Business

Money is important to all of us - it's inextricably linked with life because it pays for the things we want to do. The better we manage our money, the more choices and opportunities are available to us. By taking charge, deciding where we want to be in 5, 10 or 20 years' time and using the right map to get there, the odds are that we will achieve our goals. In mapping out our money we map out our future. With The Money Map, wealth coach and investment expert Martin Hawes shows you how to create a financial plan - looking at savings... read more

In this rapidly changing world of shifting economic markets, workers today are required to be flexible, creative and innovative in order to survive. This book provides valuable new insights and the practical framework to identify your best career for the workplace of the 21st century. Heather Carpenter has devised special exercises, strategies and self-assessment charts to help readers of all ages analyse their skills to find the career that is right for them. Knowledge is a prime asset of careers in the 21st century and the author... read more

Innovative, invigorating, inspirational, Listen is a major breakthrough in leadership thinking. You will never again lose sleep over how to motivate and lead people. Listen is a book that will challenge the way you approach business, it is a blueprint to transform your management and leadership skills. Listen takes you on a journey of discovery as Don Rowlands, a truly exceptional leader, makes his remarkable journey. Follow his trek from humble beginnings, going barefoot to school in New Zealand, rising to help mastermind the glob... read more

DoP April 2009, Auckland 116pp Softcover After a decade in charge of one of New Zealand's leading companies, Carey Smith shares his insights into the nature of leadership with original and logical viewpoints of value to all aspiring leaders. Presented as a series of 36 real-life leadership stories, it is more than just the rule book, showing the reader a clear path to success in their field.

There is little doubt that no one, with the exception of Peter Drucker, has had more influence in shaping the idea of modern management than Tom Peters. Peters still has the same vigor and enthusiasm he had when the classic In Search of Excellence was published in 1982. Unlike so many dry, boring books on business, Tom Peters has a compelling, in-your-face style that makes this book as fun to read as it is insightful. An enemy of conformist 'suits', mindless mega-mergers and the status quo, Peters urges readers to embrace diversity... read more

In "Business Stripped Bare", Sir Richard Branson shares the inside track on his life in business and reveals the incredible truth about his most risky, brilliant and audacious deals. Discover why Virgin tried to take on one of the world's biggest superbrands, how Virgin Mobile USA holds the record as the fastest company in history to generate revenues of over one billion dollars (faster than Microsoft, Google and Amazon) and how Richard is the only person in the world to have built eight billion-dollar companies from scratch in eig... read more

Can we bring more meaning to our lives and help change the world at the same time? Richard Branson, at his brilliant and motivating best, reveals how with his exciting new vision for the future. It is time to turn capitalism upside down - to shift our values, to switch from a profit focus to caring for people, communities and the planet. With inspiration for everyone, "Screw Business As Usual" shows how easy it is for both businesses and individuals to embark on a whole new way of doing things, solving major problems and turning ou... read more

Offers an exclusive glimpse into Rupert Murdoch, a man who wields extraordinary power and influence in the media on a worldwide scale - and whose family is being groomed to carry his legacy into the future.

Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in "The Big Short", Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of the world in the face too? Just how broke are we really? "Boomerang" is a tragi-comic romp across Europe, in which Lewis gives full vent to his storytelling genius. The cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chan... read more

Small business plays a major role in New Zealand's economy, where over 220,000 small businesses account for some 80% of the New Zealand business sector. The sixth edition of this established classic has been completely revised to provide up-to-the-minute, comprehensive coverage on everything you need to know about starting, managing, recovering and expanding a small business in New Zealand today. Topics covered include financial planning, management skills, e-commerce and new technology.

Small business plays a major role in New Zealand's economy, where over 220,000 small businesses account for some 80% of the New Zealand business sector. The fifth edition of this established classic has been completely revised to provide up-to-the-minute, comprehensive coverage on everything you need to know about starting, managing, recovering and expanding a small business in New Zealand today. Topics covered include financial planning, management skills, ecommerce and new technology. Mass market (rack) paperback 304pp h231m... read more

Veteran journalists Claire Shipman and Katty Kay marshal the evidence to show how women's management style is ideally suited to the new business world, resulting in more profitable companies with happier employees. They also show how women can use this power to get what they really want - more time and freedom in their jobs without falling off the professional ladder. Most women will happily trade some responsibility and some cash for more time-that's the new currency.

Millions of people around the world have - and continue to - improve their lives based on the teachings of Dale Carnegie. In How to Win Friends and Influence People Carnegie offers practical advice and techniques, in his exuberant and conversational style, for how to get out of a mental rut and make life more rewarding. His advice has stood the test of time and will teach you how to: - make friends quickly and easily - increase your popularity - win people to your way of thinking - enable you to win new clients and customers - beco... read more

Discover how to use social media to give your business an unbeatable competitive edge in no time! Written by an internationally renowned social media guru, Learn Marketing with Social Media in 7 Days supplies you with the knowledge and tools needed to use Twitter, LindkenIn, Facebook, YouTube and other popular social media platforms to grow your business. Geared towards small business owners and entrepreneurs, it provides step-by-step guidance on creating low-cost, high-impact online marketing strategies that really work. You'll l... read more

In any conflict, the First Alternative is my way, and the Second Alternative is your way. The fight always boils down to a question of whose way is better. This book presents a new and practical, but incredibly effective and eye-opening, way to reach resolution through using the 'Third Alternative'. The Third Alternative moves beyond your way or my way to a higher and better way - one that allows both parties to emerge from debate or even heated conflict in a far better place than either had envisioned. With The Third Alternative,... read more

Since its initial publication, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold a total of 15 million copies. The book continues to sell briskly today, but Carnegie never anticipated the ways in which the digital age would provide new tools and challenges for winning friends and influencing people. The advent of social networking sites, the dominance of email, and the ways in which the Internet has supplanted face-to-face interactions have made Carnegie's precepts all the more immediate and vital. Brent Cole, working in tandem with... read more

Want to spend less time doing bookkeeping and more time on your business? This book shows you how to bill customers, process payroll, track payments and expenses, and produce financial reports. QuickBooks For Dummies, 2nd Australian Edition, is a guide for all users, whether you re a business owner or an employee charged with making QuickBooks work. Inside the book you will find: * Details of the new features in the latest releases * Step-by-step instructions for all key activities * How to calculate employee pays correctly * Tips... read more

The 80/20 principle - the fact that 80 per cent of results flow from 20 per cent of causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people and organisations. This work shows how you can achieve much more with much less effort, time and resources, simply by concentrating on that all-important 20 per cent.