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[[Category:New Reviews|Business and Finance]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Kelsey0241636604|title=Get Things DoneThe Trading Game: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Can ChangeA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=If 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, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Fiona Parashar
|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary= So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and being audacious enough to review it? Truth is I bought it out of curiosity. I was at an on-line launch for the book and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to me. I wanted to see if there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to see if I could give myself a Vision Day, to bring me away from their vision and back to my own.
|isbn=103211603X
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=303091657X
|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand
|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary= We're all so busy these days it's easy to veer between headless chicken Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and cherry picking modes, or at least it is for mefinancially secure. (I really hope my boss isn’t reading this!) In fact procrastination is my super power This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which was why I grabbed [[:Category:Robert Kelsey|Robert Kelsey's]] book from have resulted in death or the shelf with excited anticipation: in collapse of a selfmajor company -help book with one have left interested parties asking what the board was doing. Where were they? Occasionally the boards were unaware of the longest titles known what was happening or they preferred to manturn a blind eye, he promises to help leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us become more efficient time managers a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to stop putting things offhave learned very little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857083082</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|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.''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=suppl_stafl
|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers
|author=Kim Staflund
|rating=4.5
|genre=Reference
|summary=So, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chip Heath and Dan Heath0008350388|title=Decisive: How We Need to Make Better Decisions in Life and WorkTalk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba
|rating=5
|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=I don't have 'To be a problem with making decisionsdark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, probably because I've always tended to the view that it's better to make a decision less hireable, less intelligent and get on with life ultimately less valuable than haver and waste time in limbomy light-skinned counterparts... '' With a few notable exceptions it's served me well, but when 'We Need to Talk About Money''Decisiveby Otegha Uwagba '' appeared on my desk it struck me that there could be advantages to improving the quality 0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of the decisions toocolour while only 7% study a book by a woman. '' ''The Heath brothers have a good history of collaborating on such subjects and delivering books which open the mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847940862</amazonuk>}}Bookseller'' 29 June 2021
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=reed3|title=What if Money Grew on TreesWhy You?: Asking the big questions about economics101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=David BoyleJames Reed
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=In a climate of increasing economic uncertainty, we may often find ourselves exploring Six years on from the big questions about moneyoriginal edition, finance and the global market. For example, during the recent downturn, experts were faced book is being re-issued with such questions as a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work'What if we just kept printing more banknotes?'which includes an additional 10 questions. I' ve come to this some 6 years after reviewing the original book and ''What would happen if my life has changed significantly in the banks crashed again?meantime. I'' These, and m no longer working in middle-management having opted for a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other thought-provoking speculative questions have been put (not necessarily paying) work. I can therefore relate to a team of experts the first point made in this chapter namely that independence and their answers flexibility are core skills that employees need to have been recorded in a fascinating and absorbing little book called ''What if Money Grew on Trees?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240046X</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan H Palmer3110706075|title=Talk LeanMaking a Difference: Shorter Meetings. Quicker Results. Better RelationsLeadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry Brown
|rating=4
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=When I think back ''You're not there to my days as an employee the memory of run the meetings makes me shudderorganisation. They were usually badly prepared and managed with little aim other than You are there to tick a box so make sure that someone could prove to it is run properly.''his'' manager that he held meetings. The waste Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - not just a corporate board, but the board of time was on an NHS Trust, a university, a sports organisation or a monumental scale and I doubt that I'm alone in thinking thischarity. Include other meetings which you have on personal matters and you He'll probably agree s particularly keen that itthere's rare to emerge feeling increased diversity on these boards and feels that you've achieved what you wanted this would help to achieve avoid some of the scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - or that we're thinking about you haven't been manipulated) which have occurred in recent years. Alan H Palmer has a plan for making meetings shorter and getting better resultsFor this to happen, but most importantly (for me) he wants you boards need to be able have a wider field of people to do it all openly, with no tricks, no gimmicks and complete honestychoose from when they're looking for an ID.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857084976</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=3030513025
