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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are handed a management title and nothing else. No handbook, no course, no handover. The Chartered Management Institute puts the number at eight in ten UK managers who were never trained for the role they now hold. The research is British, but the condition it documents isn't. The same untrained promotion happens in Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, and every other English-language workplace this book will reach. Publishing has answered this gap for decades with two products: the 400-page leadership tome written for people who already run divisions, and the fluffy "guide" that flatters more than it instructs. Neither reaches the person this book is actually for. Picture the newly promoted team lead standing outside a difficult conversation at 4:45pm, with no idea how to start it.There is a third failure mode, and it's the quieter one: most of what already sits on that shelf was written for a workplace that no longer exists. The management canon in wide circulation today is still built on ideas from the early-to-mid twentieth century: Taylor's scientific management, the org chart as a chain of command, the assumption that authority flows one way and loyalty is owed rather than earned. That model assumed a stable hierarchy, a captive workforce, and a manager whose job was to enforce compliance. None of those assumptions hold in 2026, in any of the markets this book reaches. Teams are hybrid or fully remote. Authority is distributed, not handed down. People ask why before they do what they're told, and a manager who can't answer that question loses the room, not just the argument.The Compact Management Book was not adapted from a hundred-year-old management canon. It was built from the ground up for the manager operating inside it right now. It is grounded in the argument that command-and-control management has failed the people underneath it, and it translates that argument into twenty-eight short, direct chapters, each addressing one problem a manager actually faces this week, not one a business school assumed they'd face in 1955. It is built to be used, not admired: one problem per chapter, each readable in the time it takes to finish a coffee.It never speaks in the register of the theory it's grounded in. It speaks in the register of the manager who has a shift to run in twenty minutes, wherever in the world that shift happens to be. That's the real difference this book is built on: not management theory, not management as it was practised in an economy that no longer exists. Management, actually, for the world as it stands in 2026. Ditch outdated command-and-control theories for a modern toolkit designed for the real world. This practical book offers rapid, bite-sized solutions for leaders navigating today's hybrid and distributed workplaces. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. How do leaders make sound decisions when information is abundant, AI is accelerating, uncertainty remains, and consequences can close the available options?Decision Before Consequence develops a practical executive architecture for turning signals and information into validated intelligence, accountable judgement, timely decision, controlled action and adaptation. Its central framework, the Executive Intelligence Pipeline, follows the sequence Signal Validation Interpretation Escalation Decision Action Adaptation.The book addresses a central weakness in contemporary organisations: being information-rich does not necessarily mean being decision-ready. Dashboards, reports, risk registers, forecasts and AI-generated outputs can increase visibility while still leaving leaders strategically late. The problem is not simply access to information. It is the disciplined conversion of information into judgement and action before consequence becomes irreversible.Across seventeen chapters, the book examines intelligence grading, uncertainty, continuous sensing, interpretive authority, strategic warning, governance, decision survivability, boundary conditions, trade-off ownership and distributed judgement. It also develops AI-era disciplines including the Jagged Frontier Governance Principle, the Production-to-Decision Gap and the Human Return Point, which identifies where accountable human authority must explicitly return before AI-supported work becomes consequence-bearing.Practical diagnostic tools, doctrine boxes, figures, tables and case-method exercises translate the analysis into usable executive disciplines. The Decision Laboratory Method trains readers to judge before the outcome is known rather than relying on hindsight after consequence has revealed the answer.Written for executives, boards, senior managers, risk and security professionals, resilience and continuity leaders, AI governance teams, policy practitioners and leadership educators, Decision Before Consequence is designed for readers working where uncertainty, speed, authority and consequence meet.The book does not promise perfect foresight. It provides a disciplined framework for deciding responsibly while meaningful choice still exists. A rigorous executive guide to turning information and AI output into validated intelligence, accountable judgement, timely decisions and adaptive action before consequences close the options. