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Improving Performance, PETER STANNACK, Pitman Publishing/Livewire (1993), 273 pp., E17.95. People issues continue to be a critical factor in establishing and sustaining organizational success and this is reflected in the continuing number of new publications related to various aspects of the subject, including: Managing Managers: Strategies and Techniques for Human Resource Management, ED SNAPE, TOM REDMAN and GREG J. BAMBER, Blackwell Publishers (1994), 210 pp. E19.99 (Readable and containing a number of case studies and examples-mostly UK based) ; Human Resource Management in Europe: Strategies Issues and Cases, Edited by SHAUh’ TYSON, PETER LAWRENCE, PHILIPPE POIRSON, LUIGI MANZOLINI and CEFERI SOLER VICENTE, Kogan Page (1993), 350 pp., E18.95 (Insight into similarities and differences in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK); Employee Relations in Europe, JEFF BRIDGFORD and JOHNSTIRLING, Blackwell Publishers (1994), 268 pp., t19.99 (Reviews the impact of European Community decisions on employee relations) ; Cases in European Human Resource Management, Edited by ANDREWKAKAEiADSE and SHAUNTYSON, Reward Management: A Handbook of Routledge (1994), second edition, 201 pp., E18.99 (28 useful teaching cases that Remunemtion Strategy and Practice, MICHAEL ARMSTRONG and HELEN highlight ‘best practice’ in a number of areas); Training for Change: Activities to MURLIS, Kogan Page with the Institute Promote Positive Attitudes to Change, SUE of Personnel Management (1994). Third BISHOP and DAVIDTAYLOR, Kogan Page edition, 592 pp., E25.00. (1994), 346 pp., E49.00 (50 activities designed to enable participants to pracClaims to review the major changes and tice the skills required to introduce more issues that have influenced pay policy effective change at work); Portfolios for and procedures over the past 15 years, Development, WARREN REDMAN, Kogan (particularly based on UK experience) Page (1994),211 pp., E14.95 (Explains which have placed greater emphasis on how portfolios can be linked to develop integrating reward and human resource individuals, teams and organizations, as strategy, performance management and well as integrating the approach into performance-related pay. Useful but pity formal qualifications) ; Business Cultures not more emphasis on learning organization developments. Also surprising to find in Europe, COLLIN RANDLESOME, with WILLIAMBRIEFUEX,KEVINBRLJTON,COLIN latest reference (out of 13) quoted in GORDON and PETER KING, Butterworth chapter 2 (Motivation and Financial and Heinemann (19931, second edition, 373 Non-Financial Rewards) was 1979! A pp., fZl6.95. (A number of papers that more reader friendly introduction to the basic issues, mainly aimed at the small discuss the background to business operabusiness manager, is Managing People for tion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, the First Time: Gaining Commitment and and the Netherlands); Principles and

Reporting in the UK, TRETVOR PIJPER, Macmillan (1993), 185 pp., E85.00. Financial information for a specific market (UK) is contained in ?%e Valuation and Sale of Residential Property, DAVID Traces the history and development of the MAC-N, Routledge (1994), second ediapplication of microelectronics technoltion, 286 pp., E15.99. A review of the basic ogy to the personal computer over the last finance and accounting principles relequarter of a century. How it came into vant to organizational decision-makers is being and how strategic competition provided in Finance For The Genera2 evolved from its early days. A good read Manager, ROGER MILLS and JANINE but pity not more focus on the future STILES, McGraw-Hill (1994), 283 pp., (Virtual Reality is mentioned in the E23.95. While the more general issues glossary but not the index) and surprising associates with what determines the level to find bibliography contains no reference and fluctuations of the stock market are to the numerous books on IBM and Apple. contained in 7%e Stock Market, CLIFF To cover gaps readers might try Insanely PRA’ITEN, Cambridge University Press Great: The fife and Times of Macintosh, (1993), 212 pp., E27.95. And the special 7%e Computer That Changed Everything, %EVEN LEVY, Viking (1994),292 pp., institutional features of the German system are explored in Banks, Finance El5.00. And Z%e Virtual Community: and Investment in Germany, JEREMY Finding Connection in a Computerized EDWARDS and KLAUSFISCHER,Cambridge World, HOWARD RHEINGOLD, Seeker and University Press (1994), 252 pp., E30.00. Warburg (1994), 325 pp., !Z16.99. All chief (Note, a number of other specialized executives, aspiring CEOs, investment financial studies are also published by analysts and management academics need to read the sobering account of The the Centre for Economic Policy Research/ Cambridge University Press.) Fate of IBM, ROBERTHELLER,Little, Brown and Company (1994), 370 pp., E16.99. Far from the last word on a continuing saga

