Book listing for the General business Theme

The Heart of Business Success: How to Overcome the Catch-22’s of Growing a Business

“Catch 22” is a popular novel and the title has passed in the vernacular to describe any situation where you appear to be in a “heads I win, tails you lose”, or any other circular situation...

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FT Business Book of the year 2008

When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change

This is not a book for those seeking an introduction to the subject. It is full of dense language that req...

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FT Business Book of the year 2009

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

This book tells the story of how the four top bankers in the world managed to drop the ball when the crisis threatened in the early 20th c...

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The Use of Lateral Thinking

Creative thought processes are little understood and many people, particularly those in decision making positions in business today rely too heavily on “the system” or “the rules”. Whilst t...

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Maverick!

Ricardo Semler took conventional management and turned it on its head making a success of a business in hyper inflationary Brazil. This book follows the tale throughout the company looking at ways ...

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The Empty Raincoat

I think this is his best and most relevant book. Written in the mid ‘90s, I first read it whilst struggling to understand how the consultancy business works. I was in Murmansk in -30 at the time!...

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The One Minute Manager

Its small, only common sense, American and trite! But it makes you think and try to practice what they preach!

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The Management Masterclass

With its content drawn mainly from contributions to ‘Management Today’ this is a book to be used when faced with a new situation or challenge rather than read f rom end to end....

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Red Queen

This gives useful insights on human nature

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Accidental Empires

It is a witty, often scurrilous and a glorious description illustrating how and why businesses and managers, like the rest of ...

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