|title=The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do
|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Independent Director: ''a job for which no one is qualified'' (''Financial Times'')
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Scott Berkun0241453585|title=The Year Without PantsBanking On It: WordPress.Com and the Future of WorkHow I Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne Boden|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Sometimes you find Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a book which you simply can't ''not'' readsenior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. 'The Year Without Pants' AIB was in the throes of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of themthe first to realise that banks needed to do things differently. It's not what you're thinking (money's not ''that'' tight) - but AIB thought it was at the story of what happens cutting edge when an old-school management guru goes back to the coal face to lead it proposed opening a team branch which had not had a leader before - allowed customers to be accurate they'd not had teams - in access their accounts via a revolutionary company which takes remote working to the extremeterminal. Members of Scott Berkun's team lived all over the world and worked for Boden took things a company which had largely gone beyond emailstep further, had headquarters which were rarely used and had no rules. So, why did I ''have'' to read realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the book? Wellold branch network, the company in question is Automattic which brings us WordPressemploying thousands of people, the open source software which powers fifty million websites. I run a website which uses open-source software - and I've been in business for the last seven and a half years with someone to whom I've never even spokenwould soon become redundant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1118660633</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo Gough3110641119|title=The Con MenJourney Mapping Playbook: A History of Financial Fraud Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Lessons You Can LearnValue of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave|rating=45
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Most people I had no idea what 'journey mapping' was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will recognise benefit from reading the now-infamous Bernie Madoff book and Allen Stanford as crooks who swindled thousands of investors of their hard-earned savings but at one time these individuals had gained stellar reputations in acting on the financial worldcontents. In fact Madoff was You're going to learn how to run a former chairman workshop to discover what it feels like to be one of NASDAQ (originally the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations - now the second-largest stock market comparing to official stock exchanges by market capitalization in the world) and well respectedyour own customers. He’s currently serving 150 in prison for running a 65 billion dollar Ponzi schemeAt this point, whilst Stanford was sentenced please don't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is going to 110 years for the same offence. How did they get away with it? This book will tell be fun and you how're going to be surprised by what emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273751344</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=3110641291
|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs
|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=So, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing in a slightly different form and quite a bit of money spent. Why not just leave it as it is? After all, it's ''roughly'' working, isn't it?
You might not have said it, but you've probably thought it. You've also thought the small, incremental improvements which you have been able to make - the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, the extension of your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in terms of ''growth''. It's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a more radical approach. You've merely kept the business ticking over and there's a nagging suspicion in the back of your mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Rowland Smith1472962044|title=The Reality TestCreating Value Through Technology: Still Relying on Strategy?Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Andrew Hampshire
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=If you are in business the chances are I was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you know 're eighteen, so there are areas 's been a lot of technology in which you need help, my life. I once worked for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriter. Times - at the very least thankfully - could improvehave moved on. Sometimes it's quite difficult to quantify ''where'' you need Nowadays the help, but you're probably quite sure about what you ''donproblem is that someone running a business doesn't'' need have the time to keep up with constant innovation and thatthey might also be scared because previous IT investments haven's best summed up t delivered as too much science, jargon you donexpected. It't understand or anything s also a fact that you no one develops a business because they have to wade through to come up with the conclusion knowledge of the required technology, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that you were doing it roughly right in the first placethey're at a disadvantage. A good starting point is a book which you can dip into as you They need and which edges your thinking into areas ithelp, but they frequently don's not been into for a whilet know what help they