New Games: Strategic Competition In the PC Revolution, JOHN STEFFENS,Pergamon (1994),489 pp.,E26.50.

Corporute Finance and Investment: Decisions and Strategies, RICHARD PIKE and BILL NEXLE, Prentice Hall (1993), 612 pp., E18.95. Considers the managerial aspects of corporate finance, relating them to other aspects of management, particularly business policy. Useful (UK based) text for undergraduate/post-graduate courses in corporate finance, financial policy and financial management. The special issues of financial management and control in a wide range of industries in the service covered in Financial sector are Management for Service Companies, KEITH WARD, Pitman Publishing (1993), 240 pp, E38.00. While some of the problems associated with what the figures really mean in the first place are discussed in a UK context in Creative Accounting: The Effectiveness of Financial

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Pmctice of Stress Management, Edited by PAUL M. LnuzER and ROBERT L. WOOLFOLK, Guilford Press (1993), 621 pp.,E49.95.A very thorough survey of the subject. Perhaps more attention could have been given to the causes? And it does help to just smile ! Two other publications that would help here are: Healing the Cause, Michael Dawson, Findhorn Press (1994), 159 pp., E6.95 and The Azt of Living, PIERRE WEIL, Findhorn Press (1994), 102 pp., E5.95. Back to the potential stress creating areas, there is Executive Redundancy and Outplacement, NOELF.EN DOHERTY and SHAUN TYSON, Kogan Page (1993) E16.95, (Provides an understanding of the redundancy transition from both the individual and corporate perspective, as well as evaluating ‘outplacement’ as a policy response to executive redundancy); The Successful Management of Redundancy, PAUL LEwr.3, Blackwell Publishers (1993), 197 pp., E19.99 (Shows how employers can take a strategic approach to redundancy and how redundancy can be used to improve Appmisal : business performance) ; Routes to Improved Pedormance, CLN!Z of Personnel FLETCHER, Institute Mananagement (1993), 198 pp., E14.95; Problem People at Work: And How to Deal with Them, MARILYN WHEELER, Century Business Books (1994), 155 pp., E8.99. This is a brief, readable, book we should all read-not others!) Another practical package that might be of value to anyone concerned with the implementation of strategic change is aspects of Implementing lQM, ~ZICHARDPALMERand BOB EDINBORO,Fenman Training (1993), ~120.00. (19 tried and tested training activities for implementing and sustaining TQM initiatives.)

Entrepreneurship: Text, Readings, and DANIEL F. JENNINGS, SouthCases, Western Publishing Co (1994), 546 pp., E42.00. Focuses on the relationship between strategic management and corporate enBook Reviews

