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  • National Identity: Confessions of an outsider

    by Simon Bridges ...
    An open, honest and at times intensely personal memoir about race, fatherhood, marriage, masculinity, fitting in, and the things that shape our national character.Simon Bridges grew up as the son of a working-class Baptist preacher in Te Atatu, as the youngest of six children. In many ways he had a typical Kiwi upbringing, at a time when having little didn't seem to matter much. Yet for Bridges, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Persistence of Entrepreneurship Myths

    Reclaiming Enterprise

    by Simon Bridge ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business
    Triggered largely by claims that small businesses were the main source of new jobs, an ‘explosion’ of interest in enterprise, entrepreneurs and small business has led to the establishment of a conventional wisdom about enterprise.Mistaken theories can become influential and examining the conventional enterprise wisdom indicates that much of it is questionable. If that is the case, a reassessment ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Understanding Enterprise

    Entrepreneurs and Small Business

    by Simon Bridge, Ken O'Neill ...
    Now in its fifth edition, Understanding Enterprise has established itself as one of the most widely respected guides to the discipline, providing a refreshingly perceptive approach to understanding and applying theory. It offers a critical introduction to enterprise in its broadest context, with particular emphasis on its application to entrepreneurs and small business. Divided into three parts, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Search for Entrepreneurship

    Finding More Questions Than Answers

    by Simon Bridge ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Business and Management
    Since the 1980s, governments have often sought to encourage entrepreneurship on the assumption that it creates small businesses which are the primary drivers of job creation. Largely because of this assumption, entrepreneurship has become a valid subject for academic research attracting extensive funding.Yet despite this explosion of scholarship, there is no accepted model of how entrepreneurship ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    The most anticipated political memoir of the year.A frank account from National MP Judith Collins of the highs and lows of a political life. From her humble beginnings as the youngest daughter of Labour-voting farming parents, Judith Collins has carved a path to almost the very top of New Zealand politics.Collins grew up in rural Walton, Waikato, on a dairy farm. At the age of 10 she entered ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Stupidity Paradox

    The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work

    by Mats Alvesson, André Spicer ...
    Functional stupidity can be catastrophic. It can cause organisational collapse, financial meltdown and technical disaster. And there are countless, more everyday examples of organisations accepting the dubious, the absurd and the downright idiotic, from unsustainable management fads to the cult of leadership or an over-reliance on brand and image. And yet a dose of stupidity can be useful and ... Read more

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  • English 101 Series: 101 Model Answers for IELTS Writing Task 2

    by Mark Griffiths ...
    The model answers provide candidates with ideas that they can use in their own essays, as well as a variety of topic-specific vocabulary and appropriate grammatical structures. The 101 model answers are divided into 10 broad topic areas, such as education and technology. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncommon Sense, Common Nonsense

    Why some organisations consistently outperform others

    by Jules Goddard, Tony Eccles ...
    This is a book for managers who know that their organisations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and whose so-called strategies that are little more than banal wish lists.It puts forward the notion that the application of uncommon sense - thinking or acting differently from other organisations in a way that makes unusual sense - ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Creative City

    A Toolkit for Urban Innovators

    by Charles Landry ...
    The Creative City is a clarion call for imaginative action in developing and running urban life. It shows how to think, plan and act creatively in addressing urban issues, with remarkable examples of innovation and regeneration from around the world. This revised edition of Charles Landry's highly influential text has been updated with a new, extensive overview. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Australian Leadership Paradox

    What it takes to lead in the lucky country

    by Geoff Aigner, Liz Skelton ...
    Australians bemoan the quality of our leaders. We blame those in power for not showing leadership, only to turn on them when they start tackling the hard issues they are expected to fix. No wonder, then, that even the most passionate and talented among us hesitate to take up this important role.The Australian Leadership Paradox offers a circuit breaker for this impasse, providing new insights into ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Work

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Fineman ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?'. Work -- paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory -- is woven into the fabric of all human societies. For many of us, it becomes part of our identity. For others it is a tedious necessity. Living is problematic without paid work, and for many it is catastrophic. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Management

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Hendry ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    John Hendry, a leading management scholar, looks at the nature and practice of Management in this Very Short Introduction. Tracing the development of management over the last century, he looks not only at what managers do, but also provides an insight to modern management theory. He considers the influences of national and organizational culture, the relationship between power and domination, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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