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 <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate Tojeiro0241636604|title= The Art of PossibleTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating= 4.5|genre= Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary= As I recently wrote on this websiteIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, I started reading management manuals poverty and selfinjustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright -improvement books at and he has a time when my life was not going so greatfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Since then, it seems He also realised that they have continued most rich people expect poor people to drop into my life just as I need thembe stupid. I'm sure there's something to the science of "serendipity"It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which basically means we notice stuff more when it's what we needgot him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993236901</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Damian McKinneyFiona Parashar |title= The Commando Entrepreneur|rating= 4|genre= Business and Finance|summary= It always helps to know the bias of anyone reviewing a book for you, so cards on the table: I am something of a "self-help" / "self-improvement" junkie. I use both expressions because it's often difficult to know where the boundary between management text books and teach-yourself-a-better-way-to-live books lies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909273619</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ray Barron Woolford|title=Food Bank Britain|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as a smartly-dressed young man foraged in waste bins for food, less than a mile from the riches of the City of London. Intrigued as to what was going on he went to ask. The man explained to him that he'd just got a job after two years of being unemployed, but it would be five weeks before he was paid. He couldn't claim benefits as he was in work and had no savings, so the bins had to be his source of food and by the following week he would have to walk to work as he couldn't afford the fares. That was the inspiration for the [http://www.wecarefoodbanks.co.uk/ We Care Food Bank].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099308091X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gerry Brown|title=The Independent Director: The Non-Executive Director's Guide A Beautiful Way to Effective Board PresenceCoach |rating=4.5
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|summary=In the United Kingdom independent directors are usually known as non-executive directors So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and being audacious enough to distinguish them from the executive – those people charged with actually running the company review it? Truth is I bought it out of curiosity. I was at an on a day-line launch for the book and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to-day basis - but Gerry Brown usually refers to them as independent directors, a phrase which is common in other parts of the worldme. Initially, I found the phrase somewhat unusual but as wanted to see if there were things in there that I read ''The Independent Director'' could use with someone I came am currently helping / supporting / trying to prefer that usage as it stresses what the director must be above all else mentor independent and able without committing them to stand back from the management of a business and view what is happening and what is planned with a dispassionate and critical eyefull day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. There's little in the way of training and it can be argued that no one is actually qualified I also wanted to do the jobsee if I could give myself a Vision Day, but Brown's book is as good as you're going to get in terms of spelling out the responsibilities bring me away from their vision and pitfallsback to my own.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>113748053X</amazonuk>103211603X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Platt303091657X|title=Criminal CapitalDisaster in the Boardroom: How the Finance Industry Facilitates CrimeSix Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson|rating=45
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|summary=It used to be estate agents we reviled Boards must act in the most, but best interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they've now achieved relative respectabilityare well-managed and financially secure. MPs briefly took the top spot, This might seem obvious but for many years now a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or the list has been topped by bankers following the 2008 financial crisis, when huge taxpayercollapse of a major company -funded financial bailouts were required to keep have left interested parties asking what the world's financial system afloatboard was doing. Most people will think that we've heard Where were they? Occasionally the worst boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has been going on, delivered some major company scandals but Stephen Platt believes that excessive risk taking and mis-selling might well be just a minor part of what has happened is ''still'' happening in the industry nothing new: Gerry Brown and that government attempts to counter Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the problems are misguided South Sea Bubble and unlikely even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to be effectivehave learned very little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>113733729X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Gabay1529393930|title=Brand PsychologyMaking a Living: Consumer Perceptions, Corporate ReputationsHow to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester
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|genre=Business and FinanceCrafts|summary=Confession - I'm 'Starting a bit of a brand geekcreative business has never been easier. '' ''If not now, when?'' I do have some marketing work experience but know that isnI't the reason why m not alone in having wondered whether or not Icould turn my hobby into a business. There'm s a bit lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a brand geeklot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. I think Selling would offset the attraction for me is that brands havecosts, or in some caseswhich can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, are, stories. couldn't it? But where to start? What do I have always been fascinated by how and why people can relate need to those storiesthink about? Well, in the same way that I am fascinated by how first thing anyone relates to any story! If you have any interest in the who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business of brands, this should do is to read ''Making a fascinating read and it delivers on far more fronts than just the business oneLiving''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749471735</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jacky