Business books for July 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.


Business Highlights:

The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual With pensions under threat and the property market looking increasingly risky, smart investing is more crucial than ever. But the constant bombardment of information is at best overwhelming and at worst misleading. Here, Henry Blodget tells you what you actually need to know to invest more intelligently – about the market, investment advisors, mutual funds, hedge funds, stock research, the financial media and yourself.		Richistan Robert Frank explores the lives and lifestyles of a new breed of millionaires and billionaires – many of them self-made and from blue-collar backgrounds – and how this new gilded age is affecting wider society. Profiles of ‘instapreneurs’, dot-com billionaires and eccentrics from the lower and upper reaches of Richistan take us into the rarified world of people like Ed Bazinet, who became a multi-millionaire by selling miniature ceramic villages.
Superclass The Superclass – politicians, military leaders, finance gurus, energy barons, media moguls and thought leaders – is the small group that currently plays the greatest role in shaping the progress of globalization. And because this group frequently operates outside all national and international regulations, they are often in conflict with the elite in their own countries. David Rothkopf offers a provocative and trenchant examination of the overlapping international power clusters.		E-Preneur Today, the power of the crowd is used for everything from swapping photos, designing shoes and discovering pharmaceuticals to developing software. The people who use crowd power in the new virtual marketplace are the new entrepreneurial leaders of the online age. E-Preneur is the first book to survey, analyse and make sense of the field of Web 2.0 crowd power companies. It provides a look at the history of the Internet in relation to how the world relies upon it.


Top 10 Bestseller List:

This Month's Top Seller Capitalist N.igger Chika Onyeani's empowering polemic still sells up a storm.		Notable Mover God is My CEO Larry Julian suggests that Machiavelli was wrong.
Capitalist N.igger Freakonomics Rich Dad Poor Dad Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ Screw It, Let's Do It The Tipping Point Who Moved My Cheese? Now, Discover Your Strengths Good to Great God is My CEO


Career Advice:

Looking for some good career advice? Below is a selection from our monthly career advice feature.
The Mouth Trap Deliver a message and achieve the outcome you desire every time you speak. You’ll learn how to develop the confidence to repair mistakes, apologise and create peace; become adept at responding right the first time; discover ways to navigate smoothly around difficult people with seemingly irresolvable work issues; and apply many of these same strategies, tips and secrets to e-mails, so that you engage readers instead of irritate them.		Leader Mentoring Mentoring differs from instruction, teaching and coaching in that it emphasises not talents and skills used in executing a project, but the qualities and values of life that are needed to sustain oneself in the creative endeavour. In Leader Mentoring, Shenkman makes the case for leader mentoring. ‘No mentors, no leaders,’ he says. Yet, this great, ancient and necessary catalyst for learning has been neglected by our training and development industry.