Humour Business Books

I am a ghost writer.In life, I was the founder of modern management.During my life, I published 39 books including such classics as: Concept of the Corporation (1946), The Practice of Management (1954), The Effective Executive (1967), Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1985), Post-Capitalist Society (1993), and Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999).I saw many of the major trends of the 20th century before almost anyone else did: the Hitler-Stalin pact, Japan’s impending rise to economic power, the shift from manufacturing to knowledge work, the increasing importance of the social sector, and the fall of the Soviet Union.I had an incredible impact on managing in turbulent times.To thrive as a manger in turbulent times you must regularly ask of individual businesses their source of legitimate authority, their principle of organization, and their pattern of leadership. You must feel the need to address employees’ concerns for status and function, to fit knowledge workers into established structures of decision making and command, and to achieve effective communication in and among managerial levels. You must take seriously the recruitment and development of executives, the proper role of boards of directors, and the special needs of companies at different stages of development. You must pay adequate attention to the internal logic of work itself and to those techniques by which managers can become both more efficient and more effective. You must always know the nature of the business you are in and the character of the customers your business serves.I distilled leadership into three attributes. The first attribute of effective leadership is working hard, the second is taking responsibility, and the third is earning trust. Trust is the conviction that the leader means what he says. It is a belief in something very old-fashioned: Integrity.

"Strive to understand life. Karma is more than just a Creamy Sauce." Keith David. This is the hilarious account of Keith David, guru and serial entrepreneur in North Wales, who has one aim in life - to get rich and become a millionaire. A tale of his journey along Success Road (and back again), edited by Anwen David, his long-suffering wife. Anwen explains; "The book shows you a very quick way to get rich and an even quicker way to lose it all by being a complete idiot. I reveal the truth behind Keith David and his guide to wealth. The book explains how to avoid making the same silly mistakes Keith does, which includes insulting overweight people, annoying police officers, getting trapped in a cave and winding up journalists."