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[[Category:New Reviews|Business and Finance]]__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Justin Yifu Lin|title=Demystifying the Chinese Economy|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=The success of the Chinese economy, and as Lin makes us aware, a success which contrasts strongly with what appeared major failure in the recent historical past, is something which needs explanation. No one can ignore it, and we are confronted with the effects of it from the ownership of Thames water to the faces of tourists in London and Stratford on a daily basis. And in the roots of its success are the potential seeds of future change, a change that now more than ever is crucial to the way the world economy works.|amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- Remove -->0521181747</amazonuk>}}
<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Owen0241636604|title=Leadership RulesThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=OwenIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's latest addition re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the management selfpin-help canon stripe suit and his background is subtitled ''50 Timeless Lessons for Leaders''the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Fifty lessons in under 250 pages? You have There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to know that the genuine newness London School of the insights might be on the disappointing side Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of fabulousus can only envy. That's not He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to completely write off ''Leadership Rules''be stupid. I enjoyed reading itIt was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Given its structure of short sharp snipes which might be aimed at the dip-in-and-out brigadeEventually, I can also say that it reads well this turned into permanent employment as a sit-down-and-consider booktrader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857082388</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicholas ShaxsonFiona Parashar |title=Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Most people think about the subject of tax havens - if they need A Beautiful Way to think about them at all - as something which is unlikely ever to concern them and that they're for the super-rich and celebrities. What might surprise them is that more than half of world trade as well as most international lending is routed through them and that many common items in your everyday shopping will come to you via a tax haven. And we really should be thinking about them because tax havens are ensuring that wealth in unprecedented amounts is being transferred from the poor to the rich - greatly exceeding the aid which flows in the opposite direction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099541726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andrew Levy, Judy Bartkowiak|title=Secrets of Success in Brand LicensingCoach |rating=35
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|summary=Brand licensing So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and being audacious enough to review it? Truth is a huge business, with I bought it out of curiosity. I was at an on-line launch for the annual worth estimated at 150 billion USD book and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to me. It's hard I wanted to avoid Hello Kitty, Thomas the Tank Engine, Peppa Pig or Dr Who. One sometimes wonders see if it's even possible there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to buy non-character pyjamas for a six year old. It's not just kids' brandsfull day, either (though these dominate the lucrative licensing market)which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. From socialites (Paris Hilton) I also wanted to actors and pop stars (Hale Berrysee if I could give myself a Vision Day, Britney Spears), football clubs to bring me away from their vision and individual footballers (Beckham, Pele), magazines (Playboy, National Geographic), TV series (Simpsons) and pure graphic design (Smiley, Hello Kitty), brand licensing and brand extensions surround us on a scale unprecedented in human historyback to my own. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908218959</amazonuk>103211603X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Heinberg303091657X|title=The End of GrowthDisaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson|rating=3.5
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|summary=With Boards must act in the newspapers full best interests of economic doom their stakeholders and gloom the last thing you might want is to pick up a book ensure that reiterates it they are well-managed and then somefinancially secure. But while this book may This might seem at first glance to be obvious but a bit series of disasters - some of a downer, it also provides an insight into how things might just work out ok which have resulted in death or the end. Yes, they’ll be some big changes – there collapse of a major company - have to be because left interested parties asking what the direction we’ve been heading in is just not sustainable – but if we’re willing to adapt, we will survive board was the main message I picked up as I flicked through the pagesdoing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570333</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neil Monnery|title=Safe As Houses Where were they? A Historical Analysis Occasionally the boards were unaware of Property Prices|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Neil Monnery what was asked happening or they preferred to become turn a trustee of a local charity with most of its assets in local residential propertyblind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminality. Over the years this had yielded good results The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and the charity was concerned Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as to whether or not they should continue on railway mania, the same basis or diversify South Sea Bubble and Monnery said that he would look into thiseven tulip mania. That discussion was the genesis for this book as he began Over three centuries we seem to research the history of house prices – in the UK and elsewhere – for as far back as he could go to establish whether or not house were, well, as safe as houseshave learned very little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907994017</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business
|author=Sophie Rochester
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|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easier.''
