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The A-Z of Business Bullshit
Best-selling author Kevin Duncan presents the world’s most comprehensive collection of total bullshit, diligently collected over 40 years.
His incisive take on all this boardroom nonsense lifts the lid on the truth behind business vocabulary, and tells us what people are really trying to say.
Author: Kevin Duncan
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The Smart Thinking Book
Plenty of people are intelligent and have the right qualifications. But in business, to be successful, you also have to be smart and creative. This book contains 60 pieces of distilled wisdom to help you think smartly and creatively, and to enable you to stand out from the others.
By the author of the bestselling The Diagrams Book (published in 14 languages), each piece of advice can be read in one minute or the entire book in one hour. Divided into six main sections (Growth, Communication, Innovation, Creativity, Relationships and Thinking), this powerful little book draws from a range of disciplines and perspectives to enable readers to transform the way they approach work and life.
Author: Kevin Duncan
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The Diagrams Book
People find it difficult to express ideas and solve problems purely with words. They find it much easier to use diagrams. Distilled into this single, handy-sized volume are 60 of the most useful diagrams, which are used by the smartest managers and entrepreneurs globally, to aid their problem-solving and thinking.
Triangles and pyramids, grids and axes, timelines, flows and concepts – the 60 diagrams are each visually presented, and then explained in an accessible manner, including tips and advice on how you can apply them to your own situations.
Author: Kevin Duncan
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The Ideas Book
Ideas are the fuel of business, work and your career – it only takes one good one to make a difference. Distilled into this single, handy-sized volume are 60 of the most useful diagrams and visual techniques, many of which are used by consultants, academics, MBA students and the smartest managers and entrepreneurs globally to help them think of and create great ideas.
Structured into five key parts (preparing to create ideas; generating ideas; generating more ideas; judging ideas; enacting ideas), the 60 methods are each visually presented and then explained in an accessible manner, including tips and advice on how you can apply them to your own situations.
Author: Kevin Duncan
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The Smart Strategy Book (5th Anniversary Edition)
Most strategies are too long and boring. Far too many contain language that most of us can’t understand.
Bestselling business author Kevin Duncan has read over 500 business books, and much of that wisdom is celebrated in this 5th anniversary edition. Here he covers seven of the most common strategic areas: commercial, brand, customer, sales, people, innovation, and communication.
His trademark no-bullshit approach debunks strategic nonsense and provides any strategist with a brilliant handbook to generate smart strategy at any time.
Author: Kevin Duncan
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The Bullshit-Free Book
Bullshit is everywhere. Some of it is just lazy, some is complete nonsense, and yet some is at least trying to communicate something, even if it fails. Bestselling author Kevin Duncan has been on a life mission to improve business language and understanding. In his latest book, he weeds out the worst offenders, and the contexts in which they most frequently occur, to provide readers with a path to clear communication.
The book starts with an examination of why we seem to use so much jargon and non-sensical words and phrases in our daily working lives. Duncan then lists and analyses the 100 most popular examples of bullshit used internally and externally, their real meaning, and rates how harmless or dangerous they are. The book ends with advice on dealing with bullshitters and a manifesto to help anyone achieve clear, bullshit-free communication.
Author: Kevin Duncan
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The Smart Thinking Book 5th Anniversary edition
This book contains over 70 pieces of distilled wisdom. Read each piece of advice in one minute or the whole book in an hour. It's ideal for running strategy sessions. Growth, communication, innovation, creativity, relationships and thinking are all covered, with 12 pithy provocations for each area.
This fifth anniversary edition celebrates sales of 50,000 worldwide and includes brand new material in every section. The Smart Thinking Book has been translated into seven languages. Kevin Duncan is a business adviser and marketing expert. As a bestselling author, he has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide. Find out more at thesmartthinkingbook.com.
Author: Kevin Duncan
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