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The $100 Startup - Reinvent The Way You Make A Living, Do What You Love, And Create A New Future - Thryft
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Chris Guillebeau | Gardners Vi Books Ams006

The $100 Startup - Reinvent The Way You Make A Living, Do What You Love, And Create A New Future

$6.06

Goodreads rating: 3.88

$6.06

In Chris Guillebeau's travel to over 175 countries, he has met two kinds of people: those like himself who have the time and income to follow their whims and who've created an entertaining and fulfilling life--and those who feel trapped. This second group wants what the first group has, but the big stumbling block is making money. Because Chris realized that the first group has knowledge to impart, he identified 1500 people worth emulating, and refining that further, he offers here the 50 most valuable and interesting examples of micro-business success. In nearly all cases, people with no special skills discovered a way to monetize their personal passions. It's about finding the intersection between what you like to do and what other people will pay for. You don't need an MBA, a business plan, or even employees. All you need is a product or service that flows from what you love to do anyway, people willing to pay, and a way to get paid.
Traction : How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth - Thryft
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Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares  | Portfolio

Traction : How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

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Goodreads rating: 4.12

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Two successful startup founders offer a comprehensive overview of the various ways startups can achieve strong, sustainable growth, and a guide to choosing the ones that will make the differencce.Why do so many startups fail? According to entrepreneurs Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares, most failed startups don’t get off the ground not because of a bad product, but because they don’t have enough customers. They make the fatal mistake of putting all their effort into perfecting their product at the cost of reaching out to potential users. Instead, they should be putting half their resources into getting traction.TRACTION is the essential guide for any startup looking to stay ahead of the curve and start building a user base early in the game. The book offers no one-size-fits-all solution: every startup is unique, so no single method is guaranteed to generate traction. Instead, the authors identify nineteen different traction channels from viral marketing to trade shows, offer insights on how to exploit each one to its fullest potential, and provide a framework to test various channels and identify the best one for any startup.Drawing on advice from more than 40 successful startup founders and marketers, from Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales to American Apparel’s Ryan Holiday, TRACTION is a comprehensive textbook for marketing your way to growth.
The Startup Way : How Entrepreneurial Management Transforms Culture and Drives Growth - Thryft
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Eric Ries | Portfolio Penguin

The Startup Way : How Entrepreneurial Management Transforms Culture and Drives Growth

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Goodreads rating: 3.98

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Bestselling author, entrepreneur, and Lean startup founder Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, reveals how established corporations and major enterprises can use Lean Startup techniques, energy and saavy to reinvigorate their company and operations, spark innovation, and drive growth. In The Lean Startup, Eric Ries, entrepreneur in residence at Harvard, serial entrepreneur and founder of the lean startup meetups, showed how ideas from the startup world such as constant iteration, minimal viable products (or MVPS), and constantly testing business hypotheses with customers to determine when to perservere, and when to pivot, now turns his attention to established, mature companies and organizations. For the past four years, Ries has been working closely with companies like GE and Toyota and Pitney Bowes to help them become more nimble, and more open to change and innovation, in order to spur growth and produce products and services that customers want. In The Startup Way, Ries shares his insights, lessons, stories, challenges and best practices from his intense collaborations with some of the world's most innovative and successful companies, as they attempt to change their culture and processes to be faster and smarter at what they do. At GE, Ries's ideas are codified under the name FastWorks; each company adapts his basic framework and ideas in their own way, to fit their particular organization and industry, as Ries discusses in the book. For every company that recognizes it needs to embrace agility, change and do so quickly if it is to survive and thrive, The Startup Way is an absolutely critical guide and toolkit.
Crude Intentions : How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World - Thryft
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Alexandra Gillies | Oxford University Press

Crude Intentions : How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World

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Billions of dollars stolen from citizens are circling the globe, enriching powerful individuals, altering political outcomes, and disadvantaging everyday people. News headlines provide glimpses of how this corruption works and why it President Trump's businesses struck deals with oligarchs and sold property to secretive shell companies; the Panama Papers leak triggered investigations in 79 countries; and, corruption scandals toppled heads of state in Brazil, South Africa, and South Korea. But how do these pieces fit together? And if the corruption is so vast and so tied up with powerful interests, how do we begin to fight back?To find answers, Crude Intentions examines the corruption crisis that erupted during the recent oil boom. From 2008 to 2014, oil prices shot through the roof. Motivated by more than nine trillion dollars in new oil money, corruption followed apace. Examining the oil boom is like placing a drop of dye in the circulatory system of global corruption, and watching as it reveals the system's channels and pathways.Company bosses signed off on risky schemes to snap up choice oil blocks. Politicians in Brazil and Nigeria stole billions to build up their election war chests. Kleptocrats in Angola, Azerbaijan, and Russia seized upon the oil wealth to cement their hold on power. And an army of bankers, accountants, and lawyers lined up to help these corrupt actors stash their loot in the global system of shell companies and tax havens that serves today's super-rich. The money then bought yachts, mansions, and even a few foreign politicians.Drawing on information exposed by intrepid journalists, prosecutors, and whistle blowers, Crude Intentions tells jaw-dropping stories of corruption and asks what we can learn from them. The cases reveal common tactics, but also vulnerabilities in this web of fraud. These are the starting points for building a smarter fight against corruption, in the oil sector and well beyond.
All You Want to Know About Investing - Thryft
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Ravi Gupta | Jaico Publishing House

