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We are often asked to give our clients and friends some suggestions for books to read.  Always happy to help, we have put together a short list of our favourite books about risk and reward and some other things in between (you can order directly from Amazon by clicking on the books' covers).

If you have any personal comment on these books, then  please do let us know at hub@zyen.com.  


Ian Harris and Michael Mainelli, Information Technology for the Not-For-Profit Sector, ICSA Publishing, 224 Pages, 2001.

"a practical, hands-on guide written in a non-technical, business-oriented style"


Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris, Clean Business Cuisine, Milet Publishing, 160 Pages, 2000.

"our favourite, humorous, risk/reward management novel"


Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, Penguin Books, 368 pages, 2007.

“a thoughtful musing on chance, markets, Black Swans and why you can’t really spot great traders”
 


Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist, Little Brown, 288 pages 2006.

“improves understanding of three key problem areas in commerce – information asymmetry, externalities and lack of competition”


Nick Robins, The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational, Pluto Press, 240 pages, 2006.

“plus ça change – we can learn a lot about the development of modern corporations by looking to the past”
 


Gill Ringland, Scenario Planning, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 490 pages (2nd edition), 2006.

"our trusty guide to using scenarios for strategic planning" (including a section on ZYen's scenarios for voluntary-sector organisations)"


Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, Harper Collins, 304 pages, 2005.

“an exploration of how people make decisions and how those decisions suffer or gain through surfeit”


James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds, Abacus, 320 pages, 2005.

“one of our favourite topics, predictive markets”


David Hussey and Robert Perrin, How to Manage a Voluntary Organization: The Essential Guide for the Not-for-profit Sector, Kogan Page Ltd, 256 pages, 2003.

"comprehensive overview of an enormous sector - it is an excellent gift for CEOs of medium-sized charities or their trustees"

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Jacqueline Chapman, Business Recovery Planning in a Week, Hodder & Stoughton, 96 pages, 2002.

"short, pithy advice that just might save your firm - from someone who worked with ours"

 


Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden Turner, Riding the Waves of Culture, Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd, 275 pages, 2002.

"this book, along with Geert Hofstede's work, forms one of the few coherent books not just about culture, but what you can do about cultural differences"


Reid Hastie and Robyn Dawes, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World, SAGE Publications Ltd, 448 pages, 2001.

"a good explanation of using probability to make choices"


Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods, The Remarkable Story of Risk, John Wiley and Sons, 394 pages (new edition), 1998.

"not just for business, but a great book for the beach"

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Shiv Mathur and Alfred Kenyon, Creating Value, Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, 464 pages, 1998.

"one of the better business strategy books, well-grounded in competitive theory and not overly-wordy"


Terence Kealey, The Economic Laws of Scientific Research, Palgrave Macmillan 396 pages, 1997.

"everything and the kitchen sink thrown into a fun book which demolishes the notion that government-driven R&D is superior to the free market"


Max Bazerman, Judgement in Managerial Decision Making, John Wiley and Sons, 208 pages (4th edition), 1997.

"a great overview of the field of decision making, including such fun items as Prospect Theory"


Gareth Morgan, Images of Organization, SAGE Publications (USA), 494 pages ( international edition), 1997.

"one of the best books to lay out the multitude of approaches  to improving organisations - it's all about people, it's all about power, it's all about..."

 

 


C.B. Chapman and Stephen Ward, Project Risk Management, John Wiley and Sons, 344 pages, 1996.

"a book after our own heart - solid management techniques with a risk twist"


John Adams, Risk, UCL Press,192 pages, 1995.

"a wonderful roller-coaster of a book which will provide a wealth of dinner party risk topics"


Richard H. Thaler, The Winner's Curse, Princeton University Press, 240 pages (reprint), 1994.

"a fun book which makes economics relevant to the day-to-day world"


Werner Ulrich, Critical Heuristics of Social Planning, John Wiley and Sons, 504 pages (new edition), 1994.

"a thought-provoking introduction to problem-solving in complex social contexts"

 


Ulrich Beck, Mark Ritter (Translator), Risk Society, SAGE Publications Ltd, 304 pages, 1992.

"a social philosophy book which will get you thinking about risk as the key 21st century driver of social dynamics"


Bernard Manson, The Practitioner's Guide to Interest Rate Risk Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers Limited, 488 pages, 1992.

"all the detail you need to get the job done from the pen of a friend"
 


Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge University Press, 289 pages,  1991.

"wonderfully illustrates the diversity of solutions to natural resource problems and the 'third way' voluntary organisations can provide"

 

 

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