Having run The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in Kent, been a board member and worked with HR people for too many years to remember, I have had deep experience of the good, bad and ugly of a profession that is (a) essential since people matter and (b) essentially confused since some HR people have no idea how to deal with people. Having suffered lengthy meetings with no results, I decided it was time for something simpler, shorter and more authentic than the usual "War and Peace" HR textbooks. In "Punk Rock People Management" I have stripped down HR to the bare essentials for busy people and those who are sick of HR jargon getting in the way of running a business. In the spirit of punk, each ‘chapter’ is just one page long, which means that you can read a chapter in less time than it takes to pogo to a Sex Pistols or Linkin Park song! On hearing of the concept, Tom Peters, the world’s greatest business thinker, author and speaker sent me a mail with just two words in it: “Do it!” – Now that’s what I call a Punk Rock Business Guru ! :-) "Punk Rock PM" is organised using the classic ‘Life, Sex and Death HR cycle’, in other words Hiring, Inspiring and Firing. To whet your appetite, some of the chapter titles are: Selection – Shall I stay or shall I go? Engagement – Pretty vacant Innovation – What’s new pussycat? Conflict – Who killed Bambi? If you have to get things done with people and can't get no satisfaction from an HR textbook, try "Punk Rock PM" for a refreshing difference. If you like Punk Rock PM, fast forward it to colleagues, customers, clients and contacts to start the positive revolution for plain people management!

1. Punk Rock People Management
A manifesto for simpler, shorter
and more authentic HR
Written by Peter Cook FCIPD
Punk Rock HR gives people access to the
fundamentals of great HR !! Peter Cook has
taken HR and put it in three chords and on
the bottom shelf where it should be”
Steve Browne, Executive Director of HR,
La Rosa’s Inc

2. PUNK ROCK PEOPLE MANAGEMENT:
THE CONTENTS

3. Pretty vacant

4. What do I get?

5. Ever fallen in love?

6. WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THE
BOOK
As someone who made a career
out of bending and breaking the
rules, Punk Rock People
Management comes as a
refreshing alternative to the
tyrannies of work. As The Doctors
of Madness were the virus that
gave birth to Punk Rock, Peter Cook
is the cure for HR. Take a pill three
times daily.
Richard Strange, Founder of the
Doctors of Madness and The
Godfather of Punk

7. Motivation – Reasons
to be cheerful

8. Shall I stay or
shall I go?

9. “A book on managing people
that is that rarest of things,
enjoyable for people to read.
Peter's punchy style brings to
life the challenges of
business and his practical
outlook and wit brings to life
the solutions. Wisdom,
humour and a bit of well
placed rebellion”
David D’Souza – CIPD
Author of Humane
Resourced Vol I and II
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THE
BOOK

10. Human Dynamics and The Academy of Rock
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