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Book SynopsisA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble out in a romantic cascade." “Google’s algorithms assume the world’s future is nothing more than the next moment in a random process. George Gilder shows how deep this assumption goes, what motivates people to make it, and why it’s wrong: the future depends on human action.” — Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies and author of Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future The Age of Google, built on big data and machine intelligence, has been an awesome era. But it’s coming to an end. In Life after Google, George Gilder—the peerless visionary of technology and culture—explains why Silicon Valley is suffering a nervous breakdown and what to expect as the post-Google age dawns. Google’s astonishing ability to “search and sort” attracts the entire world to its search engine and countless other goodies—videos, maps, email, calendars….And everything it offers is free, or so it seems. Instead of paying directly, users submit to advertising. The system of “aggregate and advertise” works—for a while—if you control an empire of data centers, but a market without prices strangles entrepreneurship and turns the Internet into a wasteland of ads. The crisis is not just economic. Even as advances in artificial intelligence induce delusions of omnipotence and transcendence, Silicon Valley has pretty much given up on security. The Internet firewalls supposedly protecting all those passwords and personal information have proved hopelessly permeable. The crisis cannot be solved within the current computer and network architecture. The future lies with the “cryptocosm”—the new architecture of the blockchain and its derivatives. Enabling cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether, NEO and Hashgraph, it will provide the Internet a secure global payments system, ending the aggregate-and-advertise Age of Google. Silicon Valley, long dominated by a few giants, faces a “great unbundling,” which will disperse computer power and commerce and transform the economy and the Internet. Life after Google is almost here.

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Book SynopsisYou may not know it, but you are sitting on a goldmine. Your knowledge, passions, and skills can be transformed into a lucrative income stream that requires no college degree, zero employees, and less than $50 to get started. Whether it takes shape as a full-fledged business, a side hustle, or automated earnings is up to you!Before you can monetize what you know, you’ll need to learn the dynamics of the knowledge economy. There’s no one better to teach you than Graham Cochrane—business coach, YouTuber, and founder of The Recording Revolution, a once no-name blog about music turned 7-figure business that requires fewer than 5 hours per week of work. With How to Get Paid for What You Know, he provides a proven 6-step system for turning your ideas, skills, and passions into an income stream that puts money in your bank account day and night, whether you’re working or not. In this book, you’ll learn how to: Discover your idea and ensure it will be profitable,Build an audience,Package your knowledge into a highly desirable digital product,Sell online in an authentic and ethical way,Leverage simple online tools to market your product, andAutomate the entire process so that income flows to you even when you’re not working. Follow these steps and you’ll be well on your way to creating better stability in your income and finding more fulfillment in your work and, ultimately, your life. How to Get Paid for What You Know is your essential guide to a new and better way to make a living.

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Book SynopsisLearn how to generate consistent returns from the Indian stock market with Diamonds in the Dust by Saurabh Mukherjea. Discover a simple yet effective investment technique to identify well-managed companies that have provided outsized returns. Backed by in-depth research, this book helps Indian savers navigate the $3 trillion stock market.

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Book SynopsisWant big returns? Look at small stocks! Penny stocks are low-cost equities that often make large price moves, potentially leading to big gainsor lossesfor investors.Penny StocksForDummieswill help you determine whether this wild ride is right for you. With this hands-on guide, you can grasp the basics, find smart investments, avoid scams, and look for big success, even if youonly have pocket change to start out with. This latest edition takes you right into today's unique penny stock market.You'lllearn how to read penny stock charts, evaluate the strength of small companies, recognize price manipulations, anduse smart trading strategies to maximize your returns. Buying and selling penny stocks can be extremely lucrativeif you know exactly whatyou'redoing. This book will make a penny trader out of you, so you can start making money for the future.(Heads up: you're going to need a bigger piggy bank!) WithPenny StocksForDummies, you will: Find out whether penny stocks are a good fit for your investment goals, available capital, and risk toleranceDo your due diligence and learn how to research potential penny stock investmentsUse fundamental analysis, financial ratios, and penny-specific technical analysis to identify winning betsUncover expert tips that will boost your results and help prevent big losses Penny StocksForDummieswill give youtheknowledge andconfidenceyou needto get in on the ground floorand discover those hidden gems for high rewards.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 Beyond the Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4 Part 1: Getting Started with Penny Stocks 5 Chapter 1: Getting to Know Penny Stocks 7 A Big, Fat, “Tiny” Penny Stock Summary 8 Defining Penny Stocks 9 Price per share 10 Market capitalization 10 Stock market 10 Mix and match 11 Why does it matter? 11 Comparing Penny Stocks to Their Blue-Chip Cousins 13 Volatility and speed 14 Safety and risk 14 Investor following and visibility 15 Larger stones take more force to move 16 Chapter 2: Deciding If Penny Stocks Are Right for You 19 Gauging the Popularity of Penny Stocks 20 A high risk/reward ratio 20 Limited funds 22 Risky misconceptions 22 Taking Stock of the Big Business of Penny Stocks 23 You’re not alone 23 Room to grow 24 Making Sense of What You’ve Heard (Much of Which is True!) 25 Penny stocks represent low-quality companies 25 Penny stocks are subject to price manipulation scams 26 Trading penny stocks is a game of chance 26 Making a Fast Million Not! 27 Penny stocks appeal to the impatient 27 Newer investors gravitate to penny stocks 28 Penny stocks appeal to smaller portfolios 29 Being Honest with Yourself: Are Penny Stocks Right For You? 29 Chapter 3: Buying and Selling Penny Stocks 31 The Ins and Outs of the Stock Market 32 Factors influencing which exchange a company lists on 32 A who’s who of stock exchanges 34 Issuing Shares 37 Diluting a good thing 38 How dilution affects investors 39 When new share issues are a good thing 40 When new share issues are not a good thing 41 Stock Buybacks 42 Acquisitions and Takeovers 43 Why penny stock companies are frequently bought 45 Resisting a takeover 46 Understanding which companies are takeover targets 46 Being the buyer 48 Mergers and Amalgamations 49 Stock splits and reverse splits 50 Why you don’t see splits in low-priced shares 51 Why reverse splits are common in penny stocks 51 Bankruptcies 52 Chapter 4: Avoiding Promotions, Scams, and Bribes 53 Why Penny Stocks Are Perfect for Price Manipulation 53 Who is Moving the Price? 57 Promoters 58 Investor or public relations 58 The touter 59 The advisor 59 Rooting Out Poor Quality Companies 60 A good story 60 Financially broken 61 Weak business model 61 Swimming against the trend 62 The 2-pound gorilla 62 Obstacles That Even High-Quality Companies Face 63 Lawsuits 65 Lost customers 66 The 500-pound gorilla 67 Even the Good Can Die Young 67 Part 2: Research and Investment Strategies 69 Chapter 5: Developing a Strategy 71 Trading Risk Free without Using Real Money 72 Keeping it simple: What you need to get started 72 Setting your paper trading parameters 73 Some paper trading considerations 74 Tracking the success (or failure) of your paper trades 75 What You Need Before Your First Trade 76 Choosing a Great Broker 77 Penny-stock-friendly brokers 78 When to upgrade your broker 79 Types of Trading Orders 79 Bids, asks, and spreads 79 Limit orders 80 Market orders 81 Other types of orders 82 Characteristics of a Successful Penny Stock Trader 84 Investing Versus Trading 86 Investing in penny stocks 86 Trading in penny stocks 86 Chapter 6: Doing Your Research 89 Doing Your Due Diligence 90 Skimming the surface 90 Digging a little (or a lot) deeper 91 The Where’s and How’s of Research 92 Stock quotes 93 Trading charts 93 Stock screeners 95 Company financials 95 Press releases 96 Media outlets 97 Paid analysts 97 Investor relations 98 Penny stock newsletters 98 Message boards 100 Calling the Penny Stock Company 101 Be prepared before you dial 101 Questions to ask management or IR 102 Dead-end questions to avoid 104 How to interpret IR responses 104 Corporate and Analyst Guidance 105 Should you trust guidance issued by the company? 106 Following analyst guidance 107 Generating your own guidance data 107 How Expectations Drive Prices: Getting Baked in the Pie 108 Expectations are more important than results 108 Beating estimates 110 Missing guidance numbers 110 Penny Stocks Are Affected by Trends 111 Sector and industry trends 111 Trends in the overall market 113 Trends in consumer and social behavior 113 Market and Company Risk 115 Let the rising tide lift your boat 115 Investing against the current 116 Reacting to nonsystemic (company-specific) risk 117 Reacting to systemic (market) risk 117 Buying What You Understand: The Free and Instant Advantage 118 Chapter 7: Picking a Winner 121 Narrowing Your Choices 122 Your Elimination Criteria 122 Who Do You Trust? 124 Your number one ally: You 124 Considering the motives of others 125 Reviewing their track record 126 Paid advertisements: The wolf in sheep’s clothing 126 Unreliable analysts 127 Stock Screeners 128 Choosing criteria to focus your search 128 Screening your screens: Getting even more focused 130 What stock screeners won’t tell you 131 Choosing Penny Stocks Manually 132 Chapter 8: Penny Stock Manias 133 Wild Speculation and Investor Stampedes 134 Why manias affect penny stocks the most 135 The next stampede: It’s just around the corner 136 Penny Stock Manias of the Past: Learning from Other People’s Mistakes 137 Pot penny stocks 137 Bitcoin mania? 143 The dot-com bubble in penny stocks 150 Surviving and Profiting from Penny Stock Manias 153 Spotting the Next Mania 154 Why the next mania plays out 154 How the next mania plays out 155 Part 3: Trading Penny Stocks 157 Chapter 9: Trading Strategies 159 Scaling In and Scaling Out 160 Averaging Up Not Down 161 The many downsides of averaging down 161 The upsides of averaging up 163 Limiting Your Losses and Locking In Your Gains 163 Stop-loss orders 163 Position sizing 165 Diversification 166 Limit orders 167 Using only the best markets 167 Trading Windows 167 Timing Trades: When to Hold ’Em and When to Fold ’Em 168 Know when to take a profit 168 Know when to sell at a loss 169 Chapter 10: Fundamental Analysis 171 Financial Reports 172 The income statement 173 Balance sheet 174 The statement of cash flows 176 Numbers to Look for in Penny Stocks 179 Good numbers on the financial statements 180 Trends in financial results 184 Acting On Analysis 186 Management is Steering This Ship 187 Who’s who at the helm 187 What have these managers done before? 188 The corporate commitment level 189 News Releases and Events 191 Press releases from the company 192 Coverage from third-party sources 192 The timing of milestone events 193 The Outlook for the Sector and Industry 194 Microeconomic influences 195 Macroeconomic influences 196 Keeping your macros and micros straight 197 Chapter 11: Financial Ratios: Comparing Apples to Apples 199 Leveling the Playing Field with Financial Ratios 200 Eliminating size as a factor 200 Comparing stocks across industries 201 The Five Categories of Financial Ratios 201 Liquidity Ratios 202 Current ratio 203 Quick ratio 203 Cash ratio 204 Operating cash flow 205 Activity Ratios 206 Inventory turnover 207 Receivables turnover 207 Payables turnover 208 Working capital turnover 209 Fixed asset turnover 209 Total asset turnover 210 Leverage Ratios 211 Debt ratio 211 Debt to equity 212 Interest coverage 212 Performance Ratios 213 Gross profit margin 214 Operating profit margin 215 Net profit margin 216 Return on assets 217 Return on equity 217 Valuation Ratios 218 Price to earnings 218 Price to earnings to growth rate ratio 220 Price to sales 220 Price to cash flow 221 Chapter 12: The Abstract Review in Penny Stocks 223 Making Products Meaningful with Branding 224 Why branding is more important with penny stocks 225 When branding is done well 226 Harnessing a Unique Selling Proposition 227 Ensuring Product or Service Acceptance 228 Market Share 229 How to find out the market share for a penny stock 230 Profit from changes in market share 230 Barriers to Entry 231 Gauging barriers to new competition 232 The best first movers are the small ones 232 Marketing Strategy and Results 234 Poor marketing is bottomless 234 Marketing is hard to track with penny stocks 235 Loyalty and Attrition 236 Customer turnover 237 Relative order sizes and frequencies 237 Chapter 13: Technical Analysis with Penny Stocks 239 When Technical Analysis is Good 240 Why TA Often Doesn’t Work with Penny Stocks 243 Use Technical Indicators to Spot Trading Opportunities 244 All Patterns Break Down 246 Technical Analysis That Will Work with Penny Stocks 247 Clues from trading volume 247 Support levels 248 Resistance 250 Trends are friends 251 Price spikes 252 Price dips 253 Topping out patterns 254 Bottoming out patterns 256 Consolidation patterns 257 On-balance volume 260 Momentum indicators 261 Moving averages 262 Relative strength 263 Part 4: Scaling Up Your Success 265 Chapter 14: The Surprising Power of Mental Focus 267 Taking a Situational Audit 268 Unless you increase your time and energy 268 When the weeds envelope you 269 Why the dearth of quality? 271 Are Your Expectations Realistic? 271 Truly knowing yourself 272 The purpose is deeper 273 Goals? Not everyone needs them 273 The first step is the longest 273 Your Penny Stock Plan 274 Frequency and fine-tuning 276 You do not get to have luck 276 Take a forced rest 277 Chapter 15: Finding the One Strategy That Works 279 Your Solo Strategy 280 Do less of what doesn’t work 281 Rinse and repeat 282 Simplicity is misunderstood 282 One Penny Stock Truth Above All 282 Dancing on quicksand 283 Changing landscape 283 Adapting to What’s Next 285 Creating a Ritual 286 Shrine, studio, war room, or kitchen table? 287 A statement of commitment 288 Opportunity Costs and Your Results 288 Unseen small investments for major gains 289 Extrapolate your destination 289 Chapter 16: Debriefing for Dollars and Cents 291 Your Opinion is Your Mental Blind Spot 292 Comparing results to expectations 292 Comparing expectations to environments 293 The intentions-to-profits contrast 295 The assumptions you were given 296 Media Imagery and Misunderstandings 297 Tunnel-vision gurus 297 Trusted friends and family 298 Buying excitement 298 Building Your Investing Power 299 Collect 100 mistakes 301 List your lessons 301 Take an emotional assessment 303 Change yourself to change your results 303 Part 5: The Part of Tens 307 Chapter 17: Ten Rapid Result Tactics 309 Call the Company 310 Average Up 310 Don’t Confuse Market Risk with Company Risk 311 Try the Product, Use the Service 312 Compare the Wares 313 Paper Trade 313 Know the Corporate Life Cycle 314 What’s Really Driving the Share Price? 315 Watch the Short Interest 316 Don’t Diversify, Pinpoint Invest Instead 317 Chapter 18: Ten Trading Truths 319 Investor Sentiment is Contrarian 319 Big Moves Occur During Brief Trading Windows 321 Greater Volume Means Greater Sustainability 321 Making Up for Losses is Harder than Preventing Them 322 Bigger Things Take More Energy to Move 322 Rapid Rise, Rapid Fall 323 Dilution Disguises Losses 324 Buy the Rumor, Sell the Fact 324 Don’t Try Catching Falling Knives 325 Resistance Levels Can Flip 326 Chapter 19: Ten Key Considerations for Companies 327 Barriers to Entry 327 Competitive Advantages 328 Market Share (and Room for Growth) 329 Customer Diversity and the Company’s Reliance 330 Allies 331 Insider Ownership 331 Institutional Ownership 332 Positioning 333 The Secret of Flag Fall Fees 333 It’s All About Recurring Revenues and Attrition 334 Index 337

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Book SynopsisWritten in the 6th century BCE, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is still used as a book of military strategy today, as well as being extremely popular among politicians. Napoleon, Mae Zedong and Douglas MacArthur all claimed to have drawn inspiration from it. And beyond the world of war, modern-era business and management gurus have also applied Sun Tzu's ideas to politics and corporate strategy. In this Chinese-bound journal, each spread page has ample space for your thoughts and notes, and features a key, insightful quote from Sun Tsu's famous and much-read work. The book is robust enough to be unpacked and repacked. You could fill the pages of this journal while sitting on a mountaintop, on a railway platform, in your office lunch hour or in the privacy of your own home. Beautifully made with traditional Chinese bookbinding techniques, this is more than a hardwearing book. It is something exquisite to be cherished. The Art of War Journal is the perfect place for you to record your thoughts - and be inspired by ancient Chinese military wisdom.

