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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=[[Trials 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.}}{{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}}{{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=Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and Tribulations financially secure. This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or the collapse of a Travelling Prostitute by Andrew Mackay]]major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doing. Where were they? Occasionally the 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 delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us 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 have learned very little.}}{{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.''

[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]''If not now, [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] when?''

Just chance you think I know that youI're picking up a book about what can go wrong m not alone in life for an itinerant sex worker having wondered whether or not Icould turn my hobby into a business. There'd better explain exactly what it was that author Andrew Mackay did for thirty three years. A travelling prostitute is s a worker who is employed by one company but his services are sold out lot of motivation to other countries, usually at a substantial profit to the employing company do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot of inconvenience people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset the employee. Mackay was an engineer who knew all that there was to costs, which can be know about turbines quite considerable and generatorsit could be fun to do, or if he didncouldn't could soon be up it? But where to speed start? What do I need to think about? Well, the extent of being able first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to teach other peopleread ''Making a Living''. Occasionally his skills were used in }}{{Frontpage|isbn=suppl_stafl|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the UKLocal Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=So, but frequently he was abroad. Just every 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 again he would be in those parts of the world which has the rest of us green with envy, but then there were those areas which feature heavily money will start rolling in the news and not in a good way. [[Trials and Tribulations of a Travelling Prostitute by Andrew Mackay|Full Review]]<br>?

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{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=[[The DIY Investor: How ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to take control of your investments be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and plan for a financially secure future ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Andy Bell]]===Otegha Uwagba

[[image:5star''0.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]]7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

Investments are confusingOtegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. They're also rather frightening unless you have a background in finance: you could invest in equities which seem likely to make your fortune Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, only to find that you've lost all your moneywith her father joining them later. On the other hand you could put all your savings into a nice The family was hard-working, safe building society or bank account only to find principled and determined that the interest is so derisory that your capital doesn't actually their children would have the same buying power that it did when you opened the accountbest education possible. You could, There was always a painful awareness of course, spend the money, but what about when you want to buy although this did not translate into a house, replace the roof or retire? The roof might be relatively cheap but shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the other two are going to need family acquired a substantial investment potcar. [[The DIY Investor: How For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to take control of your investments a private school in London and plan for then a financially secure future by Andy Bell|Full Review]]place at New College, Oxford.<br>}}

<!-- Williams_Nelson -->{{Frontpage|isbn=reed3|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James Reed|rating=5[[image:WilliamsNelson_Time.jpg|leftgenre=Business and Finance|linksummary=https://wwwSix years on from the original edition, the book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work'' which includes an additional 10 questions. I've come to this some 6 years after reviewing the original book and my life has changed significantly in the meantime.amazonI'm no longer working in middle-management having opted for a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work.co I can therefore relate to the first point made in this chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that employees need to have.uk/gp/product/1524666483?ie}}{{Frontpage|isbn=UTF8&tag3110706075|title=thebookbag-21&linkCodeMaking a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=as2&campGerry Brown|rating=1634&creative4|genre=6738&creativeASINBusiness and Finance|summary=1524666483]]''You're not there to run the organisation. You are there to make sure that it is run properly.''

Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - not just a 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 these boards and feels that this would help to avoid some of the scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - we're thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. For this to happen, boards need to have a wider field of people to choose from when they're looking for an ID.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3030513025|title=The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do|author=[[Time is Money by T K Williams-Nelson]]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'')

[[imageIndependent Director:4star''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 executive team, and (3) is not involved with the day-to-day operations of the company.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and (Corporate Finance]]Institute)

Whatever your age itGerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the executive members of boards and the independent directors (formerly known as non-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 spot when and where things are going wrong - but all too often the relationship is too cosy, too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge and/or experience to understand what's frustrating happening or to have know how to work for someone elseintervene. If Covid-19 has highlighted the failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and youmight be tempted to think that these are extraordinary times and that all will be well once we get back to 're under twenty five normal' but a pandemic was predicted and modelled in the past and there's has been a strong chance that you'll be undergeneral failure to prepare for what has happened -valued and probably not paid very wellis still happening. There is though, }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241453585|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne Boden|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a certain security senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. AIB was in employment, usually because there's a reasonable certainty the throes of income recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the first to realise that banks needed to do things differently. AIB thought it was at the cutting edge when it proposed opening a possibility branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminal. Boden took things a step further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the old branch network, employing thousands of paid holidayspeople, would soon become redundant.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3110641119|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: when youA Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=I had no idea what 'journey mapping' was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the book and acting on the contents. You're self-employed neither going to learn how to run a workshop to discover what it feels like to be one of those are guaranteedyour own customers. It At this point, please don't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this isgoing to be fun and you're going to be surprised by what emerges.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3110641291|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, thoughNovel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=So, a big step why bother? Every time you set out to leap into do something new you end up with the world same thing in a slightly different form and quite a bit of self-employmentmoney spent. Why not just leave it as it is? After all, it's ''Time is Moneyroughly'' is a self-development tool aimed at young peopleworking, creatives and people in business. [[Time is Money by T K Williams-Nelson|Full Review]]<br>isn't it?