Fittsuppl_stafl|title=How to Get Inside Someone's Mind and Stay ThereSupply Chain 20/20: The business owner's guide to content marketing and confident copywritingA Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceReference|summary=As a small business owner I know itSo, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You's difficult - sometimes re convinced that all you need to do now is get it feels impossible published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - to get and you had a talent for delivering the written word. You knew your message out subject back to your potential customers in a manner which is front. Now you're going to reward have to get to grips with the effort book supply chain, which you put into even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to try. BesidesThen, how do when you know who ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your potential customers are? How do hands, you know how they would like 're going to have to be approached? In fact, work out how are you going to get inside their head sell it - and stay there? Jacky Fitt has written a comprehensive guide which takes you through whatbecause it ''is''s needed and allows going to be down to you to develop your own action plan for your business.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00MXXQ5GU</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gareth Murphy0008350388|title=Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record IndustryWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|genre=EntertainmentPolitics and Society|summary=It’s not difficult ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to find a history of popular or recorded musicbe seen as less desirable, less hireable, written around the musical names who made it happenless intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts... '' ''Cowboys and IndiesWe Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba '' takes 0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a different approachbook by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman. '' While there is plenty in these pages about several of ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the most important stars, there is just as much again if not sometimes more about the movers UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and shakersnine. It was her mother who came first, the inventors, managers, impresarioswith her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and record label founders without whom there determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not have been translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a record industryplace at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254524</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|author=Ann HandleyFrontpage|titleisbn=Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Ann Handley has compiled a one stop resource for writers of any kind of marketing and promotional material. Assuming you have command of basic vocabulary and know how to write a simple sentence, Handley takes you through everything you could ever need to know for a huge variety of platforms, purposes and problems, in order to better represent your business on the internet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PJOTG4I</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewreed3|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again(3rd Edition)
|author=James Reed
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|summary=No-one likes doing job interviews. This includes most recruiting managersSix years on from the original edition, but for candidates it the book is one being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of lifeWork''s most stressful situationswhich includes an additional 10 questions. No matter whether it I's ve come to this some 6 years after reviewing the next step original book and my life has changed significantly in our carefully planned career or the meantime. I''just m no longer working in middle-management having opted for a job'', no matter whether it's our down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. I can therefore relate to the first job or our fifteenth, point made in this chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that 45 minutes to an hour of conversation has the potential employees need to fundamentally affect our happiness for the foreseeable futurehave.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241970210</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=3110706075|title=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaMaking a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfGerry Brown
|rating=4
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=We're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think of doing, there is a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, and people to back that reason up with scientific data. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke a serious illness or worse. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at the blink of an eye. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out to be your last…
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{{newreview
|title=The Price of Fish A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better Decisions
|author=Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris
|rating=3.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Don't be put off by 'You're not there to run the titleorganisation. You are there to make sure that it is run properly. The Price of Fish isn't ' Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - not just a treatise corporate board, but the board of an NHS Trust, a university, a sports organisation or a charity. He's particularly keen that there's increased diversity on how these boards and feels that this would help to avoid some of the local fishmonger chooses scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - we're thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. For this to happen, boards need to mark up his prize catchhave a wider field of people to choose from when they're looking for an ID.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886224</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve J Martin, Noah J Goldstein and Robert B Cialdini3030513025|title=The small BIGIndependent Director in Society: small changes that spark big influenceOur current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais|rating=45
