This text highlights the best ways managers, firms and societies can adapt to exploit the opportunities and avoid the dangers inherent with change. It examines how the 21st century will appear to managers and corporations and what they will have to do to be winners. Based around the Institute of Management's Management in the Millennium Report by Tom Cannon, which identifies the nine main paradoxes facing managers in the 21st century, the book shows how these paradoxes will affect the business of companies and the lives of managers.
PROFESSOR TOM CANNON is the Chief Executive of Management Charter Initiative. He is also the Chairman of MDE Services, and the Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Commerce at Gresham College, as well as visiting Professor of Business at Kingston University. He holds non-executive directorships in a number of UK companies.
Earlier in his career, he was Director of Manchester Business School and was founding Professor and Head of Business Management at Skirling University. Earlier appointments included the Universities of Durham, Middle sex and Warwick, and marketing management posts in consumer and industrial goods companies. He was the Founding Director of the Scottish Enterprise Foundation and the International Institute for Corporate Responsibility.
He has strong links with policy makers in government and industry in the UK and the EU as well as Australia, New Zealand, the USA, CIS, India and Pakistan. His consultancy includes work in Britain, Europe and the USA for firms such as Virgin, IBM, Shell, ICI, Mirror Group Newspapers, Burson-Marsteller and Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. He was joint Chair of the Institute of Management's Management Development to the Millennium study in 1994.
He makes regular contributions in all areas of the media. This includes the best selling Guinness Book of Business Records, and How to Get Ahead in Business for Virgin Publishing, 14 other books notably Women as Entrepreneurs and Corporate Responsibility: Issues in Business Ethics, Governance and the Environment, besides almost a hundred academic and professional papers largely in the fields of marketing, enterprise development and innovation. He broadcasts on TV and radio and also writes for national and international newspapers and magazines.