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| Top three recommendations | Tips and advice | Books | Web sites |
| "Seize the day: most old people wished they'd taken more risks. And enjoy your family when they're young" |
Jerry
Entrepreneur and Business Development Consultant |
Marketing Strategy & Action Ltd
Business Innovation Centre Coventry |
| "Set realistic, achievable but ambitious objectives that have good or excellent chances to lead to profitability - and work hard to achieve them." |
Kenneth Thomson
Chairman, The Thomson Organisation |
Learn to Earn.
Published by Business Wise, 1996. Written by: Spark Partners C. Powell & P. Richardson |
| "You must know your product, how it is made, what it costs and how you can make it better than your competitors" |
David Sainsbury
Chairman, Sainsbury's |
Learn to Earn.
Published by Business Wise, 1996. Written by: Spark Partners C. Powell & P. Richardson |
The Ultimate Entrepreneur's BookA straight-talking guide to business success£10.39 Buy from Amazon |
Written by two self-made millionaires, Richard Dobbins and Barrie Pettment, published 1999. This is a practical book that encourages you to get on and achieve your goals - and enjoy it. |
Recommended by:
Jerry, Entrepreneur and Business Development Consultant Marketing Strategy & Action Ltd Business Innovation Centre Coventry |
Mentoring Executives & Directors£21.99 Buy from Amazon |
This book demonstrates the purposes and benefits of mentoring through a series of structured interviews with directors and their mentors. It shows how mentoring helps to resolve how to sustain learning in people at the top. It includes company and individual cases across different sectors and different company sizes. |
Recommended by:
Pete Richardson Partner, Spark |
The Mentoring Pocketbook£6.99Buy from Amazon |
Companies are increasingly relying on formal mentoring to tie in with their continuous learning and development initiatives. This book examines how to prepare as a mentor, how to conduct mentoring sessions and how to maintain the relationship through the different stages of the training. |
Recommended by:
Pete Richardson Partner, Spark |
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Just brilliant - one of the services you know must be out there, but can't always find! Check you mail from anywhere, including WAP, by only knowing your email address and password. It gets the IT boys going every time, when you tell them you can do it without having to configure an email client! |
Recommended by:
Martin Lawson Corporate Development executive SIG plc (multinational building materials distribution) |
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The on-line version of the magazine of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Find out the latest information on jobs, research, legal news, corporate strategy, training and development. |
Recommended by:
Pete Richardson Partner, Spark |
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Perfect for everyone who needs to know where they are going and how to get there. From just a postcode you can view any street, get directions or even look at an aerial photograph of where you are going. Seems to cover just about every street everywhere. |
Pete Richardson Partner, Spark |