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 The new book from Scott Pape, the Barefoot Investor. The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need is a phenomenon, sprinting through one million copies to become one of the best selling Australian books ever. Why is it so successful? It's simple, funny and practical. And it has changed people's lives. The eagerly anticipated follow-up, The Barefoot Investor for Families, sticks to the same script. It's aimed fairly and squarely at parents, grandparents, and basically anyone who read that book and said: 'Why the hell wasn't I taught this years ago?' Scott lays out ten money milestones kids need to have nailed before they leave home, and it's all structured around one family 'money meal' each week (so roughly 20 minutes). If you follow the roadmap, with tailor-made lessons for each age group, your kids will know how to do things like: , Learn the life-changing value of hard work , Set up a fee-free bank account (or jam jars!) , Go on a Treasure Hunt around the house, and sell some of their 'stuff' second-hand , Save your parents $100 on household bills Even ... , Learn to cook at least two low-cost, delicious, nutritious meals from scratch. Scott's mission is to make sure your kids are financially strong so they never, ever get sucked into the traps that middle-aged bankers have devised to rob them of their money and their confidence. There are only ten things every kid needs to know about money, and you can teach them over dinner, once a week. It's that simple. Start now - it's never too early or too late.
Title: Barefoot Investor for Families Author: PAPE SCOTT Format: Limp Publishing status: Active Publication date: 17/09/2018 Price: $35.00 RRP: $35.00 Imprint: Harper Collins Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Aust ISBN: 9781460756874 Temporarily out of stock Price: $35.00
|  This is the only money guide you'll ever need That's a bold claim, given there are already thousands of finance books on the shelves. So what makes this one different? Well, you won't be overwhelmed with a bunch of 'tips' ? or a strict budget (that you won't follow). You'll get a step-by-step formula: open this account, then do this; call this person, and say this; invest money here, and not there. All with a glass of wine in your hand. This book will show you how to create an entire financial plan that is so simple you can sketch it on the back of a serviette ? and you'll be able to manage your money in 10 minutes a week. You'll also get the skinny on: * Saving up a six-figure house deposit in 20 months * Doubling your income using the 'Trapeze Strategy' * Saving $78,173 on your mortgage and wiping out 7 years of payments * Finding a financial advisor who won't rip you off * Handing your kids (or grandkids) a $140,000 cheque on their 21st birthday * Why you don't need $1 million to retire ? with the 'Donald Bradman Retirement Strategy' Sound too good to be true? It's not. This book is full of stories from everyday Aussies ? single people, young families, empty nesters, retirees ?
who have applied the simple steps in this book and achieved amazing, life-changing results. And you're next. Title: Barefoot Investor The Only Money Guide Youll Ever Need Author: PAPE SCOTT Format: Trade Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 14/11/2016 Price: $34.00 RRP: $34.00 Imprint: John Wylie & Sons Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Australia Lt ISBN: 9780730324218 Available stock: 2 Price: $34.00
|  Title: Become an Image Consultant
Author: GOULET TAG & GUREVICH RACHEL Edition: ILL Format: Trade Paperback Publishing status: Active Price: $132.90 RRP: $130.00 Imprint: Miscellaneous Publisher: Fabjob ISBN: 9781894638616 Temporarily out of stock Price: $132.90
|  Over the past decade, the call for evidence-based management has been on the rise. Managers have become increasingly skeptical of advice that is based soley on anecdotes, otherwise known as the "art of management"; they demand, instead, proof that the management practices espoused by the authors in the field are truly effective. Becoming the Evidence-Based Manager delivers the goods, covering a wide range of critical management skills, such as hiring, inspiring, training, developing, motivating and coaching. Readers are rewarded with a thorough understanding of how to put the science of management to work for themselves and their organizations.
