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23 March 2011 15:44

The Psychology of Winning

Our imagination dictates how far we can go in life.

In an effort to serve our community better Moneyweb is now offering readers the opportunity to buy audio books.

Here are some we have on offer, reviewed by Yvonne Fontyn, specialist writer on leadership and personal development.

To purchase any of these audio books click here

*How to be a no-limit person

By Wayne Dyer

Price: R147.50

What do you do when your flight is delayed? Do you fret and fume, and file a complaint with the airline? Or do you accept that stuff happens and read a book, have a conversation or take the opportunity to catch up on your French lessons? American psychologist Dr Wayne Dyer presented this talk in the 1980s in his hometown of Detroit and the ideas he espoused then...

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15 March 2011 03:35

Leading africa to prosperity

Book review of "Why Africa is Poor: and what Africans can do about it" by Greg Mills.

As Greg Mills argues, achieving prosperity is all about harnessing comparative advantage. So it is only fair to ask what advantages Greg Mills brings to the increasingly crowded field of books on Africa’s economic performance. He has four, and he makes the most of them.

First, he brings a private sector perspective: prosperity is built by business. Second, he has a remarkably wide international experience. He is able to conjure up pertinent examples from across East and South Asia, from Latin America, from the new societies of the former Soviet Bloc and from post-conflict situations such as in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Rwanda and Liberia. For each, he is able to furnish remarkable and telling detail. Third, he has worked on both sides of the fence.

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07 March 2011 08:43

The 10 qualities of charismatic people

Dr Tony Alessandra says you need to be cognisant of the signals you send out to others.

It seems confidence is at the basis of having charisma but achieving that is easier said than done. On this double CD pack Tony Alessandra provides some solid ways to build confidence, as well as some of the reasons we may not feel confident. He maintains the key skills of charismatic people can be learnt. Firstly one must be cognisant of the signals one sends out to others – whether emotional, psychological, spiritual, intellectual or physical. You can improve these, he says, by, for example, consciously choosing a state of mind in the morning.

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11 October 2010 00:07

Book review: The Wal-Mart Effect

Charles Fishman's book may stimulate some thinking about Wal-Mart's deal with Massmart.

With the recent interest in Massmart, Wal-Mart, the biggest retailer in the world has for the first time expressed direct interest in doing business in Africa and, this may be the beginning of a permanent change in retailing in South Africa.

In his book The Wal-Mart Effect, Charles Fishman chronicles the how this giant of a business has gone on to change businesses, government policy and, most of all, the shopping culture of individuals in USA and other countries where they operate.

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10 August 2010 08:01

Inside the dark world of a journalist

Graham Linscott reviews "Someone Shot the Cook".

If the title suggests a combination of the chaotic and the bizarre, that is what is intended. The line comes from the apology of the maitre d' in a Beirut restaurant for the quality of the fare that day. The quirkiness runs through the entire book.

Phillip Moore has put together an unusual and highly entertaining collage of his varied experiences as a foreign correspondent over several decades. There is the hell of Beirut during civil war, people diving to the floor in the bar of the Commodore Hotel as the resident parrot very convincingly imitates incoming shells.

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