Changes

|isbn=03494249260241636604|title=LifeThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's Work: 12 Proven Ways re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to Fastthe London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright -Track Your Careerextremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|author=James ReedFiona Parashar |title=A Beautiful Way to Coach

|summary=Do you have a guaranteed So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and more-than-adequate income which will last the rest being audacious enough to review it? Truth is I bought it out of your life? curiosity. Do you have no need to work, either I was at an on-line launch for income or fulfilment? the If you even hesitate over either book and Fiona’s description of those questions then you really ought her Vision Days appealed to read ''Life's Work': 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career''me. If you're not yet I wanted to see if there were things in work or considering there that you might need I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to make some changes then this is the book you needmentor – without committing them to a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. James Reed is the chairman and chief executive of REED I also wanted to see if I could give myself a Vision Day, Britain's biggest to bring me away from their vision and best-known name in the recruitment industryback to my own. Who better to give you the advice you need?|isbn=103211603X

|authorisbn=Anne Boden303091657X|title=The Money RevolutionDisaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson|rating=45|genre= Business and Finance|summary= Money is changingBoards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secure. It This might not be seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or the ways you think. We’re not suddenly getting collapse of a 3p or £3 coin (and major company - have you ever even found a country that offers anything different to left interested parties asking what the 1, 2, 5 modelboard was doing. Where were they?) We’re getting Occasionally the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn a lot more digital with paymentsblind eye, leaving watchers wondering which seems to suit most people apart from charity collectors and the homeless on the street, was worse - ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but although this book what has the subtitle that includes the word ‘’digital’’happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, it’s not really about this either. Instead it’s about the ‘’management’’ of your finances, South Sea Bubble and how even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to take controlhave learned very little.|isbn=1789660610

{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- Kalpesh Ashar -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1949395324.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1949395324/ref=nosim''If not now, when?tag=thebookbag-21]]''

| style="verticalWrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to -align: top; textand you had a talent for delivering the written word. You knew your subject back to front. Now you're going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to try. Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it -align: left;"|because it ''is'' going to be down to you.===[[Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition by Kalpesh Ashar]]===}}

[[image:4star.jpg{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|linkauthor=Category:{{{Otegha Uwagba|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business =5|genre=Politics and FinanceSociety|Business summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and Finance]]ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba

''Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know ''gives people without an accounting background who have risen 0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a company the knowledge to understand the accounts which show how the company is doing. The book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, then moves on to give an excellent overview a writer of the types of accounting systems which will be encountered and the terms usedcolour while only 7% study a book by a woman. '' We then look in detail at the balance sheet, the income statement and the statement of cash flows...[[Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition by Kalpesh Ashar|Full Review]]''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

<!-- Vibrant Publishers -->|-| style="width: 10%; verticalOtegha 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, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1946383627working, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possible.jpg|link=http There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything://wwwit was simply carefully harvested.amazon 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/dp/1946383627/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}

| style="verticalGerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board -align: top; textnot just a 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 these boards and feels that this would help to avoid some of the scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company -align: left;"we're thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. For this to happen, boards need to have a wider field of people to choose from when they're looking for an ID.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3030513025|title=The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais|rating=[[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know by Vibrant Publishers]]=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Independent Director: ''a job for which no one is qualified'' (''Financial Times'')

[[imageIndependent Director:4''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.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and (Corporate Finance]], [[:Category:Reference|Reference]]Institute)