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Book Synopsis''A powerful argument, and practical advice, on the importance of reclaiming your leisure time to live a happier and more fulfilling life'' - Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of Better Than Before and The Happiness ProjectEncroaching work demands - coupled with domestic chores, overbooked schedules, and the incessant pinging of our devices - have taken a toll on what used to be our free time: the weekend. With no space to tune out and recharge, every aspect of our lives is suffering: our health is deteriorating, our social networks (the face-to-face kind) are dissolving and our productivity is down. The notion of working less and living more has given way to the belief that you must be ''on'' 24/7.Tired of suffering from Sunday-night let down, award-winning journalist Katrina Onstad pushes back against this all-work-no-fun ethos. Onstad follows the trail of people, companies and countries vigilantly protecting their time oTrade ReviewToo often we race through the week, only to find our weekends packed with countless errands and never-ending to-do lists. Before we know it, we've lost sight of what really makes us happy. In The Weekend Effect, Katrina Onstad offers a powerful argument, and practical advice, on the importance of reclaiming your leisure time to live a happier and more fulfilling life -- Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of Better than Before and The Happiness ProjectThe Weekend Effect is a call to action - or even better - a call to inaction. It proves its case that by staking a claim to your weekend, your work and home life (and your health and wellbeing) benefit every day of the year. Take the time to read it like I did, over a weekend. It's a great way to start -- Kirstine Stewart, media and technology executive and author of Our TurnMasterfully researched and beautifully written, The Weekend Effect urgently makes the case that our hard won free time is essential to our survival, and needs to be reclaimed. Pick up this book, and get ready to rekindle your love of the weekend! Your emails can wait until Monday -- David Sax, author of The Revenge of AnalogToo often work and technology erode our ability to connect meaningfully face-to-face, intruding into the critical time we need to recharge ourselves. In Katrina Onstad's insightful and compelling book, THE WEEKEND EFFECT, she offers an urgent call to arms on the essential need to take back our weekends -- Dallas Hartwig, NY Times bestselling co-author of It Starts With FoodIn our frenetic era of total work devotion and breathless busyness, the idea of making time for leisure has become almost a sacrilege. But Katrina Onstad makes a compelling case in her terrific new book, The Weekend Effect, that true leisure - time for reflection, connection, play and joy - knits together the social fabric of community, soothes the weary soul and, at heart, is what makes life worth living. A welcome romp of a read -- Brigid Schulte, award-winning journalist and author of the New York Times bestselling Overwhelmed and director of The Better Life Lab at New AmericaThe Weekend Effect is a fastidiously researched book detailing how we collectively lost the art of weekending well... Onstad provides plenty for the stressed and time-poor to mull over -- Tanya Sweeney * Irish Times *

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Book SynopsisThe Best Story Wins provides fresh perspectives on the principles of Pixar-style storytelling, adapted by one of the studio’s top creatives to meet the needs of entrepreneurs, marketers, and business-minded storytellers of all stripes. Pixar movies have transfixed viewers around the world and stirred a hunger in creative and corporate realms to adopt new and more impactful ways of telling stories. Former Pixar and The Simpsons Animator and Story Artist Matthew Luhn translates his two and half decades of storytelling techniques and concepts to the CEOs, advertisers, marketers, and creatives in the business world and beyond. A combination of Luhn’s personal stories and storytelling insights, The Best Story Wins retells the “Hero’s Journey” story building methods through the lens of the Pixar films to help business minds embrace the power of storytelling for themselves!

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Book SynopsisRichard Pike is Emeritus Professor of Finance at the School of Management, University of Bradford. Bill Neale has lectured and researched at several UK Universities and is now freelancing. Saeed Akbar is a Professor in Accounting and Finance at the Hull University Business School, University of Hull. Philip Linsley is a Professor in Accounting and Finance at the University of York.Table of ContentsList of figures and tables Preface Authors' acknowledgements Publisher's acknowledgements Part I A framework for financial decisions An overview of financial management The financial environment Present values, and bond and share valuation Part II Investment decisions and strategies Investment appraisal methods Project appraisal – applications Investment strategy and process Part III Value, risk and the required return Analysing investment risk Relationships between investments: portfolio theory Setting the risk premium: the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) The required rate of return on investment Enterprise value and equity value Identifying and valuing options Part IV Short-term financing and policies Risk and treasury management Working capital and short-term asset management Short- and medium-term finance Part V Strategic financial decisions Long-term finance Returning value to shareholders: the dividend decision Capital structure and the required return Does capital structure really matter? Acquisitions and re-structuring Part VI International financial management Managing currency risk Foreign investment decisions Key issues in modern finance: a review Appendix A Solutions to self-assessment activities Appendix B Solutions to selected questions Appendix C Present value interest factor (PVIF) Appendix D Present value interest factor for an annuity (PVIFA) Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the book named the best investment book of 2017 comes The Behavioral Investor, an applied look at how psychology ought to inform the art and science of investment management.

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Book SynopsisAlan Calder is Group CEO of GRC International Group plc, the AIM-listed company that owns IT Governance Ltd.. He led the world's first successful implementation of BS 7799 (now ISO 27001) and was involved in developing a wide range of information security management training courses, accredited by the International Board for IT Governance Qualifications (IBITGQ). Steve Watkins is Executive Director at GRC International Group plc, chair of the UK ISO/IEC 27001 User Group and contracted technical assessor for UKAS. He is a member of the international technical committee responsible for the ISO 27000 family of standards, and chairs the UK National Standards Body's technical committee IST/33 (information security, cyber security and privacy protection) that mirrors it.Trade Review"This book is to ISO27002 what ISO27002 is to ISO27001 - it is the guidance to the standard's guidance. As such, it is the most impressively comprehensive guide to implementing ISO27001-level InfoSec in your organisation. It gives detailed understanding and insight about the motivation and purpose of the different controls that will help build a fit-for-purpose ISMS. Because of this, I chose it as the set book for the very popular Open University Introduction to InfoSec module." * Dr Jon Hall, Open University InfoSec Module Chair and Author *"A well-structured and informative book that deserves a place on the bookshelf of any ISMS lead implementer and an invaluable reference for organisations seeking accredited third-party certification." * Alastair Hunter - UKAS Information Assurance Technical Focus *Table of Contents Chapter - 01: Why is information security necessary?; Chapter - 02: The UK combined code, the FRC risk guidance and Sarbanes–Oxley; Chapter - 03: ISO27001; Chapter - 04: Organizing information security; Chapter - 05: Information security policy and scope; Chapter - 06: The risk assessment and Statement of Applicability; Chapter - 07: Mobile devices; Chapter - 08: Human resources security; Chapter - 09: Asset management; Chapter - 10: Media handling; Chapter - 11: Access control; Chapter - 12: User access management; Chapter - 13: System and application access control; Chapter - 14: Cryptography; Chapter - 15: Physical and environmental security; Chapter - 16: Equipment security; Chapter - 17: Operations security; Chapter - 18: Controls against malicious software (malware); Chapter - 19: Communications management; Chapter - 20: Exchanges of information; Chapter - 21: System acquisition, development and maintenance; Chapter - 22: Development and support processes; Chapter - 23: Supplier relationships; Chapter - 24: Monitoring and information security incident management; Chapter - 25: Business and information security continuity management; Chapter - 26: Compliance; Chapter - 27: The ISO27001 audit

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Book SynopsisGlenn Templeman has breadth and depth of HR and business partnering experience gained over a twenty-year career thinking about or being an HR business partner across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Based in London, UK, he is currently an HR consultant within the management consulting industry working with government and public sector clients.Trade Review"Developing a strategic mindset is an essential skill for all HR professionals. It is never too early to develop such a mindset and this book neatly shows you how." * Dr Dina Gray, Strategy Academic and Consultant *"A step-by-step roadmap on how to be a simply brilliant and fulfilled HR Business Partner. Eloquent, funny and thought-provoking by turn, in an age of machine learning and HR bots, it is heartening to focus on the 'human' nature of this role and how a really effective HR partner to a business area can make a transformative difference. Sage advice for all in HR, regardless of which stage of their career." * Sarah Stacey, Director HR Business Partnering, NATS *"A compelling read for both aspiring and practicing HR Business Partners, written in a style that is informative and relatable and equipping those navigating the perennial challenges of this keystone HR role." * Nick Sloan FCIPD, HR Transformation Specialist, Management Consulting Industry *"A great insight into strategic thinking with practical applications and a wealth of real experiences. A valuable read for all those in HR who want to make a difference." * Nigel Daly, Fellow CIPD, HR L&D specialist *"The HR Business Partner Handbook is one that the profession has been waiting for. It is a complete guide to understanding the depth and breadth of the role of a HR Business Partner and the value it can bring any organization. Coupled with expert insights from Glenn, it will help you to achieve day-to-day excellence through its informative and empowering approach as it sets out expectations to help anyone be an awesome HRBP. Whether you're new to HR or looking to transition from a HR generalist or specialist role, this incredibly practical guide is a must-read on your journey." * Andrew Mina, People and Customer Experience Manager, HR SaaS company *"This is an incredibly helpful, easy-to-read book with a witty slant. It provides wise advice and is an essential read for HR professionals and people leaders alike." * Rachel Gardner-Poole, Chief Operating Officer, innovation & technology sector *"This is an excellent read. It provides valuable insights, guidance and advice to someone starting out on the course of becoming an HR Business Partner - the sorts of insights which you don't normally get from a textbook. It gives the reader a glimpse into the author's own personal story and his views on what makes a strategic HR business partner stand out. It is thought provoking and offers a really interesting perspective." * Elaine McIlroy Employment and Immigration Law Firm Partner *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction - A well-trodden path should be easy to follow; Section - ONE: The foundational structure; Chapter - 01: Knowing HR; Chapter - 02: Knowing the business; Chapter - 03: Adding value; Section - TWO: The people fundamentals; Chapter - 04: Always listen to people; Chapter - 05: The power of empathy; Chapter - 06: The protection of perception; Chapter - 07: The moral and ethical compass; Chapter - 08: Style, service and subservience; Chapter - 09: Humble headlines; Section - THREE: The road to strategic; Chapter - 10: The active application of procrastination; Chapter - 11: Say no to strangers; Chapter - 12: Ever the pragmatist; Section - FOUR: The clever stuff; Chapter - 13: Strategic is a mindset; Chapter - 14: Don’t treat the symptoms; Chapter - 15: Tell me a story; Section - FIVE: The warning signs; Chapter - 16: Don’t throw nuts; Chapter - 17: Progression over promotion; Chapter - 18: Epilogue

