• Lou Dubose & Jake Bernstein • Pimlico (Random House) • $44.99 I was halfway through Imperium, the new novel by Robert Harris, when Vice arrived with instructions to have
• Stephen Conway & Paul Meyer • Tate Publishing • $30.00 from www.thenakedcareer.net It would be pretty sure bet that most Management readers already understand the concept that having career
• By Charles Handy / Photography by Elizabeth Handy • William Heinemann • $59.99 I should probably start by declaring myself Charles Handy enthusiast. I have read, pondered, learned from
• LARS KOLIND • WHARTON SCHOOL PUBLISHING • $49.99 We are waist-deep in yet another era of mergers, acquisitions and associated “downsizing”. It’s all about rapid growth. But, warns Danish
• Richard Schoch • Profile Books • $49.99 As someone who has worked their way through substantial number of new age, “transform your life in six, eight or 10 steps”
• Stephen M R Covey • Simon & Schuster • $34.99 Believe the figures and trust looks like diminishing global resource. Perhaps that’s what makes it so valuable. Not exactly,
• Tom Kelley & Jonathan Littman • Profile Books • $35 “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have asked for faster horse.” This Henry Ford quote is
• Tim Harford • Little, Brown • $35 This book is freshly minted explanation of some key economic fundamentals with topical, even homely, examples of how things work and sprightly
• Charles Fishman • Penguin UK • $35 It is the world’s largest, most powerful, most influential company and any or all the statistics regarding Wal-Mart are staggering (consumers who
Michael Michalko • Ten Speed Press • $44.99 The content is great but the tone just grates. Thinkertoys is pretty straightforward. How to redefine questions, challenge assumptions, think intuitively: in
• Margaret K Nydell • Nicholas Brealey Publishing • $49.99 As an Arab born in Iraq and raised in the United Kingdom, it was joy and relief to discover in
• James Martin • Random House • $39.99 James Martin would make fascinating dinner companion. This is the guy who in his book The Wired Society back in the 1970s
• Richard N Bolles & John E Nelson • Ten Speed Press • $39.99 It comes to us all – or does it? Retirement I mean. We think about it,
• Colin Prentice & Ian Hunter • Dunmore Publishing • $29.90 Colin Prentice has turned out an immensely readable personal account of his life and thoughts to date. It’s good
• Frank Furedi • Continuum • $29.99 One easy way to pick fight in academic and cultural circles is to start talking about the role ideas play, and the value
• Bill Francis • HarperCollins • $36.99 Only once since the first radio ratings appeared in 1967 has 1ZB’s breakfast show slipped from No 1 in Auckland (the exception being
• Andrea Molloy • Random House New Zealand • $36.99 Okay… time to clear the clutter, fix the finances, carve out the career you want, plot out life plan, carry
• Edited by Stephen Levine and Nigel S Roberts • $49.95 This 600 page book contains everything about the 2005 election you could possibly want to know, and possibly great
• Will Hutton • Little, Brown • $39.99 If Thomas L Friedman nailed the notion that we live in joined up world in his book The World is Flat, then
Edited by: Merritt B Fox & Michael Heller Publisher: Princeton University Press Reviewer: Jens Mueller This book will appeal to those readers with an interest in deep academic analyses of
By: John C Coffee Jr Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: $72.99 Reviewer: Sandy Maier If the linkage between corporate failures and the quality of boards seems clear and simple, hold
• Aubrey C Daniels & James E Daniels • McGraw-Hill • $45.00 It’s sad day when grass-roots decency and close observation of other people is seen as breakthrough stuff. For
• Thom Burnett & Alex Games • Collins & Brown • $19.99 Conspiracy theorists will enjoy this. It is written just for them. It is the sixth in series and
• Oliver James • Vermilion • $39.99 I reviewed significantly smaller book by the same name for these pages back in July 2005. This latest examination of the “virus” that
• Francis Fukuyama • Profile Books • $39.99 This is fodder for the politically aware and interested. It is damning indictment of the neoconservative movement’s influence over America’s Bush administration
• Ian Hunter • Auckland University Press • $50.00 Few of the country’s leading historians have known much about business. Keith Sinclair and Bill Oliver were poets and Michael King
• Juan Antonio Fernandez & Laurie Underwood • Wiley • $35 It says much about our general understanding of doing business in China that book like this should prove not
• Allen & Unwin Australia • $35 Before reading this book, I knew only that David Suzuki was ‘celebrity’ environmentalist in an era when celebrity is no guarantee of substance.
• John Pilger • Random House • $37.99 Reviewing John Pilger book is somewhat futile exercise. It’s foregone conclusion that it will be brilliant, insightful and moving, like most of
• David L Dotlich, Peter C Cairo & Stephen H Rhinesmith • Wiley • $43.95 Why are some leaders more successful than others? The authors of Head, Heart & Guts
• Joseph Stiglitz • Penguin Allen Lane • $39.95 Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz, is, through strenuous promotional efforts and impeccable timing, currently “hot”. The former World Bank chief economist and
• Craig Lewis • Harper Collins • $29.99 In land awash with amateur sports psychologists whose commentary is happily confined to the armchair end of the telly, it’s good to
• David Rock • Collins • $39.99 Don’t be put off by the simplistic “six steps” part of the title. This book is chock-full of commonsense that is, unfortunately, all
• Robert K Critchley & Jodi Storey • Wrightbooks • $33.99/B> Yet another book for people wanting to develop their career and/or uncover and follow their passion. This one is
• Clive Hamilton • Black Inc Agenda • $35.00 For country that is often cited as one most likely to be affected by climate change, Australia has been one of
• Patrick M Lencioni • Jossey-Bass • $39.99 “Silos – and the turf wars they enable – devastate organisations. They waste resources, kill productivity and jeopardise the achievement of goals,”
• Mark Lynas • Fourth Estate (Harper Collins) • $34.99 If you’re looking for some further inspiration to rev up your business or personal efforts to curb the worst effects
• Daniel Goleman • Random House • $69.99 “Laugh and the world laughs with you” goes the old saying – but it seems weeping can be just as contagious, along
• Elizabeth Hass Edersheim • McGraw Hill • $49.95 The Economist once described Peter Drucker as “the most enduring management guru of them all”. And endure he did. He lived
• Bryan Gould • Craig-Potton Publishing • $29.99 As someone with natural bent for questioning “prevailing wisdom”, I always enjoy books that offer well-reasoned challenge to orthodox thinking and New
• Kirk Snyder • Jossey-Bass • $38.95 First IQ, then EQ, even SQ (spiritual) – and now GQ, the ‘gay’ quotient in leadership. Why do gay leaders engender greater levels
