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		<title>Inspire! &#8211; How to keep your customers when your competitors can&#8217;t</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Champy sets out, through a number of interesting case studies, examples of businesses who have outperformed the competition and created a customer following second to none. He extracts from these studies key lessons that you can apply to your business. It’s very readable, and quite short – well worth investing your time.]]></description>
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		<title>The Heart of Business Success: How to Overcome the Catch-22’s of Growing a Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This book uses the metaphor of a heart pumping cash through a business; some of it needs to go to getting &#038; keeping customers, some needs to go on assets and resources. But how do you keep it balanced, how do you grow the business. Understanding how elements of the business interact and how to manage them is at the “heart of business success”.]]></description>
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		<title>FT Business Book of the year 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Written by the man who Fortune magazine refers to as a “Global Guru,” When Markets Collide offers a cogent picture of the rapidly changing world financial system. A book that is sure to become an overnight investment classic, it gets you up to speed on the new economic and investing landscape and provides a detailed blueprint for capitalizing on the phenomenal opportunities now available in that new investment landscape, while minimizing the new and challenging set of risks.]]></description>
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		<title>FT Business Book of the year 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This worldwide financial crisis has happened before. The current crisis has an uncanny parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire generation and set the stage for the horrors of the Second World War. Yet the economic meltdown could have been avoided, had it not been for the decisions taken by a small number of central bankers. In "Lords of Finance", we meet these men, the four bankers who truly broke the world. Liaquat Ahamed tells their story in vivid and gripping detail, in a timely and arresting reminder that individuals - their ambitions, limitations and human nature - lie at the very heart of global catastrophe.]]></description>
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		<title>Bounce: How Champions are Made</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Bounce Matthew Syed - an award-winning Times columnist and three-time Commonwealth table-tennis champion - reveals what really lies behind world-beating achievement in sport, and other walks of life besides. The answers - taking in the latest in neuroscience, psychology and economics - will change the way we look at sports stars and revolutionise our ideas about what it takes to become the best.]]></description>
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		<title>The Use of Lateral Thinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[De Bono investigates the workings of the mind and proposes ways and means to improve the outcome of creative thought as applied to problem solving.]]></description>
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		<title>Maverick!</title>
		<description><![CDATA['The way that Ricardo Semler runs his company is impossible; except that it works, and works splendidly for everyone. I relish this book. It revived my faith in human beings and my hope for business everywhere' Charles Handy]]></description>
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		<title>The Empty Raincoat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sir Graham Day – Financial Times
‘If you are part of, think about, care about or are in any way influenced by the world of work, and who is not, this powerful and moving book is for you.’ ]]></description>
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		<title>The Prince</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A theoretical and practical guide to the acquisition and maintenance of power within a state]]></description>
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		<title>The Peter Principle &#8211; Why Things Always Go Wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his own level of incompetence. This dangerously simple maxim of organisational dysfunction, first spelt out more than thirty-three years ago, has wormed its way into everyday managerial vocabulary.]]></description>
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