All You Want to Know About Investing

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Goodreads rating: 4.33

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When it comes to investing, one thought that constantly nags your mind is: HOW TO INVEST OR WHERE TO INVEST? Here is a book that will empower the common investor to take sound and prudent investment decisions, and enable him to achieve his desired financial goals. It is also a practical self-help guide that is a must for every investor both beginners as well as seasoned investors. All You Want to Know about Investing is a complete compendium of information regarding investing, especially in the context of Indian investors. It contains up-to-date and complete information about various financial products, explained simply and lucidly. With both a wide and in-depth coverage of investment avenues, including stock market portfolios, mutual funds and retirement planning, this book is certain to help all those looking to make informed decisions in their financial planning.
Brandwashed : Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy - Thryft
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Martin Lindstrom | Random House

Brandwashed : Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy

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Goodreads rating: 3.81

$10.25

Brandwashed Not since the 1957 bestselling classic The Hidden Persuaders has a book so nakedly exposed the the best-kept secrets of how companies manipulate, seduce, and dupe us into buying their brands and products. Here, bestselling author and marketing guru Martin Lindstrom pulls back the curtain on all the psychological tricks and machinations companies employ today to obscure the truth, manipulate our mi... Full description
The Balanced Scorecard : Translating Strategy into Action - Thryft
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David P. Norton, Robert S. Kaplan  | Harvard Business Review Press

The Balanced Scorecard : Translating Strategy into Action

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Goodreads rating: 3.9

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The Balanced Scorecard translates a company's vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures. The four perspectives of the scorecard--financial measures, customer knowledge, internal business processes, and learning and growth--offer a balance between short-term and long-term objectives, between outcomes desired and performance drivers of those outcomes, and between hard objective measures and softer, more subjective measures. In the first part, Kaplan and Norton provide the theoretical foundations for the Balanced Scorecard; in the second part, they describe the steps organizations must take to build their own Scorecards; and, finally, they discuss how the Balanced Scorecard can be used as a driver of change.
What Every CEO Must Know About RISK - Thryft
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Lieng Seng WEE | Insight Books, New York, New York

What Every CEO Must Know About RISK

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In today’s conditions of uncertainty and volatility, many CEOs are not satisfied that the risk management they have in place is effective Understanding and managing risk is at the heart of not just financial organizations, but organizations across all industries. Through over 25 years of continuous practice as pioneers, practitioners and advisors in risk, the authors have identified common questions CEOs This book aims to answers these fundamental questions CEOs have. It is substantive and deep enough, but not overly-technical -- and hence suitable for anyone ranging from students to top management. The book introduces “The Dragonfly Approach”, a unique and proven successful methodology implemented firm-wide in many firms. “The Dragonfly Approach” empowers business leaders and risk managers to create value in today’s tough business environment.
Second Chance : for Your Money, Your Life and Our World - Thryft
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Robert T. Kiyosaki | Plata Publishing

Second Chance : for Your Money, Your Life and Our World

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Goodreads rating: 3.91

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Few would argue with the fact that, on many fronts, we are a world in crisis. And there are two sides to every crisis, be it a leadership crisis, an economic crisis, an education crisis or a moral crisis. The two side to crisis are danger and opportunity.Robert Kiyosaki’s new book, Second Chance…for Your Money and Your Life, uses the lessons from the past and a brutal assessment of the present to prepare readers to see—–and seize–—the future.If readers can train their minds to see what their eyes cannot, in a world that is becoming increasingly more ‘invisible’ and moving at a high rate of speed, they can have a second chance at creating the life they’ve always wanted.The global problems we face cannot be solved by the same minds and people who created them and today’s world demands the ability to see the future and prepare for what lies ahead…prepare for the opportunities as well as the challenges.Like it or not, we are all involved in the greatest evolutionary event in human history. The Industrial Age is over and the Information Age continues to accelerate. The visible agents of change have become invisible…and harder to see. And the future belongs to those who can train their minds, use the past to see the future, and take the steps to create the positive change they want to see in their lives.Second Chance is a guide to understanding how the past will shape the future and how you can use Information Age tools and insights to create a fresh start. This book is a guide to facing head-on the dangers of the crises around us—and steps and tips for seizing the opportunities they present.
The Paradox Of Choice : Why More Is Less - Thryft
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Barry Schwartz | Harper Perennial

The Paradox Of Choice : Why More Is Less

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Goodreads rating: 3.84

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In the spirit of Alvin Tofflers' Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401K, everyday decisions have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains why too much of a good thing has proven detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz explains how a culture that thrives on the availability of constantly evolving options can also foster profound dissatisfaction and self-blame in individuals, which can lead to a paralysis in decision making and, in some cases, depression. With the latest studies on how we make choices in our personal and professional lives, Schwartz offers practical advice on how to focus on the right choices, and how to derive greater satisfaction from choices that we do make.
Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive : Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate and Outnegotiate your Competition - Thryft
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Harvey MacKay | Ivy Books

Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive : Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate and Outnegotiate your Competition

$8.75

Goodreads rating: 3.93

$8.75

Outsell, outmanage, outmotivate and outnegotiate your competition
The New Geography of Jobs - Thryft
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The New Geography of Jobs

