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[[Category:New Reviews|Business and Finance]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A 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.__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip AugarFiona Parashar |title=Reckless: The Rise 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 Fall 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 CityBoardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson|rating=45

|summary=The City, 1997Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secure. Many This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or the collapse of a major institutions are struggling in company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doing. Where were they? Occasionally the Cityboards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eye, with high profile leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals taking down Barings but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and severely damaging Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the reputation of Morgan GrenfellSouth 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.''

The City, 2007. Less than a fortnight before becoming Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, at the Mansion House Dinner''If not now, describes the current time as when?'an era that history will record as the beginning of a new golden age.'

The CityI 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, 8th Octoberwhich can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, 2008. Author Philip Augar states couldn'even t it? But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, the most conservative observer would have to concede that 8 October 2008 amounted first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a catastrophic failure of private-sector banking in the UKLiving''.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009952404X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Martin Kornberger |title=Brand Society|rating=4Wrong and wrong again.5|genre=Business You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and Finance|summary=Brand Society is fundamentally not you had a business management book. This might come as some surprise given talent for delivering the titlewritten word. Management books, at least the ''how You knew your subject back tofront. Now you'' management books, tend re going to be simple and easy have to follow. But, I suspect Kornberger would agree, that's what limits their use. They are over-simplified get to grips with the point of uselessness. Ratherbook supply chain, Brand Society takes an holistic approach to the subject which even parts of the prevailing nature of brands in todaypublishing industry believe to be wrong but it's world (at least too difficult to change and no one wants to be the Western world)first to try. He suggests that today Then, when you ''finally''s brands exist without have a prevailing theory to understand them or make sense copy of them. So what Kornberger doesthe book in your hands, after first looking at you're going to have to work out how brands transform management and organizations, to sell it - because it ''is present a brand-centred conceptual map for thinking about things like politics, ethics and aesthetics'' going to be down to you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521726905</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fraser's Autographs0008350388|title=Collect Autographs: An Illustrated Guide We Need to Collecting and Investing in AutographsTalk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=4.5|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=There must ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be many 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 ''0.7% of us who have at one time had an autograph English Literature GCSE students in England study a book or something by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the kind as children UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and asked friendsnine. It was her mother who came first, relations or even celebrities to 'do something'with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, written to celebrities in principled and determined that their children would have the hope best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of obtaining money although this did not translate into a personally signed pictureshortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Otegha, or even waited patiently at education meant a stage door after scholarship to a play or concert eagerly clutching private school in London and then a theatre programmeplace at New College, record or CD sleeve and pen in handOxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597525</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Chanreed3|title=Harvard Business School Confidential: Secrets of SuccessWhy You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James Reed|rating=3.5

|summary=Harvard Business School has Six years on from the original edition, the book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work'' which includes an almost unrivalled reputation for schooling additional 10 questions. I've come to this some of 6 years after reviewing the original book and my life has changed significantly in the greatest business leaders 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 (and George W Bush!not necessarily paying)work. Former graduate, Emily Chan, who went on I can therefore relate to work for leading management consultancy Boston Consulting Group the first point made in this chapter namely that independence and who is now a director in a family direct investment business in Hong Kong, promises flexibility are core skills that employees need to offer the secrets she learnt therehave. Does she succeed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470822392</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy V Fetzer and Shari Aaron3110706075|title=Climb the Green LadderMaking a Difference: Make Your Company Leadership, Change and Career More SustainableGiving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry Brown

|summary=With the abject failure of the Denmark Climate Change Conference fresh in our minds, it is perhaps time ''You're not there to turn away from run the politicians and look back toward what we can doorganisation.  The Conference may have finally got the likes of the USA, India and China You are there to acknowledge make sure that they have to join in if we are going to save the planet as a benevolent place for our species to live, but there it is still too much posturing and not enough commitmentrun properly. ''

