beverly is currently Marketing & Business Development Director at Saunderson House, a chartered firm of Independent Financial Advisers. Prior to this she was CEO of Devereux Chambers, one of the UK’s top commercial barristers

chambers, for over 4 years. Devereux was awarded ‘Chambers of the Year’ by the Halsbury Legal Awards in 2013.

She has over 30 years’ experience in professional services marketing. Her sector experience spans insurance, banking, financial and legal services. She has led the successful rebranding and repositioning of three different organisations, including Lloyd’s of London.

Her previous posts include Head of Marketing at Lloyd’s of London, Head of Brand and Communication at Lombard Asset Finance and Director of Business Development at law firm Baker & McKenzie LLP.

Beverly is a member of the editorial panel of ‘Managing Partner’ magazine. She was named ‘City/National BD & Marketing Director of the Year’ - Legal Marketing Awards, May 2008.

She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and an Affiliate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Beverly is a Chartered Manager as well as a Chartered Marketeer.

Beverly was elected to the Board of Trustees for the Chartered Management Institute in 2013 for a 3 year term.

SUE TOON CMgr FCMI FCIPD CertEd

For the last nine years Sue has worked for herself - initially as a consultant and then as Managing Director of Management Alchemy. Sue specialises in delivering CMI Management and Leadership

qualifications to UK and International clients both in the public and private sector. Using her experience, she has been able to design bespoke programmes for her clients or support and coach individuals to obtain their qualification via distance support. Sue obtained Chartered Manager status ten years ago and since that time has taken an active role in supporting and coaching over 300 managers to obtain this recognition. Prior to this, Sue worked, for over 30 years for HM Customs and Excise (HMC&E) as an operational and strategic manager. One of her responsibilities was visiting over 1500 organisations, in various guises, to ensure that they were following the relevant legislation. This has meant she has a wealth of management and leadership experience both from the observations of others or managing her own staff.

For the last eight years in HMC&E she was heavily involved in training and development, initially for 1700 staff in the South East region and then having joint responsibility for 7000 staff across the South of England. With her interest and experience in management and leadership, she influenced the introduction of management qualifications across the Department and the setting up of a HMC&E CMI centre. Her first responsibility was project managing a pilot scheme for 120 managers to complete the Level 5 Diploma in a year including developing and supporting internal staff to assess and moderate the qualification. This was something totally new for the Department. Sue also had the responsibility for combining and recommending the strategic way forward for the amalgamated Inland Revenue and HMC&E CMI centres (HMRC).

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CUSTOMER INNOVATION: CUSTOMER-CENTRIC STRATEGY FOR ENDURING GROWTHBY MARION DEBRUYNEKogan Page, 2014

OVERVIEWA new set of organisations have discovered a new formula. They combine customer-centricity with innovative power. These organisations have created a completely outside-in approach to the market. They are not driven by what they’re good at; they start with the market and design their strategy around it. They replace practices of the past with a new set of capabilities, which enable them to be ahead of the curve in discovering new market opportunities. This enables them to develop new products and services faster than ever before and they hit the bull’s eye in the market. Whereas the traditional value chain model regards the market as the end-outcome of the efforts of the

organisation, the reversed value chain model starts there. The customer is the starting point and the value chain is the result of understanding customer needs and requirements. Packed with real world examples from a range of leading global companies including Disney, Coca-Cola, LEGO, Eurex, Netflix, KLM, Carglass, Komatsu, Callebaut and more, Customer Innovation provides every business with the framework it needs to combine customer focus with innovation to achieve success.

ABOUT THE AUTHORProf. Dr. Marion Debruyne is Associate Professor and Partner at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. She is Director Masters Programs as well as academic director of the executive open enrollment program ‘Product Management’. She also teaches the Marketing Management course in the full-time and part-time executive MBA programmes. As a speaker and coach, she has ample experience within multiple industries ranging from pharmaceuticals and healthcare (J&J, Merck, UCB, Agfa, Abbott) to industry (DSM, Umicore, ETEX, Aliaxis, Johns Manville and others) to financial services (BNP Paribas, KBC, ING) to consumer products & services (Kraft, Philip Morris, Macintosh, Securitas). She is also independent member of the Board of Directors of Kinepolis and Recticel.

THE INNOVATION BOOK: HOW TO MANAGE IDEAS AND EXECUTION FOR OUTSTANDING RESULTSBY MAX MCKEOWNPearson (Financial Times Publishing), 2014

OVERVIEWThe Innovation Book is your roadmap to creating powerful innovations that deliver success in a competitive world. It answers the following questions: How do you become a more innovative thinker? How do you lead and manage creative people? How can you use innovation tools to get the best results? How can you engage people with innovation? How do you avoid pitfalls, problems and screw-ups? With a practical bite-size format, The Innovation Book will help you tackle the really important challenges and seize the most valuable opportunities.

ABOUT THE AUTHORDr. Max Mckeown is the author of The Strategy Book, the Commuter’s Read category winner in CMI’s Management Book of the Year competition 2013 and named one of Amazon’s Best Business Books of 2012. He is also author of Adaptability: the Art of Winning in an Age of Uncertainty, and four other books. He works as a strategic coach with Fortune 100 companies and is also a popular keynote speaker at conferences worldwide.

Tries to make you think differently.Sue Toon CMgr FCMI FCIPD CertEdCategory Judge

Lots of ideas, lots of stimulus, lots to look at.Philip Crisp CMgr FCMI FIC CMC Chartered FCIPDCategory Chair

Will stand the test of time.Beverly Landais CMgr FCMICategory Judge

I’ve already thought of a couple of people I will recommend this book to.Philip Crisp CMgr FCMI FIC CMC Chartered FCIPDCategory Chair

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OVERVIEWBig, bright and brilliant, Gear Up is an engaging and practical workbook for anyone looking to pursue a fresh business opportunity or grow an existing one. Developed at Harvard Business School and Stanford University, it’s a bootcamp with clear, easy-to-follow steps to test your business idea, assess its potential and make it work! Based on a revolutionary 9-component framework, Gear Up offers entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, innovative executives and business students a toolkit to bring their ideas to life and transform them into high potential ventures. Gear Up offers a useable business tool for assessing the needs of a business idea and helps you create a plan of action to promote business success. By working through the chapters of the book, you get to create a winning strategy based on recommendations tried and tested by executives around the world.

ABOUT THE AUTHORSJonas Kjellberg is a serial entrepreneur and was a founding member of the Skype leadership team. Jonas had a

vision to take lessons learned from hyper-growth companies, combine that with what was taught at world class universities and revamp it to create a user-friendly mix and make it accessible to the world. Tom Kosnik is a Professor at Stanford University. Tom started his teaching journey at Harvard. This is where he laid the foundation for Gear Up, by initiating the work with the DDART framework – Diagnose, Decision, Analysis and Reality Test - developed after many years of research with the goal to support students, entrepreneurs and business to decipher new and exciting business opportunities. Tom speaks at events around the world including the USA, Mexico, China, Chile and Singapore.Lena Ramfelt holds a PhD from Stockholm University. She joined forces with Tom at Stanford and the two of them have been teaching together for the past 15 years. During their years together they saw Silicon Valley grow and outperform the rest of the world in building new, large and successful companies. Together they interviewed, explored and captured information on these growing companies. The newfound insight was mixed with her business knowledge and taught to students. Lena now spilts her time between consulting and tuition.The authors’ combination of academic knowledge and real-life experience is the foundation for the book.

OPEN DATA NOW: THE SECRET TO HOT STARTUPS, SMART INVESTING, SAVVY MARKETING, AND FAST INNOVATIONBY JOEL GURINMcGraw-Hill Education, 2014

OVERVIEWOpen Data is open for business, so how can companies harness the next great wave of the information age? Anyone who has ever booked a flight online, used a smartphone’s GPS, or watched The Weather Channel has benefited from Open Data. Joel Gurin, an expert in the field, argues that the future of Open Data can also slow climate change, improve traffic patterns, help students graduate and trim the fat from government spending. By definition, Open Data is public, pulled from government or other sources, and its available for anyone to access for personal or business use. Now it’s poised to transform how we use and share information. Open Data Now looks at the incredible

applications of Open Data for the public and private sectors. Joel Gurin, a global expert on consumer information who has worked for the Obama Administration, has written the first comprehensive guidebook on the emerging power of Open Data. He examines applications and trends in the public and private sectors, including: precision agriculture (the new ways to use Open Data to analyse weather, satellite, and farm to build a startup into a billion-pound company); data-driven marketing (how smart companies are using Open Data from social media, consumer complaints, and the science of sentiment analysis to connect with their customers); open innovation (the new movement by biomedical companies, researchers, and scientists to share their research as Open Data for faster innovation); and smart investing (how Open Data is helping investors find the strongest companies and support sustainable businesses).

