Secondhand Business & Self-Help Bargain Book Box SP2891

Secondhand Business & Self-Help Bargain Book Box SP2891

Twenty-one books on business, leadership, and the forces reshaping the world — technology, economics, innovation, and what organisations owe the people inside them. Serious non-fiction for readers who want to understand how things actually work.

1. The Age of Speed: Learning to Thrive in a More-Faster-Now World — Vince Poscente — a practical guide to moving faster without burning out, with twenty brand-new productivity tips.
2. Runaway World: How Globalisation is Reshaping Our Lives — Anthony Giddens — the influential sociologist on the forces transforming work, family, democracy, and tradition.
3. The Perfect Store: Inside eBay — Adam Cohen — the story of the most profitable e-commerce site in the world, from a garage in San Jose to global dominance.
4. If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat — John Ortberg — a leadership and spiritual growth book that became a Christian self-help classic.
5. White-Collar Blues: Management Loyalties in an Age of Corporate Restructuring — Charles Heckscher — a sharp examination of what happens to loyalty and identity when corporations restructure.
6. Going South: Why Britain Will Have a Third World Economy by 2014 — Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson — a polemical economic argument that proved prescient in its pessimism.
7. A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton — Carl Bernstein — the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's comprehensive biography of one of the most consequential political figures of her generation.
8. The Key: How Corporations Succeed by Solving the World's Toughest Problems — Lynda Gratton — the author of The Shift argues that companies which tackle real-world problems outperform those that don't.
9. Digital@Scale: The Playbook You Need to Transform Your Company — Meffert and Swaminathan — practical guidance for large organisations navigating the digital transformation.
10. Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite — Bernard Goldberg — the New York Times bestselling critique of liberal media bias from a former CBS insider.
11. The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart — Bill Bishop — a landmark work on political geography and the self-sorting of Americans into ideological enclaves.
12. Didn't See It Coming: Overcoming the 7 Greatest Challenges That No One Expects and Everyone Experiences — Carey Nieuwhof — a guide to navigating the crises that derail leaders and organisations.
13. Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation — Gary P. Pisano — a Harvard Business School professor argues that innovation requires discipline, not just creativity.
14. Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone? — David G. Blanchflower — a rigorous and damning economic argument about unemployment, underemployment, and the hollowing out of work.
15. Jeremy Paxman: A Life in Questions — Jeremy Paxman — the legendary BBC interviewer's memoir, sharp, funny, and characteristically unsparing about everyone including himself.
16. Global Megatrends: Seven Patterns of Change Shaping Our Future — Stefan Hajkowicz — an accessible guide to the major forces that will determine the shape of the coming decades.
17. How Stella Saved the Farm: A Tale about Making Innovation Happen — Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble — a business fable about reverse innovation, from two leading thinkers in the field.
18. Customer Experience is the Brand — Alex Allwood — a practical argument for putting customer experience at the centre of every business strategy.
19. Business the Jack Welch Way: 10 Secrets of the World's Greatest Turnaround King — Stuart Crainer — a concise guide to the management philosophy of GE's transformative CEO.
20. Winning on Betfair for Dummies (2nd Edition) — Alex Gowar — a comprehensive guide to the world's leading online betting exchange for the serious bettor.
21. Renegades of the Empire — Michael Drummond — the story of how three software warriors started a revolution behind the walls of Fortress Microsoft.