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Peter McManners author of Green Outcomes in the Real World published by Gower.
Watch this conversation between Gower Commissioning Editor Jonathan Norman and author of Green Outcomes in the Real World - Peter McManners. In this first three minute extract they discuss the aspects of Challenges of Economic Globalization and Sustainability, the limits to resources and the effect on the environment, along with engaging your people to buy-in to sustainability and localism.Carry on and watch part two (4 mins) where Peter discusses the diminishing power of traditional Nation States and the growth of huge multinationals - is that a threat to sustainability? He also discusses cradle to cradle production systems and how it is being driven by sustainability. In part three (3 mins) Peter looks at other forms of payment apart from money – swapping work – is this a black economy or does it energise communities?
On World Intellectual Property Day, who can predict what will happen with the value of intellectual property in the future. Will it still be the same in 2025, will it be seen as an irrelevance or will everything be crowd-sourced, socially-owned and open sourced? As a publisher Gower has a vested interest in what will happen and, with the caveat that my views are coloured by my position, let me offer three observations …
Paid for content versus everything for free
Free stuff is always welcome but without question, you do get what you pay for, and innovation, creativity and new content all have a cost. Personally, I think that, while new models will continue to emerge (who could have imagined the mobile apps model 10 years ago!), the need for curation of content and information will mean that customers will still be willing to pay. In a world where digital content is exploding, the value of rigorous, consistent and well signposted content is surely very significant;
New shared models
Crowdsourcing is attracting a lot of attention, but there are other more mainstream opportunities for businesses to create and innovate that don’t involve the mass market. Collaborative business is on the rise and with it comes a need and an aspiration for organizations to share risk and, consequently, share reward. That must point towards some new models that enable practical shared ownership of IP rights between different organizations, companies, governments and NGOs.
A collaborative approach to publishing
I am very proud of the fact that Gower has always worked with our authors and editors on the basis of licensed rights. We have never insisted that authors assign their copyright as part of a publishing agreement nor have we sought to bind them to us with restrictive arrangements for their future books. We are already developing new collaborative models for publishing in the future – models that enable us to contribute and profit from those aspects of a work’s intellectual property where we can add value through editing, distribution and marketing, whilst at the same time, enabling authors to exploit their own IP in directions and media that are outside our (realistic) reach.
A handful of Gower and Ashgate titles on intellectual property:
I really enjoyed Douglas Board’s interview with Bob Garlick on the recent Business Book Talk. It’s extraordinarily demoralising, when we are all struggling to create a new future in an uncertain business world, to see those selected and paid to lead us so often seem to have feet of clay. Douglas’ insights into executive selection offer some pragmatic ways of changing by understanding and embracing the uncertainty and complexity it involves. If we adopt the kind of approaches he is advocating in the place of the old, self-perpetuating ones, I wonder to what extent this would change both the quality of our leaders and the culture of leadership which they enable? Douglas Board is author of Choosing Leaders and Choosing to Lead: Science, Politics and Intuition in Executive Selection.
The 2013 dates have been released for a Mastering Anti-Money Laundering Training Course. The first two day course will be running on 16-17 May 2013 in London.
Some of the topic areas covered:
Introduction to Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing ~ Role of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) ~ EU Directives ~ The US and its Effect Internationally ~ UK Legal and Regulatory Requirements ~ Customer Due Diligence ~ Ongoing Monitoring ~ Record Keeping ~ Suspicions and Reporting ~ Money Laundering Reporting Officer ~ Senior Management Responsibility ~ Training and Awareness ~ Sanctions ~ Interrelationship Between Financial Crime/Fraud And Money Laundering
If you would like to know more, you can download the Mastering Anti-Money Laundering brochure, or ring to speak to one of our consultants on +44 (0)20 7017 7190.
This course has an impressive agenda which you will find on the course website. The course leader is a Gower author Doug Hopton who is a Consultant and Trainer on money laundering and financial crime prevention. Before establishing his company in 2003, he was with Barclays Bank for over 37 years for many of which he was Head of Group Fraud and Money Laundering Prevention. All of his years of knowledge will be condensed into your two days training.
Information about Doug’s book Money Laundering including a PDF of the whole of chapter one to read at your leisure can be found on our website.
Alan Waring, author of Gower’s forthcoming book Corporate Risk and Governance, is giving a keynote paper focussed on the theme and topics within his book at a One Day Workshop on Man-Made Catastrophes, in Cyprus, on Wednesday 30 January 2013.
The event is for Academics and Researchers, Policy Makers, Enforcement Agencies and Safety & Risk Professionals, who all take part in the day.
For more information about this workshop, visit http://www.euc.ac.cy/easyconsole.cfm/id/2078
Alan’s book Corporate Risk and Governance will be published in May 2013.
In December 2012 Dr Daphne Halkias was appointed to take charge of the International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies.
Daphne is the author or co-author of several Gower books Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs, (recently included in Evan Carmichael’s Top 40 books for women entrepreneurs), Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, e-Negotiations plus another due at the very end of 2013: Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses
Matthew Leitch (author of Intelligent Internal Control and Risk Management) is running the workshop ‘Essentials of Embedding Enterprise Risk Management’ at the IBC 2013 Risk Management Congress. The programme for the Congress provides a really good sense of the current emerging themes within risk management with papers on risk appetite, risk and strategy, measuring risk, tail risk, fraud and cyber risk. I find it paticularly encouraging to see that Gower have the ground covered with our titles: A Short Guide to Risk Appetite (Hillson and Murray-Webster), Risk Strategies (Coleman), Estimating Risk (Garlick), Countering Catastrophic Loss (Ivantsov), A Short Guide to Fraud Risk (Iyer and Samociuk) and Demystifying Communications Risk (Johnson).
It’s not just ‘big society’ advocates that are bigging up volunteering: the whole Olympic experience has put what we do for each other – not just in sport – at the heart of policymaking for some time to come. As the Lords reform marathon stumbles to an early finish who has spotted that volunteering and the future of the composition of any second chamber are linked?…
read the whole of Tom’s article in Progress Online here: http://www.progressonline.org.uk/2012/08/16/medalling-in-lords-reform/
More about Partners for Good
Tom is the author of Partners for Good:
‘An excellent navigation through the fog of private, public and voluntary sector coalescence which highlights the huge mutual benefit of getting cross-sector partnerships right as well as the significant current untapped opportunities.’ – Pam Webb, Head of Zurich Community Trust (UK) Ltd