ABOUT THE AUTHORFrom 2011 to 2012, Joel Gurin served as chair of the White House Task Force on Smart Disclosure, using Open Data to help consumers make informed choices on healthcare, financial services, education, and energy. An award-winning science journalist, he is currently senior advisor at the GovLab at New York University. Gurin is the former editorial director and executive vice president of Consumer Reports and the former chief of the consumer bureau of the Federal Communications Commission.

GEAR UP: TEST YOUR BUSINESS MODEL POTENTIAL AND PLAN YOUR PATH TO SUCCESSBY LENA RAMFELT, JONAS KJELLBERG, TOM KOSNIKWiley (Capstone), 2014

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It contains practical advice, easy to follow short exercises and the ability to ‘dip in and out’ as you wish.Sue Toon CMgr FCMI FCIPD CertEdCategory Judge

An engaging and practical workbook, particularly suitable for those new to management literature.Philip Crisp CMgr FCMI FIC CMC Chartered FCIPDCategory Chair

Insightful, interesting, has real vision.Beverly Landais CMgr FCMICategory Judge

It is apparent throughout the book that a lot of good research has been undertaken.Sue Toon CMgr FCMI FCIPD CertEdCategory Judge

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CATEGORY.MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP TEXTBOOK.

OVERVIEW“The first mile”—that critical time when an idea moves from concept to paper to market, the real world, where it will fly or fail, and maybe take a company with it. It’s a perilous place, with hidden traps and seemingly never ending roadblocks that slow innovators in companies both big and small. This book is your guide through this risky terrain. Written by Innosight’s Scott D. Anthony (The Innovator’s Guide to Growth, The Little Black Book of Innovation), The First Mile compiles and orders hard-won lessons for anyone given charge of an innovation initiative. Anthony details, step by step, the first mile’s biggest challenges, and shows how to overcome each one using principles based in rigorous

experimentation and testing. Integrating his unique experiences advising global giants and incubating and investing in start-ups in Singapore, India, and the United States, Anthony shares a wide range of stories and data meant to turn this once-mysterious process into a better understood and more replicable one.

ABOUT THE AUTHORScott D. Anthony has advised senior leaders in organizations like Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, General Electric, LG, Credit Suisse, Cisco Systems, Ayala Group, and the Singapore Economic Development Board. He leads Innosight’s venture-capital investing activities (Innosight Ventures). He also chairs the investment committee for IDEAS Ventures, a SGD 10 million fund Innosight runs in conjunction with the Singapore government. In 2009, he joined the Board of Directors of Media General.Anthony has written extensively about a number of innovation topics including disruptive innovation and business model innovation. His passion is in enabling innovators around the world to realize their untapped potential. He is the author of articles including ‘The New Corporate Garage,’ and co-author ‘How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate’ with Bruce Brown, P&G chief technology officer, both published in Harvard Business Review. He is also the author of The Little Black Book of Innovation and The Silver Lining, both published by Harvard Business Press. He co-authored Seeing What’s Next with Harvard Business School

Professor and Innosight cofounder Clayton M. Christensen and was the lead author of The Innovator’s Guide to Growth. He has written articles for publications such as the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Sloan Management Review, Advertising Age, Marketing Management and Chief Executive, and serves as a judge in the Wall Street Journal’s Innovation Awards. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CNBC, and FOX Business. He also has a regular column at Harvard Business Online.Anthony received a BA in economics summa cum laude from Dartmouth College and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.

THE FIRST MILE: A LAUNCH MANUAL FOR GETTING GREAT IDEAS INTO THE MARKETBY SCOTT D ANTHONYHarvard Business Review Press, 2014

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PROFESSOR DARREN DALCHER PhD FAPM FRSA FBCS CITP FCMI

Darren Dalcher is Professor of Project Management at the University of Hertfordshire and Visiting Professor at the University of Iceland. He is the founder and Director of the National Centre for Project Management (NCPM), an interdisciplinary centre of

excellence operating in collaboration with industry, government, charities, NGOs and the learned societies.

Following industrial and consultancy experience in managing technology projects, Professor Dalcher gained his PhD from King’s College, University of London. He has built a reputation as leader and innovator in the area of practice-based education and reflection in project management. He is heavily involved in organising international conferences, has delivered many international keynote addresses and tutorials, and has been chairman of the influential APM Project Management Conference since 2009. He has written over 150 refereed papers and book chapters on project management and software engineering. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process. He is the editor of a major book series, Advances in Project Management (Gower Publishing) which synthesises leading edge knowledge, skills, insights and reflections in project and programme management, and of a companion series, Fundamentals of Project Management, which provides the essential grounding in key areas of project management.

In 2008 he was named by the Association for Project Management as one of the top 10 influential experts in project management and has also been voted Project Magazine’s Academic of the Year for his contribution in “integrating and weaving academic work with practice”. He received international recognition in 2009 with appointment as a member of the PMForum International Academic Advisory Council, which features leading academics from some of the world’s top universities and academic institutions. In October 2011 he was awarded a prestigious Honorary Fellowship from the Association for Project Management for outstanding contribution to project management. He is also a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, and the Royal Society of Arts, and a Member of the Project Management Institute, and the Academy of Management.

His research interests include project success and failure; maturity and capability; ethics; process improvement; agile project management; systems and software engineering; project benchmarking; risk management; decision making; chaos and complexity; project leadership; change management; knowledge management; and evidence-based and reflective practice.

DR KARIN S. MOSER PhD

Dr. Karin S. Moser is a social and organisational psychologist at the Department of Psychology at the University of Roehampton, London, as well as an Associate Professor at the Centre for Career Development and Continuing Education at the University of Bern,

Switzerland.

Her expertise is in the areas of team work, information-sharing and knowledge management, self and identity, and virtual collaboration and communication. Recent research projects focus on motivational processes in information-sharing, rewards and incentives for pro-social behaviour, and the effects of status and cultural differences in online collaborations.

Dr. Karin S. Moser is a Chartered Psychologist and member of numerous international professional associations such as Academy of Management (AoM), European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology (EAWOP), European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) and Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). She reviews regularly for national and international science foundations and international journals and is a board member of several international postgraduate and executive programmes on social science methodology and statistics, leadership, mentoring for women in science, and knowledge and information management.

She has worked and held academic positions in the US as well as in several European countries and cooperated widely with national and international organisations and companies in applied research projects in the areas of knowledge management, ethical decision-making in health care, compliance behavior, leadership, work motivation and management of virtual teams and use of electronic media at work.

PROFESSOR AMIR SHARIF PhD FRSA FInstLM FCILT MCMI

Professor Amir Sharif is currently Head of Brunel Business School (acting) and is Professor of Operations Management. Amir’s responsibilities include

all aspects of academic management and delivery within and across the School, and he is currently spearheading undergraduate and postgraduate student recruitment and retention, as part of the School’s wider strategic employability goals.

Alongside his academic background, Amir has had extensive industry experience within the professional and financial services sector working and consulting for companies such as JPMorgan, UBS, KPMG and Sony. He has worked with executives and senior managers globally including Europe, MENA, Sub-Saharan Africa and the GCC. Amir is research active and has published many academic and management articles in the subject areas of knowledge management, decision-making, operations and supply chain management and information systems, as well as having interests in general management and leadership, electronic government, humanitarian logistics, microfinance, gamification and financial services.

Amir has extensive teaching experience at all levels from undergraduate through to MBA, PhD, and executive education, and continues to regularly teach at MBA and MSc level within his own subject area as well as in terms of general leadership development and strategic planning. As such he continues to be an external examiner and has validated a number of MBA and MA programmes at leading UK universities as well as overseas.