Clearly our governments and 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'leaderss particularly keen that there' are not going s increased diversity on these boards and feels that this would help to do avoid some of the scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - we're thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. For this for us; we to happen, boards need to have a wider field of people to do it choose from when they're looking for ourselvesan ID.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>047074801X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=3030513025|title=Avivah Wittenberg-Cox The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and Alison Maitlandwhat to do|titleauthor=Why Women Mean BusinessGerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais

|summary=Do you want to improve your business? Independent Director: ''a job for which no one is qualified'' Make more profits? You probably need to look at (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of the sector which makes 80% board of purchasing decisionsdirectors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the company, (2) is the majority not part of the talent company's executive team, and represents 59% (3) is not involved with the day-to-day operations of graduatesthe company. (Corporate Finance Institute)

WomenGerry 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470749504<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/amazonuk>or experience to understand what's happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you might be tempted to think that these are extraordinary times and that all will be well once we get back to 'normal' but a pandemic was predicted and modelled in the past and there has been a general failure to prepare for what has happened - and is still happening.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economist0241453585|title=The World of BusinessBanking On It: From Valuable Brands and Games Directors Play to Bail-Outs and Bad Boys How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne Boden

|summary=For Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years I've been experience at a great fan senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. AIB was in the throes of The Economist's [[Pocket World in Figures 2010 by The Economist|Pocket World in Figures]] series with all recovering from the unbiased statistics which 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the average person could wantfirst to realise that banks needed to do things differently. I AIB thought it was just a little nervous at the cutting edge when I opened ''The World of Business'' – just in case it was going proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to be access their accounts via a terminal. Boden took things a disappointment – but I needn't have worriedstep further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the old branch network, employing thousands of people, would soon become redundant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681588</amazonuk>

 {{adsense2}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Richard Hale and Alan Chambers MBE 3110641119|title=Keep Walking - Leadership Learning in Action - The Journey Mapping Playbook: A thrilling story Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of a polar adventure with powerful lessons in leadership and personal developmentCustomer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave|rating=4.5

|summary=One side of this book is completely alien to me. I have had no reason to believe in idea what 'journey mapping' was until I read this playbook but any of the action learning, self-actualisation etc, that people in business sometimes deem necessary. If pressed, I'd guess that if people needed so much in-work training they might just be engages with their customers will benefit from reading the wrong person for book and acting on the jobcontents. ThereYou's an anecdote here about re going to learn how to run a bright young thing fresh from business schoolworkshop to discover what it feels like to be one of your own customers. At this point, and faced with her first task at work, who panicked as please don't say 'she did oh (expletive deleted) not know which theory another workshop' because this is going to applybe fun and you''. The theory of common sense, I'd have suggestedre going to be surprised by what emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312780</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henry Mintzberg3110641291|title=ManagingThe Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander

|summary=''Study after study has shown that managers work at an unrelenting pace'' How trueSo, though it always makes me wonder why, as a result, there's such a market for bulky management and leadership and general business books like this one. How does anyone who needs or wants to read one ever find the bother? Every time you set out to do so? This title actually has an answer to this, by providing two books something new you end up with the same thing in one, a slightly different form and it is such quite a simple yet effective solution that I have to start there. You can read this book in one bit of two waysmoney spent. Option one Why not just leave it as it is to read every word? After all, chapter by chapterit's ''roughly'' working, cover to cover. If you have the time I would recommend this approach because the book is very readable, not too repetitive, and quite thought-provoking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273709305</amazonuk>}}isn't it?

{{newreview|author=Alistair Milne|title=The Fall 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 House extension of Credit|rating=3.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=It now seems to be established as fact that soyour existing products into new areas -called haven'toxic assets' – mostly sub-prime mortgage investments t really delivered in the USA were the cause terms of the current banking crisis, but Professor Alistair Milne of Cass Business School argues otherwise''growth''. It's his contention that many of these 'toxic assets' were (been manageable and still are) sound investments which will be repaid in full without any problems and even the defaults will not largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a large proportion of the wholemore radical approach. He argues that it was You've merely kept the initial loss of confidence in these investment vehicles which began business ticking over and there's a downward spiral and resulted nagging suspicion in the collapse back of several Banksyour mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521762146</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Mezrich 1472962044|title=The Accidental BillionairesCreating Value Through Technology: Sex, Money, Betrayal and Discover the Founding of FacebookTech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Andrew Hampshire