An organizational psychologist by training and experience, author Gary Latham brings a unique perspective to the art-versus-science debate as he underscores the critical role that empirical research plays in successfully hiring and managing employees. Latham advocates using the "situational" interview style in the hiring process over the "free-flowing" one, for example, as it's proven more effective in assessing a candidate's skills and aptitude. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Becoming the Evidence-Based Manager draws upon 50 years of management research, and provides front-line managers with key lessons and tips to help them put research to everyday use on the job. From hiring and training to supervising and appraising, managers and leaders will learn proven techniques for achieving high performance from their employees. Title: Becoming the Evidence Based Manager Author: LATHAM GARY P Format: Trade Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 09/08/2018 Price: $40.00 RRP: $40.00 Imprint: Nicholas Brealey Pub Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Div ISBN: 9781473676978 Temporarily out of stock Price: $40.00
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 Being You teaches you everything you need to know about personal branding. A personal brand tells the world about who you are as a human being personally and professionally. It's about authenticity and is derived exclusively from your mind, your heart, your values, your passions, and what you believe to be true at the core of your personal and professional self. That's why it's unique - because it begins with and is created from you. Whether you are the leader of an organization or team, engaged in creative work, in transition and changing your job, searching for a new career, going for a job interview, giving an important speech or presentation, wanting to network more effectively, or lobbying for a public position, this book will provide you with the toolkit to develop a confident personal brand. Being You shows you how to communicate your business and increase your brand awareness, both face to face and on digital platforms, including a comprehensive social media strategy. It provides practical tips to reach your target audience and land your message, while sharing the secrets of some of the world's biggest personal brands - from Oprah Winfrey to Roger Federer - on how they grew their audiences and achieved success. It's practical, authoritative, inspirational and illustrated with stories and case studies based on Maggie's own international work and experience.
Title: Being You Author: EYRE MAGGIE Format: Trade Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 01/05/2019 Price: $33.00 RRP: $33.00 Imprint: Exisle Publishing Publisher: Exisle Publishing ISBN: 9781925335927 Available stock: 1 Price: $33.00
|  In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the financial crisis, a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude was being set into motion. It began in Malaysia and would spread around the world, touching some of the world's leading financial firms, A-list Hollywood celebrities, supermodels, Las Vegas casinos and nightclubs, and even the art world. Now known as the 1MDB affair, the scandal would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Federal agents who helped unravel Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme say the 1MDB affair will become the textbook case of financial fraud in the modern age - and its fallout is already being credited for taking down the prime minister of Malaysia. To date, there are investigations in Singapore, the United States, and Switzerland, with money-laundering charges filed in Malaysia. Government authorities have seized assets including a mega-yacht, private jet, and millions of dollars in jewelry. A stunning true-tale of hubris and greed, Billion Dollar Whale reveals how one of the biggest heists in history was pulled off, right under the nose of the global financial industry.
Title: Billion Dollar Whale Author: WRIGHT TOM & HOPE BRADLEY Format: Trade Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 07/09/2018 Price: $35.00 RRP: $35.00 Imprint: Hachette Publisher: Little, Brown & Company ISBN: 9780316490672 Temporarily out of stock Price: $35.00
|  When a pseudonymous programmer introduced "a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party" to a small online mailing list in 2008, very few paid attention. Ten years later, and against all odds, this upstart autonomous decentralized software offers an unstoppable and globally-accessible hard money alternative to modern central banks. The Bitcoin Standard analyzes the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implications.