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - SAMSONThe Past Is Inherited. The Future Is Chosen.Fifteen-year-old Samson Ndlovu Zondi has buried his parents, lost almost everything his family owned, and inherited responsibility for three younger brothers.Then the rumours begin.People say the Zondi children have AIDS. Friends turn against them. Adults keep their distance. Even the church that once stood beside the family begins to treat the boys as something dangerous.Samson has no money, almost no food and no adult willing to carry the burden for him. Yet hunger is not the greatest threat facing the brothers.Around them lies a world in which fear can become fact, religion can become power, charity can become opportunity, and vulnerable children can become useful symbols in somebody else's campaign for money, influence or moral authority.Set in rural KwaZulu-Natal in 1996, Samson follows a young boy forced to become protector, provider and decision-maker long before he is ready. His world is shaped by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the wounds left by apartheid, Zulu family and cultural traditions, political violence, old accusations and grievances passed from one generation to the next.But Samson is not simply a novel about poverty or suffering.It asks a harder question.What happens when a child inherits the hatred of adults Samson must decide whether the wrongs committed against his family will determine the man he becomes. Along the way he encounters loyalty where he expected betrayal, prejudice within himself as well as others, and people whose kindness forces him to reconsider what he believes he knows.This is a story about courage, but not the easy kind. It is about the courage to protect others, to question accepted truths, to admit when you are wrong, and to resist becoming what has hurt you.Written for young people, parents and adult readers alike, Samson combines a fast-moving coming-of-age story with questions that remain deeply relevant: stigma, misinformation, exploitation, responsibility, prejudice, institutional hypocrisy and the moral cost of inherited hatred.Readers of the original 2015 edition praised its authenticity, vivid portrayal of rural KwaZulu-Natal and its ability to hold attention from beginning to end.Some inherit land.Some inherit wealth.Samson inherits grief, responsibility and unfinished battles.What he chooses to carry forward will determine everything.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are handed a management title and nothing else. No handbook, no course, no handover. The Chartered Management Institute puts the number at eight in ten UK managers who were never trained for the role they now hold. The research is British, but the condition it documents isn't. The same untrained promotion happens in Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, and every other English-language workplace this book will reach. Publishing has answered this gap for decades with two products: the 400-page leadership tome written for people who already run divisions, and the fluffy 'guide' that flatters more than it instructs. Neither reaches the person this book is actually for. Picture the newly promoted team lead standing outside a difficult conversation at 4:45pm, with no idea how to start it.There is a third failure mode, and it's the quieter one: most of what already sits on that shelf was written for a workplace that no longer exists. The management canon in wide circulation today is still built on ideas from the early-to-mid twentieth century: Taylor's scientific management, the org chart as a chain of command, the assumption that authority flows one way and loyalty is owed rather than earned. That model assumed a stable hierarchy, a captive workforce, and a manager whose job was to enforce compliance. None of those assumptions hold in 2026, in any of the markets this book reaches. Teams are hybrid or fully remote. Authority is distributed, not handed down. People ask why before they do what they're told, and a manager who can't answer that question loses the room, not just the argument.The Compact Management Book was not adapted from a hundred-year-old management canon. It was built from the ground up for the manager operating inside it right now. It is grounded in the argument that command-and-control management has failed the people underneath it, and it translates that argument into twenty-eight short, direct chapters, each addressing one problem a manager actually faces this week, not one a business school assumed they'd face in 1955. It is built to be used, not admired: one problem per chapter, each readable in the time it takes to finish a coffee.It never speaks in the register of the theory it's grounded in. It speaks in the register of the manager who has a shift to run in twenty minutes, wherever in the world that shift happens to be. That's the real difference this book is built on: not management theory, not management as it was practised in an economy that no longer exists. Management, actually, for the world as it stands in 2026.