CATEGORY

Waterstones was DTI awarded as one of the three most financially successful business start-ups of the 1980s and, culturally, may be considered to have changed the complexion and scale of bookselling in the British isles and Europe. This massive success is in no small way due to Tim Waterstones excellent business practices and belief that business can work for the good of the community. In this inspirational, anti-corporate guide to business, he shares his top ten rules for creating businesses and making lives, using real-life case studies of how businesses succeed, and also how they can fail. Essential reading for anyone with a dream of starting up alone.