IGerry 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'm capable s happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the failings and weaknesses of drawing up 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 profit pandemic was predicted and loss account (income statement modelled in the USA) past and there has been a balance sheet general failure to prepare for what has happened - and is still happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241453585|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne Boden|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. AIB was in the throes of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the first to realise that banks needed to do so for my own business and for another organisationthings differently. AIB thought it was at the cutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminal. Boden took things a step further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the old branch network, employing thousands of people, would soon become redundant.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3110641119|title=The accounts give me Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=I had no idea what 'journey mapping'broadly'' what was until I need: I know whether weread this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the book and acting on the contents. You're making going to learn how to run a profit or a loss and I can look at the expenses and see workshop to discover what looks as though it could feels like to be trimmed back in future yearsone of your own customers. My problem was that the accounts didnAt this point, please don't really give me any help in making decisionssay 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is going to be fun and you're going to be surprised by what emerges.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3110641291|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=So, which was why I turned bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing in a slightly different form and quite a bit of money spent. Why not just leave it as it is? After all, it's ''Cost Accounting and Managementroughly''working, part of Vibrant Publishersisn' Self-Learning and Management series... [[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know by Vibrant Publishers|Full Review]]t it?

<!-- Georgianne Landy-Kordis You might not have said it, but you've probably thought it. You've also thought the small, incremental improvements which you have been able to make -the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, the extension of your existing products into new areas ->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1072549271haven't really delivered in terms of ''growth''.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1072549271/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag It's been manageable and largely risk-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step free but you could easily be challenged by Step Guide by Georgianne Landy-Kordis ]]=== [[image:4a competitor who takes a more radical approach.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]], [[:Category:Reference|Reference]], [[:Category:Self You've merely kept the business ticking over and there's a nagging suspicion in the back of your mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-first. What you need is innovation -Publishing|Self Publishing]]''radical'' innovation.}}I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by {{Frontpage|isbn=1472962044|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the traditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain Tech that they donCan Transform Your Business|author=Andrew Hampshire|rating=4.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=I was once told that 'technology't have the big bucks required to go down is anything that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. I then ask if theyhappens after you've considered Kindle and the answer is inevitably that they wouldnre eighteen, so there't know where to starts been a lot of technology in my life. I can empathise with thatonce 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. Despite having used Nowadays the problem is that someone running a computer for about thirty years, running most of my life ''business doesn't have the time to keep up with constant innovation andthey might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expected. It' s also a website on linefact that no one develops a business because they have the knowledge of the required technology, Iso they start off in conversations about technology feeling that they'm still nervous when it comes to starting something newre at a disadvantage. They need help, but they frequently don't know what help they need. I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it for the first time. That was why I was very interested when }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=5|genre=Children''The Simple Act s Non-Fiction|summary=What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of Self Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk... [[The Simple Act what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of Selfit (nope -Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide by Georgianne Landy-Kordis |Full Review]] <!-- Alok Tripathy -->|-| style="widthrobbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1729621953we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1729621953/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fast-track There's also the I.T Journey - How possibility of using to move from Supplier to Partner by Alok Ranjan Tripathy]]do good in the world.}}{{Frontpage|author=Linda Scott|title=The Double X Economy|rating=5 [[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business Politics and FinanceSociety|Business and Finance]] So, what brought me to this book? As the owner of summary='' Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the world''. It's a small business and a buyer of IT services I should be the senior partner in the relationship with my suppliersbold statement for an opening chapter, but Iit've frequently found myself s far from hyperbole as the junior partner and I've regularly been let down by themfollowing pages explain. I needed to know where I could improve that relationship This book shines a light on what is happening in different places, and, by looking at the situation impact on the local and world economy. What can be learnt from the supplier's point great strides in gender-equalising legislation in the west? What can be done about the selling of viewyoung women into marriage, and what steps I needed to take. Alok Tripathycan chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|isbn=0571353606}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0349424926|title=Life's book looked as though it might provide help and possibly some of the answers as to how my suppliers could better help me. [[Work: 12 Proven Ways to Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner by Alok Ranjan TripathyTrack Your Career|Full Review]] <!