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The
New Alchemists by Charles Handy, Elizabeth Handy |
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| Amazon.co.uk Charles Handy is just about the only modern management thinker worth reading. His books are wise, entertaining and always contain a strong dose of common sense. This one suggests that "perhaps we are all alchemists at heart. If so, we need to know what makes it real for some and not for others."... Read more | ||
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The
E-business (R)evolution by Daniel Amor |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Prentice Hall Paperback - 650 pages (October 1999) Prentice Hall | ||
| Amazon.co.uk There are many handbooks which claim to provide both guidance on formulating Internet strategies and an understanding of what does--and does not--make the Internet tick. Few live up to the expectations built up by their dust jacket, but this one comes closer than most. Marketed as a handbook for... Read more | ||
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The
Internet Bubble : Inside the Overvalued World of High-Tech Stocks--And
What You Need to Know to Avoid the Coming Shakeout by Anthony B. Perkins, Michael C. Perkins |
| Usually dispatched in 1-2
weeks HarperCollins Publishers Hardcover - 283 pages (November 1999) HarperCollins Publishers | ||
| Amazon.co.uk Canals. Railways. Cars. Computers. The Internet. Each represented revolutionary shifts in the way people would live and do business. Each saw a corresponding rush of investors to get in on this great new investment opportunity. Each saw a lot of investors go broke. In The Internet Bubble, Anthony... Read more | ||
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B2B
Exchanges: The Killer Application in the
Business-to-Business by Arthur B Sculley, William W. Woods |
| Special Order ISI Publications Hardcover - 272 pages ( 1 December, 1999) ISI Publications | ||
| Amazon.co.uk Much of the philosophical underpinning of the modern business world is based on the claimed superiority of the free market and its supposed ability to provide the best solutions. It in turn is based on the purely theoretical economic concept of "perfect competition". The trouble is that the idea of... Read more | ||
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Net
Success : 24 Leaders in Web Commerce Show You How to Put the Web to Work
for Your Business by Christina Ford Haylock, Len Muscarella |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Adams Media Corporation Hardcover - 320 pages (April 1999) Adams Media Corporation | ||
| Synopsis Covers electronic commerce, Internet advertising, virtual communities, on-line merchandizing, and intranets. Read more | ||
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| 6. | Understanding
Electronic Commerce by David R. Kosiur | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Microsoft Press International Paperback - 287 pages (April 1997) Microsoft Press International | ||
| Synopsis Provides an overview of electronic commerce and discusses the importance of security on the Internet, consumer and business markets, online catalogs, electronic consumer support, and strategies for conducting business online. Read more | ||
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| 7. | Web
Security & Commerce by Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours O'Reilly UK Paperback - 506 pages (June 1997) O'Reilly UK | ||
| Synopsis Explaining what the real security risks of web commerce are, this text goes on to explain how you can minimize them. Designed for Web surfers and system administrators responsible for the security of a critical web server, this provides information on all there is to know. Entertaining as well as... Read more | ||
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| 8. | The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Online E-commerce by Rob Smith, et al | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Que Paperback - 375 pages (29 February, 2000) Que | ||
| Synopsis This guide to e-commerce examines what makes e-businesses so successful, what to consider when starting an on-line business, where the Internet is heading, and how to avoid the pitfalls. Read more | ||
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| 9. | The
Accidental Theorist by Paul Krugman | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Penguin Books Paperback - 208 pages (24 June, 1999) Penguin Books | ||
| Amazon.co.uk When economics and ideology mix, the results often sound plausible, but in fact can be terribly wrong and lead to ill-conceived and sometimes dangerous economic policy. For several years, Paul Krugman, author of The Accidental Theorist and one of the most celebrated economists of the 1990s, has been... Read more | ||
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| 10. | Open
Minds by Andy Law | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Orion Business Paperback - 256 pages ( 1 July, 1999) Orion Business | ||
| Theodore Zeldin, Daily
Telegraph's Books of the Year The founder of St. Luke's Advertising Agency, unsatisfied with just changing their image, has tried to make work a spiritual quest for self-transformation. A passionate autobiography, Open Minds is a 20th-century equivalent of John Foxes's Book of Martyrs (1563), a business book which is also... Read more | ||
