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|summary=Sometimes you find a So what am I doing reading this book, using this book which you simply can't ''not'' read. , and being audacious enough to review it? 'The Year Without Pants' was one Truth is I bought it out of themcuriosity. It's not what you're thinking (money's not ''that'' tight) I was at an on- but line launch for the story book and Fiona’s description of what happens when an old-school management guru goes back her Vision Days appealed to the coal face me. I wanted to lead a team which had not had a leader before - see if there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to be accurate they'd not had teams - in a revolutionary company which takes remote working mentor – without committing them to the extreme. Members of Scott Berkun's team lived all over the world and worked for a company which had largely gone beyond emailfull day, had headquarters which were rarely used and had no rulesI know would send them scurrying for their burrow. So, why did I ''have'' also wanted to read the book? Well, the company in question is Automattic which brings us WordPress, the open source software which powers fifty million websites. see if I run could give myself a website which uses open-source software - Vision Day, to bring me away from their vision and I've been in business for the last seven and a half years with someone back to whom I've never even spokenmy own.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1118660633</amazonuk>103211603X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo Gough303091657X|title=The Con MenDisaster in the Boardroom: A History of Financial Fraud Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and the Lessons You Can LearnRandall S Peterson|rating=45

|summary=Most people will recognise Boards must act in the now-infamous Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford as crooks who swindled thousands of investors best interests of their hardstakeholders and ensure that they are well-earned savings but at one time these individuals had gained stellar reputations in the financial worldmanaged and financially secure. In fact Madoff was This might seem obvious but a former chairman series of disasters - some of NASDAQ (originally which have resulted in death or the National Association collapse of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations a major company - now have left interested parties asking what the board was doing. Where were they? Occasionally the secondboards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse -largest stock market comparing to official stock exchanges by market capitalization in the world) and well respectedignorance or criminality. He’s currently serving 150 in prison for running 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 65 billion dollar Ponzi schemevery readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, whilst Stanford was sentenced to 110 years for the same offenceSouth Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. How did they get away with it? This book will tell you howOver three centuries we seem to have learned very little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273751344</amazonuk>

''If not now, when?'' 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=Robert Rowland Smithsuppl_stafl|title=The Reality TestSupply Chain 20/20: Still Relying A Clear View on Strategy?the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund

|genre=Business and FinanceReference|summary=If So, you are in business the chances are that you know there are areas in which 've finished writing your book and you need help, or - at think the very least - could improve. hard work is all done? Sometimes it's quite difficult to quantify ''where'' you need the help, but youYou're probably quite sure about what convinced that all you ''don't'' need to do now is get it published and that's best summed up as too much science, jargon you don't understand or anything that you have to wade through to come up with the conclusion that you were doing it roughly right money will start rolling in the first place. A good starting point is a book which you can dip into as you need and which edges your thinking into areas it's not been into for a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250790</amazonuk>}}?

{{newreview|author=Tony Robinson OBE|title=Freedom from Bosses Forever|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=When we first meet Canadian businesswoman Leonora Soculitherz (don't struggle Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - it's pronounced 'so cool it hurts') she's on her way from Manchester Airport to Scarborough, and you had a talent for delivering the home of her agent, Tony Robinson OBEwritten word. You knew your subject back to front. Now you're going to have to get to grips with the measure book supply chain, which even parts of the woman straight away as she lets her irritation show about publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the problems you find in the First Class carriage on the trainfirst to try. (She is Then, when you ''sofinally'' right - I was once grateful to spend the journey perched on have a luggage rack.) Her mission is a piece copy of investigative journalism thatthe book in your hands, you's re going to introduce her have to some very superior people as she searches for information about why people in small businesses donwork out how to sell it - because it ''is''t get the help they needgoing to be down to you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00CE5BKKI</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Brock0008350388|title=Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital AgeWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=3.5

|summary=At about the turn of the century most people on the street where I live had ''To be a morning paper delivered dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and a good number also got an evening paperultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts... '' The queue at the newsagent ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in the village would be out England study a book by a writer of the door each morning as people picked up colour while only 7% study a book by a paper on their way to workwoman. '' I can't remember 'The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when I last saw a newspaper boy (or girl) on their rounds she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and we only buy the weekend papers as an indulgence nine. It was her mother who came first, with a more leisurely breakfasther father joining them later. Times have changed The family was hard- working, principled and there's no sign determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the situation is likely family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to settle a private school in the near futureLondon and then a place at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749466510</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dee Blickreed3|title=The 15 Essential Marketing Masterclasses for Your Small BusinessWhy You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James Reed