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Book SynopsisDiscover the meaning of the latest trends in the luxury industry with this resource from leading voices in the field The thoroughly revised Second Edition of The Road to Luxury: The New Frontiers in Luxury Brand Management delivers a comprehensive overview of the foundations of, and new developments in, luxury brands. The book discusses a new wave of mergers and acquisitions, the rise of Gucci, the growth of Balenciaga, a variety of new collaborations between different companies, a growing support for sustainability, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of: An insightful analysis of the impact and meaning of the COVID-19 for the luxury industry, particularly for market growth in China The creation of savoir faire and business plan competitions in the luxury industry LVMH''s sponsoring of Viva Technology Perfect for students in MBA programs or taking degrees or courses in LuxurTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi About the Authors xv Prologue xvii Part I: Understanding the Luxury Business 1 Chapter 1: Introduction— Definition and Crisis of Luxury 2 Issues of Defining Luxury 3 Crisis 5 The Luxury Industry 7 Reaction to the Crisis of Global Markets 9 The Effect of a Crisis on the Luxury Industry 17 Strategic Response to Crisis 19 Conclusion 25 Chapter 2: Evolution of the Global Luxury Market 27 Evolution 30 How Has It Changed? 36 Luxury Industry Trends 39 Conclusion 48 Chapter 3: Who’s Who of Luxury 49 The Consumers 50 The Actors 52 Conclusion 94 Chapter 4: Branding 97 Market Saturation 98 Luxury Marketing: Highly Creative and Selective 101 The Nine Ps of Luxury Brand Marketing for the Nomad of Tomorrow 111 Discussion 134 Conclusion 134 Chapter 5: Brand Identity, Ethos, Clients 137 Brand Identity 138 Ethos 144 Clients 149 Discussion 154 Pricing of Luxury Goods 155 Conclusion 160 Part II: Luxury Management and Markets 161 Chapter 6: Family- Run Houses, Corporatization, and New Entrants 162 What Is a Family- Run Business? 165 Family- Run Business During a Crisis 183 Family- Run Businesses of the Future: Corporatization 184 Changes During the Transition from a Family- Run Business Model to That of a Corporation 190 Entrepreneurs and New Entrants into Existing Markets 194 Trends and Discussion 198 Conclusion 202 Chapter 7: Management Styles in the Luxury Industry 203 Path Dependency and Its Influence on Management Styles 205 Managing Paradoxes 210 Examples of Styles 218 Analysis 237 Conclusion 240 Chapter 8: Skills 244 Craftsmanship Through History 248 Entrepreneurial Designers 253 The Sales Team 253 Professional Managers 257 Perspective of the Conglomerates 259 Managing Talent 262 Conclusion 275 Chapter 9: Managing Operations and Supply Chain in the Luxury Business 279 The Challenge 282 The Global and the Local Supply Chain 285 Customer Relationship Management and Customer Experience 295 Conclusion 300 Chapter 10: Services: The Point of Sale 304 Issues at Point of Sale 307 The Customer Experience Dimension 311 The Service Dimension 316 The Phygital Dimension 319 Conclusion 327 Part III: Contemporary Issues and the New Frontiers 331 Chapter 11: Digitalization of Retail— E- commerce, Platforms, and Omnichannel 332 Introduction 332 Evolution of Distribution and Retailing 335 Conclusion 381 Chapter 12: Sustainability, Circularity, and the New Era of Luxury 384 Introduction 384 Definitional Issue and “the Right Strategy” 385 Social, Environmental, and Economic Challenges 387 The Social Challenge 388 The Environmental Challenge 389 The Economic Challenge 394 The Three Challenges 395 Forces Shaping the Sustainability Model for Luxury Business 396 Sustainable Business Model Best Practice for the Luxury Business 410 Conclusion 416 Chapter 13: New Markets and the Future 419 A Consolidated Industry 420 The Frontier Markets 421 The Pandemic Aftermath 433 The Future 440 The New Frontier 443 Chapter 14: Epilogue: How to Create a Luxury Brand 449 Case Studies on Luxury Entrepreneurship 451 Revisiting the 9Ps as the Essentials of Building a Luxury Brand 465 Expanding into International Markets as a Way of Growth for Emerging Brands in Frontier Markets 471 Research Design, Methodology, and Data Collection 475 Index 481

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Book SynopsisFrom Jim Collins, the most influential business thinker of our era, comes an ambitious upgrade of his classic, Beyond Entrepreneurship, that includes all-new findings and world-changing insights.What''s the roadmap to create a company that not only survives its infancy but thrives, changing the world for decades to come? Nine years before the publication of his epochal bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins and his mentor, Bill Lazier, answered this question in their bestselling book, Beyond Entrepreneurship.Beyond Entrepreneurship left a definitive mark on the business community, influencing the young pioneers who were, at that time, creating the technology revolution that was birthing in Silicon Valley. Decades later, successive generations of entrepreneurs still turn to the strategies outlined in Beyond Entrepreneurship to answer the most pressing business questions. BE 2.0 is a new and improved version of the book that Jim Collins and Bill Lazier wrote years ago. In BE 2.0, Jim Collins honors his mentor, Bill Lazier, who passed away in 2005, and reexamines the original text of Beyond Entrepreneurship with his 2020 perspective. The book includes the original text of Beyond Entrepreneurship, as well as four new chapters and fifteen new essays. BE 2.0 pulls together the key concepts across Collins'' thirty years of research into one integrated framework called The Map. The result is a singular reading experience, which presents a unified vision of company creation that will fascinate not only Jim''s millions of dedicated readers worldwide, but also introduce a new generation to his remarkable work.

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Book SynopsisMake more money than ever with the proven, easy-to-understand methods of stock trading and investing expert Michael SincereIf youâre just starting to invest in or trade stocksâor even if youâre only considering itâHow to Profit in the Stock Market delivers the insights and knowledge you need to succeed, consistently and decisively. The Art of Buyingâhow to find winning stocks, and buying strategies and tactics Technical Indicators and OscillatorsâMACD, RSI, Bollinger Bands, Stochastics, Candlesticks, Moving Averages Trend and Momentum Strategiesâdiscusses short-term trend trading and momentum strategies High Risk, High-Reward Strategiesâday trading, trading gaps, cryptocurrencies, and trading penny stocks Corrections, Crashes, and Bear Marketsâhow to survive and thrive when markets plunge, and advice from short-selling experts Selling Stocks and Optionsâthe art of selling and selling covered calls

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Book Synopsis__________________________‘Bruce Daisley is on a mission to change the world of work.’ The Times__________________________From the creator of hit podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat comes a revolutionary re-envisioning of how to enjoy your job.Do you want to get more done, feel less stressed and love your job again?Sometimes having a job can feel like hard work. But between Monk Mode mornings, silent meetings and crisp Thursdays, the solutions are at your fingertips.Bruce Daisley knows a thing or two about the workplace. In the course of a career that has taken him from some of the world’s biggest media companies to Twitter, via Google and YouTube, he has become a leading expert on how we work now. And in his hugely popular podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat, he has explored ways to fix it. Now he shares 30 brilliant – and refreshingly simple – tips on how to make your job more productive, more rewarding – and much, much more enjoyable.‘With just 30 changes, you can transform your work experience from bland and boring (or worse) to fulfilling, fun, and even joyful.’ Daniel Pink, author of When and Drive__________________________"This is a warm, wise and funny book which provides a terrific summary of some of the science - and stories - behind what makes work a positive part of people’s lives. From the importance of lunch to the value of laughter, this book gives witty and practical advice. I loved it and I’ve already started changing some of the things I do at work, as a result!" - Professor Sophie Scott"Don't quit yet! In this book, Bruce shares remarkable advice that may well have you laughing while you work and truly loving your job." - Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder“Bruce Daisley’s The Joy of Work is a joy to read. It translates the best of workplace psychology research into practical ways of establishing creative and liveable cultures at work—a must read for all of us 9-5ers!” - Professor Sir Cary Cooper, ALLIANCE Manchester Business School, University of Manchester“Bruce’s The Joy of Work is an important reminder of simple everyday practices to improve how we all work together, which will lead to greater team and individual happiness and performance. Great results will follow.” - Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square"With just 30 changes, you can transform your work experience from bland and boring (or worse) to fulfilling, fun, and even joyful. Bruce Daisley has pulled together threads of research and woven them into a tapestry of strategies that actually work, and that don't depend on the CEO's sign-off for implementation. You can begin changing your work culture today at the individual, team, and organisational levels with these tactics that increase creativity, productivity, and satisfaction.” - Daniel Pink, author of WHEN and DRIVETrade ReviewBruce Daisley is on a mission to change the world of work and help ordinary people to kick their addiction to digital communication. His thesis is attractive and compelling: rather than free us up, new technology is tying us to our devices and desks and raising stress and unhappiness at work with no discernible increase in productivity . . . Daisley may be the man to lead the pushback. * The Times *[Daisley] offers helpful tips and ways of thinking to maximise your happiness and productivity at work without giving up your soul. * Evening Standard *You’ve probably read a lot about the positives of side hustles and freelance life, but what if you’re committed to a career within a company? European Twitter Vice-President Bruce Daisley has some of the answers . . . Bruce’s book is a manifesto for frustrated workers. * Balance *Combating workplace misery has become the mission of Bruce Daisley, European VP of Twitter and host of the podcast Eat, Sleep, Work, Repeat. His latest book, The Joy Of Work, is designed to make us fall back in love with our job again . . . Daisley’s book debunks many long-held assumptions about the workplace. * Grazia *For many people work has become joyless, but Daisley offers some easy fixes that any employee or team could implement straight away to make work feel better again . . . Daisley has a knack of showing how easy it is to make what are really rather small day-to-day changes at work. -- Book of the Month * Financial Times *

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Book SynopsisA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND FORTUNE MAGAZINE. The epic story of how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest financial heists in history. In 2015, rumours began circulating that billions of dollars had been stolen from a Malaysian investment fund. The mastermind of the heist was twenty-seven-year-old Jho Low, a serial fabulist from an upper-middle-class Malaysian family, who had carefully built his reputation as a member of the jet-setting elite by arranging and financing elaborate parties for Wall Street bankers, celebrities, and even royalty. With the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, Low stole billions of dollars, right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. He used the money to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and bankroll Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street. Billion Dollar Whale reveals how this silver-tongued con man, a ‘modern Gatsby’, emerged from obscurity to pull off one of the most audacious financial heists the world has ever seen, and how the financial industry let him. It is a classic harrowing parable of hubris and greed in the financial world.Trade Review‘An extraordinary tale … richly woven … with dogged reporting … Like all good business stories, Billion Dollar Whale is bigger than the immediate one it tells. It is a story of emerging markets crippled by corruption and cronyism and comes from the era of egregious — and mostly punishment-free — banking … One thing is clear. If ever Hollywood gets round to telling the story on screen, here is perfect material for the script.’ * Financial Times *‘If you like global intrigue, financial crime, wealth porn, and absurdity, Billion Dollar Whale, by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, is for you … It almost seems made up. Still, anyone who has followed the news out of Malaysia will know that the story is all too real.’ * The New Yorker *‘As Bad Blood is to biotech, Billion Dollar Whale is to international finance … a wonderful read … Thrilling.’ -- Bill Gates‘An impeccably researched book.’ -- Matthew Valencia * The Economist *‘One of the best business books in a long time.’ * Brian Sullivan, CNBC *‘What a blast to read! A true life thriller that reads like a Hollywood movie, Billion Dollar Whale traces the exploits of the most mercurial, mysterious big player in history. Jho Low is Gatsby with twice the bank account and ten times the ambition, and the stories surrounding his exploits leap right off the page!’ * Ben Mezrich, New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down The House *‘I couldn’t put it down.’ -- Pete Tong * The Times *‘One of the most important books of 2018.’ * MoneyLaundering.com *‘Wright and Hope deliver a scintillating and prodigiously reported tale of a globe-spanning modern Gatsby and his audacious fraud.’ * Jesse Eisinger, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for ProPublica and author of The Chickenshit Club *‘This story of a Wharton graduate who carried out the $5 billion swindle known as 1MDB offers a textbook case of financial fraud in the modern age.’ * New York Times *‘A rip-roaring case in kleptocracy.’ * The Economist *‘An incredible story … If you need some billionaires to despise—look no further than these charlatans.’ * Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit *‘Even the most skilled fiction writer would have trouble conjuring the corrupt and colorful protagonist of Billion Dollar Whale. Bradley Hope and Tom Wright's gripping portrait of Jho Low and his enablers throughout the global financial system will both fascinate and enrage you.’ * Sheelah Kolhatkar, staff writer at The New Yorker and New York Times bestselling author of Black Edge *‘The story of a massive international financial scandal … As the authors amply prove, the scandal reaches far beyond Low. To succeed, he relied on the naivete, greed, and generally immoral conduct of huge banks as well as corrupt governments.’ * Kirkus *‘Wright and Hope transform their investigation of a mind-boggling financial fraud into a nonfiction thriller … This is an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale.’ STARRED REVIEW * Publishers Weekly *‘An amazing tale of greed … juicy and entertaining.’ STARRED REVIEW * Library Journal *‘Well-researched and well-documented … Reveals how Low used a bag of tricks, including financial fraud, to make himself seem more powerful, more influential, and more successful than he actually was … This is a must-read.’ * Booklist *‘Billion Dollar Whale does more than dissect a financial fraud of epic proportions; it takes the reader on a fascinating journey inside the heart of a con that was years in the making. Wright and Hope show how perception becomes reality in the hands of a consummate financial illusionist. Billion Dollar Whale proves once again that truth is stranger than fiction.’ -- Gregory A. Coleman, retired FBI Special Agent; Case Agent, ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Investigation‘The authors strike a good balance between keeping Low’s story at the centre and making it clear that 1MDB was a scandal waiting to happen … they also provide some telling anecdotes.’ * Money Week *‘I highly recommend this rip-roaring story of brazen fraud … political corruption … and investment-banker callousness.’ * Adam Lashinsky, Fortune *‘Jaw dropping.’ -- Ed Needham * Strong Words *‘Gripping … The heist of the century.’ * Axios *‘Take one chubby Malaysian business school graduate. Mix with Middle Eastern sheikhs and greedy Southeast Asian politicians. Add Wall Street investment banks, law firms and Swiss wealth managers. Then mix in superyachts, five-star hotels, luxury apartments, nightclubs, models, A-list movie stars — and bathtubs of champagne … [This] richly reported page-turner is meticulously pieced together from interviews, documents and emails by Wall Street Journal reporters Tom Wright and Bradley Hope.’ * Peter Thal Larsen, Reuters *‘Compelling.’ * Minneapolis Star Tribune *‘A wonderful book … A rip-roaring, absolutely delightful account of one of the biggest financial cons in the history of the world … If you liked Bad Blood, you might well enjoy Billion Dollar Whale … An incredible story of a con artist at the height of his game.’ * David Plotz, Slate “Political Gabfest” *‘A cracking read.’ * Unreserved Media *‘An incredible story.’ * Knowledge@Wharton *‘Just finished reading Billion Dollar Whale and was blown away. I thought I had seen it all with Russian kleptocracy, but the story of the money stolen in Malaysia in 1MDB and all the enthusiastic Western enablers was unbelievable.’ -- Bill Browder, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Notice‘This thrilling true story reads like a Hollywood movie.’ * Sheerluxe Man *

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Book SynopsisâœThe ultimate all-in-one guide to becoming a great leader.â âDaniel PinkFrom the creator and host of The Learning Leader Show, âœthe most dynamic leadership podcast out thereâ (Forbes) that will âœhelp you lead smarterâ (Inc.), comes an essential tactical guide for newly promoted managers.Every year, millions of top performers are promoted to management-level jobsâonly to discover that the tactics that got them promoted are not the tactics that will make them effective in their new role. In Welcome to Management, Ryan Hawk provides practical, actionable advice and tools designed to ensure that transition is a successful one. He presents a new actionable three-part framework distilled from best practices drawn from in-depth interviews with over 300 of the most forward-thinking leaders around thTable of ContentsForeword But Where to Begin? Introduction The First Promotion Becoming the Learning Leader PART ILEAD YOURSELF1 Lead Yourself on the Inside The Starting Point: Self-Awareness The Role of Curiosity Building Your Learning Machine The Cycle of Learning: The Operating Framework It’s All About Mindset 2 Lead Yourself on the Outside Why Self-Discipline Matters What Self-Discipline Looks Like Response Management Your Presence Is Required Managing Your Time Habits: The Power of Subconscious Action Win the Morning Preparation: The Greatest Medicine for Fear Details MatterPART I IBUILD YOUR TEAM3 Cultivate the Culture The Essence of Culture 69Earning the Right to LeadThe Elements of Respect Respect Defined Trust Vulnerability Ownership Competition as Culture Perception Rules Putting These Ideas into Action Dealing with Resistance 4 Manage the Roster The Power of Who Managing the Team You Inherit Hiring: What Are You Looking For? Firing: When Pruning Is Required The Great Performer Paradox PART I I ILEAD YOUR TEAM5 Spread the Message The Power of Story How Much and How Often Connection Persuasion How 6 Make the Grade Results Matter “You Have to Do All Three” The Freedom of Humility Managing Up Conclusion: The Payoff Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a modern, practical guide on how to grow and make your own skincare products, no matter how big your garden. This handbook enables you to switch from toxic to nourishing skincare products that are better for you and the environment. Harness the therapeutic power of plants and natural ingredients to look after your skin – the body’s largest organ – simply, gently and effectively. Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Skin – understanding what the skin is and how we take care of it; Chapter 2: Plotting My Skincare Garden: What to grow and how to arrange it; Chapter 3: Choosing Skincare Plants: The top 22 skincare plants to grow and forage for and their beneficial properties; Chapter 4: The natural skincare garden through the seasons: What to do to maintain your garden through the year and how to harvest and store your plants; Chapter 5: Basic formulations and 30 skincare recipes, including skincare teas cleanses, oils, creams and more; Sustainability – how to make a Natural Cleaning Spray and Botanical Household Soap. Silvana takes you on a holistic journey, guiding you through planting the seed in the soil to growing harvesting, storing, creating and bottling your home-made herbal skincare.

