Graves introduces a suite of consistent, interrelated tools and techniques to enhance enterprise effectiveness that can be used in business transformation, enterprise architecture, and many other aspects of strategy development and implementation.

"Many of the common concepts of power in business are so close to perfectly wrong that it's amazing any work happens at all..." The physics definition of power is 'the ability to do work'; most social definitions are closer to the ability to avoid it. This insight provides opportunities for a radical re-think of power and response-ability at work. Linking the human side of systems into the architecture of the enterprise creates workplaces that are more effective, empowering and profitable for everyone involved. This enlightening and enlivening book explains the interplay of power, property...

In a lighthearted, engaging, and refreshingly open style, two of the most experienced dowsers in present-day earth-mysteries research explain what can and does go wrong in dowsing practice, and what to do to get it right.

This book provides a structured conversion course for IT architects wanting to get to grips with the much broader scope of enterprise-scale architecture.

"Yabbies. Funny little things, all in their own world at the bottom of the dam. A bit like us, ain't they? Can't see a thing for all the mud in the water; bits and pieces drift down, in any old order, all out of sequence, an' we have to make sense of them as best we can." This unusual novel explores ideas about sustainability from a different angle: that we can't achieve a sustainable world without a system of law that fully supports it. To make that happen, we would need truly revolutionary change in the way we see our world: a refocus of passion from possession to purpose. In some ways, as...

Graves introduces a new model-type that can be used to describe just about anything in any part and at any level of the enterprise, and that acts as a consistent frame for all the other models that are needed in all architectures.

This groundbreaking book places story at center-stage to explore the role of narrative in enterprise-architecture. Via business story-structures such as the Market-Cycle, and genres such as "We Sell Certainty, " it shows how stories underpin every aspect of the enterprise and how to use story within the architecture to enhance overall enterprise effectiveness.

Award-winning author and journalist Tom Graves in "Louise Brooks, Frank Zappa, & Other Charmers & Dreamers" collects the best of his long-form journalism and profiles as well as his in-depth interviews with a variety of curious personalities. The lead piece is "My Afternoon with Louise Brooks" about Graves's encounter in 1982 with the reclusive silent film legend Louise Brooks. He was the last journalist ever to sit bedside with Miss Brooks, who allowed very few people into her life. Also included are Graves's 1979 sit down with the king of Southern grit lit, Harry Crews, his discovery of the...