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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Liam Byrne0241636604|title= DragonsThe Trading Game: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built BritainA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating= 4.5|genre= Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=Liam Byrne MP, If you were to bring up an image of a minister city banker in the last Labour governmentyour mind, has come up with a novel way you're unlikely to think of telling British history through the ages in this booksomeone like Gary Stevenson. His approach is not one of Kings A hoodie and Queens, wars or scientific discoveries, but through jeans replaces the business world pin-stripe suit and several of his background is the key – East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and often unsung – entrepreneurs and commercial venturers from medieval times to the twentieth centuryinjustice. As he says in There was no posh public school on his preface, the people through whose lives CV - but he has chosen had been to narrate the saga reveal the best London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and worst he has a facility with numbers which most of human endeavoursus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, as he serves us up several explorersessentially, inventors and moral leaders alongside a motley crew of fraudsters, warmongers and unembarrassed imperialistscard game which got him an internship with Citibank. All of them took risksEventually, 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 worldthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857474</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen WittFiona Parashar |title= How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the ThiefA Beautiful Way to Coach |rating= 45|genre= Business and Finance|summary= In the digital ageSo what am I doing reading this book, using this book, new technology made recorded music a free-for-alland being audacious enough to review it? Truth is I bought it out of curiosity. It I was good news at an on-line launch for the consumer, but dealt a major blow book and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to the beleaguered music industryme. Where people once amassed physical collectionsI 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, they now had the choice of file-sharing insteadwhich I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. This book describes how everything changed I also wanted to see if I could give myself a Vision Day, to bring me away from the mid-1990s onwards. It is however written more with the computer enthusiast or business student than the music lover in mindtheir vision and back to my own. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445636786</amazonuk>103211603X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter and Gillian Coutts303091657X|title=One Second AheadDisaster in the Boardroom: Enhance Your Performance at Work with MindfulnessSix Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson|rating=45
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|summary=Have you ever worked at a task Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and found your mind wandering to something else? financially secure. Do you find yourself breaking off This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or the collapse of a major company - have left interested parties asking what you're the board was doing to answer an email. Where were they? Do you try Occasionally the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to multitaskturn 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, thinking that you're being more efficient? the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Do you Over three centuries we seem to have far too much to attend learned very little.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529393930|title=Making a Living: How toCraft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easier.'' ''If not now, to complete and nowhere near enough time to do it allwhen?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Danny Rogerssuppl_stafl|title=Campaigns that Shook Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the World: The Evolution of Public RelationsLocal Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund|rating= 4.5|genre= Business and Finance Reference|summary= I dithered about how So, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to begin this review. On one hand I thought I should probably do now is get it published and the money will start by saying that I have a work related interest rolling in marketing ? Wrong and communicationswrong again. On You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and you had a talent for delivering the other hand, Danny Rogers has written a book which appealed word. You knew your subject back to me on several levelsfront. Campaigns are about psychology and storytelling – Now you're going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of course leads us into branding the publishing industry believe to be wrong but also feature critical issues around concept deliveryit's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to try. In short Then, I was looking forward when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to reading this for many reasons – and sell it - because it didn’t disappoint''is'' going to be down to you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749475099</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Crabbe0008350388|title=Busy: How We Need to Thrive in a World of Too MuchTalk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as ''To be a smartlydark-dressed young man foraged in waste bins for foodskinned 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 ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a mile from the riches writer of the City of Londoncolour while only 7% study a book by a woman. '' Intrigued as ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to what the UK from Kenya when she was going on he went to askfive years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. The man explained to him that he'd just got a job after two years of being unemployedIt was her mother who came first, but it would be five weeks before he was paidwith her father joining them later. He couldn't claim benefits as he The family was in work and had no savingshard-working, so the bins had to be his source of food principled and by the following week he determined that their children would have to walk to work as he couldn't afford the faresbest education possible. That There was the inspiration for the [httpalways a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything://wwwit was simply carefully harvested.wecarefoodbanks When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car.co For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place at New College, Oxford.uk/ We Care Food Bank].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099308091X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerry Brownreed3|title=The Independent Director: The Non-Executive DirectorWhy You? 101 Interview Questions You's Guide to Effective Board Presencell Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James Reed|rating=4.5
