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 <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Platt0241636604|title=Criminal CapitalThe Trading Game: How the Finance Industry Facilitates CrimeA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=It used If you were to be estate agents we reviled the mostbring up an image of a city banker in your mind, but theyyou've now achieved relative respectabilityre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. MPs briefly took A hoodie and jeans replaces the top spotpin-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 for many years now the list has he had been topped by bankers following the 2008 financial crisis, when huge taxpayer-funded financial bailouts were required to keep the world's financial system afloatLondon School of Economics. Most people will think that we've heard the worst of what Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has been going on, but Stephen Platt believes that excessive risk taking and mis-selling might well be just a minor part facility with numbers which most of what is ''still'' happening in the industry and us can only envy. He also realised that government attempts to counter the problems are misguided and unlikely most rich people expect poor people to be effectivestupid. 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>113733729X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan GabayFiona Parashar |title=Brand Psychology: Consumer Perceptions, Corporate ReputationsA Beautiful Way to Coach

|summary=Confession - So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and being audacious enough to review it? Truth is I'm a bit bought it out of a brand geekcuriosity. I do have some marketing work experience but that isn't was at an on-line launch for the reason why I'm a bit book and Fiona’s description of a brand geek. I think the attraction for her Vision Days appealed to me is that brands have, or in some cases, are, stories. I have always been fascinated by how and why people can relate wanted to those stories, see if there were things in the same way there that I could use with someone I am fascinated by how anyone relates currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to any story! If you have any interest in the business of brandsa full day, this is which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to see if I could give myself a fascinating read Vision Day, to bring me away from their vision and it delivers on far more fronts than just the business oneback to my own.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749471735</amazonuk>103211603X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jacky Fitt303091657X|title=How to Get Inside Someone's Mind and Stay ThereDisaster in the Boardroom: The business owner's guide to content marketing Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and confident copywritingRandall S Peterson|rating=45

|summary=As Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secure. This might seem obvious but a small business owner I know it's difficult series of disasters - sometimes it feels impossible - to get your message out to your potential customers some of which have resulted in death or the collapse of a manner which is going to reward major company - have left interested parties asking what the effort which you put into itboard was doing. Besides, how do you know who your potential customers areWhere were they? How do you know how Occasionally the boards were unaware of what was happening or they would like preferred to be approached? In factturn a blind eye, how are you going to get inside their head leaving watchers wondering which was worse - and stay there? ignorance or criminality. Jacky Fitt The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has written happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a comprehensive guide which takes you very readable trip through what's needed such major debacles as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble and allows you even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to develop your own action plan for your businesshave learned very little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00MXXQ5GU</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gareth Murphy1529393930|title=Cowboys and IndiesMaking a Living: The Epic History of the Record IndustryHow to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester

|genre=EntertainmentCrafts|summary=It’s not difficult to find ''Starting a history of popular or recorded music, written around the musical names who made it happencreative business has never been easier. ''Cowboys and Indies ''If not now, when?'' I know that I' takes m not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a different approachbusiness. While There's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there is plenty in these pages about several are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset the most important starscosts, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, there is just as much again if not sometimes more couldn't it? But where to start? What do I need to think about the movers and shakers? Well, the inventors, managers, impresarios, and record label founders without whom there would not have been first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a record industryLiving''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254524</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Handleysuppl_stafl|title=Everybody WritesSupply Chain 20/20: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good ContentA Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceReference|summary=Ann Handley has compiled 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? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and you had a one stop resource talent for writers 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 any kind of marketing the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and promotional materialno one wants to be the first to try. Assuming Then, when you ''finally'' have command a copy of basic vocabulary and know the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to write sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to you.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''To be a simple sentencedark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, Handley takes you through everything you could ever need less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to know for Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a huge variety writer of platformscolour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The 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, purposes with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and problemsdetermined 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 family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in order to better represent your business on the internetLondon and then a place at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PJOTG4I</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=reed3|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again(3rd Edition)

