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Books for reviewers

If you would like to contribute a review to this website, but don’t have a specific book in mind then below are some suggestions. If you have read one of them then please click here for the form to contribute your review. Perhaps one is on a subject close to your heart – then get it and review it so others can benefit.

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The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. by William D Cohan

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (why we underestimate the risk of highly improbable events at our peril)

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How successful people become even more successful
by Marshall Goldsmith

The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) by John Maeda

Wikinomics, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams (explains how internet-based collaboration can be harnessed to produce more innovative content, products and services)

Viral Loop: The Power of Pass-it-on byAdam Penneberg (From Facebook to Twitter, How Today’s Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves)

Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt

Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe by Gillian Tett

360 Degree Leader by John Maxwell

How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer (how to improve your decision making)

Change by Design: How Design Thinking Creates New Alternatives for Business and Society: How Design Thinking Can Transform Organizations and Inspire Innovation by Tim Brown

World Famous: How to Give Your Business a Kick-Ass Brand Identity by David Tyreman (how to breathe new life into your brand and make customers want to do business with you)

No Logo – Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, by Naomi Klein

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Has Shaped the World from Prehistory to the Present by William J. Bernstein

The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few by James Surowiecki (How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations)

Why Women Mean Business by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Alison Maitland

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Jim Collins/Jerry Porras analysis of the world’s most durable visionary companies

The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business by Kenichi Ohmae’s

Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World by Stephen Green

Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin (Colvin discusses what really separates world-class performers from everybody else and concludes that it’s a specific kind of effort he calls “deliberate practice.”)

Clay Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by Jim Collins

Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalisation by Jeff Rubin

Brief History of the Future, A: What the World Will Be in 100 Years by Jacques Attali – A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-First Century

Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?: How I Turned Around IBM by Lou Gerstner

The Effective Executive (Classic Drucker Collection) by Peter Drucker

The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers by C.K. Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy

China Shakes The World: The Rise of the Hungry Nation by James Kynge

The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Friedman

Paradox of Choice: Why more is less by Barry Schwartz

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