treneurship. Excellent US based teaching Mason, Harbridge House (1993), 98 pp., text, with 17 cases. Another relevant E45.00. publication in this area is On Your Own: How to Start, Develop, and Manage a New Business, ROBERTD. HISRICHand MICHAEL Effective Headquarters Staff: A Guide to P. I’E’rr%s, Richard D. Irwin (1992), 423 the Size, Structure and Role of Corporate pp., $30.00. Also for those about to start Headquarters Staff, DAVID YOUNG and there is Exploring the World of the MICHAEL GOOLD (E30.00), The Entrepreneur: Working for Yourself, KENNETH HOF’FMAN and RICHARD Headquarters Fact Book, DAVID YOUNG (El20.00), Ashridge Strategic RUSSELL, Delmar Publishers (1994), 168 Management Centre (1993). 54 pp., pp., E11.95. Aspiring (and practising) entrepreneurs should always spend more Fascinating-and extremely importanttime reading about the experiences of studies. Pity the changing nature of office others, such as Self-made Millionaires: work issues were not more integrated in How Twelve Entrepreneurs Made Their Fortunes From Nothing!, PETER TEMPLE, the analysis. It is more a snap-shot of what is going on, rather than revealing the Analysit plc, (1993), 164 pp., E15.99. dynamics of what is really happening. Then there is Small Business Hopefully that emphasis will be higher Management: An Entrepreneurial Emphasis, JUSTIN G. LONGENECICER, priority in future work. This work also CAFUOS W. MOORE, and J. WILLIAM urgently needs to be integrated into studies such as Winning People, &UN PEITY, South-Western Publishing Co RAJAN with PENNY van EUPEZN,London (1994), 825 pp., E45.50; a volume that Human Resource Group (1994), 88 pp., claims to have been the most widely used E35.00. What do all these changes mean text in its field for over three decades, now for people, organizations, work and the in its ninth edition. way/where it is done? Another study that provides valuable background on the state of the UK commercial property market is Business Forecasts for the UK Commercial Property Market through the Next Decade, The Portable MBA Desk Reference: An JAMESMORRFLL,James Morrell Associates Essential Business Companion, PAUL A. (199% 94 pp., E150.00. But, again, ARGO, John Wiley (1994), 688 pp., perhaps too little attention was given to E24.95. what is changing in attempting to assess the nature of future cycles. Part one covers a wide range of the major terms used in business, with mini-case studies and worked examples where approriate. Part two provides a directionMarketing Management and Stmtegv, ary of soures of business information. PIiTERDOYLE, Prentice Hall (1994), 410 Excellent value but pity there were not pp., E21.95. more references to key articles and journal sources. (No mention of LRP!) Another A well presented volume for senior useful volume in the series is New Product managers concerned with the vital subDevelopment: Managing and Forecasting ject of marketing; also widely used as a for Strategic Success, ROBERTJ. THOMAS, text on advanced marketing courses. John Wiley (1993), 352 pp., E19.95. Focuses on the integration of marketing Developments in the MBA industry itself into the strategic planning and decision are discussed in WHICH MBA, GEORGE making processes. Other recent marketing BICKERSTAFFX,The Economist Intelligence related volumes include : Eflective Unit/Addison-Wesley (1993), fifth edition, Industrial Marketing: Business-to379 pp., E19.95and The Company MBA: Business Marketing of Goods and Past and Future, Kim Kennedy and Alex Services, NORMAN HART, Editor, Kogan

Page (1994), 306 pp., E16.95; Marketing:

Making

Industrial

and

Marketing

The

Integrated Work

Business-to-Business

Companies,

RICHAFUI

McGraw-Hill

(1994),

N.

in Consumer

Marketing,

MARK

JENKINSand SIMONKNOX, Editors, Kogan Page (1994), 220 pp., E18.95.

London Future

Health

Care 2010:

of Services

Changing

the

King’s 116 pp.,

in the Capital,

Fund Commission E14.00.

(1992),

Analyses the interlocking set of problems (challenges?) posed by health services, medical education and research in London. Exactly the sort of social policy strategic thinking that should be at the core of the debate about strategy, structure and priorities. Unfortunately that rarely is the case.

Research

in

Global Global

Management,

Strategic Competition

:

Volume 4, 1993, Editors ALAN M. RUGMAN and ALAJN VERBEKE, JAI Press Inc (1993) 241 pp., $73.25. Beyond

the

Three

of International

Business,

SKINNER,

165 pp., E19.95; Meeting Customer Needs, IAN SMITH, Butterworth Heinemann (1994), 185 pp., E14.95 (based on the Management Charter Initiative’s Occupational Standards for Management at level 4); Cases in European Marketing, RICHAFUI LYNCH, Kogan Page (1993), 130 pp., E13.95; and Advances

Challenge

Edited by SUSAN SEGALHORN, Kogan Page (1994) 251 pp., 616.95.

in

Generics,

Eleven papers that explore critical areas in developing a more thorough understanding of various aspects of the multinational corporation and international business. Essential material for serious students of the subject.

