Beating the 24/7
How Business Leaders Achieve a Successful Work/Life Balance
Published on 30. December 2002
256 pages
978-0-470-85558-4 (ISBN)
Description
As more than 90% of spending on the Internet comes from brick andmortar companies it is these operations that will form the clientbase for e-learning. This book shows those companies how to gete-learning implementation right first time. Don Morisson exploresand explains the whole implementation continuum - strategy, vendorselection, technology, implementation, culture change, contentdevelopment and delivery. Most importantly he stresses that thesuccess or failure of an e-learning initiative is directly relatedto the underlying strategic thinking. Written for a more mature,second generation e-learning market the book provides apractitioner's handbook to both guide the novice and inform theveteran.
* Focuses on the reader's needs
* Focuses on the strategic issues of e-learning
* Informed by key business drivers
* Supported and endorsed by PWC
Readership: Senior managers including CEOs, CIOs, CLOs, HRDirectors, middle management responsible for implementing and/ordelivering e-learning, consultants
Reviews / Votes
"...an insightful, thought-provoking and, above all , an optimisticbook..." (Management Today, 2 September 2002) "Britain's most well-known business people tell us how they workhard, play hard - and beat the clock" (Independent on Sunday 29September 2002) "Fletcher has turned his attention to........the issue that isbothering us all at present" (Campaign 18 October 2002) "...Read the lively and entertaining Beating the24/7...2 (Talking Business, November 2002) "...an absorbing insight into the ways leading businessfigures achieve fulfilment in their work and home lives...ahelpful handbook for every ambitious entrepreneur...should bemade compulsory reading for anybody appointed to a position ofresponsibility..." (The Times Higher Educational Supplement, 15November 2002) "...Drawing upon interviews with very successful businessleaders...missed family events and missed children...soundslike you, read this book..." (Professional Manager, January2003) "... Winston Fletchers's recent book on work-life balance,cont ains interviews with some of the countries leadingworkaholics..." (The Independent, 18 January 2003) Book of the week - "...useful reading for agencies that wantto implement the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising'sbest-practice guidelines on work-life balance..." (Marketing,20 February 2003) "...an admirable book, a serious and helpful contribution toan important personal and business issue..." (The Reformer,Winter 2003) '...wise words from the wealthy...' (WeeklyTelegraph, 18-24 June 2003) "...This book contains some of the most interestinginterviews I've read about work-life balance ...excellent concept, excellent book...." (Mothers@work, March 2004)"I loved Beating The 24/7" Shirley Conran (President and Founder of the Work-Life Balance Trust)More details
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Person
WINSTON FLETCHER is Chairman of the Royal Institution and of TheAdvertising Standards Board of Finance. He is a Trustee ofBarnardo's and of the Open College of the Arts, is a VisitingProfessor at Lancaster University Management School and is on theAdvisory Council of the Barbican.
He launched two successful advertising agencies and has beenChairman of the Advertising Association, a President of theInstitute of Practitioners in Advertising and a Council Member ofthe Advertising Standards Authority. He was founder Chairman of theWorld Advertising Research Center.
He has published ten books and well over 1000 articles in nationalnewspapers and magazines. His books include: The Admakers; TeachYourself Advertising; Meetings, Meetings; SuperEfficiency; Tantrums& Talent; and The Manipulators (a novel).
Content
Acknowledgements.
WORK/LIFE BALANCE: PIVOTAL PRINCIPLES.
Phascogales and parrots.
The triple-whammy.
The managers' millstone.
The work/life ratio.
To find the right answers, ask the right people.
What the interviews reveal.
THE WORK/LIFE INTERVIEWS.
1 Sir Richard Sykes, FRS.
2 Sir Dominic Cadbury.
3 Michael Grade, CBE.
4 Baroness Hogg.
5 Lord Marshal.
6 Sir George Bull.
7 Sir Christopher Bland.
8 Rosalyn Wilton.
9 Sir Peter Davis.
10 Lord Hollick.
11 Helen Alexander.
12 John Clare.
13 Sir Michael Perry, GBE.
14 Nicola Horlick.
15 Sir Richard Branson.
16 Lord Stevenson, CBE.
SUMMARY: BEATING THE 24/7.
Index.