<!-- Duhigg -->[[image:Duhigg_Smarter.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1847947433?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1847947433]] ===[[Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]]  ''Smarter Faster Better'' is ideal book for someone who loves both stories and career-related self-improvement. Readers looking for quick answers, bullet points or sound bites may be disappointed as Duhigg's approach is to focus on case studies, told with the flair of a short story, and then extrapolate from these rather than listing tips and exercises. However, if you You might not have the time and patience to get to the point of each chapter slowly (and surely this is a subject matter worth devoting time to), you will doubtless find that Duhigg is an excellent storyteller and cleverly articulates the key message from each story so that they stick. [[Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Coles -->[[image:Coles_Brexit.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1905570813?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1905570813]] ===[[The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European Union by T J Coles]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]]said it, [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] ''Have you been mis-sold Brexit by posh men in sharp suits promising you free healthcare? If so, you might be entitled to compensation...'' There wasn't much could make me laugh on the morning after the EU referendum but this spoof advert on Twitter managed it. Only, it seems that it wasn't completely a joke - well apart from the bit about compensation. In ''The Great Brexit Scandal'' T J Coles looks at the substantial core of free marketeers in the Conservative party who were determined to rid the UK of the Brussels red tape which was putting a brake on their activities. You might also know these views as neoliberalism, an ideology which looks to deregulate markets and maximise profits. On the surface that doesn't sound bad, until you realise that the benefit will go to the people who are already in the group which Coles refers to as the mega-rich and the losers will be working people. [[The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European Union by T J Coles|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Baldwin -->[[image:Baldwin_Great.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/067466048X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=067466048X]] ===[[The Great Convergence by Richard Baldwin]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] The globalisation of the world economy is a central factor in life and politics today. 'The Great Convergence' attempts to explain the current driving forces behind the phenomena and the likely consequences. It is well argued, and supported by a wealth of data and research, but it is not one for a general reader. A background in economic principles and an understanding of some key concepts would be a key requisite in getting the most out of this book. Without this background, the reader will be constantly switching from the text and cross-referencing the meaning of some of the vocabulary used. With that note of caution, and the required understanding, Richard Baldwin's analysis is compelling. [[The Great Convergence by Richard Baldwin|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Wiles -->[[image:Wiles_Thinking.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524633100?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524633100]] ===[[Thinking Allowed by Julian Wiles]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] ''Thinking Allowed? Hmm'', I ve probably thought, ''what has that got to do with building a thriving optical lens business?'' But within a few pages of starting to read, I was convinced that it was perfect. You see, this isn't a book which you read, rather like a Delia Smith book, to give you a precise recipe for how you must proceed to achieve a perfect result. No two businesses are alike, any more than any two owners are alike and Julian Wiles allows you to approach your business from all angles: there are even ways you can get his personal advice. This is no ordinary 'how to' book. There are no chapter numbers (you pick from the menu) and it's not even necessary to read the book in any particular order. [[Thinking Allowed by Julian Wiles|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Fraser -->[[image:Fraser_Forestry.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524628921?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524628921]] ===[[Forestry Flavours of ve also thought the Month: The Changing Face of World Forestry by Alastair Fraser]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]], [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]]small, [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] Alastair Fraser's experience of forestry spans more than five decades and having the benefit of the long view he's ideally placed to consider the changes incremental improvements which you have occurred over the course of his career. He also has the ability, not as common as it ought to be amongst professionals, of being been able to look at what he does both from make - the point optimisation of view of the your core business and with cost efficiencies wherever possible, the people who work in it and are affected by it. There's a lack extension of tunnel vision too: he sees whatyour existing products into new areas - haven's happening t really delivered in forestry both in the narrow focus and where it sits globally so far as economics and politics are concerned. [[Forestry Flavours terms of the Month: The Changing Face of World Forestry by Alastair Fraser|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Voss -->[[image:Voss Never.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1847941486?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1847941486]] ===[[Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] Negotiation is ''nothing more than communication with resultsgrowth'', according to Chris Voss. It''Never Split the Difference'' is all about maximising the chances of these results being in your favour. Drawing upon years of experience as a crisis s been manageable and kidnapping negotiator, Voss has developed a set of highly honed tools, fieldlargely risk-tested in numerous high-stakes negotiation situations involving the FBI. In contrast to the widely accepted paradigm for negotiation taught in schools and universities, this toolkit throws aside complex game theory and dense mathematical considerations in favour of an approach that places emotional intelligence, empathy and subtle communication techniques at its core. The focus is on developing an understanding of the thought process of individuals during any given discussion. Effective communication not only helps derive these insights, free but allows them to you could easily be used to move a negotiation in the direction you want it to go, while simultaneously resolving a discussion with minimal conflict. [[Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Byrne -->[[image:Byrne_Dragons.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781857474?