Paul S. Myers (Manager, Ernst & Young Centre for Business Innovation, Boston, USA)
This collection of essays examines how the management of an organization shapes the levels of knowledge transfer, innovation and learning. It draws upon 50 years of management thinking and presents issues facing knowledge-intensive organizations with examples from real management experience. 

Edited by D E Hussey, Nottingham Business School.
The implementation of strategy remains one of the most difficult areas of management. Success depends both on the selection of the appropriate strategy and converting that strategy into action. If either of these aspects is deficient, the strategy may fail, or be less effective than it should be. 

John Walker former Head of Communications, Brent LBC
The Society of Local Government Chief Executives and the Local Government Management Board worked with professional PR groups to produce this booklet. It looks at the role of chief executives in communicating with a wide variety of audiences. These include: residents, service recipients, employees, councillors, local media, local government world, other public sector organisations and the business community. 

Belman D, Gunderson M, Hyatt D (Eds)
Studies public sector employment and offers two suggestions for future directions in the rapidly changing system: one emphasizes improving the efficiency of government through innovative practices and a movement away from the bureaucratic, civil service model, while the other stresses cost cutting as an end in itself. 

Strategies for the Practitioner
Edwin Nevis (MIT Sloan School of Management, USA) , Joan Lancourt , Helen Vassallo (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Before leaders can influence change, they must understand our fundamental resistance to it. In this book, the authors argue that because an organization is made up of many different perceptions of reality, there is no single method of influence that is powerful enough to transform an organization. 

Lessons from Management Gurus for Local Government Managers
Alan Fowler
How far can the thinking of great management ‘gurus’ be applied to the UK’s public sector? How can the busy manager learn something about the practical pros and cons of the management concepts promoted by the likes of Tom Peters, Peter Drucker and Charles Handy? Gurus for Government has been written specifically with these questions in mind. 

This book identifies practical approaches to developing costs for public sector services and helps the reader consider may of the dilemmas currently faced by public sector managers. Costing and Pricing Public Sector Services incorporates worked example and solutions and is a valuable reference point to anyone having to undergo costing and pricing exercises for their area of service, especially if those services are being exposed to competition.
HB Publications £16.99 Telephone 0171 428 9001

INNOVATION FOR THE 21ST CENTRURY ORGANISATION
Bob Galliers, Warwick Business School, UK and Walter Baets, Nijenrode University, Netherland.
This book discusses a holistic approach to organisations. It explores alternative organisational forms and work practices, the use and availability of information systems, evolving skill requirements, the innovative power of information technology, the creation of knowledge, and the re-shaping of industrial sectors. Presents forward looking exciting topics. 

2nd edition
Owen Hughes, Professor of Public Sector Management, Monash University, Australia
This book introduces and assesses the principles and theories underlying recent changes in the scope and management of the public sector. The earlier, traditional model of public administration dominant for most of the century is argued to be discredited. 

Clay Carr

This extremely accessible, hands on, practical guide incorporates the ideas and practices of team-based management which have developed since the first highly successful edition was published in 1988. Designed for newly appointed managers and those who want to become managers, it covers such topics as creating successful employee motivation, delegation and communication. Offers new insights on the trenchant management skills including influence and effective problem solving.