Wellington City Libraries’ Business Blog

Lean in : women, work, and the will to lead / Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell.“*Starred Review* If Facebook COO (and first-time author) Sandberg succeeds, it will be because she’s made us mad and more than willing to act. With no small amount of self-deprecating humor, a massive quantity of facts and research, plus a [...]

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Big data, big analytics : emerging business intelligence and analytic trends for today’s businesses / Michael Minelli, Michele Chambers, Ambiga Dhiraj.“An Excellent Overview of Big Data & Machine Learning…This excellent summarization reveals trends that might otherwise be hidden by the forest of numerical and computational methods and will even be valuable in its observations to [...]

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Employee to entrepreneur : how to ditch the day job and start your own business / Chris Garden and Catherine Blackburn.“Employee to Entrepreneur shows you how to seamlessly move from employed to self-employed, how to effectively harness, utilise and exploit the skills and expertise you’ve already gained in your corporate emploment and use them all [...]

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The book of business awesome [electronic resource] : how engaging your customers and employees can make your business thrive / Scott Stratten.The Book of Business Awesome is designed as two short books put together–one read from the front and the other read from the back when flipped over. Covering key business concepts related to marketing, [...]

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Socialized! : how the most successful businesses harness the power of social / Mark Fidelman.“Get your highlighter ready…Fidelman may have just joined the company of John Naisbitt (Megatrends) and Geoffrey Moore (Crossing the Chasm) writing a potential landmark book for businesses to take note what’s around the next disruptive corner. Socialized is filled with page [...]

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The challenger sale : taking control of the customer conversation / Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson.“This book comes very highly touted, especially by Neil Rackham himself, who calls it “the most important advance in selling for many years.”I personally don’t think it reaches quite that level, but overall it is an excellent book, with provocative [...]

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What matters now : how to win in a world of relentless change, ferocious competition, and unstoppable innovation / Gary Hamel.“Critical insight from the man Fortune called “the world’s leading expert on business strategy”About the only thing a leader can be sure of is that what worked yesterday is unlikely to work today, let alone [...]

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The launch pad : inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s most exclusive school for startups / Randall Stross.“The author…spent the summer of 2011 with the 64 start-ups funded by Y combinator and recorded what happens. It is three month uber intensive (selective 3% of applicants get in) program ending in a marathon Demo Day in front [...]

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The art of the sale : learning from the masters about the business of life / Philip Delves Broughton.“Unlike books that teach marketing principles and how to sell, this one focuses on the art rather than the science of selling. It’s a loosely structured compilation of stories of how a variety of people in diverse [...]

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Hi, this is the latest batch of management/business books recently received at Wellington City Libraries
The wide lens : a new strategy for innovation / Ron Adner.“Innovation, from conception to product to consumer acceptance, is key for business success, but many great ideas have failed to have their anticipated impact on the consumer and the bottom [...]

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