-- John Clare -->author=James Reed|-rating=5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Business and Finance[[image:1789552354.jpg|linksummary=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789552354/ref=nosimDo you have a guaranteed and more-than-adequate income which will last the rest of your life?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Storytelling: The Presenter Do you have no need to work, either for income or fulfilment? If you even hesitate over either of those questions then you really ought to read ''Life's Secret Weapon by John Clare]]=== [[imageWork':4star12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career''.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business If you're not yet in work or considering that you might need to make some changes then this is the book you need. James Reed is the chairman and Finance|Business chief executive of REED, Britain's biggest and Finance]] I was a little bit nervous when I picked up ''Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon''best-known name in the recruitment industry. After all, Who better to give you the majority of presentations which I've seen or given were in a business context and what was required was absolute professionalism, advice you need?}}{{Frontpage|author=Anne Boden|title=The Money Revolution|rating=4|genre= Business and Finance|summary= Money is changing. It might not an act put on for light entertainment. I needn't be in the ways you think. We’re not suddenly getting a 3p or £3 coin (and have worried though: you ever even found a country that offers anything different to the book is an essential guide to preparing and giving your presentation1, 2, with or without what has now come to be known as The Dreaded PowerPoint. I've been making presentations successfully (but I'll say more about this later5 model?) in various professional situations for some forty or We’re getting a lot more years digital with payments, which seems to suit most people apart from charity collectors and I did wonder if the homeless on the street, but although this book would be able to teach me anythinghas the subtitle that includes the word ''digital'', it’s not really about this either. It didInstead, it's about the ''management'' of your finances, and how to take control.|isbn=1789660610<!-- Marc Stigter and Sir Cary Cooper -->}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=1949395324| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-alignFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: center;"|4th Edition[[image:1472938062.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472938062/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Kalpesh Ashar| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"4|genre===[[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards by Marc Stigter Business and Sir Cary Cooper]]===Finance[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] I wasn't optimistic when I started reading ''Boards That Dare''. I feared that I would encounter new ways of minimising tax liabilities, of getting as much as possible out of employees whilst paying them Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know ''gives people without an accounting background who have risen in a company the legal minimum and constant reminders that knowledge to understand the ''shareholders'' own accounts which show how the company and is doing. The book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, then moves on to give an excellent overview of the necessity types of maximising their returnaccounting systems which will be encountered and the terms used. In We then look in detail at the event I was only a few pages in before I discovered that I couldn't have been more wrong, that we were looking at ways balance sheet, the income statement and the statement of future proofing the companycash flows. I began to feel hopeful... [[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary Cooper|Full Review]]}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1946383627<!-- Mackay -->|title=Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know|-author=Vibrant Publishers| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4.5|genre=Business and Finance[[image:Mackay_Trials.jpg|left|linksummary=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524683094?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524683094]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Trials I'm capable of drawing up a profit and loss account (income statement in the USA) and Tribulations of a Travelling Prostitute by Andrew Mackay]]=== [[image:3balance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisation.5star.jpg|link=Category The accounts give me ''broadly'' what I need:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]]  Just chance you think that youI know whether we're picking up making a book about what profit or a loss and I can go wrong in life for an itinerant sex worker I'd better explain exactly look at the expenses and see what looks as though it was that author Andrew Mackay did for thirty three could be trimmed back in future years. A travelling prostitute is a worker who is employed by one company but his services are sold out to other countries, usually at a substantial profit to My problem was that the employing company and a lot of inconvenience to the employee. Mackay was an engineer who knew all that there accounts didn't really give me any help in making decisions, which was why I turned to be know about turbines ''Cost Accounting and generatorsManagement'', or if he didnpart of Vibrant Publishers't could soon be up to speed to the extent of being able to teach other peopleSelf-Learning and Management series.. Occasionally his skills were used in the UK, but frequently he was abroad. Just every now and again he would be in those parts }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1072549271|title=The Simple Act of the world which has the rest of us green with envy, but then there were those areas which feature heavily in the news and not in a good way. [[Trials and Tribulations of a Travelling Prostitute Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Andrew MackayStep Guide|Full Review]] <!