Invenire Book launch at National Library
You are invited to a launch of Invenire’s first four titles at the National Library, in Ottawa, Canada, Friday, February 12, 2010. The event, a collaboration with the University of Ottawa’s Centre on Governance, is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Invenire – an idea factory (www.invenire.ca) – and its authors provide creative practical and stimulating responses to challenges and opportunities faced by today’s organizations.
The four titles are: The Entrepreneurial Effect (with a foreword by Sir Terry Matthews), Profession: Public Servant, by Ruth Hubbard, Who Do We Think We Are? by Robin Higham, and Scheming Virtuously by Gilles Paquet. The authors and editors will be at the National Library for this event, to sign books, meet the public and briefly discuss their ideas.
The books deal, respectively, with the entrepreneurial skills necessary for jobs and technology growth in Canada, the principles needed for public service to be a profession rather than just a job, Canada’s conversations on diversity and accommodation, and a systematic journey towards collaborative governance - in a world in which power, resources and information are widely distributed and scheming virtuously is the order of the day.
Gilles Paquet is a professor at the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa, Robin Higham is a former ambassador for Canada to Morocco, Ruth Hubbard was the deputy minister who implemented the GST, and James Bowen (The Entrepreneurial Effect) is a professor of management at the University of Ottawa.
Time: February 12th, 5 to 7 pm.
Place: National Library, 385 Wellington Avenue.
2009 Books
The Entrepreneurial Effect:
Practical Ideas from Your Own Virtual Board of Advisors
Contributors
Every business seems to have some technology base and every entrepreneur needs the skills, knowledge and experience detailed in these lessons from the most successful business people.
Lessons include management, marketing, planning, people, sales, technology, public relations, financing, outsourcing, alliances, risk management, and many others.
When you want to be the best, learn from the best. This book is your opportunity with 32 of the best lessons in entrepreneurship. More...
ISBN: 978-0-9813931-2-4 $27.95
distributor's EAN: 9780889701335
Who do we think we are?
Canada's reasonable and unreasonable accomodation debates
by Robin Higham
The characters in these twelve contrived discussions discover a uniquely Canadian modus-vivendi that keeps us negotiating and accommodating rather than deciding and excluding. They propose an updating of the model in order to keep the file on the identity question open and active and to ensure continued debate about who we think we are. Can we hold it all together while they talk about it? More
ISBN: 978-0-9813931-1-7 $19.95
distributor's EAN: 9780889701328
Profession: Public Servant
by Ruth Hubbard
This book sets out a former deputy minister’s take on the “burden of office” of the role and on the difficulties of staying out of one ditch – excessive concern with safeguarding a few key principles – without sliding into another – being too anxious to please or too tempted to put personal interests first. The story emphasizes the constructive contribution of experience and imagination, especially when it is enriched by on-the-job reflection. More...
ISBN: 978-0-9813931-3-1 $19.95
distributor's EAN: 9780889701308
Scheming virtuously:
the road to collaborative governance
by Gilles Paquet
This book is an invitation to subversion, but also a somewhat personal account of the displacement of the dominant governing regime (Big-G centralized government) by small-g collaborative governance, in a world where power, resources and information are widely distributed. More...
ISBN: 978-0-9813931-0-0 $27.95
distributor's EAN: 9780889701311