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| 11. | Apple
Confidential : The Real Story of Apple Computer,
Inc. by Owen W. Linzmayer | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours No Starch Press Paperback - 268 pages (March 1999) No Starch Press | ||
| Amazon.co.uk Owen Linzmayer's Apple Confidential is subtitled The Real Story of Apple Computer, Inc., and while nobody will ever know the complete, "real" story about Apple, Linzmayer's is probably as close as they come. Having covered Apple news since 1980, he offers extensive insider details about Steve Jobs,... Read more | ||
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| 12. | NLP
Solutions by Sue Knight | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd Paperback - 256 pages ( 4 April, 1999) Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd | ||
| Amazon.co.uk Leading on from her previous two books on the subject of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Introducing NLP and NLP At Work, Sue Knight demonstrates how to model successful NLP solutions in business. Modelling, she says, is simply: "the process of observing, analysing and reproducing the structure of... Read more | ||
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| 13. | Monkey
Business : Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle by John Rolfe, Peter Troob | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Warner Books, Inc. Hardcover - 273 pages (April 2000) Warner Books, Inc. | ||
| Synopsis A portrait of life at a major Wall Street investment house exposes the world of high finance, revealing the grueling schedules and shocking abuses common in this lifestyle. Read more | ||
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| 14. | Net
Ready by Amir Hartman, et al | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Hardcover - 256 pages ( 1 January, 2000) McGraw-Hill Publishing Company | ||
| Amazon.co.uk Is your business ready for the Net? Amir Hartman and John Sifonis say it had better be, and they aren't just talking about a snazzy corporate Web site. Instead, the two managing directors at Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group are referring to "seamless interactivity" organisation-wide, the... Read more | ||
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| 15. | The
Silicon Boys and Their Valley of Dreams by David A. Kaplan | |
| Usually dispatched in 1-2
weeks William Morrow & Company, Inc. Hardcover - 358 pages (June 1999) William Morrow & Company, Inc. | ||
| Synopsis Presents a portrait of Silicon Valley, its entrepreneurs, and the products and companies that have revolutionized the computer age. Read more | ||
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| 16. | Effective
Coaching by Myles Downey | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Orion Business Paperback - 150 pages (22 April, 1999) Orion Business | ||
| Synopsis An introductory primer on the fundamentals of coaching in the business environment. Using a practical, entertaining approach, the author explores key models, tools and skills necessary to develop into an effective coach. Case studies are used throughout. Read more | ||
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| 17. | Dialogue
and the Art of Thinking Together : A Pioneering Approach to Communicating
in Business and in Life by William Isaacs | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Doubleday Books Hardcover - 448 pages (September 1999) Doubleday Books (14 September, 1999) | ||
| Amazon.co.uk Modern conversation is a lot like nuclear physics, argues William Isaacs. Lots of atoms zoom around, many of which just rush past each other. But others collide, creating friction. Even if our atomic conversations don't turn contentious, they often just serve to establish each participant's place in... Read more | ||
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| 18. | http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/185788258X/026-1051678-8514827 by Robin Bloor | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd Hardcover - 326 pages (April 2000) Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd | ||
| Amazon.co.uk Robin Bloor's Electronic B@zaar is in many ways an object lesson in how to write a thoroughly modern management book. It's central idea is quite simple--that just as the Silk Road was once the world's great trade route, so the e-Road is poised to become our own trading highway. Obviously true to... Read more | ||
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| 19. | Building
Enterprise Active Directory Services | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Microsoft Press International Paperback (March 2000) Microsoft Press International | ||
| Amazon.co.uk Active Directory is probably the single most attractive feature of the Windows 2000 family of operating systems, so lots of Windows 2000 adopters are implementing it. Building Enterprise Active Directory Services: Notes from the Field takes a practical, consultant's-eye view of designing and... Read more | ||
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| 20. | Aha!
: 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great
Ideas by Jordan E. Ayan | |
| Usually dispatched in 1-2
weeks Crown Publishing Group, Inc. (NY) Paperback - 256 pages (January 1997) Crown Publishing Group, Inc. (NY) | ||
| A reader, 25
November, 1996 Advance praise for Aha!