|summary=No-one likes doing job interviews. This includes most recruiting managersSix years on from the original edition, but for candidates it the book is one being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of lifeWork''s most stressful situationswhich includes an additional 10 questions. No matter whether it I's ve come to this some 6 years after reviewing the next step original book and my life has changed significantly in our carefully planned career or the meantime. I''just m no longer working in middle-management having opted for a job'', no matter whether it's our down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. I can therefore relate to the first job or our fifteenth, point made in this chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that 45 minutes to an hour of conversation has the potential employees need to fundamentally affect our happiness for the foreseeable futurehave.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241970210</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=3110706075|title=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaMaking a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfGerry Brown

|summary=Don't be put off by 'You're not there to run the titleorganisation. You are there to make sure that it is run properly. The Price of Fish isn't ' Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - not just a treatise corporate board, but the board of an NHS Trust, a university, a sports organisation or a charity. He's particularly keen that there's increased diversity on how these boards and feels that this would help to avoid some of the local fishmonger chooses scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - we're thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. For this to happen, boards need to mark up his prize catchhave a wider field of people to choose from when they're looking for an ID.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886224</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve J Martin, Noah J Goldstein and Robert B Cialdini3030513025|title=The small BIGIndependent Director in Society: small changes that spark big influenceOur current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais|rating=45

|summary=ItIndependent Director: ''a job for which no one is qualified'' (''Financial Times'') 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 a commonlyexecutive team, and (3) is not involved with the day-held belief that if you want to advance your business - bring in day operations of the extra moneycompany. (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, get more customers Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the executive members of boards and generally move up a step the independent directors (formerly known as non- then you're going 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 spend big money spot when and bring in where things are going wrong - but all too often the experts. Martinrelationship is too cosy, Goldstein and Cialdini tackle too antagonistic or the problem from independent director lacks the other end: sometimes itknowledge and/or experience to understand what's happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the smallest, least expensive failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you might be tempted to think that these are extraordinary times and quick changes which can bring about the improvement that you need. In ''The small BIGall will be well once we get back to 'normal' they offer over fifty tips, hints, ideas which can make the difference. Sometimes they cost nothing, but bring a pandemic was predicted and modelled in millions. Occasionally they require the past and there has been a small investment of your time, but it can be as little as five minutesgeneral failure to prepare for what has happened - and is still happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252742</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Poundstone0241453585|title=Banking On It: How to Predict the Unpredictable: The Art of Outsmarting Almost Everyone|rating=4|genre=Reference|summary=William Poundstone believes that we are all in the business of predicting, whether it be something as minor as playing rock, paper, scissors to pay a bar bill though to anticipating how the housing or stock markets are going to move. Now, I'm not particularly competitive - if whatever it is means ''that'' much to someone else then I'd rather let them have it - so this book didn't appeal to me on the basis of doing better than someone else, but I was interested in how it might be possible to predict what is going to happen. So, care to predict how it stacked up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780744072</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDisrupted an Industry|author=The Economist|title=Pocket World in Figures 2015|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=There are people who don't understand the joy of raw data: no accompanying analysis (or spin) - just a collection of figures relevant to a particular circumstance. If you're one of those people then this book will mean little to you, but if you want a pocket (well, certainly handbag or briefcase) work of reference then this book will be a treasure. I once gave a copy to a diplomat and he kept his wife awake until the early hours as he came across another gem which she had to know without delay. The 2015 edition is the twenty fourth in the series - and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for the onslaught.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252734</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alannah Moore|title=Create Your Own Online Store (using WordPress) in a WeekendAnne Boden|rating=4.5

|summary=I've run Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a website for over eight years now but I've always shied away from any inclusion of e-commerce on the sitesenior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. It seemed like too large a subject, too much complexity and choice and AIB was in the possibility throes of problems which could go disastrously wrong. I first encountered Alannah Moore recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when I read [[The Creative Person's Website Builder by Alannah Moore|The Creative Person's Website Builder]] she arrived and she was impressed by one of the way first to realise that she approached her subject, so banks needed to do things differently. AIB thought it was at the cutting edge when I had the opportunity it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to see how to create an online store in access their accounts via a terminal. Boden took things a weekendstep further, I jumped at realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the chanceold branch network, employing thousands of people, would soon become redundant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781571430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=3110641119|title=MoneyThe Journey Mapping Playbook: The Unauthorised BiographyA Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Felix MartinJerry Angrave|rating=45

