The Long Tail : How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand by Chris Anderson (Oregon State University, USA)
$39.00 NZD
Category: Business
Like the 'tipping point', the 'long tail' is a concept that is so obvious and so right that it seems extraordinary that no-one has articulated it before. The Long Tail refers to the hundreds of thousands of products that are not number one bestsellers i.e. all those products that form a line that tail ...Show more
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business
No idea what you're doing? No problem. Good managers are made, not born. Facebook VP Julie Zhuo remembers the moment when she was asked to lead a team. She felt like she'd won the golden ticket, until reality came crashing in. She was just 25 and had barely any experience being managed, let alone managi ...Show more
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business
Jim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history. His record bests those of legendary investors, including Warren Buffett, George Soros and Ray Dalio. Yet Simons and his strategies are shrouded in mystery. The financial industry has long craved a look inside Simons's secretive hedge fun ...Show more
The Management Gurus: Lessons from the Best Management Books of All Time by Chris Lauer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Business
"The Management Gurus" is the definitive introduction to the most influential and significant management classics of our time - an entire management library in a single volume. "The Management Gurus" includes insightful summaries of the most significant classics of management. The featured books include ...Show more
The Management Gurus: Lessons from the best management books of all time by Chris Lauer
$37.00 NZD
Category: Business
This is a whole bookshelf in a book. This essential book distills and summarizes the world's most important, influential and outstanding management books, revealing the wisdom that made them into classics. The gurus in this book are world-class leaders and managers: they take management's most important ...Show more
The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting by Alan Greenspan
$50.00 NZD
Category: Business
Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. No one with any meaningful role in economic decision making in the world saw beforehand the storm for what it was. How ...Show more
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information by Timothy Wu
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business
The Internet Age: on the face of it, an era of unprecedented freedom in both communication and culture. Yet in the past, each major new medium, from telephone to satellite television, has crested on a wave of similar idealistic optimism, before succumbing to the inevitable undertow of industrial consoli ...Show more
The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing by Lisa Gansky
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business
Most businesses follow the same basic formula: create a product or service, sell it, and collect money. 'Mesh' businesses throw this model out the window. This title provides companies a better understanding of what customers really want.
The Ministry of Common Sense: How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses, and Corporate Bullshit by Martin Lindstrom
$34.99 NZD
Category: Business, Economics and Social Science
How often in your life do you spend time following a rule or a procedure that makes no sense, offers little or no advantage, and slows you down in the process? In a world of work governed by a system of well-intentioned rules, that's something that happens all too often. In this book Martin Lindstrom - ...Show more
The Miracle by Michael Schuman
$32.00 NZD
Category: Business
Spanning nine countries, filled with heroic tales of bold decisions and self-sacrifice, and probing vast historical undercurrents, "The Miracle" takes readers inside private boardroom meetings, heated business negotiations, factory floors, and presidential cabinet sessions for a behind-the-scenes look a ...Show more