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This is a book that delivers good news and encourages you to focus where the actual, rather than imagined, problems are. You will not regret buying it. The Smartest Guys in the Room is a gripping, engaging and twisty account of how a billion-dollar company came to practically evaporate overnight. We recommend this book to anyone who works in finance, as we rate it as one of the best fraud books available. There are four distinct types of managers. One performs much worse than the rest, and one performs far better. Which type are you? Good to Great by Jim Collins is a business book which deserves to be in any ‘starter-list’ of books about business.
The fierce war for staff is one contributor to economic stress. From interviews to incentives, Talent : How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World, by Tyler Cowen (longlisted in 2019 for Big Business) and Daniel Gross, is a highly practical guide to identifying and recruiting such people, while at the same time ensuring that hirers spread their net wide enough to ensure they assemble a diverse and innovative team. It’s only when truly difficult individuals are involved that the sales game becomes much more challenging. You’ll find each of William’s 5 steps of negotiating set out clearly in this book. These include ‘go to the balcony’, ‘step to their side’ and ‘build them a golden bridge’.The subject of an endearing 2006 film starring Will Smith; The Pursuit of Happyness is the memoir of Chris Gardner. We all understand that financial matters can be objectively managed, but emotion and psychology often seems to get in the way. Have you noticed how novice investors and business people seem to always fall into the same pitfalls and traps? From officers of the Marine Corps to CEOs and government ministers, Simon looks at how effective leaders find ways to put their teams interests ahead of their own to create a working environment in which everybody wins.
Brady holds the public eye for two reasons; she’s the aide to Alan Sugar on the UK version of the Apprentice, and she’s has held leadership positions in Birmingham City F.C and more recently West Ham United F.C. Karren, now the Baroness of Knightsbridge since 2014, also sits in the House of Lords. Newport argues that the cliché advice to follow your dreams is profoundly flawed. Building from his own experience and that of other professionals he reveals that matching passion to a job is not enough. Instead, he argues that passion comes later — after you work hard to build skill and excellence in your chosen profession.From a “feminist hero” ( Elle, The Guardian) comes a fearless firsthand account of the workplace discrimination suit that “has blown open a conversation about the status of women” ( The New York Times) in the tech industry. Rarely has an author produced something so immediately relevant and profoundly important to balancing my life and to my daily practices at work. Reading A Minute to Thinkis an investment in getting the most out of our most precious commodity–time. Bravo." — Nicholas Drake, Vice President Global Marketing at Google A UK tale of entrepreneurialism from an unlikely corner. Following a fractious dispute with his family over the direction of their footwear business, Joe Foster went his own way and formed Reebok. Starting from scratch, in an industry already dominated by giants such as Adidas and Puma; Reebok fought its way from obscurity into the clutches of success. Related: Discipline Is What Leads to Success 15. "15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management- The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs" by Kevin Kruse Deep Work gives new insight into how people produce their best work. The author asserts that many people work at the shallow end of focus, with social media and cultural changes to blame. Because of our distracting environment, it is nearly impossible to concentrate on anything.
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