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The Failure Files: Perspectives on Failure by David Hillson 9781908009302
Booksplease Price: £26.10Many of us are afraid of failure and spend our lives trying to avoid it. But society's most high achieving figures would all recognise that failure has been an integral part of their success. The... -
Kittens are Evil: Little Heresies in Public Policy by Charlotte Pell
Booksplease Price: £19.23The 'Little Heresies' seminars provide an important public platform to debate the future of public services. This book takes its title from the first seminar, 'Kittens are Evil', suggesting that what... -
Counter-Tourism: The Handbook: 2016 by Phil Smith 9781908009869
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.00[Economy edition] This is the definitive guide to Counter-Tourism, except that Counter-Tourism has a low opinion of definitive guides. So it's more like an equivocal misguide. It includes dozens of... -
Differences That Make a Difference: An Annotated Glossary of Distinctions Important in Management Russell Ackoff 9781908009012
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Russell Ackoff's long and distinguished career as the doyen of Design and Systems Thinking was built around a collection of deceptively simple - but often overlooked - principles and observations. In... -
Responsibility and Public Services by Richard Davis 9781909470835
Booksplease Price: £19.23Richard Davis is a founding member of Vanguard Consulting in the UK, and has worked with John Seddon for over 25 years. His was a significant role in developing the Vanguard method, which has allowed... -
Kittens Are Evil II: Little Heresies in Public Policy by Charlotte Pell 9781911193777
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911193777Author Charlotte PellFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Triarchy PressPublisher... -
Economies of Life: Patterns of Health and Wealth by Bill Sharpe 9780956263179
Booksplease Price: £14.38Economies of Life argues cogently that there is a 'default assumption that there is only one economy in our lives - the economy which is the one based on money. Our position is that there are many... -
The Mk Myth: A Walkable Novel by Phil Smith 9781911193494
Booksplease Price: £21.69Every place has it stories. But in some places those stories get forgotten and distorted, even tarmacked and concreted over. This is nowhere more true than in Milton Keynes, where the opinions of... -
Soul Moves Sheila Ryan 9781913743970
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £11.46Soul was everywhere in the 60s and 70s. Soul music, soul food, soul sister. I first knew soul in church, where it meant being damned, more or less. Soul music is more about getting on down than... -
Herding Cats Revisited: Being more advice for aspiring academic and research leaders by Geoff Garrett 9781913743352
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £19.23It is well known that, in their professional lives, most academics and researchers will - like cats - seek to exercise as much independence as possible and may display resistance to anything... -
Before the Curtain Opens: Alexander Technique in the Actor's Life: 2018 by Kate Kelly 9781911193432
Booksplease Price: £14.38'Before the Curtain Opens' distils a lifetime's lived experience of the Alexander Technique into an engaging and vivid introduction to what becomes a holistic philosophy of performance.Book... -
Body and Awareness by Sandra Reeve 9781913743000
Booksplease Price: £24.40Our growing understanding of embodied awareness is one of the less known and most extraordinary areas of contemporary research and practice. On one side (the left brain, as it were), neuroscience... -
Herding Professional Cats: Being Advice to Aspiring Leaders in the Professions by Graeme John Davies
Booksplease Price: £17.45In increasingly competitive, 'knowledge worker' environments, people working at all levels prize their freedom and resist direction. The challenging job of leading them can often feel like the... -
Thrivability: Breaking through to a world that works by Jean M. Russell 9781909470286
Booksplease Price: £19.23Jean Russell's inspiring and visionary new book challenges the 'breakdown thinking' that focuses only on defensive reactions to the economic, social, political, and environmental crises we face. In... -
Facing The Fold: Essays on Scenario Planning by James Ogilvy 9781908009227
Booksplease Price: £31.53How do we face the uncertainty and complexity of the future? An overly optimistic perspective can be motivating but easily dismissed as naive or shallow; the pessimistic outlook may be considered to... -
Managing the Future: A Guide to Forecasting and Strategic Planning in the 21st Century by Stephen M. Millett 9781908009487
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.00Equipping your organization for an uncertain future is a daunting task. If you're already over-stretched dealing with the pressures of today - it can seem like an impossible one. But building... -
Humanising Healthcare: Patterns of Hope for a System Under Strain by Margaret Hannah 9781909470446
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.45Healthcare systems across the developed world are in trouble. Changing patterns of disease, an ageing population and advances in drugs and technology feed an inexorable rise in costs outrunning our... -
![Encounters with the "Other": A History and Possibilities: 2018 by Barry Oshry 9781911193487](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/8416350/9452066/9781911193487__20462.1749698303.jpg?c=1 "Encounters with the "Other": A History and Possibilities: 2018 by Barry Oshry 9781911193487")
Encounters with the "Other": A History and Possibilities: 2018 by Barry Oshry 9781911193487
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Barry Oshry explains how genocides occur when cultures meet and demagogues sell us messages of superiority or purity. The two conventional solutions to encountering the "other", Purity and Tolerance,... -
Intelligent Policing: How Systems Thinking Approaches Eclipse Conventional Management Practice by Simon Guilfoyle
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.40Policing is at a crossroads. At a time of unprecedented cuts and increasing levels of demand, the British police service (like many others) faces enormous challenges. Under the most radical reforms... -
Delivering Public Services That Work: The Vanguard Method in the Public Sector: Case Studies: v. 2 by Charlotte Pell 9781908009685
Booksplease Price: £19.23Behind the doom-laden headlines, a quiet revolution is taking place in the public sector. In the police...hospitals...local government...social welfare...costs have been significantly reduced,... -
