Leadership and The Whirlpool Effect - Why New Zealand managers are failing to deliver to their poterntial - and what can be done about it by Lester Levy

$14.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: very good

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

$6.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: very good

Here are money-making secets that can change your life. Inspired by Andrew Carnegie's magic formula for success, this book will teach you the secrets that will bring you a fortune. It will show you not only what to do but how to do it. Once you learn and apply the simple, basic techniques revealed here, you will have mastered the secret of true and lasting success. And you may have whatever you want in life. Paperback (A-Format) ...Show more

Copywriting Successful Writing for Design, Advertising and Marketing by Mark Shaw

$25.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: very good

Writing copy is often assumed to be a natural talent. However, there are simple techniques you can employ to craft strong written content with ease. This new, expanded edition teaches the art of writing great copy for digital media, branding, advertising, direct marketing, retailing, catalogues, and com pany magazines and internal communications. Using a series of exercises and up-to-date illustrated examples of award-winning campaigns and communication, "Copywriting, Second Edition" takes you through step-by-step processes that can help you to write content quickly and effectively. Including insightful interviews from leading copywriters, as well as illustrated case studies of major brands that explore the challenges involved in creating cutting edge copy, this book will provide you with all the tools you need to become a confident and versatile creative copywriter. ...Show more

The Book of Gossage by Howard Gossage; Bendinger Bruce (Compiled by); Rotzoll Kim (Concept by)

$20.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: very good

Post-Capitalist Society by Peter F. Drucker

$15.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: very good

The Canterbury Frozen Meat Company Ltd. The First Seventy-Five Years by G. R. Macdonald

$35.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Throughout the East Coast The Story of Williams and Kettle Ltd by Len Anderson

$30.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good

Liberation Management - Necessary Disorganization for the Nanosecond Nineties by Tom Peters

$12.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: very good

In the new economy, hierarchical business structures are being consigned to the shredder and replaced with flexible, fast-responding, ad hoc groups of brainworkers. Tom Peters, author of the bestselling IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE is once again ahead of the curve, and now demonstrates that the key to succes s in business future is total engagement, dynamism, speed, and independence. "Rewarding. Provides a wealth of thought-provoking information and incisive insights." PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER "A gold mine of information." USA TODAY ...Show more

Pressing the Right Buttons: People Skills for Business Success by Allison Mooney

$10.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: very good

People skills are extremely important in the business world today. To be successful at any level you need to be able to work with a variety of people, communicate with them, and keep them happy. This book provides a simple framework for analysing personality types and will show you the best ways to moti vate people of these different types and keep them productive. Find out how to pick who is a Playful, a Powerful, a Peaceful or a Precise! Learn about their basic needs and how you can best meet them within a business context. After reading this book you will be able to: understand your own capabilities and strengths; 'speed read' others to find out what they really want; talk to others in a way that makes them want to listen; relate better to all personality types. First published September 2007. ...Show more

Safety at the Sharp End: A Guide to Non-Technical Skills by Rhona Flin et al.

$16.00 NZD

Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good

Many 21st century operations are characterised by teams of workers dealing with significant risks and complex technology, in competitive, commercially-driven environments. Informed managers in such sectors have realised the necessity of understanding the human dimension to their operations if they hope to improve production and safety performance. While organisational safety culture is a key determinant of workplace safety, it is also essential to focus on the non-technical skills of the system operators based at the 'sharp end' of the organisation. These skills are the cognitive and social skills required for efficient and safe operations, often termed Crew Resource Management (CRM) skills. In industries such as civil aviation, it has long been appreciated that the majority of accidents could have been prevented if better non-technical skills had been demonstrated by personnel operating and maintaining the system. As a result, the aviation industry has pioneered the development of CRM training. Many other organisations are now introducing non-technical skills training, most notably within the healthcare sector. Safety at the Sharp End is a general guide to the theory and practice of non-technical skills for safety. It covers the identification, training and evaluation of non-technical skills and has been written for use by individuals who are studying or training these skills on CRM and other safety or human factors courses. The material is also suitable for undergraduate and post-experience students studying human factors or industrial safety programmes. ...Show more

The Confidence Effect: Every Woman's Guide to the Attitude That Attracts Success by Killelea Grace

$12.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: very good

In the twenty-first-century workplace, women are encouraged to step up, lean in, take charge, go for it . . . yet how much has actually changed regarding the makeup of leadership when it comes to adding women's voices? While it's easy to still blame a corporate culture that favors men, seasoned executiv e Grace Killelea identifies another culprit: a surprising disparity in confidence--with men typically prone to overestimate their abilities, and women too often selling themselves short. For real change to take place within the workforce when it comes to adding more women's voices within leadership, we must get beyond knowing that we simply have the ability as women to speak out, take risks, and fill leadership positions; we must become more confident that we can do those things with excellence The Confidence Effect moves beyond research, statistics, and cheerleading, and focuses on what's really important: how women can become more confident, one step at a time. While developing the four Rs of Success--relationships, reputation, results, and resilience--women will learn how best to: - Build circles of influence- Seize opportunities they normally avoid- Leverage and promote their skills- Cultivate executive presence- Bounce back from setbacks- And moreYou've been encouraged to get in the game your entire life, yet you remain on the sidelines. Why? Become more confident in who you are and what you can do, and claim the success you deserve ...Show more

The Passion Economy the New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century by Adam Davidson

$16.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: near fine

'This is explicitly a book to help a "regular person do well in a rapidly changing economy" and it succeeds precisely because there is no hyperbole or hard sell. No dynamism is required' Financial Times 'Inspiration for entrepreneurs that should be required reading in any business school curriculum' Ki rkus 'The Passion Economy is exactly what everyone needs today: examples of how to thrive in an economy that can seem overwhelming, and crystal-clear explanations of how to succeed. This is the book about how to live (and work) a more passionate life' Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit 'Adam Davidson is one of America's most accomplished business journalists - and this book reminds us why. With a reporter's eye and a storyteller's grace, he has traveled the country to find regular people who have cracked the code of the modern economy. Reading their stories will reveal the secrets of successful careers' Daniel H. Pink, author of When 'Move over Malcolm Gladwell. In The Passion Economy Adam Davidson upends the conventional thinking about how to succeed in our topsy-turvy, seemingly unforgiving post-industrial economy by sharing the stories of regular people who followed their dreams' William D. Cohan, author of House of Cards The brilliant creator of NPR's Planet Money podcast and award-winning New Yorker staff writer explains our current economy: laying out its internal logic and revealing the transformative hope it offers for millions of people to thrive as they never have before. Contrary to what you may have heard, the middle class is not dying and robots are not stealing our jobs. In fact, writes Adam Davidson--one of our leading public voices on economic issues-- the twenty-first-century economic paradigm offers new ways of making money, fresh paths toward professional fulfillment, and unprecedented opportunities for curious, ambitious individuals to combine the things they love with their careers. Drawing on the stories of average people doing exactly this--an accountant overturning his industry, a sweatshop owner's daughter fighting for better working conditions, an Amish craftsman meeting the technological needs of Amish farmers--as well as the latest academic research, Davidson shows us how the twentieth-century economy of scale has given way in this century to an economy of passion. He makes clear, too, that though the adjustment has brought measures of dislocation, confusion, and even panic, these are most often the result of a lack of understanding. In The Passion Economy, he delineates the ground rules of the new economy, and armed with these, we begin to see how we can succeed in it according to its own terms--intimacy, insight, attention, automation, and, of course, passion. An indispensable road map and a refreshingly optimistic take on our economic future. ...Show more