-- Bell -->author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis|-rating=4.5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Business and Finance[[image:Bell_DIY.jpg|left|linksummary=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0857196014?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbagI frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the traditional houses, but when I suggest self-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0857196014]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The DIY Investor: How publishing they explain that they don't have the big bucks required to take control of your investments go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. I then ask if they've considered Kindle and plan for a financially secure future by Andy Bell]]=== [[image:5starthe answer is, inevitably, that they wouldn't know where to start.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] Investments are confusing I can empathise with that. They're also rather frightening unless you have Despite having used a background in finance: you could invest in equities which seem likely to make your fortunecomputer for about thirty years, only to find that yourunning most of my life ''and''ve lost all your money. On the other hand you could put all your savings into a nice, safe building society or bank account only to find that the interest is so derisory that your capital doesna website online, I't actually have the same buying power that m still nervous when it did when you opened the accountcomes to starting something new. You could, of course, spend I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it for the money, but what about first time. That was why I was very interested when you want to buy a house, replace the roof or retire? ''The roof might be relatively cheap but the other two are going to need a substantial investment pot. [[The DIY Investor: How to take control of your investments and plan for a financially secure future by Andy Bell|Full Review]] <!-- Williams_Nelson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:WilliamsNelson_Time.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524666483?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524666483]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Time is Money by T K Williams-Nelson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] Whatever your age it's frustrating to have to work for someone else. If you're under twenty five there's a strong chance that you'll be under-valued and probably not paid very well. There is though, a certain security in employment, usually because there's a reasonable certainty of income and a possibility of paid holidays: when you're self-employed neither of those are guaranteed. It is, though, a big step to leap into the world of self-employment. ''Time is Money'' is a self-development tool aimed at young people, creatives and people in business. [[Time is Money by T K Williams-Nelson|Full Review]] <!-- Duhigg -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Duhigg_Smarter.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1847947433?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1847947433]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]]  ''Smarter Faster Better'' is ideal book for someone who loves both stories and career-related self-improvement. Readers looking for quick answers, bullet points or sound bites may be disappointed as Duhigg's approach is to focus on case studies, told with the flair of a short story, and then extrapolate from these rather than listing tips and exercises. However, if you have the time and patience to get to the point of each chapter slowly (and surely this is a subject matter worth devoting time to), you will doubtless find that Duhigg is an excellent storyteller and cleverly articulates the key message from each story so that they stick. [[Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg|Full Review]] <!-- Coles -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Coles_Brexit.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1905570813?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1905570813]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European Union by T J Coles]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] ''Have you been mis-sold Brexit by posh men in sharp suits promising you free healthcare? If so, you might be entitled to compensation...'' There wasn't much could make me laugh on the morning after the EU referendum but this spoof advert on Twitter managed it. Only, it seems that it wasn't completely a joke - well apart from the bit about compensation. In ''The Great Brexit Scandal'' T J Coles looks at the substantial core of free marketeers in the Conservative party who were determined to rid the UK of the Brussels red tape which was putting a brake on their activities. You might also know these views as neoliberalism, an ideology which looks to deregulate markets and maximise profits. On the surface that doesn't sound bad, until you realise that the benefit will go to the people who are already in the group which Coles refers to as the mega-rich and the losers will be working people. [[The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European Union by T J Coles|Full Review]] <!-- Baldwin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Baldwin_Great.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/067466048X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=067466048X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Great Convergence by Richard Baldwin]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] The globalisation of the world economy is a central factor in life and politics today. 'The Great Convergence' attempts to explain the current driving forces behind the phenomena and the likely consequences. It is well argued, and supported by a wealth of data and research, but it is not one for a general reader. A background in economic principles and an understanding of some key concepts would be a key requisite in getting the most out of this book. Without this background, the reader will be constantly switching from the text and cross-referencing the meaning of some of the vocabulary used. With that note of caution, and the required understanding, Richard Baldwin's analysis is compelling. [[The Great Convergence by Richard Baldwin|Full Review]] <!-- Wiles -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wiles_Thinking.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524633100?