{{newreview|author=Simon Heffer|title=Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=As a child I was taught English grammar. I began by resenting it but gradually I appreciated the subtlety and nuances of expression that could be achieved by the correct use of language. I loved the fact that I could say something precisely and convey exactly what I meant in a few words. And then I was stunned to find that there was no longer the same emphasis on grammar in schools, that freedom of expression was encouraged without worrying about the form it took – and ''If not now I regularly encounter official letters, even books where the English language is subjected to grievous bodily harm. It isnwhen?''t difficult to get right – it just requires a little knowledge, a logical mind and practice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099537931</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Luke Johnson|title=Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business is Easier Than You Think|rating=3.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Luke Johnson is one of our busiest tycoons, with a personal fortune which runs I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into nine figures. He's been the driving force behind Pizza Express and Channel 4 and has a renowned column in the 'Financial Times'business. HeThere's done all this over a couple lot of decades, motivation to do so he obviously knows what the score is in terms of getting businesses up and running – : I make more items than we can sensibly use and then turning there are a profitlot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. So Selling would offset the costs, 'Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business is Easier Than You Think' is going to which can be perfect for my friends Mr quite considerable and Mrs Cook, who want it could be fun to open a restaurant, Mr Plumbdo, whocouldn's been havering t it? But where to start? What do I need to think about splitting from the builder who employs him and Miss Baker who think that our prosperous village is ripe for an artisan bread shop? Well, perhaps…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919411</amazonuk>the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''.
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers
|author=Kim Staflund
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|summary=So, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in?
{{newreview|author=The Economist|title=Pocket World in Figures 2012|rating=4|genre=Business Wrong and Finance|summary=There are some books which it's very difficult wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to review - and ''Pocket World in Figures 2012'' is you had a perfect exampletalent for delivering the written word. Each year The Economist completely updates all the figures and reissues them in a format which, even if it won't fit into every pocket, is certainly going You knew your subject back to be no problem in a briefcase or readily available in a desk drawerfront. And it is the type of book which Now you're going to want have to get to have readily available. It's not a reference grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to have tucked away on a shelf – once you find that be wrong but it is superbly easy to use you're going s too difficult to want change and no one wants to have it be the first to handtry. The problem is that Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book is a very similar format every yearin your hands, just as essential as the year before and still the book which ityou's unwise re going to have to loan work out how to anyone as theresell it - because it ''is's a strong chance it won't returngoing to be down to you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684730</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynn Peril0008350388|title=Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=The subtitle of this book suggests a survival guide to secretarial work. However, this is definitely not a handbook, but an examination of the portrayal of the job and those who do it in the media and in handbooks over the last 100 years. It is an American book and all the references are We Need to handbooks, media, popular fiction and advertising from the US, but as a secretary in Britain, I still found it relevant, interesting and very entertaining.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393338541</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTalk About Money|author=Hugh Jefferies|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2012: Commonwealth and Empire Stamps 1840 - 1970Otegha Uwagba
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|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=Each edition of the 'Gibbons Commonwealth' catalogue of the sterling eraTo be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, which covers the era of poundsless hireable, shillings less intelligent and pence up to the end of 1970 with a few exceptions, sees several changesultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts.. The 114th edition is no exception. Reflecting market trends and demand during the previous few months, many price increases affecting almost all areas and periods have been made, including the more modestly priced items as well as some of the 'blue chip' pieces. One of the latter now makes history, as following the recent sale of an 1847 'Post Office' Mauritius 2d blue, this and its 1d red partner become the first stamps in the Gibbons catalogue We Need to be priced at £1,000,000 or more. As we are told in a note underneath the listing, most known surviving examples are now in permanent museum collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598130</amazonuk>}}Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba
{{newreview|author=Eli Pariser|title=The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You|rating=4''0.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=In 7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a world where websites are increasingly personalised, and your Facebook profile seems to pop up left, right and centre on sites youbook by a woman.'re visiting for the first time, there's a rapidly shrinking amount of webpages where your experience is the same as the next person 's. Having always ignored Google's targetted adverts, I naively thought the actual search results produced by the site were one of the few places where IThe Bookseller'd see the same thing as a random user in, say, Australia did. Eli Pariser shatters this myth immediately in his book as he tells us about the fifty-seven signals Google uses to build on the company's knowledge of us and choose whichresults to show us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067092038X</amazonuk>}}29 June 2021
{{newreview|author=Hugh Jefferies|title=Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2011|rating=5|genre=Business Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and Finance|summary=Such are the complexitynine. 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 sheer variety and number best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of permutations possible money although this did not translate into a shortage of postage stamp issues in anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the 21st century, that any catalogue compiler is faced with an almost impossible taskfamily acquired a car. Producing For Otegha, education meant a genuinely concise book is largely scholarship to a matter of what to include private school in London and what to leave outthen a place at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598084</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Vassreed3|title=Daily Mail Tax Guide 2011/2012Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James Reed
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|summary=H M Revenue and Customs is now bigger than ever – it's taken Six years on more work – but at from the same time it's having to shed stafforiginal edition, many of them the book is being the ones re-issued with experience and inevitably something will have a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work'' which includes an additional 10 questions. I've come to give. In this some 6 years after reviewing the light of this original book and my life has changed significantly in the author rightly concludes that itmeantime. I's now more important than ever m no longer working in middle-management having opted for a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to keep a close eye enable me to focus on your tax affairsother (not necessarily paying) work. Don't assume for example I can therefore relate to the first point made in this chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that your PAYE coding is correctemployees need to have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684722</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Webster3110706075|title=Polar Bear Pirates Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Their Quest to Engage Giving Back the Sleepwalkers: Motivate Everyday People to Deliver Extraordinary ResultsIndependent Director Way|author=Gerry Brown
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|summary=I'd like to introduce you to the polar bear pirates. They're the people who believe in life before death – the people who can deliver extraordinary results despite being just ordinary people like you and me. Well, me anyway. TheyYou're the manager who can motivate their staff not there to achieve those extraordinary results – even if their staff are sleepwalkers who live on planet complacency, amps or vamps. We won't mention run the potholersorganisation. This You are there to make sure that it is a management book like no other – yourun properly.'re going to laugh, cry just occasionally when you realise that you've been seen through and come away with plenty to think about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857081276</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Jakob Lovstad|title=Going Mental: Reaching Your Goals in Business and Sports Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - Full Contact NLP Coaching from not just a corporate board, but the board of an NHS Trust, a university, a sports organisation or a Full Contact Fighter|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=Some books seem determined to put you offcharity. Unless itHe's literary fiction particularly keen that there'Going Mental' suggests something s increased diversity on these boards and feels that I've gone to great lengths this would help to avoid. The man on some of the cover is baldscandals (Oxfam, bloodied and apparently screaming. IKids Company - we've been avoiding men like that toore thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. '…not for the soft and sensitive!' it says and whilst I wouldn't describe myself as either I do wonder whether allowing Jakob Lovstad For this to happen, boards need to mess with my head is the wisest thing I've ever done. When I realise that he's have a cage fighter I'm ready wider field of people to run. What has that got to do with my business? Because thatchoose from when they's what this book is about – reaching your goals in business and sportsre looking for an ID.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685588</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kay3030513025|title=ObliquityThe Independent Director in Society: Why Our Goals are Best Achieved Indirectlycurrent crisis of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais|rating=45