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"A timely and smart discussion of how different cities and regions have made a changing economy work for them - and how policymakers can learn from that to lift the circumstances of working Americans everywhere."--Barack Obama We're used to thinking of the United States in opposing terms: red versus blue, haves versus have-nots. But today there are three Americas. At one extreme are the brain hubs--cities like San Francisco, Boston, and Durham--with workers who are among the most productive, creative, and best paid on the planet. At the other extreme are former manufacturing capitals, which are rapidly losing jobs and residents. The rest of America could go either way. For the past thirty years, the three Americas have been growing apart at an accelerating rate. This divergence is one the most important developments in the history of the United States and is reshaping the very fabric of our society, affecting all aspects of our lives, from health and education to family stability and political engagement. But the winners and losers aren't necessarily who you'd expect. Enrico Moretti's groundbreaking research shows that you don't have to be a scientist or an engineer to thrive in one of the brain hubs. Carpenters, taxi-drivers, teachers, nurses, and other local service jobs are created at a ratio of five-to-one in the brain hubs, raising salaries and standard of living for all. Dealing with this split--supporting growth in the hubs while arresting the decline elsewhere--is the challenge of the century, and The New Geography of Jobs lights the way.


Author: Enrico Moretti
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 294
Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication Date: 19 Mar 2013
Secrets of Singapore Property Gurus: Finally the Experts Reveal Their Top Tips to Making Millions in Property Investing - Thryft
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Mr. Propwise | Aktive Learning

Secrets of Singapore Property Gurus: Finally the Experts Reveal Their Top Tips to Making Millions in Property Investing

$13.15

Goodreads rating: 2.63

$13.15

The experts have finally revealed their top tips to making millions of dollars in property investing. To write this book, Mr. Propwise from www.Propwise.sg, a leading Singapore property blog, went out and interviewed the top gurus on every aspect of property investing, then distilled it down into a 188-page book that is packed with their expert knowledge and wisdom. Inside Secrets of Singapore Property Gurus the nation’s foremost property experts share their insights • Profitable investment strategies for today’s market • Finding your ideal investment property • Smart property financing • Avoiding legal pitfalls and other mistakes • How to make millions from en bloc sales Mr. Propwise, troubled by the few good and objective sources of information out there to help the budding property investor, founded www.Propwise.sg in September last year, with the mission to help people understand the real estate market and make better buying, selling, renting and investing decisions – minus all the hype and misinformation. It would cost thousands of dollars to get one of these experts to consult on your property purchase - if you could even get access to them. Do not miss this opportunity to learn and profit from the advice of the ultimate real estate insiders! Reader reviews “I have read many Singapore-centric property investment related books out there in the market. The insights shared in Secrets of Singapore Property Gurus can potentially save you thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Essential reading for anyone looking to purchase private properties for own stay or investment.” – Tan Shei Wah “I would like to applaud you for coming up with such a book which covers the secrets and tips of some of the successful property investors in Singapore. I believe many novice investors will benefit alot from reading and applying some of the tips shared by the gurus.” – Woo Chee Hoe
The Management and Control of Quality - Thryft
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James R. Evans | Not Avail

The Management and Control of Quality

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Goodreads rating: 4.0

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Providing a managerially-oriented, integrated view along with a blend of pertinent technical topics, this text now offers revised, integrated, and more comprehensive coverage of Six Sigma philosophy, concepts and techniques.
The $1000 Project - Thryft
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Canna Campbell | Penguin Viking

The $1000 Project

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Goodreads rating: 3.65

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Financial planner Canna Campbell saved $32,000 in twelve months by using her unique strategy of 'bundling' - saving and earning extra money in small, achievable 'parcels' of $1000. Now she wants to empower you to get the same results!Drawing on material from her popular YouTube channel and website, here Canna shares all of her tips and tricks for saving and earning additional money, as well as advice for turning these savings into long-term 'passive' income through savvy investments. She also gives general advice on how to get financially healthy, including how to clear up bad debt and how to manage your superannuation more sensibly. And she'll keep you motivated, focused and on track as you push yourself towards a better financial future.The $1000 Project is like a diet and exercise plan for your finances - you'll see the immediate results in your bank account, and you'll also come out of it feeling financially fit and strong and ready to set yourself up for success.
Rich Dad's Guide to Investing : What the Rich Invest In, That the Poor and Middle-Class Do Not - Thryft
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Robert T. Kiyosaki | Plata Publishing

Rich Dad's Guide to Investing : What the Rich Invest In, That the Poor and Middle-Class Do Not

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Goodreads rating: 4.01

$3.88

Rich Dad's Guide to Investing is a roadmap for those who want to become successful investors and invest in the types of assets that the rich do. Whether your goal is to become financially secure, comfortable, or rich this book is your guide to understanding the asset classes and investment strategy. Robert explains his basic rules of investing, how to reduce your risk and Rich Dad's 10 Investor Controls as well as ways to convert your earned income into passive portfolio income.
Why We Want You to be Rich - Thryft
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Robert T. Kiyosaki, Donald J. Trump  | Plata Publishing

