Secondhand Business & Self-Help Bargain Book Box SP2614

Seventeen business titles spanning leadership, marketing, personal finance, and management theory — from Branson's contrarian corporate manifesto to Hammer & Champy's landmark reengineering bible. A practical shelf for any manager or entrepreneur.

1. Screw Business as Usual — Richard Branson — Branson's case for a new kind of capitalism in which doing good and doing well are the same thing — provocative, readable, and very much his own voice.
2. The Personal Efficiency Program — Kerry Gleeson — A practical system for getting organised and doing more in less time, drawn from Gleeson's work with over 200,000 business professionals — one of the more no-nonsense entries in the productivity genre.
3. Good Service is Good Business — Catherine DeVrye — Seven straightforward strategies for building a business on genuine customer service, from an Australian author who turned corporate speaking into a career on the back of this bestseller.
4. You're Hired — Bill Rancic — The winner of the first series of The Apprentice shares the lessons he took from the experience — practical advice on ambition, resilience, and getting ahead in business and life.
5. Go Fund Yourself — Alice Tapper — A direct and accessible guide to personal finance for a generation that wasn't taught the basics — what money actually means, how to manage it, and how to make it work for your life.
6. The Rule of Three — Jagdish Sheth & Rajendra Sisodia — A provocative theory of market structure arguing that every competitive market ultimately consolidates around three major players, with sharp implications for strategy and positioning.
7. Retire Young Retire Rich — Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter (Rich Dad's series) — Kiyosaki's blueprint for accelerating financial independence, extending the Rich Dad philosophy into a full programme for building wealth quickly and sustaining it.
8. Explorations in Organizations — James G. March — Stanford's pre-eminent organisational theorist gathers decades of thinking on decision-making, learning, leadership, and the nature of organisations — essential reading for anyone serious about management scholarship.
9. Launching to Leading — Ken Rutsky — A B2B marketing playbook for turning a product launch into a market movement, with a framework built around creating demand rather than just managing it.
10. Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace — James Wallace — A sharp journalistic account of Microsoft's mid-1990s pivot to the internet and Gates's drive to dominate the browser wars — a vivid document of one of the most consequential moments in tech history.
11. Reengineering the Corporation — Michael Hammer & James Champy — The management book that defined the 1990s, arguing that fundamental redesign of business processes — not incremental improvement — was the only real path to competitive performance.
12. The Art of Conversation — James A. Morris Jr. — A guide to the social and professional power of genuine conversational skill — how to listen, engage, and build the kind of rapport that opens doors in both business and personal life.
13. Marketing as Strategy — Nirmalya Kumar (Harvard Business School Press) — Kumar's argument that marketing must move from a functional department to a CEO-level strategic capability, with a framework for driving growth and innovation from the top.
14. Success is a Choice — Rick Pitino with Bill Reynolds — Ten principles for high performance from one of basketball's most successful coaches, translated into a practical framework for business and personal achievement.
15. The Complete Guide to Modern Management III — ed. Robert Heller — A curated collection of cutting-edge management thinking from leading practitioners, covering strategy, leadership, operations, and organisational design.
16. Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths & Total Nonsense — Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert I. Sutton — Two Stanford professors dismantle the management myths and received wisdom that persist despite the evidence, and make the case for running organisations on facts rather than fashion.
17. Not Everyone Gets a Trophy — Bruce Tulgan (Revised and Updated) — A blunt and practical guide to managing Millennials in the workplace — what they actually want, what they need, and how to get the best out of them without compromising standards.