Items to maybe add to your reading lists.
Laurence, 05 Sep 2005 06:23:31
In the midst of all the dashing about reacting to proposals, counter proposals, propping up this and that and generally manning the pumps it occurs to me that it may be helpful to have a list of useful reference works to aid the task at hand.
I will begin by offering two titles. Although neither are very recent publications my reasons for suggesting these two are that they are both highly relevent to the current situation - the first in terms of pornography and the second in terms of stratagy.
PORNOGRAPHY & POLITICS
The Williams Committee in Retrospect
Author: A.W.B. Simpsom
ISBN 0 08 039156 7
Waterlow Publishers Ltd 1983
The Williams Committee was a Home Office working party set up to take an independent look at pornography - its spread, type and effect with a view to reform. When published in 1979 the report had a mixed reception: its critics regarded it as a pornographers charter whilst others heralded it as a triumph for common sense on a topic reknown for emotion. Too permissive for the Conservative Party of the day the report was discreetly shelved nevertheless it presents some very good and creditable arguments for reduction in censorship and highlights gaps in the emotive arguments offered by the 'repressive moralist camp'.
My second 'book choice' is concerned with stratagy. The situation which we are in is, without question, an adversarial one. In essence it differs not one jot from any other, be it who has the best football player right the way up to full scale war. There are basic rules which one dismisses and ignores at ones peril. Donald G Krause has taken the writings and philosophy of one of the greatest tacticians the world has known and produced a most accessable book written in the modern idiom that addresses adversarial situations in the modern business world - and whichever way you cut it - politics is business.
SUN TZU - THE ART OF WAR FOR EXECUTIVES
Author: Donald G. Krause
ISBN 1 85788 130 3
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 1995
Do not be put off by the term 'executives' - remember that who ever we are and whatever we do for a job we are the 'executive' of our own lives and this book may well contain a few 'secrets' that can sharpen us all up!
Kind regards
Laurence
Laurence, 19 Oct 2005 17:44:14
I thought I'd just bump this one up again since another thread has mentioned the Williams Committee.
Author wrote:
> In the midst of all the dashing about reacting to proposals, counter proposals, propping up this and that and generally manning the pumps it occurs to me that it may be helpful to have a list of useful reference works to aid the task at hand.
> I will begin by offering two titles. Although neither are very recent publications my reasons for suggesting these two are that they are both highly relevent to the current situation - the first in terms of pornography and the second in terms of stratagy.
> PORNOGRAPHY & POLITICS
> The Williams Committee in Retrospect
> Author: A.W.B. Simpsom
> ISBN 0 08 039156 7
> Waterlow Publishers Ltd 1983
> The Williams Committee was a Home Office working party set up to take an independent look at pornography - its spread, type and effect with a view to reform. When published in 1979 the report had a mixed reception: its critics regarded it as a pornographers charter whilst others heralded it as a triumph for common sense on a topic reknown for emotion. Too permissive for the Conservative Party of the day the report was discreetly shelved nevertheless it presents some very good and creditable arguments for reduction in censorship and highlights gaps in the emotive arguments offered by the 'repressive moralist camp'.
> My second 'book choice' is concerned with stratagy. The situation which we are in is, without question, an adversarial one. In essence it differs not one jot from any other, be it who has the best football player right the way up to full scale war. There are basic rules which one dismisses and ignores at ones peril. Donald G Krause has taken the writings and philosophy of one of the greatest tacticians the world has known and produced a most accessable book written in the modern idiom that addresses adversarial situations in the modern business world - and whichever way you cut it - politics is business.
> SUN TZU - THE ART OF WAR FOR EXECUTIVES
> Author: Donald G. Krause
> ISBN 1 85788 130 3
> Nicholas Brealey Publishing 1995
> Do not be put off by the term 'executives' - remember that who ever we are and whatever we do for a job we are the 'executive' of our own lives and this book may well contain a few 'secrets' that can sharpen us all up!
> Kind regards
> Laurence