|summary=As subtitles go, ''Sex, Money, Betrayal...I was once told that 'technology' is the sort anything that happens after you'd generally associate with works by Danielle Steel or Jackie Collins. Butre eighteen, with so there's been a website? And lot of technology in my life. I once worked for a supremely geeky (in its beginnings) website like Facebook? Surely manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or notthey had a typewriter. And, yet, Times - thankfully - have moved on. Nowadays the problem is thatsomeone running a business doesn't have the time to keep up with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expected. It's exactly the claim you find on the cover of this book, also a work of faction fact that claims to tell no one develops a business because they have the inside story knowledge of the founding of Facebookrequired technology, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantage. They need help, but they frequently don't know what help they need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019550</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Whitmore 1526362759|title=Dosh: How to Write an Impressive CV and Cover Letter: A Comprehensive Guide for the UK Job SeekerEarn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=1.5|genre=Business and Finance Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Back home in the UK after What a stint abroadrelief! A book about money, and job hunting for the first time in yearschildren, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, this book how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is a rather timely addition 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 my shelvessome extent. Having spent the last year and You might want to go into business, be a bit teaching Englishclever shopper, I also like to think I know a little about grammar saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and general language usethere might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. Unfortunately, There's also the same cannot be said for possibility of using to do good in the world.}}{{Frontpage|author of this book, = Linda Scott|title= The Double X Economy|rating=5|genre= Politics and while itSociety|summary='s all very well advising readers that 'Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the world'first impressions really do count'. It's a bold statement for an opening chapter, this carries less weight than but it should when you notice '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 dubious grammar great strides in gender-equalising legislation in the first line west? What can be done about the selling of the introductionyoung women into marriage, and in virtually every chapter which follows.what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845283651</amazonuk>0571353606

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Vass0349424926|title=Daily Mail Tax Guide 2009/2010Life's Work: 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career|author=James Reed

|summary=It's well over Do you have a decade since I worked for what was then guaranteed and more-than-adequate income which will last the Inland Revenue and is now Her Majesty's Revenue and Customsrest of your life? Do you have no need to work, but there's one thing either for certain – I am no fonder income or fulfilment? If you even hesitate over either of filling in a Tax Return now than I was those questions then. Ityou really ought to read ''Life's a tedious job and itWork's very easy : 12 Proven Ways to make a mistake (either in your favour or the GovernmentFast-Track Your Career''s) which can cause problems. If you opt to take professional advice it can be expensive and doesn't come with any guarantees. At the other end of the scale, the Revenue will do their best to help for free – but they're not there yet in work or considering that you might need to ''plan'' for make some changes then this is the book you, and this can mean that valuable opportunities are missedneed. All James Reed is not lost though – Jane Vass has a reliable history the chairman and chief executive of producing Tax Return Guides and this yearREED, Britain's is no disappointmentbiggest and best-known name in the recruitment industry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682274</amazonuk> Who better to give you the advice you need?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janet Tavakoli Anne Boden|title=Dear Mr.Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall StreetThe Money Revolution

|genre=Business and Finance |summary=My mind was drawn while reading this book towards Money is changing. It might not be in the ongoing parliamentary expenses scandalways you think. Of course claiming £80 for We’re not suddenly getting a trouser press isn't in 3p or £3 coin (and have you ever even found a country that offers anything different to the same league as some of 1, 2, 5 model?) We’re getting a lot more digital with payments, which seems to suit most people apart from charity collectors and the shenanigans which went homeless on in the banking and financial sector street, but they do have at least one thing in common, one thing although this book has the subtitle that is stressed by Warren Buffett to includes the managers of his successful businessesword ''digital'', it’s not really about this either. It can be paraphrased asInstead, when making a decision don't just consider whether it's legal or not, think about how it would look plastered on the front page ''management'' of your local paper. That advice would have served MPs as well as some of the more dubious characters in the financial sector very wellfinances, and how to take control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>047040678X</amazonuk>1789660610

