Work/Career/Management

Ask most women whether they have the right to equality at work and the answer will be a resounding yes, but ask the same women whether they'd feel confident asking for a raise, a promotion, or equal pay, and some reticence creeps in. The statistics, although an improvement on previous decades, are certainly not in women's fav... read more

"You can't get rich quickly without taking risks that could also make your poor quickly. I prefer to accumulate wealth in a safe but savvy way."
Most of us lack the nerve to be entrepreneurs, but award-winning finance writer Mary Holm shows how you can get richer – slowly but surely – and still sleep soun... read more

Who Moved My Cheese? is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life - whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money or a possession, health or spirital peace of mind. And the maz... read more

Many people are promoted to management positions because they are good at their existing jobs, but are not necessarily equipped to be good managers. Management Bites is a dip-into book covering many of the areas a manager needs to know about, including: What are you saying? Better communication; Team building: If you build it... read more

The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace applies the love language concept to the workplace. This book helps supervisors and managers effectively communicate appreciation and encouragement to their employees, resulting in higher levels of job satisfaction, healthier relationships between managers and employees, and de... read more

The reality of female professional success in today's world - a challenge to long held assumptions about female achievement and sexual inequality. For most of history, being female defined the limits of a woman's achievements. But now, women are successful careerists equal to men. In Norway, women legally must constitute a th... read more

Do you feel ill-equipped to deal with money? Want to save money but still live well? Are you dealing with credit card debt or a huge student loan? Feel locked out of the housing market due to soaring prices? If you need practical guidance on managing your money and getting your life and $$$ sorted, Money Matters is the book f... read more

"Live by your own rules" - Robert Greene, the 'modern Machiavelli' debunks the prevailing mythology of success and presents a radical new way to greatness. Around the globe, people are facing the same problem - that we are born as individuals but are forced to conform to the rules of society if we want to succeed. To see our ... read more

The modern working world is a dangerous place, where game-playing, duplicity and sheer malevolence are rife. Do talent and hard work count for nothing? Is politics everything? In this fascinating expose, Oliver James reveals the murky underside of modern office life. With cutting-edge research and eye-opening interviews, he h... read more

A practical, motivational guide to changing jobs for those who do not want to retire, just change gear. If the work you are doing is no longer doing it for you but you feel uncertain about how to change your situation, then What Next? is for you. And you are not alone, either. More than five million Australians aged 45-64 a... read more

This text looks at how individuals (the fleas in Charles Handy's analogy) relate to multi-national conglomerates (the elephants). In addition to addressing how and why we work, it covers a wide range of preoccupations and issues including the fear of big business. Paperback (B-Format)

NZ author Financial expert Martin Hawes realised at the age of 50 that he needed to make his next twenty summers really count if he was going to achieve all the things he wanted to in life. In this book he shows you how to invest your money in order to fund the lifestyle you want when you retire.Most books on investment are ... read more

This is the systems antidote to 'poison' personalities in the workplace. Most leaders have experienced the frustration and confusion of dealing with an extremely difficult person - an individual who debilitates individuals, teams, and even organizations.
Based on the authors' two-year national research study of 500 lead... read more

Budget Wise, Dollar Rich is the book that thousands of ordinary New Zealanders have been waiting for. As many as 95 percent of New Zealanders have difficulty simply managing their money day to day; for most people the thought of having money to invest and create wealth is no more than a pipe dream. This invaluable book explai... read more

A straight forward, down-to-earth guide to starting up and running a successful small business in New Zealand. Many New Zealanders dream of one day owning their own business. However, the stark reality is that many new businesses will fail in their first few years of operation. Getting it Right is the ultimate guide to not on... read more

'Downsize', 'Rightsize', 'Smartsize', 'Workforce Reduction', 'Displacement', 'Outplacement','Redundancy', 'Restructuring', 'Layoffs'. No matter what you call it, the end result is the same - the loss of a job. With the world plunged into economic turmoil and uncertainty, New Zealanders are bracing themselves for the fallout.... read more

What's the question every business should be asking itself? According to Jeff Jarvis, it's WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO? If you're not thinking or acting like Google -- the fastest-growing company in the history of the world -- then you're not going to survive, let alone prosper, in the Internet age. An indispensable manual for surv... read more

"It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be" is a handbook of how to succeed in the world - a pocket "bible" for the talented and timid to help make the unthinkable and the impossible possible. Advertising guru Paul Arden offers up his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief, communi... read more

Did you know that by neglecting to negotiate her starting salary for her first job, a woman may sacrifice over a half a million pounds in earnings by the end of her career? Yet, as research reveals, men are four times as likely to ask for higher pay than are women with the same qualifications. In this eye-opening book, Li... read more

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