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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen Witt0241636604|title= How Music Got FreeThe Trading Game: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the ThiefA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating= 4.5|genre= Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary= In 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 digital ageEast End, new technology made recorded music a free-for-allwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. It There was good news for the consumer, no posh public school on his CV - but dealt a major blow he had been to the beleaguered music industryLondon School of Economics. Where people once amassed physical collections, they now had the choice Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of file-sharing insteadus can only envy. This book describes how everything changed from the mid-1990s onwardsHe also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It is however written more was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with the computer enthusiast or business student than the music lover in mindCitibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445636786</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter and Gillian CouttsFiona Parashar |title=One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with MindfulnessA Beautiful Way to Coach |rating=45
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|summary=Have you ever worked at a task So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and found your mind wandering being audacious enough to something elsereview it? Do you find yourself breaking off what you're doing Truth is I bought it out of curiosity. I was at an on-line launch for the book and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to answer an email? me. Do you try I wanted to multitask, thinking see if there were things in there that you're being more efficient? Do you have far too much I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to attend a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted tosee if I could give myself a Vision Day, to complete bring me away from their vision and nowhere near enough time back to do it all? You do? Me too. You need this bookmy own.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1137551909</amazonuk>103211603X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Danny Rogers303091657X|title=Campaigns that Shook Disaster in the WorldBoardroom: The Evolution of Public RelationsSix Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson|rating= 5|genre= Business and Finance |summary= I dithered about how to begin this reviewBoards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secure. On one hand I thought I should probably start by saying that I This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or the collapse of a work related interest in marketing and communicationsmajor company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doing. On Where were they? Occasionally the other handboards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eye, Danny Rogers has written a book leaving watchers wondering which appealed to me on several levelswas worse - ignorance or criminality. Campaigns are about psychology The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and storytelling – which of course leads Randall S Peterson give us into branding but also feature critical issues around concept deliverya very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. In short, I was looking forward Over three centuries we seem to reading this for many reasons – and it didn’t disappointhave learned very little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749475099</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Crabbe1529393930|title=BusyMaking a Living: How to Thrive in a World of Too MuchCraft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester
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|genre=LifestyleCrafts|summary=Serendipity often brings you to the important books''Starting a creative business has never been easier. Recently I heard myself say to a friend: '' ''If not now, when?'' I know that I'm far too busy not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There's a lot of motivation to do some so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot of the important stuff''people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. It pulled me up short: there was definitely something wrong here - Selling would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable and then I had the opportunity it could be fun to listen to an audio download of do, couldn''Busy'' and I knew that t it was something ? But where to start? What do I ''had'' need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do and take notice of if I was is to stop going read ''backwardsMaking a Living''. Because that was what I was doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01727ER84</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Shaun Smith and Andy Milligansuppl_stafl|title= On PurposeSupply Chain 20/20: Delivering a Branded Customer Experience People LoveA Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund|rating= 34.5|genre= Business and FinanceReference|summary= This 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 book about business things – branding, specificallytalent for delivering the written word. How to communicate You knew your purpose subject back to customers through an identifiable marketing strategyfront. How Now you're going to ensure your company portrays have to get to grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of the image you want publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and how no one wants to be the first to get try. Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your staff, and customershands, you're going to have to work out how to buy into sell it - because it''is'' going to be down to you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749471913</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|author= Kate Tojeiro|title= The Art of Possible|rating= 4|genre= Business and Finance|summary= As I recently wrote on this website, I started reading management manuals and self-improvement books at a time when my life was not going so great. Since then, it seems that they have continued to drop into my life just as I need them. I'm sure there's something to the science of "serendipity", which basically means we notice stuff more when it's what we need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993236901</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Damian McKinney0008350388|title= The Commando Entrepreneur|rating= 4|genre= Business and Finance|summary= It always helps We Need to know the bias of anyone reviewing a book for you, so cards on the table: I am something of a "self-help" / "self-improvement" junkie. I use both expressions because it's often difficult to know where the boundary between management text books and teach-yourself-a-better-way-to-live books lies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909273619</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTalk About Money|author=Ray Barron Woolford|title=Food Bank BritainOtegha Uwagba|rating=45
