Business Trends for May 2008
The Business Trends newsletter features whats new on the shelf, the ten top Exclusive Books bestsellers, news and recommended business reading. The featured titles click through to supplementary reviews on the ExclusiveBooks.com site.
May is Homebru month at Exclusive Books. This year we highlight 25 super South African reads. Click here to browse the full selection. You will also get 15% off and free shipping when you purchase 2 or more Homebru books online until 31 May 2008. Click here to select your Homebru bundle.
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 Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ
The best investment one can ever make is in taking the time to truly understand how one's finances work. Now Kiyosaki lays out his five key principles of Financial Intelligence for all to understand. Kiyosaki provides real insights on key steps to wealth: how to increase your money, how to assess what you're really worth, what your prospects are, how to start mapping out your financial future, how to protect your money, and how to budget your money. 
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 A Million is Not Enough
Do you have at least one million in liquid assets to support yourself during the 20-plus years most of us can expect to live after we've stopped drawing a regular paycheck? A Million is Not Enough outlines the steps readers need to take in order to meet this ambitious (but achievable) goal. Whether you're getting a head-start, starting on time, or playing catch-up, Michael Farr's plan presents a specific financial and investment plan to help Boomers reach their goal and get older worry-free.
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 Common Wealth
The 21st century presents great and interconnected global challenges. Our task, Jeffrey Sachs argues, is to achieve truly sustainable development, by which he means finding a global course which enables the world to benefit from the spread of prosperity while ensuring that we don't destroy the ecosystems which keep us alive, or our place in nature which helps sustain our values.
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 Family, Inc
Millions of family businesses spanning the globe know they have problems ordinary businesses don't; they know if they don't keep the family on track, the business will derail. Family, Inc is a witty, engaging blueprint for maintaining peace within the family without affecting the business, using characters straight out of Family Business Central Casting.
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Looking for some good career advice? Below is a selection from our monthly career advice feature. |
 Ambition is Not a Dirty Word
In this hard-hitting look at why many women fail to move ahead in business, Debra Condren argues that it is not the glass ceiling or male chauvinism that holds us back, but the socially sanctioned belief that women can't be both ambitious and happy. Condren identifies the common traps women fall into and provides the tools for escaping them. This book features self-assessment questionnaires, interviews with prominent businesswomen and exercises for developing business skills and savvy.
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 How Life Imitates Chess
Garry Kasparov shares the powerful secrets of strategy he has learned from dominating the world's most intellectually challenging game, lessons about mastering the strategic and emotional skills necessary to navigate life's toughest challenges and maximize success no matter how tough the competition. Drawing on a wealth of revealing and instructive stories, Kasparov reveals the strategic ways of thinking that always give a player the edge – in life, as in chess.
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Date Created: 2008-05-14 | Last Update : 2008-05-14 |
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