Product Description: Strategic management is widely seen as essential to the public services, leading to better performance and better outcomes for the public. In fact, the private sector idea of strategic management has become so powerful in the public sector that politicians and policy makers have begun to talk about the importance of the modern state being strategic – and we may be witnessing the emergence of the Strategic State...read more

Product Description: Suburban Hiss is a personal exploration of what's meaningful, what's resonant, and what's left after suburbia takes its toll.

Product Description: GARY ABLETT was always a fighter. As a football-mad kid growing up on Merseyside he dreamed of pulling on the famous red shirt of Liverpool Football Club. His determination to succeed made his dream came true - but the real battle had only just begun...read more

Product Description: In turbulent times, strategic leadership of public services becomes ever more important. Strategic leaders are steering their organizations into a new relationship with the public, often in conditions of intensified competition between public services providers and thus the quality of leadership they offer is critical...read more

Product Description: Using international case study material, this book examines how ideas of visionary leadership have been developed and discusses their applicability to the public sector. The book covers: the tensions that can arise between administrative/bureaucratic traditions and the leadership styles required today the relationship between political leadership and organizational leadership different approaches that have been adopted by public service leaders in organizations around the globe and their level of success the extent to which existing theories of leadership are appropriate for a new management context...read more

Product Description: Strategic management continues to grow in popularity in both universities and business schools. The reason for the discipline's success is that it works: this is reflected in how widely it has become established in all sectors of the global economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The public sector is experiencing tremendous pressure for strategic change. Governments in many countries require public sector managers to be more responsive to the public and to deliver more value with constrained budgets. Members of the public also face change, and look to their public sector organisations to provide efficient and high quality service, while adapting their activities in a complex and dynamic world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is an introduction to the theory and practice of strategic management in the public sector. It provices an understanding of the theory of strategic management, introduces ideas which guide the effective practice of strategic management in the public services, and gives conceptual tools and material which can be used for planning and analysis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Beginning Old Testament Study introduces beginners to biblical scholarship in clear language and readable style. The authors, all leading international academicians, focus on key issues for Old Testament study, raising questions that students will be bound to encounter as they move forward in their studies, including history, theology, ethics, method, worldview, and the relationship of Old Testament to New...read more

Product Description: Essential Strategic Management presents straightforward and concise explanations of the essential concepts, research findings and theories which are to be found in the strategic management field. This book recognises the complex, changing and diverse nature of the theory and practice of strategic management...read more

The visionary photographer recalls the beginnings of his interest in photography, and the origins of his photocollage technique and offers his thoughts on the history and the future of photography