Amir has also been a member of the organising committee of the Association of MBAs (AMBA) annual conference for Deans and Directors of MBA Programmes since 2011. He continues to be a research grant reviewer for numerous national and international funding bodies such as the British Academy, British Council, Czech Research Foundation (CRF), the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the European Union (EU), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Natural and National Science Foundation of China (NNSFC), and the Qatar National Research Foundation (QNRF).

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METHODOLOGICAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENTBY V B KHRISTENKO, A G REUS, A P ZINCHENKO AND OTHERSBloomsbury, 2014

OVERVIEWA comprehensive guide for business people, government administrators and specialists in management methodology, Methodological School of Management details the original and applied thinking, methods and approaches established by the school in the Soviet era and still operating successfully in modern Russia today. The Methodological School of Management is not an educational institution, but a range of management tools, which evolved as a part of the ‘systems movement’ during the second half of the twentieth century. The school was created by the pupils of Georgy Petrovich Shchedrovitsky (1929–1994) under whose leadership a body of knowledge – the ‘starting

capital’ of the Methodological School of Management – took shape. The management tools developed by the school are used by its leaders in their current managerial practice. This practice extends to a number of fields: government administration, management of economic sectors, corporate governance and the management of individual corporations. Although the school is less well known to Western specialists in systems engineering methodology and management, this book aims to secure the school a place in the global systems engineering landscape. Its ideas have entered the tool kits of most major control systems and corporations in the world’s leading economies, from NASA and Toyota to retail chains – a clear testimony to the value of Georgy Shchedrovitsky’s research, ideas and the body of knowledge he left behind. Methodological School of Management offers solutions for resolving tricky managerial situations and achieving organisational targets – essential reading for anyone learning how to manage people and issues.

ABOUT THE AUTHORSV. B. Khristenko is Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (from 2012) and was the Russian Minister of Industry and Trade from 2008 until 2012. He was the Russian Minister of Industry and Energy from 2004 until 2007, and first Deputy Prime Minister of Russia. He has more than 15 years’ experience in senior posts in the Russian Government.

A. G. Reus was Director of UIC Oboronprom (2007 - 2012) and has headed some of Russia’s largest machinery-building enterprises. He was formerly Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation (2004 - 2007).A. P. Zinchenko is Head of the Management Department at the Togliatty Academy of Management (from 1992). He has set up a number of innovative educational institutions.

LEADERSHIP: PRACTICE AND PERSPECTIVESBY KEVIN ROEOxford University Press, 2014

OVERVIEWThis accessible and comprehensive textbook is designed specifically to develop students’ understanding of leadership in a variety of contexts. Assuming no prior experience of leadership in the business world, this book is a must-read for students embarking on their study of leadership, while thinking ahead to their own future employment. Drawing upon the author’s extensive practical and academic experience, the book illustrates leadership in action using a wealth of international case studies. Examples have been carefully selected to highlight the practical application of leadership theory, both in a formal business context and in everyday life. The book presents leadership as relevant to all walks of life, allowing you to reflect on your own perspectives and experience of leadership in a range of

situations. The book is divided in to two clear parts, which logically guide the reader through key theoretical concepts underpinning the study of leadership. These include behavioural models, situational theories, and contingency theory. The second part of the book is then devoted to related themes, such as ideas of power, teams, and change. This structure ensures a fundamental understanding of the basics of the subject, as well as a comprehensive grasp of relevant contemporary issues. The author’s lively writing style, combined with real-world case studies and supportive learning tools, makes this book essential reading for all pre-experience students wanting to understand more about how leadership ideas emerged, and the relevance of leadership to the world around them.

ABOUT THE AUTHORKevin Roe completed his PhD at Lancaster University and continues to teach in higher education at Anglia Ruskin University. He is also a Coach and Leadership Consultant specialising in leadership development, teamwork, and change in the private and public sectors. His background is wide and varied encompassing time as a Royal Naval Officer aboard HMS Brilliant, acting as Middle East Business Manager for Perkins Engines, based in Pakistan, India and Indonesia, and operating in a strategic adult learning role in the public sector. His academic interests focus around leadership and teams. His research interests are focussed on developing a new approach to

understanding how successful teams seem to generate a shared mental model of their world.

Brings the experience of the authors to life....demonstrating a deep engagement with the topic.Professor Darren Dalcher PhD FAPM FRSA FBCS CITP FCMICategory Judge

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Stretches the reader with practice and reflection.Professor Amir Sharif PhD FRSA FInstLM FCILT MCMICategory Judge

Well-structured, well-written, with good online resources – a proper textbook.Dr Karin S. Moser PhDCategory Chair

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ESSENTIALS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: EVIDENCE AND PRACTICEBY ROBERT A BARONEdward Elgar, 2014

OVERVIEWThis essential text will be a perfect fit for any introductory course, both within and outside of the business school. Entrepreneurs are, in essence, individuals who take action to convert their ideas into reality. Doing so involves completing many steps; Robert Baron describes these steps, and provides guidance for performing them successfully. To do so, he incorporates several unique and useful features: the information presented is based on current evidence, rather than ‘informal knowledge’ or comments of specific entrepreneurs; the focus is primarily on the essentials – the issues and topics most central to the field; the book does not assume extensive knowledge of basic management

disciplines, and so is accessible to readers with a wide range of backgrounds. The practice of entrepreneurship, too, is fully represented and emphasized in special sections that highlight what entrepreneurs actually do to attain success. Presenting a concise, current overview of entrepreneurship both as an academic field and an important business activity, this text is ideal for use in undergraduate and MBA level introductory entrepreneurship courses in business schools as well as in engineering, science and social science programs.

ABOUT THE AUTHORRobert A. Baron has long been recognized as an expert in the area of entrepreneurial thinking. This expertise shows in his artful treatment of the essentials of entrepreneurship. In a clear and helpful way, he punctuates state-of-the-art knowledge about entrepreneurial thinking with practical, hands on recommendations for doing.Baron is arguably the most refreshing voice among the growing cadre of top notch scholars shedding new light on the nature of entrepreneurial behaviour. In Essentials of Entrepreneurship he draws on both his own entrepreneurial experiences and his long career as a thought leader in the field of entrepreneurship to share a unique perspective how successful ventures come to be. Baron’s gift is his ability to ask basic questions and then translate complex concepts into straightforward and understandable answers. He simplifies without ever over-simplifying. In this important book, he provides

both a breadth and depth of coverage on the opportunity, the entrepreneur, and the venture. In the process he offers a realistic perspective that synthesizes what we know while introducing exciting new ideas.

ORGANIZATIONS AND MANAGEMENT IN CROSS-CULTURAL CONTEXTBY ZEYNEP AYCAN, RABINDRA N KANUNGO AND MANUEL MENDONCASAGE Publications, 2014

OVERVIEWAn ideal course text for Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management or Cross-Cultural Management courses. Chapters present the fundamental theoretical approaches in all key areas including leadership, ethics and change, and then explore them in the context of culture and cross-cultural management. The book encourages self-reflection and critical appraisal through a series of questions and scenarios designed to get you thinking like a manager working with an international team. It provides practical guidance on tackling the most complex issues facing managers today., and it contains insights into the experiences of real employees working in a multicultural environment.

ABOUT THE AUTHORSZeynep Aycan is a Professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Koç University, Turkey. Her research focuses on the impact of culture on various aspects of organisational processes, including leadership, human resource management, women’s career development and work-life balance. She has authored or co-authored four book and more than 50 book chapters and research articles, and was the co-founder and co-editor of the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management. She is a former president of the International Society for the Study of Work and Organizational Values (ISSWOV) and of the Turkish Psychological Association, Istanbul branch. She is an Elected Fellow for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Association for Psychological Sciences (APS), and Global Young Academy for Sciences.Rabindra N Kanungo is a Faculty Chair Professor with the Faculty of Management at McGill University.His work experience as a university professor, researcher and consultant spans both East (India) and West (Canada and the United States). He has published widely in both basic and applied areas of psychology and management, including more than 100 professional articles in top journals in the field. He is an Elected Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association and has won Commonwealth and Seagram Senior Faculty fellowships and Best Paper Awards.

