Members' Publications

How to be a brilliant community-based business adviser
based on the SFEDI core National Occupational Business Support Standards
By Dean Maragh
The needs of aspiring and existing entrepreneurs are addressed in this handbook for business support professionals. Practical suggestions are provided to assist entrepreneurs into the wider business community. It provides the adviser with a useful toolkit and includes templates, practical tips and checklists on how to get the best out of people in order to have a successful enterprise.
To purchase a copy (£37.50), please call Diane Dubois on 0800 068 0897 / 0114 249 9563

Manufacturing Improvement Consulting Projects: a Series of Various Case Studies by Brian Burgess

This book contains a number of successful case studies involving Lean Manufacturing, Just in Time Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance, and Project Management.

"Manufacturing as a sector has been unfashionable as a national economic pastime for some 30 years, no less reflected in the academic attention it has received in many HE institutions. As the UK national enthusiasm for 'making things' begins a widespread if not hesitant recovery, Brian Burgess's book is a timely encouragement for both those at the sharp end, production and manufacturing engineers on the factory floor, but also for those who would make serious study of the subject. Whilst having broad relevance across the discipline, it does fill a number of gaps in the literature coverage with unique insight in a number of cases. This text should have a prominent place both as a reference in the workplace and the reading list of any university course purporting to prepare engineering students for a career in manufacturing." Dr Paul W. Shelton FIMMM, C.Eng Assistant Dean, University of Teeside.

To purchase a copy, click here

Peter F. Drucker by Peter Starbuck

A detailed account of the life and works of eminent management ‘guru’ Peter Drucker is provided here. Beginning with Drucker’s early schooldays in Vienna at the turn of the 20th Century, the author charts the formation and development of Drucker’s ideas including his Management by Objectives (MbO) approach. The text concludes at the end of Drucker’s life, highlighting the significant impact and contribution his ideas have had upon the discipline of management.

The formative European influences that shaped the thinking of Peter Ferdinand Drucker and how they manifest themselves in his later ideas by Peter Starbuck

A thesis submitted for the award of a Doctor of Philosophy Degree is presented. The influences which shaped the thinking of Peter F Drucker during his formative years in Austria and Germany and the interim period in England from 1933 to 1937 are examined. Separate sections consider the evolution of Drucker's view on ethics, society and economics and the process by which Drucker's ideas on management evolved is explained. Thinkers covered include: Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Frederich Stahl, de Tocqueville, John Maynard Keynes and Schumpeter.

Grants Management in Wales - report prepared by Huw Vaughan Thomas, Auditor General for Wales assisted by Nick Davies, Jayne Elms, Sue Morgan and Chris Pugh under the direction of Mike Usher.

The report is available free of charge from the Wales Audit Office. Click here to download the report. Alternatively, print copies can be requested from the Communications Team at 24 Cathedral Road, Cardiff, CF11 9LJ. A loan copy is also available from CMI's library.

Members in the UK may borrow these books from our library.  Please email your request, with your membership number and details of your address.

Are you a recently published author in management or leadership? If you would like to see your book featured on this page, please send a copy of your book for inclusion in our library. We will add the Amazon link (if available). Books should be sent to: Piers Cain, Head of Knowledge Management, Chartered Management Institute, 3rd Floor, 2 Savoy Court, Strand, London WC2R 0EZ. Email: piers.cain@managers.org.uk

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