CMI Management Book of the Year Winners!
29/01/13
The national final of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Management Book of the Year competition took place this week with the top prize being awarded to Richard Newton for his book The Management Book: How to Manage Your Team to Deliver Outstanding Results.
The competition is judged by a panel of business leaders including Sir Anthony Cleaver, former chief executive and chairman of IBM. He explained why Richard’s book stood out:
“Last year the Oxford University Press chose the word ‘omnishambles’ – a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged – as their word of 2012; suggesting something has gone seriously wrong with the UK’s management skills.
“It is now 43 years since I first became a manager but I can still remember the anxiety of constantly encountering new situations. In this economic environment, managers need to be more skilled than ever before. We can no longer afford the luxury of learning on the job and Richard’s book provides the perfect guide for anyone, regardless of seniority or experience, to consider the essential people management skills required to become a successful leader.
“It is the kind of book that I wish I had had access to when I was starting my career – it would certainly have saved me a lot of time and trouble!”
Other Management Book of the Year category winners were announced follows:
Management & Leadership Textbook category:
Managing Equality and Diversity: Theory and Practice by Savita Kumra and Simonetta Manfredi.
Published by Oxford University Press
Innovation & Entrepreneurship category:
Winning at Innovation: The A-F Model by Fernando Trías de Bes and Philip Kotler
Published by Palgrave Macmillan
The New Manager category:
The Leadership Skills Handbook: 50 Essential Skills You Need to be a Leader by Jo Owen
Published by Kogan Page
The Commuter’s Read category:
The Strategy Book: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results by Max Mckeown
Published by Pearson
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