The bestselling Excel book on the market, updated forExcel 2010 As the world's leading spreadsheet application, Excel has a hugeuser base. The release of Office 2010 brings major changes toExcel, so Excel For Dummies comes to the rescue oncemore! In the friendly and non-threatening For Dummies style,this popular guide shows beginners how to get up and running withExcel and helps more experienced users get comfortable with newfeatures. Excel is the number one spreadsheet application worldwide, and Excel For Dummies is the number one guide to using it With the major changes in Microsoft Office 2010, Excel has newfeatures and a new interface design; users need help to get up tospeed The book includes everything you need to know to perform basicExcel 2010 tasks Covers creating and editing worksheets and charts, formattingcells, entering formulas, inserting graphs, designing databaseforms, and adding database records Also covers printing, adding hyperlinks to worksheets, savingworksheets as Web

Successful management and leadership has never been a greater challenge. Time is stretched, your people are highly motivated but can be highly demanding and business is competitive. Whether you are a first-time manager or experienced leader, straightforward, practical advice on best practice can be hard to find. John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Leadership and Management will help you find the answers and inspiration you need. The book provides accessible advice from one of the world's best-known and most sought after authorities on leadership and management - advice you can put into practice immediately. 作者简介： John Adair is internationally recognized as a leadership and management guru and has twice been named as one of 40 people worldwide who have contributed most to the development of management thought and practice. He is the author of more than 30 books and numerous articles on history, leadership and management development and over two million people world-wide have participated in the

The practical guide to discovering the rules of our superconnected world through the science and sociology of networks. In Superconnect, Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood show that success is less about who you are than how you connect—a chance meeting with an old colleague leads to a swanky new job; two businessmen collaborate online and cofound a successful start-up; a friend introduces a promising entrepreneur to a millionaire looking to invest. But why do these lucky breaks always happen to other people? Personal and professional networks shape everything we do, but simply knowing that they exist won’t help you harness your connections for maximum success. With an eye toward business applications, Superconnect outlines the new rules of our densely linked society. At the core of the analysis are three simple network components—strong relationships, weak relationships, and hubs—that interact in surprising, counterintuitive ways. Understanding how these components mesh, and connecting unrelated p

Dave Hitz likes to solve fun problems. He didn’t set out to be a Silicon Valley icon, a business visionary, or even a billionaire. But he became all three. It turns out that business is a mosaic of interesting puzzles like managing risk, developing and reversing strategies, and looking into the future by deconstructing the past. As a founder of NetApp, a data storage firm that began as an idea scribbled on a placemat and now takes in $4 billion a year, Hitz has seen his company go through every major cycle in business—from the Jack-of-All-Trades mentality of a start-up, through the tumultuous period of the IPO and the dot-com bust, and finally to a mature enterprise company. NetApp is one of the fastest-growing computer companies ever, and for six years in a row it has been on Fortune magazine’s list of Best Companies to Work For. Not bad for a high school dropout who began his business career selling his blood for money and typing the names of diseases onto index cards. With colorful exam

Warren Buffett is the most successful investor of all time.His ability to consistently find undervalued companies has made himone of the world's richest men. Yet while his track record is hardto argue with, the Buffett way isn't the only way, nor is it alwaysthe best way, to invest. Even Buffett Isn't Perfect dispels many myths about Buffett andhis "solid as a rock" style. It shows readers how to learn from themaster's best moves while avoiding strategies that don't apply tosmall investors -- and avoiding Buffett's mistakes, such assometimes riding his winners too long.

The 50th title in the HBR paperback series highlights what every company must know to successfully enter and compete in the world’s fastest-growing economy The potential opportunity in China is huge: it is home to a quarter of the world’s population, domestic consumer spending in China is growing by up to 10% a year, and relaxed regulatory restraints have opened China up to unprecedented levels of foreign investment. This book will help multinational corporations and the managers who work in them understand the implications of China’s current stage of development and develop strategies for effectively competing in this environment.

More than just another business self-help book, The Equation is a groundbreaking formula that looks at how all business is an art. The book will help business people rethink how they manage their art form and help businesses accelerate their productivity by creating a corporate culture driven by passion and zeal, as art is. The book will help entrepreneurs rethink how they manage their art form and help businesses accelerate their productivity by transforming corporate culture to be driven by passion and zeal, as art is. The Equation (L/A*S=B) reveals a foolproof blueprint for business and life. Readers will learn that, first you have to love what you do (L) and become a highly-skilled artist at it (A), while developing promotional and marketing tools to gather public and professional support (S), which ultimately leads to big business (B).

edition holds true to the original vision of teaching the subject from both the preparer and user perspective, but with a revision focused on greater accessibility to the variety of students taught. Two annual reports (Gateway and Ben Jerry s) and an annual update program with price stability guarantee highlight the third edition package. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Like it or not, the digital revolution has swept the businessworld and, no matter how good you are at your job, if you don'thave the technical tools to keep up you'll be left behind. Luckily, The Digital Revolution is here to get you up to speed andget the jump on the competition.

