Living Workplace: Soul, Spirit, and Success in the 21st Century

Business & Money

Coombs, Ann

Economics

Harpercollins

In "Funny Money" David Boyle introduces us to alternative cash and people who can conjure money - that is, spending power - out of nothing. Until recently, the growth of alternative cash has been the province of big business. Cyberwealth, phone cards, stamps, air miles, supermarket reward points and much more besides all have purchasing power, yet are not cash as we traditionally know it. Now, a revolution is underway - locally created money systems are being invented by communities for communities all over the world. They bypass banks and governments to develop a type of wealth previously only dreamt of - inflation-proof, non-taxable and inherently stable - which can promote social cohesion and individual empowerment. Boyle tells the story of this extraordinary movement with wit and clarity: he travels to the USA, home to the greatest number and variety of local currencies; meets the prophets, organizers and innovators behind local money and relates their vision of the future; and describes how you too can take control and set up your own currency. This book will change the way you think about money forever.

Funny Money: In Search of Alternative Cash

Boyle, David

Aims to make the executive feel comfortable with the major financial concepts. The book deals with balance sheets, profit-and-loss accounts, capital investment, ratio analysis and inflation, and enables the executive to meet the account face to face, without losing face.

Finance for the Perplexed Executive (The Successful Manager Series)

Proctor, Ray

HarperCollins, Publishers

In her bestselling Shifting Gears, leading economic thinker Nuala Beck identified the emerging New Economy and its impact. Now, in Excelerate, she shows how to grow in The New Economy(tm) by providing clear strategies for employees, businesses, communities and governments, demonstrating that success - not just survival - is there for all of us. 
 * Growth industries in The New Economy(tm) * Your business's future in The New Economy(tm) * 7 myths of The New Economy(tm) * Reforming government in The New Economy(tm)

Excelerate Tpb

Beck, Nuala

Finance

Harper-perennial

In this work, Ohmae argues that not only have nation states lost their ability to control exchange rates and protect their currencies, but because they no longer generate real economic activity, they have forfeited their role as critical participants in the global economy. Ohmae contends that five great forces - communication, corporation, customers, capital and currencies - have usurped the economic power once held by the nation state. He explains how communications control the movement of capital and corporations across national borders, how demanding consumers determine the flow of goods and services, and how harmful governmental policies are increasingly disciplined by the actions of informed consumers, profit-seeking corporations, and currency markets. The result, Ohmae claims, has been the rise of the region state, the natural economic zones that have emerged, for example, between Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland. Ohmae argues that to establish a presence within these regional markets, corporations must jettison their "country strategies" and instead focus on special strategies for particular regions.

The End of the Nation State : The Rise of Regional Economies

OHMAE, Kenichi

Until recently, the growth of alternative cash had been the province of big business: phone cards, stamps, air miles and Tesco's clubcard points all have purchasing power, yet are not cash as we know it. Now, locally created money systems like "time dollars", "Womanshare" and "Ithaca hours" are being invented by communities for communities. Boyle tells the story of this extraordinary revolution: he travels to the USA to visit the people behind local money systems; relates their vision of the future; and describes how to set up your own currency.

FUNNY MONEY SEARCH ALTERNATIV

Flamingo

Don't Tell Mummy: Betrayed By The Only One Who Could Have Saved Her

Donald H. Chew, Jr.

Biographies & Memoirs

Harper/Element

'MAXED OUT: HARD TIMES, EASY CREDIT'

james-scurlock

Find a job that fits you perfectly: don't settle for anything less. You could make money as a City Trader – or make a difference as a Carbon Trader. You could be a Museum Curator or a Spa Reviewer – or if you want to make an impact, how about becoming a Demolition Expert? There's a Cool Career to suit everyone, so get your thinking cap on.
It is not always easy to decide what career you might like. How do you make the decision? Based on what your friends do? On what you have done in your life so far? On your current qualifications or skills?
Well, if you are content with any old career so be it. But if, on the other hand, you are looking for a career that will keep you fascinated, a Cool Career, this is the book for you.
This book contains around 500 of the coolest careers around from Laser Artist to Ambassador
Cool Careers is not an A to Z career guide. A career is not simply something you should pick off the shelf like a tin of baked beans. It is what you are going to spend most of your time doing for the rest of your life so it's worth giving it some thought.
Cool Careers starts where you're at - are you an Adreneline junkie, want to see the world, does money talk for you? Do you love animals, emails or engines? Are you always the first to know things? Find the lists that apply to you, and the ideas and inspiration that follows.
Jam-packed with sound career advice and creative suggestions in a fun and accessible format, Cool Careers is the ideal first resource for new starters or job changers alike.

Cool Careers

BOYES, CAROLYN

Job Hunting & Careers

HarperCollins Business

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

History

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