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Book SynopsisThis timely book studies the economic theories of credit cycles and disturbances in the 20th century, presenting a nuanced view of the role of finance in the economy after the financial crash of 2008. Focusing on the work of economists from Marx onwards, Jan Toporowski moves beyond conventional monetary theory to offer an insightful critical alternative to current financial macroeconomics. The book features an extended discussion of Marx's approach to credit and finance, new insights to Minsky's ideas and a reconsideration of the financial theories of Kalecki and Steindl. Economic researchers and postgraduate students seeking to extend their knowledge of critical approaches to finance will find this an invaluable read, as well as practitioners and policy makers who seek to understand financial instability and unstable markets. This will also be an insightful read for economic historians looking to understand the nuances of different key economic theories and their practical applications. This timely book studies the economic theories of credit cycles and disturbances in the 20th century, presenting a nuanced view of the role of finance in the economy after the financial crash of 2008.Trade Review'Jan Toporowski provides a provocative guide to a dissenting tradition in macroeconomics where monetary and financial institutions are just as fundamental to the market economy's performance as real factors - endowments, tastes, technology, etc. Along his route from Marx to Minsky we naturally encounter the likes of Keynes and Kalecki, but also, more surprisingly, proto-monetarists like Fisher, Hawtrey, and Henry Simons. Whatever our own views, Toporowski forces us to look at today's macroeconomics in a refreshingly new light: highly recommended.' --David Laidler, University of Western Ontario, US'Professor Jan Toporowski offers us a brilliant piece of scholarship combining history of money and credit theories ranging over heterodox economists from Marx and Luxemburg to mainstream but radical economists such as Keynes and Minsky. It is a here and now explanation of our problems.' --Lord Meghnad Desai, London School of Economics, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I: CAPITALISM AND FINANCIAL CRISIS 1. Marx and the Monetary Business Cycle 2. Marx and the Emergence of Debt Markets 3. Rosa Luxemburg and the Marxists on Finance PART II: CRITICAL THEORIES OF FINANCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: UNSTABLE MONEY AND FINANCE 4. Ralph Hawtrey and the Monetary Business Cycle 5. Irving Fisher and Debt Deflation 6. John Maynard Keynes’s Financial Theory of Under-Investment I: Towards Doubt 7. John Maynard Keynes’s Financial Theory of Under-Investment II: Towards Uncertainty PART III: CRITICAL THEORIES OF FINANCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: CORPORATE DEBT AND CRISIS 8. The Principle Of Increasing Risk: Marek Breit 9. The Principle Of Increasing Risk: Michal Kalecki 10. The Principle of Increasing Risk: Josef Steindl and Michal Kalecki on Profits and Finance 11. The Kalecki-Steindl theory of financial fragility PART IV: CRITICAL THEORIES OF FINANCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE FINANCIAL INSTABILITY HYPOTHESIS 12. The Monetary Theory of Kalecki and Minsky 13. From Money to Minsky: Henry Simons 14. The Financial Instability Hypothesis Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA new approach to structuring a business to support strategy and maximise efficiency. Organisation design matters. Every organisation has a better chance of success if it's designed properly, and that design is regularly reviewed, refreshed and updated to reflect and support organisational goals. Based on the latest thinking and research, and taking into account the profound impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on how we think about work, Designing Organisations offers five key principles of organisational design that we can all adopt and deploy. Together, they provide a framework that balances the needs of today's strategies and operations with the agility to look ahead and meet the challenges of a rapidly evolving business environment.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition: 'Risk of failure can be greatly reduced through effective organisational design that encourages high performance and adaptability to changing circumstances * Personnel Today *...provides insights and practical help on how to avoid the common mistakes made in restructuring...well worth the price * Business Executive Magazine *...contains a whole range of simple and effective tools and models * Professional Manager *

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the 1990s as a decade of change, all of the collieries and most of the coal fired power stations of that era have now gone. During that decade I made a point of photographing the collieries and power stations, and the trains that moved the coal, and so amassed a large collection of photographs. Being Worksop-based through my railway career, I am able to describe a potted history of Worksop Depot which opened in 1991, commencing with a brief look at the area in the late 1980s and into the 1990s. The run-up to the privatisation of the railways is followed by the new freight companies which brought changes in coal operations, before the wholesale decline in coal production. There are images taken in the Nott's, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire coalfields. Brief descriptions of each colliery and power station illustrated are given, with maps to show their location, along with power station track diagrams, tables, and coal plans to show where power station coal originated. The book concludes with a few instances of locations that Worksop-based drivers served.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Worksop in the 1980s and 1990s: The Decades of Change; 2 Declining UK Coal Production; 3 Nottinghamshire Area Collieries; 4 Derbyshire Area Collieries; 5 Yorkshire Area Collieries; 6 Leicestershire and Staffordshire Area Collieries; 7 Power Stations; 8 Three Days at Worksop; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisAn explosive investigation into how the United States of America built one of the largest illicit offshore finance systems in the world. For years, one country has acted as the greatest offshore haven in the world, attracting hundreds of billions of dollars in illicit finance tied directly to corrupt regimes, extremist networks, and the worst the world has to offer. But it hasn’t been the sand-splattered Caribbean islands, or even traditional financial secrecy havens like Switzerland or Panama that have come to dominate the offshoring world. Instead, the country profiting the most also happens to be the one that still claims to be the moral leader of the free world, and the one that claims to be leading the fight against the crooked and the corrupt: the United States of America. American Kleptocracy examines just how the United States’ implosion into a centre of global offshoring took place: how states such as Delaware and Nevada perfected the art of the anonymous shell company; how post-9/11 reformers watched their success usher in a new flood of illicit finance directly into the U.S.; how African despots and post-Soviet oligarchs came to dominate American coastlines, American industries, and entire cities and small towns across the American Midwest; how Nazi-era lobbyists birthed an entire industry of spin-men whitewashing transnational crooks and despots, and how dirty money has now begun infiltrating America’s universities, think tanks, and cultural centres; and how those on the frontline are trying to restore America’s legacy of anti-corruption leadership ― and finally end this reign of American kleptocracy. It also looks at how Trump’s presidency accelerated all of the trends already on hand ― and how the Biden administration can, and should, act on this tawdry inheritance.Trade Review‘Casey Michel cuts through the spin, to reveal the inner workings of the American economy. His writing has shown again and again the subterfuges and secrecy at the heart of how money moves through the financial system, and does it with panache, wit, and a blessed aversion to jargon. I always read his work, and can't wait to read this one.’ -- Oliver Bullough, author of the international bestseller Moneyland: the inside story of the crooks and kleptocrats who rule the world‘Casey is the foremost journalistic voice in the fight against kleptocracy. No other individual is so consistently on the case and interested in both the actors and the possible policy responses. His knowledge of the existential danger posed by kleptocracy is bar none, and we rely on his work like no one else to inform policy.’ -- Paul Massaro, Congressional Policy Advisor to US Helsinki Commission‘Michel masterfully recounts the tragicomic outcomes when outre autocrats meet serviceable financial and legal systems.’ -- Martin Sandbu * Financial Times *‘Remarkable and perspicacious … an important and eye-opening book.’ -- Bradley Hope, New York Times bestselling co-author of Billion Dollar Whale‘Remarkable and well-researched … Casey Michel shows how the U.S. has taken the top spot at the ease of doing illicit business legally.’ -- Katharina Pistor, author of Code of Capital‘An indefatigable young American journalist who has virtually cornered the international kleptocracy beat on the U.S. end of the black aquifer.’ * The Los Angeles Review of Books *‘Mr Michel builds his book around two characters, both prolific users of America’s financial-secrecy infrastructure, deftly weaving together their stories and his analysis.’ * The Economist *‘Clearly-written, compelling, and fast-paced … a clarion call for citizens and those at all levels of government who have not yet realised that we need to clean up our own act to protect ourselves from predatory adversaries.’ -- Fiona Hill, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution‘Casey Michel brings home the extent to which the United States has fuelled money laundering, corruption, and other crimes plaguing the world. His passionate writing comes from his outrage at what has gone on in our own backyard and his understanding of what is at stake, namely trillions of dollars hidden from our national treasury with help from U.S. banks. Readers will learn why it is critical for Americans to look inward and do more to stop the abuses here at home that are helping to power illicit finance around the world.’ -- Senator Carl Levin‘Rule-of-law democracies are engaged in a clash of civilisations against international criminals, kleptocrats, and corrupt politicians. Michel exposes the troubling role the U.S. has played in facilitating the dark economy and underscores the urgent need for transparency, reform, and accountability.’ -- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse‘If the right person writes the right book, and enough of the right people read it, incredible changes can take place. Casey Michel has written such a book. In the right hands, it could spur policy shifts in the U.S. that would have global ramifications.’ -- Jasmin Mujanovic, author of Hunger and Fury ‘Compelling and colourful … Casey Michel is one of the United States’ brightest emerging foreign policy thinkers — a scholar, journalist, and policy expert who has spent years chronicling the rise of globalised corruption in meticulous detail. In American Kleptocracy, he provides the definitive account of the defining threat of our era — weaving together an irresistible narrative with a bold but pragmatic agenda for reform that can end America’s complicity in foreign corruption.’ -- Nate Sibley head of Hudson Institute's Kleptocracy Initiative‘American Kleptocracy is essential reading to understand how the U.S. has become the global destination for dirty money. Michel exposes the international shell games that the super-wealthy and their professional enablers deploy to launder and stash cash. He exposes why this matters, as illicit funds disrupt local real estate markets and undermine honest economic activity.’ -- Chuck Collins, director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, and author of The Wealth Hoarders: how billionaires pay millions to hide trillions‘In this vitally important book, Casey Michel follows the money. He shows us how, and why, so much of it ends up in American luxury real estate, hedge funds, startups, and shell corporations. Compelling true-life stories, carefully marshaled statistics, and careful analysis combine to make Michel’s book the must-read account of one of the key challenges of our time.’ -- Dan Nexon, professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and co-author of Exit from Hegemony‘[Casey Michel is] owed a debt of gratitude by free people everywhere.’ -- Thor Halvorssen, president of the Human Rights Foundation‘Journalist Michel debuts with a blistering account of how greed, deregulation, and deliberate avoidance have enabled dictators and drug cartels to launder their illicit profits in the US … Through rigorous research and cogent prose, Michel builds a persuasive case that the influx of unregulated money decimates America’s industrial regions and poses a grave threat to democracy. This is a stunning portrait of avarice run amok.’ * Publishers Weekly *‘Michel’s clear prose helps make a complicated subject comprehensible, and leaves readers with some hope that financial corruption may not be so inevitable after all.’ * Booklist *‘[Michel] is a masterful storyteller who grips readers with truthful and disturbing accounts of outlandish schemes … eye-opening and comprehensive.’ * Library Journal *‘Michel, a dogged investigative reporter, is as knowledgeable as they come on financial corruption in and around the United States. In American Kleptocracy, he brings it all together … Michel makes a convincing case that there has never been an illicit financial system as robust and versatile as the one the US has created, a shadow economy servicing financiers, lobbyists, old money and the newly corrupted.’ * CrimeReads *‘[A] compact grenade of a book.’ -- Gideon Haigh * The Weekend Australian *