need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250790</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson OBE1526362759|title=Freedom from Bosses ForeverDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45|genre=HumourChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=When we first meet Canadian businesswoman Leonora Soculitherz What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (don't struggle nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with itwhen you's pronounced ve managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don'so cool t matter: we all need it hurts') she's on her way from Manchester Airport to Scarborough, the home of her agent, Tony Robinson OBEsome extent. You get the measure of the woman straight away as she lets her irritation show about the problems might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you find in the First Class carriage on the train. (She is really, ''soreally'' right - I was once grateful want to spend the journey perched on a luggage rackbuy.) Her mission is a piece of investigative journalism thatThere's going to introduce her also the possibility of using to some very superior people as she searches for information about why people do good in small businesses don't get the help they needworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00CE5BKKI</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George BrockLinda Scott|title=Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital AgeThe Double X Economy|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=At about '' Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the world''. It's a bold statement for an opening chapter, but it's far from hyperbole as the turn of following pages explain. This book shines a light on what is happening in different places, and the century most people impact on the street where I live had a morning paper delivered local and a good number also got an evening paperworld economy. The queue at What can be learnt from the newsagent great strides in gender-equalising legislation in the village would west? What can be out done about the selling of the door each morning as people picked up a paper on their way to work. I young women into marriage, and what can't remember when I last saw a newspaper boy (or girl) on their rounds chimpanzees and we only buy the weekend papers as an indulgence with a more leisurely breakfast. Times have changed - and there's no sign that the situation is likely to settle in the near future.bonobos teach us about mothering?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749466510</amazonuk>0571353606
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dee Blick0349424926|title=The 15 Essential Marketing Masterclasses for Life's Work: 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Small BusinessCareer|author=James Reed
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=A problem Do you have a guaranteed and more-than-adequate income which will be common to most small businesses is finding last the time rest of your life? Do you have no need to market yourself. work, either for income or fulfilment? YouIf you even hesitate over either of those questions then you really ought to read 're small - you spend your time working 'Life's Work': 12 Proven Ways to earn the money Fast- that is (after all) why youTrack Your Career''re in business. You don't have the time to add on something which begins to seem like a whole new business in itself and If you're probably not making the money which would allow yet in work or considering that you might need to employ someone to do it for make some changes then this is the book youneed. Besides - ''where'' do you start? WhatJames Reed is the chairman and chief executive of REED, Britain's going to be worth your time biggest and money? best-known name in the recruitment industry. What should Who better to give you avoid? How can you find out without wading through lots of theory and science and ''still'' be left wondering if this is the road advice you should be takingneed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857084402</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James Reed and Paul G StoltzAnne Boden|title=Put Your Mindset to Work: The One Asset You Really Need to Win and Keep the Job You LoveMoney Revolution
|rating=4
|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Money is changing. It's well over a decade since I was involved might not be in hiring staff for an employer but over the last seven years I've been active in bringing reviewers to Bookbagways you think. Certain reactions stand out from both experiences. The first is We’re not suddenly getting a 3p or £3 coin (and have you ever even found a country that skills rarely matter: if they're important for offers anything different to the job I can usually teach or polish them. In fact ''well1, 2, this is how we did it at...'' can be 5 model?) We’re getting a disadvantage not least because lot more digital with payments, which seems to suit most people apart from charity collectors and the temptation to throttle someone can become quite overwhelming homeless on a bad day. Paper qualifications are not really that important either: for the most part street, but although this book has the bare minimum will suffice and I've often found subtitle that includes the more highly-qualified applicants can find it quite difficult to adapt themselves to the job Iword ''digital'm offering. At the other end of the scale I've taken people on and after a while thought that if I had half a dozen people of , it’s not really about this calibre I could send the rest homeeither. What marks these people out is their attitude. Nowadays Instead, it's called mindsetabout the ''management'' of your finances, and how to take control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241003547</amazonuk>1789660610
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949395324|title=Brick by BrickFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry4th Edition|author=David Robertson and Bill BreenKalpesh Ashar|rating=3.54