Ten useful papers that explore the forces for both greater globalization and greater localization. One critical subject, Global Environmental Analysis, is covered in the first chapter and that framework for the subject provides a useful complement to the vast amount of detailed information contained in The World Environmental Business Strategies

Handbook: Global Industry for the 2990s Euromonitor

(1993) Second Edition, 306 pp., E95.00. The kind of material that should soon be available on-line. Surprising to find no paper on ethics (or mention of the word in the index!) in the Segal-Horn book. This important gap is filled by: Emerging Global Business, Edited by W. MICHAEL HOFFMAN, JUDITH BROMTN KAMM, ROBERTE.FREDERKCK and EDWARD S. PETRY JR,Quorum Books (19941, 285 pp., t30.00. While a number other recent publications on various aspect of the subject include: ‘IYre Money Launderers: Lessons From The Drug Wars-How Of Illegal Dollars Are Washed Banks

Billions Through

and Businesses, ROBERT E. POWIS, Probus Publishing (1992) 337 pp., E25.00 (Long on description and short on analysis. Also virtually ignores the historic role of tax havens and Swiss Banks.) Another volume in a continuing saga is BCCI: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Corrupt Financial Empire, PETER TRUELL and LARRY GURWIN, Bloomsbury (1992) 522 pp., E20.00. For those concerned with more effective learning there are 27 brief cases that can be used for discussion in Ethical Dilemmas in Business, DENIS COLLINS and THOMAS O’ROURKE, South-Western Publishing (1994), 58 pp., E13.95. While those more concerned with theoretical issues would find some provocative ideas in Value in Ethics ELIZABETH and Economics, ANDERSON, Harvard University Press (1993) 245 pp., c27.95. Critical questions for us all are considered in Can Ethics be Taught? THOMAS R. PIPER, MARY C. GENTILE, SHARON DALOZ PARKS, Harvard Business School (1993) 178 pp., E17.95. Also relevant to the general issues are the eleven papers in Ethics and

Markets:

Co-opemtion

and

Competition

Edited by CROUCH and DAVID COLIN MARQUANJJ, The Political Quarterly (1993), 150 pp., tll.99. And the public sector is well covered in the twelve papers in Ethics in Public Service, Edited by RICHARD, A. CHAPMAN, Edinburgh University Press (1993) 178 pp., E25.00. Ethics issues within the health sector are usefully covered in Health Care Ethics Committees: The Next Genemtion, JUDITH WILSON ROSS, JOHN W. GLASEX, DOROTHY RAS~NSKI-GREGORY, JOAN MCIVERGIBSON andConruNE BAYLEY, American Hospital Publishing Inc (1994) 188 pp., $28.75 and Choices and Conflict: Explomtions in Health Care Ethics, EMILY F'FUEDMAN, Editor, American Hospital Publishing Co (1994) 209 pp., $42.00. The overall context of developments in this important area are provided in within

Capitalist

Corporate

Economies,

Responsibility:

Business

Ethics, ment-Roles and

A

textbook

on

Governance, Environ Responsibilities, TOM

CANNON, Pitman (1994), 341 pp., t19.99. More general (and academic?) aspects of multinational business continues to be covered in Transnational Corporations, published by the United Nations, three times a year at an annual subscription of $35.00. While recent publications on specific international issues include : Asia Pacific: Its Role in the New World Disorder, M. S. DOBBS-HIGGINSON, Heinemann (1994), 470 pp., E20.00 (Valuable insights into an increasingly important part of the world but pity no index); Global Tourism: The Next Decade, Edited by WILLIAM THEOBALD, ButtenvorthHeinemaun (1994),406 pp., ~Z25.00 (25 papers that examine critical issues facing the industry+ne of the most important industries in the world today and even more so tomorrow): Nigeria

to

2000:

After

the

Genemls?,

DUNCAN JAM=, The Economist Intelligence Unit Research Report (1993) 134 pp., fZ215.00.(Full of interesting historical data but pity a higher priority was not given to the two final chapters‘The Central Forecast’ and ‘Alternative Scenarios’-which only represented 10% of the study).