Manuel Mendonca is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Management at McGill University.He has taught at the University since 1984, and now lectures at McGill’s School of Continuing Studies. His research interests include leadership, employee compensation and cross-cultural management. Manuel has conducted executive development workshops and seminars on leadership and human resource management in Indonesia, India, Kenya, Kazakhstan, Romania and Hungary - with a focus on management practice that fit the societal culture of these countries. He has authored or co-authored five books and four edited volumes as well as chapters and journal articles.

A good integration of academic thinking with a practice perspective.Dr Karin S. Moser PhDCategory Chair

Adventurous in the context of entrepreneurship... an evidence-based approach.Professor Darren Dalcher PhD FAPM FRSA FBCS CITP FCMICategory Judge

Very progressive, very useful.Dr Karin S. Moser PhDCategory Chair

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DR AFZAL ASHRAF PhD FCMI

Afzal Ashraf’s diverse range of jobs have included Aeronautical Engineering research and development in industry. A senior officer in the Royal Air Force, he was appointed to the Multi-National Force in Baghdad where he contributed to Political, Military and

Economic strategy working at times directly for the US Ambassador and the Commanding General. He received a Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Service in Iraq. He led organisations of up to 1,000 strong and 3,000 on an interim basis. In one case he had to manage eight centres spread between England, Scotland and Wales, providing corporate level training for over 50,000 personnel globally.He has served in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office where he was responsible for Security Sector Reform and Political Military affairs. Ashraf has experience of counterterrorism and all-source information fusion and threat assessment in the UK. His last appointment in the Services was in Afghanistan where he led a multinational team responsible for policing and internal security advice to both NATO and the Afghanistan Minister of Interior.Afzal’s qualifications include a BSc in Aeronautical Engineering, and an MA in Defence Studies from Kings College. In 2003 he attended St Andrews University’s Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence to undertake a PhD in International Relations dealing with terrorist Ideology Through Political Myth and Rhetoric.After leaving the RAF he became a management consultant initially contracted by the UK government to develop the capabilities of a national security department. Currently he is undertaking cyber security contracts and is employed by the Royal United Services Institute to design and deliver a ground-breaking course in International Diplomacy.

IAN MCEACHERN OBE CMgr FCMI

Following undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in mathematics and numerical analysis at the University of Wales Aberystwyth and Dundee University respectively, Ian worked at Scottish Widows Fund & Life Assurance Society in Edinburgh and

Dingwall Academy in the Highlands of Scotland prior to being awarded a commission in the Royal Air Force in 1978. His RAF career embraced a broad spectrum of director-level roles including human resources, finance, information systems and management of major transformational change programmes. Following a successful military career of nearly 30 years, Ian spent four years as a senior civil servant at HM Land Registry where he worked closely with board members to shape the organisation’s strategic direction and transform it to a smaller, leaner and more sustainable business.A Council Member of the former Institute of Management from 1996-2002, Ian was a First Officer and Board Member of CMI when its Royal Charter came into effect on 1 April 2002. More recently, he served as a Board Member and Trustee from 2008 to 2014. A seasoned management book reviewer for Professional Manager, Ian has been a reviewer or category judge for the Management Book of the Year since its inception, and a category judge for the National Management & Leadership Awards.Currently, Ian is an independent Council Member and Trustee of Aberystwyth University, a Director of Aberystwyth University (Mauritius Branch Campus) and a non executive member of the Advisory Board to the Awards Recognition Bureau. He was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List 1994.

PAUL MYLREA CMgr FCMI

Paul is Director of Communications at the University of Cambridge, where he is responsible for managing the University’s global reputation. He has worked at a senior level in government, public sector bodies and the

not-for-profit sector for more than a decade, with major communications leadership roles at Oxfam, Transport for London, the Department for International Development and the BBC. He has also been an Associate Lecturer at the Open University Business School. He graduated with a distinction in his own MBA from the OUBS and was named their MBA Student of the Year in 2004. He is a Chartered Manager and was named London Chartered Manager of the Year in 2008.He began his career as a journalist on regional newspapers before joining Reuters, where, over a 20 year period, he reported from more than 30 countries. As Head of Media for Oxfam GB he was responsible for the UK-based media team. As Director of Group Media Relations for Transport for London he led the communications response to the 7th July bombings, for which his team won the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Crisis Communications Award. In 2007 he moved to become Communications Director of the Government Department for International Development where he helped raise the profile of Britain’s international aid efforts and built an innovative digital engagement team. Joining the BBC as Head of Press and Media Relations he became Director of Communications in 2011, responsible for all communications at the BBC, before moving to a new role as Director of Public Affairs in September 2012. He is a past President and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and a visiting fellow at Bournemouth University’s Media School. He speaks a number of languages, including fluent French, Spanish and Portuguese.

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OVERVIEWFrom bestselling author John P. Kotter (Leading Change, A Sense of Urgency), this new work offers a detailed explanation of his award-winning idea on a new “dual operating system” that allows organizations to move at the pace of change while providing the necessary structures to help it run successfully. Torn between staying ahead of the competition, constantly innovating, and still delivering this year’s results, today’s leaders need help in the face of competing demands. In this important new book, which expands on Kotter’s McKinsey Award-winning article in Harvard Business Review (November 2012), Kotter describes this “dual operating system” - network and

hierarchy - including how it works and how to build it. The idea stems from the author’s experience in the field helping numerous organizations build dual operating systems in recent years. Accelerate will help organizations keep up with an ever-more-turbulent world, responding to threats and capturing opportunities for true strategic agility.

ABOUT THE AUTHORHarvard Business School Professor John Kotter is widely regarded as the world’s foremost authority on leadership and change.His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually “do” change. Kotter’s international bestseller Leading Change - which outlined an actionable, eight-step process for implementing successful transformations - has become the change bible for managers around the world. In A Sense of Urgency, he showed why the ability to see and feel the need for change is becoming an exceptionally important asset and how managers can create and sustain this within their organizations. He is also well-known for The Heart of Change and John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do. In total, Professor Kotter is the author of nineteen books, a collection that has given him more honours and awards than any other writer on the topics of leadership and change.He has been praised by Business Week, Fortune, The Financial Times, and by managers around the globe as one of our most important voices on leadership and change. In 2009 The Times ranked him amongst the 50

most important business thinkers in the world.

ACCELERATE: BUILDING STRATEGIC AGILITY FOR A FASTER MOVING WORLD BY JOHN P KOTTERHarvard Business Review Press, 2014

THE POWER OF GLOBAL TEAMS: DRIVING GROWTH AND INNOVATION IN A FAST CHANGING WORLDBY ELISABETH MARXPalgrave Macmillan, 2013

OVERVIEWThe Power of Global Teams skilfully reveals how to build high-performance executive teams that win international clients, turn businesses around, and accelerate international growth in a globally competitive market. This highly-practical book pinpoints the success secrets of top international teams through an extensive range of case studies, from Asia to the US, demonstrating how high-performance teams can be developed step-by-step, and confronting the key challenges international business leaders face day-to-day. Grounded in business psychology, it outlines a series of well-proven models that will enhance team governance and galvanize financial results. The book features

exclusive interviews with influential global leaders from a range of sectors, including: Barclays, AMEC, Acumen Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Citi, Christie’s, Ogilvy & Mather, Virgin Media, ABB, Rolls Royce, Petrofac, BBA Aviation and Dixons. This book uniquely casts light on team development in the not-for-profit sector and in emerging markets, and illustrates how international diversity can be effectively channelled into producing superior business results. The reader will gain expert insight into how to lead international teams and boards effectively.

ABOUT THE AUTHORDr. Elisabeth Marx is a well-known leadership consultant and author of the bestselling book Breaking Through Culture Shock. She is a Partner in the Leadership Advisory and Board Practice at Stonehaven, specialising in top team development, succession planning, and non-executive director searches for international companies. Based in London, she works for clients all over the world.