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=There can be few of us whose lives were not untouched at some stage by ''Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know ''gives people without an accounting background who have risen in a phase of building things out of LEGO bricks. They comprised a time-honoured toy for children of all ages company the knowledge to understand the accounts which weathered many a storm since Ole Kirk Christiansen, a master carpenter, founded show how the family-owned company in Billund, Denmark in 1932is doing. However fashions changeThe book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, and this was never more true than when computer software swept nearly everything before it towards the end then moves on to give an excellent overview of the last century. Brand loyalty and an inability (or refusal) to adapt sufficiently was not enough to protect it from the combined onslaught types of video games, MP3 players accounting systems which will be encountered and other hi-tech delights, or a harsh business climate in a cut-throat market where competition was intense and famous names were rapidly going to the wallterms used. In 2003, three years after two different surveys had called We then look in detail at the LEGO brick ‘the toy of the century’balance sheet, the Group announced income statement and the biggest loss in its history and it appeared to be doomedstatement of cash flows...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184794115X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1946383627|authortitle=The Chartered Cost Accounting & Management InstituteEssentials You Always Wanted To Know|titleauthor=Managing Yourself (The Checklist Series: Step by step guides to getting it right)Vibrant Publishers|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=When you start work, when you become I'm capable of drawing up a manager or move up profit and loss account (income statement in the ladder itUSA) and a balance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisation. The accounts give me 's assumed that you will need training in 'broadly'managing'what I need: I know whether we'. This is always assumed to re making a profit or a loss and I can look at the expenses and see what looks as though it could be managing other people, but it's only very rarely that any consideration is given to managing yourself - and then probably only trimmed back in specific areasfuture years. But - if you havenMy problem was that the accounts didn't sorted yourself outreally give me any help in making decisions, thought through your own actions and motivations, how can you give leadership which was why I turned to others? ''ManagingCost Accounting and Management'' , part of Vibrant Publishers''Yourself'' remedies this Self-Learning and covers the cradle to grave of working lifeManagement series.. If you have ambitions to move up the career ladder - or even if you just want to have a more rewarding and stress-free working life - this book is essential reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251452</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Bjergegaard and Jordan Milne1072549271|title=Winning Without Losing: 66 strategies for succeeding in business while living a happy and balanced life|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=It's a common assumption that if you're a serious entrepreneur then you're going to have to dedicate your life to making money, passing up on the good things (apart from those which can be ''bought'', obviously) such as a happy family life, the world outside The Simple Act of work and quite probably your health too. But what if there was a way to have it all? ''Winning Without Losing' doesn't give a blueprint which will enable you to go out and make your first million and have a wonderful life outside work Self- but it does give you sixty six ideas for ways in which you could adjust your working life to make the most of it without ruining everything else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251509</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPublishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Mark Palmer|title=Made to last: The story of Britain's bestGeorgianne Landy-known shoe firmKordis
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=From its founding I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the Quaker brothers Cyrus and James Clark in the Somerset village of Streettraditional houses, to its presentbut when I suggest self-day status as a global shoe brand, publishing they explain that they don't have the name of Clark has weathered many a storm as it draws close big bucks required to its bicentenarygo down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. This account of I then ask if they've considered Kindle and the companyanswer is, by a distant kinsman of the two original foundersinevitably, has drawn heavily on the archives and on in-depth interviews with the family that they wouldn't know where to tell the full storystart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685206</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hugh Jefferies|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2013: Commonwealth and Empire Stamps 1840 - 1970|rating=5|genre=Reference|summary=You might think I can empathise with that as all the stamps in this catalogue have been in existence . Despite having used a computer for at least forty about thirty years there can be little more to be said about them but this 115th edition is acknowledged to be the , running most significant in many years. Most exciting (but probably more so to sellers than buyers) is the fact that in a time of economic downturn there are thousands of price increases my life ''and evidence of '' a very lively marketwebsite online, I'm still nervous when it comes to starting something new. Demand I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it for good stamps is greater than it has been at any the first time in the last thirty years according to editor Hugh Jefferies, although he does add that prices are rising faster in some areas than others. ItThat was why I was very interested when 's difficult to see how a serious collector - or seller - can be without an up-to-date copy 'The Simple Act of the catalogue for this reason aloneSelf Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598513</amazonuk>
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