Betty Edwards - Author of Drawing on The Right Side of The Brain says
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| 21. | Knowledge
Management Fieldbook by Wendi Bukowitz, Ruth Williams | |
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
days Financial Times Prentice Hall Paperback - 320 pages ( 6 October, 1999) Financial Times Prentice Hall | ||
| Amazon.co.uk Knowledge management is one of the big ideas of the moment. In essence the idea is simple--all organisations have a wealth of information (both from inside and outside) at their disposal, yet few make the most of it. Moreover successfully using information is one of the key differentiators of... Read more | ||
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| 22. | Capital
Market Revolution by Patrick Young, Thomas Theys | |
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
days Financial Times Prentice Hall Hardcover - 223 pages (June 1999) Financial Times Prentice Hall | ||
| Amazon.co.uk "Reform or die" is the bottom line according to author Patrick Young. At the dawn of the cyber age, the onslaught on traditional financial markets is underway and there is no place for Luddites. In the author's vision: "electronic trading will transform every global market, every government and... Read more | ||
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| 23. | The
Ten-Day MBA : A Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering the Skills Taught in
America's Top Business Schools by Steven Silbiger | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Quill (Harper) Paperback - 384 pages (October 1999) Quill (Harper) | ||
A reader from
Jakarta, Indonesia, 30 June, 1999
 very good Very interesting & aplicableRead more | ||
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| 24. | Management
21C: Someday We'll All Manage This Way by Subir Chowdhury | |
| Usually dispatched in 1-2
weeks Financial Times/Prentice Hall Hardcover - 289 pages (24 November, 1999) Financial Times/Prentice Hall | ||
| Amazon.co.uk The only thing we can say with any certainty about management in 20 years time is that it will be substantially different from today. The question is, of course, how will it be different? And how can we gain competitive edge by adopting the right new techniques before every one else does? Well, you... Read more | ||
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| 25. | The
Quixtar Revolution by C Barefoot | |
| Out of Stock Prima Publishing Paperback - 319 pages (19 January, 2000) Prima Publishing | ||
| Synopsis Describes the launch of the e-commerce Web site Quixtar.com, which experts believe will change business practices in the new Internet economy, and includes interviews with some of the nation's top Internet and e-commerce experts. Read more | ||
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Rethinking
the Future by Rowan Gibson(Editor), et al |
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
days Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd Paperback - 287 pages (September 1998) Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd |
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| Synopsis This volume provides insights from business thinkers on their visions of tomorrow. Powerful new forces are reshaping the world today. Traditional boundaries between industries and disciplines are rapidly blurring, and the old rules of management no longer make sense in a post-industrial world. This... Read more | ||
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Business
Modeling With UML: Business Patterns at Work by Magnus Penker, Hans-Erik Eriksson |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hardcover - 480 pages (26 January, 2000) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | ||
| Amazon.co.uk The Unified Modeling Language is an object oriented language specifically designed to model business processes. Although it only dates back to 1997 UML is becoming increasingly important through its association with IT and information systems. A major problem for business support program authors is... Read more | ||
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Technical
Analysis Plain & Simple by Michael Kahn |
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hours Financial Times Prentice Hall Paperback - 240 pages (30 June, 1999) Financial Times Prentice Hall | ||
| Amazon.co.uk Pssst...fancy seeing a rounded bottom? Then technical analysis is for you. Technical analysis sounds an awful name for any subject, and it is, but it gets a bit sexier when you know it is a means to make money in the markets. TA is growing in popularity among online and traditional traders as a... Read more | ||
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The
Cartoon Guide to Statistics by Larry Gonick, Woollcott Smith |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Harper Perennial Paperback - 240 pages (25 February, 1994) Harper Perennial | ||
| A reader from New
York City, NY, 3 August, 1999
Excellent and Practical... but don't be fooled! This book is exceptional in its ability to communicate difficult concepts in a light and entertaining manner. It seems to me that those who gave this book low ratings seem to think that the book should have magically imparted its knowledge upon them with no effort on their part. Indeed, although...Read more | ||
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Control
Your Destiny or Someone Else Will : Lessons in Mastering Change-From the
Principles Jack Welch Is Using to Revolutionize Ge by Noel M. Tichy, Stratford Sherman |
| Usually dispatched in 1-2
