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[[Category:New Reviews|Business and Finance]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{adsense2Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Bjergegaard Fiona Parashar |title=A Beautiful Way to Coach |rating=5|genre=Business and Jordan MilneFinance|titlesummary=Winning Without Losing: 66 strategies So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and being audacious enough to review it? Truth is I bought it out of curiosity. I was at an on-line launch for succeeding the book and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to me. I wanted to see if there were things in business while living there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to see if I could give myself a happy Vision Day, to bring me away from their vision and balanced lifeback to my own.|isbn=103211603X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=303091657X|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson|rating=45

|summary=It's a common assumption Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure that if you're they are well-managed and financially secure. This might seem obvious but a serious entrepreneur then you're going to series of disasters - some of which have to dedicate your life to making money, passing up on resulted in death or the good things (apart from those which can be ''bought'', obviously) such as collapse of a happy family life, major company - have left interested parties asking what the world outside of work and quite probably your health tooboard was doing. But Where were they? Occasionally the boards were unaware of what if there was a way happening or they preferred to have it all? ''Winning Without Losing' doesn't give turn a blueprint blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which will enable you to go out and make your first million and have a wonderful life outside work was worse - ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but it does what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give you sixty six ideas for ways in which you could adjust your working life us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to make the most of it without ruining everything elsehave learned very little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251509</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=Mark Palmersuppl_stafl|title=Made to lastSupply Chain 20/20: The story of Britain's best-known shoe firmA Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund

|genre=Business and FinanceReference|summary=From its founding by So, you've finished writing your book and you think the Quaker brothers Cyrus hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and James Clark the money will start rolling in ? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the Somerset village of Street, book because you wanted to its present-day status as and you had a global shoe brandtalent for delivering the written word. You knew your subject back to front. Now you're going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of the name of Clark has weathered many a storm as publishing industry believe to be wrong but it draws close 's too difficult to its bicentenarychange and no one wants to be the first to try. This account of the companyThen, by when you ''finally'' have a distant kinsman copy of the two original foundersbook in your hands, has drawn heavily on the archives and on inyou're going to have to work out how to sell it -depth interviews with the family because it ''is'' going to be down to tell the full storyyou.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685206</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Jefferies0008350388|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2013: Commonwealth and Empire Stamps 1840 - 1970We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba

|genre=ReferencePolitics and Society|summary=You might think that as all the stamps in this catalogue have been in existence for at least forty years there can ''To be little more to be said about them but this 115th edition a dark-skinned Black woman is acknowledged to be the most significant in many yearsseen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts... '' Most exciting (but probably more so ''We Need to sellers than buyers) is the fact that Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a time of economic downturn there are thousands of price increases and evidence writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a very lively marketwoman. '' Demand for good stamps is greater than it has been at any time in ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the last thirty UK from Kenya when she was five years according to editor Hugh Jefferiesold. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, although he does add principled and determined that prices are rising faster in some areas than otherstheir children would have the best education possible. It's difficult to see how There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a serious collector - or seller - can be without an up-to-date copy shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the catalogue for this reason alonefamily acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598513</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=reed3|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=Lucy TobinJames Reed|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Six years on from the original edition, the book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work'' which includes an additional 10 questions. I've come to this some 6 years after reviewing the original book and my life has changed significantly in the meantime. I'm no longer working in middle-management having opted for a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. I can therefore relate to the first point made in this chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that employees need to have.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3110706075|title=AusperityMaking a Difference: Live Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Life You Want for Less Independent Director Way|author=Gerry Brown

|summary=Clever title, eh? It's a conflation of 'You'austerity'', of which we must all be sick re not there to run the back teeth and ''prosperity'', which we'd all loveorganisation. At a time when incomes You are standing still (unless you're very lucky) but costs are going up all the time. For most people this means there to make sure that itis run properly.''s  Gerry Brown is passionate about the pleasurable parts of life benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - not just a corporate board, but the treats - which get squeezed outboard of an NHS Trust, leaving a life that's dull and rather unrewarding. Lucy Tobinuniversity, personal finance editor of the London Evening Standard thinks differentlya sports organisation or a charity. SheHe's brought together hundreds of money-saving tips which might make particularly keen that there's increased diversity on these boards and feels that holiday possible - or suggests cheap or free trips in place this would help to avoid some of the holiday. There are also lots of ways in which scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - we're thinking about you can raise extra money ) which don't involve a dodgy loan that will cost you more in interest than you borrowed have occurred in the first placerecent years. And, yes - there's all the information about credit cardsFor this to happen, mortgages and budgeting that you boards need to set you on the right pathhave a wider field of people to choose from when they're looking for an ID.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780877684</amazonuk>

