Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ Looking for a new acronym for innovation in a knowledge economy? Forget PEST, try SKiP(ing)… I wrote, in an earlier post on Ragged Trousers, about the fact I had based that very post on an earlier essay entitled “SKiP(ing)…
The end in sight…? A publishing journey… and some kind words!
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ Progress in reaching the publication of “The River of Judgement”! This week I launched my new author web site: http://www.davidsartof.com! David Sartof is my pen name, to keep my fiction writing separate from my non-fiction. And, there just seems…
Innovation: …in a game of Chinese Whispers?
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ Gateway to Investment (G2i) the London-based Investment Readiness Programme, have recently (1st July) issued a post relating to the UK Government’s plan for a UK INNOVATION FUND . The G2i post prompted me to consider the game of Chinese…
On innovation and ragged trousers… just a thought!
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ Robert Tressell described the “Great Money Trick” of capitalism, in his book “The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, first published in 1914. This was admirably summarised by Gary Day, in his 1997 introduction to the Harper Perennial edition of the book…
1909 – The Future and all that…
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ “We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicoloured polyphonic tides of revolution in the modern capitals; we will sing of the vibrant nightly fervour of arsenals and…
River of Judgement…
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ Murder, drink, divorce, bankruptcy and love threaten in the unfolding drama of a city-executive as he looses control of his business and his life. Well, the first draft of River of Judgment is now complete and, having set a…
From thinking management to creating management…
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ Well, here goes… I have decided on a career change – number ? in a series from 1 to ??In Thinking the Art of Management I have written about the concept of fiction as a means of delivering new…
Dancing Organisations…
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ This is just a brief post to draw attention to a recently published paper in the Journal Management Decision, under my name David Atkinson. Dancing “the management”: on social presence, rhythm and finding common purpose In an early post…
"A shark in formaldehyde?": With a title like that… …why "Change”?
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ I read with great interest the title of a recent column by James B. Rieley on Emerald Management First: “A shark in formaldehyde?” How could I resist such a title? I looked on in further interest as I read:…
Does business ignore the business schools?
by David Sartof •
Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ The following post is based on a letter I wrote to the Financial Times newspaper on 16th January – though it was not published by them. Following an article by columnist Michael Skapinker (January 7), I ask the question: does…