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John Wiley & Sons Inc Value Proposition Design
Book SynopsisThe authors of the international bestseller Business Model Generation explain how to create value propositions customers can t resist Value Proposition Design helps you tackle the core challenge of every business creating compelling products and services customers want to buy.Table of Contents1. Canvas 1.1 Customer Profile 10 1.2 Value Map 26 1.3 Fit 40 2. Design 2.1 Prototyping Possibilities 74 2.2 Starting Points 86 2.3 Understanding Customers 104 2.4 Making Choices 120 2.5 Finding the Right Business Model 142 2.6 Designing in Established organizations 158 3. Test 3.1 What to Test 188 3.2 Testing Step-by-Step 196 3.3 Experiment library 214 3.4 Bringing it All Together 238 4. Evolve 4.1 Create Alignment 260 4.2 Measure & Monitor 262 4.3 Improve Relentlessly 264 4.4 Reinvent Yourself Constantly 266 4.5 Taobao: Reinventing (E-)Commerce 268 Glossary 276 Core Team 278 Prereaders 279 Bios 280 Index 282
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Science of Getting Rich
Book SynopsisThe original guide to creating wealth! With this seminal book, Wallace Wattles popularized the Law of Attraction, the powerful concept that inspired The Secret. The Science of Getting Rich explains how to attract wealth, overcome emotional barriers, and apply foolproof methods to bring financial success into your life.Table of ContentsForeword by Catherine Ponder vii An Introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon ix Letter from Florence Wattles xxxi Sources xxxv About Tom Butler-Bowdon xxxvii The Science of Getting Rich 1 The Science of Being Great 111
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Random House USA Inc Never Eat Alone Expanded and Updated
Book SynopsisDo you want to get ahead in life? Climb the ladder to personal success? The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships—so that everyone wins.In Never Eat Alone, Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps—and inner mindset—he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his Rolodex, people he has helped and who have helped him.The son of a small-town steelworker and a cleaning lady, Ferrazzi first used his remarkable ability to connect with others to pave the way to a scholarship at Yale, a Harvard MBA, and several top executive posts. Not yet out of his thirties, he developed a network of relationships that stretched from Washington’s corridors of power to Hollywood’s A-list, leading to him being named one of Crain’s 40 Under 40 and one of Davos’ Global Leader for Tomorrow.Ferrazzi''s form of connecting to the world around him is based on generosity, helping friends connect with other friends. Ferrazzi distinguishes genuine relationship-building from the crude, desperate glad-handling usually associated with “networking.” He then distills his system of reaching out to people into practical, proven principles. Among them:Don’t keep score: It’s never simply about getting what you want. It’s about getting what you want and making sure that the people who are important to you get what they want, too.“Ping” constantly: The Ins and Outs of reaching out to those in your circle of contacts all the time—not just when you need something.Never eat alone: The dynamics of status are the same whether you’re working at a corporation or attending a society event— “invisibility” is a fate worse than failure. In the course of the book, Ferrazzi outlines the timeless strategies shared by the world’s most connected individuals, from Katherine Graham to Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan to the Dalai Lama. Chock full of specific advice on handling rejection, getting past gatekeepers, becoming a “conference commando,” and more, Never Eat Alone is destined to take its place alongside How to Win Friends and Influence People as an inspirational classic.
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Pearson Education Limited Strategy Safari
Book SynopsisHenry Mintzberg is perhaps the world's premier management thinker a Carlsberg-style endorsement of the author from Tom Peters, management guru Henry Mintzberg is one of today's best-known and most controversial management thinkers. Currently Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal, he is always interesting and usually controversial and holds the management and strategy communities in thrall. He claims to spend his public life dealing with organizations, and his private life escaping from them. Bruce Ahlstrand likes to prospect for strategy gems in unlikely places - from the game of Texas Hold'em to the Greek tragedies. He has a D.Phil. from Oxford University and a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. Bruce is the author is currently a professor of management at Trent University in Ontario, Canada.Joe Lampel began his career believing that strategy Trade Review"Mintzberg is one of the best guides for an analysis of strategy and this book is the perfect starting point for someone interested in understanding more about it." - Director Magazine, January 2009 (readership 173,000)Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements / ix Embarkation / xi 1 ‘And over here, ladies and gentlemen: the strategic management beast Why ten? A field review Five Ps for strategy Strategies for better and for worse Strategic management as an academic discipline 2 The design school: strategy formation as a process of conception Origins of the design school The basic design school model Premises of the design school Critique of the design school The design school: contexts and contributions 3 The planning school: strategy formation as a formal process The basic strategic planning model Sorting out the hierarchies Premises of the planning school Some more recent developments Planning’s unplanned troubles The fallacies of strategic planning The context and contribution of the planning school 4 The positioning school: strategy formation as an analytical process Enter Porter Premises of the positioning school The first wave: origins in the military maxims The second wave: the search for consulting imperatives The third wave: the development of empirical propositions Critique of the positioning school Contribution and context of the positioning school 5 The entrepreneurial school: strategy formation as a visionary process Origins in economics The literature of the entrepreneurial school Visionary leadership Premises of the entrepreneurial school &nbs
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Penguin Putnam Inc 168 Hours
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe How to Make Money in Stocks A Winning System in
Book SynopsisTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER!Anyone can learn to invest wisely with this bestselling investment system!Through every type of market, William J. OâNeilâs national bestseller, How to MakeMoney in Stocks, has shown over 2 million investors the secrets to building wealth.OâNeilâs powerful CAN SLIM Investing Systemâa proven 7-step process for minimizingrisk and maximizing gainsâhas influenced generations of investors.Based on a major study of market winners from 1880 to 2009, this expandededition gives you: Proven techniques for finding winning stocks before they make big price gains Tips on picking the best stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs to maximize your gains 100 new charts to help you spot todayâs most profitable trends PLUS strategies to help you avoid the 21 mostcommon investor mistakes!âœI dedicated the 2004 Stock Traderâs Almanac to Bill OâNeil: âHis foresight,innovation, and disciplined approach to Trade ReviewPUBLICITY CONFIRMATIONS (as of 6/17/09) 6/17/09, Newsmax.com, NATIONAL Online, Feature and Interview 6/15/09, Marketwatch.com, NATIONAL Online, Interview 6/15/09, Radio America, NATIONAL Radio, Interview 6/15/09, WBBM, Boston Radio, Interview 3-11 Education 20090617Table of ContentsPreface ix Part I:A Winning System: CAN SLIM™Introduction: Learning From the Greatest WinnersCHAPTER 1: C = Current Quarterly Earnings per Share: The Higher the Better CHAPTER 2: A = Annual Earnings Increases: Look for SignificantGrowth CHAPTER 3: N = New Products, New Management, New Highs:Buying at the Right Time CHAPTER 4: S = Supply and Demand: Shares Outstanding PlusBig Volume Demand CHAPTER 5: L = Leader or Laggard: Which Is Your Stock? CHAPTER 6: I = Institutional Sponsorship: Follow the Leaders CHAPTER 7: M = Market Direction: How to Determine It Part II:Be Smart From the StartCHAPTER 8: Nineteen Common Mistakes Most Investors Make CHAPTER 9: When to Sell and Cut Your Losses CHAPTER 10: When to Sell and Take Your Profit CHAPTER 11: Should You Diversify, Invest for the Long Haul,Buy on Margin, Sell Short, Etc.?CHAPTER 12: How to Read Charts Like an Expert and Improve YourStock Picks and Timing Part III:Investing Like a ProfessionalCHAPTER 13: Models of the Greatest Stock Market Winners: 1952–2001 CHAPTER 14: How to Find Winning Stocks Using Investor’s Business Daily CHAPTER 15: How to Pick the Best Market Sectors, Industry Groups,and Subgroups CHAPTER 16: The Art of Tape Reading: Analyzing and Reacting to News CHAPTER 17: Should You Buy Options, Nasdaq Stocks, New Issues,Convertible Bonds, Tax Shelters, Foreign Stocks?CHAPTER 18: How You Could Make a Million Dollars Owning Mutual Funds CHAPTER 19: Improving Management of Pension and InstitutionalPortfolios CHAPTER 20: Important Guidelines to RememberSuccess Stories Index