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|summary=Sometimes the shortest route to Independent Director: ''a destination isn't the quickest way to get there. Take crossing central America job for example. Instinctively, you think that the best way to navigate your way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific which no one is to travel directly from east to west. It may seem counter intuitive but the designers of the Panama Canal realised that the easiest way to make the journey was in fact to use a thin strip of land and then go in seemingly the wrong direction from west to east. Architects and cartographers found that the obvious route wasnqualified'' (''Financial Times't the best way to solve the problem put in front of them. An indirect or oblique approach would prove to be far more successful. That in a nutshell is noted economist John Kay's concept of obliquity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682894</amazonuk>}})
{{newreview|author=Michael Lewis|title=The Big Short|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=So. The subprime mortgage crisis, Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of the worldwide financial crisis, people losing their jobs, their money, their houses, their security. Unregulated greed, that went on and on and on. And board of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the people who caused it all got rich during and after, very few felt any sort of consequencescompany, and millions (2) is not part of other people worldwide suffered greatly. Strip away all the intentionally confusing terminology and it all amounts to bets with unbelievable amounts of money. How did it all come about and how did it play out? Michael Lewis explains the mess as only he can. Just as his earlier excellent work {{amazonurl|title=Liarcompany's Poker|isbn=0340839961}} encapsulated the excesses of Wall Street in the 1980sexecutive team, so does ''The Big Short'' perfectly tell and (3) is not involved with the tale day-to-day operations of Wall Street in the 2000scompany. In fact, given the extent of the current global clusterfuck, it makes the shocking ''Liar's Poker'' look positively mild by comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043539</amazonuk>}} (Corporate Finance Institute)
{{newreview|author=Mikael Krogerus Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Roman Tschappeler|title=The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking|rating=4.5|genre=Business Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the executive members of boards and Finance|summary=This littlethe independent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), black book with its gold lettering on trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. The function of the front cover independent director is beautifully presented. Truly pocketto have general oversight of the executive side of the board -sized to make it easy to refer to at any timespot when and where things are going wrong - but all too often the relationship is too cosy, any place. Divided into four neat sections dealing with ''too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the self'' knowledge and /or experience to understand what''others'' (others in the main being say business partners, colleagues s happening or liketo know how to intervene. Covid-minded people) 19 has highlighted the failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you might be tempted to think that these fifty working models are designed extraordinary times and that all will be well once we get back to give 'normal' but a pandemic was predicted and modelled in the individual both self-awareness past and ammunition, if you like, in order there has been a general failure to cope with various business/political prepare for what has happened - and even social scenarios, for exampleis still happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683955</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley Gibbons0241453585|title=Stamps of the World 2011Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne Boden
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|summary=In describing reference books Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the word ''bible'' has been used too frequently of latefinancial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. Slim booklets on a particular subject have the word emblazoned on their cover, which makes it rather difficult when you encounter a book – or AIB was in this case a set of six books – which merits the word. Stanley Gibbons 'Stamps throes of recovering from the World 2011' is genuinely a bible – an essential tool for a dealer 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the serious collectorfirst to realise that banks needed to do things differently. It's now available in six soft-bound volumes and is rightfully AIB thought it was at the company's flagship publication.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597894</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen Lambert and Eli Holzman|title=Undercover Boss: Inside the TV Phenomenon That is Changing Bosses and Employees Everywhere|rating=3.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=I guess I have to admit cutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a certain weakness for terminal. Boden took things a certain type of reality TV – it's a long time since I watched Big Brother and I've not been sucked into watching talent contests – but I do quite like programmes in which the participants swap places and/or step out of further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their normal lives tohomes: the old branch network, allegedlyemploying thousands of people, see how someone else liveswould soon become redundant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470916001</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Prince's Trust3110641119|title=Make it HappenThe Journey Mapping Playbook: The Prince's Trust A Practical Guide to Starting Your Own BusinessPreparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave
