The book Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne was published in 2005, with an expanded edition following in 2015. Now a new book Blue Ocean Shift by …
Dear CEO – Thinkers 50
Recently published by Bloomsbury this collection of letters from respected business thinkers makes interesting reading. One piece we enjoyed was by Costas Markides of London Business School, titled “Maximising shareholder …
The Euro and its Threat to the Future of Europe
The Euro and its Threat to the Future of Europe by Joseph E. Stiglitz A few weeks after the referendum on what has become known as Brexit I wandered into …
Black Box Thinking – book review
Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed This is an excellent, highly readable, book and seems to us at MTP to have much relevance for those engaged in management learning. The …
Winners and how they succeed
Alastair Campbell became well known in the UK as Tony Blair’s press advisor during the period before and during the Labour government from 1997 to 2007. He has written a …
The Trouble with Europe – book review
‘The Trouble with Europe’ by Roger Bootle, published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing As I read through this book and considered the author’s increasingly convincing arguments against the European Union, I …
The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time
The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time by Verne Harnish, published by Fortune This is the sort of book that busy managers will appreciate; short, easy to read and providing …
‘Empowered’ – book review
‘Empowered’ by Anne Mulliner, published by Panoma Press I should first of all declare an interest; the author is one of MTP’s associates involved in behavioural skills training. In the …
HBR’s 10 Must Reads – book review
‘HBR’s 10 Must Reads’ published by the Harvard Business ReviewThis is the latest of twelve books in this series, which started over three years ago. It is yet another example …
The Making of Tesco
It was not a good start to read on the cover that the author is from Tesco’s Corporate Affairs team. I was therefore quite surprised to find it to be …