Introduction to Tony Barradell – Book Reviews Editor
Article Type: Bookshelf From: Industrial and Commercial Training, Volume 44, Issue 5
A quick piece to introduce myself as the new book review editor for ICT.
I have been involved with training and development for much of the last 20 years. Initially this was with one of this country’s once-great banks,where I began my career as a trainer in their financial services section. Whilst initially this meant training bank advisers on technical matters such as pension and insurance policies, I soon developed my own interest in the much wider skills-set required to succeed in whatever job you are doing. This led to me leaving the bank and taking up a post as a management trainer for a company specialising in developing new project managers. There, I both taught and I learnt.
Subsequent years saw me take the role as both management trainer and manager within the business. This soon led to me becoming a director of the company and juggling further responsibilities. After ten years I am now stepping away from the company and taking the opportunity bring more variety to my working life. And this gives me the opportunity to act as the new book review editor for ICT.
I intend to follow in the good footsteps of those editors before me,including John Wilson, by contributing my own reviews and those of others. I would like to include reviews of books on many different topics that may be of interest to the readership of ICT. In this way I hope to bring to the attention of the readers all sorts of books of merit. The reviews will give you an insight into the content and the style of the books, with comment as to the bits we like and the bits that we don’t.
I hope you enjoy the reviews and find them of value. Let me know of if you have any recommendations for recently published books that we may like to review. And let me know what you think of the reviews!
Tony is an independent management development consultant. He holds Chartered Manager status within the Chartered Management Institute and is an Associate of both the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the Chartered Institute of Bankers.