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Book Synopsis_______________ ‘A fascinating exploration that challenges our basic assumptions of what work means' - Yuval Noah Harari 'There is eminently underlinable stuff on most pages ... Fascinating' - The Times 'One of those few books that will turn your customary ways of thinking upside down' - Susan Cain 'Illuminating' - New Statesman _______________ A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work, from the origins of life on Earth to our ever more automated present The work we do brings us meaning, moulds our values, determines our social status and dictates how we spend most of our time. But this wasn’t always the case: for 95% of our species’ history, work held a radically different importance. How, then, did work become the central organisational principle of our societies? How did it transform our bodies, our environments, our views on equality and our sense of time? And why, in a time of material abundance, are we working more than ever before?Trade ReviewAs automation threatens to completely disrupt the global job market, it is urgent to rethink the economic, psychological and even spiritual importance of work. By examining the lives of hunter-gatherers, apes and even birds, Suzman highlights that what we consider “natural” is often just the questionable legacy of industrial gurus and agricultural religions. Knowing the history of how we have spent our time in the past will hopefully enable us to make more sensible choices in the future -- Yuval Noah HarariThere is eminently underlinable stuff on most pages . . . Fascinating * The Times *In this illuminating “deep history”, the anthropologist James Suzman interrogates mainstream economic assumptions about human nature and argues that to make sense of our modern culture of rising inequality we must first understand our past * New Statesman *For too long, our notions of work have been dominated by economists obsessed with scarcity and productivity. As an anthropologist, James Suzman is here to change that. He reveals that for much of human history, hunter-gathers worked far less than we do today and led lives of abundance and leisure. I’ve been studying work for two decades, and I can’t remember the last time I learned so much about it in one sitting. This book is a tour de force -- Adam Grant, bestselling author of 'Give and Take' and 'Originals'A groundbreaking history of work, which exposes the productivity-at-all-costs mindset to strike a blow at the myth of the economic problem. I learned something new on every page -- Grace BlakeleyBrilliant … I thought I had read enough by now to know what work is and why we so often feel compelled to work – but I was wrong -- Danny DorlingDeeply researched, broad in scope and filled with insight, this is a modern classic. Every page brings something worth thinking hard about -- Seth Godin, author of 'Survival is Not Enough'Automation of all kinds looms on the horizon. Luckily, James Suzman is here with a revelatory new history that makes a persuasive case: that human industry can light a path forward, even in a future where we’re put out of work by our own inventions -- Charles DuhiggChronicles how much humankind can still learn from the disappearing way of life of the most marginalised communities on earth -- Yuval Noah Harari on 'Affluence without Abundance'Elegant and absorbing … Rich with ethnographic detail, stylish, perceptive, compassionate and, ultimately, tragic -- Financial Times on 'Affluence without Abundance'Here is one of those few books that will turn your customary ways of thinking upside down. An incisive and original new history that invites us to rethink our relationship with work - and to reimagine what it means to be human in an ever-more automated future -- Susan Cain

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Book Synopsis'A brilliant book packed with powerful insights from the world's most successful investors' Tony Robbins 'A profound, eloquent, and much-needed call for a reassessment of how we build our portfolios and live our lives' Stig Brodersen 'A classic ... for generations, will define what it means to be a better investor and a better human' Guy Spier Billionaire investors. If we think of them, it's with a mixture of awe and suspicion. Clearly, they possess a kind of genius - the proverbial Midas Touch. But are the skills they possess transferable? And would we really want to be them? Do they have anything to teach us besides making money? In Richer, Wiser, Happier, award-winning journalist William Green has spent nearly twenty-five years interviewing these investing wizards and discovered that their talents expand well beyond the financial realm and into practical philosophy. Green ushers us into the lives of more than forty of the world's super-investors, visiting them in their offices, vacation homes, and even their places of worship - all to share what they have to teach us. Green brings together the thinking of some of the best investors, from Warren Buffett to Howard Marks to John Templeton, and provides gems of insight that will enrich you not only financially but also professionally and personally.Trade ReviewEngaging ... Throughout the book [Green] underscores the central premise that originality is overrated when it comes to investing ... 'Nothing is more essential than our capacity to survive the most difficult times not only financially but emotionally' * New York Times *This is a brilliant book packed with powerful insights from the world's most successful investors. Do you want to achieve total financial freedom while also leading an abundant life that's truly rich in purpose, fulfillment, and joy? Then read Richer, Wiser, Happier. -- Tony Robbins, author * #1 New York Times bestseller Money: Master the Game *What a wonderful book! Richer, Wiser, Happier is a profound, eloquent, and much-needed call for a reassessment of how we build our portfolios and live our lives. -- Stig Brodersen, Cofounder of The Investor's Podcast Network and host of the podcast * We Study Billionaires *Endlessly fascinating...Richer, Wiser, Happier is going to be a classic and, for generations, will define what it means to be a better investor and a better human. -- Guy Spier, CEO of Aquamarine Capital, author * The Education of a Value Investor *Those who finish this book will find, to their delight, that they're smarter about much more than money -- Peter H. Diamandis, author * Abundance *Does a wonderful job of showing how to consistently stack the odds in your favour, both in markets and life -- Annie Duke, author * Thinking in Bets *

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword ix Introduction 1 Part I The Concept 7 Chapter 1 The Power of Influence 9 Chapter 2 The Hidden Drivers of Influence 27 Chapter 3 Sequence Is Everything 41 Chapter 4 Self-Awareness and Discovery 63 Part II The Formula 77 Chapter 5 Frames: Window into Your World 79 Chapter 6 Frames in Action 99 Chapter 7 Messages, Concepts, and Value Propositions 113 Chapter 8 Tie-Downs: The Master Influencer’s Secret Weapon 129 Part III The Skills 143 Chapter 9 The Art and Science of Storytelling 145 Chapter 10 Body Language and Presence 163 Chapter 11 Interpersonal Communication: Love and Other Things 189 Chapter 12 The Stress Factor 211 Chapter 13 Putting It All Together and More 225 Notes 243 Acknowledgments 251 About the Author 255 Index 257

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Book SynopsisExamine the practical structure and function of today's legal system from the perspective of the professional business practitioner with Meiners/Ringleb/Edwards' popular THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS, 14E. This edition highlights law and regulatory areas of the legal environment that are most relevant and important in business today. This edition's traditional case focus is updated with almost 40% new cases to reflect today's legal changes. Court cases summarize background facts and present case decisions in the words of the courts, but the authors have carefully edited cases to focus only on key issues relevant to understanding the legal reasoning. You examine a range of legal topics with business-specific examples and meaningful cases that direct attention to key points of law. Infuse digital resources are also available to strengthen your comprehension of legal issues in business today.Table of Contents1. Today���s Business Environment: Law and Ethics. 2. The Court Systems. 3. Trials and Resolving Disputes. 4. The Constitution: Focus on Application to Business. 5. Criminal Law and Business. 6. Elements of Torts. 7. Business Torts and Product Liability. 8. Real and Personal Property. 9. Intellectual Property. 10. Contracts. 11. Domestic and International Sales. 12. Business Organizations. 13. Negotiable Instruments, Credit, and Bankruptcy. 14. Agency and the Employment Relationship. 15. Employment and Labor Regulations. 16. Employment Discrimination. 17. The Regulatory Process. 18. Securities Regulation. 19. Consumer Protection. 20. Antitrust Law. 21. Environmental Law. 22. The International Legal Environment of Business. Appendix A: Online Legal Research. Appendix B: Case Analysis and Legal Sources. Appendix C: The Constitution of the United States of America. Appendix D: The Uniform Commercial Code (Excerpts). Appendix E: National Labor Relations Act (Excerpts). Appendix F: Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Excerpts). Appendix G: Americans with Disabilities Act Excerpts). Appendix H: The Antitrust Statutes (Excerpts). Appendix I: Securities Statutes (Excerpts). Glossary. Index.

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Book SynopsisA Pragmatist's Guide to Leveraged Finance is a complete, practical, and expert tutorial and reference book covering all facets of modern leveraged finance analysis.

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Book SynopsisDear teacher, you are appreciated! This inspirational book, written by motivational speakers Brad Johnson and Hal Bowman, provides daily encouragement to thank you for all that you do in the classroom and beyond. Johnson and Bowman offer quotes and powerful stories for 100 days of the school year, highlighting topics such as celebrating small successes, bringing out the best in your students, knowing your worth, and being all in. The book is perfect for teachers of all grade levels, and for principals to buy their teachers for schoolwide morale, to keep teachers feeling their best. The uplifting advice will remind you why youâve chosen this profession and the impact you have on others!Trade Review"Dear Teacher is a very practical, inspirational book designed to motivate and inspire our educational heroes, our teachers. Brad Johnson and Hal Bowman offer 100 inspirational quotes and anecdotes that will touch the heart of any teacher, rookie or veteran. Our business is a people business, a relationship business. This is clearly articulated throughout as Brad and Hal emphasize the importance of forming connections with students and staff, being authentic, and making school fun. As educators we will all leave legacy. What will yours be? The choice is clearly ours to make. If every teacher would follow Brad and Hal’s lead, every teacher would live a legacy of love, empathy and respect. Every student deserves just that!"—Dr. Jeff Bearden, Superintendent, Forsyth County Schools, GA"Dear Teacher: 100 Days of Inspirational Quotes and Anecdotes has both a laser-like analysis and knowledgeable reflections on the state of education. The rich array of anecdotes and wise quotations about the mission of teaching are spot on and will appeal to ALL who love education and the scholars we serve."—Dr. Adolph Brown III, Servant Leader, Author, and International ConsultantTable of ContentsMeet the AuthorsPreface100 Days of Inspirational Quotes and Anecdotes

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Book SynopsisA modern classic, The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America is the book Buffett autographs most and likes best. Its popularity and longevity over three decades attest to the widespread appetite for this definitive statement of Mr. Buffett's thoughts that's uniquely comprehensive, non-repetitive, and digestible. New and experienced readers alike will gain an invaluable informal education by perusing this classic arrangement of Mr. Buffett''s best writings.

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Book SynopsisAbout our author Michael Parkin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Professor Parkin has held faculty appointments at Brown University, the University of Manchester, the University of Essex, and Bond University. He is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association and has served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Monetary Economics and as managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics. Professor Parkin's research on macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics has resulted in over 160 publications in journals and edited volumes, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He became most visible to the public with his work on inflation that discredited the use of wage and priceTable of ContentsPART 1: INTRODUCTION What is Economics? The Economic Problem PART 2: HOW MARKETS WORK Demand and Supply Elasticity Efficiency And Equity Government Actions in Markets Global Markets in Action PART 3: HOUSEHOLDS' CHOICES Utility and Demand Possibilities, Preferences, and Choices PART 4: FIRMS AND MARKETS Organizing Production Output and Costs Perfect Competition Monopoly Monopolistic Competition Oligopoly PART 5: MARKET FAILURE AND GOVERNMENT Public Choices, Public Goods, and Healthcare Externalities PART 6: FACTOR MARKETS, INEQUALITY, AND UNCERTAINTY Markets for Factors of Production Economic Inequality Uncertainty and Information PART 7: MONITORING MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE Monitoring the Value of Production: GDP Monitoring Jobs and Inflation PART 8: MACROECONOMIC TRENDS Economic Growth Finance, Saving, and Investment Money, the Price Level, and Inflation The Exchange Rate and the Balance of Payments PART 9: MACROECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand Expenditure Multipliers The Business Cycle, Inflation, and Deflation PART 10: MACROECONOMIC POLICY Fiscal Policy Monetary Policy

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Book 1: Accounting for Financial Systems 5 Chapter 1: Accounting for the Basics 7 Chapter 2: Charting Your Accounts 17 Chapter 3: Using Journal Entries and Ledgers 27 Chapter 4: Choosing an Accounting Method 45 Chapter 5: Setting the Standards 53 Book 2: Recording Transactions 63 Chapter 1: Keeping the Books 65 Chapter 2: Tracking Purchases 77 Chapter 3: Tallying Your Sales 87 Chapter 4: Processing Employee Payroll and Benefits 99 Chapter 5: Taxing Payrolls 119 Book 3: Adjusting and Closing Entries 129 Chapter 1: Depreciating Your Assets 131 Chapter 2: Interesting Rates 143 Chapter 3: Proving Out Cash 153 Chapter 4: Reconciling Accounts and Closing Journal Entries 161 Chapter 5: Checking Your Accuracy 177 Chapter 6: Adjusting the Books 189 Book 4: Preparing Income Statements and Balance Sheets 201 Chapter 1: Stating Your Income 203 Chapter 2: Balancing Your Sheets 221 Chapter 3: Digging for Debt in the Balance Sheet 237 Chapter 4: Explaining Equity 251 Chapter 5: Interpreting Income Statements and Balance Sheets 263 Book 5: Reporting Your Statements 277 Chapter 1: Valuating Finances 279 Chapter 2: Watching Cash Flow and Equity 289 Chapter 3: Analyzing Financial Statements 305 Chapter 4: Explaining Disclosures 321 Chapter 5: Sharing Public Reports 335 Book 6: Planning and Budgeting for Your Business 347 Chapter 1: Looking at the Legals 349 Chapter 2: Incorporating Your Business 361 Chapter 3: Drawing Up a Business Plan 375 Chapter 4: Budgeting for a Better Bottom Line 389 Chapter 5: Mastering Budgeting Strategies 403 Chapter 6: Planning for Long-Term Obligations 415 Book 7: Making Savvy Business Decisions 427 Chapter 1: Costing Jobs 429 Chapter 2: Costing by the ABCs 445 Chapter 3: Contributing to the Margin 461 Chapter 4: Accounting for Change with Variance Analysis 477 Chapter 5: Pricing Wisely 495 Chapter 6: Formulating Equations 505 Book 8: Handling Cash and Making Purchase Decisions 515 Chapter 1: Matching Costs with Revenue 517 Chapter 2: Exploring Inventory Cost Flows 525 Chapter 3: Buying Wisely 537 Chapter 4: Financing with Debt 551 Chapter 5: Managing Results 565 Chapter 6: Acquiring New Business 573 Book 9: Auditing for Financial Fraud 591 Chapter 1: Regulating Securities 593 Chapter 2: Preventing Cash Losses from Embezzlement and Fraud 607 Chapter 3: Assessing Audit Risk 621 Chapter 4: Discovering Audits 645 Chapter 5: Auditing Internal Controls 663 Chapter 6: Scheming Scams 685 Chapter 7: Cooking the Books 695 Index 707

