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[[Category:New Reviews|Business and Finance]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Avivah WittenbergGary 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 -Cox and Alison Maitlandhe 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=Why Women Mean BusinessA Beautiful Way to Coach

|summary=Do you want So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and being audacious enough to improve your businessreview it? Make more profits? Truth is I bought it out of curiosity. You probably need to look I was at an on-line launch for the sector 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 makes 80% of purchasing decisionsI know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to see if I could give myself a Vision Day, is the majority of the talent to bring me away from their vision and represents 59% of graduates. Womenback to my own.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0470749504</amazonuk>103211603X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economist303091657X|title=The World of BusinessDisaster in the Boardroom: From Valuable Brands and Games Directors Play to Bail-Outs Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Bad Boys Randall S Peterson

|summary=For years I've been Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secure. This might seem obvious but a great fan series of The Economist's [[Pocket World disasters - some of which have resulted in Figures 2010 by The Economist|Pocket World in Figures]] series with all death or the unbiased statistics which collapse of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the average person could wantboard was doing. I was just a little nervous when I opened ''The World Where were they? Occasionally the boards were unaware of Business'' – just in case it what was going happening or they preferred to be turn a disappointment – blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but I needn't 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 worriedlearned very little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681588</amazonuk>

{{adsense2''If not now, when?'' I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, couldn't it? But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Richard Hale and Alan Chambers MBE suppl_stafl|title=Keep Walking - Leadership Learning in Action - Supply Chain 20/20: A thrilling story of a polar adventure with powerful lessons in leadership and personal developmentClear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund

|genre=Business and FinanceReference|summary=One side of this So, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is completely alien to me. all done? I have had no reason You're convinced that all you need to believe in any of do now is get it published and the action learning, self-actualisation etc, that people money will start rolling in business sometimes deem necessary? Wrong and wrong again. If pressed, I'd guess that if people needed so much inYou presumably wrote the book because you wanted to -work training they might just be the wrong person and you had a talent for delivering the jobwritten word. You knew your subject back to front. ThereNow you're going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's an anecdote here about a bright young thing fresh from business school, too difficult to change and faced with her no one wants to be the first task at workto try. Then, who panicked as when you ''she did not know which theory to applyfinally''. The theory have a copy of common sensethe book in your hands, Iyou'd re going to have suggestedto work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312780</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henry Mintzberg0008350388|title=ManagingWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba

|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=''Study after study has shown that managers work at an unrelenting paceTo be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money''by Otegha Uwagba How true, though it always makes me wonder why, as ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a result, therewoman.'' ''The Bookseller''s such a market for bulky management and leadership 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and general business books like this onenine. How does anyone It was her mother who needs or wants to read one ever find the time to do so? This title actually has an answer to thiscame first, by providing two books in onewith her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and it is such a simple yet effective solution determined that I their children would have to start therethe best education possible. You can read There was always a painful awareness of money although this book in one did not translate into a shortage of two waysanything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. Option one is to read every word For Otegha, chapter by chapter, cover education meant a scholarship to cover. If you have the time I would recommend this approach because the book is very readable, not too repetitivea private school in London and then a place at New College, and quite thought-provokingOxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273709305</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alistair Milnereed3|title=The Fall of the House of CreditWhy You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James Reed|rating=3.5

|summary=It now seems to be established as fact that soSix years on from the original edition, the book is being re-called issued with a bonus chapter entitled 'toxic assets' – mostly sub-prime mortgage investments in the USA were the cause of the current banking crisis, but Professor Alistair Milne The Future of Cass Business School argues otherwise. ItWork's his contention that many of these 'toxic assetswhich includes an additional 10 questions. I' were (ve come to this some 6 years after reviewing the original book and still are) sound investments which will be repaid my life has changed significantly in full without any problems and even the defaults will meantime. I'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 be a large proportion of the wholenecessarily paying) work. He argues that it was I can therefore relate to the initial loss of confidence first point made in these investment vehicles which began a downward spiral this chapter namely that independence and resulted in the collapse of several Banksflexibility are core skills that employees need to have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521762146</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Mezrich 3110706075|title=The Accidental BillionairesMaking a Difference: Sex, MoneyLeadership, Betrayal Change and Giving Back the Founding of FacebookIndependent Director Way|author=Gerry Brown|rating=4.5

|summary=As subtitles go, ''Sex, Money, Betrayal...You'' is re not there to run the sort you'd generally associate with works by Danielle Steel or Jackie Collinsorganisation. But, with a website? And a supremely geeky (in its beginnings) website like Facebook? Surely not You are there to make sure that it is run properly. And, yet, that's exactly the claim you find on the cover of this book, a work of faction that claims to tell the inside story of the founding of Facebook.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019550</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Tracey Whitmore |title=How Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to Write an Impressive CV and Cover Letter: A Comprehensive Guide for the UK Job Seeker|rating=1.5|genre=Business and Finance |summary=Back home in the UK after a stint abroadboard - not just a corporate board, and job hunting for but the first time in yearsboard of an NHS Trust, this book is a rather timely addition to my shelves. Having spent the last year and university, a bit teaching English, I also like to think I know sports organisation or a little about grammar and general language usecharity. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the author of this book, and while it He's all very well advising readers particularly keen that there''first impressions really do count'', s increased diversity on these boards and feels that this carries less weight than it should when you notice the dubious grammar in the first line would help to avoid some of the introductionscandals (Oxfam, and Kids Company - we're thinking about you) which have occurred in virtually every chapter which followsrecent years. For this to happen, boards need to have a wider field of people to choose from when they're looking for an ID.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845283651</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Vass3030513025|title=Daily Mail Tax Guide 2009/2010The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais

