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A triumphant kick up the backside for people lacking motivation, self-confidence and innovation. (Entrepreneur Country )
SHINE is a bright source of energy and ideas that will help you make the most of yourself (Ken Robinson )
SHINE is punchy, inspiring, and great fun (James Caan )
Chris Baréz-Brown has an uncanny ability to inspire (Keith Wilmot, The Coca-Cola Company )
There's so much big talk about transformation, but Chris Barez-Brown actually delivers. He works his magic every time (Maria Eitel, The Nike Foundation )
Let Chris Baréz-Brown be your ideas guru (Ken Blanchard, author of The One-Minute Manager )
SHINE is a bright source of energy and ideas that will help you make the most of yourself (Ken Robinson )
SHINE is punchy, inspiring, and great fun (James Caan )
Chris Baréz-Brown has an uncanny ability to inspire (Keith Wilmot, The Coca-Cola Company )
There's so much big talk about transformation, but Chris Barez-Brown actually delivers. He works his magic every time (Maria Eitel, The Nike Foundation )
Let Chris Baréz-Brown be your ideas guru (Ken Blanchard, author of The One-Minute Manager )
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A triumphant kick up the backside for people lacking motivation, self-confidence and innovation. Entrepreneur Country SHINE is a bright source of energy and ideas that will help you make the most of yourself Ken Robinson SHINE is punchy, inspiring, and great fun James Caan Chris Barez-Brown has an uncanny ability to inspire Keith Wilmot, The Coca-Cola Company There's so much big talk about transformation, but Chris Barez-Brown actually delivers. He works his magic every time Maria Eitel, The Nike Foundation Let Chris Barez-Brown be your ideas guru Ken Blanchard, author of The One-Minute Manager
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Sadly, I had issue with both the style and the substance of this book. It's way too 'bitty', and I understand the intention was to create something you could simply open up, read and then put down without any deep involvement of time, but the consequence of that approach is that the book offers no genuine insight. There is a huge amount of nuance that is left ignored by virtue of the 'mcnugget' style of delivery, and there is an almost sad drive for the book to proclaim its 'trendy' credentials by name-checking figures like Bono and Bob Geldof. I can't speak for anyone else, but neither of those individuals, as accomplished as they are, are people from whom I would expect useful, generalisable business advice.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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I was going to give this book one star, except that several times it made me laugh out loud and there were one or two sections where I was nodding along and agreeing with it wholeheartedly. The advice about giving feedback is very good indeed and I loved the story about the ice breaker. The suggestions about how to run successful meetings are bang on.
What you get here is the business equivalent of the trendy vicar - bright, breezy, full of statements of the obvious and a tiny bit patronising - presented rather beautifully on heavy paper with the benefit of excellent graphic design. So, the package is worth more than the contents, in my view, which is not surprising given the authors background in advertising.
But... it's industry standard stuff that you will find on any in house training course about success at work and you can get it all for free on the Business Balls website. If quotes from it don't drop out of the mouths of candidates in the next series of "The Apprentice", I will be very surprised. There are lots and lots of pages full of the zingy but empty phrases so beloved of Lord Sugar's victims.
What I would have loved and would make the author rich beyond wild imagination was much more of real substance on how to work successfully to help people in business change their attitudes and beliefs. The author is absolutely right to raise this as a critical issue but doesn't really help much.
Lightweight fun, mostly.
What you get here is the business equivalent of the trendy vicar - bright, breezy, full of statements of the obvious and a tiny bit patronising - presented rather beautifully on heavy paper with the benefit of excellent graphic design. So, the package is worth more than the contents, in my view, which is not surprising given the authors background in advertising.
But... it's industry standard stuff that you will find on any in house training course about success at work and you can get it all for free on the Business Balls website. If quotes from it don't drop out of the mouths of candidates in the next series of "The Apprentice", I will be very surprised. There are lots and lots of pages full of the zingy but empty phrases so beloved of Lord Sugar's victims.
What I would have loved and would make the author rich beyond wild imagination was much more of real substance on how to work successfully to help people in business change their attitudes and beliefs. The author is absolutely right to raise this as a critical issue but doesn't really help much.
Lightweight fun, mostly.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is a book which you will either love and find really useful for its sensible and, rather obvious advice - if you're feeling positive then you will act and produce positively, dont be stampeded, change your routine/habits ... etc etc... , or you will find it irritating and predictible, full of obvious advice and few insights.
Much of the advice is sensible and straightforward and if it helps you to have a little book to hand that you can dive into - you are NOT going to spend hours reading this! - and dig out a nugget which will then refresh you, then this is a good one for you - it can be very useful for that, but ... I confess that I found it irritating - the use of BIG letters on red pages etc - very gimmicky! To be quite honest, I will probably dip in and out and may find it useful for a short while, but this is not a life changing book - it is light weight and pretty obvious.
Much of the advice is sensible and straightforward and if it helps you to have a little book to hand that you can dive into - you are NOT going to spend hours reading this! - and dig out a nugget which will then refresh you, then this is a good one for you - it can be very useful for that, but ... I confess that I found it irritating - the use of BIG letters on red pages etc - very gimmicky! To be quite honest, I will probably dip in and out and may find it useful for a short while, but this is not a life changing book - it is light weight and pretty obvious.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Creative, Different, Unique
This is an interesting manual which suggests that we can leave the dreary 'day to day' behind and become that person in the office who is different, creative and unique. Read more
Published 1 month ago by J. Pittam
Useful but not indispensable
This is a light and readable book, packed with pithy snippets, that are succinct and useful, but sometimes feel glib and cliched. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Tolkein
Unlikely to change your life
This is probably heresy coming from a Vine reviewer, but I couldn't finish this book. It was rather like wading through a sweet suet pudding with no currants in. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Bob Sherunkle
Great book! Packed with great advice in short snippets
Nowadays you need to shine to stand out from the crowd and I read this book with interest. I liked the short chapters meaning I could read a complete chapter in a short space of... Read more
Published 5 months ago by D. Bland
It's good, but is it a book...
I liked Shine, and its premise. But its worthiness of being a full "volume" of a book remains in question. Read more
Published 6 months ago by D Peers
positive
I like this book - it is very easy to read, with short, bite-sized chapters focssed on simple principles. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Bill Crawford
This book Shines
An outstanding book. The [...] is focused on how you can be excellent at work, especially as a lecturer, tutor or teacher. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Ian Sharp
Not thought provoking
For me this didn't give me anything new or different to think about. I feel there are better books about, particularly the work of Ed Foreman's good and bad days. Read more
Published 7 months ago by S. Lloyd
feel more dynamic just by reading this!
This book is kind of work/life psychology 'lite'. It covers everything in really short, snappy sections, with the important bits highlighted in BIG letters! Read more
Published 7 months ago by Becky P
It grew on me
This book was not at all what I was expecting, and I was not sure that I liked it at first. It found it a bit tacky and basic to start with and didn't expect to finish it. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Shirlz
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