Kakabadse A, Kakabadse NBrings a practical edge to leadership theory. 

Until now the Cinderella of the education make-up of England and Wales, further education has now discovered its role in Labour’s modernised service.FE colleges will be at the heart of the drive to meet the skills and productivity challenge of the new economy.
David Blunkett has unveiled a three-part plan involving investment of 100 million pounds over three years for colleges to become regionally and nationally recognised vocational centres of excellence in their chosen specialist areas. 

New figures show that regional inequality may be enhanced rather than reduced by new technology.The phrase ‘north-south divide’ may well be superseded by ‘digital divide’ to denote those areas where business start-ups and e-commerce capability is booming, and those where it is not.
The new divide is not as easy to define geographically, with different areas of London for instance proving to have startlingly different levels of growth.