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Having run a few organisations of various sizes I would say that reconciling agility with managing risk is the most important topic in management.Dr Afzal Ashraf PhD FCMICategory Judge

I am a huge fan of Kotter’s approach to change management.Paul Mylrea CMgr FCMICategory Judge

If you are going to pick a board this is a very useful book on what to consider.Paul Mylrea CMgr FCMICategory Chair

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OVERVIEWUsing extensive case studies of successful global corporations, this book explores the impact of national culture on the corporate strategy and its execution, and through this ultimately business success - or failure. It does not argue that different cultures lead to different business results, but that all cultures impact organizations in ways both positive and negative, depending on the business cycle, the particular business, and the strategies being pursued. Depending on all of these factors, cultural dynamics can either enable or derail performance. But recognizing those cultural factors is difficult for business leaders; like everyone else, they too can be blind to the culture of which they are a part. The book offers managers and leaders

eight recommendations for recognizing those cultural factors that negatively impact performance, as well as those that can be harnessed to encourage superior performance. With real case studies from companies in Asia, Europe, and the United States, this book offers a truly global approach to organizational culture.

ABOUT THE AUTHORSKai Hammerich received his MBA from Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management (with distinction) and his MSc in economics from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Based in London, he is a senior client partner with Korn Ferry, the world’s leading talent and leadership consultancy. Kai Hammerich has conducted numerous CEO and board-level search, succession and leadership assessment projects for major global companies. He has in-depth experience advising clients on how to align a company’s talent portfolio with its overall business strategy and company culture. Kai Hammerich was nominated by BusinessWeek as one of the most influential headhunters worldwide.Richard D. Lewis, one of Britain’s foremost linguists, is Chairman of Richard Lewis Communications. He also founded the Berlitz schools in East Asia, Portugal and Finland and spent several years in Japan, where he was personal tutor to Empress Michiko and five other members of the Japanese Imperial family. One of his books, When Cultures Collide, has sold over 500,000 copies and won the

prestigious US Executive Club Book award in 1997. He currently lectures throughout the world on cross-cultural issues. In 1997, Mr Lewis was awarded a knighthood in Finland, in view of his 40 years experience helping Finland to develop its international links, including assisting Finland in its preparation for EU presidency. In 2009, he was promoted to the rank of Knight Commander, Order of the Lion of Finland.

FISH CAN’T SEE WATER: HOW NATIONAL CULTURE CAN MAKE OR BREAK YOUR CORPORATE STRATEGYBY KAI HAMMERICH, RICHARD D LEWISWiley, 2013

OVERVIEWCan altruism actually be good for business? 37 of the world’s 100 largest economies are corporations, not countries. So are today’s big businesses – bigger, wealthier, more powerful than ever before – better qualified to find lasting solutions to the world’s escalating problems than politicians? Problems like youth unemployment, income inequality and climate change that could blight the lives of future generations if we don’t address them now. In The Key, London Business School Professor Lynda Gratton uses case studies from over 20 companies, including Vodafone, Ikea and Tata Consultancy Services, to explore how corporations can embed themselves in the communities they

inhabit in order to solve local problems and secure a resilient future for all. Gratton says corporations need to “understand that their future is entirely caught up in their ability to address these problems and find solutions, which is the basis of The Key”. The book has numerous endorsements including Chandrasekaran, Chief Executive Officer, Tata Consultancy Services, who describes it as: “a must read for practicing managers and leaders”.

ABOUT THE AUTHORLynda Gratton is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School where she directs the program ‘Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Companies’ - considered the world’s leading program on human resources. Lynda is the founder of The Hot Spots Movement and for over five years has led the Future of Work Research Consortium which has brought executives from more than 80 companies together both virtually and on a bespoke collaborative platform. Lynda has written extensively about the interface between people and organizations. Her eight books have been translated into more than 15 languages. They cover the links between business and HR strategy (Human Resource Strategy: Corporate Rhetoric, Individual Reality and Living Strategy), new ways of working (The Democratic Enterprise), the rise of complex collaboration (Hot Spots and Glow) and the impact of a changing world on employment and work (The Shift).

Lynda’s work has been acknowledged globally - she has won the Tata prize in India; in the US she has been named as the annual Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources (NAHR) and won the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) prize; whilst in Australia she is a thought leader for the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) Awards program. Her article on ‘signature processes’ won the the MIT Sloan award, and in 2012 The Shift received the best business book of the year award in Japan.She was named by The Times/Harvard Business Review ‘Business Thinkers 50’ as one of the top 15 business thinkers in the world. Lynda is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and has chaired the WEF Council on Leadership. In 2013 she was awarded the Life Time Achievement Award by HR Magazine and in 2013 she was amongst the 15 top thought leaders in the Thinkers50 ranking.

THE KEY: HOW CORPORATIONS SUCCEED BY SOLVING THE WORLDS TOUGHEST PROBLEMSBY LYNDA GRATTONMcGraw-Hill Education, 2014

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A most timely book and a must-read for any manager who works, or is planning to work, across national, economic and cultural boundaries.Ian MacEachern OBE CMgr FCMICategory Chair

Very erudite and balanced – let’s hope all CEOs take note of this book.Ian MacEachern OBE CMgr FCMICategory Chair

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OVERVIEWPolitical Intelligence (PQ) is a new leadership requirement that will allow governments and businesses to build relationships and work together in a new and more effective way. Successful leaders have built the capability to interact strategically in a world where government and business share power to shape the future. Leadership PQ explains why political intelligence is now a critical leadership requirement; presents exclusive case studies and interview material to demonstrate the impact of PQ in action; and provides practical advice to on how to develop it by effectively navigating the Golden Triangle of business, government and society. Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company said of the

book: “Business, government and civil society must find new and better ways to work together to crack the calculus for sustainable growth and create a brighter future. This timely and insightful book provides rich fodder for those who will be called upon to lead in the years to come.”

ABOUT THE AUTHORSValerie Wark is an independent executive coach and leadership tutor and an Associate of Ashridge Business School. She is widely known for innovative programme design and executive coaching that delivers results. Her clients include the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Vodafone, BBC Worldwide, The NHS, Lloyds Bank, Kerry Foods and BG Group. Gerry Reffo, CMG was Head of Learning and Development in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and is now a senior independent HR consultant and Ashridge Business School-accredited executive coach. She develops leaders and helps organizations improve what they do and how they do it.

LEADERSHIP PQ : HOW POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE SETS SUCCESSFUL LEADERS APARTBY GERRY REFFO, VALERIE WARKKogan Page, 2014

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I enjoyed this book. The more globalisation hits, the ability to understand politics with a small ‘p’ will be key.Ian MacEachern OBE CMgr FCMICategory Chair

The content is persuasive and challenging. This is a work to spark debate.Paul Mylrea CMgr FCMICategory Judge

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Delroy is a Director in the housing sector and holds a number of national board level positions, ranging from social housing to international charities including advising businesses on the social merits of diversity and inclusion.

Recently, Delroy was appointed Chairman of the Board at the Bradford University School of Management, a world-renowned business school which is one of only 59 in the world to hold ‘Triple Crown’ accreditation. He is thought to be the first chairman appointed to a top European business school advisory board to come from an ethnic minority background and the first from the social housing sector. He is also Deputy Chairman of the Joseph Rowntree Housing Board, which is part of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Delroy is motivated by opportunities to support initiatives designed to improve leadership and general management across the ever-changing world of business. He is the first to acknowledge that he has been incredibly fortunate and humbled to have met and worked with some of the UK’s brightest business leaders. He also believes passionately in knowledge and the wisdom of “knowledge empowerment”. Stepping out of the workplace into a learning environment provides a rare opportunity for reflection and contribution. As Director at Incommunities, one of the UK’s largest social housing providers, he sees it has “social good” for business leaders to help create legacies within the communities in which we work. As such, the opportunity to be part of CMI’s Management Book of Year Awards esteemed judging panel was one which he found hard to resist.

KAREN GALLAGHER-BARTON CMgr FCMI

Karen Gallagher-Barton has worked in the Ministry of Defence for over 25 years, holding a variety of high-profile and challenging positions. Her early career was rooted in finance and she successfully completed the

Association of Certified Chartered Accountants Diploma in Financial Management in 2002. As her career has progressed though, she has broadened her portfolio to encompass Capability and Risk Management, as well as Corporate Governance. She describes two of her highlights as being leading a team of 30+ personnel across all UK Royal Air Force units to implement a Treasury initiative to generate income from surplus capacity, and working directly to the Vice Chief of the Defence Staff in developing and implementing the Defence Board’s strategic risk management process.