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe What Works on Wall Street Fourth Edition The
Book SynopsisHistorically tested long-term strategies that always outperform the marketâœOâShaughnessyâs conclusion that some strategies do produce consistently strong results while others underperform could shake up the investment business.ââBarronâsâœWhat Works on Wall Street is indisputably a major contribution to empirical research on the behavior of common stocks in the United States. . . . Conceivably, the influence of What Works on Wall Street will prove immense.ââThe Financial Analystsâ JournalâœOâShaughnessyâs latest, What Works on Wall Street, is a serious inquiry into the investment strategies that stand up under long-term scrutiny and is refreshing research for every investor.ââStocks and CommoditiesâœA bible for investment strategies. . .ââSeeking AlphaAbout the Book:Recent history has witnessed one of the worst stock market beatings ev
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Pan Macmillan Meltdown
Book SynopsisDuncan Mavin is a seasoned international financial journalist, having started his career as a chartered accountant in the City and in Toronto. He has been a reporter and editor for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, and was the Journal's Financial Editor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has also been Managing Editor for Barron's Group and a reporter for Canada's National Post, and he's the bestselling author of "Britain's version of Bad Blood", the Lex Greensill exposé Pyramid of Lies. He lives with his family in the UK, and is a long-suffering fan of Sunderland football club.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Market Sense and Nonsense
Book SynopsisBestselling author, Jack Schwager, challenges the assumptions at the core of investment theory and practice and exposes common investor mistakes, missteps, myths, and misreads When it comes to investment models and theories of how markets work, convenience usually trumps reality. The simple fact is that many revered investment theories and market models are flatly wrongthat is, if we insist that they work in the real world. Unfounded assumptions, erroneous theories, unrealistic models, cognitive biases, emotional foibles, and unsubstantiated beliefs all combine to lead investors astrayprofessionals as well as novices. In this engaging new book, Jack Schwager, bestselling author of Market Wizards and The New Market Wizards, takes aim at the most perniciously pervasive academic precepts, money management canards, market myths and investor errors. Like so many ducks in a shooting gallery, Schwager picks them off, one at a time, revealing the truth about manyTrade ReviewEverybody, and I mean everybody who has an investment portfolio will profit from reading this book kudos to the author for offering the investing world an uncommonly worthwhile book. (forexpros.com, 12th Novemebr 2012) Mr Schwager s book starts off with plenty of sound, basic advice before expertly demonstrating that a leveraged exchange traded fund is a dreadful investment because of its structure, being almost bound to disappoint (The Economist, January 2013) Full of common sense (Pensions World, February 2013)Table of ContentsForeword xv Prologue xvii Part One Markets, Return, and Risk Chapter 1 Expert Advice 3 Comedy Central versus CNBC 3 The Elves Index 6 Paid Advice 8 Investment Insights 11 Chapter 2 The Deficient Market Hypothesis 13 The Efficient Market Hypothesis and Empirical Evidence 14 The Price is Not Always Right 15 The Market is Collapsing; Where is the News? 24 The Disconnect between Fundamental Developments and Price Moves 27 Price Moves Determine Financial News 37 Is It Luck or Skill? Exhibit A: The Renaissance Medallion Track Record 39 The Flawed Premise of the Efficient Market Hypothesis: A Chess Analogy 40 Some Players are Not Even Trying to Win 42 The Missing Ingredient 44 Right for the Wrong Reason: Why Markets are Difficult to Beat 47 Diagnosing the Flaws of the Efficient Market Hypothesis 49 Why the Efficient Market Hypothesis is Destined for the Dustbin of Economic Theory 50 Investment Insights 52 Chapter 3 The Tyranny of Past Returns 55 S&P Performance in Years Following High- and Low-Return Periods 57 Implications of High- and Low-Return Periods on Longer-Term Investment Horizons 59 Is There a Benefit in Selecting the Best Sector? 63 Hedge Funds: Relative Performance of the Past Highest-Return Strategy 70 Why Do Past High-Return Sectors and Strategy Styles Perform So Poorly? 77 Wait a Minute. Do We Mean to Imply . . . ? 78 Investment Insights 85 Chapter 4 The Mismeasurement of Risk 87 Worse Than Nothing 87 Volatility as a Risk Measure 88 The Source of the Problem 92 Hidden Risk 95 Evaluating Hidden Risk 100 The Confusion between Volatility and Risk 103 The Problem with Value at Risk (VaR) 105 Asset Risk: Why Appearances May Be Deceiving, or Price Matters 107 Investment Insights 109 Chapter 5 Why Volatility is Not Just about Risk, and the Case of Leveraged ETFs 111 Leveraged ETFs: What You Get May Not Be What You Expect 112 Investment Insights 121 Chapter 6 Track Record Pitfalls 123 Hidden Risk 123 The Data Relevance Pitfall 124 When Good Past Performance is Bad 126 The Apples-and-Oranges Pitfall 128 Longer Track Records Could Be Less Relevant 129 Investment Insights 132 Chapter 7 Sense and Nonsense about Pro Forma Statistics 133 Investment Insights 136 Chapter 8 How to Evaluate Past Performance 137 Why Return Alone is Meaningless 137 Risk-Adjusted Return Measures 142 Visual Performance Evaluation 156 Investment Insights 166 Chapter 9 Correlation: Facts and Fallacies 169 Correlation Defined 169 Correlation Shows Linear Relationships 170 The Coefficient of Determination (r2) 171 Spurious (Nonsense) Correlations 171 Misconceptions about Correlation 173 Focusing on the Down Months 176 Correlation versus Beta 179 Investment Insights 182 Part Two Hedge Funds as an Investment Chapter 10 The Origin of Hedge Funds 185 Chapter 11 Hedge Funds 101 195 Differences between Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds 196 Types of Hedge Funds 200 Correlation with Equities 210 Chapter 12 Hedge Fund Investing: Perception and Reality 211 The Rationale for Hedge Fund Investment 213 Advantages of Incorporating Hedge Funds in a Portfolio 214 The Special Case of Managed Futures 215 Single-Fund Risk 217 Investment Insights 220 Chapter 13 Fear of Hedge Funds: It’s Only Human 223 A Parable 223 Fear of Hedge Funds 225 Chapter 14 The Paradox of Hedge Fund of Funds Underperformance 231 Investment Insights 236 Chapter 15 The Leverage Fallacy 239 The Folly of Arbitrary Investment Rules 241 Leverage and Investor Preference 242 When Leverage is Dangerous 243 Investment Insights 245 Chapter 16 Managed Accounts: An Investor-Friendly Alternative to Funds 247 The Essential Difference between Managed Accounts and Funds 248 The Major Advantages of a Managed Account 249 Individual Managed Accounts versus Indirect Managed Account Investment 250 Why Would Managers Agree to Managed Accounts? 251 Are There Strategies That are Not Amenable to Managed Accounts? 253 Evaluating Four Common Objections to Managed Accounts 253 Investment Insights 259 Postscript to Part Two: Are Hedge Fund Returns a Mirage? 261 Part Three Portfolio Matters Chapter 17 Diversification: Why 10 is Not Enough 267 The Benefits of Diversification 267 Diversification: How Much is Enough? 268 Randomness Risk 269 Idiosyncratic Risk 272 A Qualification 273 Investment Insights 274 Chapter 18 Diversification: When More is Less 277 Investment Insights 281 Chapter 19 Robin Hood Investing 283 A New Test 286 Why Rebalancing Works 290 A Clarification 291 Investment Insights 292 Chapter 20 Is High Volatility Always Bad? 295 Investment Insights 299 Chapter 21 Portfolio Construction Principles 301 The Problem with Portfolio Optimization 301 Eight Principles of Portfolio Construction 305 Correlation Matrix 309 Going Beyond Correlation 310 Investment Insights 314 Epilogue 32 Investment Observations 315 Appendix A Options—Understanding the Basics 319 Appendix B Formulas for Risk-Adjusted Return Measures 323 Sharpe Ratio 323 Sortino Ratio 324 Symmetric Downside-Risk Sharpe Ratio 325 Gain-to-Pain Ratio (GPR) 326 Tail Ratio 326 MAR and Calmar Ratios 326 Return Retracement Ratio 327 Acknowledgments 329 About the Author 331 Index 333
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Oneworld Publications A Man for All Markets: Beating the Odds, from Las