Why We Want You to be Rich

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Goodreads rating: 3.94

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En Queremos que seas rico , dos exitosos empresarios, Donald Trump y Rober T. Kiyosaki, brindan consejos para todo aquel que acaba de comenzar su propia empresa y quiere triunfar. De Robert T. Kiyosaki, autor de los bestsellers: Padre Rico, Padre Pobre , el libro #1 de finanzas personales de The New York Times por más de seis años; Niño rico, niño listo , Segunda oportunidad , entre otros . Donald Trump y Robert T. Kiyosaki se unen para decirle a los emprendedores cómo ser exitosos. No es necesario tener dinero para resolver los problemas financieros, éstos sólo se solucionan con una educación financiera adecuada. Es imprescindible que las personas adquieran conciencia sobre su futuro económico y no esperen que dependa de sus gobiernos, sus empleadores o sus familias. En este libro, dos exitosos empresarios y educadores hacen mancuerna para abordar este desafío y ofrecer respuestas contundentes y claras a las preguntas que todo emprendedor se formula antes y después de iniciar una empresa: cómo volverse rico; cómo invertir para ganar; cuáles son las ventajas de los inversionistas que los ahorradores no poseen y cómo elegir el campo de inversión apropiado.
International Management, Global Edition - Thryft
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Helen Deresky | Pearson

International Management, Global Edition

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Deresky, Helen
Benchmarking: Taking Your Organisation towards Best Practice - Thryft
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Anne Evans | Business Library

Benchmarking: Taking Your Organisation towards Best Practice

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Human Value Management : The Value-Adding Human Resource Management Strategy for the 1990s - Thryft
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Jac Fitz-Enz | Jossey - Bass Publishers

Human Value Management : The Value-Adding Human Resource Management Strategy for the 1990s

$21.15

Goodreads rating: 3.83

$21.15

Demonstrates how HR managers can play a more integral and dynamic role in their companies' growth by running human resources like a business. Shows how to shift focus from the administration of traditional personnel programs to proactive support for organizational goals.
The 10-day MBA : A Step-by-step Guide to Mastering the Skills Taught in Top Business Schools - Thryft
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Steven Silbiger | Piatkus Books

The 10-day MBA : A Step-by-step Guide to Mastering the Skills Taught in Top Business Schools

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Goodreads rating: 3.7

$7.45

Summarises the essentials of top American business school education.
The Attacker's Advantage : Turning Uncertainty into Breakthrough Opportunities - Thryft
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Ram Charan | Publicaffairs

The Attacker's Advantage : Turning Uncertainty into Breakthrough Opportunities

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Goodreads rating: 3.77

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*A Wall Street Journal bestseller*The forces driving today's world of structural change create sharp bends in the road that can lead to major explosions in your existing market space. But exponential change also offers exponential opportunities. How do you leverage change to go on the offense? The Attacker's Advantage is the game plan for winning in an era of ambiguity, volatility, and complexity, when every leader and every business is being challenged in new and unexpected ways.Ram Charan, harnessing an unequalled depth and breadth of experience working with leaders and companies around the globe, provides tested, practical tools to help Build the perceptual acuity to see around corners and detect, ahead of others, those forces -- especially people, who are the catalysts of change -- that could radically reshape a company or industryHave the mindset to see opportunity in uncertaintyCommit to a new path forward despite the unknowns, positioning your business to make the next move ahead of competitorsBreak the blockages that can hold your company backKnow when to accelerate and when to shift the short-term and long-term balanceMake your organization agile and steerable by aligning people, priorities, decision-making power, budgeting and capital allocation, and key performance indicators to the new realities of the marketplaceThe Attacker's Advantage provides a stark and simple stay in a legacy world of incremental gains or defensiveness, or be an attacker by creating a new world, scaling it up quickly, ahead of the traditional players.
The Decisive Moment : How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind - Thryft
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lehrer-jonah | Canongate Books Ltd

The Decisive Moment : How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind

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Goodreads rating: 3.84

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Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, they’re discovering this is not how the mind works. Our best decisions are a finely tuned blend of both feeling and reason – and the precise mix depends on the situation. When buying a house, for example, it’s best to let our unconscious mull over the many variables. But when we’re picking stocks and shares, intuition often leads us astray. The trick is to determine when to lean on which part of the brain, and to do this, we need to think harder (and smarter) about how we think.In The Decisive Moment, Jonah Lehrer arms us with the tools we need, drawing on cutting-edge research by Daniel Kahneman, Colin Camerer and others, as well as the world’s most interesting ‘deciders’ – from airline pilots, world famous sportsmen and hedge fund investors to serial killers, politicians and poker players. He shows how the fluctuations of a few dopamine neurons saved a battleship during the Persian Gulf War, and how the fevered activity of a single brain region led to the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Lehrer’s goal is to answer two questions that are of interest to just about anyone, from CEOs to firefighters: How does the human mind make decisions? And how can we make those decisions better?
Behind a Billion Screens : What Television Tells Us About Modern India - Thryft
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Nalin Mehta | Harpercollins

Behind a Billion Screens : What Television Tells Us About Modern India

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"Behind a Billion Screens" is a must-read for anyone interested in gaining insight into the inner workings of India's television industry. Mehta's comprehensive research reveals the power struggles and political influence behind the scenes. The book also provides a critical analysis of the content that appears on Indian television, making it a unique and distinct read.
Operations Strategy: Competing in the 21st Century - Thryft
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Sara L. Beckman, Donald Barry Rosenfield  | Mcgraw-hill

