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JOBHUNTING
3.0 BOOK REVIEW BY KEITH APPLETON for INSIDE EDGE * * * * * BOOK REVIEW BY DONALD HOLLINS This surely has to be the definitive job- hunter's manual . Author Richard Maun provides masses of information to assist job-seekers, whether school-leavers or older people. One thing above all is underlined and that is the need to dot Is and cross Ts at all stages when seeking a job. Read this book review.
Listen to interview with Richard Maun in which he shares tips for successful job hunting. Read how to make the most out of your job interview.
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NO
FEAR Is FEAR the biggest factor preventing us from growing as business leaders? Pekka Viljakainen, author of NO FEAR, explains why he started a community of the same name. Visit his website to read more about the NO FEAR book and community. |
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Dangerous
Ideas Alf Rehn was invited as special guest speaker to Cornerhouse in Manchester. Click here to see a photograph of Alf in action. Read what Alf Rehn said about his new book Dangerous Ideas and creativity in Creative Times: Dangerous Ideas isn’t a theoretical book, it’s a polemical book, a call to arms. If we want to have a conversation about creativity, we need to shy away from this new age debate that suggests that creativity is always nice and good, a positive energy..... Continue reading about Dangerous Ideas and creativity in Creative Times. |
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Write
Copy, Make Money Andy Maslen's new book revealing secret of running successful copywriting business has been released last month. Read his speech for the launch of this book and find out if a tattoo remover is worth more than a copywriter.
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You're
Next! Read an article about Terry Green and queueing published in Guardian on 13th February. Terry Green, voice and inventor of "Cashier Number
Three Please" talks about his book You're Next that brings fascinating
insights into consumer behaviour and how shops influence that.
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100
Great Cost-Cutting Ideas Read the 100 Great Cost-Cutting Ideas book extract in The Sunday Times. For more information about this book see our management books section.
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BANK
2.0 July saw the UK launch at Blackwell's Bookstore, London. More information coming soon. Brett outlines in an interview with Jim Banting the major customer behavioural shift happening in the global banking sector, which led him to write the book. Click here to listen.
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Generation
Y for Rookies Sally's book for the Rookies series was BA's Inflight magazine, BusinessLife, Book of the Month for June 2010. Read this book review. |
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The
Seven Keys to Imagination June saw the UK launch at Blackwell's Bookstore, London, and the Spanish edition at the Madrid bookfair. Piero was featured in this article in the Independent, 24th June 2010 – 'An imaginitive approach for entrepreneurs' By Michael Murray Our competition to win a BlackBerry attracted over 1,500 people, all of whom completed the survey into how owning portable technology has affected them for a chance to win a Blackberry with 20 runners-up getting a free copy of the book. We hope to inform the lucky winners and post the results shortly - check out David's website for the latest. |
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The
Magic Blackberry The book was launched on 15th June 2010 at the Blackwells Business Bookshop in Holborn, London. For more information visit the website. Click here to listen to the author discussing The Magic Blackberry with Jim Banting Read a review from Thean Lee Cheng published in Starbizweek (Singapore) in February 2011 |
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Growing
Talent Growing Talent was described as essential reading when reviewed in the June-july 2010 issue of European CEO magazine . Click here to read the review.
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Get
a Dog, Don't Work like One Get a Dog, Don't Work Like One was reviewed in Edge, being awarded 4/5 stars. Click here to read the review. Get a Dog, Don't Work Like One was reviewed in BA Business Life, being awarded 8/10. Click here to read the review. An extract from Get a Dog, Don't Work Like One featured in the 17th January issue of the Sunday Times. Click here to read the extract. Get a Dog, Don't Work Like One was reviewed in Management Today, being awarded three stars and 'Best of Kind'. Click here to read the review. About the author… Jim Banting is an entrepreneur who is involved in several businesses, ranging from internet start-ups, graphic design through to property development and digital media. He previously worked in the media division of Virgin and the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He runs a creative services company in central London, which has many media clients including Sony Pictures, HarperCollins, Little Brown and Simply Media. He was the founder of a specialist property portfolio business for a range of investment syndicates, with a total value in excess of £10m, which enjoys above average yields and strong capital growth. He is also currently looking to establish an organic smallholding venture in the Sussex Downs. More info… For articles, serialisation, interviews, review copies and more information please contact Kate Gordon on +44 (0)7980 921961or email kate@karenmccarthy.co.uk. |
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History
Lessons History Lessons was reviewed on the website of the Chartered Management Institute. Jonathan's latest article, based on History Lessons was featured in the June edition of Strategy magazine. Click here to read more. “Fascinating
and highly relevant”
NEW Listen
to Jim interviewing Jonathan about the book History Lessons was reviewed in the Summer 2010 issue of New Business magazine. Click here to read the review Jonathan's article: 'Come on Cameron and Clegg, promise us some cakes and ale', which parallels The present Labour administration with the puritanical Cromwellian regime, was featured in the Yorkshire Post on Sunday 4th April. Click here to read the article online. Jonathan's article 'How business can learn from great leaders in history' based on some of the lessons learned in the book was featured in the Guardian's Saturday 13 March 2010 edition. Click here to read the article online. The special offer for History Lessons was advertised in the June 2010 issue of History Today magazine. History Today has been in circulation since 1951 and is the world's leading popular historical magazine. To find out more about History Today click here. |
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THE
100 Click here to read the first of a ten-part serialisation fromThe Times on Wednesday October 21, 2009. The 100 is available to pre-order, and has been advertised in the January 2010 issue of History Today and the March isssue of History Review. Find out more about the magazines here. |
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Basic Instincts "Lunn has assembled wonderful evidence of irrational economic behaviour for his contention that economics, as currently understood, simply does not explain the economy … [Basic Instincts] is a hugely enjoyable string of pearls … Read this book for the gems and the pleasing prose style” – review in The Mail on Sunday. “In his lucid, radical and entertaining book, Pete Lunn makes a compelling argument that the most basic, and therefore, least examined assumptions of economics are utterly at odds with the evidence of how we actually make choices … This is an important book that both popularises and teases out the implications of an emerging revolution in thought” – review in The Irish Times. Daily Telegraph online reading and interview with
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Simply a Great Manager "Mike Hoyle’s and Peter Newman’s book Simply a Great Manager is the first work on management that this reviewer has read cover-to-cover in one sitting … Three and a half hours of superb advice written with great clarity, which a business coach would be unable to match in a week of counselling … It is highly recommended reading for managers at every level” – review in Professional Manager magazine. " `Keep it simple’ is the main message of this practical read. Hoyle and Newman set out 15 principles or `virtues’ of great managers, which may seem straightforward but can be very effective when put into practice…I wish I’d read this when I started out in management. For anyone in a management role, including well seasoned managers, this book is worth studying” – review in Edge magazine.
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The
Ape in the Corner Office "Science writer Conniff has spent years studying wildlife in its natural environment. In the tradition of the British zoologist Desmond Morris, Conniff has put his observational skills to work at work. He considers hierarchies, leadership styles, communication and the rest in the context of our primate origins … Maybe it’s time to take another look at the hairy and not-so-hairy colleagues who surround you. After reading Conniff’s provocative analysis, you’ll never look at them in quite the same way” – review in Management Today magazine. “ We know our place in the office pecking order and fear the big ape who gets to decide who makes top banana in our team. But are there lessons and strategies we can learn from the animal world that could help us to come out on top? That’s the question that Richard Conniff sets out to address in his new book, The Ape in the Corner Office. Following the tradition of Desmond Morris and his influential Naked Ape, Conniff sets out to take lessons learned from animal behaviour and apply them to our workplace. And the result is a quirky, thought-provoking and entertaining guide to surviving and thriving in the workplace jungle” – feature in the Irish Independent. |
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Dealing
with Difficult People BOOK REVIEW BY VAL W ALLEN IN THERAPY TODAY Aimed at the professional working within organisations,
perhaps with some management responsibilities, this is a practical
self-help book. It provides a focused description of the hazards
of working life, outlining typically difficult workplace situations
and people. It aims to help professionals improve relationships
at work by providing strategies for dealing with some of those
difficulties. Counsellors working in workplace or employee assistance
programme (EAP) settings may find it useful to recommend to clients. |