Book SynopsisA New York Times bestseller In a remarkable career, Edward O. Thorp rose up from nothing to become a professor at MIT, invented card counting and the world’s first wearable computer, beat the casinos of Las Vegas at blackjack and roulette, then became a bestselling author and a hedge fund heavyweight, ushering in a revolution on Wall Street. Now he shares his incredible life story for the first time, revealing how he made his fortune and giving advice to the next generation of investors. An intellectual thrill ride, replete with practical wisdom, A Man for All Markets is a scarcely imaginable tale of ludicrous success.Trade Review‘Thorp secured prizes, scholarships a professorship and assassination attempt by the mob…[A] rattling read.’ * Business Life (British Airways magazine) *‘A lively read.’ * MoneyWeek *‘An amazing book by a true icon; Thorp launched revolutions in Vegas and on Wall Street by turning math into magic, and here he weaves his own life lessons into a page turner as hot as a deck full of aces. Loved it!’ -- Ben Mezrich, New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Down The House and The Accidental Billionaires‘An extraordinary autobiography which reads like a novel and contains insights into what has gone wrong with the financial system along the way.’ -- John Kay, author of Other People’s Money‘In A Man for All Markets, [Thorp] delightfully recounts his progress (if that is the word) from college teacher to gambler to hedge-fund manager. Along the way we learn important lessons about the functioning of markets and the logic of investment. ’ * Wall Street Journal *‘Ed Thorp takes us on an incredible journey as we learn how to beat blackjack, roulette, and then Wall Street, stop off to have dinner with a young Buffett, unmask Madoff before anyone else, and so much more. More important, it’s all fun, fascinating and filled with lessons we can all use to be more successful in business and life. Learn and enjoy, I did!’ -- Joel Greenblatt, author of the New York Times bestseller The Little Book that Beats the Market‘In A Man for All Markets, [Thorp] delightfully recounts his progress (if that is the word) from college teacher to gambler to hedge-fund manager. Along the way we learn important lessons about the functioning of markets and the logic of investment.’ * Wall Street Journal *‘The gripping story of how one man’s genius and dedication has solved so many problems in diverse fields…There is nothing more important than knowing how to think clearly. Read this book and learn from a master.’ -- Paul Wilmott, founder, Wilmott Magazine‘Whether you are an aspiring professional player, a casual gambler, or an occasional visitor to Las Vegas, you can feel the impact of Professor Ed Thorp’s intellect on that desert city. In 1962, Thorp published the classic book Beat the Dealer. The text was based on Thorp’s original research that stemmed from his curiosity about the game of 21, and was billed as a “how to book” for the lay person to beat the casinos at blackjack. And simply stated it changed everything…The book chronicles Thorp’s heroic-like arc from his humble beginnings growing up in a family that struggled to get by – first in the cold winters of Chicago and later in the sun soaked cities of southern California, where he excelled in a variety of high school science courses and ultimately earned a scholarship for his exceptional talents in physics – on through his professional career as a gaming guru, and ultimately to his amazing success in a stock market-centered career, where he would take his knowledge and understanding of games of chance and apply it to the biggest casino in the world, Wall Street…A Man for All Markets chronicles Thorp’s personal journey in navigating the unexpected and sometimes dangerous obstacles that come along with challenging the status quo of a wealthy corporate adversary.’ -- Nicholas G. Colon, Professional Advantage Gambler and Managing Director of Alea Consulting Group, a casino gaming consulting firm‘Illuminating for the mathematically inclined, and cautionary for would-be gamblers and day traders.’ * Library Journal *‘The kind of thing any would-be investor, to say nothing of casino cowboy, ought to read. Thorp’s in-the-trenches account of gaming the system(s) is a pleasure – and instructive, too.’ * Kirkus *
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Harvard Business Review Press Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? With a New
Book SynopsisAre you an authentic leader? Too many companies are managed not by leaders but by mere role players and faceless bureaucrats. What would it take to replace these empty suits with real leaders--men and women who are confident in who they are and what they stand for and who truly inspire people to achieve extraordinary results? Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones argue that leaders don't become great by aspiring to a list of universal character traits. Rather, effective leaders are authentic: they deploy individual strengths to engage followers' hearts, minds, and souls. Authentic leaders are skillful at consistently being themselves, even as they alter their behavior to respond effectively to changing contexts. In short, the authors present a powerful case: that it takes "being yourself, in context, with skill" to be a successful, authentic leader--and they show you how to do exactly that. In this lively and practical book, Goffee and Jones draw from extensive research to reveal how to hone and deploy your unique leadership assets while managing the inherent tensions at the heart of successful leadership: when to show emotion and when to withhold it, how to get close to followers while maintaining an appropriate role distance, and maintaining your individuality while "conforming enough" to gain traction and lead change. Underscoring the inherently social nature of leadership, the book also explores how leaders can stay attuned to the needs and expectations of followers. Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? will forever change how we view, develop, and practice the art of leadership, wherever we live and work.Trade Review"Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? by Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones is by far the best book written on leadership." -- Vinay Kalantri, Mobile Wallet, as seen in the Economic Times"The authors of one of the all-time best books for creative leaders, Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?, are also simultaneously re-releasing that volume with a new preface." -- David Slocum, FORBES"A rewarding read if you want to lead." -- Financial Times
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HarperCollins Publishers nologo
Book SynopsisNo Logo' was a book that defined a generation when it was first published in 1999. For its 10th anniversary Naomi Klein has updated this iconic book.By the time you're twenty-one, you'll have seen or heard a million advertisements. But you won't be happier for it.This is a book about that much-maligned, much-misunderstood generation coming up behind the slackers, who are being intelligent and active about the world in which they find themselves. It is a world in which all that is alternative' is sold, where any innovation or subversion is immediately adopted by un-radical, faceless corporations. But, gradually, tentatively, a new generation is beginning to fight consumerism with its own best weapons; and it is the first skirmishes in this war that this abrasively intelligent book documents brilliantly.Trade Review‘The Das Kapital of the growing anti-corporate movement’ Guardian ‘A riveting, conscientious piece of journalism and a strident call to arms. Packed with enlightening statistics and extraordinary anecdotal evidence, “No Logo” is fluent, undogmatically alive to its contradictions and omissions and positively seethes with intelligent anger.’ Sam Leith, Observer ‘A fascinating ride through the history of marketing…Klein brilliantly humanises “No Logo” with fascinating personal stories, her voice firm but never preachy, her argument detailed but never obscure.’ Alex O’Connell, The Times ‘Naomi Klein brilliantly charts the protean nature of consumer capitalism, how it absorbs radical challenges to its dominance and turns them into consumer products.’ Madeleine Bunting, Guardian ‘A sharp and very timely book … A couple of chapters in, your mind is already reeling … convincing and necessary, clear and fresh, calm but unsparing’ Guardian ‘A manifesto and a call to arms that sometimes reads like an Orwellian nightmare’ Financial Times
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Little, Brown Book Group Getting Things Done
