Books written by Alan Hooper

  • Intelligent Leadership

    The Chief Executive, Graham Lawson, along with many other members of the Board and the Senior Management Team within ... which he entitles 'Lawson's Rules of Never' (see Table 5.1) designed to promote the course members to think about ...

  • The Business of Leadership: Adding Lasting Value to Your Organization

    One novel approach which is based on the task-relationship concept is that proposed by Fiedler in the United States. Fiedler suggests that each individual is predisposed either to a task orientation or to a relationship orientation in ...

  • Leadership Perspectives

    While managers certainly don't need a country club atmosphere for development, neither do they need boot camp. ... Indeed, in his book Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky makes the interesting point that events, or “happenings,” become ...

  • Capital Cardiff 1975-2020: Regeneration, Competitiveness and the Urban Environment

    Explaining Ethnic Diversity in Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press). Ferns, P. (1987), 'The Taff estuary and its birds', Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society, C (1979–86), 13–25. Finch, P. (2002), Real Cardiff ...

  • Intelligent Leadership: Creating the Habit of Excellence

    The authors examine how changes affect people in businesses and organizations - including specific case studies - and propose practical ways for leaders to provide effective leadership, and commitment to their workforce, in a rapidly ...

  • The Business of Leadership: Adding Lasting Value to Your Organization

    First published in 1997, this volume special feature is its combination of practical and psychological behavioural aspects of leadership, presented in an easy readable style, which is designed for practising managers and for business ...