Today's managers are bombarded with a constant stream of management fads and fashions, each claiming to be the key to business success. In this new book Alan Coppin and John Barratt draw on their experience of managing change in the Historic Royal Palaces to show that successful management techniques are timeless, simple and based on common sense. Looking back through history at great leaders and organisations they identify concepts, ideas and applications that have proved themselves over time. They then demonstrate how these techniques are currently being applied to run and secure the future...
Today's managers are bombarded with a constant stream of management fads and fashions, each claiming to be the key to business success. In this new bo...
General George Monck once described the Royalist horse as "a rabble of gentility." Modern research has largely dispelled this image of the King's cavalry. However the description seems at first sight appropriate to the body of cavalry known as the "Northern Horse." Formed from those elements of the Marquis of Newcastle's Northern Royalist Army which elected to continue to fight after the crushing defeat at Marston Moor (2 July 1644) during the next 15 months the Northern Horse swept across much of England and Wales, becoming increasingly notorious in the process. United and reorganized by...
General George Monck once described the Royalist horse as "a rabble of gentility." Modern research has largely dispelled this image of the King's cava...
The Battle of Stow on the Wold and the end of the Civil War in the Welsh Marches. c 30 ills incl. colour artwork, maps, contemporary prints, portraits modern photos
The Battle of Stow on the Wold and the end of the Civil War in the Welsh Marches. c 30 ills incl. colour artwork, maps, contemporary prints, portraits...