Prentice Hall, 2011, [Business] Grade 3
Who wouldn’t want the tool to solve business problems? The British-Mexican Antonio Weiss has a varied and interesting history. With an academic background as an historian of the state and religion he moved on to become a management consultant doing work for the UK public sector... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Penguin Group, 2009, [Business] Grade 2
As any newspaper publisher knows people love top lists. This entire book is a top list of business books. Jack Covert who is the founder of the business book retailer 800-CEO-READS and publisher of “Jack Covert Reads” has read and reviewed business literature for several decades... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
McGraw-Hill, 2011, [Business] Grade 3
In the popular debate there is a growing consensus that short-termism in financial markets is a big problem. Is this actually the case? – And if so, what can be done about it? Alfred Rappaport, one of the founding fathers of what’s been dubbed the Shareholder Value Model and author... Further Reading... Link to Amazon...
Crown Business, 1991, [Business] Grade 3
In the early 1970’s Royal Dutch Shell formed a unit called Group Planning. Lead by Pierre Wack this group made scenario planning a part of the strategic process in the company. When OPEC caught the rest of the world by surprise by declaring an oil embargo in 1973, Shell was mentally... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Crown Business, 2014, [Business] Grade 5
From Zero to One is the brilliant title of Peter Thiel’s new book on innovation and startups. He argues that we have only focused on “globalization” (taking things that work somewhere and making them work everywhere) or 1 → n for the last 40 years or so. I have to agree, and we all... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Pocket Books, 1st edition 1999 – paperback edition 2007, [Business] Grade 3
This is a book from the recent past about the future of marketing. With remarkable foresight the entrepreneur, Internet guru and author Seth Godin in 1997, when he wrote this book, foresaw the change in marketing practices that some in the profession still struggle to understand. In some... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Butterworth Heinemann, 2002, [Business] Grade 2
This is an over ten-year-old book on a subject – relationship marketing - that has grown in importance with the spreading of the Internet, e-commerce and of what’s become know as “big data”. Evert Gummesson is Professor Emeritus of Service Marketing and Management at the... Further Reading... Link to Amazon...
Jossey-Bass, 2014, [Business] Grade 3
The first word that strikes me when I think of The Soft Edge is Infotainment. Rich Karlgaard, entrepreneur, columnist and publisher of Forbes magazine is a genuinely skilled writer and this book is a pleasure to read. The set up is a string of coherent short stories on different topics... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
John Wiley & Sons, 2013, [Business] Grade 4
In the second half of the 1980’s shareholders were waking up to the enormous waste inflicted by managements who instead of acting as trustees for the owners milked the companies for perks, money and social benefits. This pawed the way for the corporate raiders of the day, but also... Further Reading... Link to Amazon...
John Wiley & Sons, 2007, [Business] Grade 4
If you are interested in applied management theory, this is probably the book for you. At first, however, I was not impressed. I thought I had read more updated and sophisticated theory, but after a while the book became more and more fascinating. Suddenly I realized that Koch... Further Reading... Link to Amazon...
Prentice Hall, 2009, [Surrounding Knowledge] Grade 3
According to Daniel Pink’s latest bestseller To Sell is Human we are all in sales now. Shaun Varga would probably agree and this book will help you excel in one specific sales process, the pitch. Varga - after a long career in advertising, PR and marketing - manages a consultancy... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
John Wiley & Sons, 2005, [Business] Grade 4
The old ceremonial type of passive board that rubber-stamped CEO’s decisions are gone in most parts of the world. Boards nowadays have a real say in how a company will conduct its business. At the same time institutional investors, NGOs and other parties have increased their... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Wiley & Sons, 2010, [Business] Grade 3
Here’s the scenario: Exactly one decade into a successful, industry-transforming journey as a housebuilder of the future – in the booming housing market of the U.S. in the 1960s – the company suddenly decides to acquire a sleepy, family-owned life insurer, using up a considerable... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
John Wiley & Sons, 2010, [Business] Grade 4
After reading the terrific first chapter of this stylish book on understanding and developing innovative business models I was ready to give the book the highest grade. I changed my mind though. The text is something of a crowd-sourcing project with 470 co-authors but the foundation that the text... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Innovation Press, 2012, [Business] Grade 4
Did you know that there are consultants consulting on how to become a consultant? The competition to get employed at BCG, Bain or McKinsey is murderous so the applicants who prepare ahead of the interview obviously have the upper hand. This book aims to prepare the hopeful... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Crown Business, 2005, [Business] Grade 3
The first hundred days has become an ingrained feature of business management perception, vocabulary and subsequently real practice. In media often referred to as a grace period, the days in question are hardly ever graceful. The first hundred days are the first few months for... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Harvard Business Review Press, 2013, [Business] Grade 4
I am often reminded, thru disparaging remarks - not seldom summarized as “fluff” - that corporate strategy is not a popular concept by many, maybe even the majority of us. Strangely enough, it still surprises me. Strategy is about making choices, about improving your odds. Obviously, you need... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Crown Publishing Group, 2008, [Business] Grade 3
In this part biography, part political appeal, the reader gets to familiarize himself with one of the most infamous persons of the 1980’s corporate America. T. Boone Pickens is most famous as a corporate raider. He has enjoyed equal success as an oil baron and a... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
John Wiley & Sons, 2001, [Business] Grade 3
The 20th century saw a shift away from family owned and managed companies to a model with dispersed ownership and corporate management as a profession, not an inheritance. The split between ownership and control opened up for the conflicting interests that are... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Jossey-Bass, 2013, [Business] Grade 5
“Self-made leader and social entrepreneur Morton Mandel is likely the most successful person you have never heard of… until now. No matter where you are on your leadership path, this book will make an enormous difference in your outcomes. Get your copy today”. A cardinal rule of a... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
