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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.
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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" |
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Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris,
Clean Business Cuisine, Milet Publishing, 160 Pages, 2000.
"our favourite, humorous, risk/reward management novel"
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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”
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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” |
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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”
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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)"
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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” |
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James Surowiecki,
The Wisdom of Crowds, Abacus, 320
pages, 2005.
“one of our favourite topics, predictive markets” |
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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"
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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"
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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"
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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"
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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"
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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"
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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..."
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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"
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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"
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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"
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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"
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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"
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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"
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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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