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Learning continues to be given a high priority, from both individual and structural viewpoints. Speed Tmining: System for Learning in Times of Rapid Change, JIM STEWART, Kogan Page (1993),

192

pp., E9.99, concentrates on improving individual effectiveness; while Higher Education Futures, The Royal Society (1993), 62 pp., t15.50 reviews trends in the UK educational structure. How to improve the whole area of assessment is discussed in Assessing Learners in Higher Education, SWY BROWN and PETER KNIG~, Kogan Page (1994), 161 pp., E16.95. The critical issue of putting learning at the centre of the managerial process is emphasized in Developing Managers as Coaches: A Tminer’s Guide, FRANK S. SALISBURY, McGrawHill (1994), 136 pp., 619.95. This theme is also emphasized in 7&e Learning People Impemtive: Managing for Edited by Continuous Innovation, Harvard Business Howard, Robert Review Book (1993), 310 pp., E26.95. (Brings together 15 recent, valuable, articles from the Harvard Business Review that spell out the logic, organization design, psychological challenges, and key implementation issues of the learning organization.) And The Learning Revolution, GORDON DRYDEN and Dr. Profile Books/ vos, JAccelerated Learning Systems (1994) 512 pp., E12.95. Probably the book of the year that puts learning where it needs and deserves to be. A number of new Journals on the subject have also been launched recently, including Sage Learning, Management Publications (1994) E85.00 (Personal rate E35.00), quarterly. Formerly known Education and Management as Development. The first issues contains a number of very relevant articles in this critical area.

Frontier New In tuition : The of Management, JAGDISH PARIKH with FRIEDRICHN!ZUBALJER and ALDEN LANK, Blackwell Business (1994), 285 pp., E35.00. Book Reviews

Presents a comprehensive conceptual framework for integrative corporate vision as being at the core of effectively managing change; based on a gloabal survey of more than 1300 practising managers in 9 countries-Australia, Brazil, France, India, Japan, Sweden, The Netherlands, UK, and USA. Other texts include : basic management Introduction to Management, RICHARD PFITINGER, Macmillan (1994), 395 pp., E13.99; Organizational Change and the Management of Expertise, J-E WEBB and DAVID CLEXRY,Routledge (1994), 175 pp., E35.00; How to Understand the Financial Press, JOHN ANDREW, Kogan Page (1993), 175 pp., E9.99; 101 Ways to Run Your Business Profitably, STEVE PIF’E, Kogan Page (1993), 128 pp., E7.99; Scared Speechless: Public Speaking Step by Step, REBECCAMCDANIEL,Sage (1994), 197 pp., E12.95; Management Projects: Design, Presentation, PAUL Research and RAIMOND, Chapman and Hall (1993), 192 pp., E15.99; 7&e Successful Boss’s First 100 Days: The Official Guide for the New Boss, RICHARDKOCH, Pitman Publishing (1994), 194 pp., E14.95.

The Future of Services Management, Edited by COLIN &hIISTFAD, Kogan Page (1994), 245 pp., E16.95.

Twelve papers on various aspects of the newly emerging management issues associated with the growth of the service organizations. Again surprisingly little attention to ethics.

The

Business

Plan

Workbook,

BARROW, PAUL BARROW and

BROWN, Kogan Page (1992), edition, 278 pp., E10.95.

Page (1992),

86 pp., E8.99.

Translated

from the German.

