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The best organizations, and even the best departments within
organizations, have a roadmap: a clear vision of where they would
like to be and the means by which they will get there. This roadmap
drives the everyday activity of the company as well as any change
it makes both internally and externally. And it is what drives
projects. In fact, it is arguable that success in business is
almost wholly reliant on an ability to implement change effectively
- whether it is a computer system that gives you the edge on your
competitor, bringing a new product to market, adopting new ways of
working, or completely redefining the approach your company takes.
Success and survival in business relies on change and the way that
business implements change is through projects. Therefore, if you
work in the world of business, sooner or later the chances are that
you will be involved in a project, as a stakeholder, advisor,
sponsor or possibly running it - as the project manager. In The
Everyday Project Manager, author and project management expert
Jeremy Nicholls shares the key attributes and skills of successful
project management and describes the practical skills that will
enhance project delivery regardless of your level of experience.
The skills and concepts detailed in this book can be easily
understood and implemented. They are "everyday" (that is,
commonplace) skills, but they are skills and the concepts that the
best project managers use every day. Each chapter details the
concepts, practices, and tools that readers will use to build their
proficiency in every phase of delivering a project efficiently and
effectively.
Mistrust in big business and major politicians, coupled with recent
scandals in international development, grew from a blatant lack of
accountability between decision-makers and recipients. Remedies
seem to lie within the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the rise
of social entrepreneurship, and the demand for responsible
practices, all key drivers for social, rather than merely
financial, returns on investments. Yet accounting for such returns
remains scattershot and unevenly implemented. With contributions
from world-leading scholars and practitioners, Generation Impact
brings together lessons from both developed and developing
economies, shares current best practice and suggests future trends
in impact accounting. The book analyses social and environmental
capital protocols, the international convergence in impact
investing, organisational management and capacity-building and best
practice in assurance and training, and offers reflections on
policy directions. Through its case-studies it provides insights
into a growing global community of practitioners, academics, impact
investors, policy-makers and organisations of all kinds working to
cement the central importance of accounting for social value. For
its unique blend of scholarly research and boots-on-the-ground
insights, Generation Impact is a must-read for development scholars
and students interested in social and environmental accounting,
practitioners, senior managers, and executives concerned with
organisational practice and its real impact on wider social and
economic development.
The role of big finance and technology in social change is rapidly
evolving. This book examines why large financial players are
entering the social sector through social finance. Drawing on
empirical research, the authors analyse the opportunities this new
interest and commitment presents as well as the potential harm that
can be done to vulnerable people when beneficiaries are not treated
as partners and the social needs of people are not placed at the
centre of the investment model. This book introduces a 'Deliberate
Leadership' framework to help big finance tackle problems with no
easy solutions. The book also analyses how current technologies
(including blockchain) are being used and the benefits and
drawbacks of different features of these technologies from the
standpoint of the beneficiary and investor. The authors derive a
series of insights into the model of technology for social finance
and impact investing. Written as a practical book for students
alongside a field book based on an action learning methodology,
this volume will be useful to those in social finance and impact
investing.
The best organizations, and even the best departments within
organizations, have a roadmap: a clear vision of where they would
like to be and the means by which they will get there. This roadmap
drives the everyday activity of the company as well as any change
it makes both internally and externally. And it is what drives
projects. In fact, it is arguable that success in business is
almost wholly reliant on an ability to implement change effectively
- whether it is a computer system that gives you the edge on your
competitor, bringing a new product to market, adopting new ways of
working, or completely redefining the approach your company takes.
Success and survival in business relies on change and the way that
business implements change is through projects. Therefore, if you
work in the world of business, sooner or later the chances are that
you will be involved in a project, as a stakeholder, advisor,
sponsor or possibly running it - as the project manager. In The
Everyday Project Manager, author and project management expert
Jeremy Nicholls shares the key attributes and skills of successful
project management and describes the practical skills that will
enhance project delivery regardless of your level of experience.
The skills and concepts detailed in this book can be easily
understood and implemented. They are "everyday" (that is,
commonplace) skills, but they are skills and the concepts that the
best project managers use every day. Each chapter details the
concepts, practices, and tools that readers will use to build their
proficiency in every phase of delivering a project efficiently and
effectively.
