Böcker av Alan Hall

How to work and manage others successfully in matrix organisations operating across regions and functions, with global teams, customers and supply chains. Traditional management training prioritizes clarity, predictability and control. In a matrix we need to be able to balance this with the ability to tolerate ambiguity, manage uncertainty and decentralize control. Managers need an expanded toolkit to help them move from the hard to the soft, from the concrete to the ambiguous and back again depending on the situation. Making the Matrix Work helps you develop your matrix mindset and will show you how to establish and engage networks that do not depend on role, control or authority to get things done. This 10 year anniversary edition has been extensively revised to cover Agile and digital working, for those working and managing in the fast paced new world of work, with autonomous teams, iterative working and non-hierarchical leadership.

Kill Bad Meetings will show you how to save yourself a day a week of unnecessary meetings and improve the face to face and virtual meetings that remain

Gathering No Moss is the autobiography of a possibly autistic child, born in 1925, who grew up to see out, as a member of the Colonial Service, the end of the British Empire in East Africa. In later service he witnessed novice states exulting in new-found independence. Post-retirement, he keeps an eye, Pooter-like, on our changing world.

The Story of Bradford traces the city's history from earliest times to the present, concluding with comments on the issues, challenges and opportunities that the 21st century will present.