[[Category:New Reviews|Business and Finance]]
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|author=Simon Heffer
|title=Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters
|rating=4
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=As a child I was taught English grammar. I began by resenting it but gradually I appreciated the subtlety and nuances of expression that could be achieved by the correct use of language. I loved the fact that I could say something precisely and convey exactly what I meant in a few words. And then I was stunned to find that there was no longer the same emphasis on grammar in schools, that freedom of expression was encouraged without worrying about the form it took – and now I regularly encounter official letters, even books where the English language is subjected to grievous bodily harm. It isn't difficult to get right – it just requires a little knowledge, a logical mind and practice.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099537931</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Luke Johnson
The City, 8th October, 2008. Author Philip Augar states 'even the most conservative observer would have to concede that 8 October 2008 amounted to a catastrophic failure of private-sector banking in the UK.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009952404X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Martin Kornberger
|title=Brand Society
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Brand Society is fundamentally not a business management book. This might come as some surprise given the title. Management books, at least the ''how to'' management books, tend to be simple and easy to follow. But, I suspect Kornberger would agree, that's what limits their use. They are over-simplified to the point of uselessness. Rather, Brand Society takes an holistic approach to the subject of the prevailing nature of brands in today's world (at least the Western world). He suggests that today's brands exist without a prevailing theory to understand them or make sense of them. So what Kornberger does, after first looking at how brands transform management and organizations, is present a brand-centred conceptual map for thinking about things like politics, ethics and aesthetics.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521726905</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Fraser's Autographs
|title=Collect Autographs: An Illustrated Guide to Collecting and Investing in Autographs
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=There must be many of us who have at one time had an autograph book or something of the kind as children and asked friends, relations or even celebrities to 'do something', written to celebrities in the hope of obtaining a personally signed picture, or even waited patiently at a stage door after a play or concert eagerly clutching a theatre programme, record or CD sleeve and pen in hand.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597525</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Chan
|title=Harvard Business School Confidential: Secrets of Success
|rating=3.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Harvard Business School has an almost unrivalled reputation for schooling some of the greatest business leaders (and George W Bush!). Former graduate, Emily Chan, who went on to work for leading management consultancy Boston Consulting Group and who is now a director in a family direct investment business in Hong Kong, promises to offer the secrets she learnt there. Does she succeed?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470822392</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Amy V Fetzer and Shari Aaron
|title=Climb the Green Ladder: Make Your Company and Career More Sustainable
|rating=4
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=With the abject failure of the Denmark Climate Change Conference fresh in our minds, it is perhaps time to turn away from the politicians and look back toward what we can do.
The Conference may have finally got the likes of the USA, India and China to acknowledge that they have to join in if we are going to save the planet as a benevolent place for our species to live, but there is still too much posturing and not enough commitment.
Clearly our governments and 'leaders' are not going to do this for us; we have to do it for ourselves.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>047074801X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Alison Maitland
|title=Why Women Mean Business
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Do you want to improve your business? Make more profits? You probably need to look at the sector which makes 80% of purchasing decisions, is the majority of the talent and represents 59% of graduates.
Women.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470749504</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=The Economist
|title=The World of Business: From Valuable Brands and Games Directors Play to Bail-Outs and Bad Boys
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=For years I've been a great fan of The Economist's [[Pocket World in Figures 2010 by The Economist|Pocket World in Figures]] series with all the unbiased statistics which the average person could want. I was just a little nervous when I opened ''The World of Business'' – just in case it was going to be a disappointment – but I needn't have worried.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681588</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dr Richard Hale and Alan Chambers MBE
|title=Keep Walking - Leadership Learning in Action - A thrilling story of a polar adventure with powerful lessons in leadership and personal development
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=One side of this book is completely alien to me. I have had no reason to believe in any of the action learning, self-actualisation etc, that people in business sometimes deem necessary. If pressed, I'd guess that if people needed so much in-work training they might just be the wrong person for the job. There's an anecdote here about a bright young thing fresh from business school, and faced with her first task at work, who panicked as ''she did not know which theory to apply''. The theory of common sense, I'd have suggested.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312780</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Henry Mintzberg
|title=Managing
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=''Study after study has shown that managers work at an unrelenting pace''
How true, though it always makes me wonder why, as a result, there's such a market for bulky management and leadership and general business books like this one. How does anyone who needs or wants to read one ever find the time to do so? This title actually has an answer to this, by providing two books in one, and it is such a simple yet effective solution that I have to start there. You can read this book in one of two ways. Option one is to read every word, chapter by chapter, cover to cover. If you have the time I would recommend this approach because the book is very readable, not too repetitive, and quite thought-provoking.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273709305</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alistair Milne
|title=The Fall of the House of Credit
|rating=3.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=It now seems to be established as fact that so-called 'toxic assets' – mostly sub-prime mortgage investments in the USA were the cause of the current banking crisis, but Professor Alistair Milne of Cass Business School argues otherwise. It's his contention that many of these 'toxic assets' were (and still are) sound investments which will be repaid in full without any problems and even the defaults will not be a large proportion of the whole. He argues that it was the initial loss of confidence in these investment vehicles which began a downward spiral and resulted in the collapse of several Banks.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521762146</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ben Mezrich
|title=The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=As subtitles go, ''Sex, Money, Betrayal...'' is the sort you'd generally associate with works by Danielle Steel or Jackie Collins. But, with a website? And a supremely geeky (in its beginnings) website like Facebook? Surely not. And, yet, that's exactly the claim you find on the cover of this book, a work of faction that claims to tell the inside story of the founding of Facebook.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019550</amazonuk>
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