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|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Who hasnI had no idea what 't dreamed of being able to work for themselves, be journey mapping' was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their own boss, customers will benefit from reading the book and not have acting on the contents. You're going to learn how to worry about the drag of run a 9 workshop to discover what it feels like to 5 job? Of course, the reality be one of starting your own business is that there are rather a lot of things you need to consider before getting started, as my sister found out when she started selling her own handmade greetings cardscustomers. Thankfully At this point, please don't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this book was on hand is going to help her get things going be fun and sheyou's found it a really invaluable toolre going to be surprised by what emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857080458</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Ashton3110641291|title=How to be a Social EntrepreneurThe Radical Innovation Playbook: Make Money and Change the World|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=This book is aimed at those individuals amongst us who want to make a difference. They may have an idea of what they want to achieve but not sure of how to take that vital first step. This is where this book comes inA Practical Guide for Harnessing New, says Ashton in his conversational style. He takes the reader by the hand and guides him/her through the business maze. And before we go any further, what, exactly do we mean by the perhaps woolly phrase of 'Social Entrepreneur'? Many think it means doling out charity of some description to vulnerable individuals. Not quite. It's all about helping people to help themselves Novel or Game- and in doing so, they in turn are helping their families by lifting them out of poverty, joblessness or even hopelessness. And I found that the inspirational elements of this book were uplifting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857080601</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewChanging Breakthroughs|author=Matthew Stewart|title=The Management Myth: Debunking Modern Business Philosophy|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Stewart's book is subtitled "Debunking Modern Business Philosophy". It is a criticism (Olga Kokshagina and I mean criticism not critique) of the management consultancy business since its inception to the close of the first decade of the 21st century. Matthew Stewart is a former management consultant, so he should know what he's talking about.  On the other hand, by his own admission he made a more than reasonable profit out of management consulting, and he is now doing likewise out of showing what a sham it all is. Make of that what you will.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393338525</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hugh Jefferies|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Commonwealth & Empire Stamps 1840-1970 2011Allen Alexander
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|summary=Over the years the 'Gibbons Commonwealth' catalogue has seen many changes. So, why bother? This is the second edition since Gibbons compacted its listings Every time you set out to cover do something new you end up with the era of pounds, shillings same thing in a slightly different form and pence up to the end quite a bit of 1970money spent. (This Why not just leave it as it is fair as the currency in Britain and various other territories goes, though Canada and her territories went decimal in the mid-nineteenth century). ? This boundary is extended in a few instancesAfter all, such as the Barbuda British monarchs seriesit's ''roughly'' working, issued at regular intervals over an eighteen-month period spanning 1970-1, but by and large this is what we might call the sterling era catalogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597975</amazonuk>}}isn't it?
{{newreview|author=Sally Bibb|title=The Right Thing: An Everyday Guide to Ethics in Business|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Bibb wastes no time in highlighting key areas of the whole ethics debateYou might not have said it, but you've probably thought it. WhatYou've also thought the small, exactlyincremental improvements which you have been able to make - the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, does the word mean ..extension of your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in terms of ''growth''. It's been manageable and why should it matter to us anyway? She starts largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by informing the reader that ethics (which is a branch of philosophy) is usually the poor Cinderellacompetitor who takes a more radical approach. Overlooked in favour of the more glamorous areas ie: big, fat, profits for You've merely kept the business or businesses concerned. Bibb wants us to think more about the ethical side of things ticking over and perhaps less about there's a nagging suspicion in the balance sheet. She gives an example most of us will be aware back of. Two words. Fred Goodwin. Bibb comments your mind that had he applied his moral compass an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in his leadership role, perhaps, just perhaps, the Royal Bank of Scotland may not have fallen so far from gracetwenty-first. IWhat you need is innovation - ''m aware that many will now be foaming at the mouth at the mention of FG (myself included)radical'' innovation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>047068853X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Davies1472962044|title=The Presentation CoachCreating Value Through Technology: Bare Knuckle Brilliance For Every PresenterDiscover the Tech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Andrew Hampshire