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|summary=ItIndependent Director: ''a job for which no one is qualified'' (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of the board of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the company, (2) is not part of the company's a commonlyexecutive team, and (3) is not involved with the day-held belief that if you want to advance your business - bring in day operations of the extra moneycompany. (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, get more customers Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the executive members of boards and generally move up a step the independent directors (formerly known as non- then you're going executive directors), trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. The function of the independent director is to have general oversight of the executive side of the board - to spend big money spot when and bring in where things are going wrong - but all too often the experts. Martinrelationship is too cosy, Goldstein and Cialdini tackle too antagonistic or the problem from independent director lacks the other end: sometimes itknowledge and/or experience to understand what's happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the smallest, least expensive failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you might be tempted to think that these are extraordinary times and quick changes which can bring about the improvement that you need. In ''The small BIGall will be well once we get back to 'normal' they offer over fifty tips, hints, ideas which can make the difference. Sometimes they cost nothing, but bring a pandemic was predicted and modelled in millions. Occasionally they require the past and there has been a small investment of your time, but it can be as little as five minutesgeneral failure to prepare for what has happened - and is still happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252742</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Poundstone0241453585|title=Banking On It: How to Predict the Unpredictable: The Art of Outsmarting Almost Everyone|rating=4|genre=Reference|summary=William Poundstone believes that we are all in the business of predicting, whether it be something as minor as playing rock, paper, scissors to pay a bar bill though to anticipating how the housing or stock markets are going to move. Now, I'm not particularly competitive - if whatever it is means ''that'' much to someone else then I'd rather let them have it - so this book didn't appeal to me on the basis of doing better than someone else, but I was interested in how it might be possible to predict what is going to happen. So, care to predict how it stacked up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780744072</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDisrupted an Industry|author=The Economist|title=Pocket World in Figures 2015|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=There are people who don't understand the joy of raw data: no accompanying analysis (or spin) - just a collection of figures relevant to a particular circumstance. If you're one of those people then this book will mean little to you, but if you want a pocket (well, certainly handbag or briefcase) work of reference then this book will be a treasure. I once gave a copy to a diplomat and he kept his wife awake until the early hours as he came across another gem which she had to know without delay. The 2015 edition is the twenty fourth in the series - and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for the onslaught.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252734</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alannah Moore|title=Create Your Own Online Store (using WordPress) in a WeekendAnne Boden|rating=4.5
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|summary=I've run Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a website for over eight years now but I've always shied away from any inclusion of e-commerce on the sitesenior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. It seemed like too large a subject, too much complexity and choice and AIB was in the possibility throes of problems which could go disastrously wrong. I first encountered Alannah Moore recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when I read [[The Creative Person's Website Builder by Alannah Moore|The Creative Person's Website Builder]] she arrived and she was impressed by one of the way first to realise that she approached her subject, so banks needed to do things differently. AIB thought it was at the cutting edge when I had the opportunity it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to see how to create an online store in access their accounts via a terminal. Boden took things a weekendstep further, I jumped at realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the chanceold branch network, employing thousands of people, would soon become redundant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781571430</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=3110641119|title=MoneyThe Journey Mapping Playbook: The Unauthorised BiographyA Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Felix MartinJerry Angrave|rating=45
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|summary=Occasionally books are not exactly I had no idea what they seem. When 'journey mapping' was until I picked read this up, read playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the blurb book and began acting on the contents inside, I was expecting a kind of biography or history of money through the ages. The opening chapter, You're going to learn how to run a brief sketch of the economy of the Pacific island of Yap and how workshop to discover what it worked, seemed feels like to confirm thisbe one of your own customers. It tells us how in the late nineteenth century Yap, east of the Philippine Islands, had an unwieldy coinage consisting of stone wheels around 12ft in diameterAt this point, called fei. The population did please don't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not carry these around, let alone own them like we possess pounds another workshop' because this is going to be fun and pence, as they were part of a sophisticated system of credit managementyou're going to be surprised by what emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578522</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Hytner3110641291|title=ConsiglieriThe Radical Innovation Playbook: Leading from the ShadowsA Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander|rating=3.5
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|summary=I've always been fascinated by the existence of that shadowy figureSo, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the consigliere, same thing in stories about the Mafiaa slightly different form and quite a bit of money spent. He - and Why not just leave it as it was always a man - appeared to be full of wisdom, with the interests of the family at heart and without an ambitious bone in his bodyis? After all, or so it would seem. It was the title of Richard Hytner's book which drew me in - along with the idea that coming top is sometimes second best. That seemed to go against everything that I'd ever been brought up to believe. So - does he make a good case for being the second in command'roughly'' working, isn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250464</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life|author=Uri Gneezy and John List|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Wow! This is a most surprising economics book.