|summary=ItIndependent Director: ''s well over a decade since I worked job for what was then the Inland Revenue and which no one is now Her Majestyqualified's Revenue and Customs, but there's one thing for certain – I am no fonder of filling in a Tax Return now than I was then. It('s a tedious job and it's very easy to make a mistake (either in your favour or the GovernmentFinancial Times''s) which can cause problems. If you opt to take professional advice it can be expensive and doesn Independent Director: ''t come with any guarantees. At An independent director is a member of the other end board of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the scalecompany, (2) is not part of the Revenue will do their best to help for free – but theycompany're not there to ''plan'' for yous executive team, and this can mean that valuable opportunities are missed. All (3) is not lost though – Jane Vass has a reliable history involved with the day-to-day operations of producing Tax Return Guides and this year's is no disappointmentthe company.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682274</amazonuk>}} (Corporate Finance Institute)

{{newreview|author=Janet Tavakoli |title=Dear Mr.Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1Gerry Brown,269 Miles from Wall Street|rating=4|genre=Business Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the executive members of boards and Finance |summary=My mind was drawn while reading this book towards the ongoing parliamentary expenses scandalindependent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. Of course claiming £80 for a trouser press isn't in The function of the same league as some independent director is to have general oversight of the shenanigans which went on in executive side of the banking board - to spot when and financial sector where things are going wrong - but they do have at least one thing in commonall too often the relationship is too cosy, one thing that is stressed by Warren Buffett too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge and/or experience to the managers of his successful businesses. It can be paraphrased as, when making a decision don't just consider whether itunderstand what's legal happening or not, think about to know how it would look plastered on to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the front page failings and weaknesses of your local paper. That advice would have served MPs as leadership and governance and you might be tempted to think that these are extraordinary times and that all will be well as some of the more dubious characters once we get back to 'normal' but a pandemic was predicted and modelled in the financial sector very wellpast and there has been a general failure to prepare for what has happened - and is still happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>047040678X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy Heminsley 0241453585|title=Work From HomeBanking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne Boden|rating=45

|summary=Judy Heminsley has worked Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. AIB was in the throes of recovering from home both as en employee the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and running her own businessesshe was one of the first to realise that banks needed to do things differently. She is now AIB thought it was at the cutting edge when it proposed opening a professional advisor branch which allowed customers to homeworkers and ''Work From Home'' distils her experience into access their accounts via a terminal. Boden took things a practical guide for all who are considering work step further, realising that customers could access their accounts from hometheir homes: the old branch network, employing thousands of people, would soon become redundant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184528335X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda Gratton3110641119|title=GlowThe Journey Mapping Playbook: How You Can Radiate EnergyA Practical Guide to Preparing, Innovation Facilitating and SuccessUnlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave|rating=45

|summary=Have you ever I had no idea what 'journey mapping' was until I read a self-help this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the book and found that simply reading acting on the first chapter tells you all you need contents. You're going to learn how to run a workshop to discover what it feels like to know about any wisdom contained therein? Wellbe one of your own customers. At this point, fortunately with please don't say 'Glowoh (expletive deleted) not another workshop'because this is going to be fun and you' re going to be surprised by Lynda Gratton – that's not the case. While its essential principles are neatly summarised in the first chapter, the remaining chapters, packed with pleasantly jargon-free examples, are well worth reading for anyone interested in improving their working life, forming empowering networks and thinking creativelywhat emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273723871</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Shoop3110641291|title=How to Deal in AntiquesThe Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander

|summary=There can be hardly anyone who hasn't at least considered making 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 few honest pennies by selling collectable goods bit of one kind or anothermoney spent. Making a full-time career out of Why not just leave it as it is a very different proposition? After all, it's ''roughly'' working, isn't it? You might not have said it, but from you've probably thought it. You've also thought the small acorns, large trees grow. Whether incremental improvements which you just like have been able to make - the idea optimisation of dipping your toe in the water at the occasional car boot sale, or considering it as a serious core businesswith cost efficiencies wherever possible, you will find the answer to more or less everything 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 need to know in this newly revised fourth edition could easily be challenged by a TV and antiques expert competitor who has takes a more radical approach. You've merely kept the business ticking over 25 years and there's a nagging suspicion in the back of experience your mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the trade, as well as her own antiques businesstwenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845283007</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Morgan1472962044|title=Eating Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Tech that Can Compete Against Brand LeadersTransform Your Business|author=Andrew Hampshire

