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Mythogeographer Phil Smith has been walking, exploring, photographing, filming, talking and writing about South Devon for about 20 years. He has absorbed it, and it him. In Anywhere, walking and writing as Cecile Oak (a young PhD student of Symbolist art and performance who is invited to report on a Radical Walking conference in Paignton) Phil offers us an extraordinarily vivid portrait of a small part of South Devon - including Dawlish, Teign...

Silent Music is a 'theoretical' novel that explores through its narrative and the central analogy between love and music, several themes now common to literary theory and interdisciplinary studies working at the intersection of memory studies, psychoanalysis, philosophy, historiography, rhetoric and poststructuralism. The novel, which moves between 1976-1983, and between the Isle of Wight and northern Europe, is a novel about identity and Bein...

Jean Russell's inspiring and visionary book challenges the 'breakdown thinking' that focuses only on defensive reactions to the economic, social, political, and environmental crises we face. Instead she proposes 'breakthrough thinking', which recognizes the gritty reality but enables us to envision and co-create a world of wellbeing and health

Brings together 12 contemporary approaches to the body, all being used by performers or in the context of performance training. These 12 'lenses' share the notion of body as flux and no fixed/determined sense of self. They draw on approaches like Alexander technique, BMC, Feldenkrais, authentic movement.

Of interest to managers, employees, students, and academics alike, this title intends to dissolve some of the many disputes in professional and private life that revolve around meaning and (mis)understanding.

Building on a 1980 essay by psychologist Carl Rogers, the authors consider the qualities and competencies needed by the 'person of tomorrow' to help society navigate complexity in turbulent times.

From analyzing birth rates in India, to a fireside chat with the Queen of Iran, to introducing theme parks to the US, this book collects stories that lay bare the workings of a number of well-known businesses and other organizations - and the people who run them.

Intelligent Policing is a rich resource for those - in the UK and around the world - who care about delivering an effective policing service in the 21st Century. Senior police leaders and policy makers have an ideal opportunity to make lasting improvements today that will resonate throughout policing and leave a positive legacy for the future.

A collection of Systems Thinking tools and techniques explained for use in daily-life situations: Rich Pictures Mental Traps Epistemic Awareness Diagrams Complexity Identifying Themes Snappy Systems System Definitions

This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the environmental body, the cultural body and, finally, the ecological body. Designed to be a guide and stimulus for teachers, students and practitioners of dance, performance, movement, somatics and the arts therapies - and for anyone troubled by the i...

The complete collection of all 122 of Russ Ackoff's Management F/laws.

Estimating your future workforce requirements is an inexact science. But a number of different techniques exist to help you do this, as well as to calculate the state of the labour market in the short to medium-term - and assess any problems or implications that result. This audit will help ensure that you have reliable monitoring and planning systems in place, so that implications for strategic and cost planning can quickly and easily be asse...

Many businesses think of franchising as a way of achieving rapid growth at very low cost. This means that a decision to franchise is a strategic business and a strategic marketing decision. It has major implications for the future of the company.The Franchising Audit explains the different types of franchise, and the advantages, disadvantages, costs and responsibilities associated with each of them. It then sets out a self-assessment framework...

In 2-3 days, using this audit, you can review your whole customer support/after sales programme. Measure "how good" your customer support is - then look deeper and see how well you use it to differentiate your business and to win competitive advantage.Complete the audit and get answers to questions like these about your customer support programme:• How well does it cater for different market segments?• Is it cost effective?• Do you use the bes...

Most organisations have developed pay and benefits policies in a piecemeal way - adjusting them to meet short-term labour demands and the requirements of teamworking and other initiatives. Some other companies have reacted by introducing rigid and inflexible pay and benefits structures. Now you can review your entire reward system with this clear self-assessment auditFirst use the audit to assess the effectiveness of your pay, rewards and bene...

Productivity improvement is increasingly recognised in the service sector - as well as in the manufacturing sector - as the key to performance improvement.This audit outlines why and how managers should carry out productivity assessments. It provides a set of business tools to help define the scope of the audit, the steps to be taken, and the types of situations where an audit may be used.Because every organisation will need to develop a set o...

Joint ventures and strategic partnerships help you move into broader markets, capitalise on technological advances and achieve growth fast. But many fail. This audit will help you strengthen existing partnerships and alliances - to avoid these potential pitfalls - and assess the merits of future alliances that you may be considering.This audit comes in two parts - the first devoted to technology-based alliances in the manufacturing sector, and...

In an age where customer satisfaction is no longer good enough, your organisation must take steps to build absolute customer loyalty. Do you have a CCO (Chief Customer Officer) as well as a CEO and a CFO? If not, should you have one?As customer loyalty becomes the Holy Grail for any successful business, this audit lets you ask: "How loyal are our customers?" and much more important "How well-equipped are we to win and maintain customer loyalty...

This audit is designed to help you understand the full impact of your existing people policies (some of which may never have been formulated as actual policies) and to bring them into line with your overall business strategy. In this way, your people policies will reinforce rather than obstruct the strategic vision and changes that you are trying implement.This process of policy alignment begins with a 30-point questionnaire to assess the leve...

Drawing on the experience of scores of team-based companies, this audit gives you a clear picture of your present position on the 'teamworking spectrum'. Use it to identify problems, target future training, develop Action Plans and set goals for individual teams and for your organisation as a whole.Whether you have a well-established teams framework in your company - or are just starting out - the audit will give you reliable answers to questi...