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Random House, Australia, 2004. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. 100 GREAT BUSINESSES AND THE MINDS BEHIND THEM is special because rather than pretending there is only one way to run a business, it looks at a diverse collection of business people and their businesses and how they make their enterprises work. From daring, risk-loving entrepreneurs such as Richard Branson and Aussie Home Loans John Symond, through to the conservative creator of Liquid Paper Bette Nesmith Graham and Warren Buffett to driven individuals such as Manolo Blahnik, Enjo's Barb de Corti and James Dyson, this book is an accessible collection of true stories from Australia and around the world, that offer inspiration, ideas and lessons on the principles of successful business. Quirky characteristics of the entrepreneurs are shared and turning points in the life of the businesses when great products meet viable business plans are detailed. It is a book with lasting lessons on the art of making your business a success.… Read More

John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Mind Tools for Managers helps new and experienced leaders develop the skills they need to be more effective in everything they do. It brings together the 100 most important leadership skillsas voted for by 15,000 managers and professionals worldwideinto a single volume, providing an easy-access solutions manual for people wanting to be the best manager they can be. Each chapter details a related group of skills, providing links to additional resources as needed, plus the tools you need to put ideas into practice. Read beginning-to-end, this guide provides a crash course on the essential skills of any effective manager; used as a reference, its clear organization allows you to find the solution you need quickly and easily. Success in a leadership position comes from results, and results come from the effective coordination of often competing needs: your organization, your client, your team,… Read More

McGraw-Hill, Sydney, 2003. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. 313 Ways to Slash Your Business Overheads" is a comprehensive tool kit of cost-cutting ideas and strategies for every working day of the year. For many small businesses keeping costs down is a constant challenge. When competition is high and sales are low, the challenge becomes an urgent necessity. "313 Ways to Slash Your Business Overheads" provides small-business decision makers with practical ideas for reducing operating expenses and consequently, increasing profits. Accessible and easy to follow, the book features clearly written case studies and practical examples to allow for more problem-free understanding and implementation. Bulleted cost-saving strategies and eye-catching tip boxes increase the usability of the book, which covers areas including managing expenses, purchasing, staffing, inventory and stock control, telecommunications, technology and more. 252 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos.… Read More

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, London, 2018. Softcover. Very Good Condition. What do great enterprises have in common? What sort of person starts them? A single idea can help you find the next big thing, but it takes time to trawl through hundreds of business books to find inspiration. With insightful commentaries on the landmark writings of old and new, 50 Business Classics presents the great entrepreneur stories, the best management thinking and the proven ideas on strategy, innovation and marketing - in one volume. 50 Business Classics presents the key ideas from classic texts such as My Years with General Motors and Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited to contemporary business lessons from the rise of tech giants like Google, Apple and Amazon. It contains revealing biographies of luminaries like Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett, as well as lesser-known stories including creation of publishing giant Penguin and Chinese behemoth Alibaba. Here you'll find the texts and ideas that matter in:… Read More

Cambridge University Press, Great Britain, 2013. Hardcover (Printed Boards). As New. Analytics for Leaders provides a concise, readable account of a complete system of performance measurement for an enterprise. Based on over twenty years of research and development, the system is designed to provide people at all levels with the quantitative information they need to do their jobs: board members to exercise due diligence about all facets of the business, leaders to decide where to focus attention next, and people to carry out their work well. For senior officers, chapter openers provide quick overviews about the overall approach to a particular stakeholder group and how to connect overall performance measures to business impact. For MBA students, extensive supporting notes and references provide in-depth understanding. For researchers and practitioners, a generic statistical approach is described to encourage new ways of tackling performance measurement issues. The book is relevant to all types of… Read More

Lioncrest Publishing, USA, 2016. Softcover. As New. At the peak of his career and success, Ari Meisel nearly killed himself from exhaustion and overwork. He had to make a choice: he could let his "success" destroy him physically and mentally, or he could find a better way to live. He spent the next few years redesigning his life from scratch. Ultimately he found the way to reduce his workload by 80%, while actually increasing results and success. Furthermore, he could spend time on what matters most: his family. This book describes his method. Using Meisel's revolutionary Optimize, Automate, Outsource approach, you will learn how to take almost anything you do and make it work smarter, instead of harder. Modern methods like the 80/20 rule, the 3 D's, and multi-platform repurposing let you build a high-powered, traditional-style "success factory" that only requires one employee to run. Less work, more results, more happiness. 146 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped… Read More