weeks Harper Business Paperback - 496 pages (February 1994) Harper Business | ||
| A reader from Los
Angeles, CA, 28 July, 1999
One of the best By far one of the best case studies I've ever read. Shows you why Jack Welch is considered by many to be the greatest manager of the 20th centuryRead more | ||
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| 31. | The
Economics of Electronic Commerce by Andrew B. Whinston, et al | |
| Usually dispatched in 1-2
weeks MacMillan Textbook Binding - 656 pages ( 1 July, 1997) MacMillan | ||
| Synopsis The objective of this book is to present current issues of electronic commerce from an economics perspective. It introduces fundamental microeconomic issues such as equality, uncertainty and market efficiency within the electronic marketplace. Read more | ||
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| 32. | The
Motley Fool's You Have More Than You Think : The Foolish Guide to
Investing What You Have by David Gardner, Tom Gardner | |
| Usually dispatched in 1-2
weeks Fireside Books Paperback - 302 pages (January 1999) Fireside Books | ||
| Synopsis Shows potential investors how to consistently beat the market and get a grip on their finances--whether they have fifty dollars or fifty thousand dollars to invest. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title Read more | ||
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| 33. | The
Soul of the New Consumer by David Lewis, Darren Bridger | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd Hardcover - 256 pages (January 2000) Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd | ||
| Amazon.co.uk Is it ironic or merely inevitable that in the so-called information age the vast majority of what we think we "know" is merely recycled, unchecked facts from tv, radio, newspapers, conferences, people at work and a bloke in the pub? We have heard an awful lot about the death of mass marketing and... Read more | ||
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| 34. | City
Cinderella by Peter Stormonth Darling | |
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
days Weidenfeld & Nicolson General Hardcover - 295 pages ( 7 October, 1999) Weidenfeld & Nicolson General | ||
| Book Jacket This is the Cinderella story of Mercury Asset Management, the despised and unwanted offspring--of the merchant bank S.G. Warburg--which went on to outperform them all. When the author was appointed chairman of Warburg Investment Management in 1979 he was told by his boss, Sir Siegmund Warburg, that... Read more | ||
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| 35. | Iacocca
: An Autobiography by Lee Iacocca | |
| Usually dispatched in 1-2
weeks Bantam Books Paperback (July 1986) Bantam Books | ||
| Synopsis The celebrated chief executive officer of Chrysler Corporation offers a straightforward account of his career at Ford, of the recent resurgence of Chrysler, and of what is wrong and right with American business. Read more | ||
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| 36. | Business
Studies by Dave Hall | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Causeway Press Paperback (August 1999) Causeway Press | ||
christianiyeke@hotmail.com from uk,
11 April, 2000
 A must have for all Alevel students This book is concise,easy to access and provides a wealth of well catogorized and classifed infomation.Read more | ||
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| 37. | The
Art and Science of Negotiation by Howard Raiffa | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Harvard University Press Paperback - 384 pages (April 1985) Harvard University Press | ||
| Synopsis A study of the mechanics, practice, and application of negotiation explains the processes of negotiation and offers practical instruction in developing and improving negotiation skills. Read more | ||
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| 38. | Businessplan.Com by Ross | |
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Published Oasis Press/Hellgate Press Hardcover - 196 pages (November 1998) Oasis Press/Hellgate Press | ||
| The author,
L.Manning Ross, 12 November, 1998 Catching a $1.7 trillion wave is spelled businessplan.com. One of the most exciting aspect of my career has been helping business people succeed. Equal to this is the awe inspiring opportunities in front of us in digital commerce. By now, almost everyone has experienced "surfing the Net." This new media's true value, however, is in the way we... Read more | ||
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| 39. | Stan
Weinstein's Secrets for Profit in Bull and Bear
Markets by Sam Weinstein | |
| Temporarily out of stock Irwin Professional (USA) Paperback ( 9 January, 1992) Irwin Professional (USA) | ||
| Synopsis Offers advice on timing investments with changes in the market, tells how to identify patterns in market trends, and explains how to use long-term indicators. --This text refers to the paperback edition of this title Read more | ||
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| 40. | Strategy by Bob de Wit, Ron Meyer | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours International Thomson Business Press Paperback - 928 pages (30 June, 1998) International Thomson Business Press | ||
| Synopsis This is the second edition of De Wit and Meyer's strategy text. It builds on the first edition by focusing on the requirements of students and teachers in terms of the structure, organization and design of the material. In addition, it is global in its coverage of the issues of corporate strategy.... Read more | ||
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| 41. | Which