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524633100]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Thinking Allowed by Julian Wiles]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] ''Thinking Allowed? Hmm'', I thought, ''what has that got to do with building a thriving optical lens business?'' But within a few pages of starting to read, I was convinced that it was perfect. You see, this isn't a book which you read, rather like a Delia Smith book, to give you a precise recipe for how you must proceed to achieve a perfect result. No two businesses are alike, any more than any two owners are alike and Julian Wiles allows you to approach your business from all angles: there are even ways you can get his personal advice. This is no ordinary 'how to' book. There are no chapter numbers (you pick from the menu) and it's not even necessary to read the book in any particular order. [[Thinking Allowed by Julian Wiles|Full Review]] <!-- Fraser -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Fraser_Forestry.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524628921?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524628921]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forestry Flavours of the Month: The Changing Face of World Forestry by Alastair Fraser]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]], [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] Alastair Fraser's experience of forestry spans more than five decades and having the benefit of the long view he's ideally placed to consider the changes which have occurred over the course of his career. He also has the ability, not as common as it ought to be amongst professionals, of being able to look at what he does both from the point of view of the business and the people who work in it and are affected by it. There's a lack of tunnel vision too: he sees what's happening in forestry both in the narrow focus and where it sits globally so far as economics and politics are concerned. [[Forestry Flavours of the Month: The Changing Face of World Forestry by Alastair Fraser|Full Review]] <!-- Voss -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Voss Never.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1847941486?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1847941486]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] Negotiation is ''nothing more than communication with results'', according to Chris Voss. ''Never Split the Difference'' is all about maximising the chances of these results being in your favour. Drawing upon years of experience as a crisis and kidnapping negotiator, Voss has developed a set of highly honed tools, field-tested in numerous high-stakes negotiation situations involving the FBI. In contrast to the widely accepted paradigm for negotiation taught in schools and universities, this toolkit throws aside complex game theory and dense mathematical considerations in favour of an approach that places emotional intelligence, empathy and subtle communication techniques at its core. The focus is on developing an understanding of the thought process of individuals during any given discussion. Effective communication not only helps derive these insights, but allows them to be used to move a negotiation in the direction you want it to go, while simultaneously resolving a discussion with minimal conflict. [[Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz|Full Review]] <!-- Byrne -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Byrne_Dragons.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781857474?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781857474]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Dragons: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain by Liam Byrne]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] Liam Byrne MP, a minister in the last Labour government, has come up with a novel way of telling British history through the ages in this book. His approach is not one of Kings and Queens, wars or scientific discoveries, but through the business world and several of the key – and often unsung – entrepreneurs and commercial venturers from medieval times to the twentieth century. As he says in his preface, the people through whose lives he has chosen to narrate the saga reveal the best and worst of human endeavours, as he serves us up several explorers, inventors and moral leaders alongside a motley crew of fraudsters, warmongers and unembarrassed imperialists. All of them took risks, some made fortunes and some lost them, but for better or worse they all contributed towards the tale of British enterprise and the making of the modern world. [[Dragons: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain by Liam Byrne|Full Review]] <!-- Witt -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Witt_Music.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099590077?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099590077]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief by Stephen Witt]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] 'How Music Got Free', as the title ironically suggests, tells us how the industry fell victim to the digital age and, it seems, became fatally devalued in the process. It starts more or less in the mid-1990s with German technological wizard Karlheinz Brandenburg and the development of the mp3, in brief a coding format for digital audio. The convoluted story is one of various formats and technologies, of loading music on to the internet and making it a free-for-all, in more senses than one. [[How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief by Stephen Witt|Full Review]] <!-- Hougaard -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hougaard_One.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1137551909?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1137551909]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness by Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter and Gillian Coutts]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] Have you ever worked at a task and found your mind wandering to something else? Do you find yourself breaking off what youSimple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon're doing to answer an email? Do you try to multitask, thinking that you're being more efficient? Do you have far too much to attend to, to complete and nowhere near enough time to do it all? You do? Me toocame across my desk.. You need this book. [[One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness by Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter and Gillian Coutts|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}}