Behavioral economists (if you’ll excuse the American spelling) investigate people’s buying behaviour and consuming patternsYou might not have said it, but you've probably thought it. I guess we know about that already because supermarkets here lull us into buying three for You've also thought the price of twosmall, incremental improvements which you have been able to come back next week for £10 off a £100make - the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, or to garner extra points on a loyalty card (Oh why can’t they just go for a cheaper price at the point extension of sale? Why do profits have to be your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in double percentage point increases year on year?)terms of ''growth''. A fair bit of manipulation to ensure that It's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a company survives is already part more radical approach. You've merely kept the business ticking over and parcel there's a nagging suspicion in the back of our lives. If you’d asked me before I read this book, I would have lined up your mind that sort of consumer marketing psychology alongside banking as profiteering. However … these guys are different: they really do seem to care about an organisation designed for the plight of twentieth century might not survive in the underprivileged, and they come from an academic setting, rather than a commercial onetwenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946747</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Kelsey1472962044|title=Get Things DoneCreating Value Through Technology: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Discover the Tech that Can ChangeTransform Your Business|author=Andrew Hampshire
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|genre=Business and Finance
|summary= WeI was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're all eighteen, so busy these days itthere's easy to veer between headless chicken and cherry picking modes, been a lot of technology in my life. I once worked for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or at least it is for menot they had a typewriter. (I really hope my boss isn’t reading this!) Times - thankfully - have moved on. In fact procrastination Nowadays the problem is my super power which was why I grabbed [[:Category:Robert Kelsey|Robert Kelseythat someone running a business doesn's]] book from t have the shelf time to keep up with excited anticipation: in constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expected. It's also a self-help book with fact that no one develops a business because they have the knowledge of the longest titles known to manrequired technology, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantage. They need help, he promises to but they frequently don't know what help us become more efficient time managers and to stop putting things offthey need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857083082</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=The Wolf of Wall StreetDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Jordan BelfortRashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=2.5|genre=AutobiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=As if we didnWhat a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you't have enough excuses ve managed to appreciate the 'Masters get hold of the Universeit. Your reasons for wanting money don' of the financial sectort matter: we all need it to some extent. After the tax dodging You might want to go into business, the bonus scammingbe a clever shopper, price fixing a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and the valiant attempt there might be something you really, ''really'' want to bring down the entire world economy comes Jordan Belfort aka the Wolf of Wall Streetbuy. To be fair to Belfort, he plied his trade long before the most recent financial meltdown. Still, heThere's managed also the possibility of using to piggy back do good in the latest crash via a best selling book which has been re-released to coincide with a film adaptation starring Leonardo Dicaprioworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778129</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Live At the Brixton Academy: A riotous life in the music businessLinda Scott|authortitle=Simon Parkes and J S RafaeliThe Double X Economy|rating=4.5|genre=EntertainmentPolitics and Society|summary=Who on earth would want to buy and run '' Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the world''. It's a live music venue in deepest Brixton, and manage to keep it running bold statement for fifteen yearsan opening chapter, transforming but it against all 's far from hyperbole as the odds into following pages explain. This book shines a light on what becomes one of Britain’s most iconic establishments of its kind? Such an undertaking calls for somebody with special managerial skills who can keep one step ahead of the game, walking a precarious tightropeis happening in different places, keeping gangsters, punters, promoters and the impact on the local authorities onsideand world economy. It also requires a good deal What can be learnt from the great strides in gender-equalising legislation in the west? What can be done about the selling of luck.young women into marriage, and what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689554</amazonuk>0571353606
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chip Heath and Dan Heath0349424926|title=DecisiveLife's Work: How 12 Proven Ways to Make Better Decisions in Life and WorkFast-Track Your Career|author=James Reed