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|isbn=0241453585|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Stuart SterlingAnne Boden|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=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 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 was at the cutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminal. Boden took things a step further, Brian Duddridgerealising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the old branch network, employing thousands of people, would soon become redundant.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3110641119|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=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 run a workshop to discover what it feels like to be one of your own customers. At this point, please don't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is going to be fun and you're going to be surprised by what emerges.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3110641291|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=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 bit of money 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. You've also thought the small, incremental improvements which you have been able to make - the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, the 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 could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a more radical approach. You've merely kept the business ticking over and there's a nagging suspicion in the back of your mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1472962044|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Andrew ElliottHampshire|rating=4.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=I 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 - have moved on. Nowadays the 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 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 what it is, why it matters, Michael Conway how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and Anna Paynewhat you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the possibility of using to do good in the world.}}{{Frontpage|author= Linda Scott|title= The Double X Economy|rating=5|genre= Politics and Society|summary='' Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the world''. It's a bold statement for an opening chapter, but it's far from hyperbole as the following pages explain. This book shines a light on what is happening in different places, and the impact on the local and world economy. What can be learnt from the great strides in gender-equalising legislation in the west? What can be done about the selling of young women into marriage, and what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|isbn=0571353606}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0349424926|title=Life's Work: 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career|author=James Reed|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Do you have a guaranteed and more-than-adequate income which will last the rest of your life? Do you have no need to work, either for income or fulfilment? If you even hesitate over either of those questions then you really ought to read ''Life's Work': 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career''. If you're not yet in work or considering that you might need to make some changes then this is the book you need. James Reed is the chairman and chief executive of REED, Britain's biggest and best-known name in the recruitment industry. Who better to give you the advice you need?}}{{Frontpage|author=Anne Boden|title=The Money Revolution|rating=4|genre=Business Continuity For Dummiesand 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, 5 model?) 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

|summary=When you build ''Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know ''gives people without an accounting background who have risen in a business you set off with unbridled enthusiasm and if you're lucky it does seem as though company the knowledge to understand the accounts which show how the Gods are flying along with and you holding your handscompany is doing. But they have other calls on their time and The book begins by looking at some point something will go wrong. It's inevitable. It might be something unforeseeablewhy financial accounting systems are necessary, something outside then moves on to give an excellent overview of the types of your control, or an event accounting systems which you really should have prepared forwill be encountered and the terms used. In addition to growing this fledgling business you're now trying to troubleshootWe then look in detail at the balance sheet, to second guess and eventually you stop moving forward and do little but worry about what can go wrong. There's a temptation to try the income statement and put it out of your mind: why give your nightmares an outing during the day? What you need is a plan - a structured, unthreatening way statement of looking at what can fail and how you would deal with itcash flows...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1118326830</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|isbn=1946383627|title=Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know|author=Vibrant Publishers|rating=4.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=I'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 for another organisation. 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 expenses and see what looks as though it could be trimmed back in future years. My problem was that the accounts didn't really give me any help in making decisions, which was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting and Management'', part of Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and Management series...}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vernon Hill1072549271|title=Fans Not CustomersThe Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: How to create growth companies in a no growth worldA Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis|rating=34.5

|summary=Vernon Hill is I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the man behind Metro Bank in the UKtraditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have the founder of Commerce Bank in the US and the holder of the North American franchise of PetPlanbig bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. When Metro Bank opened in the UK in July 2010 I remember wondering then ask if they've considered Kindle and the world answer is, inevitably, that they wouldn't know where to start. I can empathise with that. Despite having used a computer for about thirty years, running most of my life 'really'' needed another Bank and the truth was that it didn't need another Bank-just-like-every-other-Bank-you've-encountereda website online, but I'm still nervous when it did need a fresh approach comes to the business and a sweeping away of all the old rules and prejudicesstarting something new. Hill had proved that I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it could be done with Commerce Bank and in for the last two years hefirst time. That was why I was very interested when ''The Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon''s made a similar impact with Metrocame across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125110X</amazonuk>