Book club - business

It's about time for another book club

I've selected 3 great books for valuable skills for your business and private life. Truly AMAZING books!! Especially the first two.

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   Bargaining for Advantage

Combining insights in negotiation research with the tactics used by some of the world's leading business strategists, this book is a guide to becoming a more effective negotiator. Richard Shell explores the hidden psychology and patterns that govern every bargaining situation. The text is driven by stories about everything from hostage taking and high stakes business deals to everyday encounters. It offers a step-by-step approach that draws on the reader's own communication style to make a skillful negotiator.

Why Women Don't Ask

Did you know that by neglecting to negotiate her starting salary for her first job, a woman may sacrifice over a half a million pounds in earnings by the end of her career? Yet, as research reveals, men are four times as likely to ask for higher pay than are women with the same qualifications.

In this eye-opening book, Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever draw on research in psychology, sociology, economics and organisational behaviour as well as dozens of interviews to explore the personal and societal reasons women seldom ask for what they need, want and deserve at work and at home.

Women Don't Ask - a sensation when published in the US in 2003 - is a call to arms that will help you recognise the ways in which our culture perpetuates inequalities - and how you can begin to overcome them.

and to change the subject a little, going into economics, if it interests you:

The Smartest Guys in the Room

What went wrong with American business at the end of the 20th century?

Until the spring of 2001, Enron epitomized the triumph of the New Economy. Feared by rivals, worshipped by investors, Enron seemingly could do no wrong. Its profits rose every year; its stock price surged ever upward; its leaders were hailed as visionaries.

Then a young Fortune writer, Bethany McLean, wrote an article posing a simple question - how, exactly, does Enron make its money?

Within a year Enron was facing humiliation and bankruptcy, the largest in US history, which caused Americans to lose faith in a system that rewarded top insiders with millions of dollars, while small investors lost everything. It was revealed that Enron was a company whose business was an illusion, an illusion that Wall Street was willing to accept even though they knew what the real truth was. This book - fully updated for the paperback - tells the extraordinary story of Enron's fall.

There is also a documentary type movie with the same name, which you can view on Netflix for example.

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What should I read...? Book Club. Book Reviews.

I want to let you know which Books I loved this year.

There are:

The Outliers  by Malcolm Gladwell.

      

 My book looks different, this must be the new Edition you can get it here. This is a really good read explaining that it's not always just you or your background who influences success. It portraits very nicely the time line in our modern history and teaches about the advantages and disantvantages in history depending on things we often ignore such as the year we are born in.

I recommend this book so much. Just read it. It makes you understand a lot. It's a fun and quick read.

Blink - Malcolm Gladwell

(Same author, right ;-)

 Ohhhh I am raving about this book!!! wow it's so good. as boring as it may sound it's about decision making. So, sometimes a so called 'gut-feeling' can be the right way of taking decisions, better than computer carefully calculated assessments, as experienced minds just know. Even so sometimes without knowing consciously why!! It's unconscious details which give us the signals nothing random or spiritual. It's just our stored information, details so small we consciously don't realise we have but somehow just know--- if we're experts in our field or have a certain experience... MUST READ anyways...

The Economic Hitman 

John Perkin

This Book is so great. It will really make you understand how modern corporate world works and what lobbyists do. This book is so important. John Perkins exposes insider knowledge about his past work. This is only one of his books, he has so many more. VERY GOOD. And quite thin, so it's a quick read too.

The Art of Happiness - Dalai Lama

This book is great. It teaches you what a human being at is purest truly needs to be happy. It's compassion and so much more. This book will make you so much wiser and teaches ways of thought which make you understand the world in a Buddist way I'd say, which I believe is the right way. It's about sharing and being happy and how to achieve that. 

No Name - Naomi Klein

I like the author Naomi Klein and this book, one of hers, it's an excellent learning curve about commerce and marketing, especially it teaches us about Amreican advertising thinking and - history... which is just good to know as it gets you thinking and detect slightly similar patters in other parts of the world too. This book is quite thick but very interesting. I also recommend looking into her other books.

Kill your Friends - John Niven

I liked this book it was very sarcastic and entertaining. This is a good read for on the train or if you are too tired to concentrating on something more.

It's about the UK Music industry how it used to be. I just loved this read. I found it so fun. Its humour is very dark though so be aware ....

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