Karen now has her ‘dream job’, heading up the training delivery team at the Centre for Defence Leadership and Management, part of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. She is a passionate advocate for on-going personal development and is now in the unique position of being able to work in partnership with Cranfield University to influence and develop strategic leadership and management training for senior Defence strategic leaders. Karen’s responsibilities also include the development and delivery of leadership and management training for all MOD civilian management grades and overseeing the provision of equality and diversity training for the UK’s Armed Forces.

Karen has been a member of CMI since 2008, having completed the Defence Academy of the UK’s Joint Services Advanced Command and Staff Course and gained a MA from Kings College London in Defence Studies. She became a Fellow in 2011 and a Chartered Manager in 2012.

Mentoring several people both within Defence and the Private Sector, Karen wishes to become a coach as part of her own development and is currently seeking out opportunities (and the time!) to do so.Karen is married, with 2 grown-up boys, and away from work enjoys the country life in her Cotswold home, with her small pack of gun dogs.

ANDREW MAY FCMI FIC CMC

Andrew May took a degree in Economic History and subsequently qualified in management and management accounting. His first appointment was with the management services division of a London borough as an

MBO Adviser. Following a secondment with Urwick Orr, he moved in to management consultancy and led organisation development and pay structuring projects for a wide range of clients such as Siemens, Westinghouse, Allied Breweries and Rolls-Royce.

After 7 years in consulting, he joined NM Rothschild, a leading merchant bank, ultimately as Director of Personnel Services. His responsibilities included reward systems, management development and recruitment. During this time, he was a board member of IMD, serving as its Chairman for 3 years.

Andrew was invited to join an executive recruitment consultancy, Knight Wendling. He has directed approximately 130 search assignments for board-level appointments in many sectors including financial services, manufacturing and marketing. He has also undertaken consulting assignments involving due diligence work, organisation development and pay structuring.

Andrew is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and the Institute of Consulting and has been a member of both for over 30 years. He served on the CMI’s Council, held sub-committee positions, and chaired two major studies conducted by the Institute. He has served on the West London branch committee for most of his career and chaired the branch for 6 years. He has acted as a management book reviewer for Professional Manager for around 15 years, promoting others’ gems of management insight to the CMI’s members.

In 1990, he established the annual Wycombe Schools Conference which has provided a careers event for some 3,000 girls at Wycombe Abbey and boys from the Royal Grammar School.

Besides his continuing practice in executive search, Andrew is involved with HRPerform, a consultancy specialising in human resource issues, and on the international advisory panel of the Singapore-based venture capital fund Shelterwood Pte.

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OVERVIEWInspiring leaders make us want to achieve more. They persuade us to their cause, win our active support, help us to work better together and make us feel proud to be part of the teams they create. So if we want to be better leaders ourselves, how do we communicate in a way that inspires? What do we need to think about when framing our own leadership communication? Communicate to Inspire is an essential manual for any aspiring leader, answering these key practical questions. Kevin Murray presents a model that charts the leadership process and draws stories from the years of experience he has had coaching top leaders from a wide range of organisations. He examines and analyses some of the key

successes (and failures) in leadership and provides a unique and successful model for developing your own leadership skills.

ABOUT THE AUTHORKevin Murray specializes in strategic communications, reputation management and leadership communications coaching. He has almost 40 years’ experience in communications, including appointments as Director of Communications of British Airways and Director of Corporate Affairs at the UK Atomic Energy Authority. He is currently Chairman of The Good Relations Group. He is also author of The Language of Leaders, shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year Award 2013.

COMMUNICATE TO INSPIRE: A GUIDE FOR LEADERSBY KEVIN MURRAYKogan Page, 2014

OVERVIEWDiscover how to become an effective strategic thinker. Some people seem to achieve the best results, again and again. Is it luck? Or is it strategy? How to Think Strategically equips you with the skills you need to make the best decisions and develop a powerful strategic mindset. This hands-on guide tackles both the thinking and the doing, helping you develop a robust strategic plan for your business. It offers a six-step framework that addresses key questions, including: Which core challenges do I need to overcome? How do I manage uncertainty and risk? How do I execute my business strategy?

ABOUT THE AUTHORSDr. Davide Sola is Associate Professor of Strategy and former Director of ESCP Europe London campus. He teaches business strategy, change management and organisational design to both graduate and post-graduate courses.Dr. Sola is a graduate of ESCP Europe and the University of Turin, earning his doctorate in Enterprise Economics with a thesis on ‘organisational transformation’. He became involved in several technology start-ups in Oxford and London before moving to join the Hartley Investment Trust, a private equity firm, as Head of New Ventures.In 2003, Dr. Sola returned to Italy to join McKinsey & Co. where he held the position of Engagement Manager in charge of several projects ranging from post-merger integration to turnaround of state-owned companies. He was part of a team responsible for setting up the fifth ESCP Europe campus, in Turin. He holds the position of Vice-President of the Board of the school’s Italian campus. Early in 2007 he joined ESCP Europe as a permanent member of Faculty.Dr. Jérôme Coutourier is an Associate Professor at ESCP Europe London campus. He teaches Business Strategy, Business Transformation and Innovation, International Management, EMBA, Masters and executive programmes.His research concentrates on enterprise transformation, evidence-based management, international development strategies, performance management, implementation of

strategic indicators, and growth strategies. Jerome regularly consults with companies to test and implement his ideas. He has written articles, policy papers, books, case studies and papers presented at international research conferences.Jérôme has previously worked with McKinsey and A.T. Kearney where he held senior positions. He is co-founder and chairman of 3H Partners, an international management consultancy advising multinational companies in Europe and the US. He holds a PhD from Ecole Normale Supérieure and an MBA from INSEAD.

HOW TO THINK STRATEGICALLY: STRATEGY - YOUR ROADMAP TO INNOVATION AND RESULTSBY DAVIDE SOLA, JEROME COUTURIERPearson (Financial Times Publishing), 2013

A helpful book for senior managers faced with putting across their own and their companies’ messages.Andrew May FIC CMC FCMICategory Chair

Among the most thoughtful and thought-provoking books.Delroy Beverley FCMICategory Judge

A first-class work on strategic thinking.Andrew May FIC CMC FCMICategory Chair

The authors offer a hands-on approach to strategy and innovation, full of examples.Delroy Beverley FCMICategory Judge

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OVERVIEW89 management theories from the world’s best management thinkers – the fast, focused and express route to success. As a busy manager, you need solutions to everyday work problems fast. The Little Book of Big Management Theories gives you access to the very best theories and models that every manager should know and be able to use. Cutting through the waffle and hype, McGrath and Bates concentrate on the theories that really matter to managers day-to-day. Each theory is covered in two pages – telling you what it is, how to use it and the questions you should be asking – so you can immediately apply your new knowledge in the real world. The Little Book of Big Management Theories will ensure you can: quickly

resolve a wide range of practical management problems; be a better, more decisive manager who gets the job done; better motivate and influence your staff, colleagues and stakeholders; improve your standing and demonstrate that you are ready for promotion.

ABOUT THE AUTHORSJim McGrath left school at 16 and decided to become an accountant because at the time it was the only profession open to a working class kid from Birmingham with 5 O’ Levels. Over the next 27 years he worked in industry and the public sector as an accountant, financial controller, management consultant and senior manager. In 1996 he joined The University of Central England (UCE) as the Course Director for the MA Education and Professional Development and taught research skills and management and leadership to postgraduate students. He was awarded a doctorate by the University of Birmingham in 2004. He wrote his first non-fiction book with Anthony Coles in 2009. Since then he has co-written three further books and his first solo effort, The Little Book of Big Management Questions, was published in May 2015. He is working on two books for Routledge: Your Education Masters Companion and a 2nd edition of Your Teacher Training Companion with Anthony Coles.Bob Bates was a senior executive in the Civil Service for nearly 20 years and in 1994 he launched the Arundel Group, a management development and training company. He now combines writing with working as a Chief Executive for a charity that

promotes education and health in a village in The Gambia. He has a degree in computer studies, Masters degrees in Education and Management and a PhD in Management in the Health Sector. He is also an NLOP Master Practitioner and a Fellow of the Institute for Learning.