Book Synopsis''The Bible of business and personal productivity'' Lifehack''A completely revised and updated edition of the blockbuster bestseller from ''the personal productivity guru'' Fast CompanySince it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen''s Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization. ''GTD'' is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional and personal tasks, and has spawned an entire culture of websites, organizational tools, seminars, and offshoots.Allen has rewritten the book from start to finish, tweaking his classic text with important perspectives on the new workplace, and adding material that will make the book fresh and relevant for years to come. This new edition of Getting Things Done will be welcomed not only by its hundreds of thousands of existing fans but also by a whole new generation eager to Trade ReviewI am a devout, card-carrying GTD true believer . . . The entire approach has boosted not only my productivity but also my wider well-being. But what amazes me just as much is how deeply GTD has taken hold around the world . . . This is a genuine movement -- Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of DriveGetting Things Done describes an incredibly practical process that can help busy people regain control of their lives. It can help you be more successful. Even more important, it can help you have a happier life! -- Marshall Goldsmith, coeditor, The Leader of the Future and Coaching for LeadershipGetting Things Done offers help building the new mental skills needed in an age of multitasking and overload -- Sue Shellenbarger * The Wall Street Journal *David Allen's productivity principles are rooted in big ideas . . . but they're also eminently practical -- Keith H. Hammonds, Fast CompanyThe bible of business and personal productivity * Lifehack *I recently attended David's seminar on getting organised, and after seeing him in action I have hope . . . David Allen's seminar was an eye-opener -- Stewart Alsop * Fortune *Allen drops down from high-level philosophising to the fine details of time management. Take a minute to check this one out -- Mark Henricks * Entrepreneur *David Allen brings new clarity to the power of purpose, the essential nature of relaxation, and deceptively simple guidelines for getting things done. He employs extensive experience, personal stories, and his own recipe for simplicity, speed and fun -- Frances Hesselbein, Chairman, Board of Governors, Leader to Leader InstituteAnyone who reads this book can apply this knowledge and these skills in their lives for immediate results -- Stephen P. Magee, Chaired Professor of Business and Economics, University of Texas at AustinA true skeptic of most management fixes, I have to say David's program is a winner! -- Joline Godfrey, CEO, Independent Means, Inc., and author of Our Wildest DreamsWARNING: Reading Getting Things Done can be hazardous to your old habits of procrastination. David Allen's approach is refreshingly simple and intuitive. He provides the systems, tools and tips to achieve profound results -- Carola Endicott, Director, Quality Resources, New England Medical CenterI am a devout, card-carrying GTD true believer . . . The entire approach has boosted not only my productivity but also my wider well-being. But what amazes me just as much is how deeply GTD has taken hold around the world . . . This is a genuine movement * Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive *Getting Things Done describes an incredibly practical process that can help busy people regain control of their lives. It can help you be more successful. Even more important, it can help you have a happier life! * Marshall Goldsmith, coeditor, The Leader of the Future and Coaching for Leadership *Getting Things Done offers help building the new mental skills needed in an age of multitasking and overload * Sue Shellenbarger, The Wall Street Journal *David Allen's productivity principles are rooted in big ideas . . . but they're also eminently practical * Keith H. Hammonds, Fast Company *
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McGraw-Hill Education Mastering the Trade Third Edition Proven
Book SynopsisThe go-to guide for launching a lucrative career in tradingâfully updated for todayâs turbulent marketsOne of todayâs most successful traders, John F. Carter has made his popular guide more relevant and effective than ever. This new edition of Mastering the Trade includes the essential content that has made it a bestselling classic, and includes critical new information for making the best trading decisions in every situation. Combining insightful market overview with trading strategies and concepts, Carter provides:âProven set-ups, with optimal markets and non-negotiable trading rules âExact entry, exit, and stop loss levels for swing and intraday trading âSeven key internals, from Skew to VIX âPre-market checklist Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword by Peter BorishIntroductionPart 1: Trader's Boot Camp: How Do the Markets Work and What are the Best Ways to Get Mentally Prepared for Successful Trading and InvestingChapter 1: What Really Causes the Markets to Move?Chapter 2: Psychology 101: What Didn't They Teach About Trading and Investing in School?Chapter 3: Is There Rhyme or Reason to How the Markets Move?Chapter 4: Now That I Understand the Markets--What Do I Trade?Chapter 5: The Stock Market Is Now Open--What Tools Best Predict the Market's Next Move?Chapter 6: A Beginner's Journey by Danielle Shay GumPart 2: What are the Best Intraday and Swing-Trading Setups for Futures, Stocks, Options, Forex, and Cryptopcurrencies?Chapter 7: The Opening Gap: Why Is This the First and Highest-Probability Play of the Day?Chapter 8: Pivot Points: Why Are These Good Pausing Points for Trending Days and Great Fading Points for Choppy Days?Chapter 9: Tick Fades: Are They Really the Best Way to Take Money Away from Newbies?Chapter 10: Reverting Back to the Mean or "When Is the Best Time to Take a Profit?"Chapter 11: The Squeeze: What Is the Best Way to Get Positioned for the Big Market Moves?Chapter 12: Catching the Wave: What Is the Easiest Way to Stay on the Right Side of the Trend on Any Market, on Any Time Frame?Chapter 13: What Is the Best Tool for Staying in a Trade and Not Jumping Out Too Early?Chapter 14: Scalper Alerts: Is This the Best Tool for Quick Price Trend Change Confirmation?Chapter 15: Brick Plays: How Can I Tell When a Market Is Going to Reverse Its Trend in the Middle of the Day?Chapter 16: The 3:52 Play: Capping Off the Day with a Fine CigarChapter 17: HOLP and LOHP-- Catching Trend Reversals Without Getting SmashedChapter 18: Propulsion Plays--Swing Plays Using Stocks, Single-Stock Futures, and Stock OptionsPart 3: Heading Back into the Real World of TradingChapter 19: My Trading Journey and Strategy by Henry GambellChapter 20: What Setups Work Best for Me? By Danielle Shay GumChapter 21: How I Look at the Markets, Think About Them, and How I Handled My Emotions While in an Options Position Where I Made $1.4 Million On a Single TradeChapter 22: How Important is the Right Technology When It Comes to Trading? By Darrell GumChapter 23: Tips and Tricks for When It's Not Working for You, No Matter What You DoChapter 24: Mastering the TradeIndex
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Do the Fcking Work
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Macmillan Learning Modern Principles of Economics
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Simon & Schuster Administrative Behavior 4th Edition
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1947, the fourth edition of this title investigates the impact of changing social values and modern technology on the operation of organisations. Written for managers and other professionals, as well as students in related areas who wish to understand the decision-making processes at the heart of organisation and management.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Fourth EditionPreface to the First EditionAcknowledgmentsI. Decision-Making and Administrative OrganizationCommentary on Chapter III. Some Problems of Administrative TheoryCommentary on Chapter IIIII. Fact and Value in Decision-MakingCommentary on Chapter IIIIV. Rationality in Administrative BehaviorCommentary on Chapter IVV. The Psychology of Administrative DecisionsCommentary on Chapter VVI. The Equilibrium of the OrganizationCommentary on Chapter VIVII. The Role of AuthorityCommentary on Chapter VIIVIII. CommunicationCommentary on Chapter VIIIIX. The Criterion of EfficiencyCommentary on Chapter IXX. Loyalties and Organizational IdentificationCommentary on Chapter XXI. The Anatomy of OrganizationCommentary on Chapter XIAppendix: What Is an Administrative Science?Index
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Macmillan Learning Macroeconomics International Edition
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Cengage Learning EMEA Management and Cost Accounting
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPart 1: Introduction to MCA 1. Introduction to MA 2. An introduction to cost terms and concepts Part 2: Cost accumulation for inventory valuation and profit measurement 3. Cost assignment 4. Process costing 5. Joint and by-product costing 6. Income effects of alternative cost accumulation systems Part 3: Information for decision-making 7. Cost-volume-profit analysis 8. Measuring relevant costs and revenues for decision-making 9. Pricing decisions and profitability analysis 10. Activity-based costing 11. Decision-making under conditions of risk and uncertainty 12. Capital investment decisions: appraisal methods 13. Capital investment decisions: the impact of capital rationing, taxation, inflation and risk Part 4: Information for planning, control and performance measurement 14. Management control systems 15. The budgeting process 16. Standard costing and variance analysis 1 17. Standard costing and variance analysis 2: further aspects 18. Divisional financial performance 19. Transfer pricing in divisionalized companies Part 5: Strategic performance and cost management for value creation; digitalization, sustainability and the future of management accounting 20. Strategic performance management 21. Strategic cost management and value creation 22. Management accounting ��� current technologies and data analytics 23. Sustainability and environmental management accounting 24. Overview and challenges for the future Part 6: Addendum: The application of quantitative methods to management accounting 25. Cost estimation and cost behaviour 26. Quantitative models for the planning and control of inventories