Operations Strategy: Competing in the 21st Century

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Integrates strategic considerations with analytical models, providing a comprehensive view of decisions and the tools used to help make them. This title examines basic decisions leaders of operations must address: vertical integration, capacity, facilities, process technology, information technology, sourcing, and business process management.
Start Something That Matters - Thryft
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Blake Mycoskie | Spiegel & Grau

Start Something That Matters

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In 2006, while travelling in Argentina, young entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie encountered children too poor to afford shoes, who developed injuries on their feet that often led to serious health problems. Blake knew he wanted to help, but rather than start a charity, he went against conventional wisdom and created a for profit business to help the children who he met. With the help of a local shoemaker, Blake struck out to merge activism and fashion in the form of a local canvas shoe worn by farmers and gauchos alike, called the alpargata. Blake called his creation TOMS Shoes (which stands for "Tomorrow's Shoes") and promised to give a pair of new shoes to a child in need for every pair that he sold. Starting with only two hundred pairs of handmade shoes, optimism, and entrepreneurial charisma, Blake successfully launched TOMS into the high fashion world. They can now be seen adorning the feet of celebrities such as Keira Knightley, Scarlett Johansson, and Tobey Maguire.Blake's mission is to prove that you can achieve financial success and make the world a better place at the same time. In this book, he shares the six counterintuitive principles that have guided the growth of TOMS for the past threeMake business personalBe resourceful without resourcesReverse retirementKeep it simpleStay humbleGive more, advertise lessThe result is an inspiring account of a young man whose entrepreneurial spirit was able to affect change in the world, and a call to others to be inspired to do the same.As part of the One for One initiative, Random House will provide a new book to a child in need with every copy of Start Something That Matters purchased.
Decoding Strategy - Thryft
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Patrick A. McNutt | Mcgraw-hill Education (asia)

Decoding Strategy

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Goodreads rating: 4.18

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OVERVIEWHumans are curious by nature we like to observe people in action and we not only like to play games, but also to win.With its central focus on observing management behaviour to predict likely future actions, this book explores the various ways and means of predicting competitor reaction by examining the actions and reactions of competing firms.The approach adopted in this book is based on the premise that individual behaviour follows a line of action and reaction, thus creating a predictable pattern that resembles a set of moves akin to a game of chess. This pattern is termed a critical time line.Using real-time case studies of global companies in his book, Patrick demonstrates how the pattern embedded in each time line offers a window into the strategic behaviour of companies as competitors in a game. These patterns are an integral part of decoding strategy and winning!TARGET AUDIENCE- MBA students- Business leaders, managers, professionals and executives
The Halo Effect... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers - Thryft
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Philip M. Rosenzweig | Free Press

The Halo Effect... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers

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The Halo Effect is a thought-provoking book that challenges the often-gullible reader who believes everything they might hear or see advertised. Rosenzweig presents an unconventional and humorous insight that will spur the reader on to think more critically and deeply about business success. This book is perfect for businesspeople looking to expand their knowledge and insights, and for students looking to develop their critical thinking skills.
Managing in Turbulent Times - Thryft
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Peter F. Drucker | Routledge

Managing in Turbulent Times

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Managing in Turbulent Times tackles the key issues facing managers in the 1990 how to manage in rapidly changing environments. This seminal and prophetic book laid the foundation for a generation of writers on change management.This book concerns the immediate future of business, society and the economy. The one certainty about the times ahead, says Drucker, is that they will be turbulent times. In turbulent times the first task of management is to make sure of the organizations capacity for survival, to make sure of its structural strength and soundness, its capacity to survive a blow, to adapt to sudden change and to avail itself of new opportunities.The author is concerned with action rather than understanding, with decisions rather than analysis. It aims at being a practical book for the decision maker, whether in the private or the public sector.
People And Performance: The Best Of Peter Drucker On Management - Thryft
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People And Performance: The Best Of Peter Drucker On Management

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Author: Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Publication Date: 2000
Having It All ... And Making It Work : Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First - Thryft
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D. Quinn Mills | Pearson P T R

Having It All ... And Making It Work : Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First

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Goodreads rating: 3.17

$2.32

Working 24x7? Delaying life until it's too late? You have the ability stop! Having it All ... and Making it Work is a fast-paced, easy-to-use book offering you a new pathway towards managing personal life and professional life--without sacrificing either one of them. This book isn't just more whining and exhortation: it delivers specific, bite-sized, no-fluff solutions for managing your life, including crucial execution steps you can take immediately. Mills teaches you how to identify and balance what's most important to you--and give up what you don't want badly enough. He also shows how to make the balance real, not just talk; how to make career decisions that promote balance; and how to make course corrections that refine your balance over time. Mills also exposes the potentially disastrous myths and rationalizations many people use to avoid the realities of work/life imbalance--fallacies like "I'll devote all my time to work for 15 years, get rich, and then I'll pay attention to family." Mills' breakthrough work/life courses at the Harvard Business School are helping business people find the balance they're searching for. The techniques he's developed will help anyone struggling to get a grasp on the work/life balance challenge.
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Bernard Garrette, Pierre Dussauge  | Wiley