Australian Business Network, 1996. First Australian Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Outlines what scenario planning is about and provides for you the tools to develop its visionary power in the development of strategy. 272 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Business,Finance,Economics::Business & Management; Business, Finance & Marketing; ISBN: 186316099X. ISBN/EAN: 9781863160995. Inventory No: 262797. . 9781863160995

Harper & Row, USA, 1986. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. A selection of Bill Reddin's articles and case studies which have appeared in management journals throughout the world. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Business,Finance,Economics::Business & Management; Business, Finance & Marketing; ISBN: 0063120704. ISBN/EAN: 9780063120709. Inventory No: 235816. . 9780063120709

John Wiley & Sons, Australia, 2019. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Whether you find yourself checked out, burnt out, or just plain freaked out; you deserve better. Psychologist Alison Hill takes you deep into the key pillars for our happiness, health and sanity to help you live a life filled with purpose and progress. Productivity training or the latest organisational system will only take you so far. To make lasting change you need the right tools, mindset and skills.Boss of Busyhelps you find the courage and optimism to live the life you crave, let go of what is holding you back and learn how to prioritise what really matters. 238 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Business,Finance,Economics::Business & Management; Business, Finance & Marketing; ISBN/EAN: 9780730369592. Inventory No: 266919.. 9780730369592

McGraw-Hill Inc, New York, 1999. Softcover. Very Good Condition. This title presents a powerfully positive system for gaining maximum performance from every employee. What motivates people? What encourages employees to work to their fullest potential, not just for a short while but for the long haul? Many managerial fads promising quick fixes have come and gone, but none have approached the success experienced by organizations that have employed Aubrey Daniel's groundbreaking motivational methods. "Bringing Out the Best in People", New and Updated Edition, provides the latest and best motivational methods currently in use at such major companies as Xerox, 3M, and Kodak.Applying scientifically based behavioral stimuli to the workplace while making it fun at the same time, author on performance, Aubrey Daniels, describes practical, precise, data-oriented methods to help you implement a management system that will maximize the long-term performance of every aspect of your company.… Read More

Dorling Kindersley, 2015. Hardcover (Printed Boards). As New. Learn about concepts, management, and commerce in The Business Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Business in this overview guide to the subject, brilliant for beginners looking to learn and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Business Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in.This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Business, with:- Up to 100 quotations from the great business thinkers and gurus- Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts- A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout- Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understandingThe Business Book is the… Read More

Earthscan, 2010. Softcover. Very Good Condition. The world is increasingly turbulent and complex, awash with disruptions, tipping points and knock-on effects exemplified by the implosion of financial markets and economies around the globe.This book is for business and organizational leaders who want and need to think through how best to deal with increasing turbulence, and with the complexity and uncertainty that come with it. The authors explain in clear language how future orientation and, specifically, modern scenario techniques help to address these conditions. They draw on examples from a wide variety of international settings and circumstances including large corporations, inter-governmental organizations, small firms and municipalities. Readers will be inspired to try out scenario approaches themselves to better address the turbulence that affects them and others with whom they work, live and do business.This second edition extends the use of scenarios planning and… Read More

Sounds True, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Winner of the 2009 Nautilus AwardConsciousness is the main source of organizational greatness. Conscious business, explains Fred Kofman, means finding your passion and expressing your essential values through your work. A conscious business seeks to promote the intelligent pursuit of happiness in all its stakeholders. It produces sustainable, exceptional performance through the solidarity of its community and the dignity of each member.Conscious Business presents breakthrough techniques to help you achieve:Unconditional responsibility-how to become the main character of your lifeUnflinching integrity-how to succeed beyond successAuthentic communication-how to speak your truth, and elicit others' truthsImpeccable commitments-how to coordinate actions with accountabilityRight leadership-how being, rather than doing, is the ultimate source of excellenceA conscious business… Read More

