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- ARTSCIENCE: first look-ahead to 2010
- Upon a Peak in Darien… New Vistas from Old Places
- CP Snow: Only Connect
- Whose Rise and Fall …?
- How Many Cultures? CP Snow and the Darwin Legacy
- Creative Break-Through at Sheffield University
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The PEST Anthology
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About This Blog
Who is Ralph Windle?
Founder / Director : The Creative Value Network
- The Creative Value Network provides the management ‘hub’ for creative interactions between the Arts, Science, Technology and Educational communities;
- Works with professional groups and individuals to initiate cross-disciplinary change and the more inclusive networks to sustain it;
- Seeks to influence the wider public debate on arts/science inter-dependence and open education;
- Stimulates research, interactive projects and publication on related themes.
Writer, Speaker and Presenter
- Author of past and forthcoming books (below)
- Creator of Bertie Ramsbottom in the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, BBC Radio and other media
- ‘The Bottom Line’. Music Settings: (Joyce Hope Suskind, composer) Savoy (London)and Oxford locations. Readings: Harvard,Washington DC, New York, Boston, various Oxford/UK locations.
Education and Career Development
- Read Greats (Classics and Philosophy) at Oriel College, Oxford
- Marketing trained with Procter and Gamble. Product Group Manager
- Became Chief Executive of Biscuit Division and Main Board Director of Nabisco UK. Member Nabisco European Management Council
- Subsequently a Foundation Fellow of Templeton College, Oxford (The Oxford Centre for Management Studies.) International Corporate Strategies
- Has exercised various Visiting Professor and lecturer/research roles in Europe, South America and the United States; including AGSIM (the American Graduate School of International Management, Arizona); Georgetown University Business School, Washington DC; The International Trade Centre, UNCTAD/GATT, Geneva; Centre for Advanced Technological Studies, Turin; Ecole des Affaires de Paris; Management Centre Europe, Brussels; and others.
- External Adviser (Management Education and EC Policy portfolios) to four successive Directors General of the National Economic Development Office, London; and on projects with the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the European Commission (Competition Directorate), Georgetown Centre for Strategic and International Studies (US) and the ILO (Geneva).
Publications
- ‘Public Enterprise in the EEC’. Joint editor with Wm Keyser. (Sijhoff and Noordhoff 1978 6 volumes).
- ‘The Bottom Line’ (Century Hutchinson 1985)
- ‘Boardroom Ballads’ (Adler and Adler, USA 1986)
- ‘The Poetry of Business Life’ (Berrett-Koehler, USA 1996)
- The ‘PEST’ (Poetry of Engineering, Science and Technology) Anthology Forthcoming
- ‘Management Decision’ Poeme Edition 2006. ‘Poetry and the Business Life
For more information visit www.ralphwindle.com