Work/Career/Management

Who Moved My Cheese? is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life - whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money or a possession, health or spirital peace of mind. And the maze is where you look for what you want - the organisation you work in, or the family or community you live in. This profound book from bestselling author, Spencer Johnson, will show you how to anticipate change,... read more

In Inside Apple, Adam Lashinsky provides readers with an insight on leadership and innovation. He introduces Apple business concepts like the 'DRI' (Apple's practice of assigning a Directly Responsible Individual to every task) and the Top 100 (an annual event where that year's top 100 up-and-coming executives are surreptitiously transported to a secret retreat with company founder Steve Jobs). Based on numerous interviews, the book reveals exclusive new information about how Apple innovates, deals with its suppliers, and is handli... read more

How to Wire Your Brain for Wealth Why do some people have money and others not? Is it a matter of inheritance, of earning megabucks for some esoteric talent, or is it from being parsimonious and darning your own socks? Do some people have an innate ability, or is it a matter of attitude and calculation?For many, the enigma of money is surrounded by mystery and dysfunction. Money is an emotional currency that relates to our personal need for security, respect, love, power and self-determination. If you donÃÂ&... read more

Explains how to succeed financially but also have a life outside the business.Are you trapped by your business?Owning a business has always been the best way to create wealth. Most people who set up their own business do so to become wealthy and free, but end up struggling with long working hours, low financial returns and constant bombardment from all sides---customers and suppliers, banks, staff and even family.Have you lost sight of why you went into your business in the first place? Wasn't it to become rich and free? This book ... read more

New Zealand's leading personal coach Andrea Molloy details 20 practical strategies to help you reignite your enthusiasm for work. Whether you are a school leaver, recent graduate, returning after a career break, made redundant or looking for a new direction, Andrea will show you how to unleash your career potential."A brilliant down-to-earth manual for career success."- Fiona Harrold

Providing direction to beginners. Patterned on the syllabi of courses at the prestigious Institute of Life Coaching, this book helps readers become excellent life coaches. Those new to coaching need to learn how to translate their relationship and facilitating abilities into coaching strengths. Readers learn how to listen to, empower, and challenge clients as they design the lives they want.

Consumer focus is hot in business circles - this book offers fun, research-based insights into the consumer types who determine what the world will buy. Consumer Eyes' clients include American Express, Campbell Soup, ConAgra, Frito-Lay, Goodyear, Kraft, Motorola, P&G, and Pfizer. Ron Rentel has an extensive built-in network of "buzz agents" who will spread the word.

Do women have different financial goals from men? Generally speaking the answer is no. However, women do have different life patterns and these greatly affect our ability to save or invest and, importantly, our ability to take risks.Sheryl Sutherland has been a financial advisor for New Zealand women for over twenty years. In Girls just want to have Fund$, she helps the reader move towards creating a financial plan for life. Her style is relaxed and pitched at 'every woman'. Working through 'money myths', the author helps the reade... read more

When many of us think about our retirement years, the problems facing us are unique. We have become used to a lifestyle that is wildly extravagant compared to that of only a generation ago. Houses are bigger, cars are faster, entertainment includes a vast variety of dining out, shopping, exotic holidays and designer clothing. In this book, the author traverses the whole gamut of retirement, from life expectancy, to investment strategy, health matters, home computers, and even the normally taboo subjects of sex and impending death... read more

Budget Wise, Dollar Rich is the book that thousands of ordinary New Zealanders have been waiting for. As many as 95 percent of New Zealanders have difficulty simply managing their money day to day; for most people the thought of having money to invest and create wealth is no more than a pipe dream. This invaluable book explains in simple terms how you can achieve your financial goals through budgeting effectively in the short term, for the longer term and also for retirement. Anton Nadilo and Andrew Lendnal have had years of experi... read more

Are you eager to combine the roles of mother and entrepreneur but wondering how to get started? If so, you are not alone.Many mothers are starting up on their own, eager to cut out the nursery fees and see more of their kids. If that sounds like your dream, this book can help make it a reality. Having worked from home for 16 successful years, she can give you the true, nitty-gritty details on what it really means to start and run a business from your kitchen table, including:How to find out if you're suited to working on your ownHo... read more

The workplace is changing: the typical male management style is now obsolete! From boardrooms to nonprofit organizations to the military, there is a new generation of employees who reject hierarchical leadership and respond to behaviours and characteristics that women have been traditionally socialized to exhibit. Employees, volunteers and children want to be muscled less and influenced more - and this is where women come in. In SEE JANE LEAD Dr. Frankel argues that women can naturally lead with greater ease, confidence, and comfor... read more

A straight forward, down-to-earth guide to starting up and running a successful small business in New Zealand. Many New Zealanders dream of one day owning their own business. However, the stark reality is that many new businesses will fail in their first few years of operation. Getting it Right is the ultimate guide to not only surviving, but thriving in those early critical years. The authors wrote an 11-part feature series for the Business Herald on "starting and running a business." This book expands and develops the topics disc... read more

How to conquer your email fears and harness the full power of one of today's most important means of business and personal communication.

Systems Thinking, System Dynamics offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of systems thinking and dynamic modelling and its applications. The book provides a self-contained and unique blend of qualitative and quantitative tools, step-by-step methodology, numerous examples and mini-cases, as well as extensive real-life case studies. The content mix and presentation style make the otherwise technical tools of systems thinking and system dynamics accessible to a wide range of people. This book is intended as ... read more

'Downsize', 'Rightsize', 'Smartsize', 'Workforce Reduction', 'Displacement', 'Outplacement','Redundancy', 'Restructuring', 'Layoffs'. No matter what you call it, the end result is the same - the loss of a job. With the world plunged into economic turmoil and uncertainty, New Zealanders are bracing themselves for the fallout. Employers and employees are anxious about predictions of multiple job losses in 2009, and this timely, up-to-the-minute, and practical workbook charts a course through the unknown. In a clearly written style, ... read more

The most trusted resource on becoming a leader is now updated and revised for a new generation. This leadership classic continues to be a bestseller after three editions and twenty years in print. It is the gold standard for research-based leadership, and the premier resource on becoming a leader. This new edition, with streamlined text, more international and business examples, and a graphic redesign, is more readable and accessible than ever before. The Leadership Challenge, Fourth Edition, has been extensively updated with the l... read more

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"It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be" is a handbook of how to succeed in the world - a pocket "bible" for the talented and timid to help make the unthinkable and the impossible possible. Advertising guru Paul Arden offers up his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief, communicating, playing your cards right, making mistakes and creativity, all endeavours that can be applied to aspects of modern life. This book provides an insight into the world of advertising and is a quirky compil... read more

Rev. ed. of: The rules of management: a definitive code for managerial success. 2005.