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<!-- 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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Henry MintzbergFiona Parashar |title=ManagingA Beautiful Way to Coach

|summary=''Study after study has shown that managers work at an unrelenting pace'' How trueSo what am I doing reading this book, though it always makes me wonder why, as a resultusing this book, there's such a market for bulky management and leadership and general business books like this onebeing audacious enough to review it? Truth is I bought it out of curiosity. How does anyone who needs or wants to read one ever find I was at an on-line launch for the time book and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to do so? This title actually has an answer me. I wanted to this, by providing two books see if there were things in one, and it is such a simple yet effective solution there that I have could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to start there. You can read this book in one of two ways. Option one is mentor – without committing them to read every worda full day, chapter by chapter, cover which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to cover. If you have the time see if I would recommend this approach because the book is very readable, not too repetitivecould give myself a Vision Day, to bring me away from their vision and quite thought-provokingback to my own.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0273709305</amazonuk>103211603X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alistair Milne303091657X|title=The Fall of Disaster in the House of CreditBoardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson|rating=3.5

|summary=It now seems to be established as fact that so-called 'toxic assets' – mostly sub-prime mortgage investments Boards must act in the USA were the cause best interests of the current banking crisis, their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secure. This might seem obvious but Professor Alistair Milne a series of Cass Business School argues otherwise. It's his contention that many disasters - some of these 'toxic assets' were (and still are) sound investments which will be repaid have resulted in full without any problems and even death or the defaults will not be collapse of a large proportion of major company - have left interested parties asking what the wholeboard was doing. He argues that it was Where were they? Occasionally the initial loss boards were unaware of confidence in these investment vehicles what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which began 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 downward spiral very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble and resulted in the collapse of several Bankseven tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521762146</amazonuk>

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=Ben Mezrich suppl_stafl|title=The Accidental BillionairesSupply Chain 20/20: Sex, Money, Betrayal and A Clear View on the Founding of FacebookLocal Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund

|genre=Business and FinanceReference|summary=As subtitles goSo, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You'Sex, Money, Betrayalre convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and you had a talent for delivering the written word. You knew your subject back to front.'' is the sort Now you'd generally associate re going to have to get to grips with works by Danielle Steel or Jackie Collins. Butthe book supply chain, with a website? And a supremely geeky (in its beginnings) website like Facebook? Surely not. And, yet, thatwhich even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's exactly too difficult to change and no one wants to be the claim first to try. Then, when you find on ''finally'' have a copy of the cover of this bookin your hands, a you're going to have to work of faction that claims out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to tell the inside story of the founding of Facebookyou.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019550</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Whitmore 0008350388|title=How We Need to Write an Impressive CV and Cover Letter: A Comprehensive Guide for the UK Job SeekerTalk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=1.5|genre=Business Politics and Finance Society|summary=Back home in the UK after ''To be a stint abroaddark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and job hunting for the first time in years, this book is a rather timely addition to ultimately less valuable than my shelveslight-skinned counterparts... Having spent the last year and a bit teaching English, I also like '' ''We Need to think I know a little about grammar and general language useTalk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the author 7% of this English Literature GCSE students in England study a book, and by a writer of colour while itonly 7% study a book by a woman.''s all very well advising readers that ''first impressions really do countThe Bookseller''29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this carries less weight than did not translate into a shortage of anything: it should when you notice was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the dubious grammar family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in the first line of the introductionLondon and then a place at New College, and in virtually every chapter which followsOxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845283651</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Vassreed3|title=Daily Mail Tax Guide 2009/2010Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James Reed

|summary=It's well over a decade since I worked for what was then Six years on from the original edition, the Inland Revenue and book is now Her Majestybeing re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work's Revenue and Customs, but there's one thing for certain – which includes an additional 10 questions. I am no fonder of filling 've come to this some 6 years after reviewing the original book and my life has changed significantly in a Tax Return now than the meantime. I was then. It's m no longer working in middle-management having opted for a tedious job and it's very easy down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to make a mistake focus on other (either in your favour or the Government'snot necessarily paying) which can cause problemswork. If you opt I can therefore relate 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 to ''plan'' for you, and first point made in this can mean chapter namely that valuable opportunities independence and flexibility are missed. All is not lost though – Jane Vass has a reliable history of producing Tax Return Guides and this year's is no disappointmentcore skills that employees need to have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682274</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Janet Tavakoli |title=Dear Mr.Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance |summary=My mind was drawn while reading this book towards Gerry Brown is passionate about the ongoing parliamentary expenses scandal. Of course claiming £80 for benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - not just a trouser press isn't in corporate board, but the same league as some board of the shenanigans which went on in the banking and financial sector but they do have at least one thing in commonan NHS Trust, one thing that is stressed by Warren Buffett to the managers of his successful businesses. It can be paraphrased asa university, when making a decision donsports organisation or a charity. He't just consider whether its particularly keen that there's legal or not, think about how it would look plastered increased diversity on the front page of your local paper. That advice these boards and feels that this would have served MPs as well as help to avoid some of the more dubious characters scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - we're thinking about you) which have occurred in the financial sector very wellrecent 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>047040678X</amazonuk>

Independent Director: ''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. (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry 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 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=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 problem is that 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't delivered as expected. It's also a fact that no one develops a business because they have the knowledge of the sheer volume required 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.}}{{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 sales but 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 better returns on any marketing spendthe possibility of using to do good in the world. In }}{{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 current marketworld''. It's a bold statement for an opening chapter, with but it's far from hyperbole as the trust following pages explain. This book shines a light on what is happening in brands waning different places, and people less the impact on the local and less interested world economy. What can be learnt from the great strides in gender-equalising legislation in advertisingthe west? What can be done about the selling of young women into marriage, smaller fish 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 swim more energetically just 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 survive healthilyFast-Track Your Career''. And If you're not yet many brands achieve rapid growth despite smaller size 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 resourcesbest-known name in the recruitment industry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470238275</amazonuk> 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>