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Penguin Putnam Inc Choose Your Enemies Wisely
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McGraw-Hill Education Accounting Information Systems ISE
Book SynopsisAccounting Information Systems 4e covers the four roles for accountants with respect to information technology: users of technology and information systems, managers of users of technology, designers of information systems,and evaluators of information systems. Accountants must understand the organization and how organizational processes generate information important to management. The focus of Accounting Information Systems 4e is on the accountant''s role as a business analyst in solving business problems by database modeling, database design, and business process modeling. Unlike other texts that provide a broad survey of AIS related topics, this text concentrates on developing practical business analysis skills through real-world examples, problems, and projects. Whether you are developing a new course for AIS or incorporating AIS materials into your existing curriculum, Accounting Information Systems 4e will help your students develop the technological skTable of ContentsChapter 1: Accounting Information Systems and Firm Value Chapter 2: Data Analytics: Addressing Accounting Questions with Data Chapter 3: Data Analytics: Data Visualizations Chapter 4: Accountants as Business Analysts Chapter 5: Data Modeling Chapter 6: Relational Databases and Enterprise Systems Chapter 7: Sales and Collections Business Process Chapter 8: Purchases and Payments Business Process Chapter 9: Conversion Business Process Chapter 10: Integrated Project Chapter 11: Accounting Information Systems and Internal Controls Chapter 12: Cybersecurity and Computer Fraud Chapter 13: Monitoring and Auditing AIS Chapter 14: Reporting Processes and eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) Chapter 15: Emerging Technologies: Blockchain and AI Automation Chapter 16: The Balanced Scorecard, Business Model Canvas, and Business Value of Information Technology Chapter 17: Justifying and Planning IT Initiatives Using Project Management Techniques
£58.89
Simon And Schuster Group USA The Entrepreneurial Mindset Advantage
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Penguin Random House South Africa Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom
Book SynopsisWhen André de Ruyter took over as Eskom CEO in January 2020, he quickly realised why it was considered the toughest job in South Africa. Aside from neglected equipment, ageing power stations and an eroded skills base, he discovered that Eskom was crippled by corruption on a staggering scale. Fake fuel oil deliveries at just one power station cost Eskom R100 million per month; kneepads retailing for R150 a pair were purchased for R80 000; billions of rands of equipment supposedly housed in the company’s storerooms was missing. Faced with police inaction, he was compelled to plunge into a world that was foreign to him – a world of spies and safe houses, of bulletproof vests and bodyguards. In Truth to Power, De Ruyter tells the behind-the-scenes story of how he launched a private investigation that exposed at least four criminal cartels feeding off Eskom. While fighting this scourge, he had to deal with political interference, absurd regulations, non-paying municipalities, unfounded accusations of racism, wildcat strikes, sabotage and a poisoning attempt. De Ruyter takes the reader inside the boardrooms and government meetings where South Africa’s future is shaped, with ministers often pulling in conflicting directions. He explains how renewable energy is the cheapest and quickest solution to our power crisis, in spite of fierce opposition from vested coal interests. De Ruyter candidly reflects on his three years at the power utility, his successes and failures, his reasons for leaving and his hopes for the future. As someone who worked at the highest levels of the state but is not beholden to the ruling party, he is uniquely placed to speak truth to power.
£999.99
Profile Books Ltd The Art Of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from
Book SynopsisThere isn't a business that doesn't want to be more creative in its thinking, products and processes. In The Art of Innovation, Tom Kelley, partner at the Silicon Valley-based firm IDEO, developer of hundreds of innovative products from the first commercial mouse to virtual reality headsets and the Palm hand-held, takes readers behind the scenes of this wildly imaginative company to reveal the strategies and secrets it uses to turn out hit after hit. Kelley shows how teams: -Research and immerse themselves in every possible aspect of a new product or service -Examine each product from the perspective of clients, consumers and other critical audiences -Brainstorm best when they are focussed, being physical and having fun The Art of Innovation will provide business leaders with the insights and tools they need to make their companies the leading-edge top-rated stars of their industries.Trade ReviewOn nearly every page, the story of some upstart invention is recounted in patter that's as good as a skilled magician's ... Almost like visiting an IDEO workshop in person * Wired *In light of all the books on the market about creativity, it takes a certain amount of chutzpah to call your book The Art of Innovation. Yet Kelley makes a good case ... Practical, clearly written, and highly detailed * USA Today *Tom Kelley has unlocked the magic box of innovation for corporate America ... If you're trying to create product lust, The Art of Innovation shows you how to do it -- Bruce Nussbaum * BusinessWeek *
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Everyone Deserves a Great Manager
Book SynopsisThis book is the essential guide for the millions of people all over the world making the challenging and rewarding leap to manager, who want to become that manager their team deserves. FranklinCovey knows that managers are desperate for help - especially employees who go from managing tasks to managing people. They yearn for training and tools to help them become more confident, effective, and valued. This practical and inspirational guide offers the solution with guidance, tips and insights that are relevant, easily applicable, based on credible expertise, and will fit into the manager’s hectic daily schedule. The focus of the book is to give managers the information they need in a way that they can absorb quickly. They can pick up a helpful tip in 10-minutes or glean an entire skill-set with a deeper reading. The goal is for the busy manager to know what to do and how to do it without interrupting their regular workflow. Each r
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Gallup Press Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams,
Book SynopsisFrom the author of the long-running #1 bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0 comes a landmark study of great leaders, teams and the reasons why people follow. A unique access code allows you to take a new leadership version of Gallup’s StrengthsFinder program. The new version of this program provides you with specific strategies for leading with your top five strengths and enables you to plot the strengths of your team based on the four domains of leadership strength revealed in the book. Nearly a decade ago, Gallup unveiled the results of a landmark 30-year research project that ignited a global conversation on the topic of strengths. More than 19 million people have since taken Gallup’s StrengthsFinder assessment, which forms the core of several books on this topic, including the #1 international bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0. In recent years, while continuing to learn more about strengths, Gallup scientists have also been examining decades of data on the topic of leadership. They studied more than 1 million work teams, conducted more than 20,000 in-depth interviews with leaders and even interviewed more than 10,000 followers around the world to ask exactly why they followed the most important leader in their life. In Strengths Based Leadership, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath and renowned leadership consultant Barry Conchie reveal the results of this research. Based on their discoveries, the book identifies three keys to being a more effective leader: knowing your strengths and investing in others’ strengths, getting people with the right strengths on your team, and understanding and meeting the four basic needs of those who look to you for leadership. As you read Strengths Based Leadership, you’ll hear first-hand accounts from some of the most successful organizational leaders in recent history, from the founder of Teach For America to the president of The Ritz-Carlton, as they discuss how their unique strengths have driven their success. Filled with novel research and actionable ideas, Strengths Based Leadership will give you a new road map for leading people toward a better future.
