The Fish Rots From The Head, by Bob Garratt
£9.99 PROFILE BOOKS
Given the number of corporate scandals that have taken place in recent years, the Chinese saying that gives this book its title has never been more true. This is an updated edition of Bob Garratt's practical guide to effective corporate governance and should be required reading for all company directors. As he says, "The general public is right to be angry about board and senior management incompetence because they have lost significant wealth." 8/10
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Make It Happen: The Prince's Trust Guide To Starting Your Own Business
£14.99 CAPSTONE
Since 1983, the Prince's Trust has helped to launch more than 70,000 new businesses and this book aims to share some of the practical insights and inspirational stories it has produced. It ultimately amounts to a very useful and clearly laid out basic primer on starting a business, from researching your initial idea to writing a business plan, managing money, marketing and sales, and networking. And it all comes with a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales. 8/10
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Secrets of the Moneylab, by Kay-Yut Chen & Marina Krakovsky
£14.99 PENGUIN BOOKS
Subtitled "How understanding people will increase your profits", this book delves into economics and social psychology to show not only that human behaviour follows predictable patterns but also how you can make money out of that predictability. Much of the insight comes from experiments and research carried out by co-author Chen, who's the chief economist at Hewlett-Packard. It makes for heavy going at times but there's much to be learnt. 7/10
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The top five... books left behind in British Travelodges
1 .Simon Cowell: The Unauthorised Biography
Chas Newkey-Burden
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2. Ooh! What A Lovely Pair: Our Story
Ant and Dec
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3. The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What It Means
Vince Cable
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4. The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown
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5. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
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