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|summary=With plaudits all over the covers like a rash; plaudits from well-known people such as Nick RobinsonI was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteen, Political Editor of the BBC, Daniel Finkelstein of the Times and Boris Johnston, current Mayor of London, this bookso there's bar is set pretty highbeen a lot of technology in my life. Straight away and yes, I once worked for a manager who judged if an accountant was asking the usual question reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriter. Times - why another one of these seemingly endless 'howthankfully -to' manuals? have moved on. My first impression Nowadays the problem is of no-nonsense, that someone running a business doesn't have the time is precious but to keep up with constant innovation and they might also a little in-your-face, American style er, presentation of the book. But thatbe scared because previous IT investments haven's good. I like thatt delivered as expected. It's all also a fact that no one develops a business because they have the knowledge of the wishy-washy books required technology, so they start off in this genre and similar conversations about technology feeling that I they're at a disadvantage. They need help, but they frequently don't likeknow what help they need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085708044X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Hesketh1526362759|title=Dosh: How to Persuade and Influence People: Powerful Techniques to Get Your Own Way More OftenEarn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Having just taken up What a new management role in a completely new culturerelief! A book about money, on a completely new continentfor children, I'm well aware that with clear explanations of what it will be my soft skillsis, not just my supposed technical expertisewhy it matters, that Ihow to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you'll be relying on ve managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for the first few months at leastwanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. Thanks You might want to this bookgo into business, be a clever shopper, I will a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be better prepared for something you really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the possibility of using to do good in the taskworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857080423</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zarir SuntookLinda Scott|title=Learning Accountancy: The Novel Way|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=If you're planning on learning how to prepare accounts the traditional method has what almost amounts to an initiation ceremony. You're introduced to double entry book-keeping, which is the equivalent of being asked to learn HTML without ever having seen a web page. Some people ''do'' take to it like ducks to water – they're usually the people who think that Sudoku is ridiculously easy – but most people find that the concepts are difficult to grasp and this isn't helped by not really understanding why they need to master it. Zarir Suntook hasn't quite stood the methods of teaching on their heads but he's taken a more logical approach which is gentler on the brain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1443819484</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Soskin|title=Net Profit: How to Succeed in Digital BusinessDouble X Economy
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Doggett0349424926|title=You Never Give Me Life's Work: 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Money: The Battle for the Soul of the BeatlesCareer|author=James Reed
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|summary='Marketing Lessons from Do you have a guaranteed and more-than-adequate income which will last the Grateful Dead' sounds like a gimmickrest of your life? Do you have no need to work, doesn't iteither for income or fulfilment? Or, if not a gimmick, If you even hesitate over either of those questions then the lessons that you learn when you see how it shouldnreally ought to read ''Life't be done. Over the past few years Is Work've read quite a few marketing books and I: 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career've generally come away with the thought that they weren't aimed at a business like Bookbag and required far too much control. WeIf you're not yet in work or considering that sort of people! you might need to make some changes then this is the book you need. We want to enjoy Bookbag and we want other people to do James Reed is the same chairman and wechief executive of REED, Britain're definitely not s biggest and best-known name in the business of trying recruitment industry. Who better to pull in every penny that we can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470900520</amazonuk>give you the advice you need?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy BoundsAnne Boden|title=The Jelly Effect: How to Make Your Communication StickMoney Revolution|rating=4.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=This book has lots of glowing praise written all over Money is changing. It might not be in the coversways you think. Such lines as 'Andy Bounds taught me more about effective presenting than We’re not suddenly getting a lady who'd previously taught two US Presidents.' Unsurprisingly, my expectations were sky-high. But will the book deliver? I 3p or £3 coin (and have to say at the outset you ever even found a country that I didn't particularly take offers anything different to the title (although original and presumably unforgettable1, 2, 5 model?). I found it detracted at first glance We’re getting a lot more digital with payments, which seems to suit most people apart from charity collectors and didn't do the homeless on the street, but although this book any initial favourshas the subtitle that includes the word ''digital'', it’s not really about this either. And although it is explained in full I still felt Instead, it light and an Americanism too far. But that's just my personal opinion. That asideabout the ''management'' of your finances, I was keen and how to start reading, see what all the fuss was about ..take control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857080466</amazonuk>1789660610
