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Offers the manager a lively and practical strategy for understanding and undertaking a programme of self development
This accessible guide to leadership encourages the reader to proactively develop themselves, their colleagues and their organisation.
A comparative and trans-national study of urban culture in Britain and the United States from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century Using the industrial cities of Manchester and Chicago as case studies, this book traces the idea of "citizenship" across different areas of local life in the first half of the twentieth century - from philosophy and festivals to historical re-enactment and public housing. Coalitions of voluntary associations, municipal government and local elites lambasted modern urban culture as the cause of social disintegration. But rather than simply decanting the population to new and smaller settlements they tried to re-imagine a reformed city as a place that could ...
"A practical self development guide that will help new and experienced managers meet key leadership tasks and challenges." - cover.
A book designed to help managers achieve self-development. The book provides both a range and depth of information on self-development, which it clearly states is no easy option. Includes a range of methods for self-assessment.
Thomas Coram is forever identified with the foundling hospital he established in 1739. This, however, came near the end of his life: previous records seemed few and far between until Gillian Wagner began to look at the scarce but intriguing evidence for his earlier career. As a young man Coram went to Massachusetts, where he stayed for ten years building ships in Boston and Taunton, working to further the spread of Anglicanism. He returned to England disappointed and heavily in debt. Surviving this early setback, he slowly secured for himself a place within English society through his championing of further settlements to exploit America's natural resources, and his characteristic support fo...
A comparative reading of the "literary" works of Thomas Walsingham, highlighting his reaction to contemporary historical events.
Organizational developers, management developers, senior to middle managers, consultants.