|summary=A problem Six years on from the original edition, the book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work'' which will be common includes an additional 10 questions. I've come to most small businesses is finding this some 6 years after reviewing the original book and my life has changed significantly in the time to market yourselfmeantime. YouI're small m no longer working in middle-management having opted for a down- you spend your time working shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to earn the money - that is focus on other (after allnot necessarily paying) why you're in businesswork. You don't have I can therefore relate to the time to add on something which begins to seem like a whole new business first point made in itself this chapter namely that independence and you're probably not making the money which would allow you flexibility are core skills that employees need to employ someone to do it for youhave. Besides - ''where'' do you start? What's going to be worth your time and money? What should you avoid? How can you find out without wading through lots of theory and science and ''still'' be left wondering if this is the road you should be taking?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857084402</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Reed and Paul G Stoltz3110706075|title=Put Your Mindset to WorkMaking a Difference: The One Asset You Really Need to Win Leadership, Change and Keep Giving Back the Job You LoveIndependent Director Way|author=Gerry Brown

|summary=It's well over a decade since I was involved in hiring staff for an employer but over the last seven years I've been active in bringing reviewers to Bookbag. Certain reactions stand out from both experiences. The first is that skills rarely matter: if theyYou're important for not there to run the job I can usually teach or polish themorganisation. In fact ''well, this You are there to make sure that it is how we did it at..run properly.''  Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can be bring to a disadvantage board - not least because just a corporate board, but the temptation to throttle someone can become quite overwhelming on board of an NHS Trust, a university, a sports organisation or a bad daycharity. Paper qualifications are not really He's particularly keen that important either: for the most part the bare minimum will suffice there's increased diversity on these boards and I've often found feels that this would help to avoid some of the more highlyscandals (Oxfam, Kids Company -qualified applicants can find it quite difficult to adapt themselves to the job Iwe'm offeringre thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. At the other end of the scale I've taken people on and after a while thought that if I had half For this to happen, boards need to have a dozen people wider field of this calibre I could send the rest home. What marks these people out is their attitude. Nowadays itto choose from when they's called mindsetre looking for an ID.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241003547</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|isbn=0241453585|title=Brick by BrickBanking On It: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy I Disrupted an Industry|author=David Robertson and Bill BreenAnne Boden|rating=3.5

|summary=There can be few of us whose lives were not untouched Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at some stage by a phase of building things out of LEGO brickssenior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. They comprised a time-honoured toy for children AIB was in the throes of all ages which weathered many a storm since Ole Kirk Christiansen, a master carpenter, founded recovering from the family-owned company in Billund, Denmark in 1932. However fashions change, 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and this she was never more true than when computer software swept nearly everything before it towards the end one of the last centuryfirst to realise that banks needed to do things differently. Brand loyalty and an inability (or refusal) to adapt sufficiently AIB thought it was not enough to protect at the cutting edge when it from the combined onslaught of video games, MP3 players and other hi-tech delights, or proposed opening a harsh business climate in branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a cut-throat market where competition was intense and famous names were rapidly going to the wallterminal. In 2003Boden took things a step further, three years after two different surveys had called realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the LEGO brick ‘the toy old branch network, employing thousands of the century’people, the Group announced the biggest loss in its history and it appeared to be doomedwould soon become redundant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184794115X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Chartered Management Institute3110641119|title=Managing Yourself (The Checklist SeriesJourney Mapping Playbook: Step by step guides A Practical Guide to getting it right)Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave

|summary=When you start work, when you become a manager or move up the ladder itI had no idea what 'journey mapping's assumed was until I read this playbook but any business that you engages with their customers will need training in ''managing''benefit from reading the book and acting on the contents. This is always assumed You're going to learn how to run a workshop to be managing other people, but discover what it's only very rarely that any consideration is given feels like to managing yourself - and then probably only in specific areasbe one of your own customers. But - if you havenAt this point, please don't sorted yourself out, thought through your own actions and motivations, how can you give leadership to others? say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop'Managing'' ''Yourself'' remedies because this is going to be fun and covers the cradle to grave of working life. If you have ambitions 're going to move up the career ladder - or even if you just want to have a more rewarding and stress-free working life - this book is essential readingbe surprised by what emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251452</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Martin Bjergegaard and Jordan Milne|title=Winning Without Losing: 66 strategies for succeeding in business while living a happy and balanced life|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=ItYou might not have said it, but you's a common assumption that if youve probably thought it. You're a serious entrepreneur then ve also thought the small, incremental improvements which you're going to have been able to dedicate make - the optimisation of your life to making moneycore business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, passing up on the good things (apart from those which can be extension of your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in terms of ''boughtgrowth'', obviously) such as a happy family life, the world outside of work and quite probably your health too. But what if there was It's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a way to have it all? more radical approach. You've merely kept the business ticking over and there'Winning Without Losing' doesn't give s a blueprint which will enable you to go out and make nagging suspicion in the back of your first million and have a wonderful life outside work - but it does give you sixty six ideas mind that an organisation designed for ways the twentieth century might not survive in which the twenty-first. What you could adjust your working life to make the most of it without ruining everything elseneed is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251509</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Palmer1472962044|title=Made to lastCreating Value Through Technology: The story of Britain's best-known shoe firmDiscover the Tech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Andrew Hampshire