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Book SynopsisFinally, a new kind of business startup book—packed full of practical advice plus essential legal information you really need but don’t get in business school or anywhere else!The 7 Secret Keys to Startup Success is the one book every entrepreneur should have. David J. Muchow, an award-winning, thirty-year serial entrepreneur and lawyer, gives you practical legal and business advice covering every aspect of entrepreneurship—and it’s fun to read! It includes all the basics of building and growing a business—management, fundraising, marketing, intellectual property, and risk management—plus much more, like how to avoid the hidden mistakes that cause “Startup Suicide” and kill 80 percent of startups in the first year. There are also model legal forms and charts along with fun-to-read stories and examples. Muchow, who teaches law, business, and entrepreneurship at Georgetown University, has advised hundreds of businesses on how to succeed. The book reveals key mistakes that can kill businesses. For example, blogging about your new products can prevent getting a patent. And giving away too much equity and picking the wrong partners can be fatal. At the macro level, the book describes why the US should create a National Ecosystem to Support Startups (NESS) to increase our competitiveness, which could take startups from a concept to commercialization in just ninety days and speed up the patent process.This unique guide, which focuses on both the business and legal aspects of startups, is a must-have for every aspiring entrepreneur, small business owner, startup incubator, student, and for business and law schools. In The7 Secret Keys to Startup Success, you will learn: How to cut legal expenses and manage lawyers How to fire employees and partners without getting sued Patent, trademark and copyright strategies and tricks How to raise money without SEC problems How to avoid the financial “Valley of Death” What “to do” but also “what not to do" to avoid “startup suicide.” Business books can be fun! Enjoy the many business stories, such as how Ivanka Trump was sued for trademark infringement over her Hettie Sandal design and Oprah Winfrey’s battle to protect her intellectual property for O Magazine. At the end of each chapter are examples, inspired by Muchow’s years as a foreign agent and federal prosecutor, which demonstrate the principles in that chapter. They’re told by Professor Scooter Magee, the Startup Expert, as he helps startups prevent Startup Suicide and achieve success while fighting the CIA and others. Think Professor Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Bar Rescue or Silicon Valley! Enjoy Scooter’s adventures while learning the critical real-life startup legal and business lessons that can help you be successful. In short, The 7 Secret Keys to Startup Success is a new kind of startup book—it’s like having both an expert attorney and a consultant by your side every step of the way on your startup’s journey to success—while enjoying the ride!Trade Review“This trailblazing book is packed with the critical business and legal information you need to succeed and is lots of fun as well.”—Byron Dorgan, New York Times bestselling author "An expert offers a comprehensive overview of how to achieve startup success. 'This is not your uncle’s or aunt’s business book,' writes startup veteran Muchow in this work, which, he promises, 'breaks the mold by providing more of the essential, practical, legal, and business information that growing businesses need to succeed.' He covers the basics of incorporating, dividing equity among partners, compensating workers, and raising capital while observing Securities and Exchange Commission regulations. He breaks down these basics under seven broad headings, from planning your startup and finding the right partners to carefully assessing early risks, giving due importance to intellectual property (convincingly described by the author as an essential key to startups), and dealing with workers and managing sales and marketing. Winningly, Muchow illustrates each of these discussions with fictionalized dramatizations—this is a business book with a novel’s amount of dialogue, and here the author is playing to his strength. His scenarios very effectively bring the complexities of his main points to life. He also helps this along with charts and bullet points designed to make the huge amount of information he’s dispensing more digestible. 'Your startup’s like a car,' he writes. 'You, the entrepreneur, are the driver, the shareholders are the passengers, and money built the car and fuels it.' Basic nuts-and-bolts summations like this one run throughout the volume, very much enhancing the pervasive feeling of an experienced older colleague taking readers aside for confidential chats about routes to follow and pitfalls to avoid. Muchow opens his book by pointing out how vital startups and entrepreneurs have been to the American business world. He then expertly balances broader insights with useful, granular operational tactics on the organizational, legal, and ideological levels of a new company. A briskly written, valuable, and confident guide to gaining success in a startup business." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “From understanding and protecting intellectual property to legally managing money and avoiding liability in the process of building a new business, David J. Muchow tackles the kinds of hard development questions that many competing business books skim over. He also takes a more comprehensive view of the startup process than many books in the field, that tend to concentrate on the usual subjects like marketing and finance. Perhaps this is because Muchow brings decades of practical and broad experience to a wide range of subjects, being a serial CEO, corporate lawyer, inventor, investor, former prosecutor, and a faculty member for Law, Business, and Entrepreneurship at Georgetown University. "Another difference lies in the book's adventure component, unusual in a business title. Like Rich Dad, Poor Dad, it’s entertaining to read, with a continuing adventure story after each chapter that illustrates the principles in the chapter. The adventure involves Professor Scooter Magee, who travels around in his classic Austin Healey convertible fixing troubled startups. Along the way Scooter fights off mob figures and falls under the spell of a mysterious femme fatale. Think: Professor Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Silicon Valley. "The 7 Secret Keys to Startup Success does not guarantee startup success. It does identify common pitfalls and how to avoid them to lead a business from uncertainty onto rock-solid ground. Entrepreneurs contemplating a new startup, and business libraries catering to them, will find The 7 Secret Keys to Startup Success: What You Need to Know to Win just the right blend of specific instruction and overall advice on how to tailor a winning proposal and foster it to fruition.”—Midwest Book Review, D. Donovan, senior reviewer “An instant classic! This is the one book every startup and growing business should have! David Muchow’s an award-winning legal and business expert—and his legal examples read like a John Grisham novel!” —Elizabeth Jia, Arc Moon.co “This is the new Bible for entrepreneurs and growing businesses! No other single reference is as comprehensive or useful in practice.”—Branko Terzic, management consultant; former public company CEO “Most startups run out of time and money in a year or two, and the inventions fail to cross the ‘Startup Grand Canyon’—the huge chasm between an idea and a financially viable business and end up in the ‘Valley of Death,’ the place where companies die by running out of money before they cash flow positive. “Eight out of ten new business fail, but surprisingly too little attention has been paid to why that is. Think of the tremendous economic loss to our country. We could have had thousands more Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but those potential businesses have been lost. So … The 7 Secret Keys to Startup Success … identifies the causes of these failures and proposed a federal moonshot—an action plan to allow entrepreneurs to go from an idea to commercialization in months, not years.”—Eric Pines, The Business Side of Law in Authority Magazine “David Muchow’s new book provides practical business and legal information to take startups and growing companies step-by-step through what they need-to-do and never-to-do to be successful. It covers the necessary information like marketing, raising money, and management, plus material not available elsewhere, and legal tips and model forms. And it’s fun to read. It’s like Rich Dad, Poor Dad for growing companies. To illustrate the principles in the book, after each chapter there’s an exciting adventure story involving Professor Scooter Magee of Georgetown University who fixes broken startups. Think: Professor Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Silicon Valley!” —Ruchika Nijhara, PhD, MBA, CLP, Vice President, Office of Technology Commercialization, webinar interview with David Muchow “[L]earn how to avoid startup suicide. This [book] reads like a novel, not like a business book, which is really kind of cool. t’s like you’re sitting there in the middle of the room watching these characters go at it. This book is going to be good! You’re helping business people!” —Doug Wagner, The Doug Wagner Show, iHeart Radio, WMT News Radio “The 7 Secret Keys to Startup Success is the one book every entrepreneur and growing company should have. David Muchow, an award-winning, thirty-year serial entrepreneur and lawyer, who teaches Law, Business, and Entrepreneurship at Georgetown University, gives you practical business advice and legal tips covering every aspect of entrepreneurship. It includes all the basics of building and growing a business—management, fundraising, marketing, intellectual property, and risk management—plus much more.” —The Kim Pagano Show, AM 1650 KVTA “David Muchow, GR ’66–’68, has spent decades as an attorney, entrepreneur, investor, and consultant. Now, he has channeled that experience into a hands-on guide: The 7 Secret Keys to Startup Success. It covers a host of practical dos and don’ts—from creating a business plan and courting investors to managing risk and safeguarding intellectual property.” —Beth Saulnier, Cornellians Magazine, Cornell University “David Muchow’s The 7 Secret Keys to Startup Success is a useful guide to newly formed startups and even established companies. It highlights the areas that are often overlooked in the haste to get a business going for the first time and carts tend to be placed before the horse in a rush to get product to market. The book is well-structured; the language is clear and comprehensive. The first three chapters are a step-by-step description of essential legal, organizational decisions faced when incorporating a new business. Presented with a good dose of common sense, the knowledge can save startup promoters many headaches by having all the paperwork in order from the beginning. Topics include: how to select a core team, set up a board of directors, a compensation system, secure protection of IP. The book provides aspiring entrepreneurs the elements to walk safely in the startup minefield and liberate time to concentrate on growing the startup. Worth a look!” —Steve Denning, Forbes contributor, author and independent management consultant professional“Entrepreneurial expert David Muchow just released a book on startup success—with a twist. As a business lawyer and former entrepreneur, DC’s David Muchow encounters a lot of the same questions every day. Questions like: ‘Should I incorporate in Delaware?’ ‘How do I fire an employee without the worry of a lawsuit?’ ‘How can I protect my intellectual property?’ “But as often as he has to answer these and other questions, Muchow hasn’t seen many business advice books that provided entrepreneurs with the answers. ‘There are a couple of thousand business books that come out every year, so it looks on the surface as if you’d have to be pretty crazy to write one,’ Muchow told Technical.ly. ‘But in my practice as a corporate lawyer, handling a lot of entrepreneurs and startup matters, I found it was a huge disconnect between the kinds of questions I get every day from entrepreneurs, and the types of books and resources that are out there.’ “So, the managing partner of the corporate law firm MuchowLaw decided to do something about it by publishing his own unique book in September. The 7 Secret Keys to Startup Success is a 327-page practical guide to both the business and legal aspects of building a startup. It’s currently available at several bookstores and as an e-book. The 7 Secret Keys to Startup Success draws from Muchow’s career, which he said has included working in startups and entrepreneurship for thirty years. “This is Muchow’s fifth published book … For this one, he decided to do something different to engage readers. This book features a fictional character named Scooter Magee (taken from a former nickname of Muchow’s son), a professional at Georgetown University (where Muchow also teaches) who travels around in a 1962 Austin-Healey convertible (the same car Muchow had as a kid) fixing troubled startups. In between mix-ups with the CIA and other entities, each chapter deals with substantive legal and business matters. All in all, it’s a bit Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Silicon Valley, Muchow said. “Through Scooter’s adventures, readers will learn about such basics of building and growing as management, fundraising, marketing, and intellectual property. “‘It just makes it a lot more fun to read,’ Muchow said of the narrative format. ‘This is probably the only business book that has a color picture of The Tombs, a famous restaurant at Georgetown, in it, as well as charts on intellectual property issues.’ “With his new book, Muchow hopes that both brand-new companies and growing ones will find something to learn. Through the lessons, he wants companies to understand the key things they need to focus on and avoid common mistakes that lead to many startups’ demise. He said that he kept the content as practical as he could, with plenty of client stories as examples. ‘And along the way, I hope that they enjoy the ride,’ Muchow said.”—Michaela Althouse, Technical.ly

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Book SynopsisBehavioral Science in the Wild helps managers understand how best to incorporate key research findings to solve their own behavior change challenges in the real world from lab to field. Behavioral Science in the Wild helps managers to implement research findings on behavioral change in their own workplace operations and to apply them to business or policy problems. As the second book in the Behaviourally Informed Organizations series, Behavioral Science in the Wild takes a step back to address the why and how behind the origins of behavioral insights, and how best to translate and scale behavioral science from lab-based research findings. Governments, for-profit enterprises, and welfare organizations have increasingly started relying on findings from the behavioral sciences to develop more accessible and user-friendly products, processes, and experiences for their end-users. While there is a burgeoning science thatTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface: Behavioral Science in the Wild Part 1: The Translation and Scaling Challenge 1. The Science of Translation and Scaling Nina Mažar and Dilip Soman 2. When Governments Use Nudges: Measuring Impact "At Scale" Elizabeth Linos 3. Prescriptions for Successfully Scaling Behavioral Interventions Laura Goodyear, Tanjim Hossain, and Dilip Soman 4. The Last Yard Problem: Tailoring of Behavioral Interventions for Scale Saugato Datta, Alissa Fishbane, Piyush Tantia, and Cassie Taylor 5. The Limited Importance of External Validity in Experimental Economics Colin F. Camerer Part 2: Some Popular Behavioral Interventions 6. Why Many Behavioral Interventions Have Unpredictable Effects in The Wild: The Conflicting Consequences Problem Indranil Goswami and Oleg Urminsky 7. Norm Nudging: How to Measure What We Want to Implement Cristina Bicchieri 8. The Fresh Start Effect: Motivational Boosts Beyond New Year’s Resolutions Jason Riis, Hengchen Dai, and Katherine L. Milkman 9. Reminders: Their Value and Hidden Costs Christina Gravert Part 3: Domain Specific Behavior Change Challenges 10. Applying Behavioral Insights to Cultivate Diversity and Inclusion Joyce C. He, Grusha Agarwal, and Sonia K. Kang 11. Sustainable Nudges for The Wild: Recommendations from Shift David J. Hardisty, Katherine White, Rishad Habib, and Jiaying Zhao 12. Start Communicating Effectively: Best Practices for Educational Communications Jessica Lasky-Fink and Carly D. Robinson 13. A Psychological “Vaccine” Against Fake News: From The Lab to Worldwide Implementation Sander van der Linden and Jon Roozenbeek 14. Developing Effective Healthy Eating Nudges Romain Cadario and Pierre Chandon 15. Wellness Rewarded: A “How To” On Designing Behavioral Science-Informed Financial Incentives To Improving Health (That Work) Marc Mitchell and Renante Rondina 16. Increasing Blood and Plasma Donations: Behavioral Ethical Scalability Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis 17. Evidence-Based Interventions for Financial Well-Being Daniel Fernandes 18. Financial Inclusion: Lab-Based Approaches for Consumer Protection Policymaking in The Wild Rafe Mazer Part 4: Tools and Techniques 19. Implementing Behavioral Science Insights with Low-Income Populations in The Global South Chaning Jang, Neela A. Saldanha, Anisha Singh, and Jennifer Adhiambo 20. If You Want People to Accept Your Intervention, Don’t Be Creepy Patricia de Jonge, Peeter Verlegh and Marcel Zeelenberg 21. Digital Nudging: Using Technology to Nudge for Good Michael Sobolev 22. To Effectively Apply and Scale Behavioral Insights, Practitioners Must Be Scientific Nathaniel Barr, Michelle C. Hilscher, Ada Lê, David R. Thomson, and Kelly Peters 23. It’s All About the Soul! Why Sort, Order and Use Labeling Results in Smart Scorecards Claire Heard, Elena Reutskaja, and Barbara Fasolo 24. Applying Behavioral Interventions in A New Context Barnabas Szaszi, Krisztian Komandi, Nandor Hajdu, and Elisabeth Tipton Contributors

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Book SynopsisOnce, every high street had a department store, and they marched the length of Oxford Street. Going up to town to shop at one of these grand emporia and lunch in the top-floor restaurant, or take the children to see Father Christmas, was both a huge treat and completely normal. But the demise of Debenhams, including historic Arding & Hobbs, and Army & Navy at Victoria along with many other House of Fraser stores, confirms that the traditional department store is now an endangered species. In the last five years alone, 83% have gone. Now, for the first time, Tessa Boase chronicles this fabulous world, from Derry & Toms with its roof garden to the Moderne lines of Holdrons in Peckham Rye (now Mr Khan's Discount), as well as Gamages' peerless toy department, Woollands' 21 Shop for cutting-edge Sixties fashion and Chiesmans' menagerie of snakes and lionesses. There is even a guided walking tour of the West End's lost stores.

