Brian Tracy Berrett Koehler, £14.99 Apparently, the average manager has a permanent backlog of between 300 and 400 hours of projects, programmes and reading material. Or so Brian Tracy, citing studies by an unnamed US university, claims.

E-business solutions provider Digital Union is to host free seminars on the benefits of e-procurement for small and medium-sized enterprises. The first are on 8 October in Bedfont and 16 October in Warwick. www.digitalunion.com/ezm.htm