Body and Performance by Sandra Reeve 9781909470163
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.8512 contemporary approaches to the human body that are being used by performers or in the context of performance training. The second in a series of books entitled: Ways of Being a Body. Following on... -
Language of the Axis Mary O'Donnell Fulkerson 9781913743956
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.45Language of the Axis is a groundbreaking exploration of body awareness and movement. Drawing on her extensive experience as a dancer and teacher, Mary O'Donnell Fulkerson presents a unique approach... -
Walking Stumbling Limping Falling: A Conversation by Alyson Hallett 9781911193067
Booksplease Price: £14.38In a 1934 lecture, Marcel Mauss said: "A kind of revelation came to me in hospital. I was ill in New York. I wondered where previously I had seen girls walking as my nurses walked. I had the time to... -
Managers as Designers in the Public Services: Beyond Technomagic by David Wastell 9781908009319
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Around the world, public services are under pressure from all directions: required to be cheaper, more efficient, more effective, less wasteful, more 'joined-up', more in touch with people's needs,... -
Walking for Creative Recovery: A handbook for creatives, with insights and ideas for supporting your creative life: 2022 by Christina Reading 9781913743543
Booksplease Price: £17.45Sooner or later, most of us get stuck. Feel stuck. Our creativity in crisis... lost, blocked, overwhelmed by work, family, illness. How to find or recover that creative edge? How to get unstuck? ... -
Bank Robbery: The way we create money, and how it damages the world by Ivo Mosley 9781911193647
Booksplease Price: £14.38Our money system is a toxic left-over from a time when theft on a grand scale - war and empire-building - was glorified. Today, we need to move on from a system that allows and encourages the... -
Management F-laws: How Organizations Really Work by Russell L. Ackoff
Booksplease Price: £22.00Russell Ackoff is one of the world's top business brains. Herbert Addison has worked for years in business book publishing. Sally Bibb is a pioneer of organizational change. Who better to zero in on... -
Embodied Lives: Reflections on the Influence of Suprapto Suryodarmo and Amerta Movement Katya Bloom 9781909470323
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.00Since the mid-80s, Prapto's moving/dancing has delighted and inspired thousands of people in the West (as well as many more in his native Java) who have witnessed, worked with or been otherwise... -
Organising and Disorganising: A Dynamic and Non-linear Theory of Institutional Emergence and Its Implications by Michael Thompson 9780955768149
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955768149Author Michael ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Triarchy PressPublisher... -
The Female Face in Patriarchy: Oppression as Culture by Frances O'Connor 9780870134944
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870134944Author Frances O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Michigan State University... -
Delivering Public Services That Work: Vol. 1 by Peter Middleton 9780956263162
Booksplease Price: £19.23In his acclaimed 2008 book "Systems Thinking in the Public Sector", John Seddon blew the whistle on public sector 'reform' and the flawed gospel of quasi-markets, competition, targets and inspection... -
Desire Paths: Real Walks to Nonreal Places by Roy Bayfield 9781911193043
Booksplease Price: £19.23Unpromisingly for a walking book Desire Pathsbegins on a hospital gurney as the author prepares for open heart surgery. Thereafter, it dances back and forth in place and time between an array of... -
The Possibility Wheel: Making better choices in a fractured world Patricia Lustig 9781917251051
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.45This is a practical guide to improved medium-term decision-making for business leaders. The changes that mark the end of the current historic phase of economic growth mean that it's increasingly... -
One Earth Three Worlds: The Pattern that Connects Dreams, Synchronicity, Physics, Homeopathy, Spirituality and Somatics by Julian Carlyon 9781913743659
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.45Mystics of all traditions speak of the unity that lies behind all things. Scientists seek to define the laws that govern matter and energy. But neither approach accounts satisfactorily for the world... -
The Ancient Device Simon O'Sullivan 9781917251013
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.25'The Ancient Device' is the story of four somehow familiar, rather dishevelled, sometimes sympathetic characters: Hare, Fox-Owl, Ribbonhead and King John.We meet this dysfunctional and longing band... -
Imagining After Capitalism Andy Hines 9781917251037
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.00Imagining After Capitalism is the culmination of professional futurist Andy Hines's 10-year exploration of what comes next after capitalism. Drawing on his decades of experience developing foresight... -
Systems Thinking for Curious Managers: With 40 New Management F-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £17.45This gem of a book introduces the extraordinary world of Systems Thinking and its 'Dean', Russell Ackoff, to curious and enquiring managers, teachers, business people - anyone, anywhere who works in... -
Growing Wings on the Way: Systems Thinking for Messy Situations by Rosalind Armson 9781908009364
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £19.54You may be: - trying to fix the healthcare system in your country... - dealing with family break-up... - exploring change - and making it happen - in your organisation... - worrying about how to look... -
Goblin Queens and Qualia Knights: A Guide to Xisting in a Time of Catastrophes Phil Smith 9781913743932
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £11.46A little book of comfort for people who are troubled by the way that life is being hollowed out by digital media, populist politics, hyper-capitalism, AI and so on. It suggests ways to be yourself,... -
Thinking Systems: An Organic Language of Harmony for Human Survival by Robin Asby 9781913743321
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £17.45A guide and exploration for newcomers and experienced Systems Thinkers alike. In Thinking Systems Robin Asby explores Systems Thinking from a process perspective and shows how this perspective...