Excellence

Patrick Wright

• Creating excellence: Managing corporate culture, strategy and change in the New Age by Craig Hickman and Michael Silva
  Allen and Unwin, 305 pp, £12.50, April 1985, ISBN 0 04 658252 5
• Intrapreneuring: Why you don’t have to leave the corporation to become an entrepreneur by Gifford Pinchot
  Harper and Row, 368 pp, £15.95, August 1985, ISBN 0 06 015305 9
• The IBM Way: Insights into the World’s Most Successful Marketing Organisation by Buck Rodgers
  Harper and Row, 224 pp, £12.95, April 1986, ISBN 0 06 015522 1
• Innovation: The Attacker’s Advantage by Richard Foster
  Macmillan, 316 pp, £14.95, September 1986, ISBN 0 333 43511 7
• Ford by Robert Lacey
  Heinemann, 778 pp, £15.00, July 1986, ISBN 0 434 40192 7
• Company of Adventurers: The Story of the Hudson’s Bay Company by Peter Newman
  Viking, 413 pp, £14.95, March 1986, ISBN 0 670 80379 0
• Augustine’s Laws by Norman Augustine
  Viking, 380 pp, £12.95, July 1986, ISBN 0 670 80942 X
• Peak Performers: The New Heroes in Business by Charles Garfield
  Hutchinson, 333 pp, £12.95, October 1986, ISBN 0 09 167391 7
• Going for it: How to Succeed as an Entrepreneur by Victor Kiam
  Collins, 223 pp, £9.95, May 1986, ISBN 0 00 217603 3
• Take a chance to be first: The Secrets of Entrepreneurial Success by Warren Avis
  Macmillan, 222 pp, £9.95, October 1986, ISBN 0 02 504410 9
• The Winning Streak by Walter Goldsmith and David Clutterbuck
  Weidenfeld/Penguin, 224 pp, £9.95, September 1984, ISBN 0 297 78469 2
• The Roots of Excellence by Ronnie Lessem
  Fontana, 318 pp, £3.95, December 1985, ISBN 0 00 636874 3
• The New Management of Local Government by John Stewart
  Allen and Unwin, 208 pp, £20.00, October 1986, ISBN 0 00 435232 7

Bryan Carsberg of Oftel smiles up in soft brown light as he dangles in the mirror on a green office wall. Michael Meyer of Emess Lighting is dissected by the blinds that cut across him and then reassembled from outside – his shirtsleeved figure looming like a target in the formulaic eye of some Hollywood assassin. As for London and Scottish Marine Oil’s Chris Greentree, all that remains of him is a severed head shining above the water as the sun goes down over drilling rigs beached by the receding North Sea tide.