| Author: | Clay Shirky |
Welcome to the new future of involvement. Forming groups is easier than it's ever been: unpaid volunteers can build an encyclopaedia together in their spare time, mistreated customers can join forces to get their revenge on airlines and high street banks, and one man with a laptop can raise an army to help recover a stolen ph... read more
| Author: | Kaye Fallick |
A practical, motivational guide to changing jobs for those who do not want to retire, just change gear. If the work you are doing is no longer doing it for you but you feel uncertain about how to change your situation, then What Next? is for you. And you are not alone, either. More than five million Australians aged 45-64 a... read more
| Author: | Sheryl Sutherland |
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... read more
| Author: | Gareth Morgan |
After the huge success of SILK RIDERS, Gareth Morgan now brings us a book that focuses on his other passion - investment. Pension Panic: TOUGH TALK ON sortING your finances distils Gareth's views on New Zealanders' saving habits, housing as an investment, and his current economic analysis of the country and its future.It also... read more
| Author: | Charles B. Handy |
This text looks at how individuals (the fleas in Charles Handy's analogy) relate to multi-national conglomerates (the elephants). In addition to addressing how and why we work, it covers a wide range of preoccupations and issues including the fear of big business. Paperback (B-Format)
| Author: | Martin Hawes |
NZ author Financial expert Martin Hawes realised at the age of 50 that he needed to make his next twenty summers really count if he was going to achieve all the things he wanted to in life. In this book he shows you how to invest your money in order to fund the lifestyle you want when you retire.Most books on investment are ... read more
| Author: | Mitchell Kusy |
This is the systems antidote to 'poison' personalities in the workplace. Most leaders have experienced the frustration and confusion of dealing with an extremely difficult person - an individual who debilitates individuals, teams, and even organizations.
Based on the authors' two-year national research study of 500 lead... read more
| Author: | Sari Hodgson |
This practical and easy to understand New Zealand handbook provides help with the often hazardous and confusing areas of record and book-keeping required in todayâÂÂs business world. It takes the reader step by step through the painful process of bringing order to a small business and provides practical exercises to help i... read more
| Author: | Anton Nadilo |
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 explai... read more
| Author: | Anita Naik |
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 ... read more
| Author: | Debbie Mayo-Smith |
A follow up to Successful Email Marketing, this new book is a complete step-by-step 'hands on' guide to lead people through the process of creating and using email marketing tools such as online newsletters etc. A practical, user-friendly guide to creating successful email marketing strategies - relevant to people in all sort... read more
| Author: | Gareth Hoole |
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 on... read more
| Author: | Debbie Mayo-Smith |
How to conquer your email fears and harness the full power of one of today's most important means of business and personal communication.
| Author: | Kathryn Jackson |
'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.... read more
| Author: | Jeff Jarvis |
What's the question every business should be asking itself? According to Jeff Jarvis, it's WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO? If you're not thinking or acting like Google -- the fastest-growing company in the history of the world -- then you're not going to survive, let alone prosper, in the Internet age. An indispensable manual for surv... read more
| Author: | Paul Arden |
"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, communi... read more
| Author: | Linda Babcock |
Did you know that by neglecting to negotiate her starting salary for her first job, a woman may sacrifice over a half a million pounds in earnings by the end of her career? Yet, as research reveals, men are four times as likely to ask for higher pay than are women with the same qualifications. In this eye-opening book, Li... read more
| Author: | Adam Lashinsky |
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 surreptitio... read more