While Bitcoin is a new invention of the digital age, the problem it purports to solve is as old as human society itself: transferring value across time and space. Ammous takes the reader on an engaging journey through the history of technologies performing the functions of money, from primitive systems of trading limestones and seashells, to metals, coins, the gold standard, and modern government debt. Exploring what gave these technologies their monetary role, and how most lost it, provides the reader with a good idea of what makes for sound money, and sets the stage for an economic discussion of its consequences for individual and societal future-orientation, capital accumulation, trade, peace, culture, and art. Compellingly, Ammous shows that it is no coincidence that the loftiest achievements of humanity have come in societies enjoying the benefits of sound monetary regimes, nor is it coincidental that monetary collapse has usually accompanied civilizational collapse. With this background in place, the book moves on to explain the operation of Bitcoin in a functional and intuitive way. Bitcoin is a decentralized, distributed piece of software that converts electricity and processing power into indisputably accurate records, thus allowing its users to utilize the Internet to perform the traditional functions of money without having to rely on, or trust, any authorities or infrastructure in the physical world. Bitcoin is thus best understood as the first successfully implemented form of digital cash and digital hard money. With an automated and perfectly predictable monetary policy, and the ability to perform final settlement of large sums across the world in a matter of minutes, Bitcoin's real competitive edge might just be as a store of value and network for final settlement of large payments--a digital form of gold with a built-in settlement infrastructure. Ammous' firm grasp of the technological possibilities as well as the historical realities of monetary evolution provides for a fascinating exploration of the ramifications of voluntary free market money. As it challenges the most sacred of government monopolies, Bitcoin shifts the pendulum of sovereignty away from governments in favor of individuals, offering us the tantalizing possibility of a world where money is fully extricated from politics and unrestrained by borders. The final chapter of the book explores some of the most common questions surrounding Bitcoin: Is Bitcoin mining a waste of energy? Is Bitcoin for criminals? Who controls Bitcoin, and can they change it if they please? How can Bitcoin be killed? And what to make of all the thousands of Bitcoin knock-offs, and the many supposed applications of Bitcoin's 'blockchain technology'? The Bitcoin Standard is the essential resource for a clear understanding of the rise of the Internet's decentralized, apolitical, free-market alternative to national central banks. Title: Bitcoin Standard The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking Author: AMMOUS SAIFEDEAN Format: Hardback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 06/04/2018 Price: $49.00 RRP: $49.00 Imprint: Jacana Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc ISBN: 9781119473862 Available stock: 1 Price: $49.00
|  Branded Culture is a serious book about creating exceptional marketing and cultural change within the context of today's turbulent environment. But don't expect it to be served up as the intellectual equivalent of Kidney and Lentil Soup. This is a roller-coaster of hilarious stories and unexpected observations.
Each of the stories conveys an easy-to-digest and compellingly effective message about one of the seven must-have attributes of marketing and organisational success. As well as setting up the framework for achieving remarkable results, the author goes a step further, serving a generous side order of practical tools and techniques that you can lift off tomorrow to start to change performance. It doesn't matter whether you're running a small business that serves a local community, or a multinational giant, if you want to better understand marketing and how to grow your business, this book will guide you on that journey. Branded Culture is essential reading to decode the new rules of building brands and branded cultures in a social-media-obsessed world. Title: Branded Culture Author: BAYLISS STEVE Format: Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 26/06/2019 Price: $40.00 RRP: $40.00 Imprint: Imagination Press Publisher: Imagination Press ISBN: 9780995114241 Available stock: 1 Price: $40.00
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The way we work is broken. It takes forever to get anything done. Meetings and emails are incessant. Bureaucracy stifles talent and creativity. After decades of management theory and multiple waves of technological and societal change, is this really the best we can do?Aaron Dignan teaches companies how to eliminate red tape, tap into collective intelligence, and rethink long-held traditions that no longer make sense. In Brave New Work, he shows you how to revolutionize the way your company works forever. Using stories from companies at the cutting edge of organisational transformation, Brave New Work will show you how to transform your team, department and business from the inside-out-making work more adaptable, abundant and human. It is packed with new tactics and tips for updating your company's operating system- the simple rules and assumptions so deeply embedded that you don't even think to question them. Learn how to reignite passion and energy throughout your organisation. Build a company that runs itself.
Title: Brave New Work Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization Author: DIGNAN AARON Format: Trade Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 21/02/2019 Price: $38.00 RRP: $38.00 Imprint: Penguin Books Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780241361801 Temporarily out of stock Price: $38.00
|  By the mid 2030's Australia will see the biggest intergenerational wealth transfer in its history.