|summary=Big brands are even bigger than we think: the power I was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteen, so there's been a lot of Market Leaders gives them technology in my life. I once worked for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not only they had a typewriter. Times - thankfully - have moved on. Nowadays the security of problem is that someone running a business doesn't have the sheer volume of sales but time to keep up with constant innovation and they might also better returns on any marketing spendbe scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expected. In It's also a fact that no one develops a business because they have the current marketknowledge of the required technology, with the trust so they start off in brands waning and people less and less interested in advertisingconversations about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantage. They need help, smaller fish but they frequently don't know what help they need to swim more energetically just to survive healthily. And yet many brands achieve rapid growth despite smaller size and resources.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470238275</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=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 (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the possibility of using to do good in the world.}}{{Frontpage|author= Linda Scott|title= The Double X Economy|rating=5|genre= Politics and Society|summary='' 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 following pages explain. This book shines a light on what is happening in different places, and the impact on the local and world economy. What can be learnt from the great strides in gender-equalising legislation in the west? What can be done about the selling of young women into marriage, and what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|isbn=0571353606}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0349424926|title=Life's Work: 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career|author=James Reed|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Do you have a guaranteed and more-than-adequate income which will last the rest of your life? Do you have no need to work, either for income or fulfilment? If you even hesitate over either of those questions then you really ought to read ''Life's Work': 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career''. If you're not yet in work or considering that you might need to make some changes then this is the book you need. James Reed is the chairman and chief executive of REED, Britain's biggest and best-known name in the recruitment industry. Who better to give you the advice you need?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Salem BaskinAnne Boden|title=Branding Only Works On CattleThe Money Revolution|rating=34|genre= Business and Finance|summary= Money is changing. It might not be in the ways you think.We’re not suddenly getting a 3p or £3 coin (and have you ever even found a country that offers anything different to the 1, 2, 5model?) We’re getting a lot more digital with payments, which seems to suit most people apart from charity collectors and the homeless on the street, but although this book has the subtitle that includes the word ''digital'', it’s not really about this either. Instead, it's about the ''management'' of your finances, and how to take control.|isbn=1789660610}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1949395324|title=Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition|author=Kalpesh Ashar|rating=4

|summary=''Branding Only Works on Cattle Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know '' starts big by ferociously rejecting gives people without an accounting background who have risen in a company the knowledge to understand the accounts which show how the ''advertising-company is-about-creating-brand-image'' view which apparently dominates current branding and marketing practicedoing. Baskin claims that modern branding campaigns The book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are divorced from necessary, then moves on to give an excellent overview of the realities types of selling accounting systems which will be encountered and that they confuse communicating ideas and (possibly) creating awareness of the brand name with achieving any real behaviour changesterms used. Influencing what customers think is not enough as only behaviours lead to engagement We then look in detail at the balance sheet, the income statement and the ultimate behavioural goal statement of any marketing: selling stuffcash flows...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470742577</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kay1946383627|title=The Long and the Short of it: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the IndustryCost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know|author=Vibrant Publishers

|genre=Politics Business and SocietyFinance|summary=Sometimes I wonder if authors set out to stop people reading their books, strange as this might seem. John Kay is an excellent example. He tells us that he expects his readers to be erudite 'm capable of drawing up a profit and loss account (income statement in the USA) and a balance sheet and I do so for my own business and to be readers of popular sciencefor another organisation. TheyThe accounts give me ''broadly'll never knowingly have dealt with Goldman Sachs ' what I need: I know whether we're making a profit or a loss and will pay tax I can look at the 40% rateexpenses and see what looks as though it could be trimmed back in future years. At My problem was that the other end of the scale theyaccounts didn'll not be bad credit risks and just t really give me any help in making decisions, which was why I turned to cut out anyone hoping for a quick buck, they'll not be tempted to make a living from Stock Market speculation. If you don't qualify on all points thereCost Accounting and Management''s not even a hint , part of a pass mark which might allow you to sneak into the checkout queueVibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and Management series...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954809327</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Vass1072549271|title=Daily Mail Tax The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide 2008/2009|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis

|genre=Home Business and FamilyFinance|summary=I doubt that there's anyone frequently meet authors who genuinely looks forward are struggling to completing a Tax Return. Even as an exbe published by the traditional houses, but when I suggest self-Inspector of Taxes Ipublishing they explain that they don'll freely admit t have the big bucks required to go down that the thought of it fills me road with dreadAuthor Solutions or Matador or their like. ItI then ask if they's tediousve considered Kindle and the answer is, inevitably, but important that you donthey wouldn't get it wrongknow where to start. So, what do you do? Professional assistance I can be expensive and isn't necessarily entirely reliableempathise with that. You can go along to your H M Revenue Despite having used a computer for about thirty years, running most of my life ''and Customs Enquiry Centre'' a website online, but their function is I'm still nervous when it comes to answer your queries rather than give advice about where you could minimise your tax billstarting something new. Going I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it alone is free, but you need to have comprehensive knowledge of taxation to be sure that you're paying for the correct amount of taxfirst time. The That was why I was very interested when ''Daily Mail Tax Guide 2008/2009The Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon'' will give most people all the information that they need to ensure that they're getting it rightcame across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680891</amazonuk>