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|summary=In the United Kingdom independent directors are usually known as non-executive directors to distinguish them Six years on from the executive – those people charged with actually running original edition, the company on a daybook is being re-to-day basis - but Gerry Brown usually refers to them as independent directors, issued with a phrase which is common in other parts of the world. Initially, I found the phrase somewhat unusual but as I read bonus chapter entitled ''The Independent DirectorFuture of Work'' which includes an additional 10 questions. I came 've come to prefer that usage as it stresses what this some 6 years after reviewing the director must be above all else – independent original book and able to stand back from my life has changed significantly in the meantime. I'm no longer working in middle-management of having opted for a business and view what is happening and what is planned with a dispassionate and critical eyedown-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. There's little in the way of training and it I can be argued that no one is actually qualified therefore relate to do the job, but Brown's book is as good as you're going to get first point made in terms of spelling out the responsibilities this chapter namely that independence and pitfallsflexibility are core skills that employees need to have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>113748053X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Platt3110706075|title=Criminal CapitalMaking a Difference: How Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Finance Industry Facilitates CrimeIndependent Director Way|author=Gerry Brown
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|summary=It used ''You're not there to be estate agents we reviled run the most, but they've now achieved relative respectabilityorganisation. MPs briefly took You are there to make sure that it is run properly.'' Gerry Brown is passionate about the top spotbenefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - not just a corporate board, but for many years now the list has been topped by bankers following the 2008 financial crisisboard of an NHS Trust, a university, when huge taxpayer-funded financial bailouts were required to keep the worlda sports organisation or a charity. He's financial system afloat. Most people will think particularly keen that wethere've heard s increased diversity on these boards and feels that this would help to avoid some of the worst of what has been going onscandals (Oxfam, but Stephen Platt believes that excessive risk taking and misKids Company -selling might well be just a minor part of what is we''still'' happening re thinking about you) which have occurred in the industry and that government attempts recent years. For this to happen, boards need to counter the problems are misguided and unlikely have a wider field of people to be effectivechoose from when they're looking for an ID.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>113733729X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Gabay3030513025|title=Brand PsychologyThe Independent Director in Society: Consumer PerceptionsOur current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Corporate ReputationsAndrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais
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|summary=Confession - IIndependent Director: ''m a bit job for which no one is qualified'' (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of the board of a brand geek. I directors who (1) do not have some marketing work experience but that isna material relationship with the company, (2) is not part of the company't s executive team, and (3) is not involved with the reason why I'm a bit day-to-day operations of a brand geekthe company. I think (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the executive members of boards and the attraction for me is that brands haveindependent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), trustees or in some cases, are, storiesgovernors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. I The function of the independent director is to have always been fascinated by how general oversight of the executive side of the board - to spot when and why people can relate to those storieswhere things are going wrong - but all too often the relationship is too cosy, in too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the same way that I am fascinated by knowledge and/or experience to understand what's happening or to know how anyone relates to any story! If intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you have any interest 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 business of brands, this is past and there has been a fascinating read general failure to prepare for what has happened - and it delivers on far more fronts than just the business oneis still happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749471735</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jacky Fitt0241453585|title=Banking On It: How to Get Inside Someone's Mind and Stay There: The business owner's guide to content marketing and confident copywritingI Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne Boden|rating=45
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|summary=As Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a small business owner I know senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. AIB was in the throes of 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's difficult - sometimes was at the cutting edge when it feels impossible - to get your message out to your potential customers in proposed opening a manner branch which is going allowed customers to reward the effort which you put into itaccess their accounts via a terminal. BesidesBoden took things a step further, how do you know who your potential realising that customers are? How do you know how they could access their accounts from their homes: the old branch network, employing thousands of people, would like to be approached? In fact, how are you going to get inside their head - and stay there? Jacky Fitt has written a comprehensive guide which takes you through what's needed and allows you to develop your own action plan for your businesssoon become redundant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00MXXQ5GU</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gareth Murphy3110641119|title=Cowboys The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Indies: The Epic History Unlocking the Value of the Record IndustryCustomer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave
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|genre=EntertainmentBusiness and Finance|summary=It’s not difficult 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 going to learn how to find run a history workshop to discover what it feels like to be one of popular or recorded music, written around the musical names who made it happenyour own customers. At this point, please don't say 'Cowboys and Indiesoh (expletive deleted) not another workshop'' takes a different approach. While there because this is plenty in these pages about several of the most important stars, there is just as much again if not sometimes more about the movers going to be fun and shakers, the inventors, managers, impresarios, and record label founders without whom there would not have been a record industryyou're going to be surprised by what emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254524</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Handley3110641291|title=Everybody WritesThe Radical Innovation Playbook: Your GoA Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good ContentChanging Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander|rating=45
