Peter John Mills Knihy

Low growth has become the economic default in the West. While China and other Asian Tigers continue to steam ahead, western commentators either argue that stagnation is inevitable, ignoring growth in order to focus on other factors such as inflation or inequality, or disclaim growth altogether. In  Why the West is Failing , veteran businessman and economist John Mills strongly refutes these arguments. He maintains that the anaemic performance of western economies since the 1970s is due to the dominance of a policy framework that has fatally ignored the importance of industrial competitiveness. He shows that the key to driving up productivity – and thereby growth – is to promote a revival of manufacturing through investment and a competitive exchange rate policy. This would produce the extra resources needed to tackle climate change and reduce the risk of western politics continuing to spiral towards populist excess. It would also allow us to impede the baleful political consequences of Chinese economic domination.

Knowledge Services Management looks at the transformation of the traditional workplace into a quasi-internal market environment where work activities in knowledge services are organized around clusters of similar or complementary knowledge stocks to address particular types of customer-clients priorities. The book explores a new internal market structure for these service organizations and the implications this presents for managers and scholars in the 21st century workplace. By adopting an internal market perspective, the book develops new organizational forms outside the traditional hierarchical paradigm, which is ill-suited for the emerging knowledge workplace, in order to effectively manage emerging knowledge services. The indispensable role of customer/client in the operations of these organizations is examined, as is the creation of the “Proventure Workplace”, a work environment which accentuates jobs requiring rich cognitive skills for continuing innovation and creativity.

The first serious exploration of one of the most successful and enduring acts of the 60s-and the band that created the blueprint for popular culture in the twenty-first century.

The UK economy is heading for a disastrous period of austerity and stagnation - GDP growth is unsustainable, debt is increasing, inequality is widening and unemployment is high.

The role of the manager is to achieve the business goals set for them and at the same time to provide an environment that allows their team members to be effective and satisfied with their work while developing their full potential. It is not a balance between work and people as both outcomes must be achieved. The '10 things successful managers know and do' is based a coherent framework for managing people in the context of an organisation i.e. the 'Leadership Framework'. It addresses leadership at the individual, team and organisational levels. Its based not just on management customs but is underpinned by solid research combining sociology and psychology with management science. At the Framework's core is a strong manager - employee relationship. This is a two-way, trusting, productive, working relationship focused on achieving business goals with team members working to their full potential

In this charming memoir chemist and aficionado of the arts John Mills embarks on a journey from the 1950's Soho scene to the furthest reaches of a waning British Empire and beyond.

This story is about one small step that takes a local village boy towards the many experiences that life has to offer. He starts out as a child of trusting innocence, then grows into a man fast as he encounters not only Happiness but also - Adventure - Danger - Travel - Learning - Love and Sadness.

In the emotionally immersive Unloved, read one man's deeply personal experience of rejection - from the raw accounts of abuse and abandonment by his father, to being inexplicably stonewalled by Sue, his wife of 15 years. Stuart recounts the turbulent ebbs and flows of his life, from living on farms in South West England, to tours of duty in politically unstable regimes in South East Asia, to moulding trainees in the desert sultanate of Oman. His caring and trustworthy demeanour made strangers rely on him and even as a child, his foresight and willingness to work hard enhanced the lives of all those around him.In this gut-honest narrative, retired Warrant Officer Stuart John Mills outlines his struggle to keep his family together and give his children a happy and well-adjusted childhood while conscientiously serving his country and delivering par excellence performance in all his jobs post-retirement. Read to find out: Did he ever unearth the crux of his marital problems? Did he find the love and affection that was missing from his life? Were the ties of love binding him to friends stronger than his blood ties