The Fords: An American Epic

Biographies & Memoirs

Horowitz, David

Collier, Peter

Historical

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

The ultimate guide to owning a successful business offers an insider's tour of the risks, rewards, pitfalls and opportunities presented by any business. Dozens of practical tips and rules of thumb for many different situations.

Growing a Business

Business & Money

Paul Hawken

Biography & History

Harpercollins Publisher

Using examples ranging from Ikea to the slums of Mumbai, leading economic expert Hamish McRae studies which businesses, organisations and initiatives have what it takes to succeed, and what it is that distinguishes them in an increasingly competitive global marketplace.
Calling on years of experience as an award-winning financial journalist and international public speaker, the author brings a fresh perspective to the question of success, differentiating the few 'big ideas' that have transformed the marketplace from passing trends and over-hyped blind alleys.
Through an extraordinary range of case studies and an authoritative grasp of his material, the author demonstrates that although there is no surefire recipe for success, there are several key ingredients – such as sense of mission and market sensitivity – which ambitious readers can apply to their own business practices. This is a book of very real successes rather than overblown ideologies: each case study is based around an on-site visit by an author and interviews with the people in charge. Bearing in mind the role of fashion, scale and other less predictable factors, ‘What Works’ ultimately offers the general reader the chance to learn from some of the grandest economic successes and unexpected failures in the world today, through a series of imaginative, unusual and insightful examples.

What Works: Success in Stressful Times

McRae, Hamish

HarperPress

The sensational critical biography of this phenomenal entrepreneur and his business practices – fully updated to cover Branson’s recent ventures. No British tycoon is more popular, few claim to be richer and none has masterminded a more recognisable brand than Richard Branson. What is behind the success of the buccaneering balloonist, the tabloids’ favourite celebrity nude, the ‘grinning jumper’ and the scourge of corporate goliaths? Helped by eyewitness accounts of more than 250 people with direct experience of Branson, Tom Bower has a uncovered a different tale to the one so eagerly promoted by Virgin’s publicists. Here is the full story of Branson: his businesses, his friendships, his ambition, his law-breaking, his drug-taking, his bullying. From the cockpit of a balloon in the clouds to the centre of Branson’s operations in his Holland Park home this book is an intimate scrutiny of exactly how Richard Branson created himself and sold himself. Tom Bower’s biography reveals Branson to be a single-minded profiteer who, while occasionally generous to others, has a fixed purpose to enhance his family’s wealth in secret off-shore trust funds. Instead of a glittering saint, Branson emerges as a devious actor, proud of plucking for his own profit the good ideas of others. From his quest to acquire the license for the National Lottery to his plans to launch space tourism with Virgin Galactic, this fully updated edition follows Branson’s enterprises and investments up to the recent, failed bid for Northern Rock.

Branson

Bower, Tom

Leaders & Notable People

Harper-perennial

You Bet: The Betfair Story and How Two Men Changed the World of Gambling

Colin Cameron

HarperCollins, UK

The fascinating story of a huge international business success story, and how one company has created legions of new gamblers and changed the worlds of gambling and sport forever. A betting exchange is an internet company which provides gamblers with an online marketplace in which they can bet with each other. Betting exchanges now account for a third of all betting in Britain. Betfair is the world's preeminent betting exchange, with 90% of the global market. Betfair oversees five million bets each day—10 times greater than the volume of the London Stock Exchange trades.

You Bet: The Betfair Story

Computers & Technology

Cameron, Colin

Games & Strategy Guides

’Not just a readable, pacey account of an extraordinary individual and his quixotic quest … but also a troubling exposé of the fragility of our entire financial system … I loved it’ 
Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland 
For fans of Bad Blood and The Big Short, the story of how one reclusive trading prodigy manipulated Wall Street and amassed millions from his childhood bedroom – then short-circuited the global market. 
A real-life financial thriller, Flash Crash gives panoramic insight into our economic landscape – its weaknesses, its crooks and its exploitable loopholes – and uncovers the remarkable, behind-the-scenes narrative of a mystifying market crash, a globe-spanning investigation into international fraud, and the man – Navinder Singh Sarao – at the centre of it all. 
Depending on whom you ask, Sarao was a scourge, a symbol of a financial system run horribly amok, or a folk hero: an outsider who took on the tyranny of Wall Street and the high-frequency traders.

Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History

Vaughan, Liam

William Collins

Your morning flat-white helped shape the modern world\n‘Elegantly written, witty and so wide in scope, so rich in detail and so thought provoking’ Joanna Blythman 
It may seem like just a drink, but coffee's dark journey from the highlands of Ethiopia to the highstreets of every town in the country links alchemy and anthropology, poetry and politics, science and slavery. Plots have been hatched, blood spilled and governments toppled to keep your mug filled with fresh espresso.\nIn this thought-provoking exposé, Antony Wild, coffee trader and historian, explores coffee's dismal colonial past, its perilous corporate present, and the environmental destruction which could limit its future, revealing the shocking exploitation at the heart of the industry.

Black Gold: The Dark History of Coffee

Wild, Antony.

Fourth Estate

What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture

Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author, combines lessons both from history and modern organisational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times. 
In What You Do Is Who You Are, Ben Horowitz, bestselling author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things, turns his attention to a question crucial to every organisation: how do you create and sustain the culture you want? 
What You Do Is Who You Are explains how to make your culture purposeful by spotlighting four models of leadership and culture-building – the leader of the only successful slave revolt, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture; the Samurai, who ruled Japan for seven hundred years and shaped modern Japanese culture; Genghis Khan, who built the world’s largest empire; and Shaka Senghor, an American ex-con who created the most formidable prison gang in the yard and ultimately transformed prison culture. 
What You Do Is Who You Are is a journey through culture, from ancient to modern. Along the way, it answers a question fundamental to any organisation: who are we?

Horowitz, Ben

Have YOU got what it takes to be the best? Over 100 approved Army challenges to get you there!
The British Army Challenge Book is packed full of puzzles and challenges that use vital mind-training skills for any team player or budding recruit!
Tackle logic puzzles, explore mazes, and wrestle with problem-solving tests, as you learn to: • Crack codes • Complete complex navigation challenges • Put leadership skills to the test with essential lateral thinking techniques • Remember crucial survival skills through quizzes and word games • Problem-solve under pressure by analysing ‘real-life’ scenarios, and ask yourself: what would I do in this situation?
Teamwork is at the heart of the British Army, and this is the perfect challenge book to enjoy with family and friends – work together or invite some friendly competition!

The British Army Challenge Book

Moore, Dr. Gareth

The British Army

Harpercollins

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