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Book Of the Week
Book review: What Matters Now, by Gary Hamel
By Simon Caulkin Wednesday, 01 February 2012
Top-heavy, narrowly focused approaches to running companies are doomed, argues this insightful author. Simon Caulkin relishes some fresh thinking on management.
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Book review: Maonomics, by Loretta Napoleoni
01 February 2012China's growth rate is the envy of all, so should we adopt its approach to capitalism? Linda Yueh urges caution.
Book review: Who's in the Room? by Bob Frisch
01 February 2012In a world where chief execs have made some appalling blunders, this authoritative and pragmatic look at how to make the right calls impressed Julian Birkinshaw.
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Books: Three of a kind - Manage better
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Book review: How to Win Friends and Influence People in a Digital Age
01 January 2012Dale Carnegie's 1936 self-help classic has been rehashed for our times. Julia Hobsbawm finds the medium off-message.
Books: Three of a kind - A new year, A new you
01 January 2012Do these self-help books meet expectations?
Book review: Mrs Moneypenny's Careers Advice for Ambitious Women
01 January 2012This funny and insightful book by a multi-career high-flyer is full of wise advice for she who seeks to conquer. Cilla Snowball is buying 12 copies for her friends.
Book review: Paper Promises, by Philip Coggan
01 January 2012Accessible yet rigorous, this look at the role of money in the 2008 financial crisis - and those who borrowed, lent and lost it - is fascinating, finds Matthew Taylor.
Book review: Great by choice, by Jim Collins & Morten T Hansen
01 December 2011Greatness comes from consistency rather than innovation, argue the authors. Philip Delves Broughton is intrigued.
Book review: Boomerang - The Meltdown Tour, by Michael Lewis
01 December 2011The author of The Big Short on a tour of the west's most indebted nations has a sorry tale to tell, but for a bike ride with Arnold Schwarzenegger, finds Howard Davies.
Book review: Steve Jobs: The exclusive biography
01 December 2011Steve Jobs gets a biography that's worthy of him in this unsparing portrait of a genius who was instrumental in creating the digital age. Rory Cellan-Jones was enthralled.
Book review: Value-based pricing, by Harry Macdivitt and Mike Wilkinson
01 November 2011While the authors have an academic grasp of their subject, they don't give emotional factors their due, says Alastair Dryburgh.
Book review: Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
01 November 2011In trying to help us understand how we make choices, the author falls between two stools: too chatty for academics, too dense for amateurs, says Andrew Davidson.
Book review: Tough Calls, by Allan Leighton
01 November 2011Swashbuckling stints at the top of Asda and the Royal Mail proved the worth of Allan Leighton's down-to-earth gifts. We need more like him, says Tim Waterstone.
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