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|summary=Ann Handley has compiled 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 one stop resource for writers bit of any kind of marketing and promotional materialmoney 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. Assuming You've also thought the small, incremental improvements which you have command 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 basic vocabulary ''growth''. It's been manageable and know how to write largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a simple sentence, Handley competitor who takes you through everything you could ever need to know for a huge variety of platforms, purposes more radical approach. You've merely kept the business ticking over and problems, there's a nagging suspicion in order to better represent the back of your business on mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the internettwenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PJOTG4I</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472962044|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear AgainCreating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your Business|author=James ReedAndrew Hampshire|rating=4.5
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|summary=NoI was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteen, so there's been a lot of technology in my life. I once worked for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriter. Times - thankfully -one likes doing job interviewshave moved on. This includes most recruiting managers, but for candidates it Nowadays the problem is one of lifethat someone 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's most stressful situationst delivered as expected. No matter whether itIt's also a fact that no one develops a business because they have the knowledge of the next step required technology, so they start off in our carefully planned career or 'conversations about technology feeling that they'just re at a job''disadvantage. They need help, no matter whether itbut they frequently don's our first job or our fifteenth, that 45 minutes to an hour of conversation has the potential to fundamentally affect our happiness for the foreseeable futuret know what help they need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241970210</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfRashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=We're screwed. What a relief! Wherever we lookA book about money, for children, whatever we think with clear explanations of doingwhat it is, why it matters, there how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is a reason why we shouldnout) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't be doing matter: we all need it, and people to back that reason up with scientific datasome extent. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eatYou might want to go into business, how you workbe a clever shopper, how a saver (you rest might evenbecome an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke a serious illness or worse''really'' want to buy. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at There's also the blink possibility of an eyeusing to do good in the world. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out to be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Price of Fish A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better DecisionsLinda Scott|authortitle=Michael Mainelli and Ian HarrisThe Double X Economy|rating=3.5|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=Don't be put off by ' Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the titleworld''. The Price of Fish isnIt's a bold statement for an opening chapter, but it't just s far from hyperbole as the following pages explain. This book shines a treatise light on what is happening in different places, and the impact on how the local fishmonger chooses to mark up his prize catchand 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1857886224</amazonuk>0571353606
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve J Martin, Noah J Goldstein and Robert B Cialdini0349424926|title=The small BIGLife's Work: small changes that spark big influence12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career|author=James Reed|rating=45
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|summary=It's Do you have a commonlyguaranteed and more-than-held belief that if adequate income which will last the rest of your life? Do you want have no need to advance your business - bring in the extra moneywork, get more customers and generally move up a step - either for income or fulfilment? If you even hesitate over either of those questions then youreally ought to read 're going 'Life's Work': 12 Proven Ways to have to spend big money and bring in the expertsFast-Track Your Career''. Martin, Goldstein and Cialdini tackle the problem from the other end: sometimes itIf you's the smallest, least expensive and quick re not yet in work or considering that you might need to make some changes which can bring about then this is the improvement that book you need. In ''The small BIG'' they offer over fifty tips, hints, ideas which can make James Reed is the difference. Sometimes they cost nothingchairman and chief executive of REED, but bring Britain's biggest and best-known name in millionsthe recruitment industry. Occasionally they require a small investment of your time, but it can be as little as five minutes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252742</amazonuk>Who better to give you the advice you need?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William PoundstoneAnne Boden|title=How to Predict the Unpredictable: The Art of Outsmarting Almost EveryoneMoney Revolution
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|genre=ReferenceBusiness and Finance|summary=William Poundstone believes that we are all Money is changing. It might not be in the business of predicting, whether it be something as minor as playing rock, paper, scissors to pay ways you think. We’re not suddenly getting a bar bill though to anticipating how the housing 3p or stock markets are going to move. Now, I'm not particularly competitive - if whatever it is means ''£3 coin (and have you ever even found a country that'' much offers anything different to someone else then I'd rather let them have it - so this book didn't appeal to me on the basis of doing better than someone else1, but I was interested in how it might be possible to predict what is going to happen. So2, care to predict how it stacked up5 model?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780744072</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=The Economist|title=Pocket World in Figures 2015|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=There are people who don't understand the joy of raw data: no accompanying analysis (or spin) - just We’re getting a collection of figures relevant lot more digital with payments, which seems to a particular circumstance. If you're one of those suit most people then this book will mean little to youapart from charity collectors and the homeless on the street, but if you want a pocket (well, certainly handbag or briefcase) work of reference then although this book will be a treasure. I once gave a copy to a diplomat and he kept his wife awake until has the early hours as he came across another gem which she had to know without delay. The 2015 edition is subtitle that includes the twenty fourth in the series - and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for the onslaught.