Leadership and Management

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A Leadership Book Club has been set up to meet once a month, the first meeting on 19 December will be discussing ‘Difficult Conversations’ see the post on our Home page for further information – Leadership book club post

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*NEW* Leadership Book Club – 19th December 2019

Please join us for the first meeting of the ‘Leadership book club’ on Thursday 19th December in Seminar 6, PWEC at 13:00-14:00. We will be discussing the book ‘Difficult Conversations’ and sections – ‘The problem’ and ‘Shift to a learning stance’.

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Book Review – The noise of time

There were very mixed reactions to ‘The noise of time’ by Julian Barnes. The book is about Shostakovich but the structure isn’t a straightforward narrative. It takes 3 episodes in his life when brushes with ‘Power’ brought crisis and reflection for him. The story is told through his recollections and feelings and over the course […]

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Book Review – Tangerine

Tangerine is the debut novel of Christine Mangan. The story unfolds from the viewpoints of Alice and Lucy both of whom prove to be unreliable narrators but for very different reasons. They had developed a deep friendship at university but an incident resulted in a separation. The story begins with Alice living in Tangiers with […]

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Book Review – Transcription

Very mixed views on ‘Transcription’ – some really enjoyed it, others found it slow and dull – ‘Le Carre Lite’ seemed to be the best description. Set largely between two time periods we are introduced to Juliet. In 1940 she found herself working for the secret service transcribing recordings of meetings between a spy and […]

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