Ten Speeed Press, California, 1992. Softcover. Good Condition. 213 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Business,Finance,Economics::Business & Management; United States; Business, Finance & Marketing; ISBN: 0898154855. ISBN/EAN: 9780898154856. Inventory No: 244613. . 9780898154856

HarperBusiness, USA, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Michael E. Gerber, bestselling author of The E-Myth Revisited shares his powerful insights to lead independent physicians to successful practices and enriched lives.Michael Gerber has dedicated much of his professional life to the study of entrepreneurship and business dynamics. His E-Myth Academy is renown in the entrepreneurial world for its business insight and guidance as well as its inspirational advice.In the E-Myth Physician, bestselling author Gerber returns to his roots in order to provide indispensable advice to doctors who own and run their own practices. Gerber provides excellent business insights into topics such as streamlining systems, effective small-business management practices, healthy patient relations and managing cash flow, all with the goal of freeing physicians from the daily grind of running a business and leading them to a happier and more productive life while doing the job they… Read More

Random House, Australia, 2005. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Flight Centre Limited is an anomaly in the business world – a modern-day organisation that uses Stone Age strategies to achieve phenomenal success. This updated edition of Family Village Tribe describes the company’s ongoing evolution and is essential reading for anyone interested in the machinations of starting a successful business from the ground up, and staying there. ‘I didn’t realise my life had been hijacked until a year after it happened.’ That’s Mandy Johnson’s take on her introduction into the world of Flight Centre Limited – the travel company that divides its workforce into prehistoric ‘families’, ‘villages’ and ‘tribes’, and rewards them with autonomy and incentives. From its origins in 1973 as a UK tour company with a single bus called ‘Bollocks’, FCL revolutionised the travel industry and morphed into a global giant. It faced challenges… Read More

Abacus, Australia, 2018. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Why was the horse collar as important for human progress as the steam engine? How did the humble spreadsheet turn the world of finance upside-down? The world economy defies comprehension. A continuously-changing system of immense complexity, it offers over ten billion distinct products and services, doubles in size every fifteen years, and links almost every one of the planet's seven billion people. It delivers astonishing luxury to hundreds of millions. It also leaves hundreds of millions behind, puts tremendous strains on the ecosystem, and has an alarming habit of stalling. Nobody is in charge of it. Indeed, no individual understands more than a fraction of what's going on. How can we make sense of this bewildering system on which our lives depend? From the tally-stick to… Read More

John Wiley & Sons, Great Britain, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. New research has exposed our leadership paradigm as a outdated mess of flawed models and practices. By working with great leaders and observing their common attitudes and behaviours, Richard Hames has cracked a universal code based on intelligence, appreciation and collaboration. This code unlocks Five Literacies of Global Leadership. These behaviours are the trade secrets of the artists and alchemists among us. Often instinctively, these leaders charge others with energy, search for new perspectives and embrace diversity. And they are driven by dialogue. This book reveals approaches and attitudes that they all share - and that can make anyone an exceptional leader. 356 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Business,Finance,Economics::Business & Management; Business, Finance & Marketing; ISBN/EAN: 9780470319123. Inventory No: 262738. .… Read More

John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1998. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Sit down and talk shop with five of the most brilliant people in business today.Presented in a lively interview format, this book features in-depth and intelligent dialogues with some of the most successful people in business today. . 228 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Business,Finance,Economics::Business & Management; United States; Business, Finance & Marketing; ISBN: 047131580X. ISBN/EAN: 9780471315803. Inventory No: 253719. . 9780471315803

Davis-Black Publishing, California, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Going beyond the artificial distinction between management and leadership, this innovative work points out that leadership opportunities are inevitably embedded in the context of management issues, and shows how effective managers are constantly filling the many leadership roles demanded by an organization's needs. Each of the nine roles described in this book - Sage, Visionary, Magician, Globalist, Mentor, Ally, Sovereign, Guide, and Artisan - represents the intersection of a leadership process with the focused responsibilities of a manager. Emphasizing the core values that are a prerequisite for success in any context, From Sage to Artisan shows how individuals, whether team members or top executives, exercise leadership not by having the loudest voice, but by creating order, inspiring action, or improving performance. Practical and profound, this book shows managers how to recognize the… Read More