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252734</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alannah Moore|title=Create Your Own Online Store (using WordPress) in a Weekend|rating=4.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Iword ''digital've run a website for over eight years now but I've always shied away from any inclusion of e-commerce on the site, it’s not really about this either. It seemed like too large a subjectInstead, too much complexity and choice and it's about the possibility of problems which could go disastrously wrong. I first encountered Alannah Moore when I read [[The Creative Person's Website Builder by Alannah Moore|The Creative Person's Website Builder]] management'' of your finances, and was impressed by the way that she approached her subject, so when I had the opportunity to see how to create an online store in a weekend, I jumped at the chancetake control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781571430</amazonuk>1789660610
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949395324|title=MoneyFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: The Unauthorised Biography4th Edition|author=Felix MartinKalpesh Ashar
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|summary=Occasionally books are not exactly what they seem. When I picked this up, read ''Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know ''gives people without an accounting background who have risen in a company the blurb and began knowledge to understand the contents inside, I was expecting a kind of biography or history of money through accounts which show how the agescompany is doing. The opening chapterbook begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, a brief sketch then moves on to give an excellent overview of the economy types of accounting systems which will be encountered and the Pacific island of Yap and how it worked, seemed to confirm thisterms used. It tells us how We then look in detail at the late nineteenth century Yapbalance sheet, east of the Philippine Islands, had an unwieldy coinage consisting income statement and the statement of stone wheels around 12ft in diameter, called feicash flows.. The population did not carry these around, let alone own them like we possess pounds and pence, as they were part of a sophisticated system of credit management.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578522</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Hytner1946383627|title=Consiglieri: Leading from the ShadowsCost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know|author=Vibrant Publishers|rating=34.5
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|summary=I've always been fascinated by the existence m capable of that shadowy figure, the consigliere, drawing up a profit and loss account (income statement in stories about the Mafia. He - USA) and it was always a man - appeared to be full of wisdom, with the interests of the family at heart balance sheet and without an ambitious bone in his body, or I do so it would seemfor my own business and for another organisation. It was the title of Richard HytnerThe accounts give me ''broadly''s book which drew me in - along with the idea that coming top is sometimes second best. That seemed to go against everything that what I'd ever been brought up to believe. So - does he make a good case for being the second in command?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250464</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Why Axisneed: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life|author=Uri Gneezy and John List|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Wow! This is a most surprising economics book. Behavioral economists (if you’ll excuse the American spelling) investigate people’s buying behaviour and consuming patterns. I guess know whether we know about that already because supermarkets here lull us into buying three for the price of two, to come back next week for £10 off 're making a £100, profit or to garner extra points on a loyalty card (Oh why can’t they just go for a cheaper price loss and I can look at the point of sale? Why do profits have to expenses and see what looks as though it could be trimmed back in double percentage point increases year on year?)future years. A fair bit of manipulation to ensure My problem was that a company survives is already part and parcel of our lives. If you’d asked the accounts didn't really give me before I read this bookany help in making decisions, which was why I would have lined up that sort of consumer marketing psychology alongside banking as profiteering. However … these guys are different: they really do seem turned to care about the plight ''Cost Accounting and Management'', part of the underprivileged, Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and they come from an academic setting, rather than a commercial oneManagement series...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946747</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Kelsey1072549271|title=Get Things DoneThe Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Can ChangeA Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis
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|summary= WeI frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the traditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don're all so busy these days it's easy t have the big bucks required to veer between headless chicken and cherry picking modes, go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or at least it is for metheir like. (I really hope my boss isn’t reading this!) then ask if they've considered Kindle and the answer is, inevitably, that they wouldn't know where to start. In fact procrastination is my super power which was why I grabbed [[:Category:Robert Kelsey|Robert Kelsey's]] book from the shelf can empathise with excited anticipation: in that. Despite having used a self-help book with one of the longest titles known to mancomputer for about thirty years, he promises to help us become more efficient time managers and to stop putting things off.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857083082</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Wolf running most of Wall Street|author=Jordan Belfort|rating=2.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=As if we didnmy life ''t have enough excuses to appreciate the and'Masters of the Universe' of the financial sector. After the tax dodginga website online, the bonus scamming, price fixing and the valiant attempt I'm still nervous when it comes to bring down the entire world economy comes Jordan Belfort aka the Wolf of Wall Streetstarting something new. To be fair I like someone to Belfort, he plied his trade long before hold my hand as I go through it for the most recent financial meltdownfirst time. Still, he That was why I was very interested when ''The Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon''s managed to piggy back the latest crash via a best selling book which has been re-released to coincide with a film adaptation starring Leonardo Dicapriocame across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778129</amazonuk>
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