|summary=Occasionally books are not exactly I had no idea what they seem. When 'journey mapping' was until I picked read this up, read playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the blurb book and began acting on the contents inside, I was expecting a kind of biography or history of money through the ages. The opening chapter, You're going to learn how to run a brief sketch of the economy of the Pacific island of Yap and how workshop to discover what it worked, seemed feels like to confirm thisbe one of your own customers. It tells us how in the late nineteenth century Yap, east of the Philippine Islands, had an unwieldy coinage consisting of stone wheels around 12ft in diameterAt this point, called fei. The population did please don't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not carry these around, let alone own them like we possess pounds another workshop' because this is going to be fun and pence, as they were part of a sophisticated system of credit managementyou're going to be surprised by what emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578522</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Hytner3110641291|title=ConsiglieriThe Radical Innovation Playbook: Leading from the ShadowsA Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander|rating=3.5

|summary=I've always been fascinated by the existence of that shadowy figureSo, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the consigliere, same thing in stories about the Mafiaa slightly different form and quite a bit of money spent. He - and Why not just leave it as it was always a man - appeared to be full of wisdom, with the interests of the family at heart and without an ambitious bone in his bodyis? After all, or so it would seem. It was the title of Richard Hytner's book which drew me in - along with the idea that coming top is sometimes second best. That seemed to go against everything that I'd ever been brought up to believe. So - does he make a good case for being the second in command'roughly'' working, isn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250464</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life|author=Uri Gneezy and John List|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Wow! This is a most surprising economics book.

Behavioral economists (if you’ll excuse the American spelling) investigate people’s buying behaviour and consuming patternsYou might not have said it, but you've probably thought it. I guess we know about that already because supermarkets here lull us into buying three for You've also thought the price of twosmall, incremental improvements which you have been able to come back next week for £10 off a £100make - the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, or to garner extra points on a loyalty card (Oh why can’t they just go for a cheaper price at the point extension of sale? Why do profits have to be your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in double percentage point increases year on year?)terms of ''growth''. A fair bit of manipulation to ensure that It's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a company survives is already part more radical approach. You've merely kept the business ticking over and parcel there's a nagging suspicion in the back of our lives. If you’d asked me before I read this book, I would have lined up your mind that sort of consumer marketing psychology alongside banking as profiteering. However … these guys are different: they really do seem to care about an organisation designed for the plight of twentieth century might not survive in the underprivileged, and they come from an academic setting, rather than a commercial onetwenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946747</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Kelsey1472962044|title=Get Things DoneCreating Value Through Technology: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Discover the Tech that Can ChangeTransform Your Business|author=Andrew Hampshire

|summary= WeI was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're all eighteen, so busy these days itthere's easy to veer between headless chicken and cherry picking modes, 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 at least it is for menot they had a typewriter. (I really hope my boss isn’t reading this!) Times - thankfully - have moved on. In fact procrastination Nowadays the problem is my super power which was why I grabbed [[:Category:Robert Kelsey|Robert Kelseythat someone running a business doesn's]] book from t have the shelf time to keep up with excited anticipation: in constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expected. It's also a self-help book with fact that no one develops a business because they have the knowledge of the longest titles known to manrequired technology, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantage. They need help, he promises to but they frequently don't know what help us become more efficient time managers and to stop putting things offthey need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857083082</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=The Wolf of Wall StreetDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Jordan BelfortRashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=2.5|genre=AutobiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=As if we didnWhat a relief! A book about money, 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't have enough excuses ve managed to appreciate the 'Masters get hold of the Universeit. Your reasons for wanting money don' of the financial sectort matter: we all need it to some extent. After the tax dodging You might want to go into business, the bonus scammingbe a clever shopper, price fixing a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and the valiant attempt there might be something you really, ''really'' want to bring down the entire world economy comes Jordan Belfort aka the Wolf of Wall Streetbuy. To be fair to Belfort, he plied his trade long before the most recent financial meltdown. Still, heThere's managed also the possibility of using to piggy back do good in the latest crash via a best selling book which has been re-released to coincide with a film adaptation starring Leonardo Dicaprioworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778129</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Live At the Brixton Academy: A riotous life in the music businessLinda Scott|authortitle=Simon Parkes and J S RafaeliThe Double X Economy|rating=4.5|genre=EntertainmentPolitics and Society|summary=Who on earth would want to buy and run '' Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the world''. It's a live music venue in deepest Brixton, and manage to keep it running bold statement for fifteen yearsan opening chapter, transforming but it against all 's far from hyperbole as the odds into following pages explain. This book shines a light on what becomes one of Britain’s most iconic establishments of its kind? Such an undertaking calls for somebody with special managerial skills who can keep one step ahead of the game, walking a precarious tightropeis happening in different places, keeping gangsters, punters, promoters and the impact on the local authorities onsideand world economy. It also requires a good deal What can be learnt from the great strides in gender-equalising legislation in the west? What can be done about the selling of luck.young women into marriage, and what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689554</amazonuk>0571353606