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|summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as ''To be a smartlydark-dressed young man foraged in waste bins for foodskinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a mile from the riches writer of the City of Londoncolour while only 7% study a book by a woman. '' Intrigued as ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to what the UK from Kenya when she was going on he went to askfive years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. The man explained to him that he'd just got a job after two years of being unemployedIt was her mother who came first, but it would be five weeks before he was paidwith her father joining them later. He couldn't claim benefits as he The family was in work and had no savingshard-working, so the bins had to be his source of food principled and by the following week he determined that their children would have to walk to work as he couldn't afford the faresbest education possible. That There was the inspiration for the [httpalways a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything://wwwit was simply carefully harvested.wecarefoodbanks When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car.co For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place at New College, Oxford.uk/ We Care Food Bank].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099308091X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerry Brownreed3|title=The Independent Director: The Non-Executive DirectorWhy You? 101 Interview Questions You's Guide to Effective Board Presencell Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James Reed|rating=4.5
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|summary=In the United Kingdom independent directors are usually known as non-executive directors to distinguish them Six years on from the executive – those people charged with actually running original edition, the company on a daybook is being re-to-day basis - but Gerry Brown usually refers to them as independent directors, issued with a phrase which is common in other parts of the world. Initially, I found the phrase somewhat unusual but as I read bonus chapter entitled ''The Independent DirectorFuture of Work'' which includes an additional 10 questions. I came 've come to prefer that usage as it stresses what this some 6 years after reviewing the director must be above all else – independent original book and able to stand back from my life has changed significantly in the meantime. I'm no longer working in middle-management of having opted for a business and view what is happening and what is planned with a dispassionate and critical eyedown-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. There's little in the way of training and it I can be argued that no one is actually qualified therefore relate to do the job, but Brown's book is as good as you're going to get first point made in terms of spelling out the responsibilities this chapter namely that independence and pitfallsflexibility are core skills that employees need to have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>113748053X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Platt3110706075|title=Criminal CapitalMaking a Difference: How Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Finance Industry Facilitates CrimeIndependent Director Way|author=Gerry Brown
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|summary=It used ''You're not there to be estate agents we reviled run the most, but they've now achieved relative respectabilityorganisation. MPs briefly took You are there to make sure that it is run properly.'' Gerry Brown is passionate about the top spotbenefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - not just a corporate board, but for many years now the list has been topped by bankers following the 2008 financial crisisboard of an NHS Trust, a university, when huge taxpayer-funded financial bailouts were required to keep the worlda sports organisation or a charity. He's financial system afloat. Most people will think particularly keen that wethere've heard s increased diversity on these boards and feels that this would help to avoid some of the worst of what has been going onscandals (Oxfam, but Stephen Platt believes that excessive risk taking and misKids Company -selling might well be just a minor part of what is we''still'' happening re thinking about you) which have occurred in the industry and that government attempts recent years. For this to happen, boards need to counter the problems are misguided and unlikely have a wider field of people to be effectivechoose from when they're looking for an ID.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>113733729X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Gabay3030513025|title=Brand PsychologyThe Independent Director in Society: Consumer PerceptionsOur current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Corporate ReputationsAndrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais
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|summary=Confession - IIndependent Director: ''m a bit job for which no one is qualified'' (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of the board of a brand geek. I directors who (1) do not have some marketing work experience but that isna material relationship with the company, (2) is not part of the company't s executive team, and (3) is not involved with the reason why I'm a bit day-to-day operations of a brand geekthe company. I think (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the executive members of boards and the attraction for me is that brands haveindependent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), trustees or in some cases, are, storiesgovernors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. I The function of the independent director is to have always been fascinated by how general oversight of the executive side of the board - to spot when and why people can relate to those storieswhere things are going wrong - but all too often the relationship is too cosy, in too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the same way that I am fascinated by knowledge and/or experience to understand what's happening or to know how anyone relates to any story! If intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you have any interest 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 business of brands, this is past and there has been a fascinating read general failure to prepare for what has happened - and it delivers on far more fronts than just the business oneis still happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749471735</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jacky Fitt0241453585|title=Banking On It: How to Get Inside Someone's Mind and Stay There: The business owner's guide to content marketing and confident copywritingI Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne Boden|rating=45
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|summary=As Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a small business owner I know 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's difficult - sometimes was at the cutting edge when it feels impossible - to get your message out to your potential customers in proposed opening a manner branch which is going allowed customers to reward the effort which you put into itaccess their accounts via a terminal. BesidesBoden took things a step further, how do you know who your potential realising that customers are? How do you know how they could access their accounts from their homes: the old branch network, employing thousands of people, would like to be approached? In fact, how are you going to get inside their head - and stay there? Jacky Fitt has written a comprehensive guide which takes you through what's needed and allows you to develop your own action plan for your businesssoon become redundant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00MXXQ5GU</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gareth Murphy3110641119|title=Cowboys The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Indies: The Epic History Unlocking the Value of the Record IndustryCustomer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave
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|summary=It’s not difficult to find a history of popular or recorded music, written around the musical names who made it happen. ''Cowboys and Indies'' takes a different approach. While there is plenty in these pages about several of the most important stars, there is just as much again if not sometimes more about the movers and shakers, the inventors, managers, impresarios, and record label founders without whom there would not have been a record industry.
