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BOOKS FOR SALE

The following books are available:

Title

Price

"Corporate DNA: Using Organizational Memory to improve poor decision-making". Released by Gower Publishing, this explains why institution-specific experience should be better managed, can be better managed and, particularly, how it can be used to help organizations reduce the pandemic of repeated mistakes, reinvented wheels and other unlearned lessons that litter modern business life.

Link to Gower Publishing website

£40

“Corporate Amnesia” This is an e-version as a download over the internet. The hard cover version is available through all good booksellers, price $35 or £22.

£10 as an e-book

“Conversion to PLC”, the story of how Abbey National converted from a building society to a bank.

(Pencorp ISBN 1 870092 03 1)

£12.00 incl p/p

“The Readymixers”, the story of the Ready Mixed Concrete group, the world’s largest supplier of ready mixed concrete and Europe's biggest producer of building material aggregates.

(Pencorp ISBN 1 870092 00 7)

£12.00 incl p/p

“Long Lease!”, the story of Slough Estates, the pioneer of industrial estates.

(Pencorp ISBN 1 870092 01 3)

£12.00 incl p/p

“Dig It, Burn It, Sell It”, the story of Ibstock Johnsen, one of the largest suppliers of facing bricks in the UK.

(Pencorp ISBN 1 870092 01 5)

£12.00 incl p/p

PUBLISHED WORK AVAILABLE FROM OTHER SOURCES

The following can obtained by contacting the stated publishers, who will normally be able to provide you with back copies of their journal.

The articles include:

.... on History as a Management Tool

"Rethinking Corporate and Business History"
Paper for University of Nottingham Business School, November 2001 (United Kingdom)
(www.nottingham.ac.uk/BusinessHistory)

"The Evidence of Experience in Corporate Culture; Biography, Corporate History and Organisational Memory"
Conference Paper, American Culture Association (USA), 2002.

..... on Management Development

“Swing Doors and Musical Chairs.”
Business Horizons, May/June 1999 (United Kingdom)

“Managing Organisational Memory (OM); The New Competitive Imperative.”
Organization Development Journal, Volume 18, Number 1, Spring 2000 (United Kingdom)

..... on Corporate Amnesia

"Corporate Amnesia "
World Review, Volume 3 Number 1, 1998 (United Kingdom)

"Corporate Amnesia: Keeping Know-how in the Company "
Butterworth Heinemann - ISBN 0 7506 3949 0 (United Kingdom)

"Forgetting the lessons of corporate history "
Strategy, July 1998 (United Kingdom)

....on better Decision Making

"Productivity – The New Corporate Imperative’’
Paper for University of Nottingham Business School, November 2001 (United Kingdom)
(www.nottingham.ac.uk/BusinessHistory)

“Better decision-making for New Zealand Managers”
NZ Management, February 2003 (New Zealand)

“How to get from ‘A’ to ‘B’ without going via ‘Z’”
Knowledge Management, February 2003 (United Kingdom)

..... on Succession Planning

"Succession planning in a fast-changing world"
Management Decision, DECISION, Volume 34, No 2, 1996 (United Kingdom)

"Exit interviews as an induction tool."
Management Development Review, Vol 8 Number 2, 1995 (United Kingdom)

"Succession planning."
Training Officer, March 1995 (United Kingdom)

"Job losses and the alzheimer effect"
The Guardian (Management Page), October 12, 1996
(United Kingdom)

"History sacrificed on the alter of downsizing."
The European, September 19-25, 1997 (United Kingdom)

"Lest we forget ...."
The Observer, January 8, 1995 (United Kingdom)

"Succession planning in a fast-changing world."
Accountancy, April, 1998 (United Kingdom)

“The debriefing solution to industry’s musical chairs”.
NZ Management, January, 2003 (New Zealand)

..... on Organisational Learning

"Keep know-how in the company"
Financial Times (Management Page), July 31 1996
(United Kingdom)

"Using the benefits of hindsight."
The Learning Organization, Volume 3, Number 1, 1996 (USA)

"The Learning Audit."
Internal Auditing, August 1996 (United Kingdom)

"The role of post-project analysis."
Managerial Auditing, Volume 11, Number 4, 1996
(United Kingdom)

"Fight organizational memory relapse."
Workforce, September, 1997 (USA)

"Making acquisitions work by the book."
Personnel Management, May, 1993 (United Kingdom)

"A history lesson"
Accountancy Age, April 1993 (United Kingdom)

"The benefits of hindsight."
ProjectPro, Volume 7, No 5, September 1997 (South Africa)

“You’ve not had 30 years’ experience, you’ve had one year’s experience 30 times.”
Knowledge Management, May 1999 (United Kingdom)

“Learning to make work work.”
Knowledge Management Review, Issue 9, July/August 1999 (United Kingdom)

“Knowledge Management’s role in experiential learning.”
Liberating Knowledge Guide, CBI, October 1999
(United Kingdom)

..... on Empowerment

"Ironing out the learning curve."
Financial Mail, March 7, 1997 (South Africa)

"Empowerment and affirmative action. Using role models of South African business to show the way."
Boardroom, June 1997

"Using knowledge preservation to maintain the skills base."
Management Today, April 1997

....on Job Creation

“SA needs more entrepreneurs”
Business Report, October 4 2001 (South Africa)

....on Business Growth

“The rear-view mirror that can transform British industry”
Business History News, March 2000 (United Kingdom)

“Helping New Zealand break out of its cottage industry mindset”
NZ Management, February 2003 (New Zealand)

....on the Impact of Not Learning from Experience at the Political Level

“Zimbabwe has much to learn”
Jerusalem Post, June 23 2000 (Israel)

“The price of not learning the lessons of history”
Zimbabwe Independent, June 9 2000 (Zimbabwe)

“A classic case of bad succession planning”
Daily News, June 8 2000 (Zimbabwe)

“Management tools to shorten the timeline out of poverty”
Zimbabwe Independant, July 21 2000 (Zimbabwe)

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