Secondhand Business & Self-Help Bargain Book Box SP2843

Secondhand Business & Self-Help Bargain Book Box SP2843

Nineteen books across the full range of business and self-help — from Tony Robbins on financial freedom and Jordan Peterson on living well, to board governance, sales strategy, retail anthropology, and the entrepreneurial stories behind some of the world's most successful companies. A well-stocked box for the ambitious reader.

1. If I Were a Rich Man: Keys to Business Success — Richard Shrapnel with Robert Gottliebsen — An Australian business guide exploring the mindset and strategies of successful entrepreneurs, co-authored by veteran financial journalist Robert Gottliebsen.
2. Self-Help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and Success in Modern America — Steven Watts — A cultural biography of Dale Carnegie and the movement he created, tracing how How to Win Friends and Influence People became the bible of American self-improvement and what that says about the national character.
3. What Women Want: The Science of Female Shopping — Paco Underhill — Retail anthropologist Paco Underhill applies his legendary observational methodology to the female consumer, revealing how women shop differently and what businesses need to do about it. (Signed copy.)
4. Your Sixth Sense: Unlocking the Power of Your Intuition — Belleruth Naparstek — Psychotherapist and guided imagery pioneer Belleruth Naparstek makes the case for intuition as a genuine cognitive tool, with practical methods for developing and learning to trust it.
5. The Sales Gurus: Lessons from the Best Sales Books of All Time — Andrew Clancy and the Editors of Soundview — A distillation of the key insights from the most influential sales books ever written, capturing the essential wisdom without requiring readers to work through the entire canon.
6. The Mirror Test: Is Your Business Really Breathing? — Jeffrey W. Hayzlett with Jim Eber — Former Kodak CMO Jeffrey Hayzlett's blunt business health check, asking the hard questions about whether a company is genuinely viable or merely going through the motions.
7. Money: Master the Game — Tony Robbins — Robbins distils decades of interviews with the world's greatest investors — Buffett, Dalio, Bogle — into a step-by-step plan for financial independence, making serious investment thinking accessible to a general audience.
8. The Fish Rots from the Head: Developing Effective Board Directors — Bob Garratt — Management thinker Bob Garratt's influential argument that most corporate failures trace back to ineffective boards, and a practical guide to what good governance actually looks like.
9. Man Drought: And Other Social Issues of the New Century — Bernard Salt — KPMG demographer Bernard Salt's examination of the social and demographic forces reshaping Australia — incisive, funny, and frequently prescient about where the country was headed.
10. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos — Jordan B. Peterson — Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson's guide to living well, blending Jungian psychology, evolutionary biology, and religious mythology into principles for taking personal responsibility — the most debated self-help book of the 2010s.
11. 100 Great Businesses and the Minds Behind Them — Emily Ross and Angus Holland — Case studies of a hundred of the world's most successful companies, examining the decisions, insights, and lucky breaks that turned ideas into empires.
12. Think and Grow Rich Cashflow — Stuart Zadel — Australian investor and speaker Stuart Zadel's practical guide to generating passive income, drawing on the Napoleon Hill tradition to lay out strategies for building cash-flowing assets.
13. Resume Buzz Words: Get Your Resume to the Top of the Pile! — Erik Herman and Sarah Rocha — A practical toolkit of high-impact words and phrases that make a resume stand out to recruiters, with guidance on how to deploy them effectively.
14. World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business as We Knew It — John A. Byrne — Business journalist John Byrne profiles twenty-five transformative entrepreneurs — from Sam Walton to Steve Jobs — examining the ideas and character traits that allowed them to reshape entire industries.
15. Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing — Kate Vitasek with Mike Ledyard and Karl Manrodt — Based on University of Tennessee and US Air Force research, Vitasek's framework argues that most outsourcing relationships fail because they're built on the wrong incentives — and shows how to fix them.
16. Making It in America: Proven Paths to Success from 50 Top Companies — Jerry Jasinowski and Robert Hamrin — The former president of the National Association of Manufacturers examines fifty American companies that found sustainable success, distilling the strategies behind their achievement.
17. The 24-Hour Turn-Around — Jim Harness and Neil Eskelin — A self-improvement framework built around twenty-four one-hour periods, offering a practical method for transforming habits and redirecting personal momentum.
18. Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression — Lewis Wolpert — Biologist Lewis Wolpert's deeply personal and scientifically rigorous account of depression — drawing on his own severe episode alongside the latest research — one of the most honest and illuminating books on the subject.
19. Change the Culture, Change the Game — Roger Connors and Tom Smith — From the authors of The Oz Principle, a practical playbook for leaders who want to transform organisational culture and build genuine accountability into the fabric of their teams.