Cooperative Strategy : Competing Successfully Through Strategic Alliances

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Goodreads rating: 4.0

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Cooperative Strategy Competing Successfully through Strategic Alliances Pierre Dussauge and Bernard Garrette HEC-School of Management, France In recent years, such corporate giants as Boeing, Toyota, Nestlé, Philips, United Airlines, IBM, and Intel have increasingly turned to alliances in order to develop new products and technologies, enter new markets, and globalize their activities. Indeed, no one firm, however dominant, can beat the competition entirely on its own. Unfortunately, managers have found collaboration to be a difficult, and sometimes dangerous, strategy; they have often over-estimated the benefits of alliances while overlooking their pitfalls which only materialize over time. C.K. Prahalad notes in the foreword that "managers need a robust framework for navigating through these uncharted waters" and that "this book provides an invaluable source of ideas and practical guidance in their search". As the dynamics of the business landscape change and alliances become an increasingly used competitive weapon, Cooperative Strategy will enable managers to plan, implement and make the best use of strategic alliances. "This book significantly advances the literature on strategic alliances. The case studies are fresh and the insights they provide are powerful. This book is a must read for both managers and academics interested in cooperative strategies." Nitin Nohria, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School "This book provides an excellent guide to the new skills needed in an environment where more and more managers must learn to collaborate in order to enhance the competitive position of their company. No-one can become a global leader alone." John M. Stopford, Professor of International Business, London Business School "The framework developed by Pierre Dussauge and Bernard Garrette provides new and valuable insights on the strategic and managerial issues raised by alliances, in particular when these alliances bring together companies that compete in the same industries. Indeed, getting former competitors to collaborate efficiently is a difficult endeavour; this book offers managers guidelines that will make this challenge less daunting." Jean-Luc Lagardère, CEO, Matra-Hachette "This excellent book provides insightful clarity on the various types of alliances and successfully explores the issues, pitfalls and traps which ensnare the misinformed. The examples are rich and the perspective truly global. In particular, it disentangles the more creative forms of 'co-opetition' between rival firms, and lays out the longer term outcomes of alliances. It is pragmatic and practical, bristling with concrete suggestions on how to make alliances successful." Bruce Simpson, Principal, McKinsey&Company
Fooled by Randomness : The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Thryft
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Penguin

Fooled by Randomness : The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

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Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or something altogether more unpredictable? This book is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. It is all about more precisely, how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the markets - we hear an entrepreneur has 'vision' or a trader is 'talented', but all too often their performance is down to chance rather than skill. It is only because we fail to understand probability that we continue to believe events are non-random, finding reasons where none exist. This irreverent bestseller has shattered the illusions of people around the world by teaching them how to recognize randomness. Now it can do the same for you.
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Luis Ma. R. Calingo | Wiley

Strategic Management in the Asian Context : A Casebook in Business Policy and Strategy

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Goodreads rating: 3.0

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This book offers 27 comprehensive case studies of real Asia-Pacific business organizations and industries undergoing strategic change. The author reviews financial analysis techniques and thoroughly describes the analytical tools and techniques of strategic management.
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Ashok Rao, Ismael Dambolena, Lawrence P. Carr  | Wiley

Total Quality Management : A Cross Functional Perspective

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Goodreads rating: 4.33

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The emphasis of Quality is pervading every facet of business, and managers are required to know and apply TQM principles. This book explores the strategic role of quality global competition, the roles of management in attaining quality excellence, the structures and systems needed to support a total quality strategy, and the main statistical and analytical tools for achieving quality improvement and control.
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Melanie Fox | Mcgraw Hill

Economics DeMYSTiFieD

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Goodreads rating: 3.43

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All the information you need―quick, easy, and ON THE MONEY ECON. Do these letters make you sweat? You’re not alone. From college freshmen to PhD students, economics tops the list of panic-inducing classes. But help has arrived. Economics DeMYSTiFieD is a curriculum-based, self-teaching guide that makes learning this important business topic easier than ever. Filled with illustrations, plain-English explanations, and real-life examples, it starts with the fundamentals and eases you into the more complicated theories, concepts, and mathematical formulas. When it comes to making this complex topic easy to grasp, Economics DeMYSTiFieD corners the market. This fast and easy guide
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David R. Anderson | South-western College Publishing

An Introduction to Management Science

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Intended for business professionals and managers who would like a better conceptual understanding of the role of management science in the decision making process, this book blends problem formulation with managerial interpretation and maths technique.
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Dan Ariely | Harpercollins Uk

The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty : How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves

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Goodreads rating: 3.94

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The New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality returns with thought-provoking work to challenge our preconceptions about dishonesty and urge us to take an honest look at ourselves.Does the chance of getting caught affect how likely we are to cheat? How do companies pave the way for dishonesty? Does collaboration make us more honest or less so? Does religion improve our honesty? Most of us think of ourselves as honest, but, in fact, we all cheat. From Washington to Wall Street, the classroom to the workplace, unethical behavior is everywhere. None of us is immune, whether it's the white lie to head off trouble or padding our expense reports. In The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, award-winning, bestselling author Dan Ariely turns his unique insight and innovative research to the question of dishonesty. Generally, we assume that cheating, like most other decisions, is based on a rational cost-benefit analysis. But Ariely argues, and then demonstrates, that it's actually the irrational forces that we don't take into account that often determine whether we behave ethically or not. For every Enron or political bribe, there are countless puffed résumés, hidden commissions, and knockoff purses. In The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, Ariely shows why some things are easier to lie about; how getting caught matters less than we think; and how business practices pave the way for unethical behavior, both intentionally and unintentionally. Ariely explores how unethical behavior works in the personal, professional, and political worlds, and how it affects all of us, even as we think of ourselves as having high moral standards. But all is not lost. Ariely also identifies what keeps us honest, pointing the way for achieving higher ethics in our everyday lives. With compelling personal and academic findings, The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty will change the way we see ourselves, our actions, and others
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Zvi Bodie, Alan Marcus, Alex Kane  | Mcgraw-hill Education