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy Heminsley 1949395324|title=Work From HomeFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition|author=Kalpesh Ashar

|summary=Judy Heminsley has worked from home both as en employee and running her own businesses. She is now a professional advisor to homeworkers and ''Work From HomeFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know '' distils her experience into gives people without an accounting background who have risen in a practical guide for all who 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 considering work from homenecessary, then moves on to give an excellent overview of the types of accounting systems which will be encountered and the terms used. We then look in detail at the balance sheet, the income statement and the statement of cash flows...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184528335X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda Gratton1946383627|title=Glow: How Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Can Radiate Energy, Innovation and Success|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Have you ever read a self-help book and found that simply reading the first chapter tells you all you need to know about any wisdom contained therein? Well, fortunately with ''Glow'' 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 creatively.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273723871</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAlways Wanted To Know|author=Fiona Shoop|title=How to Deal in AntiquesVibrant Publishers|rating=4.5

|summary=There can be hardly anyone who hasnI't at least considered making a few honest pennies by selling collectable goods m capable of one kind or another. Making drawing up a full-time career out of it is a very different proposition, but from small acorns, large trees grow. Whether you just like the idea of dipping your toe profit and loss account (income statement in the water at the occasional car boot sale, or considering it as USA) and a serious balance sheet and I do so for my own business, you will find the answer to more or less everything you and for another organisation. The accounts give me ''broadly'' what I need to : I know in this newly revised fourth edition by whether we're making a profit or a TV loss and antiques expert who has over 25 I can look at the expenses and see what looks as though it could be trimmed back in future years of experience . My problem was that the accounts didn't really give me any help in the trademaking decisions, which was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting and Management'', as well as her own antiques businesspart of Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and Management series...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845283007</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Morgan1072549271|title=Eating the Big FishThe Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand LeadersA Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis

|summary=Big brands I frequently meet authors who are even bigger than we think: struggling to be published by the power of Market Leaders gives them not only traditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have the security of the sheer volume of sales but also better returns on any marketing spendbig bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. In I then ask if they've considered Kindle and the current marketanswer is, with the trust in brands waning and people less and less interested in advertisinginevitably, smaller fish need that they wouldn't know where to swim more energetically just to survive healthilystart. And yet many brands achieve rapid growth despite smaller size and resources I can empathise with that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470238275</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jonathan Salem Baskin|title=Branding Only Works On Cattle|rating=3.5|genre=Business Despite having used a computer for about thirty years, running most of my life ''and Finance|summary=''Branding Only Works on Cattle a website online, I'' starts big by ferociously rejecting m still nervous when it comes to starting something new. I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it for the first time. That was why I was very interested when ''advertising-is-about-creating-brand-imageThe Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon'' view which apparently dominates current branding and marketing practicecame across my desk. Baskin claims that modern branding campaigns are divorced from the realities of selling and that they confuse communicating ideas and (possibly) creating awareness of the brand name with achieving any real behaviour changes. Influencing what customers think is not enough as only behaviours lead to engagement and the ultimate behavioural goal of any marketing: selling stuff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470742577</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=John Kay|title=The Long and the Short of it: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the Industry|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|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 and to be readers of popular science. They'll never knowingly have dealt with Goldman Sachs and will pay tax at the 40% rate. At the other end of the scale they'll not be bad credit risks and just 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 Move on all points there's not even a hint of a pass mark which might allow you to sneak into the checkout queue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954809327</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Vass|title=Daily Mail Tax Guide 2008/2009|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=I doubt that there[[Newest Children's anyone who genuinely looks forward to completing a Tax Return. Even as an exNon-Inspector of Taxes I'll freely admit that the thought of it fills me with dread. It's tedious, but important that you don't get it wrong. So, what do you do? Professional assistance can be expensive and isn't necessarily entirely reliable. You can go along to your H M Revenue and Customs Enquiry Centre, but their function is to answer your queries rather than give advice about where you could minimise your tax bill. Going it alone is free, but you need to have comprehensive knowledge of taxation to be sure that you're paying the correct amount of tax. The ''Daily Mail Tax Guide 2008/2009'' will give most people all the information that they need to ensure that they're getting it right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680891</amazonuk>}}Fiction Reviews]]