The pressures on managers today are increasing and what was current yesterday may be quite different from the uncertainties of tomorrow. Top level leadership may be transient and organisational structures are changing but one element of constancy is probably that most people at work continue to...

The principles of management enshrined in innumerable texts have been developed in the crucibles of business practice through the ages when there was at least some confidence in the predictability of events. Globalisation of production, processing and distribution, facilitated by the 7/24...