ISE Essentials of Investments

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Goodreads rating: 4.0

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9781260288391 is an International Student Edition of Essentials of Investments 11th Edition Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane and Alan Marcus. This 9781260288391 is Textbook only. It will not come with online access code.Online Access code (should only be purchased when required by an instructor ) sold separately at other ISBN The content of of this title on all formats are the same.The market leading undergraduate investments textbook, Essentials of Investments by Bodie, Kane, and Marcus, emphasizes asset allocation while presenting the practical applications of investment theory. The authors have eliminated unnecessary mathematical detail and concentrate on the intuition and insights that will be useful to practitioners throughout their careers as new ideas and challenges emerge from the financial marketplace. The Eleventh Edition includes increased attention to changes in market structure and trading technology, while continuing to be organized around one basic theme - that security markets are nearly efficient.
Strategic Management: Concepts : Competitiveness and Globalization - Thryft
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Michael A. Hitt, Robert E. Hoskisson, R. Duane Ireland  | Cengage Learning

Strategic Management: Concepts : Competitiveness and Globalization

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Goodreads rating: 3.19

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Examine strategic management with the market-leading text that sets the standard for the most intellectually rich, practical analysis of strategic management. Written by respected experts Hitt, Ireland, and Hoskisson, the 12th edition of STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT is steeped in cutting-edge research featuring more than 500 emerging and leading companies, and reveals trends that you can implement immediately to succeed in your field. You'll discover how to integrate the classic industrial organization model with a resource-based view of the firm to give you a complete understanding of how today's businesses use strategic management to establish competitive advantages and create value for stakeholders in the global marketplace. The freshly reimagined MindTap learning solution provides you with real-world activities that will prepare you to excel as a leader and outperform rivals.
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Michael E. Gerber | Harper Collins

The E-Myth Revisited : Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

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Goodreads rating: 4.06

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Carl Richards | Portfolio/penguin

The Behavior Gap

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Goodreads rating: 3.76

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Why do we lose money? It's easy to blame the economy or the financial markets-but the real trouble lies in the decisions we make.As a financial planner, Carl Richards grew frustrated watching people he cared about make the same mistakes over and over. They were letting emotion get in the way of smart financial decisions. He named this phenomenon-the distance between what we should do and what we actually do-"the behavior gap." Using simple drawings to explain the gap, he found that once people understood it, they started doing much better.Richards's way with words and images has attracted a loyal following to his blog posts for The New York Times, appearances on National Public Radio, and his columns and lectures. His book will teach you how to rethink all kinds of situations where your perfectly natural instincts (for safety or success) can cost you money and peace of mind.He'll help you to:avoid the tendency to buy high and sell low; avoid the pitfalls of generic financial advice; invest all of your assets-time and energy as well as savings-more wisely; quit spending money and time on things that don't matter; identify your real financial goals; start meaningful conversations about money; simplify your financial life; stop losing money!It's never too late to make a fresh financial start. As Richards writes: "We've all made mistakes, but now it's time to give yourself permission to review those mistakes, identify your personal behavior gaps, and make a plan to avoid them in the future. The goal isn't to make the 'perfect' decision about money every time, but to do the best we can and move forward. Most of the time, that's enough."
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Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas D. Kristof  | Knopf

A Path Appears

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An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad—a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles faced by women and girls around the globe, and showcased individuals and institu­tions working to address oppression and expand opportunity. A Path Appears is even more ambi­tious in scale: nothing less than a sweeping tap­estry of people who are making the world a better place and a guide to the ways that we can do the same—whether with a donation of $5 or $5 mil­lion, with our time, by capitalizing on our skills as individuals, or by using the resources of our businesses. With scrupulous research and on-the-ground reporting, the authors assay the art and science of giving, identify successful local and global initia­tives, and share astonishing stories from the front lines of social progress. We see the compelling, in­spiring truth of how real people have changed the world, upending the idea that one person can’t make a difference. We meet people like Dr. Gary Slutkin, who devel­oped his landmark Cure Violence program to combat inner-city conflicts in the United States by applying principles of epidemiology; Lester Strong, who left a career as a high-powered television anchor to run an organization bringing in older Americans to tu­tor students in public schools across the country; MIT development economist Esther Duflo, whose pioneering studies of aid effectiveness have revealed new truths about, among other things, the power of hope; and Jessica Posner and Kennedy Odede, who are transforming Kenya’s most notorious slum by ex­panding educational opportunities for girls. A Path Appears offers practical, results-driven advice on how best each of us can give and reveals the lasting benefits we gain in return. Kristof and WuDunn know better than most how many urgent challenges communities around the world face to­day. Here they offer a timely beacon of hope for our collective future.
The Art of Shopping - Thryft
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Siemon Scamell-Katz | Lid Publishing