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark van Vugt and Anjana Ahuja1949395324|title=SelectedFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: Why some people lead, why others follow, and why it matters4th Edition|author=Kalpesh Ashar
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|summary=''SelectedFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know '' is based on gives people without an accounting background who have risen in a company the psychology of leadership. Some of us may ask knowledge to understand the perfectly reasonable question 'Does it matter who leads and who follows?' Well, apparently it not only matters but it matters greatly. And accounts which show how the co-authors go to great lengths to tell us whycompany is doing. The useful prologue informs us that book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, then moves on to give an excellent overview of the whole area types of leadership can accounting systems which will be traced back in time, by no less than several million years. Vugt encountered and Ahuja explain that the rather innocent (and even a bit airy-fairy to some) word 'leader' is evolved from various academic disciplinesterms used. Including We then look in detail at the more obvious psychologybalance sheet, there is also biology the income statement and anthropology in the mixstatement of cash flows. Heady stuff. And yes, I did want to read on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683270</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley Gibbons1946383627|title=Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2010Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know|author=Vibrant Publishers|rating=4.5
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|summary=Stanley Gibbons Great Britain stamp catalogues come at basically three levels. At one end I'm capable of drawing up a profit and loss account (income statement in the scale is Collect British Stamps, USA) and a concise listing which excludes variations in shade, perforation, phosphor banding, watermarks et albalance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisation. At The accounts give me ''broadly'' what I need: I know whether we're making a profit or a loss and I can look at the other is the multi-volume specialized editionexpenses and see what looks as though it could be trimmed back in future years. This is My problem was that the intermediate catalogueaccounts didn't really give me any help in making decisions, which provides in one 354-page paperback the main variations of each issue. It also includes such extras as miniature sheets, special first day of issue postmarks, postage dues, booklets, was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting and regional issues (Wales, Scotland, Northern IrelandManagement'', plus the Channel Islands and Isle part of Man, the latter territories prior to postal independence in 1969 Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and 1973 respectively)Management series...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597584</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economist1072549271|title=Style The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis|rating=4.5
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|summary=I've always been fascinated frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the use of traditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have the English languagebig bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. Ithen ask if they've loved considered Kindle and the way answer is, inevitably, that precise use of words they wouldn't know where to start. I can make meaning absolutely clear – or obscure it altogether. Some publications are a joy to read whilst others leave you empathise with a frownthat. Generally Despite having used a computer for about thirty years, running most of my life ''The Economistand'' a website online, I'm still nervous when it comes into the first category and this is mainly down to the magazine's style guide – the rule book which guides writers towards clear writingstarting something new. This is the tenth edition and whilst it might sound rather dry I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it's the bible for people wishing to communicate with precision and style – and who appreciate the bookfirst time. That was why I was very interested when 's gentle humour'The Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681758</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|author=Philip Augar|title=Reckless: The Rise and Fall of the City|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=The City, 1997. Many major institutions are struggling in the City, with high profile scandals taking down Barings and severely damaging the reputation of Morgan Grenfell. The City, 2007. Less than a fortnight before becoming Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, at the Mansion House Dinner, describes the current time as 'an era that history will record as the beginning of a new golden age.' The City, 8th October, 2008. Author Philip Augar states Move on to [[Newest Children'even the most conservative observer would have to concede that 8 October 2008 amounted to a catastrophic failure of privates Non-sector banking in the UK.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009952404X</amazonuk>}}Fiction Reviews]]