Showing posts with label new books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new books. Show all posts

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Massive Management Manifestoes


Here are a lot of exciting new titles in Management/Business Admin.

Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge From Small Discoveries--Peter Sims. Free Press. 2011. A book on creativity, exploring "using negativity to positive effect"
Engaged Leadership: Building a Culture To Overcome Employee Disengagement--Clint Swindall. John Wiley. 2011. Explores facets of employee engagement such as the economic downturn and social media.
Cultural Competence For Public Managers: Managing Diversity in Today's World--Espiridion Albert Borrego. 2012. Cultural competence for public managers, execs, and employees; the global economy
Who's In the Room?: How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around Them. Bob Frisch. 2012. Informed by interviews with MasterCard, Ticketmaster and The Red Cross
2012. Includes case studies
Organizational Misbehaviour In the Workplace: Narratives of Dignity and Resistance. Jan Karlsson. 2012. "analyses stories about people's resistance in working life that make us reflect upon how employees are treated at work and consequences thereof."
What Matters Now: How To Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation. Gary Hamel. Jossey-Bass 2012. Offers "fundamentally new thinking about values, competition, leadership, organization talent." Fortune has called Hamel "the world's leading expert on business strategy."
Grow: How Ideals Power Growth at the World's Greatest Companies. Jim Stengel. Crown Business. 2011. Shows "how the fifty top-performing businesses in a range of fields have succeeded through superior customer engagement and outlines an action framework..."
The basics of mobile media campaigns.


Thursday, April 5, 2012

New Titles in Mass Comm.

Here's a look at several new books on mass communication and mass media.

Transforming McLuhan: Cultural, Critical, and Postmodern Perspectives. Paul Grosswiler, ed. Peter Lang. 2010. An anthology of new essays updating our understanding of McLuhan's work
Messages, Meaning, and Symbols. Charles T. Meadow. Scarecrow. 2006. Outlines the history of communication, going into the future, and delves into both communication and information theory
Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics. Lincoln Dahlberg and Sean Phelan, eds. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. Essays on Marxist Theory, New Media, Laclau's Political Theory and more
Twilight Of The Social: Resurgent Publics In the Age of Disposability. Henry A. Giroux. Paradigm. 2012. Advocates the need for social spaces in which people can agitate for social change
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past Simon Reynolds. Faber and Faber. 2011. Contains chapters on record collection, youtube, sampling, hauntology, and mash-ups, among other topics
On Media Memory: Collective Memory In a New Media Age Motti Neiger, Oren Meyers, Eyal Zandberg, eds. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. Discusses journalistic practices and politics through the lens of a society's formation of a collective memory
Women On Screen: Feminism and Femininity In Visual Culture Melanie Waters. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. With essays on James Bond films, the show "The Sopranos" and many others.
Idolized: Music, Media, and Identity In American Idol Katherine Meizel. Indiana University Press. 2011. Analyzes success and failure and global politics

Coming soon: SpongeBob SquarePants and Philosophy and The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires.