Publication date: 2000-04-01
Dewey code: 338.04092
Price: £12.99
Review Monk and the Riddle, The: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur (Harvard Business School press tip sheet) / Harvard Business School Press:Prospective entrepreneurs may think they know everything there is to know about starting a business in Silicon Valley. They can draw up business plans, have meetings with venture capitalists, maybe even get funded and actually launch a start-up. However, in The Monk and the Riddle, Randy Komisar, a Silicon Valley sage, reasons that this is only half the equation for success. And it may not be the important half. Komisar has worked with a number of companies-Apple, LucasArts Entertainment (the gaming division of George Lucas's empire) and WebTV among them-and has come to a rather startling conclusion: If you can't see yourself doing this business for the rest of your life, don't start it. In other words, he wants to see passion and purpose in business, not just spreadsheets and a by-the-numbers business model. To illustrate, Komisar takes the reader through a hypothetical Silicon Valley start-up, with an eager entrepreneur named Lenny trying to get funding for an online casket-selling business. As Komisar helps Lenny find the real purpose of the business, the passion behind the revenue projections, he reflects back on his life as an entrepreneur. Komisar emerges as a master storyteller, the kind of guy you would feel honoured to share a bottle of wine with. And you believe his conclusion: "When all is said and done, the journey is the reward". [+]It's great if you have made billions on the journey, but the important thing is that you do something you can truly throw yourself into. -Lou Schuler, Amazon. com.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2004-04-07
Dewey code: 338
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.85
Review Smart Luck: The Seven Other Qualities of Great Entrepreneurs / Prentice Hall:What makes men like Richard Branson and Alan Sugar so successful? More than talent, more than ambition and drive, Andrew Davidson believes, it's Smart Luck-taking a gamble when you know the odds. Through impressively well written and personal interviews with some of the UK's most charismatic and successful business minds, Davidson gives us a glimpse into what turns a man like James Dyson into an entrepreneur. Dyson says he has always felt different, ever since his father died when he was a child. "Losing a father makes you incrediblydisadvantaged emotionally. There isn't that personal willing you on there to help you. You become horribly self-reliant and you grow up quicker in one sense, and never grow up in another. " Certainly, he looks 15 years younger than his age-he's a health and fitness fanatic, running three times a week and watching what he eats. His son, Jacob, calls him Peter Pan and there is a certain childlike quality in his enthusiasms which encourages him to break rules and challenge status quos when others might think it batty to do so. What makes Smart Luck compelling is its voyeuristic quality-describing how Lastminute. com founder Brent Hoberman leaves theinterview to take a call and forgets to come back, or the varying types of therapy Simon Woodroffe endured while building up the Yo! Sushi chain. [+]It's definitely not a manual for wannabe moguls-most of thetales here were started through coincidence and chance more than design or strategy. Knowing how Autonomy's Mike Lynch's experiences with industrial giant GEC defined his career, or how Pizza Express founderLuke Johnson got his break after a chance reply to a Financial Times ad won't make you a better businessman-but it will give you gems of insight rarely found on the business shelves. -Sally Whittle.
Publication date: 2005-07-22
Dewey code: 332.092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.00
Review Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance / John Wiley & Sons:
Authors
- Elizabeth Handy
- Charles B. Handy
Dewey code: 305.26082
RRP: £20.00
Price: £12.56
Review Reinvented Lives: Women at Sixty - A Celebration / Hutchinson:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1988-07-01
Dewey code: 658.4
RRP: £18.99
Price: £16.28
Review Today and Tomorrow (Corporate Leadership) (Corporate Leadership) / Productivity Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-10-29
Dewey code: 338.76292095195
RRP: £24.99
Price: £20.84
Review Made in Korea: Chung Ju Yung and the Rise of Hyundai / Routledge:Just a few decades ago, South Korea was an agrarian country, a backwater of international business. The average lifespan was 47 years, the average annual income less than a hundred dollars a year. By the end of the 20th century, Korea had risen to become the world's 11th-largest economy, the eighth largest trading partner of the U. S. and a global leader in construction, semiconductors, shipbuilding and steel production. Steers, a University of Oregon business professor who has written two previous books on Korean business issues, believes that a big part of that country's rise is good old fashioned entrepreneurship. What Americans admire so much about Bill Gates and Phil Knight-the vision, the tenacity, the refusal to back down-is actually found all over the world. In Korea, it's best personified by Chung Ju Yung, who created Hyundai Business Group. By the time Chung retired in 1991, Hyundai accounted for 16 percent of Korea's gross domestic product and 12 percent of its total exports. Chung founded Hyundai (it means "modern" in Korean) in 1946 as a car-repair company, then quickly moved into the construction business. [+]He became the U. S. army's favourite contractor during the Korean War and after the war expanded Hyundai's ventures to include electronics, shipbuilding, oil refining, securities and investments and automobiles. Almost any businessman can draw lessons from Chung's success. Some of his management tactics would be considered extreme today-he once hiked through the woods in the middle of the night, waking up workers at a construction site to check on their progress-but his ability to seize business opportunities, forge alliances with the prevailing powers and deliver upon promises made is certainly inspirational. -Lou Schuler, Amazon. com.