Good news if you're Gen X. In little over a decade (you) will inherit all the wealth. Research suggests this could amount to more than $3 trillion dollars. But, there's a huge problem. Gen X is the least experienced generation in our history at managing the vast amount of wealth coming their way. To make matters worse, Gen X is one of if not the most time poor generations in our history - job demands in an increasingly competitive global market, mortgages, school fees, ageing parents and a lot of responsibility. Gen X now face some troubling challenges if they are to master money in time to make a difference. After so many decades of continuous economic growth, Gen X has grown to love debt and become overly familiar with excess - and unfamiliar with risk. There's also a growing backdrop of social issues such as addiction, obesity, mental health and the fragmenting of the family unit. Gen X has a large burden on their shoulders Succeed and they stand to be able to turn their windfalls and their super into a vast asset into which all Australians may benefit from in the long run. Fail and we will face an economic tsunami... This book draws upon the five major lessons Gen X needs to UNLEARN about the way they see money before they get their hands on this wealth transfer. The five UNLEARN lessons are grounded in how we were bought up (what our parents taught us), what our community told us (what friends and family teach us about money) and our decision making style. The reader is encouraged to think about what two lessons they need to unlearn about Money before they are ready to take on financial responsibility. Through interviews with a wide range of celebrities from Baby Boomer, GenX and beyond we draw upon the wisdom and insight from people familiar to X and their parents; such as Michael Parkinson, Maggie Beer , Kate Cebrano, Jeffrey Archer, Anthony Minichello, Anthony Field, Naomi Simpson , George Negus, and many more. Title: Breakfast Club for 40 Somethings Author: STOYKOV VANESSA Format: Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 19/04/2018 Price: $34.00 RRP: $34.00 Imprint: John Wylie & Sons Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Australia Lt ISBN: 9780730348634 Available stock: 1 Price: $34.00
|  Smart strategies for managing workplace bullies out of your life and business More than one in four Americans deals with an on-the-job bully. These office sociopaths don't just make individuals miserable. Their poison spreads throughout the company, damaging overall morale, creativity, productivity, and profitability. It doesn't have to be this way.Leading consultants Peter Dean and Molly Shepard have helped vanquish workplace bullying and now share their proven methods with you. In The Bully-Proof Workplace, they provide vital insight into the four major types of bullies: The Belier - Weapons of choice: slander, deception, and gossipThe Blocker - Weapons of choice: negativity and inflexibility The Braggart - Weapons of choice: narcissism and a sense of superiorityThe Brute - Weapons of choice: aggression and intimidation These bullies may operate differently, but they all have one thing in common: a desperate need for control based on deep-seated fear and insecurity. This invaluable survival guide equips individuals with strategies, tips, and scripts for managing interactions with bullies. Managers learn how to identify bullying, deal with it swiftly, and introduce zero tolerance for such behavior. And executives gain the information they need to create a corporate policy regarding bullying.We spend about 60 percent of our waking moments at work. Spending that much time under the thumb of a bully and dealing with the negative business effects of bad behavior is simply unacceptable. Whether you're a victim of bullying or a business leader tasked with building a collaborative corporate culture, The Bully-Free Workplace provides the critical insight and practical tools you need to successfully combat this ubiquitous but rarely addressed business challenge and ensure that bullies behave--or leave--so you and everyone else can get on with your work.
Title: Bully Proof Workplace Author: DEAN PETER Format: Hardback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 27/02/2017 Price: $45.00 RRP: $45.00 Imprint: McGraw Hill Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe ISBN: 9781259859663 Available stock: 1 Price: $45.00
|  How would you like to get business startup advice straight from the man who co-founded Global Entrepreneurship Week and StartUp America? Well now you can.
Carl Schramm, the man described by The Economist as 'The Evangelist of Entrepreneurship', has written a myth-busting guide packed with tools and techniques to help you get your big idea off the ground. Carl believes that entrepreneurship has been completely misrepresented by the media, business books, university programmes and MBA courses. He believes that the perception of what it takes to start a business no longer matches the reality - which is bad news for everyone because it stops great ideas coming to life. Burn the Business Plan punctures the myth of the cool, tech-savvy 20-something entrepreneur with nothing to lose and venture capital to burn, showing that most people who start businesses are juggling careers and mortgages just like you. Burn the Business Plan is written to encourage you to get started. It demystifies the entrepreneurial process portrayed on television shows like Dragon's Den. It doesn't rely on largely irrelevant stories of overvalued tech startups, nor does it build on the largely mistaken narrative of a linear path from cold start to great success that is the essence of business planning, as taught in universities. This is the guide to starting and running a business that will actually work for the rest of us. Burn the Business Plan is for regular people who just want practical, real-world advice on how to start and run a successful business. It shows you how to avoid the common mistakes and what you need to do to put your enterprise on track for success. Title: Burn The Business Plan What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do Author: SCHRAMM CARL J Format: Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 03/01/2019 Price: $28.00 RRP: $28.00 Imprint: John Murray Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Div ISBN: 9781473606913 Temporarily out of stock Price: $28.00
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