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Business Books
UNSEXY BUSINESS:
HOW 12 ENTREPRENEURS
IN ORDINARY
BUSINESSES ACHIEVED
EXTRAORDINARY
SUCCESS AND HOW YOU
CAN TOO
By JamieWaller
In this revealing new book
Jamie Waller, entrepreneur
and self-made multimillionaire,
shows readers that they don’t
need to come up with some
amazing new invention or raise
millions to be a business success.
What entrepreneurs need is
hard work and determination.
And readers need to be looking
for a business idea that is pretty
unsexy if they really want to
make it big. The book features
businesses that collect debts,
sell sofas or ship goods – real,
solid businesses that are used
all the time. They won’t grab
the headlines, but they can
make people very, very rich.
These are ordinary businesses
made extraordinary by the
people behind them and their
commitment to getting to the
top. Jamie also tells his own
inspirational story, of how he
took his debt collection business
from nothing to £33million.
Published by Harriman House, £14.99
WORKING IN THE GIG
ECONOMY: HOW TO
THRIVE AND SUCCEED
WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO
WORK FOR YOURSELF
By Thomas Oppong
It is estimated that the number
people involved with the gig
economy will double in the next
four years. New-generation workers
are realising that they can break
the chains of corporate work and
go it alone. With flexible working
hours, fluid work arrangements and
technology that they can leverage
to their advantage, people are
creating purposeful careers that
fit in with their lives, not the other
way around.
Working in the Gig
Economy
is the ultimate guide to
successfully navigating the new
flexible world of work. This is a book
that will allow you to really examine
the possibilities of freelance and
flexible working. Is it really for you?
Do you have what it takes to stay
motivated and achieve that long-
yearned-for work-life balance?
With this book, the author takes
readers through themain pitfalls of
working for themselves, including
how to stay productive, how
tomanage your professional
network, build a personal brand
and crucially how to keep the work
coming and get paid on time.
Published by Kogan Page, £14.99
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
CULTURE: TAKING SALES
CULTURE BEYOND THE
SALES TEAM
By AlexMoyle
This book defines how to facilitate
a sales-oriented perspective
throughout a company culture,
enabling it to sell more on an
ongoing and consistent basis.
Highly practical in its approach, it
empowers readers to break away
from the frustrations of missed
opportunities and lost leads,
and to escape the repetitive
‘feast and famine’ sales patterns.
Providing direct guidance on the
implementation of an immersive
business development culture,
The theory of Alex Moyle’s
book will ensure that the wider
objective of generating business
profit is embraced by the entire
organisation, not just the sales
team. Easily tailored tomaximise
current processes, the book
features numerous tools and
market-tested insights to support
leaders in adapting their approach
at both teamand strategy levels.
Insightful, practical and directly
relevant, this book is an essential
read for achieving stable,
consistent growth, and ultimately,
long-termprofits.
Published by Kogan Page, £19.99
LEADER ID: DISCOVER
YOUR LEADERSHIP
PROFILE. LEARN HOW
TO IMPROVE
By David Pilbeam and GlennWallis
To be a confident, effective and
authentic leader you need to
play to your strengths.
Leader
iD
will help you understand your
inherent strengths and abilities,
with practical and actionable
insights on how to improve in
areas where you’re not. The
book gives you free access to
an online-profiling tool with
45 statements to rate. Once
completed, you’ll receive a
report detailing your leader iD,
strengths, development and
insights. Your Leader iD report
is your personalised leadership
action plan showing areas of
strength and areas to build on
so you can be a better leader.
You can then use the book as an
individually-tailored roadmap
for your professional growth as a
leader. Each chapter includes
helpful insights, tools, techniques
and practices that will ensure
development in each area,
whether you want to focus on
improving your leader strengths
or work on areas that need
more focus.
Published by FT Publishing, £14.99
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