Collection: Professional Readings

¿́¿Unlike the past, the success of an organisation can no longer depend on one or a few of its members. While it was previously possible to have a chief executive learning for the organisation, and directing it to achieve its goals and vision, the most successful corporation of the future is the ...

¿́¿Bruce Hoffman¿́¿s Inside Terrorism has remained a seminal work for understanding the historical evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mindset. In this revised edition of the classic text, Hoffman analyses the new adversaries, motivations, and tactics of global terrorism that have emerged in...

¿́¿This work is specifically written for non-specialist officeholders tasked with enhancing security awareness in their organisation. ¿́¿foremost, a study of people, and secondarily, a model for effective security training programs¿́¿. The authors worked for the US Dept of Defense, where they fou...

Drawing from experts across a wide spectrum of disciplines, Workforce Wake-Up Call is an all-in-one guide for business leaders seeking to move into the future of talent management. It provides leaders with a holistic picture of the changing workforce and its implications for talent management, wh...

¿́¿Ralph D. Sawyer is the pre-eminent scholar and translator on Sun-tzu¿́¿s masterful work. More than 200,000 copies of his Sun-tzu Art of War have been sold. The Art of War is the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare. The Ess...

¿́¿This special supplement present articles from Army leaders who teach in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at West Point. They are all active duty officers who offer readers first-hand accounts of what Army leadership means to them. Although they make references to war, life-...

¿́¿This timely volume brings together experts on the laws of war from academia, the military, and the NGO community to examine the issues surrounding September 11th and its aftermath, which have raised fundamental challenges to the existing corpus of international humanitarian law. The book featu...