THE LITTLE BOOK OF BIG MANAGEMENT THEORIESBY JAMES MCGRATH, BOB BATESPearson Business, 2013

OVERVIEWEveryone knows that you are supposed to ‘follow your dream’. But where is the map to help you discover that dream? In Success your Way, award-winning author and Wharton School professor G. Richard Shell challenges you to set aside ideas of success as defined by society, family, and the media. Instead he asks you to honestly answer two questions: What, for me, is success? How will I achieve it? Drawing on decades of research, Shell helps you probe your past, imagine your future, and measure your strengths. By identifying your unique passions and capabilities you will focus more on what gives meaning and excitement to your life. Get ready for the journey of a lifetime - one that will help you reevaluate your future and achieve

success on your own terms. Students and executives say that G. Richard Shell’s courses have changed their lives. Let this book change yours.

ABOUT THE AUTHORG. Richard Shell joined the Wharton School faculty at the age of 37. Today, he is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics, and Management. He is also the Chair of the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department. He led the School’s most recent innovation process to completely redesign its MBA program and was the creator of Wharton’s popular ‘Success Course’.As a teacher, he has tried to bring my insights into the importance of self-awareness into all of his classes. For example, in the areas of negotiation and persuasion, he has created simple self-assessments to help people gain insights into how their personalities and emotions affect the way they negotiate and attempt to influence others. These assessments form the foundations for his books As a consultant, he has advised over 100 business firms, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. These include Google, General Electric, select units of the U.S. Special Operations Command, the Crisis Negotiation Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as major universities, hospitals, and foundations.His previous books include the award-winning Bargaining for Advantage and, with Mario Moussa, The Art of Woo. As a scholar, he has publish regularly on the subjects of success, negotiation,

dispute resolution, and strategy in leading journals. His articles on current issues and events have appeared in such publications as Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He lives with his family near Philadelphia.

SUCCESS, YOUR WAY: DO WHAT YOU’RE MEANT TO DOBY G RICHARD SHELLPortfolio Penguin, 2013

This book is a gem for the busy manager!Andrew May FIC CMC FCMICategory Chair

Offers leaders and managers... instant access to some of the best management theories around. An exceptional book.Karen Gallagher-Barton CMgr FCMICategory Judge

A work which will help the reader find their own definition of and path to success.Andrew May FIC CMC FCMICategory Chair

Informative and relevant to everyone.Delroy Beverley FCMICategory Judge

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OVERVIEWCoaching, motivating, team building and influencing are all essential tools for getting the most out of the people around you. Commonly described as ‘soft skills’, there’s nothing soft about the impact they will have on your business performance. This book is your toolkit for managing yourself, facilitating team performance and surviving and thriving in times of change. Step up your management skills now to get the business results you need.

ABOUT THE AUTHORSMike Brent was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1952. After graduating from

Edinburgh University in 1974, he moved to France where he lived and worked for 23 years. During his time in France he worked in various jobs - English teaching, management consulting, training management, and lecturing in Organisational Behaviour. He also developed a keen interest in French food and wine.Mike moved back to the UK in 1998 to join the Faculty at Ashridge Business School as a lecturer and programme director. He is now head of experiential learning at Ashridge and has written many articles on the psychology of management and leadership as well as two books on influencing. He continues to lecture at Ashridge and to write articles and run seminars for managers and executives around the world. His hobbies include playing bass in a band with Ashridge colleagues, travelling and drinking wine in his garden.Fiona Dent is an independent trainer and executive coach. Prior to this she was a Director of Executive Education at Ashridge, where she managed programme and client relationships and delivered leadership development solutions. She has worked with a range of organisations and clients on a national and international basis. Fiona consults on a broad spectrum of leadership, personal, interpersonal and relationship skills and is trained in a range of psychometrics.

THE LEADER’S GUIDE TO MANAGING PEOPLE : HOW TO USE SOFT SKILLS TO GET HARD RESULTSBY MIKE BRENT, FIONA ELSA DENTPearson (Financial Times Publishing), 2013

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Beautifully presented and a positive joy to read.Andrew May FIC CMC FCMICategory Chair

I can strongly recommend this book to all leaders of leaders.Delroy Beverley FCMICategory Judge

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KAREN MCARTHUR MCMI

Karen recently left Thomson Reuters where she was the Global Head of Corporate Responsibility for nearly 4 years. Her remit was to develop and deliver their CR strategy and an extensive integrated programme. She was also responsible for CR communications both internally and externally

across all channels including social media.

She is now a busy freelance CR /Sustainability professional with a varied portfolio of activities including launching and establishing the new Institute for CR and Sustainability in July 2014.

Karen worked at Vodafone initially joining to develop their customer satisfaction programme in the UK and globally. Additionally she worked on change and innovation projects across the company as part of the CEO’s team before moving to spend 5 years working on CR, communications and reputational risk issues.

Karen is a non-executive director with the Corporate Responsibility Group, aimed at promoting best practice within the sector. She also sits on a number of Professional Standards Boards working to ensure that public confidence in industry bodies is maintained. Additionally she is a trustee with the Nationwide Charitable Foundation and a Magistrate in West London.

RAY DAVIS MA CMgr MCMI CMC MIC

Ray has an enviably broad knowledge of industries, businesses and management gained from over 30 years of experience at senior management and Director level. He has worked in the public and private sectors (large and small service

and manufacturing organisations) and charities.

Originally qualified as a Mechanical Services Design Engineer, Ray had a successful 10 years in sales and sales management before becoming General Manager of a PLC manufacturing subsidiary. There, he trebled net profit two years running then sold the business, and became a group internal consultant and trouble-shooter. In 1991 he became an independent Management Consultant and for the last 21 years he has concentrated mainly on the SME market, tailoring performance improvement, leadership and management development programmes, business turnarounds, preparing businesses for sale, and selling them.

Ray has extensive experience of Investors in People, leadership and management development (having run a Management Development Centre for Hertfordshire Business Link) and has designed and delivered over 20 different Management Development and Leadership programmes. He mentors at Director and Manager level in private and public sector organisations.

Recently, Ray has worked extensively with the legal profession to introduce rigorous management and business practices and help them prepare for the Legal Services Act.

Ray is the developer and sole provider of the highly effective “Culture Benchmark” that enables commercial and non-commercial organisations to understand and accurately measure their own culture. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, a Chartered Manager member of the Chartered Management Institute, and is also a Chartered Manager assessor. He is a Member of the Institute of Consulting, a Certified Management Consultant and an assessor for the Certified Business Advisor award.

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Paul is a freelance management consultant with over twenty-five years experience of successfully delivering business critical and complex change with the financial services industry. He has worked on a a wide range of change projects including strategic reviews, product launches,

business process re-engineering, outsourcing, off shoring, technology change, efficiency improvements and regulatory changes. He has managed various different sizes of change. Paul is also the co-chair for the Chartered Management Institute’s London and South East Regional Board with responsibility for implementing the CMI’s strategy within that region. Paul is also an External Specialist for the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. This role involves defining the exam syllabus, writing questions and writing course materials for the Institute. Finally Paul holds an MBA from the Open University and has just started studying for a DBA at Middlesex Business School.

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OVERVIEWSteering an organisation on its unique growth journey is one of the biggest personal challenges facing all leaders. Although the end goal, the destination, may stay the same, the conditions experienced on the journey will be different within six months and different again within a year. Internal and external issues and events constantly change the commercial landscape in which the organisation operates. Navigating this landscape has become the new core requirement of the 21st century leader. To deliver success, a more flexible leadership approach is needed to keep everyone on track - a framework that adapts to changing conditions on the journey.Great leaders are great storytellers, and Building the Pyramid demonstrates the winning (formula)®

framework in action through the use of a simple story set in ancient Egypt. The pyramid is used as a metaphor for growth, and the correlation between the Pharaoh’s journey and the growth journey of the modern-day leader forms the basis for the book’s insight. It is an original interpretation of the challenges facing leaders and how success can be achieved. Lessons learned include how to: attract, recruit and retain talent; lead the change required to deliver success; harness the power of vision and values; increase levels of engagement; build a positive workplace culture; align strategy to operational performance; and inspire others to maximise their potential. Building the Pyramid demonstrates how to successfully navigate colleagues on the journey towards the creation of a more agile, successful and sustainable organisation.