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|summary=I don't Do you have a problem with making decisionsguaranteed and more-than-adequate income which will last the rest of your life? Do you have no need to work, probably because Ieither for income or fulfilment? If you even hesitate over either of those questions then you really ought to read 've always tended to the view that it's better to make a decision and get on with life than haver and waste time in limbo. With a few notable exceptions itLife's served me well, but when Work': 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career'Decisive'. If you' appeared on my desk it struck me re not yet in work or considering that there could be advantages you might need to improving the quality of make some changes then this is the decisions toobook you need. The Heath brothers have a good history James Reed is the chairman and chief executive of collaborating on such subjects REED, Britain's biggest and delivering books which open best-known name in the mindrecruitment industry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847940862</amazonuk> Who better to give you the advice you need?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John LeeAnne Boden|title=How to Make a Million Slowly: My Guiding Principles from a Lifetime of Investing The Money Revolution|rating=3.54|genre=Business and Finance|summary=You should, of course, remember the old adageMoney is changing. 'If something seems too good to It might not be true, it probably is'in the ways you think. If We’re not suddenly getting a 3p or £3 coin (and have you find a slim book with the title 'How to Make ever even found a Million - Slowly' you shouldn't assume country that you're about offers anything different to have an entirely different relationship with your Bank Manager. On the other hand John Lee - Lord Lee of Trafford - was the UK's first PEP/ISA millionaire1, from an investment of £1252,0005 model?) We’re getting a lot more digital with payments, so there's no need which seems to suspect that you'll open suit most people apart from charity collectors and the homeless on the street, but although this book to find has the subtitle that youincludes the word ''re told to digital'do as I do', it’s not really about this either. This is a man who has done Instead, it and has a lot of good advice - after all, he wrote 's about the ''My Portfolio Columnmanagement'' in the Financial Times for fourteen yearsof your finances, and how to take control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1292005084</amazonuk>1789660610
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949395324|title=What if Money Grew on Trees?Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: Asking the big questions about economics4th Edition|author=David BoyleKalpesh Ashar|rating=54
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=In ''Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know ''gives people without an accounting background who have risen in a climate company the knowledge to understand the accounts which show how the company is doing. The book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, then moves on to give an excellent overview of increasing economic uncertainty, we may often find ourselves exploring the big questions about money, finance types of accounting systems which will be encountered and the global marketterms used. For example We then look in detail at the balance sheet, during the recent downturn, experts were faced with such questions as ''What if we just kept printing more banknotes?'' income statement and ''What would happen if the banks crashed again?'' These, and other thought-provoking speculative questions have been put to a team statement of experts and their answers have been recorded in a fascinating and absorbing little book called ''What if Money Grew on Trees?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240046X</amazonuk>cash flows...
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan H Palmer1946383627|title=Talk Lean: Shorter Meetings. Quicker Results. Better RelationsCost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know|author=Vibrant Publishers|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=When I think back to my days as an employee the memory 'm capable of drawing up a profit and loss account (income statement in the meetings makes me shudder. They were usually badly prepared USA) and managed with little aim other than to tick a box balance sheet and I do so that someone could prove to for my own business and for another organisation. The accounts give me ''hisbroadly'' manager that he held meetingswhat I need: I know whether we're making a profit or a loss and I can look at the expenses and see what looks as though it could be trimmed back in future years. The waste of time My problem was on a monumental scale and I doubt that Ithe accounts didn'm alone t really give me any help in thinking this. Include other meetings making decisions, which you have on personal matters was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting and youManagement'll probably agree that it's rare to emerge feeling that you, part of Vibrant Publishers've achieved what you wanted to achieve Self- or that you haven't been manipulatedLearning and Management series.. Alan H Palmer has a plan for making meetings shorter and getting better results, but most importantly (for me) he wants you to be able to do it all openly, with no tricks, no gimmicks and complete honesty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857084976</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1072549271|title=The CurveSimple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: From Freeloaders into Superfans: The Future of BusinessA Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Nicholas LovellGeorgianne Landy-Kordis
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|genre=business Business and Finance|summary=Back in I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the 20th centurytraditional houses, companies tried to sell but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have the same products big bucks required to everyone for go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. I then ask if they've considered Kindle and the same priceanswer is, and needed to shift massive amounts of them if inevitably, that they wanted wouldn't know where to make a lot of moneystart. I can empathise with that. Today, there is the potential to get just as much money from customers by selling expensive items or services to Despite having used a small number of big spenders. Of coursecomputer for about thirty years, the trick is getting enough running most of these big spenders to discover what youmy life ''re marketing in the first place - and one of the best ways '' a website online, I'm still nervous when it comes to do that is by giving starting something away new. I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it for freethe first time. But how do they then turn these freeloaders into superfans? Author and consultant Nicholas Lovell gives us an overview That was why I was very interested when ''The Simple Act of the changing world, and advice on how to take advantage of it, in this fascinating bookSelf Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670923834</amazonuk>
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