£28.80
Oneworld Publications Oil: A Beginner's Guide
Book SynopsisOil is the lifeblood of the modern world. Without it, there would be no planes, no plastic, no exotic produce, and a global political landscape few would recognise. Humanity’s dependence upon oil looks set to continue for decades to come, but what is it? Fully updated and packed with fascinating facts to fuel dinner party debate, Professor Vaclav Smil's Oil: A Beginner's Guide explains all matters related to the ‘black stuff’, from its discovery in the earth right through to the controversy that surrounds it today.Trade Review'“There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil" -- Bill Gates'Smil's...ability to condense so much detail on a broad range of topics from science to economics in such a short work is as impressive as his command of the subject matter.' -- Jason P. Theriot - Energy and Environmental consultant'In a fluent, easy style [Smil] delves into the world of oil from its discovery on the ground through to its effect on prices at the petrol pumps, and to its impact on future generations.' * The Good Book Guide *'Everything most people — including most economists and investment advisors — should know about the physics and economics of oil.' * National Post *'A well-balanced, concise, and readable synthesis of oil-related facts and history.' * Technology and Culture *
£9.49
McGraw-Hill Education Zero Harm How to Achieve Patient and Workforce
Book Synopsis From the nationâs leading experts in healthcare safetyâthe first comprehensive guide to delivering care that ensures the safety of patients and staff alike. One of the primary tenets among healthcare professionals is, âœFirst, do no harm.â Achieving this goal means ensuring the safety of both patient and caregiver. Every year in the United States alone, an estimated 4.8 million hospital patients suffer serious harm that is preventable. To address this industry-wide problemâand provide evidence-based solutionsâa team of award-winning safety specialists from Press Ganey/Healthcare Performance Improvement have applied their decades of experience and research to the subject of patient and workforce safety. Their mission is to achieve zero harm in the healthcare industry, a lofty goal that some hospitals have already accomplishedâwhich you can, too. Combining the latest advances in safety science, data technology, aTable of ContentsForeword: Thomas H. Lee, MD, MScAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Craig Clapper, PE, CMQ/OEChapter 1: The History of the Modern Safety MovementGary Yates, MDChapter 2: Introduction to Safety Management SystemsCarole Stockmeier, MHAChapter 3: Safety Science and High Reliability Organizing (HRO)Craig Clapper, PE, CMQ/OEChapter 4: An Introduction to HRO Leadership SkillsSteve Kreiser, CDR (USN Ret.), MBAChapter 5: Universal Skills for Preventing HarmShannon M. Sayles, MS, MAChapter 6: Communication, Collegiality, and TeamingDavid Varnes, CDR (USN Ret.), MSAEChapter 7: Just CultureJudy EwaldChapter 8: Measurement and Control LoopsCheri Throop, RN, and Martin WrightChapter 9: Learning SystemsTami Strong, RN, MSN-HCQChapter 10: Workforce SafetyEmily Halu, RN, MSN, and Joseph CabralChapter 11: High Reliability Organizing and the Patient ExperienceDeidre Mylod, PhD, Stacie Pallotta, MPH, and Thomas H. Lee, MD, MScEpilogue: High Reliability Organizing's Full PromiseJames Merlino, MDNotesIndex
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Free Press Yes 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be
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WW Norton & Co Mathematics for Economists
Book SynopsisMathematics for Economists, a new text for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in economics, is a thoroughly modern treatment of the mathematics that underlies economic theory.
£76.49
John Wiley & Sons Inc Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other
Book SynopsisRegarded as one of the pioneers of modern investment theory, Philip Fisher's principles are studied and used by numerous contemporary finance professionals, including Warren Buffett. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writingsis invaluable reading and has been since it was first published in 1958.Trade Review"...written by American Investment genius.... We are delighted to have the opportunity to reproduce an extract from this classic, recently reissued..." (Financial Director, November 2003) "...these updated classics are packed with investment wisdom..." (What Investment, November 2003)Table of ContentsPreface What I Learned from My Father’s Writings xiKenneth L. Fisher Introduction 1Kenneth L. Fisher Part One Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits Preface 31 1. Clues from the Past 34 2. What “Scuttlebutt” Can Do 44 3. What to Buy: The Fifteen Points to Look for in a Common Stock 47 4. What to Buy: Applying This to Your Own Needs 79 5. When to Buy 89 6. When to Sell: And When Not To 105 7. The Hullabaloo about Dividends 114 8. Five Don’ts for Investors 123 9. Five More Don’ts for Investors 135 10. How I Go about Finding a Growth Stock 162 11. Summary and Conclusion 172 Part Two Conservative Investors Sleep Well Epigraph 176 Introduction 177 1. The First Dimension of a Conservative Investment 180 2. The Second Dimension 187 3. The Third Dimension 198 4. The Fourth Dimension 207 5. More about the Fourth Dimension 213 6. Still More about the Fourth Dimension 218 Part Three Developing an Investment Philosophy Dedication to Frank E. Block 226 1. Origins of a Philosophy 227 The Birth of Interest 228 Formative Experiences 229 First Lessons in the School of Experience 231 Building the Basics 232 The Great Bear Market 234 A Chance to Do My Thing 235 From Disaster, Opportunity Springs 236 A Foundation is Formed 237 2. Learning from Experience 238 Food Machinery as an Investment Opportunity 239 Zigging and Zagging 242 Contrary, but Correct 243 Patience and Performance 244 To Every Rule,There Are Exceptions . . . But Not Many 247 An Experiment with Market Timing 248 Reaching for Price, Foregoing Opportunity 249 3. The Philosophy Matures 252 E Pluribus Unum 253 History versus Opportunity 255 Lessons from the Vintage Years 257 Do Few Things Well 259 Stay or Sell in Anticipation of Possible Market Downturns? 260 In and Out May Be Out of the Money 263 The Long Shadow of Dividends 264 4. Is the Market Efficient? 266 The Fallacy of the Efficient Market 267 The Raychem Corporation 270 Raychem, Dashed Expectations, and the Crash 271 Raychem and the Efficient Market 274 Conclusion 275 Appendix Key Factors in Evaluating Promising Firms 279 Functional Factors 279 People Factors 281 Business Characteristics 282 Index 283
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Harvard Business Review Press Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a
Book SynopsisBased on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter. It's a familiar scene in organizations today: a new competitive threat or a big opportunity emerges. You quickly create a strategic initiative in response and appoint your best people to make change happen. And it does--but not fast enough. Or effectively enough. Real value gets lost and, ultimately, things drift back to the default status. Why is this scenario so frequently repeated in industries and organizations across the world? In the groundbreaking new book Accelerate (XLR8), leadership and change management expert, and best-selling author, John Kotter provides a fascinating answer--and a powerful new framework for competing and winning in a world of constant turbulence and disruption. Kotter explains how traditional organizational hierarchies evolved to meet the daily demands of running an enterprise. For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. But the reality is, this system simply is not built for an environment where change has become the norm. Kotter advocates a new system--a second, more agile, network-like structure that operates in concert with the hierarchy to create what he calls a "dual operating system"--one that allows companies to capitalize on rapid-fire strategic challenges and still make their numbers. Accelerate (XLR8) vividly illustrates the five core principles underlying the new network system, the eight Accelerators that drive it, and how leaders must create urgency in others through role modeling. And perhaps most crucial, the book reveals how the best companies focus and align their people's energy and urgency around what Kotter calls the big opportunity. If you're a pioneer, a leader who knows that bold change is necessary to survive and thrive in an ever-changing world, this book will help you accelerate into a better, more profitable future.Trade Review"A Top Shelf Best Business Book pick of the Year: Strategy" -- strategy+business magazine "One of the Best Leadership Books of the Year" -- Inc.