Useful analysis of Britain’s macro and micro problems are contained in the of the Social Market publications these include Britain’s Foundation; Borrowing Problem, BILL, ROBINSON (1993), 35 pp., E5.00 and Beyond Next Steps: A Civil Service for the Zlst Century, Sir INTER KEMP, (1993), 45 pp., E8.00. Other organizations that also produce useful booklets on current issues are the European Policy Forum, whose recent publications include The New Local Governance, MICHAELCLARKE, (1994), 42 pp., E7.50 and Policy Studies Future of UK Institute, The and the Role of Competitiveness Policy, KIRSTY HUGHES, Industrial (1993), 252 pp., E17.95. The wider debate about the nature and future of economics has been fuelled by The Death of Economics, PAUL ORMEROD, Faber and Faber (1994), 230 pp., E14.99 (But surprising no reference to such classics as Social Limits to Growth, Fred Hirsch, Routledge and Kegan Paul or Joseph A. Schumpeter, (197% Capitalism, Socialism, and Democmcy, New York: Harper and Row (1942)); Twenty-First Century Capitalism, ROBERT HEILBRONER, UCL Press (19921, 124 pp., E8.95; and The Lang Wave in the World Economy: The Current Crisis in Historical ANDREW T~LEco’r8, Perspective, Routledge (1993) 338 pp., E14.99.

COLIN ROBERT AA&I Project Handbook of second Management, Editor PAUL C. DINSMORE, AMACOM (1993), 489 pp., $85.00.

A basic approach to the successful formulation (and use) of a business plan. While useful brief revision of the strategic issues can be obtained from Basics of a Successful Business Strategy, KERSTIN FRIEDRICH and LOTHARJ. SEIWERT,Kogan

Provides definitive models, advice, and in-depth solutions to specific project management dilemmas. Using contributions from thirty-four experts.

European Business Strategy, GARRISON, ELM publications Third edition, 304 pp., E10.95.

TERRY (1993),

Fourteen contemporary case studies useful for various business studies programmes. A Tutor’s Manual is also available for an additional E59.00. A series of twenty-nine brief cases is also provided in Case Studies in Management, DON PARSONSand STEVE MILLARD,ELM Publications Third Edition (1994), 177 pp., 68.95. (Tutor’s Manual is also available) Another volume horn the same publishers is Mrs. Thatchers Case-book: Studies in Conservative Government Policies in the 1980s, TERRY GARRISON, 439 pp., E12.95, which contains ten cases from De Lorean to the Falkland Islands

The Arthur Anderson North American Business Sourcebook, Triumph Books (1994), 621 pp., E120.00. Provides detailed marketing information on North America, Mexico, United States and Canada. An invaluable source book for anyone operating in those countries. valuable handbooks include Other Handbook of Market Leaders, Extel Financial (1994), 662 pp., E110.00. Updated twice a year. There are also sister volumes on European, Asia Pacific and Smaller Companies. Extensive statistics on the rapidly growing UK Charity Sector is provided in The Henderson Top 2000 Charities: 1994, Hemmington Scott Publishing (1994), 1187 pp., E85.00. A useful analysis of the prospects for twenty-nine Sub-Saharan countries is contained in Adjustment in Africa: Reforms, Results, and the Road Ahead, World Bank/Oxford University Press (1994), 284 pp., E25.00.

Ahead: Human Factors Looking Challenges in a Changing World, RAYMOND s. NICKERSON, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (1992) 450 pp., 659.95.

What are the major future challenges and opportunities facing the human ‘factors’ profession. (The word ‘factors’ seems to be used because the word ‘resources’ is no longer politically correct !) Heavy going, but worth while. More popularist approaches are Global Paradox: The Bigger the World Economy, the More Powerful Its Smallest Players, JOHN NAISBI’IT, Nicholas Brealey (1994), 304 pp., t14.99; Fast Forward: Where Technology, Demogmphics, and History will take America and the World in the next 30 years, RICHARD CARLSON and BRUCE GOLDMAN, Harper Business (1994), 246 pp., $25.00. And fie Great Reckoning: How The World Will Change Before The Year 2000, JAMES DALE DAVIDSON and WILLIAMREES-MOGG,Pan Books (1994), 602 pp., E7.99. All need to be more widely read. Things will only be better in the future if we all demonstrated that we are concerned about it. But it is noticeable that Davidson had plenty of references to power (in the index), and he and Nickerson acknowledge the importance of education, but none of the books mention ‘leadership’ or ‘responsibility’, and the only reference to ‘learning’ is under the entry ‘Learned helplessness’ (Davidson and Nickerson). (But Carlson does have a chapter on Education.) Social change is a vital part of the changing overall picture and some relevant (although largely academic-why is that so often the case?) publications in this area, include: Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group T&king, DAVIDBROMWICH,Yale University Press (1992) 257 pp., E7.50; Parents, Gender and Education Reform, MIRIAM E. DAVID, Polity Press (1993), 256 pp., E12.95 (paper) E45.00 (hard); Mothers and Education: Inside Out? Exploring FamilyEducation Policy and Eqerience, MIRAIM DAVID, ROSALIND EDWARDS, MARY HUGHES and JANE RIBBENS, Macmillan (1993), 241 pp., E9.99; Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture, GARY CROSSc, Routledge (1993) 294 pp., (73 pages of notes), t13.99 and Class and Stratification: An Introduction to Current Debates, ROSEMARYCROMPTON,Polity Press (1993), 231 pp., cl1.95. Social