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Book SynopsisAuthor of national bestseller Life After Google and generation-defining Wealth and Poverty, venture capitalist, futurist, and pioneering thinker extraordinaire George Gilder pinpoints how the clash of creativity with power at the heart of economic systems leads to global cognitive dissonance and argues that the creation of the novel taps capitalism's infinite promise and is humanity's only path of escape from stagnation and tyranny. Gilder once more rocks the archetypes of modern information theory and economics with a paradigm-shifting salvo of sheer brilliance.The capitalist era is over—get ready for life after capitalism.For more than two hundred years, capitalism spread wealth around the globe, bringing unprecedented prosperity and progress, liberating human potential. But something has gone terribly wrong in the world economy. Creativity and faith in the future—capitalism’s crucial ingredients—seem to have run out. The elites think they can maintain a nation’s wealth by printing money and investing it in favored industries. Their trust in bureaucratic experts, their cautionary paranoia, and their delusional belief that they can “control” everything from the spread of a virus to the weather, are sucking the life out of the economy. Ordinary people, their freedoms restricted, their prospects dim, are losing their faith in their institutions. Such misguided corporatism and pride, confusion and despair, are the result of a deep misunderstanding of capitalism itself. The bestselling futurist and venture capitalist George Gilder explains why economics is not an incentive system to be manipulated but an information system to be freed. Material resources are essentially as plentiful as the atoms of the universe. What drives economic growth in a free market is our limitless human ingenuity and creativity. Prophetic, inspiring, and paradigm-shifting, Life after Capitalism is a once-in- a-generation classic.

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Book SynopsisAmericans across the political spectrum have turned away from free market capitalism, calling for more government intervention into the economy. This optimistic book explains how a dynamic, Commercial Republic that benefits all Americans is still possible."Will someone intent on changing the direction of America’s economy seize on this text and send it far and wide?”—Hugh Hewitt, author, attorney, and national host of The Hugh Hewitt Show“Markets grounded in a commercial republic are what America needs. Gregg shows why.” —Vernon L. Smith, 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor of Business Economics and Law at Chapman UniversityOne of America’s greatest success stories is its economy. For over a century, it has been the envy of the world. The opportunity it generates has inspired millions of people to want to become American.Today, however, America’s economy is at a crossroads. Many have lost confidence in the country’s commitment to economic liberty. Across the political spectrum, many want the government to play an even greater role in the economy via protectionism, industrial policy, stakeholder capitalism, or even quasi-socialist policies. Numerous American political and business leaders are embracing these ideas, and traditional defenders of markets have struggled to respond to these challenges in fresh ways. Then there is a resurgent China bent on eclipsing the United States’s place in the world. At stake is not only the future of the world’s biggest economy, but the economic liberty that remains central to America’s identity as a nation.But managed decline and creeping statism do not have to be America’s only choices, let alone its destiny. For this book insists that there is an alternative. And that is a vibrant market economy grounded on entrepreneurship, competition, and trade openness, but embedded in what America’s founding generation envisaged as the United States’s future: a dynamic Commercial Republic that takes freedom, commerce, and the common good of all Americans seriously, and allows America as a sovereign-nation to pursue and defend its interests in a dangerous world without compromising its belief in the power of economic freedom.Trade Review“Read this powerful argument from Samuel Gregg as to why faith in the American Experiment in liberty under law requires us to reject economic nationalist trends toward protectionism, the use of industrial policy, and other interventions in the pursuit of transient and populist agendas. Markets grounded in a commercial republic are what America needs. Gregg shows why.”—Vernon L. Smith, 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor of Business Economics and Law at Chapman University“We’re long overdue for a morally compelling defense of the market economy—one that avoids the errors of utilitarian dogma and the absolutizing of individual autonomy. In the great and neglected tradition of Adam Smith, Samuel Gregg has given us a philosophical treatment of economic questions that places moral and political concerns front and center while bringing to bear empirical knowledge and sophisticated technical expertise.” —Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University“In The Next American Economy, Samuel Gregg creatively distinguishes between the forces of state capitalism and the free market economy. For the latter to succeed and benefit all people, he shows us, with fascinating historical examples, that America must do much more than follow sound economics. It must embrace all the ideas that made America strong.” —John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution“Could we get Samuel Gregg’s book into the hands of every high school senior and graduating college student, please? Will someone intent on changing the direction of America’s economy seize on this text and send it far and wide? Gregg has written a book for broad audiences that should be read from East to West, North to South—by the young, but also by those older among us who have forgotten the purpose of the American story in a dangerous world. Exhortations alone cannot carry forward renewed faith in the American way of capitalism. It must be explained. This is what Gregg has done and in a winsome, winning fashion. Read and pass it on. Purchase it again and again.”—Hugh Hewitt, author, attorney, and national host of The Hugh Hewitt Show“For years, movements that reject free trade and advocate for industrial policy have gained traction on the right. They have yet to receive a cogent response from conservatives who recognize the U.S. economy’s problems—especially those associated with a belligerent China—but who also reject economic nationalism as a solution. Samuel Gregg has produced the response that we need. The Next American Economy is a perfect storm. It acknowledges today’s challenges, rebuts economic nationalist policies, and makes a fresh case for a market economy grounded in sound economics and the wisdom of America’s first principles. We will be talking about this books for years. For my money, it represents the defining book in addressing this vital topic.”—David L. Bahnsen, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group, host of National Review’s Capital Record podcast, and regular guest on Fox Business, CNBC, and Bloomberg

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Book SynopsisRichard Whittington MA, MBA, Ph.D. is a Professor of Strategic Management at the Saïd Business School and Millman Fellow at New College, University of Oxford. He is the author of eleven books, including Opening Strategy: Professional Strategists and Practice Change, 1960 to Today (2019), and has previously been Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal. Richard has had full or visiting positions at the Harvard Business School, HEC Paris, Imperial College London, the University of Toulouse, and the University of Warwick. He is active in executive education and consulting internationally. Duncan Angwin, MA, MPhil, MBA, Ph.D. is Professor in Strategic Management at University College London and Honorary Professor at University of Nottingham. He has authored twelve books, and over fifty refereed articles in journals such as Academy of Management Learning & Education, Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQTable of ContentsBrief Contents Illustrations and Thinking Differently List of figures List of tables Preface Exploring Strategy features Exploring Strategy Online Digital Courseware Chapter 1 Introducing strategy Chapter 2 Working with strategy Part I The strategic position Introduction to Part I Chapter 3 Macro-environment analysis Chapter 4 Industry and sector analysis Chapter 5 Resources and capabilities analysis Chapter 6 Purpose and stakeholders Chapter 7 Culture and strategy Commentary on Part I The strategy lenses Part II Strategic choices Introduction to Part II Chapter 8 Business strategy and models Chapter 9 Corporate strategy Chapter 10 International strategy Chapter 11 Entrepreneurship and innovation Chapter 12 Mergers, acquisitions and alliances Commentary on Part II Strategic choices Part III Strategy in action Introduction to Part III Chapter 13 Evaluating strategies Chapter 14 Strategy development processes Chapter 15 Implementing strategy Chapter 16 Leadership and strategic change Chapter 17 The practice of strategy Commentary on Part III Strategy in action Case Studies Glossary Name index General index Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisDisruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines can help you prepare.Artificial intelligence (AI) has impacted many industries around the world—banking and finance, pharmaceuticals, automotive, medical technology, manufacturing, and retail. But it has only just begun its odyssey toward cheaper, better, and faster predictions that drive strategic business decisions. When prediction is taken to the max, industries transform, and with such transformation comes disruption.What is at the root of this? In their bestselling first book, Prediction Machines, eminent economists Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb explained the simple yet game-changing economics of AI. Now, in Power and Prediction, they go deeper, examining the most basic unit of analysis: the decision. The authors explain that the two key decision-making ingredients are prediction and judgment, and we perform both together in our minds, often without realizing it. The rise of AI is shifting prediction from humans to machines, relieving people from this cognitive load while increasing the speed and accuracy of decisions.This sets the stage for a flourishing of new decisions and has profound implications for system-level innovation. Redesigning systems of interdependent decisions takes time—many industries are in the quiet before the storm—but when these new systems emerge, they can be disruptive on a global scale. Decision-making confers power. In industry, power confers profits; in society, power confers control. This process will have winners and losers, and the authors show how businesses can leverage opportunities, as well as protect their positions.Filled with illuminating insights, rich examples, and practical advice, Power and Prediction is the must-read guide for any business leader or policymaker on how to make the coming AI disruptions work for you rather than against you.Trade Review"Highly accessible, cleverly written [with] great ideas for practically implementing AI across a system." — Dialogue"A must for anyone with an interest in how the world may look in future." — Institute of Leadership and Management Edge magazineNamed one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2022 by ForbesA Toronto Star Bestseller"This jauntily written and thought-provoking book sketches out how this new economic revolution might unfold." — Financial Times"…a timely and insightful follow up to Prediction Machines." — Engineering and Technology Magazine, The Institution of Engineering and Technology"It's an interesting argument, and the book that Gans and his co-authors have published makes a strong case for developing system-level AI applications in organizations and institutions…" — ForbesAdvance Praise for Power and Prediction:"This is a book that leaders of all types of organizations should read. It explains the enormous size of the AI opportunity and the challenges in getting there." — Dominic Barton, Chair, Rio Tinto; former Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company"AI may be to the twenty-first century what electricity was to the twentieth. This is the best book yet that considers what it will mean for all who participate in our economy." — Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and former president, Harvard University; former secretary, US Treasury; and former chief economist, World Bank"AI will surely displace jobs and disrupt industries in the decades to come. The system-level changes that are on the horizon are excitingly discussed in this book." — Vinod Khosla, founder, Khosla Ventures; cofounder, Sun Microsystems"Power and Prediction is a hugely thought-provoking and inspiring primer on how to shape strategy and design organizations in the age of AI." — Heather Reisman, founder and CEO, Indigo Books and Music"We're told AI will be the most important thing humanity ever works on, yet it feels abstract and niche in its current impact on the world. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to peek around the corner into AI's future." — Shivon Zilis, Director of Operations and Special Projects, Neuralink; former project director, Tesla"Nobody provides more insight into the fundamental economics of AI and what AI truly enables than Agrawal, Gans, and Goldfarb." — Tiff Macklem, governor, Bank of Canada"Agrawal, Gans, and Goldfarb have done it again! Their new book, Power and Prediction, is destined to become the definitive guide to understanding how and why AI is transforming the economy." — Erik Brynjolfsson, Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor, Stanford University; Director, Stanford Digital Economy Lab; coauthor, The Second Machine Age"Whether we like it or not, artificial intelligence is set to influence every aspect of our lives. How can we make sure that individuals, companies, and organizations benefit from it rather than waste time and resources dealing with unintended consequences? This readable book provides an excellent introduction, emphasizing how AI can improve what we do by providing better predictions and helping reorganize systems." — Daron Acemoglu, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, MIT; author, When Nations Fail"Power and Prediction is an important book not only for economists who model the impact of artificial intelligence and entrepreneurs who want to maximize its benefits but also for social scientists and public policy analysts. The authors put prediction problems squarely within the systems and the rules in which they operate to help us understand what will work and why. Along the way, they shine a new light on the importance of systems and rules. A must read for everyone in the public as well as the private sector." — Janice Gross Stein, Professor of Political Science, Munk School, University of Toronto