MBA? by George Bickerstaffe | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Financial Times Prentice Hall Paperback - 516 pages (September 1999) Financial Times Prentice Hall | ||
| Synopsis Based on research by the Economist Intelligence Unit, including on-campus visits and interviews with current students and recent graduates, this text offers independent assessments of every aspect of studying for an MBA. It covers entry requirements, the application form, references, and interviews Read more | ||
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| 42. | Vertical
Take-Off : The Inside Story of British Aerospace's Comeback from Crisis to
World Class by Sir Richard Evans, Colin Price | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd Hardcover - 300 pages (June 1999) Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd | ||
| Synopsis Describes how British Aerospace, a company in turmoil at the beginning of the nineties, was changed from an internally divided underperformer into a stock market favourite. Read more | ||
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| 43. | Excel
Phenomenon: The Astonishing Success Story of the Fastest-Growing
Communications Company -- and What It Means to You by James W. Robinson | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Prima Publishing Hardcover - 256 pages (August 1997) Prima Publishing | ||
| Synopsis A profile of the telecommunications company describes its successful challenge to AT&T after its long-distance service monopoly ended in 1984. Read more | ||
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| 44. | A
Simpler Way by Margaret Wheatley, Myron Kellner-Rogers | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc Paperback - 168 pages (January 1999) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc | ||
| Synopsis Margaret Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers explore the question: "How could we organise human endeavour if we developed different understandings of how life organises itself?" Read more | ||
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| 45. | Harvard
Business Review on Entrepreneurship (The Harvard Business Review Paperback
Series) by Harvard Business Review Staff | |
| Usually dispatched in 1-2
weeks Harvard Business School Press Paperback - 224 pages (February 1999) Harvard Business School Press | ||
| Synopsis Beginning with the basics of writing a business plan, this in-depth guide moves on to cover sophisticated topics such as navigating the world of venture capital funding and turning technological innovations into successful marketplace realities. Read more | ||
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| 46. | The
Fish Rots from the Head by Bob Garratt | |
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
days HarperCollins Trade Paperback - 240 pages (10 July, 1997) HarperCollins Trade | ||
| Synopsis Set against today's backdrop of boardroom scandal and incompetence, this work clarifies the tasks and liabilities of the board and provides a programme of learning. An organization's success depends on the performance of its board. Yet the majority of director's around the world (92% in Britain)... Read more | ||
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| 47. | The
Complete Guide to Associate and Affiliate Programs on the
Net by Dan Gray | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Paperback - 240 pages ( 1 November, 1999) McGraw-Hill Publishing Company | ||
| Synopsis Affiliate marketing on the Web is a way for online retailers to get thousands of other sites to help sell their products. It is electronic PR with a difference - and that difference is the potential to make money while plugging someone else's product or site. There are more than 400 sites offering... Read more | ||
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| 48. | Business
Beyond the Box by John O'Keeffe | |
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
days Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd Paperback - 288 pages (22 April, 1999) Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd | ||
| Amazon.co.uk For decades soap giant Procter and Gamble was a byword for stodgy formulaic business practice and a paranoid obsession with keeping the nature of those practices to itself. But recently, driven by declining margins in saturated markets, it has chosen to espouse a more touchy- feely and creative... Read more | ||
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| 49. | Buffettology
: The Previously Unexplained Techniques That Have Made Warren Buffett the
World's Most Famous Investor by Mary Buffett, David Clark | |
| Usually dispatched in 1-2
weeks Fireside Books Paperback - 320 pages (June 1999) Fireside Books | ||
| Amazon.co.uk Americans are infatuated with the stock market. The number of households that own stock has increased from around 20 percent in the early 1980s to over 40 percent today. The market offers the hope of quick wealth and early retirement, and just about everyone who is in the market is looking for an... Read more | ||
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| 50. | The
Business of Consulting by Elaine Biech | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
hours Pfeiffer Wiley Hardcover - 246 pages (June 1998) Pfeiffer Wiley | ||
| Synopsis Worksheets, sample letters and sample dialogues are used in this work to help the consultant pursue a successful career in the world of consulting. The disk provides sample worksheets, invoices and correspondence. Read more | ||
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