Publication date: 1998-11
Dewey code: 200
Price: £6.99
Review Only the Best Will Do: Eddie Stobart Story / Ambassador Publications:
Creator: Dan John Miller
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2008-07-29
Dewey code: 647.95068
RRP: £19.10
Price: £9.18
Review Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip - Confessions of a Cynical Waiter / Brilliance Corporation:
Publication date: 2004-01-16
Dewey code: 951.93043092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.33
Review Kim Jong-Il: North Korea's Dear Leader / John Wiley & Sons:
Authors
- Robert Greene
- Joost Elffers
Dewey code: 303.3
Price: £18.00
Review The 48 Laws of Power / Penguin Putnam Inc:"Learning the game of power requires a certain way of looking at the world, a shifting of perspective," writes Robert Greene. Mastery of one's emotions, and the arts of deception and indirection are, he goes on to assert, essential. The 48 laws outlined in this book "have a simple premise: certain actions always increase one's power. while others decrease it and even ruin us. " The laws cull their principles from many great schemers-and scheming instructors- throughout history, from Sun-Tzu to Talleyrand; from Casanova to con man Yellow Kid Weil. They are straightforward in their amoral simplicity: "Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit," or: "Discover each man's thumbscrew. " Each chapter provides examples of the consequences of observance or transgression of the law, along with "keys to power," potential "reversals" (where the converse of the law might also be useful), and a single paragraph cleverly laid out to suggest an image (such as the aforementioned thumbscrew); the margins are filled with illustrative quotations. Practitioners of one-upmanship have been given a new, comprehensive training manual, as up-to-date as it is timeless.
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2002-07-05
Dewey code: 658
RRP: £14.95
Price: £8.91
Review Slack / Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del:
Creator: R Benson
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2008-01-30
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.57
Review What Would Churchill Do? - Business Advice from the Man Who Saved the World:: Business Advice from the Man Who Saved the World: 1 / Manor Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-04-01
Dewey code: 332.6092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £10.00
Review Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital / Harvard Business School Press:
Publication date: 2006-02-10
Dewey code: 338.76164092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £3.47
Review Being Martha: The Inside Story of Martha Stewart and Her Amazing Life / John Wiley & Sons:
Authors
- Philip Bashe
- Gordon Binder
Dewey code: 338.76151092
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.43
Review Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me About Management / Harvard Business School Press:
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 973.917092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £22.76
Review Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way / Prentice Hall:
Creator: Charles R. Schwab
Edition: 1st Paperback Ed
Publication date: 2007-03-30
Dewey code: 338.7616524092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.19
Review Copy This!: How I Turned Dyslexia, ADHD, and 100 Square Feet into a Company Called Kinko's / Workman Publishing:
Publication date: 1991-12-31
Dewey code: 338.47668550941
Price: £22.00
Review Body and Soul: Profits with Principles: the Amazing Success Story of Anita Roddick / Crown Publications:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-05-01
Dewey code: 381.141092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.10
Review Summer at Tiffany / William Morrow:
Publication date: 2006-11
Dewey code: 070.5092
RRP: £17.56
Price: £4.34
Review Outrageous Fortune: The Rise and Ruin of Conrad and Lady Black / HarperCollins Publishers:
| Models & Brands:
Monk and the Riddle, The: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur (Harvard Business School press tip sheet), Smart Luck: The Seven Other Qualities of Great Entrepreneurs, Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance, Reinvented Lives: Women at Sixty - A Celebration, Today and Tomorrow (Corporate Leadership) (Corporate Leadership), Made in Korea: Chung Ju Yung and the Rise of Hyundai, Only the Best Will Do: Eddie Stobart Story, Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip - Confessions of a Cynical Waiter, Kim Jong-Il: North Korea's Dear Leader, The 48 Laws of Power, Slack, What Would Churchill Do? - Business Advice from the Man Who Saved the World:: Business Advice from the Man Who Saved the World: 1, Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital, Being Martha: The Inside Story of Martha Stewart and Her Amazing Life, Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me About Management, Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way, Copy This!: How I Turned Dyslexia, ADHD, and 100 Square Feet into a Company Called Kinko's, Body and Soul: Profits with Principles: the Amazing Success Story of Anita Roddick, Summer at Tiffany, Outrageous Fortune: The Rise and Ruin of Conrad and Lady Black |
