Bookstore Business Executive | February 2012 | PAGE 23 Books received


The CEO’s Strategy Handbook H


Stuart Cross Global Professional Publishing 204 pgs, £19.99, pb ISBN: 978 190640 3669


This book focuses on helping CEOs fulfil their role in leading strategy. It gives them provocative insights and pragmatic advice to setting strategy, leading the process, and turning winning strategies into


good results. The book’s ideas make strategy come to life; this can deliver consistent dramatic and sustainable success. The CEO’s Strategy Handbook is a practical


guide to help smash though the myth that strategy is difficult and complicated. The author insists that it is a tool to help companies find new ways to drive substantial, profitable growth. This book is a well-timed initiative for those CEOs who want to act differently, grow their business and lead from the front. The book includes case studies, self-tests,


interviews with leading CEOs, charts, frameworks and action plans to help bring the ideas alive for the readers.


Global Careers H


Michael Dickmann & Yehuda Baruch Routledge, 320 pgs, £31.99, pb ISBN: 978 041544 6280


This book is a neat follow-up of the leading article in our November 2011 issue, Global Cosmopolitans, because global careers are certainly not a new


phenomenon. Current career paths display many variations: migrants, foreign workers, traditional expatriates, globe-trotters, those on a “gap year”, diplomats, or permanently mobile international workers. The increase in


globalisation has meant that many economies have benefited from global manufacturing, services, trade and consumption. Expatriates clearly perform crucial activities for wealth creation and development. But there is insufficient understanding about the processes involved. Labour markets are more global than they have ever been, although there are restrictions. There is ever increasing interest in the


global management of talent. Understanding the issues around global careers is crucial for both students and managers. From an individual career perspective, becoming an effective expatriate global manager could be an important skill that an executive needs to have. The book details broad research over diverse motivations, experiences, and outcomes of international work in global organisations. Global Careers is essential reading for all those studying or concerned with career management in international business.


Future Work H


Alison Maitland & Peter Thomson Palgrave Macmillan, 176 pgs, £18.99, hb ISBN: 978 023028 4227


The way we work is overdue for change. The new workforce wants a fresh deal. Companies have the tools to give employees more freedom over how they work. This contributes to a greener economy.


However, many organisations are slow to realise this, staying with the old model of fixed working time and presence. This is bad for business. Trusting people to manage their own


working lives, whether individually or in teams, pays off. Measuring and rewarding people by results rather than hours, gets higher productivity, more motivated workers, better customer service, and lower costs. Future Work sets out a strong case for a change in organisational cultures and working practices. It explains why:


Books reviewed


Understanding Michael Porter HHH Joan Magretta Harvard Business Review Press


Winning at Innovation H The A-to-F Model Fernando Trías de Bes & Philip Kotler Palgrave Macmillan


The Ascent of Media HH From Gilgamesh to Google via Gutenberg Roger Parry Nicholas Brealey Publishing


Pushing the envelope HH Making sense out of business jargon Caroline Taggart Michael O’Mara Books Ltd.


The Price of Fish HH A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better Decisions Michael Mainelli & Ian Harris Nicholas Brealey Publishing


The CEO’s Strategy Handbook H Stuart Cross Global Professional Publishing


Global Careers H Michael Dickmann & Yehuda Baruch Routledge


Future Work H Alison Maitland & Peter Thomson Palgrave Macmillan


Start It Up H H n


Why running your own business is easier than you think Luke Johnson Portfolio Penguin


Great Companies Deserve Great Boards H A CEO’s guide to the Boardroom Beverly Behan Palgrave Macmillan


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