The role of big finance and technology in social change is rapidly
evolving. This book examines why large financial players are
entering the social sector through social finance. Drawing on
empirical research, the authors analyse the opportunities this new
interest and commitment presents as well as the potential harm that
can be done to vulnerable people when beneficiaries are not treated
as partners and the social needs of people are not placed at the
centre of the investment model. This book introduces a 'Deliberate
Leadership' framework to help big finance tackle problems with no
easy solutions. The book also analyses how current technologies
(including blockchain) are being used and the benefits and
drawbacks of different features of these technologies from the
standpoint of the beneficiary and investor. The authors derive a
series of insights into the model of technology for social finance
and impact investing. Written as a practical book for students
alongside a field book based on an action learning methodology,
this volume will be useful to those in social finance and impact
investing.
"The Unimportant Man" - The story of a nondescript North American
pizza delivery man and his struggle to achieve significance after
having been attacked by a perverted, gun-wielding, Brigitte Bardot
look-alike, reality television star. Written in an epigrammatic and
associative style (though never rambling), "The Unimportant Man"
draws from myriad literary, cultural and historical sources (E.M.
Cioran, Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Godard, Roland Barthes, Papal
Encyclicals and more); intertwining themes in a violently
entertaining essay-esque narrative that expresses the anguish and
sense of futility suffered by unimportant men (men like the
author). Author and translator, Jason Weiss (Writing at Risk:
Interviews in Paris with Uncommon Writers (University of Iowa
Press) & The Lights of Home: A Century of Latin American
Writers in Paris (Routledge)) has compared "the ease with which
Nichols] manipulates and maneuvers narrative elements, turning them
around to consider them in a dispassionate mode" to the art of
Milan Kundera: An author with whom Mr. Weiss collaborated in
Writing at Risk. He has further praised Nichols' work for its
adroit "weaving back and forth between the story and the Author's
machinations"; a strength he later likened to the Argentine master,
Macedonio Fernandez: The mentor of Borges. English poet, author and
agitator, Paul Kingsnorth (One No, Many Yeses (Simon and Schuster)
& Real England (Portobello Books)) has described Nichols'
writing as "funny, intelligent and biting." Excerpt from "The
Unimportant Man" - When he was a boy, grown-ups told the pizza
delivery man, "Everyone has a talent: Something that they do better
than others." Because the young pizza delivery man had no
recognizable talent; because that shortcoming troubled him, the
young pizza delivery man found the grown-ups' words very
reassuring. They helped him sleep. At night, he would drift off
fantasizing about his dormant gift. Because he enjoyed music, he
often wished he would wake the next morning with a better ear:
"Please, God" he would pray, "perfect pitch?" As the years passed,
the still talentless pizza delivery man became restless. "When will
I find my talent?" he would ask. Because he was still a boy,
grown-ups continued to ply his heart with optimism: "Give yourself
time," they would say. "However modest, you will find something
uniquely yours, something for which you will feel pride." Because
he was still young, the grown-ups' words comforted him.
Unfortunately, the pizza delivery man could not stay young forever.
As he aged, the grown-ups' reassuring words grew fewer and farther
between, until one day they stopped. The adults who once insisted
that everything was going to be alright (that his talent would
reveal itself in time) now demanded that the talentless pizza
delivery man get with the program; work with what he had; and face
the music that he could not make. As a grown-up, nighttime became
something different for the pizza delivery man. Because he will
never wake with anything like a well-tuned ear, nighttime is no
longer a time for fantasy. It is now just that time (after fitful
tossing and turning) when the pizza delivery man resigns himself to
the fact that he has nothing of which to be proud. Raised in a
society that celebrates musicians, performers, athletes, models,
published writers, intellects, entrepreneurs, charismatic
statesmen, and other talented people; having long believed that
talent is the standard against which a man's importance is
measured, nighttime is now just that time when the pizza delivery
man sees most clearly that he is an unimportant man.
"On the Beauty of Christ and Christian Reason" is a concise,
reasoned defense of the Christian faith. It demonstrates that faith
in Christ can be arrived at through rigorous analysis with
appreciation for beauty. It is accessible, compelling, and brief.
Written for a non-academic readership without a background in
theology, aesthetics, or philosophy, "On the Beauty of Christ and
Christian Reason" fits snugly in the pocket or purse of anyone who
wishes to understand Christianity rationally. Approbation: "A
sincere and devout reading of the Christian revelation, and I think
that the 'beautiful idea' approach might very well be as far as one
can get, by explaining the power of Christianity to those who have
not felt it." Dr. Roger Scruton - Former lecturer and professor of
aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London; former professor of
philosophy and university professor, Boston University; and author
of over 30 books, including Art and Imagination (1974), The
Aesthetics of Music (1997), and A Political Philosophy: Arguments
for Conservatism (2006).
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