Professional Book Club

Professional Book Club

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Thorogood’s Professional Book Club offers a book a month for one year on a selection of top authored personal and business development skills. Ideal for executives looking to enhance their performance in a budget-tight business environment.

Just £59.99 for 12 first class books – Full RRP £215!

Gurus On People Management

Managers have to manage people. It is the most difficult and yet the most rewarding function. This is a one-stop guide to the world’s most important writers on managing people, summarising all the key concepts and the contribution of each.

Inspiring Leadership - Learning from Great Leaders

Who are the great leaders in history and what have they got to teach us today about the nature and practice of leadership? A wide range of inspiring leaders, from Lao Tzu and Machiavelli, to Thatcher and Mandela.

‘How rare it is to come upon a book about leaders with depth, conceptual bite and historical context.’

Warren Bennis, major US management guru and writer

The Finance and Accounting Desktop Guide

The new edition of this Desktop Guide provides a clear, practical guide to all aspects of accountancy, financial and business literacy. It includes changes to accounting standards and the move to IFRS and is packed with examples, checklists, summaries and special tips.

Janner's Complete Speechmaker

The ‘bible’ and definitive source of expertise for anyone who has to give a speech, make a presentation or chair a meeting. Fully updated, revised and expanded.

‘Indispensable’

Financial Times

‘An excellent primer for those wishing to deal with the media.’

Adam Boulton, Sky News

The People Management Clinic

A complete guide to people management – helping managers along the most difficult of paths: leading, motivating and running a team of people.

This book takes the form of a clinic during which you can ask an experienced people management consultant how to approach any number of issues and problems that face you on a daily basis. A goldmine of tips, techniques and valuable advice, the guidance throughout is both insightful and pragmatic.

The Marketing Strategy Desktop Guide

A valuable handbook on all aspects of marketing strategy, this essential book includes examples drawn from the world’s most successful companies and provides key models to help you develop competitive strategies for the internet age.

Successful Business Planning

Using a real company case history, Norton Paley explains the techniques of building a strategic business plan; he then shows you how to develop a one-year tactical section and links it to the strategic section. Packed with case histories and checklists.

Successful Selling Solutions

This book goes beyond mere sales techniques: using self-assessment models, it shows you how to monitor your progress in an actual sales project against where you need to be and includes templates, tables and exercises.

Manage to Win

Learn how to reshape and reposition your company to meet tougher challenges and competitors, when to confront and when to retreat, how to assess risk and opportunity and how to move to seize opportunities and knock out the competition.

‘This book is a ‘must have’ for any manager intent on success.’

Edward J. Fred, CEO & President CPI Aerostructures, Inc.

Customer Relationship Management

This book demonstrates how every customer is in some way unique and how to segment them by value, pattern and buying criteria. It explains the techniques of ‘customerized selling’ and provides strategies for developing a business where every customer’s need is not just provided for but anticipated.

The Inside Track to Successful Management

Best-selling author Dr Gerald Kushel demonstrates the importance of personal power in relation to professional power and shows how one can be converted into the other.

Leadership for Leaders

This challenging book is based on research carried out over seven years with over 2,500 senior managers in ten different companies, in USA and Europe. Michael Williams establishes and explains the 7 key competency clusters that matter most today.

Gurus On People Management (Edition 1, Paperback) just £12.99 when bought with Gurus on Leadership (Edition 1, Paperback) Buy both

Save 20% on Mastering Financial Management (Edition 1, Paperback) when bought with Mastering Leadership (Edition 2, Paperback) Buy both

Save £15.00 on The PR Practitioner’s Desktop Guide (Edition 2, Ring-bound) when bought with The Marketing Strategy Desktop Guide (Edition 2, Ring-bound)) Buy both

Save £9.99 on The Company Secretary’s Desktop Guide (Edition 6, Ring-bound) when bought with The Company Director’s Desktop Guide (Edition 6, Ring-bound)) Buy both

Leadership for Leaders (Edition 1, Paperback) just £5.00 per copy when you buy 25 copies or more:
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