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781857474]] ===[[Dragons: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain challenged by Liam Byrne]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] Liam Byrne MP, a minister in the last Labour government, has come up with competitor who takes a novel way of telling British history through the ages in this bookmore radical approach. His approach is not one of Kings and Queens, wars or scientific discoveries, but through You've merely kept the business world ticking over and several of the key – and often unsung – entrepreneurs and commercial venturers from medieval times to the twentieth century. As he says in his preface, the people through whose lives he has chosen to narrate the saga reveal the best and worst of human endeavours, as he serves us up several explorers, inventors and moral leaders alongside there's a motley crew of fraudsters, warmongers and unembarrassed imperialists. All of them took risks, some made fortunes and some lost them, but for better or worse they all contributed towards the tale of British enterprise and the making of the modern world. [[Dragons: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain by Liam Byrne|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Witt -->[[image:Witt_Music.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099590077?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099590077]] ===[[How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief by Stephen Witt]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] 'How Music Got Free', as the title ironically suggests, tells us how the industry fell victim to the digital age and, it seems, became fatally devalued in the process. It starts more or less nagging suspicion in the mid-1990s with German technological wizard Karlheinz Brandenburg and the development back of the mp3, in brief a coding format for digital audio. The convoluted story is one of various formats and technologies, of loading music on to the internet and making it a free-for-all, in more senses than one. [[How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief by Stephen Witt|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Hougaard -->[[image:Hougaard_One.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1137551909?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1137551909]] ===[[One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness by Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter and Gillian Coutts]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] Have you ever worked at a task and found your mind wandering to something else? Do you find yourself breaking off what you're doing to answer that an email? Do you try to multitask, thinking that you're being more efficient? Do you have far too much to attend to, to complete and nowhere near enough time to do it all? You do? Me too. You need this book. [[One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness by Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter and Gillian Coutts|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Rogers -->[[image:Rogers_Campaigns.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0749475099?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0749475099]] ===[[Campaigns that Shook the World: The Evolution of Public Relations by Danny Rogers]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] I dithered about how to begin this review. On one hand I thought I should probably start by saying that I have a work related interest in marketing and communications. On the other hand, Danny Rogers has written a book which appealed to me on several levels. Campaigns are about psychology and storytelling – which of course leads us into branding but also feature critical issues around concept delivery. In short, I was looking forward to reading this organisation designed for many reasons – and it didn’t disappoint. [[Campaigns that Shook the World: The Evolution of Public Relations by Danny Rogers|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Crabbe -->[[image:Crabbe_Busy.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01727ER84?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B01727ER84]] ===[[Busy: How to Thrive twentieth century might not survive in a World of Too Much by Tony Crabbe]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]][[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] Serendipity often brings you to the important books. Recently I heard myself say to a friend: ''I'm far too busy to do some of the important stuff''. It pulled me up short: there was definitely something wrong here twenty- and then I had the opportunity to listen to an audio download of ''Busy'' and I knew that it was something I ''had'' to do and take notice of if I was to stop going ''backwards''first. Because that was what I was doing. [[Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too Much by Tony Crabbe|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Smith -->[[image:Smith_Purpose.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0749471913?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0749471913]] ===[[On Purpose: Delivering a Branded Customer Experience People Love by Shaun Smith and Andy Milligan]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]]  There are some great quotes in this book, and I'd like to start with a few. ''Marketing is a tax What you pay for being unremarkable'' ''A cynic need is a romantic with higher standardsinnovation - '' radical''Luxury isn't a long car…it's free wifi and movies on demand'' [[On Purpose: Delivering a Branded Customer Experience People Love by Shaun Smith and Andy Milligan|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Tojeiro -->[[image:Tojeiro_Artinnovation.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0993236901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0993236901]] ===[[The Art of Possible by Kate Tojeiro]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] As I [[The Commando Entrepreneur by Damian McKinney|recently wrote]] on Bookbag, I started reading management manuals and self-improvement books at a time when my life was not going so great. Since then, it seems that they have continued to drop into my life just as I need them. I'm sure there's something to the science of "serendipity", which basically means we notice stuff more when it's what we need. [[The Art of Possible by Kate Tojeiro|Full Review]]<br> <br> <br> <!-- McKinney -->[[image:McKinney_Commando.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1909273619?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1909273619]] ===[[The Commando Entrepreneur by Damian McKinney]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] 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. [[The Commando Entrepreneur by Damian McKinney|Full Review]]<br> <br> <br>Frontpage <!-- Woolford -->[[image:Woolford Food.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/099308091X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=099308091X]] ===[[Food Bank Britain by Ray Barron Woolford]]==isbn=1472962044 [[image:4star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]][[:CategoryCreating Value Through Technology:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] 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 Discover the City of London. Intrigued as to what was going on he went to ask. The man explained to him Tech 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]. [[Food Bank Britain by Ray Barron Woolford|Full Review]]<br>  {{newreviewCan Transform Your Business|author=Gerry Brown|title=The Independent Director: The Non-Executive Director's Guide to Effective Board PresenceAndrew Hampshire

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