Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

The fallout from Enron

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Investors, already spooked by last fall’s terrorist attacks, have been frightened again in the last few months by the growing number of U.S. companies caught in accounting scandals. The false statements of Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, ... Read More »

May 13, 2004 | Filed under: Awards

Q&Q buyers’ guide to business backlist

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ManagementCompeting by Design: The Power of Organizational ArchitectureDavid Nadler, Michael Tushman and Mark B. Nadler, Oxford University Press, 0195099176, $44Provides managers a systematic means of analyzing and building integrated organizations to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. ... Read More »

May 13, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

Executive class

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It’s just after lunchtime on a week day afternoon in late November on Adelaide Street in Toronto. At Books for Business, a rare storefront retailer in an area dominated by corporate towers and underground shopping ... Read More »

May 13, 2004

Branded!

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These days, there’s very little in the business world that isn’t branded. In the 1990s products alone don’t cut it anymore: In an ever-competitive sales environment, companies must cultivate a specific image in order to ... Read More »

May 13, 2004

Balancing act

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Internet commerce. Globalization. A growing number of women entrepreneurs. A rise in home-based business. Continued apprehension about rapid economic change and corporate downsizing. None of these business trends are new, but all are expected to ... Read More »

May 13, 2004

Shields writing mini-bio

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A new series of short biographies from Penguin – aimed at “the audience that has made Biography and The History Channel so successful” – pairs established writers with famous historical figures who have shaped contemporary ... Read More »

May 13, 2004

Location, location, location

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Chapters’ store directories list sections for everything from accounting to Zen Buddhism, but one category is conspicuously absent: biography. Bios of Beethoven and Margaret Laurence, for instance, aren’t shelved in the same section – they’re ... Read More »

May 13, 2004

ECW goes to Hollywood

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Last fall, ECW Press began issuing two different catalogues per season, acknowledging a growing conceptual split within the company’s list. So Tony Burgess’s new novel Caesarea, the final volume of a trilogy, leads off this ... Read More »

May 13, 2004

Squeeze play

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Philip Coulter doesn’t write 600-page novels, but he regularly faces a challenge that must sometimes seem as daunting: whittling them down to 300 pages. Abridging a book, then adapting it for audio, is an art ... Read More »

May 13, 2004