ABOUT THE AUTHORJohn Stein is the founder of the winning formula® and an award-winning practitioner, conference speaker and facilitator of leadership events. He is widely recognised as a leading authority on the human performance issues facing organisations on their growth journeys, and has dedicated his career to working with leaders and their teams to build agile, successful and sustainable organisations.John is often described as an ‘organisational lighthouse keeper’ by his clients as a result of the knowledge, support and guidance he is able to offer them on their journeys. He uses a

unique blend of research data, humour, pragmatism and common sense to inspire others to maximise their potential. He has worked with small, medium-size and large organisations and has the rare privilege of experiencing the highs and lows of the growth journey with ambitious founders, entrepreneurs, chief executives, directors and their teams. His leadership, growth, change and organisational development insight has enabled many organisations to produce spectacular results. Since 1995, the winning (formula)® framework has been used successfully to support leaders with new business start-ups, company turnarounds, restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, management buy-outs and private equity investment.

BUILDING THE PYRAMID: THE WINNING FORMULA APPROACH TO DELIVERING SUCCESS ON YOUR ORGANISATION’S GROWTH JOURNEYBY JOHN STEINTWF Publications, 2014

This approach does really work and makes the book very interesting to read and follow.Paul Taylor CMgr MCMICategory Chair

It’s very entertaining, its simple and its common sense.Ray Davis MA CMgr MCMI CMC MICCategory Judge

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OVERVIEW“I wish I had been brave enough to come out earlier in my tenure as CEO of BP. I regret it to this day. I know that if I had done so I would have made more of an impact for other gay men and women. With The Glass Closet, I hope to give some of them the courage to make an impact of their own.”Whether you’re lesbian, gay, transgender or straight, John Browne’s message is simple and clear, it’s better for you and it’s better for business when you bring your authentic self to work. Drawing on his personal experiences and the experience of

other gay and lesbian business leaders, and by investigating the research and the social contexts, The Glass Closet strives to give courage and inspire the LGBT community that despite the risks involved, self-disclosure is best for employees and for the businesses that support them. Every CEO, every HR Manager, every team leader – anyone who is responsible for the culture and success of their business should read The Glass Closet. And for anyone fearful or lacking the confidence to bring their true self into work every day, this book was written for you.

ABOUT THE AUTHORJohn Browne (Lord Browne of Madingley) was CEO of BP from 1995–2007, where he built a reputation as a visionary leader, transforming BP into one of the world‘s largest companies. He was president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, is a fellow of the Royal Society, a foreign member of the US Academy of Arts and Sciences and chairman of the trustees of the Tate Galleries. He holds degrees from Cambridge and Stanford universities, was knighted in 1998, and made a life peer in 2001. He is now a partner at Riverstone Holdings and the author of the memoir Beyond Business and popular science book Seven Elements that Have Changed the World.

THE GLASS CLOSET: WHY COMING OUT IS GOOD BUSINESSBY JOHN BROWNEEbury (WH Allen) Publishing, 2014

Well structured and easy to read... interesting as a personal story.Karen McArthur MCMICategory Judge

An excellent book which will easily retain the interest and attention of a commuter on any journey.Paul Taylor CMgr MCMICategory Chair


OVERVIEWKnowledge and expertise are highly valued in today’s business world. These values are introduced at an early age by our education system, and at work, we are assessed based on what we know, on having the answers and solutions. Our need for certainty, to know what’s going on, to have all the answers, exerts strong pressure in our lives. This important book offers an alternative, contrarian approach to dealing with such pressures – and to embrace “not knowing” rather than fearing it. The authors argue it is by “not knowing” that we in fact develop an exploratory mindset, and we discover, engage and create new ways to deal with business and management problems and issues. The book is

supported by stories of individuals and the positive change they made in their lives through “not knowing”. Solving new problems with old ways of thinking is no longer useful in the new world.

ABOUT THE AUTHORSSteven D’Souza and Diana Renner have more than 30 years’ experience between them working globally with clients from corporate, non-profit and public sectors. They met at the Harvard University Kennedy School’s ‘The Art and Practice of Leadership Development’ Program.Steven and Diana consult, coach, facilitate and train on a diverse range of leadership and management development programs. Steven is Director of Programmes for Western Europe and GCC for the Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance. He is also an Associate Professor at IE Business School, and is based in London, UK. Diana Renner is based in Melbourne, Australia, and is the Director of Not Knowing Lab, Metta Leadership.

NOT KNOWING: THE ART OF TURNING UNCERTAINTY INTO OPPORTUNITYBY STEVEN D’SOUZA, DIANA RENNERLID Publishing, 2014

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A strong lesson for managers.Paul Taylor CMgr MCMICategory Chair

It’s a very different book, when compared to all the books that are written about skill and ability.Karen McArthur MCMICategory Judge

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OVERVIEWLife and work are intrinsically linked. They are not separate; they are one. If we want to live an extraordinary life, we have to make our work equally extraordinary. When your work resonates with purpose, you jump out of bed every morning, excited by the possibilities the day holds for you. Everything else in your life seems to have a glow about it, and you exude much more personal shine. My aim in writing this book is to help you feel like that every day. To help you make your work work for you. To feel truly free. Put you in the driving seat and show you a route to freedom.

ABOUT THE AUTHORChris Baréz-Brown is on a mission to bring creative leadership to the business world and beyond. After helping turn Carling Black Label into the first British billion pound brand, he joined ?What If!, the innovation and ideas agency. In 2009 he founded Upping Your Elvis, a business whose sole focus is to release the genius of organisations by helping their people shine more brightly. He works with the likes of Coca-Cola, Nike, Diageo and WPP to help their teams make an extraordinary impact. He is also the author of SHINE: How To Survive And Thrive At Work.

FREE! LOVE YOUR WORK, LOVE YOUR LIFEBY CHRIS BARÉZ-BROWNPortfolio Penguin, 2014

Extremely well-packaged... the author is a marketeer and this is reflected in the presentation.Ray Davis MA CMgr MCMI CMC MICCategory Judge

Reading on the way to work has rarely been so uplifting.Karen McArthur MCMICategory Judge

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OVERVIEWThis is the businessperson’s guide to saying what needs to be said and asking questions that need to be asked. In the business world, the first step to great results is good communication. Talk Lean uses original research and a fresh approach to teach businesspeople how to say difficult things and ask difficult questions in a way that is positive, effective, and comfortable for everyone involved. You’ll learn how to begin meetings and conversations in a way that is succinct, empathetic, and effective, while putting people in a positive and receptive frame of mind. You’ll learn how to listen and respond during meetings to maximise both productivity and empathy and how to

close meetings in positive ways that lead to great results.

ABOUT THE AUTHORAlan Palmer was born in London. He was educated at Oxford and INSEAD and spent 25 years working for international advertising agency groups in London and Paris. In 2004, he came across a company called Interactifs which had developed an original and innovative approach for dealing more effectively and more productively with other people in meetings and conversations. He was instantly persuaded of the value of the company’s approach, its applicability across national boundaries - and its capacity, in a modest way, to contribute to the sum total of human happiness.He made the decision to join the company both to deliver training programmes and to help develop Interactifs’ business around the world, and in particular in the UK.He has long wanted to bring the ‘Interactifs Discipline’ to a wider audience via a book - and was lucky enough to find a major business publisher (Capstone Publishing, an imprint of John Wiley & Son) who shared his enthusiasm for the project. Philippe de Lapoyade, the founder of Interactifs and the originator of the Interactifs Discipline, gave his permission for the book and Clement Toulemonde, a partner at Interactifs, gave generously of his time to help. Talk lean: Shorter meetings. Quicker results. Better relations.’ is the result of that collaboration.

TALK LEAN: SHORTER MEETINGS. QUICKER RESULTS. BETTER RELATIONSBY ALAN H. PALMERWiley (Capstone), 2014

He took a problem and analysed it repeatedly from different angles, which is valuable and aids learning.Ray Davis MA CMgr MCMI CMC MICCategory Judge

It’s easy to read, with clear, logical chapters.Paul Taylor CMgr MCMICategory Chair

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