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HarperCollins Focus The Difference Maker
Book SynopsisJohn Maxwell shows you how to overcome the five biggest attitude obstacles, he teaches the skills you need to make attitude your biggest asset. You''ll learn not only how to develop an attitude that will have a tremendous impact on career, family, and daily living, but also how to maintain that attitude for the rest of your life.
£10.44
McGraw-Hill Education Crafting Executing Strategy The Quest for
Book SynopsisCrafting & Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Concepts & Cases has a long-standing reputation of being the most teachable text. It is regarded as the benchmark by which all others are measured. It is engaging, clearly articulated and conceptually balanced mainstream treatment of the latest developments in theory and practice include the clearest presentation of the value-price-cost framework. Our co-author, Margaret Peteraf, a highly regarded researcher, helped integrate both the resource-based view of the firm from the perspective of both single-business and multi-business strategies. Chapter content is tightly linked to high-interest cases, most of which are written by the text authors, and receive high acclaim for student appeal, teachability and suitability.
£51.29
McGraw-Hill Education Behavioral Corporate Finance
Book SynopsisBehavioral Corporate Finance provides instructors with a comprehensive pedagogical approach for teaching students how behavioral concepts apply to corporate finance. The primary goal is to identify the key psychological obstacles to value maximizing behavior, along with steps that managers can take to mitigate the effects of these obstacles.Table of Contents1 Behavioral Foundations2 Introduction to Behavioral Analysis3 Valuation4 Capital Budgeting5 Inefficient Markets and Corporate Decisions6 Perceptions about Risk and Return7 Capital Structure8 Dividend Policy9 Agency Conflicts and Corporate Governance10 Mergers and Acquisitions11 Financial Management and Group Process
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Market Mind Games A Radical Psychology of
Book SynopsisSeize the advantage in every risk decision with the most misunderstood asset you haveâhuman emotionWhat if the mystery of market crashes stems from a simple but total misunderstanding of our own minds? Could everything we think we know about ourselvesâintelligence and rationality versus emotion and irrationalityâbe wildly off the mark? Simply put: yes.With these words, Denise Shull introduces her radicalâand supremely rationalâ approach to risk. Her vision stems from the indisputable fact that human beings canât make any decision at all without emotion and that emotion gets the firstâand lastâword when it comes to our perceptions and judgments.Shull should know. She started out managing major accounts for IBM and then chose to research unconscious emotional patterns instead of getting her MBA. Next she became a trader and trading desk manager while continuing to study biopsychology.We are all taught that sidelining our emotions is the best way to mTable of ContentsChapter 1: Perception IS Reality, What Really Makes the Markets Tick; Chapter 2: Billion Dollar Bonfires: The Ash-Cloud Ending to the Sad Show "Miss-Perceive"; Chapter 3: Better Eyeglasses: The Revolutionary Prescription for Corrected Market Vision; Chapter 4: The Markets' Symbolic Power: Get What You Want, Not What You Need; Chapter 5: Psychological Capital: The Asset which Breeds Cash; Chapter 6: If It is Only Probability, Then why do Poker Players Wear Sunglasses?
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Against the Gods
Book SynopsisA Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller "Ambitious and readable... an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism. " -The New York Times "An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book.Trade ReviewAGAINST THE GODS appeared in the "Washington Is Also Reading..." section of The Washington Post Book World. The book is described as, "A comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, from ancient gamblers in Greece to modern chaos theory."-The Washington Post Book World, September 20, 1998Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 TO 1200: BEGINNINGS 1. The Winds of the Greeks and the Roleof the Dice 11 2. As Easy as I, II, III 23 1200–1700: A THOUSAND OUTSTANDING FACTS 3. The Renaissance Gambler 39 4. The French Connection 57 5. The Remarkable Notions of the Remarkable Notions Man 73 1700–1900: MEASUREMENT UNLIMITED 6. Considering the Nature of Man 99 7. The Search for Moral Certainty 116 8. The Supreme Law of Unreason 135 9. The Man with the Sprained Brain 152 10. Peapods and Perils 172 11. The Fabric of Felicity 187 1900–1960: CLOUDS OF VAGUENESS AND THE DEMAND FOR PRECISION 12. The Measure of Our Ignorance 197 13. The Radically Distinct Notion 215 14. The Man Who Counted Everything Except Calories 231 15. The Strange Case of the Anonymous Stockbroker 247 DEGREES OF BELIEF:EXPLORING UNCERTAINTY 16. The Failure of Invariance 269 17. The Theory Police 284 18. The Fantastic System of Side Bets 304 19. Awaiting the Wildness 329 Notes 339 Bibliography 353 Name Index 365 Subject Index 369
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Penguin Random House Group On Character
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HarperCollins Focus Everyone Communicates Few Connect
Book SynopsisJohn C. Maxwell takes readers through the Five Connecting Principles and Five Connecting Practices of top-notch leaders to teach them how to build relationships that dramatically increase their ability to enact change.
£17.00
Penguin Publishing Group Trading in the Zone Master the Market with
Book SynopsisDouglas uncovers the underlying reasons for lack of consistency and helps traders overcome the ingrained mental habits that cost them money. He takes on the myths of the market and exposes them one by one teaching traders to look beyond random outcomes, to understand the true realities of risk, and to be comfortable with the probabilities of market movement that governs all market speculation.
£36.72
Liberty Fund Inc Socialism
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£10.95
BIS Publishers B.V. Visual Doing: Applying Visual Thinking in your
Book SynopsisAfter the success of 2017’s Visual Thinking, the author noticed that people enjoy discovering how easy it is to use drawings in business communication. But they still have no guide to satisfy their desire to tell a visual story in a very simple way. That is why the author has now written Visual Doing. This book will fulfil this desire, not by drilling deeper into the advice in the first book, but by ‘undeepening’ Chapters 3 and 4. These chapters, both about drawing in visual business settings, are now broken down into ready-to-implement skills and tools. Visual Doing will improve your visual craftsmanship and broaden your skillset. It’s a practical and accessible handbook for incorporating visual thinking into your daily business and communication. The author leads you through a new range of exercises, techniques and subjects which will help you to tell your own visual story. It takes a look at these subjects from different perspectives: ‘me as an individual’, ‘we as a team’ and ‘us as a company.’ It helps you to clarify complex information, pitch innovative strategies and foster a visual culture within your organisation. Learn how to show and share your ideas in a fun, clear and compelling way so you can inspire, engage and activate yourself and others.
£17.09
Taylor Trade Publishing The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets
Book Synopsis"Why aren't I as wealthy as I should be?" Many people ask this question of themselves all the time. Often they are hard-working, well educated middle- to high-income people. Why, then, are so few affluent. For nearly two decades the answer has been found in the bestselling The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy, reissued with a new foreword for the twenty-first century. According to the authors, most people have it all wrong about how you become wealthy in America. Wealth in America is more often the result of hard work, diligent savings, and living below your means than it is about inheritance, advance degrees, and even intelligence. The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. You will learn, for example, that millionaires bargain shop for used cars, pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in income tax, raise children who are often unaware of their family's wealth until they are adults, and, above all, reject the big-spending lifestyles most of us associate with rich people. In fact, you will learn that the flashy millionaires glamorized in the media represent only a tiny minority of America's rich. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don't live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next door.