change interfaces with strategic issues in many areas and one of these is well discussed in Socio-Styles: The New Lifestyles Classification System for Identifng and Targeting Consumers and Markets, BERNARDCATHELAT,Kogan Page (1993), 284 pp., 635.00. (Translated from the French.) Other areas of overlap are Adding Value: Bmnds and marketing in Food and Drink, Edited by GEOFFREY JONES and NICHOLAS J. MORGAN, Routledge (1994), 349 pp., 637.50; and the environment, reflected in the special issue of Development and Change (Development and Environment: Sustaining People and Nature, Editor DHARAMGHAI, Volume 25, number 1, January 1994,) Blackwell Publishers, El02 annual subscription, E13.00 single copy, institutions, ~37.00 and E11.00 respectively for individuals. Gender and ethnic issues also need to be given much greater attention, as reflected in Megatrends for Women: Women are Changing the World, PATRICIAASURD~VE and JOHNNAISBI?T, Arrow Books (1994), 419 pp., E5.99; Women in Management: A Developing Presence, Edited by MORGAN TANTON, Routledge (1994), 253 pp., t37.50 (hard), E14.99 (soft) and Britain’s Ethnic Minorities, mVOR JONES, Policy Studies Institute (1993), 166 pp., ~15.00. (Pity no index.)

Leadership and organizational change issues continue to be the focus of many writers and researchers. The paradox is that there is so much for all of us to learn, yet it is very difficult to say that any of the cascade of publications in the area actually say anything new that is of significance. Yet that does not mean that most of them do not need to be much more widely read-and urgently; particularly by those people concerned with taking strategic decisions that will impact our future. Some of the books that could be mentioned here include: Leadership and the New Science: Learning about Organization from an Orderly Universe, hfARGARr3 J. WHEATLY, Berrett-Koehler (1992), 164

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pp., 618.95 (Using scientific concepts to offer new light on the fundamental issues of organizing work, people and life); The Charisma Factor: How to

is a learning process.) A different approach to understanding teams and teamwork is through the medium of a corporate novel such as Flying Fox: A

Develop

Business

Your Natural

Leadership

Ability,

ROBERTJ. RCHARDSON and S. KATHARINE THAYE~, Prentice-Hall (1993), 292 pp., E13.95; (Starts with: ‘The seeds of charisma reside in all of us’, but little discussion of the role of responsibility, although the final paragraph does argue ‘This enables you not only to realize your own dreams but to help others find theirs.‘) Reawakening The Spirit In Work: The Power of Dharmic Management, JACK HAWJXY, Berrett-Koehler (1992) 212 pp., E19.95; (A practical vision of work permeated with ‘dharma’deep integrity fusing spirit, character, human values and decency. Argues that all leadership is essentially spiritual-anyone who needs reminding that this can take many forms can try The Revenge of God:

Resurgence

7Ie

Christianity

of

and Judaism

Islam,

in the Modern

World, GILLES KEPEL, Polity Press (1994).

