Penguin Books Australia

365 great ideas – one for each day of the year – to improve anyone's career and business performance .

Ideas to inspire anyone to become an effective leader and manager in business today.

BANK 2.0 identifies that the toughest challenges are yet to come and predicts the end of banking as we know it.

Just reading the word 'subsidies' may cause many people's eyes to glaze over. We don't think it affects us directly, so we tune out. But it turns out that this complicated-sounding issue has an enormous impact on all of us. The Big Handout is about bad fiscal, environmental, agricultural, water, energy, health, and foreign policies. And it's a story about just one thing — subsidies.

In an age of terror, national leaders face this sort of question every day. Should we negotiate with the Taliban? Iran? North Korea? What about terrorist groups holding hostages? In private disputes, you may face devils of your own. A business partner has betrayed you and now wants to negotiate a better deal. Your marriage is ending and your spouse is making extortionist demands. A business competitor...

THE INSIDE STORY OF BERNIE MADOFF AND HIS $65 BILLION PONZI SCHEME, WITH SURPRISING AND SHOCKING NEW DETAILS FROM MADOFF HIMSELF

Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history?

Though intimate portraits of people who are named and on the record, Who Repo'd My Jet? chronicles the decline of the newly-moneyed class: their mortgaged mansion, blown-up balance sheets, repossessed Bentleys and Gulfstreams, and wrecked lives and relationships.

Truly great businesspeople become leaders in their industry because of the quality of their ideas. In The Power of Seven Frameworks , bestselling business writer Kazuyo Katsuma synthesises the strategies of the world's top business thinkers and distils them into techniques to help you hone your problem-solving ability and consistently produce exceptional ideas. Learn to use the power of frameworks...

People used to download music for free, then Steve Jobs convinced them to pay. How? By charging 99 cents.  Prada and other luxury stores stock a few obscenely expensive items - just to make the rest of their inventory seem like a bargain.  Why do text messages cost money, while e-mails are free? Why do jars of peanut butter keep getting smaller in order to keep the price the 'same'? The answer...

An insider's memoir of the greed, excess, and demise of the high-flying hedge fund and trader lifestyle.

Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes is a memoir of the excesses and bad behavior from an outsider who got pulled into a crazy, self- contained world. Among his eye-popping true stories:

Prediction is a dangerous game - the future is never a straight, linear extrapolation from the present. Unexpected innovations and events will conspire to trip up the best-laid plans - but it's better than not thinking about the future at all.

Future Files is filled with provocative forecasts about how the world might change in the next half century. It examines emerging patterns and developments in...

Under Corporate Skies is about what happens to communities when they stand in the way of corporate profits.  It is the story of a tiny town pitted against a strong corporate neighbour.

With the help of international campaigner, Erin Brockovich, the small town of Yarloop in Western Australia is preparing a civil class action against Alcoa World Alumina.  The struggle is over social, health...

Ideas provide the fuel for individuals and companies to create value and success. Indeed the power of ideas can even exceed the power of money. One simple idea can be the catalyst to move markets...

FAQs on Marketing distills the essence of Philip Kotler's decades of experience into an eminently readable question-and-answer format. The author draws on the thousands of questions he has been asked over the years, such as: 

In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land.

Practical advice for navigating the tough financial times ahead.

In his most recent bestselling book, The Great Depression Ahead , Harry S. Dent predicted the US debt crisis that would ensue in the wake of its government's failed stimulus plan. In The Great Crash Ahead , Dent forecasts that this economic collapse will become worldwide over the next few years.

In The Breakthrough Company , Keith McFarland pinpoints how everyday companies become extraordinary, showing that luck is a negligible factor.