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chip Heath and Dan Heath0349424926|title=DecisiveLife's Work: How 12 Proven Ways to Make Better Decisions in Life and WorkFast-Track Your Career|author=James Reed

|summary=I don't Do you have a problem with making decisionsguaranteed and more-than-adequate income which will last the rest of your life? Do you have no need to work, probably because Ieither for income or fulfilment? If you even hesitate over either of those questions then you really ought to read 've always tended to the view that it's better to make a decision and get on with life than haver and waste time in limbo. With a few notable exceptions itLife's served me well, but when Work': 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career'Decisive'. If you' appeared on my desk it struck me re not yet in work or considering that there could be advantages you might need to improving the quality of make some changes then this is the decisions toobook you need. The Heath brothers have a good history James Reed is the chairman and chief executive of collaborating on such subjects REED, Britain's biggest and delivering books which open best-known name in the mindrecruitment industry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847940862</amazonuk> Who better to give you the advice you need?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John LeeAnne Boden|title=How to Make a Million Slowly: My Guiding Principles from a Lifetime of Investing The Money Revolution|rating=3.54|genre=Business and Finance|summary=You should, of course, remember the old adageMoney is changing. 'If something seems too good to It might not be true, it probably is'in the ways you think. If We’re not suddenly getting a 3p or £3 coin (and have you find a slim book with the title 'How to Make ever even found a Million - Slowly' you shouldn't assume country that you're about offers anything different to have an entirely different relationship with your Bank Manager. On the other hand John Lee - Lord Lee of Trafford - was the UK's first PEP/ISA millionaire1, from an investment of £1252,0005 model?) We’re getting a lot more digital with payments, so there's no need which seems to suspect that you'll open suit most people apart from charity collectors and the homeless on the street, but although this book to find has the subtitle that youincludes the word ''re told to digital'do as I do', it’s not really about this either. This is a man who has done Instead, it and has a lot of good advice - after all, he wrote 's about the ''My Portfolio Columnmanagement'' in the Financial Times for fourteen yearsof your finances, and how to take control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1292005084</amazonuk>1789660610

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=What if Money Grew on Trees?: Asking the big questions about economics1949395324|authortitle=David Boyle|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=In a climate of increasing economic uncertainty, we may often find ourselves exploring the big questions about money, finance and the global market. For example, during the recent downturn, experts were faced with such questions as ''What if we just kept printing more banknotes?'' and ''What would happen if the banks crashed again?'' These, and other thought-provoking speculative questions have been put to a team of experts and their answers have been recorded in a fascinating and absorbing little book called ''What if Money Grew on Trees?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240046X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition|author=Alan H Palmer|title=Talk Lean: Shorter Meetings. Quicker Results. Better RelationsKalpesh Ashar