The Art of Shopping

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Goodreads rating: 3.96

$1.00

Everybody is a shopper—a fact no company can ignore. Based on results of never publicly seen real-world research, using ethnographic and neuroscience studies on some of the world's leading brands and retailers, this is an insider's exposé on how shoppers choose and buy brands (often without knowing how they do) and how brands can promote themselves. The author is one of the world's leading analysts of shopper behaviors. This book is the result of twenty years of pioneering research (from filming shoppers in-store to brain scanning) into how people around the world really shop. It explores what we actually do rather than what we think we do, how we really choose and make decisions to buy, and what brands are trying to persuade us to buy.
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Dan G. Stone | Grand Central Pub

April Fools : An Insider's Account of the Rise and Collapse of Drexel Burnham

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Goodreads rating: 3.58

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"April Fools is a must-read for anyone curious about the inner workings of a corporate giant and the greed that ultimately led to its collapse. Dan G Stone's first-hand account of his time at Drexel Burnham offers a riveting portrayal of greed, ambition and corruption that is both shocking and insightful. In addition to providing a unique glimpse into the world of high finance, Stone's writing style is engaging and easy to follow, making this book a page-turner from start to finish."
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Michael Muckian | Alpha

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Finance and Accounting

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Goodreads rating: 3.29

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Debits, credits, double-entry bookkeeping all are demystified in this handy new guide. Included in this book are idiot-proof steps for setting up a companys books the right way the first time, monitoring expenditures, creating budgets, paying taxes, and managing precious cash. Also featured are methods for raising capital for a business and detecting fraud.
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Graham Clark, Robert Johnston  | Pearson

Service Operations Management

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Goodreads rating: 3.6

$5.40 $2.32 57% off

This international market-leading book, aimed at both students and practising managers, provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to service operations management. Building on the basic principles of operations management, the authors examine the operations decisions that managers face in controlling their resources and delivering services to their customers.
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Peter J.H. Baily, Barry Crocker, David Jessop  | Pearson College Div

Procurement, Principles & Management

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Goodreads rating: 4.06

$5.96 $2.56 57% off

Previously entitled 'Purchasing Principles and Management' this book has been essential reading and the standard text for practitioners and students of the subject of purchasing or procurement for nearly 40 years. This new tenth edition continues to cover the continuous change and development in the field of Purchasing and care is taken to balance new emerging philosophies with the proven and established thinking and practice in the profession. This book will provide the reader with a reflection of sound mainstream practice combined with comment and insight into developing ideas and approaches. This edition includes: New chapters on outsourcing, corporate social responsibility and e-procurement systems, Well-integrated new material on time compression, global sourcing and contract performance measurement, New case studies plus mini-cases dotted throughout chapters to reflect themes from the text in actual supply management practice around the world, New Research boxes within chapters to link academic research and procurement industry practice, New PowerPoint Slides and an Instructor's Manual for Lecturers teaching the subject.
Retailing Management - Thryft
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Michael Levy, Barton A. Weitz  | Mcgraw Hill Higher Education

Retailing Management

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Goodreads rating: 3.7

$4.88 $2.10 57% off

Known for its strategic look at retailing and current coverage, this new 6th edition continues to be organized around a model of strategic decision-making. One of the major advantages of the Levy/Weitz approach is the text's readability, organization, and its emphasis on how students can come to grips with real retailing issues and be able to solve problems. The text's logical organization around a decision-making process allows readers to learn about the process of strategic decisions first before moving on to decision implementation. The implementation decisions are broken down into merchandise management decisions and store management decisions, just as they would be in a real retailing setting. The text provides a balanced treatment of strategic, "how to," and conceptual material, in a highly readable and interesting format.The sixth edition continues its cutting edge coverage on the latest topics and developments in retailing including globalization, customer relationship management programs, multi-channel retailing, supply chain management, and the use of the Internet to improve operating efficiencies and customer service. Students indicate that this text is a "good read" because of the numerous examples of retailers, their practices, the interesting retail facts in the margins, and eye catching design and layout. Retailing is a high tech, global, growth industry that provides challenging and rewarding career opportunities for college graduates. This book and its corresponding tools and exercises were written to expose students to the excitement of retailing and prepare them for a career in retailing and related fields.
Power Talk: Insights From Asia's Leading Entrepreneurs - Thryft
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Karen Lam | Ws Professional

Power Talk: Insights From Asia's Leading Entrepreneurs

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Goodreads rating: 4.0

$14.67

"Karen’s interviewees were a veritable who’s who in Asia … Entrepreneurs who reflect the diversity of Asia, the different routes and paths to success, but who are bound together by common themes on life, family and values. This is what Power Talk has managed to capture, and in essence, what Channel NewsAsia was meant to do … I would recommend it to anyone who wants to understand entrepreneurship in Asia." Debra Soon Chief Customer Officer, Mediacorp Pte Ltd What drives success in Asia? How did the pioneers do what they did, how are they planning their succession? What are their views on life and family? After six seasons of Channel News Asia's Power List Asia, with 73 episodes high-powered guests, over 26,000 manhours of pre- and post-production and 130,000 airmiles, comes Power Talk. Distilling the very best and most memorable conversations with various head honchos, Karen Lam sits down (not on television this time) to compile the best business ideas, personal philosophies, attitudes and intriguing stories into common themes of leadership and entrepreneurship in Asia. Featuring more than 20 Powerlisters and a range of topics such as crisis management, brand building, expanding westward and succession planning, Power Talk is a must-read for any Asian entrepreneur on the cusp of that next league.

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