Edition: Reprinted edition
Publication date: 1999-03-04
Dewey code: 658
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.46
Review Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life / Vermilion:Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze. Four beings live in that maze: Sniff and Scurry are mice, non-analytical and non-judgmental; they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "little people", mouse-size humans who have an entirely different relationship with cheese. It's not just sustenance to them; it's their self-image. Their lives and belief systems are built around the cheese they've found. Most of us reading the story will see the cheese as something related to our livelihoods-our jobs, our career paths, the industries we work in-although it can stand for anything, from health to relationships. The point of the story is that we have to be alert to changes in the cheese and be prepared to go running off in search of new sources of cheese when the cheese we have runs out. Dr. [+]Johnson, co-author of The One Minute Manager and many other books, presents this parable to business, church groups, schools, military organisations-anywhere where you find people who may fear or resist change. And although more analytical and sceptical readers may find the tale a little too simplistic, its beauty is that it sums up all natural history in just 94 pages: things change. They always have changed and always will change. And while there's no single way to deal with change, the consequence of pretending change won't happen is always the same: the cheese runs out. -Lou Schuler, Amazon. com.
Publication date: 2008-03-27
Dewey code: 658.872
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.74
Review Get to the Top on Google: Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of Google and Stay There / Nicholas Brealey Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-04-03
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.32
Review The 4-hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich / Vermilion:
Publication date: 2008-04-01
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.99
Review Succeeding in the 2008 UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) / Apply2 Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-08-07
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.68
Review What They Teach You at Harvard Business School: My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism / Viking:
Publication date: 2008-06-30
Dewey code: 808.0205
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.67
Review Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2009 (Writers' & Artists' Yearbook) / A & C Black Publishers Ltd:
Authors
- Stephen J. Dubner
- Steven D. Levitt
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.27
Review Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything / Addison Wesley:
Authors
- Joseph O'Connor
- John Seymour
Publication date: 2003-01
Dewey code: 158
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.16
Review Introducing NLP Neuro-Linguistic Programming / Thorsons:
Publication date: 2008-05-01
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.99
Review The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-03-01
Dewey code: 658.404
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.29
Review Brilliant Project Management: What the Best Project Managers Know, Say and Do / Prentice Hall:
Authors
- Cass R. Sunstein
- Richard H. Thaler
Dewey code: 330.019
RRP: £18.00
Price: £8.95
Review Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 2008-08-21
RRP: £18.99
Price: £10.00
Review Wake Up and Change Your Life / Orion:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2002-01-24
Dewey code: 158
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.50
Review Getting Things Done: How to Achieve Stress-free Productivity / Piatkus Books:With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow", "mind like water", and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance. Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-dos clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists-all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organised, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible Fast Company has dubbed "the personal productivity guru", suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech sabre known as the mobile phone and attack that list of calls you need to return. ) As whole-life-organising systems go, Allen's is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can't junk. The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket". That's where the processing and prioritising begin; in Allen's system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. [+]Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen's ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there's anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It's common sense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment. Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belaboured, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to football mums (who, we all know, are more organised than most CEOs to start with). -Timothy Murphy.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-01-03
Dewey code: 332
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.97
Review Rich Dad, Poor Dad (Rich Dad) / Time Warner Paperbacks:Personal finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences: his own highly educated, but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by his "poor dad" (whose weekly paychecks, while respectable, were never quite sufficient to meet family needs) pounded home the counterpoint communicated by his "rich dad" (that "the poor and the middle class work for money," but "the rich have money work for them"). Taking that message to heart, Kiyosaki was able to retire at 47. Rich Dad Poor Dad, written with consultant and CPA Sharon L. Lechter, lays out his the philosophy behind his relationship with money. Although Kiyosaki can take a frustratingly long time to make his points, his book is nonetheless a compelling advocate for the type of "financial literacy" that's never taught in schools. Based on the principle that income-generating assets always provide healthier bottom-line results than even the best of traditional jobs, it explains how the former might be acquired so that the latter eventually can be shed. -Howard Rothman, Amazon. com.
Authors
- Glenn Hutton
- Felicity Taylor
- Rosalie Hutton
Publication date: 2008-04-21
Dewey code: 610
RRP: £15.00
Price: £10.13
Review Passing the UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) and BMAT 2008 (Student Guides to University Entrance) (Student Guides to University Entrance) / Learning Matters Ltd:
Authors
- Spencer Johnson
- Kenneth H. Blanchard
Publication date: 2000-07-01
Dewey code: 650
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.29
Review The One Minute Manager / HarperCollins Business:
Publication date: 2001-10-04
RRP: £20.00
Price: £9.94
Review Good to Great / Random House Business Books:Five years ago Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last concludes that it is possible, but finds that there are no silver bullets to greatness. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their performance over time. They finally settled on 11-including Gillette, Walgreens and Wells Fargo-and discovered common traits that challenged many of the conventional notions of corporate success. Making the transition from good to great doesn't require a high-profile CEO, the latest technology, innovative change management or even a fine-tuned business strategy. At the heart of those rare and truly great companies was a corporate culture that rigorously found and promoted disciplined people to think and act in a disciplined manner. Peppered with dozens of stories and examples from the great and not-so-great, Collins lays a well-reasoned roadmap to excellence that any organisation would do well to consider. Like Built to Last, Good to Great is one of those books that managers and CEOs will be reading and rereading for years to come. -Harry C Edwards.
Publication date: 2008-02-28
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.30
Review The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: Rev. Ed., 1st Collins Business Essentials Ed
Publication date: 2007-02-01
Dewey code: 153.852
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.70
Review Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion / HarperBusiness,U.S.:
Publication date: 2008-06-26
RRP: £17.99
Price: £10.18
Review Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile / Headline:
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