215 pp., E39.50 (hard), E11.95 (soft)originally published three years earlier in French). There are also a number of publications in a useful Addison-Wesley OD Series, such as Leading Business How

Teams:

Teams

Can

Use

Adventure

in

Teams

and

and

Organizations: High

Group

Learning

Performance,

Process

How SUSAN

Tools

to

Invent like Edison, DONALD W. BLOHWIAK,Business One Irwin (1992) 248 pp., $30.00; Leadership: Magic, Myth, or Method? J.W. MCLEAN and WILLIAMWEITZEL, AIviACOM(1992), 249 Fools Leaders, and PP.3 $22.95; and

Impostem:

Essays

on the Psychology

of

MANFREDF.R. KETS DE VRIES, Jossey-Bass (1993), 224 pp., E20.95; The Leadership,

Influential Success Your

(1994)

Woman:

in Your

How

to

Career--and

Achieve

Still Enjoy

Life, LEE BRYCE, Piatkus 216 pp., c8.99; Executive Talent:

Personal

How to Identify

and

Develop

The BEST,

that sap life from service organizations: organizational gridlock, or constricted processes; management anorexia, or selfinflicted ignorance; substance addiction to the immediate high of the quick fix; and selective amnesia regarding management failures. Full of relevant, readable and thought-provoking ideas. Similar themes

are

reflected

Organizations:

in

Artistry,

MARC

How of

Dimensions

to Unlock

Executive

the

Six

Potential,

GEORGEW. WATS, Business One Irwin (1992) 208 pp., $20.00; Breokthmughs! How

Leadership

Commercial

and

Innovations

Drive

Create

That Sweep

the

World,

and

bEE G. BOLMAN and TERRENCE E. DEAL, Jossey-Bass (1991),

Leadership,

Power

Vision:

Reframing

Choice,

492 pp., fZ17.95; Evolution Winning

in

Management:

Tomorrow’s

Marketplace,

DER ERVE,

VAN

Butterworth

Heinemann (1994) 272 pp., E25.00 (aims to rejuvenate the performance of evolving organizations by the deliberate creation of chances) and Rethinking The Architecture

the Corporation:

of Change,

TOMASKO, AMACOM

(1993),

ROBERT M. 213 pp.,

$22.95. Other thoughts on the nature of the corporation in the world today, and even

more

impotantly

considered in Tomorrow’s Role

of Business

in

tomorrow,

are

Company:

The

a Changing

World,

Interim Report, Royal Society of Arts (1994), 35 pp., E50.00. A debate that is

ALBERT

MHRMAN

Book Reviews

mers? The author describes four plagues

TOM POTTS and ARNOLD SYKES, Business One Irwin (1993) 247 pp., $32.50;

to Create

and THOMAS G. CUMMINGS, Addison-Wesley (1989), 189pp., E20.95 (Provides developing organizations with a strategy for changing themselves, working the critical assumption change

one soon will be writing your organiza-

tion’s obituary.’ Managing this change Teamwork, JOHN BUTMAN, AMACOM process is so important that it is often an (1993), 214 pp., $19.95. Other useful organization’s USP (unique selling proporeading in this general area includes: sition). But what does that mean in terms Mavericks! How to Lead Your Staff to of delivering a quality product to custoThink like Einstein, Create like da Vinci,

P. RANGANANATHNAYAK and JOHN M. KETTERINGHAM, Mercury Enhance Performance, ROBERTJOHANSEN, (1993) Second Edition, 336 pp., E12.95 DA~III SIBBFX, SUZYN BENSON, ALEXA (Based on the real-life stories of fourteen MARTIN, ROBERT MITTMAN and PAUL very successful products and services.) SAF’FO,Addison-Wesley (1991) 216 pp., 620.95, or the even earlier Self-Designing Technology

One-third of all 1970 Fortune 500 firms disappeared within a decade. Sobering. ‘If you don’t change how you operate, some-

Untangling Strategies

for

Organizo tional

Gridlock:

Building

Customer

a

MICHELE L. BECHTELL, ASQC Quality Press (1993) 347 pp. $27.95.

Focus,

important for us all.

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Long Range Planning Vol. 27

December

1994