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|title=Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
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|summary=Ann Handley has compiled a one stop resource for writers of I had no idea what 'journey mapping' was until I read this playbook but any kind of marketing business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the book and promotional materialacting on the contents. Assuming you have command of basic vocabulary and know You're going to learn how to write run a simple sentence, Handley takes you through everything you could ever need workshop to discover what it feels like to know for a huge variety be one of platformsyour own customers. At this point, purposes please don't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is going to be fun and problems, in order you're going to better represent your business on the internetbe surprised by what emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PJOTG4I</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=3110641291|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear AgainThe Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=James ReedOlga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander
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|summary=No-one likes doing job interviewsSo, 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. This includes most recruiting managersWhy not just leave it as it is? After all, but for candidates it is one of life's most stressful situations''roughly'' working, isn't it? You might not have said it, but you've probably thought it. No matter whether itYou's 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 next step extension of your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in our carefully planned career or terms of ''growth'just '. It's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a jobmore radical approach. You'', no matter whether itve merely kept the business ticking over and there's our first job or our fifteenth, a nagging suspicion in the back of your mind that 45 minutes to an hour of conversation has organisation designed for the potential to fundamentally affect our happiness for twentieth century might not survive in the foreseeable futuretwenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241970210</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Encyclopedia Paranoiaca1472962044|authortitle=Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=We're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think of doing, there is a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, and people to back Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that reason up with scientific data. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke a serious illness or worse. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at the blink of an eye. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out to be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Price of Fish A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better DecisionsCan Transform Your Business|author=Michael Mainelli and Ian HarrisAndrew Hampshire|rating=34.5
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|summary=DonI was once told that 't be put off 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 title. The Price of Fish isnproblem is that someone running a business doesn't just a treatise on how have the local fishmonger chooses time to mark keep up his prize catchwith 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886224</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve J Martin, Noah J Goldstein and Robert B Cialdini1526362759|title=The small BIGDosh: small changes that spark big influenceHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45|genre=Business and FinanceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=It's What a commonly-held belief that if you want to advance your business - bring in the extra relief! A book about money, get for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more customers of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and generally move up a step - then what you can do with it when you're going ve managed to have get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to spend big money and bring in the expertssome extent. MartinYou might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, Goldstein and Cialdini tackle the problem from the other end: sometimes ita saver (you might even become an ''investor''s the smallest, least expensive ) and quick changes which can bring about the improvement that there might be something you need. In really, ''The small BIGreally'' they offer over fifty tips, hints, ideas which can make the differencewant to buy. Sometimes they cost nothing, but bring There's also the possibility of using to do good in millions. Occasionally they require a small investment of your time, but it can be as little as five minutesthe world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252742</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William PoundstoneLinda Scott|title=How to Predict the Unpredictable: The Art of Outsmarting Almost EveryoneDouble X Economy|rating=45|genre=ReferencePolitics and Society|summary=William Poundstone believes that we '' Women are all economically disadvantaged in every country in the business of predictingworld''. It's a bold statement for an opening chapter, whether but it be something 's far from hyperbole as minor as playing rockthe following pages explain. This book shines a light on what is happening in different places, paper, scissors to pay a bar bill though to anticipating how and the impact on the housing or stock markets are going to movelocal and world economy. Now, I'm not particularly competitive What can be learnt from the great strides in gender- 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 equalising legislation in the west? What can be done about the basis selling of doing better than someone elseyoung women into marriage, but I was interested in how it might be possible to predict and what is going to happen. So, care to predict how it stacked upcan chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780744072</amazonuk>0571353606
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economist0349424926|title=Pocket World in Figures 2015|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=There are people who donLife't understand the joy of raw datas Work: no accompanying analysis (or spin) - just a collection of figures relevant 12 Proven Ways 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 Fast- and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for the onslaught.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252734</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTrack Your Career|author=Alannah Moore|title=Create Your Own Online Store (using WordPress) in a WeekendJames Reed|rating=4.5
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|summary=I've run Do you have a website 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 eight years now but Ieither of those questions then you really ought to read ''Life've always shied away from any inclusion of es Work': 12 Proven Ways to Fast-commerce on Track Your Career''. If you're not yet in work or considering that you might need to make some changes then this is the sitebook you need. It seemed like too large a subject, too much complexity James Reed is the chairman and choice and the possibility chief executive of problems which could go disastrously wrong. I first encountered Alannah Moore when I read [[The Creative Person's Website Builder by Alannah Moore|The Creative PersonREED, Britain's Website Builder]] biggest and was impressed by best-known name in the way that she approached her subject, so when I had the opportunity recruitment industry. Who better to see how to create an online store in a weekend, I jumped at give you the chance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781571430</amazonuk>advice you need?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Money: The Unauthorised BiographyAnne Boden|authortitle=Felix MartinThe Money Revolution