|summary=From its founding 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 Quaker brothers Cyrus time to keep up with constant innovation and James Clark in 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 Somerset village knowledge of Streetthe 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 its presentEarn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-day status as Fiction|summary=What a global shoe brandrelief! A book about money, the name for children, with clear explanations of 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 Clark has weathered many 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 storm as it draws close clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to its bicentenarybuy. This account 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 companyworld''. It's a bold statement for an opening chapter, by but it's far from hyperbole as the following pages explain. This book shines a distant kinsman of light on what is happening in different places, and the two original founders, has drawn heavily impact on the archives local and on world economy. What can be learnt from the great strides ingender-depth interviews with equalising legislation in the family to tell west? What can be done about the full story.selling of young women into marriage, and what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846685206</amazonuk>0571353606

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Jefferies0349424926|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2013Life's Work: Commonwealth and Empire Stamps 1840 12 Proven Ways to Fast- 1970Track Your Career|author=James Reed

|genre=ReferenceBusiness and Finance|summary=You might think that as all Do you have a guaranteed and more-than-adequate income which will last the stamps in this catalogue rest of your life? Do you have been 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 existence for at least forty years there can be little more work or considering that you might need to be said about them but make some changes then this 115th edition is acknowledged to be the most significant in many yearsbook you need. Most exciting (but probably more so to sellers than buyers) James Reed is the fact that in a time chairman and chief executive of economic downturn there are thousands of price increases REED, Britain's biggest and evidence of a very lively marketbest-known name in the recruitment industry. Demand for good stamps Who better to give you the advice you need?}}{{Frontpage|author=Anne Boden|title=The Money Revolution|rating=4|genre= Business and Finance|summary= Money is greater than it has been at any time changing. It might not be in the last thirty years according 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 editor Hugh Jefferiessuit most people apart from charity collectors and the homeless on the street, but although he does add this book has the subtitle that prices are rising faster in some areas than othersincludes the word ''digital'', it’s not really about this either. ItInstead, it's difficult to see about the ''management'' of your finances, and how a serious collector - or seller - can be without an up-to-date copy of the catalogue for this reason alonetake control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0852598513</amazonuk>1789660610

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Tobin1949395324|title=AusperityFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: Live the Life You Want for Less 4th Edition|author=Kalpesh Ashar

|summary=Clever title, eh? It's a conflation of ''austerity'', of which we must all be sick Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to the back teeth and Know ''prosperity'', which we'd all love. At gives people without an accounting background who have risen in a time when incomes are standing still (unless you're very lucky) but costs are going up all company the time. For most people this means that it's knowledge to understand the pleasurable parts of life - accounts which show how the treats - which get squeezed out, leaving a life that's dull and rather unrewardingcompany is doing. Lucy TobinThe book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, personal finance editor then moves on to give an excellent overview of the London Evening Standard thinks differently. She's brought together hundreds types of money-saving tips accounting systems which might make that holiday possible - or suggests cheap or free trips in place of will be encountered and the holidayterms used. There are also lots of ways in which you can raise extra money which don't involve a dodgy loan that will cost you more in interest than you borrowed We then look in detail at the first place. Andbalance sheet, yes - there's all the information about credit cards, mortgages income statement and budgeting that you need to set you on the right pathstatement of cash flows...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780877684</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1946383627|title=Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know|author=Stuart SterlingVibrant 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, Brian Duddridgewhich was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting and Management'', Andrew Elliott, Michael Conway part of Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and Anna PayneManagement series...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1072549271|title=Business Continuity For DummiesThe Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis|rating=4.5

|summary=When you build a business you set off with unbridled enthusiasm and if youI 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 lucky it does seem as though t have the Gods are flying along big bucks required to go down that road with and you holding your handsAuthor Solutions or Matador or their like. But I then ask if they have other calls on their time 've considered Kindle and at some point something will go wrongthe answer is, inevitably, that they wouldn't know where to start. It's inevitableI can empathise with that. It might be something unforeseeableDespite having used a computer for about thirty years, something outside running most of your controlmy life ''and'' a website online, or an event which you really should have prepared for. In addition to growing this fledgling business youI're now trying m still nervous when it comes to troubleshoot, to second guess and eventually you stop moving forward and do little but worry about what can go wrongstarting something new. There's a temptation I like someone to try and put hold my hand as I go through it out of your mind: why give your nightmares an outing during for the day? first time. What you need is a plan - a structured, unthreatening way That was why I was very interested when ''The Simple Act of looking at what can fail and how you would deal with itSelf Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1118326830</amazonuk>