|summary=When I think back to my days as an employee the memory of the meetings makes me shudder. They were usually badly prepared and managed with little aim other than to tick a box so that someone could prove to ''hisFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know '' manager that he held meetings. The waste of time was on a monumental scale and I doubt that I'm alone gives people without an accounting background who have risen in thinking this. Include other meetings which you have on personal matters and you'll probably agree that it's rare to emerge feeling that you've achieved what you wanted to achieve - or that you haven't been manipulated. Alan H Palmer has a plan for making meetings shorter and getting better results, but most importantly (for me) he wants you to be able to do it all openly, with no tricks, no gimmicks and complete honesty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857084976</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Curve: From Freeloaders into Superfans: The Future of Business|author=Nicholas Lovell|rating=4.5|genre=business and Finance|summary=Back in company the 20th century, companies tried knowledge to sell understand the same products to everyone for accounts which show how the same price, and needed to shift massive amounts of them if they wanted to make a lot of moneycompany is doing. Today The book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, there is the potential then moves on to get just as much money from customers by selling expensive items or services to a small number give an excellent overview of big spenders. Of course, the trick is getting enough types of these big spenders to discover what you're marketing in the first place - accounting systems which will be encountered and one of the best ways to do that is by giving something away for freeterms used. But how do they We then turn these freeloaders into superfans? Author and consultant Nicholas Lovell gives us an overview of look in detail at the changing worldbalance sheet, the income statement and advice on how to take advantage the statement of it, in this fascinating bookcash flows...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670923834</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Scott Berkun1946383627|title=The Year Without Pants: WordPress.Com and the Future of WorkCost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know|author=Vibrant Publishers

|summary=Sometimes you find a book which you simply can't ''not'' read. I'The Year Without Pants' was one m capable of them. It's not what you're thinking drawing up a profit and loss account (money's not ''that'' tightincome statement in the USA) - but the story of what happens when an old-school management guru goes back to the coal face to lead a team which had not had a leader before - to be accurate they'd not had teams - in and a revolutionary company which takes remote working to the extreme. Members of Scott Berkun's team lived all over the world balance sheet and worked I do so for a company which had largely gone beyond email, had headquarters which were rarely used my own business and had no rulesfor another organisation. So, why did I The accounts give me ''havebroadly'' to read the book? Well, the company in question is Automattic which brings us WordPress, the open source software which powers fifty million websites. what I run a website which uses open-source software - and need: Iknow whether we've been in business for the last seven re making a profit or a loss and a half years with someone to whom I've never even spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1118660633</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Leo Gough|title=The Con Men: A History of Financial Fraud and can look at the Lessons You Can Learn|rating=4|genre=Business expenses and Finance|summary=Most people will recognise the now-infamous Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford see what looks as crooks who swindled thousands of investors of their hard-earned savings but at one time these individuals had gained stellar reputations though it could be trimmed back in the financial worldfuture years. In fact Madoff My problem was a former chairman of NASDAQ (originally that the National Association accounts didn't really give me any help in making decisions, which was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting and Management'', part of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations Vibrant Publishers' Self- now the second-largest stock market comparing to official stock exchanges by market capitalization in the world) Learning and well respectedManagement series. He’s currently serving 150 in prison for running a 65 billion dollar Ponzi scheme, whilst Stanford was sentenced to 110 years for the same offence. How did they get away with it? This book will tell you how.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273751344</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Rowland Smith1072549271|title=The Reality TestSimple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: Still Relying on Strategy?A Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis

|summary=If you I frequently meet authors who are in business struggling to be published by the chances are that you know there are areas in which you need helptraditional houses, or but when I suggest self- at publishing they explain that they don't have the very least - could improvebig bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. Sometimes itI then ask if they's quite difficult to quantify ''where'' you need ve considered Kindle and the helpanswer is, inevitably, but you're probably quite sure about what you ''don't'' need and that's best summed up as too much science, jargon you donthey wouldn't understand or anything that you have know where to wade through to come up start. I can empathise with the conclusion that you were doing it roughly right in the first place. A good starting point is Despite having used a book which you can dip into as you need and which edges your thinking into areas it's not been into computer 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 (donabout thirty years, running most of my life 't struggle - it's pronounced and'so cool it hurts') shea website online, I's on her way from Manchester Airport m still nervous when it comes to Scarborough, the home of her agent, Tony Robinson OBEstarting something new. You get the measure of the woman straight away I like someone to hold my hand as she lets her irritation show about I go through it for the problems you find in the First Class carriage on the trainfirst time. (She is That was why I was very interested when ''soThe Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon'' right - I was once grateful to spend the journey perched on a luggage rackcame across my desk..) Her mission is a piece of investigative journalism that's going to introduce her to some very superior people as she searches for information about why people in small businesses don't get the help they need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00CE5BKKI</amazonuk>