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Book SynopsisThe first book of the next crisis. A history of interest rates by a leading financial commentator, updated with a new postscript.*Winner of the 2023 Hayek Book Prize**Longlisted for the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award*All economic and financial activities take place across time. Interest coordinates these activities. The story of capitalism is thus the story of interest: the price that individuals, companies and nations pay to borrow money.In The Price of Time, Edward Chancellor traces the history of interest from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia, through debates about usury in Restoration Britain and John Law ' s ill-fated Mississippi scheme, to the global credit booms of the twenty-first century. We generally assume that high interest rates are harmful, but Chancellor argues that, whenever money is too easy, financial markets become unstable. He takes the story to the present day, when interest rates have sunk lower than at any time in the five millennia since they were first recorded - including the extraordinary appearance of negative rates in Europe and Japan - and highlights how this has contributed to profound economic insecurity and financial fragility.Chancellor reveals how extremely low interest rates not only create asset price inflation but are also largely responsible for weak economic growth, rising inequality, zombie companies, elevated debt levels and the pensions crises that have afflicted the West in recent years - conditions under which economies cannot possibly thrive. At the same time, easy money in China has inflated an epic real estate bubble, accompanied by the greatest credit and investment boom in history. As the global financial system edges closer to yet another crisis, Chancellor shows that only by understanding interest can we hope to face the challenges ahead.Trade ReviewThe Price of Time is highly readable. The timing and telling of this economic horror story make it gripping and persuasive. -- Emma Duncan * The Times *Is it possible to write a highly engaging history of the world going back to Hammurabi, unfolding along the way a bitingly comprehensive explanation for its problems today, all told through a single character? Apparently yes. Edward Chancellor has done it, an achievement all the more notable since his drama is built around a character so unheroic on its surface: his "price of time" is interest rates. This is a timely, vitally important and hugely readable book. -- Ruchir Sharma * Chairman, Rockefeller International and New York Times bestselling author *Edward Chancellor has produced not just a brilliant explainer of the value of money and time but a hugely engaging history of the greatest problem confronting markets today. The Price of Time is a must read - a copy should be on the desk of everyone who has anything to do with financial markets or wondered why things work as they do. -- Merryn Somerset Webb * Editor-in-Chief, MoneyWeek *In Chancellor's terrific new book The Price of Time, he argues that well-meaning attempts by central bankers to manage interest rates have brought disaster ... It is no mean task to turn such a dry topic into a lively read, but Chancellor pulls it off. This is not just a worthy successor to his history of financial speculation, Devil Take the Hindmost, but an urgently needed warning. Rock-bottom interest rates were imposed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and have now lasted so long that they have started to seem almost tolerable. To read this book is to be reacquainted with the bizarre, Alice-in-Wonderland condition of modern finance. ... Anyone who wants a fresh perspective on today's problems - and anyone in Westminster hoping to chart a new economic course as Boris Johnson's successor - needs this book on their summer reading list. -- Marc Sidwell * Sunday Telegraph *Interest rates haven't simply fallen - they were pushed. And by their pushing, the world's central banks have constructed the hall of mirrors in which every investor has become, of necessity, a speculator. So argues Edward Chancellor in this brilliant chronicle of the most important prices in capitalism. You must read it. It is a masterpiece of history, analysis-and properly understated outrage. -- James Grant * editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer *I wish The Price of Time were the book that I had written. I am reminded of Keynes' letter to Hayek after reading The Road to Serfdom where he said "In my opinion it is a grand book. We all have the greatest reason to be thankful to you for saying so well what needs so much to be said. .... I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it, and not only in agreement but in a deeply moved agreement" -- William White * former Chief Economist, Bank for International Settlements *Besides being a first-rate economic historian, Chancellor is also a master wordsmith; almost unique among serious finance books, The Price of Time serves well as bedtime reading. ... More than 20 years ago, Edward Chancellor's Devil Take the Hindmost supplied readers with one of the most engaging and incisive descriptions of financial manias ever written. That was a hard act to follow, but The Price of Time nicely fills the bill; it is a serious work of political economy that is part comprehensive guide to the world financial system's greatest peril and part literary chocolate torte. -- William J. Bernstein * Enterprising Investor, Chartered Financial Analysts Institute *Well I'll be darned! Chancellor has done the nearly impossible: he has made a potentially dreary topic - interest rates - into a witty, philosophical and highly entertaining story crammed with historical anecdotes starting with the Babylonians and ending yesterday. At the same time the obvious weight and breadth of his research leads us to his important conclusion: for Heaven's Sake leave interest rates to market forces; manipulation by Central Banks leads to chain linked disasters, another of which may well be imminent. -- Jeremy Grantham, Founder and Chief Investment Strategist, GMO LLCa scholarly perspective of the history of interest and credit since their known origins in ancient Mesopotamia ... a rollicking read in comparison with Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century ... The Price of Time is leavened throughout by touches of humour and an eye for historical curiosities drawn from a huge range of sources. -- Martin Vander Weyer * Spectator *the book is magisterial in its scope. He describes the reasons for the current distortion of the markets and why wealth and income disparity were so pronounced in the last 20 years. He lays blame on the Federal Reserve and central banks around the world distorting the markets with low interest rates. You'll want to buy this book and get it the first day available. -- John Mauldin * Thoughts from the Frontline *Edward Chancellor argues that low interest rates, of the sort that prevailed since the financial crisis and until this year, are a catastrophic mistake because, as the great financial journalist Walter Bagehot wrote, they lead people to "invest their savings in something impossible - a canal to Kamchatka, a railway to Watchet, a plan for animating the Dead Sea, a corporation for shipping skates to the Torrid Zone". Cryptocurrencies are the Kamchatka canals of today. Their collapse, in Chancellor's view, is just the beginning of a great unravelling. The book is persuasive, perfectly timed and, for a work on such a nerdy subject, gripping. -- Emma Duncan * Times Writers’ Favourite Books of 2022 *a blistering polemic against the evils of artificially low interest rates. Right on cue, the gravy train of ultra-loose monetary policy has come to a halt. Perhaps you should therefore not just buy this book but sell all your stocks ... The Price of Time addresses the biggest economic question of the past 15 years. Have the experimental monetary policies pursued by the world's leading central banks since the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 been a miracle cure or an epochal mistake? It situates this contemporary dilemma in a rich historical context. For this is just the latest instalment of an ancient debate over the nature and role of interest in a well-functioning economy. ... Capital allocation has been distorted; investment risk mispriced; pensions systems destabilised; social mobility fossilised; and moderate investors polarised into idle rent-seekers or you-only-live-once speculators. Chancellor makes a compelling and disturbing case that excessively loose financial conditions lie behind them all. ... The carnage being wrought by even the modest increase in borrowing costs so far in 2022 is not encouraging. At least if you've read this scintillating book and heeded the infamous Chancellor signal, you'll know what needs doing when we emerge from the wreckage. -- Felix Martin * Reuters *Chancellor's panoptic survey of the history of interest, and what classical economists said about it, will not fail to dazzle * Economist *a sweeping historical analysis of how our financial system once again became untethered from the world it is supposed to serve. At the heart of such derangement, Chancellor argues, is a single factor: artificially low interest rates. As he reminds us, interest rates are the most important signal in a market-based economy, "the universal price" affecting all others. Interest is best defined as the time value of money, which Chancellor artfully renders as "the price of time." It is the price that informs every key financial decision-saving, spending, investing. Suppressing the rate of interest is a powerful way to boost an economy otherwise bound for recession, but it is a dangerous one. It is to finance what opiates are to medicine, a distortion of perception disguised as a cure. ... Chancellor's learned and engrossing history concludes with a somber warning. Compared with more heavy-handed forms of government intrusion, central bankers' manipulation of interest rates may seem rather innocuous, and it is much less likely to provoke howling objections from ordinary citizens. But more than any other, it threatens the efficiency and integrity of the free-enterprise system. Behind the price of time is the priceless right of freedom. -- Adam Rowe * Wall Street Journal *every bit as gripping as any science fiction novel. It's an amazing book ... truly magisterial in scope -- John Mauldin * Thoughts from the Frontline *Superb! A worthy successor to Devil Take the Hindmost. -- William Bernstein * author of The Delusion of Crowds *Praise for Devil Take the Hindmost * --- *An admirably researched and very well written account of speculative insanity from the earliest times to, let no one doubt, the present. -- J.K. GalbraithEntertaining, useful, admirable scholarship... Chancellor seems to have read everything. -- New York Times Book ReviewPraise for Crunch-Time for Credit? -- ---There was no single, dominant, astonishing voice in the wilderness in the debate on the credit crunch, but... Edward Chancellor, an economic historian, foresaw almost everything. -- Charles Moore * Daily Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisRaising wild silk meets social and environmental challenges facing the textile industryΓÇöthe second-largest global polluterΓÇöhead-on by providing a sustainable occupation that maintains social bonds and a connection with the land.

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Book SynopsisFrom John Mack, former CEO of Morgan Stanley, an intimate personal memoir and riveting business story, recounting how he helped grow the company from 300 to 50,000 employees over four decades, transformed a notoriously competitive culture into a successful and collaborative one, and lead the company through the 2008 financial crisis.During his thirty-four-year tenure at Morgan Stanley, John Mack’s goal was to build the strongest and most productive team on Wall Street. His ability to motivate his employees to do their best work, especially in times of crisis, was fostered by his willingness to slash through bureaucracy and stand up to powerful interests. A forceful personality, one journalist said Mack was “described as ‘charismatic’ so regularly that it could be part of his name.” In Up Close and All In, Mack traces his personal journey from a one-stoplight North Carolina mill town to a fortieth-floor corner office on Wall Street—and shares the life lessons he learned along the way. He developed a titanium-strength stomach for risk, stress, and competition while landing accounts early in his career, as investment banks fought like wolfpacks to take advantage of new deregulation, fielding business raids, booms, and busts. As he rose through the ranks, he never forgot where he came from, relying on his instincts, doing what was right, and listening to his people on the front lines. This culture of trust and collaboration helped Morgan Stanley anticipate future trends before other firms, adapt quickly, and achieve record profits. This gripping memoir includes both humbling lows—like when Mack made the difficult decision to leave Morgan Stanley in 2001—and exhilarating highs—such as when he made an eleventh-hour agreement with the Japanese bank Mitsubishi to save the company during the 2008 financial crisis, having refused to give in when top regulators pressured him to sell the firm for $2 per share. With humor and honesty, Mack shares advice on both business and life: how to create a culture of team players, how to keep perspective during crises, how to make difficult decisions when all eyes are on you, and more. From a singular man who’s as unafraid to cry publicly as he is to anger some of the most powerful people in the world, this is an indispensable guide to living and leading well.Trade Review"John Mack has written a fascinating, fast-paced autobiography highlighting his visionary leadership throughout a long and distinguished career. In 2008 when global financial markets were rocked by an unprecdented crisis and Morgan Stanley faced a real solvency threat, he brilliantly negotiated an infusion of private capital to secure Morgan Stanley's future and he worked with the Treasury and the Federal Reserve to transform the firm from an investment bank to a bank regulated by the Federal Reserve with access to its financing window. Under his leadership, Morgan Stanley repaid the $10 million loan it was required to take by the government within two years with a 20% return to taxpayers. Having led Morgan Stanley through unprecedented challenges, he worked with his board to name James Gorman as his successor—another in a long line of decisions that have benefitted the firm he loved. This book is a testament to John Mack’s title as a Wall Street legend." -Laura Tyson, Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School “This is authentic John Mack- a strong, decisive leader who has written a book which is a must read for anyone who wants the first hand account of his successful struggle to save Morgan Stanley, the iconic Wall Street bank.” -Hank Paulson, 74th Secretary of the Treasury“John and I are the best of friends, I have learned so much about leadership from him. His gripping memoir tells the intimate, inspiring details of his rise through the financial industry, offering a close look into the conversations, relationships, and decisions that shaped his legendary career as the CEO of one of the most influential multinational investment management services in the country.” - Mike Krzyzewski, former Duke and USA Men’s Basketball Coach“John has grit, augmented by unconditional family love. John learned to lead from his immigrant parents, football teammates, and unsuspecting mentors who recognized his x-factor. His truth-telling focus on calling things as he sees them, galvanizing to true north in times of crisis and finding his replacement – to leave a place (Morgan Stanley) better than he found it – will forever define his leadership. ‘Up Close and All In’ is a candid read about the evolution of parts of Wall Street over nearly half of the past century.” - Mary Meeker, General Partner / Co-Founder BOND Capital“History is what people do. And few things have shaped American history as the high-powered world of Wall Street finances – or its near-fatal crisis of 2008. Huge personalities, like John Mack, were both architects of the system, and ultimately essential actors in preventing its collapse. Up Close and All In is a brutally honest, yet fascinating and enlightening, narrative of one man’s extraordinary journey into and through that crisis.” -General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Army Retired“John Mack shares his formidable story in this memoir, which is laced with inspiring advice from his parents, those who’ve worked above him, below him, and, most formidably, the lessons he learned from his experience leading effectively, straightforwardly, and honorably. The reader will quickly learn that Mack is not merely a strong, decisive, successful leader, he also is a deep down good, good man.” - Erskine Bowles, Former White House Chief of Staff

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Book Synopsis''This riveting behind-the-scenes story of the clothes on our backs is a must-read for clotheshorses everywhere'' Harper''s Bazaar ''Extraordinary . . . fascinating . . . a wonderful way into history, quite often through the voices of people who don''t have a say in history'' Cerys MatthewsLinen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool: through the stories of these five fabrics, Sofi Thanhauser illuminates the world we inhabit in a startling new way, travelling from China to Cumbria to reveal the craft, labour and industry that create the clothes we wear. From the women who transformed stalks of flax into linen to clothe their families in nineteenth century New England to those who earn their dowries in the cotton-spinning factories of South India today, this book traces the origins of garment-making through time and around the world. Exploring the social, economic and environmental impact of our most personal possessions, Worn looks beyond care labels to show how clothes reveal the truth about what we really care about.''A must-read . . . combines remarkable research with heartfelt care'' Clare HunterTrade ReviewFascinating . . . a good yarn . . . the joy of this history of clothing, which is eminently readable and meticulously researched, is its focus on people -- Paula Byrne * The Times *This riveting behind-the-scenes story of the clothes on our backs is a must-read for clotheshorses everywhere * Harper's Bazaar *A terrific book especially for those who want to be informed about sustainable clothing. Knowing the history is fascinating. -- Alexandra SchulmanRichly evocative . . . One of the great pleasures of this panoramic history of getting dressed is Sofi Thanhauser's ability to spot moments like these where human desire and material culture collide -- Kathryn Hughes * Guardian *Knowledgeable, fascinating . . . explores the complex systems woven between the producers of cloth and its consumers . . . bulges at the seams with finely spun descriptions of the places and people she encounters -- Kassia St Clair * Economist *The story of what we wear is the story of who we are, and Worn offers a riveting, provocative, and eye-opening account. One cannot make sense of our modern world without this book -- Brian Christian * Author of The Most Human Human *Expansive . . . elegantly chronicling how textile production came to be defined by worker exploitation, misogyny, environmental devastation, and colonialism . . . Yet she also finds space to appreciate sartorial marvels and to celebrate the loom aficionados, "denimheads," and "wool enthusiasts" who aim for a more ethical, analog future * New Yorker *Extraordinary . . . fascinating . . . a wonderful way into history, quite often through the voices of people who don't have a say in history -- Cerys MatthewsA masterpiece of investigative reporting and a riveting adventure story, Worn is both panoramic and richly particular. Thanhauser is the best of guides: humane, engaging, generous with historical anecdote and always able to reveal the telling detail. She shows how the cost of fashion far exceeds any retail price tag, and how the revival of venerable traditions might yet lead us to a sustainable future -- Geraldine Brooks * author of The Secret Chord *An incredibly well-reported account of how fashion, far from being trivial, has shaped human history -- Pippa Bailey * New Statesman *This is a must-read book for anyone interested in textiles. In it Sofi Thanhauser tracks the ingenuity, creativity and human cost of textile production across centuries and cultures in a book which combines remarkable research with heartfelt care -- Clare Hunter * author of Threads of Life *Captivating and deeply researched . . . Thanhauser unearths the secret life of fabrics with skill and precision. Readers won't look at their wardrobes the same way again * Publishers Weekly *A fascinating read, laying out how our increasingly careless use and discarding of clothing has come to damage our planet. Thanhauser has carried out a remarkable mass of research on clothes and the fibers they are made from. She has stitched it all together in a clear and engaging style that invites one to keep reading and to start mending our ways -- Elizabeth Wayland Barber * author of Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years *Original, insightful and thought provoking . . . a delight to read such rich insights into the weaving and knitting together of industries, societies, political initiatives and economies of cloth that truly demonstrates humans activities -- Dilys Williams * Director of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion *Sofi Thanhauser's history of cloth is not just about clothing: it is about ethics, workers' rights, women's progress, climate justice. It is the about the fabric of who we are. And as told in Worn, it also makes an absolutely gripping read! -- Peggy Orenstein * author of Girls & Sex and Boys & Sex *Admirable concision and formidable scholarship . . . Now and then in the life of a book reviewer, a book comes along that makes you glad to be one . . . Worn falls plumb into this category -- Nicola Schulman * Oldie *Thanhauser's geographical reach is impressive . . . as is the rigour of her examinations of the cultural, economic, political and environmental impacts -- Lucy Scholes * Telegraph *

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