TYPO By David Silverman Scribe Publications Feel-good stories tend to warm my heart. Tragedies reduce me to a snivelling mess. Typo, by David Silverman, fits somewhere in the middle and left me feeling sorry for the author, despising the American typesetting industry and pining for a happy ending that I knew would never come. Typo…
THE AIRPORT ECONOMIST By Tim Harcourt Allen and Unwin Catriona Rowntree may soon be looking for a new job because Tim Harcourt, Chief Economist at Austrade and regular Anthill columnists, has just released a Getaway-style book aimed at upcoming entrepreneurs and business leaders looking to go global. The Airport Economist sees Harcourt jet-setting around…
Standard business philosophy states that there’s always something to learn from failure. Not so, according to Barry Moltz, author of Bounce! Failure, Resiliency, and Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success. Moltz believes sometimes failure just sucks. However, he also acknowledges that businesses can continue to succeed if failures can be absorbed and managed. Bounce!…
GOING DUTCH IN BEIJING By Mark McCrum. Profile Books As the world gets smaller, cultures will inevitably clash or mash. Ultimately, the cultural intricacies at play could mean the difference between securing that million-dollar deal and eating humble business pie (or sushi, or bratwurst, or curry, etc.). In his new book, Going Dutch in Beijing,…
WHO KILLED CHANNEL 9: THE DEATH OF KERRY PACKER’S MIGHTY TV DREAM MACHINE. This tell-all account of the woes that have befallen the once dominant Channel Nine since its charismatic patriarch, Kerry Packer, passed away in late December 2005 proves that truth is not just stranger than fiction. It can be infinitely more intriguing,…
50 GREAT E-BUSINESSES AND THE MINDS BEHIND THEM By Emily Ross and Angus Holland (Random House Australia) As far as business marketplaces go, the internet is undoubtedly the most globally cluttered, internationally competitive and all-encompassing yet created. Never was this more evident than in the big tech crash of 2000. Accolades, therefore, should be…
It is easy being green: simple steps to help your business help the world By Jean Cannon Messenger Publishing, 2007, 139p In recent times, we have become accustomed to government and industry voicing concern at the cost of implementing environmentally-friendly changes and monitoring systems. Jean Cannon has spent the last thirty years convincing businesses…
THE POWER OF NICE By Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval ALLEN & UNWIN, 2007, 127p, RRP: $19.95 The Power of Nice is a simple reminder that a little kindness costs nothing and can pay rather handsome dividends. The authors, Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval, have made their way to the top of the…
SECRETS OF SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS EXPOSED! By Dale Beaumont, Dream Express International, 2007, 278pp At Anthill, we like writing about lessons learnt the hard way, and reading about them, too. In ‘Secrets of small business owners exposed!’, a bunch of small (and some now large) business owners tell their stories of transformation: from failure…
James Tuckerman reviews THE GOOGLE STORY and HOW TO TURN YOUR MILLION-DOLLAR IDEA INTO A REALITY
Winning Credibility: A guide for building a business from rags to riches and Marketing Works: Unlocking big company strategies for small business reviewed.
Book Reviews
The Art of Promotion by Lisa L Cyr (Rockport Publishers, paperback, 2005, 159pp, $44.95) While some people take the view that ideas for promoting your products or services are best left to marketing and design professionals, ideally you should begin with some ideas of your own. This colourful book explores breaking through the clutter…
Lovemarks – the future beyond brands Kevin Roberts How many times have you watched an ad on TV and thought, ‘How could they get it so wrong?’ Often the worst offenders are trying, desperately and without success, to reach you on an emotional level by appealing to your inner fears, hopes and dreams. …
Blink – The Power of Thinking without Thinking Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, has reemerged to help us understand the human decision-making process and how it can be adapted to a changing environment. Blink – The Power of Thinking without Thinking provides captivating insight into how we instinctively make…
Leadership revelations – an Australian perspective By Avril Henry CCH Australia Limited, 2005 It is an eclectic mix that business strategist and HR consultant Avril Henry pulls together for her first book, “Leadership Revelations – An Australian Perspective”. Over 187 pages, Henry shares the insights of 112 Australians – from sport, the corporate sector, the…
Against the odds James Dyson Orion Business Books, 1997 “…no one, these days, can be arsed with the intellectual open-mindedness it takes for a Renaissance.” James Dyson James Dyson is an inventor, innovator, entrepreneur and artist. However, he is best known for an ingenious product that, in the UK at least, has made him a…
Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language Don Watson Random House, 2003 “While English spreads across the globe, the language itself is shrinking. Vast numbers of new words enter it every year, but our children’s and leaders’ vocabularies are getting smaller! You write for your audience and your audience knows fewer words than it used…
IDEO: Masters of Innovation Jeremy Myerson Lawrence King Publishing The year was 1982. US magazine, Design, had asked one of its writers, Jeremy Myerson, to visit a fast-growing pocket of American industry known as Silicon Valley. Apparently, something was stirring in the State of California. Cracking open a beer in the converted garage of Bill…
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