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Gallup Press First, Break All the Rules: What the World's
Book SynopsisGallup presents the remarkable findings of its revolutionary study of more than 80,000 managers in First, Break All the Rules, revealing what the world’s greatest managers do differently. With vital performance and career lessons and ideas for how to apply them, it is a must-read for managers at every level. Included with this re-release of First, Break All the Rules: updated meta-analytic research and access to the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment, which reveals people’s top themes of talent, and to Gallup’s Q12 employee engagement survey, the most effective measure of employee engagement and its impact on business outcomes. What separates the greatest managers from all the rest? They actually have vastly different styles and backgrounds. Yet despite their differences, great managers share one common trait: They don’t hesitate to break virtually every rule held sacred by conventional wisdom. They don’t believe that, with enough training, a person can achieve anything he sets his mind to. They don’t try to help people overcome their weaknesses. And, yes, they even play favourites. In this long-time management bestseller, Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its massive in-depth study of great managers. Some were in leadership positions. Others were front-line supervisors. Some were in Fortune 500 companies; others were key players in small, entrepreneurial firms. Whatever their circumstances, the managers who ultimately became the focus of Gallup’s research were those who excelled at turning each individual employee’s talent into high performance. Gallup has found that the front-line manager is the key to attracting and retaining talented employees. This book explains how the best managers select an employee for talent rather than for skills or experience, set expectations, build on each person’s unique strengths rather than trying to fix his or her weaknesses, and get the best performance out of their teams. And perhaps most important, Gallup’s research produced the 12 simple statements that distinguish the strongest departments of a company from all the rest. First, Break All the Rules is the first book to present this essential measuring stick and to prove the link between employee opinions and productivity, profit, customer satisfaction and the rate of turnover. First, Break All the Rules presents vital performance and career lessons for managers at every level — and best of all, shows you how to apply them to your own situation.
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McGraw-Hill Education Film Art An Introduction ISE
Book SynopsisFilm is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, Film Art has been the best-selling and most widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. Taking a skills-centered approach supported by examples from many periods and countries, the authors help students develop a core set of analytical skills that will enrich their understanding of any film, in any genre. In-depth examples deepen students'' appreciation for how creative choices by filmmakers affect what viewers experience and how they respond. Film Art is generously illustrated with more than 1,000 frame enlargements taken directly from completed films, providing concrete illustrations of key concepts. Its Connect program includes invaluable tutorials featuring canonic film clips from the Criterion Collection. The thirteenth edition of Film Art includes extensively updated examples, and expanded coverage of digital filmmaking and the artistic and commerciTable of ContentsAbout The AuthorsPreface PART ONE • Film Art and Filmmaking CHAPTER 1 Film as Art: Creativity, Technology, and Business PART TWO • Film Form CHAPTER 2 The Significance of Film Form CHAPTER 3 Narrative Form PART THREE • Film Style CHAPTER 4 The Shot: Mise-en-Scene CHAPTER 5 The Shot: Cinematography CHAPTER 6 The Relation of Shot to Shot: EditingCHAPTER 7 Sound in the Cinema CHAPTER 8 Summary: Style and Film Form PART FOUR • Types of Films CHAPTER 9 Film Genres CHAPTER 10 Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Films PART FIVE • Critical Analysis of Films CHAPTER 11 Film Criticism: Sample Analyses PART SIX • Film Art and Film History CHAPTER 12 Historical Changes in Film Art: Conventions and Choices, Tradition and Trends GlossaryIndexOptional Chapters (available through Create and Connect’s ebook)Film Adaptations (supported by SmartBook)Writing a Critical Analysis of a FilmAdditional Resources for “Film As Art: Creativity, Technology, and Business”
£58.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Visual Thinking: Empowering People and
Book SynopsisVisual thinking and drawing are both becoming increasingly important in today’s business settings. A picture really can tell a thousand words. Visualization is a crucial part of the journey for companies seeking to boost enterprise agility, break down silos and increase employee and customer engagement. Visualizing thought processes can help break down complex problems. It empowers teams and staff to build on one another’s ideas, fosters collaboration, jump-starts co-creation and boosts innovation. This book will help brush aside misconceptions that may have prevented you using these techniques in your workplace. You don’t need Van Gogh’s artistic talent or Einstein’s intelligence to harness the power of visual thinking and make your company more successful. With the right mindset and the simple skills this book provides you the skills to develop your own signature and style and start generating change by integrating visual communication into your business setting.
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Wooden on Leadership
Book SynopsisA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA compelling look inside the mind and powerful leadership methods of Americaâs coaching legend, John Wooden "Team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, determination. . . . Acquire and keep these traits and success should follow."--Coach John Wooden John Woodenâs goal in 41 years of coaching never changed; namely, to get maximum effort and peak performance from each of his players in the manner that best served the team. Wooden on Leadership explains step-by-step how he pursued and accomplished this goal. Focusing on Woodenâs 12 Lessons in Leadership and his acclaimed Pyramid of Success, it outlines the mental, emotional, and physical qualities essential to building a winning organization, and shows you how to develop the skill, confidence, and competitive fire to âœbe at your best when your best is neededâ--and teach your organization to do the same.Praise for Wooden on Leadership:<
£21.59
Penguin Books Ltd Private Empire
Book SynopsisFrom twice-Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Steve Coll comes Private Empire, winner of the FT/GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2012The oil giant ExxonMobil makes more money annually than the GDP of most countries; has greater sway than US embassies abroad; and spends more on lobbying than any other corporation. Yet to outsiders it is a mystery. In Private Empire, award-winning reporter Steve Coll tells the truth about the world''s most powerful and shadowy company.From the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, via Moscow, the swamps of the Niger Delta and the halls of Congress, he reveals a story of dictators, oligarchs, civil war, blackmail, secrecy and ruthlessness. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and newly declassified documents, this is a chilling portrait of unchecked power.Reviews:''Magisterial ... a revealing history of our time'' New York Review of Books''Meticulous, multi-angled and valuable ... Coll''s prose sweeps the earth like an Imax camera'' Dwight Garner, The New York Times ''Jaw-dropping reading'' Kirkus Reviews''The definitive work on its subject ... at every stop there are vivid anecdotes, sharp insights and telling details'' Ed Crooks, Financial TimesAbout the author:Steve Coll is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Bin Ladens. He is president of the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute headquartered in Washington, D.C., and a staff writer for The New Yorker. He won a Pulitzer prize for explanatory journalism while working at the Washingon Post. He is the author of six other books, including the bestseller Ghost Wars, which won him a second Pulitzer prize. He lives in Washington and New York.Trade ReviewMagisterial ... a revealing history of our time -- Bill McKibben * New York Review of Books *Meticulously researched and elegantly written, it is likely to be the definitive work on its subject for many years to come. Steve Coll ... is honest about Exxon's strengths as well as its flaws, and presents both sides of the arguments with scrupulous even-handedness ... At every stop there are vivid anecdotes, sharp insights and telling details -- Ed Crooks * Financial Times *Masterful ... Coll's in-depth reporting, buttressed by his anecdotal prose, make Private Empire a must-read ... [His] portrait of ExxonMobil is both riveting and appalling... Yet Private Empire is not so much an indictment as a fascinating look into American business and politics * San Francisco Chronicle *Meticulous, multi-angled and valuable ... Coll's prose sweeps the earth like an Imax camera -- Dwight Garner * New York Times *A thorough, sobering study of the pernicious consolidation of Big Oil ... jaw-dropping reading * Kirkus Reviews *
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