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|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Occasionally books are Money is changing. It might not exactly what they seembe in the ways you think. When I picked this up, read the blurb We’re not suddenly getting a 3p or £3 coin (and began have you ever even found a country that offers anything different to the contents inside1, I was expecting 2, 5 model?) We’re getting a kind of biography or history of money through lot more digital with payments, which seems to suit most people apart from charity collectors and the homeless on the ages. The opening chapterstreet, a brief sketch of but although this book has the economy of subtitle that includes the Pacific island of Yap and how it workedword ''digital'', seemed to confirm it’s not really about thiseither. It tells us how in the late nineteenth century YapInstead, east of it's about the Philippine Islands, had an unwieldy coinage consisting ''management'' of stone wheels around 12ft in diameter, called fei. The population did not carry these aroundyour finances, let alone own them like we possess pounds and pence, as they were part of a sophisticated system of credit managementhow to take control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578522</amazonuk>1789660610
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Hytner1949395324|title=ConsiglieriFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: Leading from the Shadows4th Edition|author=Kalpesh Ashar|rating=3.54
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|summary=I've always been fascinated by the existence of that shadowy figure, the consigliere, in stories about the Mafia. He - and it was always a man - appeared 'Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to be full of wisdom, with the interests of the family at heart and Know ''gives people without an ambitious bone accounting background who have risen in his body, or so it would seem. It was a company the knowledge to understand the title of Richard Hytner's book accounts which drew me in - along with show how the idea that coming top company is sometimes second bestdoing. That seemed The book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, then moves on to go against everything that I'd ever been brought up to believe. So - does he make a good case for being give an excellent overview of the second in command?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250464</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics types of Everyday Life|author=Uri Gneezy accounting systems which will be encountered 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 patternsterms used. I guess we know about that already because supermarkets here lull us into buying three for We then look in detail at the price of twobalance sheet, to come back next week for £10 off a £100, or to garner extra points on a loyalty card (Oh why can’t they just go for a cheaper price at the point of sale? Why do profits have to be in double percentage point increases year on year?). A fair bit of manipulation to ensure that a company survives is already part income statement and parcel the statement of our livescash flows. If you’d asked me before I read this book, I would have lined up that sort of consumer marketing psychology alongside banking as profiteering. However … these guys are different: they really do seem to care about the plight of the underprivileged, and they come from an academic setting, rather than a commercial one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946747</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Kelsey1946383627|title=Get Things Done: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Can ChangeAlways Wanted To Know|author=Vibrant Publishers
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|summary= WeI're all m capable of drawing up a profit and loss account (income statement in the USA) and a balance sheet and I do so busy these days it's easy to veer between headless chicken for my own business and cherry picking modes, or at least it is for meanother organisation. (The accounts give me ''broadly'' what I really hope my boss isn’t reading this!) In fact procrastination is my super power which was why need: I grabbed [[:Category:Robert Kelsey|Robert Kelseyknow whether we's]] book from the shelf with excited anticipation: in re making a profit or a self-help book with one of loss and I can look at the longest titles known to man, he promises to help us become more efficient time managers expenses and to stop putting things offsee what looks as though it could be trimmed back in future years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857083082</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Wolf of Wall Street|author=Jordan Belfort|rating=2.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=As if we My problem was that the accounts didn't have enough excuses really give me any help in making decisions, which was why I turned to appreciate the 'Masters 'Cost Accounting and Management'', part of the UniverseVibrant Publishers' of the financial sector. After the tax dodging, the bonus scamming, price fixing Self-Learning and the valiant attempt to bring down the entire world economy comes Jordan Belfort aka the Wolf of Wall StreetManagement series. To be fair to Belfort, he plied his trade long before the most recent financial meltdown. Still, he's managed to piggy back the latest crash via a best selling book which has been re-released to coincide with a film adaptation starring Leonardo Dicaprio.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778129</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1072549271|title=Live At the Brixton AcademyThe Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A riotous life in the music businessSimple Step by Step Guide|author=Simon Parkes and J S RafaeliGeorgianne Landy-Kordis
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|genre=EntertainmentBusiness and Finance|summary=Who on earth would want I frequently meet authors who are struggling to buy be published by the traditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have the big bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. I then ask if they've considered Kindle and run a live music venue in deepest Brixtonthe answer is, inevitably, and manage that they wouldn't know where to keep it running start. I can empathise with that. Despite having used a computer for fifteen about thirty years, transforming it against all the odds into what becomes one of Britain’s running most iconic establishments of its kind? my life ''and'' a website online, I'm still nervous when it comes to starting something new. Such an undertaking calls I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it for somebody with special managerial skills who can keep one step ahead of the game, walking a precarious tightrope, keeping gangsters, punters, promoters and the local authorities onsidefirst time. It also requires a good deal That was why I was very interested when ''The Simple Act of luckSelf Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689554</amazonuk>
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