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|isbn=1529393930

|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business

|author=Sophie Rochester

|rating=5

|genre=Crafts

|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easier.''

''If not now, when?''

I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, couldn't it? But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''.

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|isbn=suppl_stafl

|genre=Business and Finance

|summary=I was a little bit nervous when I picked up ''Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon''. After all, the majority of presentations which I've seen or given were in a business context and what was required was absolute professionalism, not an act put on for light entertainment. I needn't have worried though: the book is an essential guide to preparing and giving your presentation, with or without what has now come to be known as The Dreaded PowerPoint. I've been making presentations successfully (but I'll say more about this later) in various professional situations for some forty or more years and I did wonder if the book would be able to teach me anything. It did.

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~~|isbn=1472938062~~

~~|title=Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards~~

~~|author=Marc Stigter and Sir Cary Cooper~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Business and Finance~~

|summary=I wasn't optimistic when I started reading ''Boards That Dare''. I feared that I would encounter new ways of minimising tax liabilities, of getting as much as possible out of employees whilst paying them the legal minimum and constant reminders that the ''shareholders'' own the company and of the necessity of maximising their return. In the event, I was only a few pages in before I discovered that I couldn't have been more wrong, that we were looking at ways of future-proofing the company. I began to feel hopeful...

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