Switch on the parliament during a sitting evening and watch for an hour. What you are watching is a combat — choreographed, rehearsed, performed for the cameras — and somewhere inside it, almost invisible, the actual business of running a country. We have worn one word, politics, over two different activities for so long that we no longer notice they have come apart: the contest for power, and the work of governing. And we have mistaken the decay of the first for the failure of th...

In an era of fiscal constraint, rising public demand, and fragmented governance, the UK's approach to public spending is under unprecedented strain. At the centre of this system sits HM Treasury, long regarded as the most powerful department in British government yet questioned for its ability to deliver effective financial control in an increasingly complex and fragmented policy landscape. This book offers a bold and timely reassessment of the Treasury's role in shaping the UK's public fi...

Sam knows how the life he's currently living ends. It isn't the life, or the ending, he wants. He makes a choice to try his hand as a lighthouse keeper's apprentice. The life of a lighthouse keeper promises responsibility. Adventure. He will find adventure, the likes of which he could never have imagined. The journey that unfolds before him promises to change his life...if he can only survive.

As remote work becomes the new norm, leaders face the unique challenge of guiding their teams from a distance. But how can you foster productivity, maintain morale, and build a cohesive team when you’re not in the same room? How to Manage a Remote Team: Leadership Strategies for Virtual Success is your comprehensive guide to mastering remote team management and building a thriving virtual workplace.This book provides essential strategies for leaders to effectively manage, motivate,...

Britain is sleepwalking to disaster, because London has abandoned all forms of proper strategy. That is the sobering message of this powerful analysis exposing the great failings of British security and defence policy.Britain long ago abandoned the art and science of grand strategy, even though this is crucial for establishing the country's direction of travel. Without grand strategy, national strategy has been reduced to little more than a political game of how much threat Britain...

Early in the Second World War, Peter Wand-Tetley volunteered for special service. He saw action first with the newly formed Commandos raiding the North African coast and then in the fierce fighting on Crete. Operations with the LRDG in the Western Desert were followed by SAS actions as Rommel retreated to Tunis. Remarkably he then transferred to the Special Operations Executive and was parachuted blind into enemy occupied Greece in 1943. His role was to train and equip Andarte guerillas an...

A prominent lawyer colorfully recounts a lost and lamented era in Texas politics: "Fascinating . . . Vivid, insightful commentary." — Houston ChronicleOnce upon a time in Texas, there were liberal activists of various stripes who sought to make the state more tolerant (and more tolerable). David Richards was one of them.In this fast-paced, often humorous memoir, he remembers the players, the strategy sessions, the legal and politi...

Dancing with the Future is the origin story of Strategic Navigation — a methodology for strategic management and future-proofing in real-time that has been deployed on every inhabited continent over three decades. It begins in 1993, when Richard Hames and Marvin Oka declined a conventional consulting brief from the Australian Taxation Office and proposed something else entirely: a sustained, open-ended engagement that would challenge the organisation's most fundamental assumptions...

Wayfinding: On Navigating Without Maps is a book about what navigating complexity actually requires — and why the planning frameworks most organisations and governments rely on are structurally incapable of providing it.Drawing on three decades of advisory practice across governments, corporations, and institutions on every inhabited continent, Richard David Hames argues that the conditions contemporary organisations face are not merely more difficult than those of the recent past....

T his is a fun and thrilling story about Owen's first trip to the zoo. This story can also help children to manage expectations, communicate emotions and avoid violent exchanges.

Learning to See in the Dark is a philosophical work unlike most books about civilisational crisis. It doesn't deliver conclusions from a position of achieved understanding. It practises, in real time, the quality of perception it argues for.Richard David Hames — philosopher-futurist, strategic adviser to governments and heads of state across four decades, and president of the Asian Foresight Institute — weaves together two registers throughout: diary entries anchored in sp...

From the Canadian in charge of the joint military command in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan, this is the real on-the-ground story of one of NATO's bloodiest, most decisive and misunderstood operations: The battle of Panjwayi, the defining moment of "Operation Medusa."In the summer of 2006, David Fraser was the Canadian general in charge of NATO's Regional Command South, a territory spanning six Afghan provinces surrounding the Arghandab Valley. Birthplace of the ...