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 the sort of knowledge that can impress others, both at the dinner table and the Board Meeting.  For the author/editor – well known as a management journalist and speaker – producing such a book must have been a relatively easy task; the hard part was persuading nine different writers to choose two examples of ‘great decisions’.

Half of Business Schools might be gone by 2020

‘Half of Business Schools might be gone by 2020’ by Patrick Clark, Business Week, March 14th 2014
There may be an element of overstatement in the headline but this article contains some valid reasoning and presents a powerful case.  It is meant to refer to US Business Schools but the arguments are equally relevant to the UK and the rest of Europe.  The smaller Business Schools, without the benefit of a strong brand, may fail and the reason is the growth of online learning.

‘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 past however our staff and associates have found out that such a status does not persuade me to be kind in my reviews; on the contrary it makes me expect more.  There is also the point that, of all the types of books that I am likely to be hard on, those of the ‘touchy feely’ variety are at the front.  And there is no doubt that there is a lot of touch and feel about Anne’s approach in this book.