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are handed a management title and nothing else. No handbook, no course, no handover. The Chartered Management Institute puts the number at eight in ten UK managers who were never trained for the role they now hold. The research is British, but the condition it documents isn't. The same untrained promotion happens in Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, and every other English-language workplace this book will reach. Publishing has answered this gap for decades with two products: the 400-page leadership tome written for people who already run divisions, and the fluffy "guide" that flatters more than it instructs. Neither reaches the person this book is actually for. Picture the newly promoted team lead standing outside a difficult conversation at 4:45pm, with no idea how to start it.There is a third failure mode, and it's the quieter one: most of what already sits on that shelf was written for a workplace that no longer exists. The management canon in wide circulation today is still built on ideas from the early-to-mid twentieth century: Taylor's scientific management, the org chart as a chain of command, the assumption that authority flows one way and loyalty is owed rather than earned. That model assumed a stable hierarchy, a captive workforce, and a manager whose job was to enforce compliance. None of those assumptions hold in 2026, in any of the markets this book reaches. Teams are hybrid or fully remote. Authority is distributed, not handed down. People ask why before they do what they're told, and a manager who can't answer that question loses the room, not just the argument.The Compact Management Book was not adapted from a hundred-year-old management canon. It was built from the ground up for the manager operating inside it right now. It is grounded in the argument that command-and-control management has failed the people underneath it, and it translates that argument into twenty-eight short, direct chapters, each addressing one problem a manager actually faces this week, not one a business school assumed they'd face in 1955. It is built to be used, not admired: one problem per chapter, each readable in the time it takes to finish a coffee.It never speaks in the register of the theory it's grounded in. It speaks in the register of the manager who has a shift to run in twenty minutes, wherever in the world that shift happens to be. That's the real difference this book is built on: not management theory, not management as it was practised in an economy that no longer exists. Management, actually, for the world as it stands in 2026. Ditch outdated command-and-control theories for a modern toolkit designed for the real world. This practical book offers rapid, bite-sized solutions for leaders navigating today's hybrid and distributed workplaces. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are handed a management title and nothing else. No handbook, no course, no handover. The Chartered Management Institute puts the number at eight in ten UK managers who were never trained for the role they now hold. The research is British, but the condition it documents isn't. The same untrained promotion happens in Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, and every other English-language workplace this book will reach. Publishing has answered this gap for decades with two products: the 400-page leadership tome written for people who already run divisions, and the fluffy "guide" that flatters more than it instructs. Neither reaches the person this book is actually for. Picture the newly promoted team lead standing outside a difficult conversation at 4:45pm, with no idea how to start it.There is a third failure mode, and it's the quieter one: most of what already sits on that shelf was written for a workplace that no longer exists. The management canon in wide circulation today is still built on ideas from the early-to-mid twentieth century: Taylor's scientific management, the org chart as a chain of command, the assumption that authority flows one way and loyalty is owed rather than earned. That model assumed a stable hierarchy, a captive workforce, and a manager whose job was to enforce compliance. None of those assumptions hold in 2026, in any of the markets this book reaches. Teams are hybrid or fully remote. Authority is distributed, not handed down. People ask why before they do what they're told, and a manager who can't answer that question loses the room, not just the argument.The Compact Management Book was not adapted from a hundred-year-old management canon. It was built from the ground up for the manager operating inside it right now. It is grounded in the argument that command-and-control management has failed the people underneath it, and it translates that argument into twenty-eight short, direct chapters, each addressing one problem a manager actually faces this week, not one a business school assumed they'd face in 1955. It is built to be used, not admired: one problem per chapter, each readable in the time it takes to finish a coffee.It never speaks in the register of the theory it's grounded in. It speaks in the register of the manager who has a shift to run in twenty minutes, wherever in the world that shift happens to be. That's the real difference this book is built on: not management theory, not management as it was practised in an economy that no longer exists. Management, actually, for the world as it stands in 2026. Ditch outdated command-and-control theories for a modern toolkit designed for the real world. This practical book offers rapid, bite-sized solutions for leaders navigating today's hybrid and distributed workplaces. