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On a hot sunny day last August the final newspaper still working from an office on London's Fleet Street called 'stop the press' & closed its doors for the final time Thirteen days later it was the turn of award-winning journalist Maurice Chittenden to make his excuses & leave He was fired from The Sunday Times after a Fleet Street career lasting almost forty years one that saw him working for a trio of legendary Murdoch editors Andrew Neil Kelvin Mackenzie & Derek Jameson In a rip-roaring trip through his career he tells how he was involved (accidentally of course) in the first ever telephone bugging of a member of the Royal Family twenty years before such skulduggery was even thought possible helped solve the murder of schoolgirl Caroline Dickinson & was credited with bringing down a Tory government He arrived too late to save his boss the embarrassment of the Hitler diaries but he exposed the supposed Jack the Ripper confessions & Roswell alien autopsy film as fakes He sparked a diplomatic incident when he was thrown into jail in Borneo over a lobster One of the last surviving combatants in The Battle of Wapping in which an attack on his car led to a police cavalry charge & a bloody riot he is the most by-lined reporter in The Sunday Times history with up to seven by-lines a week His career mirrored the rise & fall of Fleet Street & he freely admits that his own excesses played a part in its downfall The Fleet Street he remembers with fondness no longer exists But its reputation as the ' Street of Shame' survives in the name of the column in Private Eye which afforded him the plaudit of 'the legendary Maurice Chittenden' in its report of his professional demise ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This light-hearted story of romantic heroism & sporting glory features British boxing legend Len Harvey as a young man who steps into the limelight by accident then decides it&s worth fighting to stay there! Also starring Cockney comedy star Ronald Shiner & a line-up of the cream of 1930s boxing talent Excuse My Glove is featured here in a br&-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio Don Carter who is more interested in stained glass than fisticuffs unwittingly accepts a challenge to fight in a boxing-booth at a fair Recognising a potential money-spinner when he sees one the booth&s proprietor appoints himself Don&s manager & Don quickly finds out that the spirit of the Marquess of Queensberry does not always prevail on either side of the ropes! SPECIAL FEATUREImage gallery ...

When Execution was first published in 2002 it changed the way we did our jobs By analysing the discipline of getting things done it helped thousands of business people to make the final leap to success Now Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan reframe their empowering message for a world in which the old rules have been shattered & radical change is becoming routine For the foreseeable future- Growth will be slower But the company that executes well will have the confidence speed & resources to move fast as new opportunities emerge
- Competition will be fiercer with companies searching for any possible advantage in every area
- Governments will take on new roles in their national economies & companies that execute well will be more attractive as partners & suppliers & better prepared to adapt to new waves of regulation
- Risk management will become a top priority for every leader & every company will be looking for the edge in detecting new internal & external threats Forget formulating a 'vision' then leaving others to carry it out Execution shows you how to link together people strategy & operations
- the three core elements of every organisation
- & create a business based on dialogue intellectual honesty & realism With case histories from the real world
- including such recent examples such as the diverging paths taken by Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan Chase & Charles Prince at Citigroup
- Execution provides the realistic & hard-nosed approach to business success that could only come from authors as accomplished & insightful as Bossidy & Charan






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She's a secretary bodyguard & assassin all rolled into one! Meet Iris a loyal & ruthlessly efficient subordinate to her powerful corporate boss Mr Ching In the modern cutthroat corporate world today's CEO needs an intimidating edge to stay on top & Iris is more than well-trained to oblige the demand of her employer
- including murder However Iris discovers the man she has dutifully served for most of her life is far more corrupt than the people she is sworn to protect him from Now torn between her loyalties to the only person she's ever served & the new life she realizes she's ready to explore on her own she must make a choice that could ultimately lead to her demise Iris' treacherous journey for redemption is set in motion as the entire first volume of the critically acclaimed action-adventure series is collected here for the very first time!
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The price of freedom is often as costly—and fatal—as a life of servitude! They are raised & trained to protect & serve their masters with discipline loyalty & often violence if necessary
- they are the Executive Assistants Yet what tales of corruption & depravity aggression & fatal destinies await them on each of their collective paths?
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Iris is back! The thrilling second volume to the critically acclaimed series Executive Assistant Iris is available now in one action-packed collection! Following the death of her master Mr Ching Iris is nowhere to be found Yet the industry of EA's presses on without her under the corporate domination of a new threat to world security
- the billionaire entrepreneur Duncan Villone His strategy for control of not only the Executive Assistant's bodies but also their minds sends ripples across multiple continents in this unrelenting tale of espionage & global conspiracy! Featuring appearances by popular EA's Rose Lily Lotus Orchid & violet this is one trade paperback fans of EA & new readers looking to join the fold will not want to miss!
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Following the deadly results of " The Hit List Agenda” the Executive Assistants find themselves alone scattered & unsure of their own collective fate However Iris now finds herself at the employ of perhaps the most sinister of all organized enterprises-the Central Intelligence Agency! ...

The Hit List Agenda returns with its sites set on you! Aspen's sold-out summer crossover event is finally packaged together in one masterpiece collection for Executive Assistant fans! Join Lotus Orchid & violet in their own respective journeys as the " Hit List Agenda" storyline binds them all together to eventually face the global threat of corporate mastermind Duncan Villone & his massive network of power & corruption Featuring the talents of over a dozen of the industry's top artists & creators this pulse-pounding storyline sets the stage for the acclaimed second volume of Executive Assistant Iris! Don't miss out! ...

Are you "leadership material?" More importantly do others perceive you to be? Sylvia Ann Hewlett a noted expert on workplace power & influence shows you how to identify & embody the Executive Presence (EP) that you need to succeed You can have the experience & qualifications of a leader but without executive presence you won't advance EP is an amalgam of qualities that true leaders exude a presence that telegraphs you're in charge or deserve to be Articulating those qualities isn't easy however Based on a nationwide survey of college graduates working across a range of sectors & occupations Sylvia Hewlett & the Center for Talent Innovation discovered that EP is a dynamic cohesive mix of appearance communication & gravitas While these elements are not equal to have true EP you must know how to use all of them to your advantage Filled with eye-opening insights analysis & practical advice for both men & women mixed with illustrative examples from executives learning to use the EP Executive Presence will help you make the leap from working like an executive to feeling like an executive ...