Dangerous Dreamers: The Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael Milken by Robert Sobel
$25.00 NZD
Category: Business
In this fast-paced account, Robert Sobel analyzes the causes of the "Junk Decade" against a backdrop of incisive portraits of the perpetrators of some of the most dizzying and daring financial machinations the world has ever seen. Dangerous Dreamers is the story of clever scoundrels and brilliant innova ...Show more
Beta: Quiet Girls Can Run the World by Rebecca Holman
$14.00 NZD
Category: Business | Reading Level: very good
What does success look like? 5AM conference calls and late nights in the office? Winning every argument in the office and always getting your own way? What does a successful woman look like? The shoulder-pad wearing Alpha? The dogmatist who rules with an iron fist? The reality is far more nuanced. Yet w ...Show more
The Corporate Lattice - Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work by Cathleen Benko; Molly Anderson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Business | Reading Level: very good
THE WORKPLACE ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE- AND NEITHER IS THE WORKFORCE.Today's companies have fewer hierarchical layers. The nature of work is also more virtual, collaborative, and transparent than at any previous time. Information flows move every which way, shifting from top-down to all-in. And the work ...Show more
Go: An Airline Adventure by Barbara Cassani; Kenny Kemp
$12.00 NZD
Category: Business | Reading Level: good
Barbara Cassani set up the no-frills airline GO for British Airways. She was a rare breed. A female airline chief executive who believed in doing things differently. Her European low-cost operation was launched in May 1998 with £25 million backing and within three years she took it into profit. Riding ...Show more
The Northland Co-operative Dairy Industry by Gordon McLauchlan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Agriculture | Reading Level: very good
Age of Enterprise - Rediscovering the New Zealand Entrepreneur 1880-1910 by Ian Hunter
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
Finalist Montana History Award 2008 The Age of Enterprise is an important book, written for a broad audience, which covers an area little touched by traditional historians such as Keith Sinclair, Jamie Belich or Michael King. It shows how entrepreneurship and innovation transformed the New Zealand econo ...Show more
Earthscan Reader in Business and Sustainable Development by Starkey, Richard and Richard Welford (eds)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Business | Reading Level: Near Fine
Makers of Fortune - A Colonial Business Community and Its Fall by R C J Stone
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
So many businesses rose and fell in 19th-century Auckland that the city was called a graveyard of enterprise. Through contemporary newspapers and business and legal records Dr Stone has traced a story of the fates of individual industries, firms and entrepreneurs. Second hand, ex library.