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. How do leaders make sound decisions when information is abundant, AI is accelerating, uncertainty remains, and consequences can close the available options?Decision Before Consequence develops a practical executive architecture for turning signals and information into validated intelligence, accountable judgement, timely decision, controlled action and adaptation. Its central framework, the Executive Intelligence Pipeline, follows the sequence Signal Validation Interpretation Escalation Decision Action Adaptation.The book addresses a central weakness in contemporary organisations: being information-rich does not necessarily mean being decision-ready. Dashboards, reports, risk registers, forecasts and AI-generated outputs can increase visibility while still leaving leaders strategically late. The problem is not simply access to information. It is the disciplined conversion of information into judgement and action before consequence becomes irreversible.Across seventeen chapters, the book examines intelligence grading, uncertainty, continuous sensing, interpretive authority, strategic warning, governance, decision survivability, boundary conditions, trade-off ownership and distributed judgement. It also develops AI-era disciplines including the Jagged Frontier Governance Principle, the Production-to-Decision Gap and the Human Return Point, which identifies where accountable human authority must explicitly return before AI-supported work becomes consequence-bearing.Practical diagnostic tools, doctrine boxes, figures, tables and case-method exercises translate the analysis into usable executive disciplines. The Decision Laboratory Method trains readers to judge before the outcome is known rather than relying on hindsight after consequence has revealed the answer.Written for executives, boards, senior managers, risk and security professionals, resilience and continuity leaders, AI governance teams, policy practitioners and leadership educators, Decision Before Consequence is designed for readers working where uncertainty, speed, authority and consequence meet.The book does not promise perfect foresight. It provides a disciplined framework for deciding responsibly while meaningful choice still exists. A rigorous executive guide to turning information and AI output into validated intelligence, accountable judgement, timely decisions and adaptive action before consequences close the options. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. THE COMPACT MANAGEMENT BOOK | For New Managers, Team Leads and People Leaders | Danie Adendorff | Taschenbuch | Management Actually | Englisch | 2026 | WDA PUBLISHING | EAN 9781066801145 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. How do leaders make sound decisions when information is abundant, AI is accelerating, uncertainty remains, and consequences can close the available options?Decision Before Consequence develops a practical executive architecture for turning signals and information into validated intelligence, accountable judgement, timely decision, controlled action and adaptation. Its central framework, the Executive Intelligence Pipeline, follows the sequence Signal Validation Interpretation Escalation Decision Action Adaptation.The book addresses a central weakness in contemporary organisations: being information-rich does not necessarily mean being decision-ready. Dashboards, reports, risk registers, forecasts and AI-generated outputs can increase visibility while still leaving leaders strategically late. The problem is not simply access to information. It is the disciplined conversion of information into judgement and action before consequence becomes irreversible.Across seventeen chapters, the book examines intelligence grading, uncertainty, continuous sensing, interpretive authority, strategic warning, governance, decision survivability, boundary conditions, trade-off ownership and distributed judgement. It also develops AI-era disciplines including the Jagged Frontier Governance Principle, the Production-to-Decision Gap and the Human Return Point, which identifies where accountable human authority must explicitly return before AI-supported work becomes consequence-bearing.Practical diagnostic tools, doctrine boxes, figures, tables and case-method exercises translate the analysis into usable executive disciplines. The Decision Laboratory Method trains readers to judge before the outcome is known rather than relying on hindsight after consequence has revealed the answer.Written for executives, boards, senior managers, risk and security professionals, resilience and continuity leaders, AI governance teams, policy practitioners and leadership educators, Decision Before Consequence is designed for readers working where uncertainty, speed, authority and consequence meet.The book does not promise perfect foresight. It provides a disciplined framework for deciding responsibly while meaningful choice still exists. A rigorous executive guide to turning information and AI output into validated intelligence, accountable judgement, timely decisions and adaptive action before consequences close the options. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…