Wal-Mart isn’t just the world’s biggest company, it isprobably the world’s most written-about. But no book until this onehas managed to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the usualpolemics to analyze its actual effects on its customers, workers,and suppliers. Drawing on unprecedented interviews with formerWal-Mart executives and a wealth of staggering data (e.g.,Americans spend $36 million an hour at Wal-Mart stores, and in 2004its growth alone was bigger than the total revenue of 469 of theFortune 500), The Wal-Mart Effect is an intimate look at a businessthat is dramatically reshaping our lives.

Most of us look at our days in the wrong way: We exaggerateyesterday. We overestimate tomorrow. We underestimate today. Thetruth is that the most important day you will ever experience istoday. Today is the key to your success. Maxwell offers 12decisions and disciplines-he calls it his daily dozen-that can belearned and mastered by any person to achieve success.

In The Leadership Engine, Noel Tichy showed how great companies strive to create leaders at all levels of the organization, and how those leaders actively develop future generations of leaders. Now, in The Cycle of Leadership, Tichy takes the theme further, showing how great companies and leaders hone their business knowledge into "teachable points of view,'and pass this knowledge to others in the organization. In turn, these leaders learn from the employees they are teaching. Using examples of this "virtuous teaching cycle" from GE, Best Buy,Genentech, Southwest Airlines and many others, Professor Tichy presents and analyzes leadership principles in action and shows how leaders can begin to transform their own businesses into teaching organizations and,consequently, better-performing companies.

Managing people is fraught with challenges--even if you're aseasoned manager. Here's how to handle them. If you read nothing else on managing people, read these 10articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Reviewarticles and selected the most important ones to help you maximizeyour employees' performance. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People will inspire you to: ? Tailor your management styles to fit your people ? Motivate with more responsibility, not more money ? Support first-time managers ? Build trust by soliciting input ? Teach smart people how to learn from failure ? Build high-performing teams

Supercharge your job performance and get where your want to beby becoming an ACTIVE LEARNER In today's highly competitive workenvironment, continuous learning is an absolute necessity--arequirement to keep up with the latest innovations in the field andincrease productivity. Learn Your Way to Success helps you spototherwise overlooked opportunities to learn and teaches you how totake advantage of them. It provides tools for setting a personallearning agenda, keeping track of what is learned, and determininghow to use that learning to improve performance in their currentjob, prepare for their next job, and plan their careers. Daniel R.Tobin has more than 30 years of experience in the learning anddevelopment field. He has founded two corporate universities(Digital Equipment Corporation's Network University and WangGlobal/Getronics Virtual University) and served as vice presidentof design and development at the American Management Association(AMA).

The guide that defines the results required at eachorganizational level to sustain business success It's not enough to build a company full of people withleadership skills. The Performance Pipeline digs deep into the realwork of executing business results at each leadership layer. Filled with lessons and examples from the author's 40 years ofexperience Shows how to set performance standards, make sure the rightwork is being done, and remove performance barriers Illustrates how leaders can make the transition to the nextlevel and achieve full performance This book gives leaders in any industry an advantage over thecompetition.

"The Big Short" tells a story of spectacular, epic folly. It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the subject that made him famous. His international bestseller "Liar's Poker" exposed the greed and carnage of the City and Wall Street in the 1980s; he wrote it as a cautionary tale, but people seem to have read it as a how-to guide. Now, he wants to settle accounts. In this visceral tour to the heart of the financial system, Michael Lewis takes us around the globe and back decades to trace the origins of the current crisis. He meets the people who saw it coming, the people who were asleep at the wheel and the people who were actively driving us all of cliff. How could we have all been so deluded for quite so long? Where did it all start? Was it systemic? Was it avoidable? And who the hell can we blame? Michael Lewis has the answers. No one is better qualified to get to the heart of this labyrinthine story. And no one can make it such an enjoyable ride along the way.

How to Survive Your Freshman Year offers incoming college freshmen the experience, advice, and wisdom of their peers: hundreds of other students who have survived their first year of college and have something interesting to say about it. Based on interviews with hundreds of college students at every type of higher-learning institution across the country, this book has insights on every aspect of college life, including, what to take to the dorm, living with roommates, Facebook and other social networks, extracurricular activities, choosing classes, studying, going abroad, finances, food, the social scene, doing laundry, staying in touch with friends and family, and much more. Highly readable, much of the book consists of short snippets with some interesting insight and advice from the college students interviewed. The book also includes expert input from college advisors and officers.

It’s an insidious disease that is crippling companies,destroying our economy, and crushing potential. It’s infecting thevery roots of business performance, and it’s spreading fast. Itisn’t the recession, market volatility, scandal, or greed. It’s entitlement. And it may be killing your business. In myriad ways, entitlement has been cultivated for decades. As aresult, too many employees today believe that they are entitled toa paycheck simply because they show up. Brad Hams has proven thatwe are not doomed to a path of entitlement and dependence. Aftermore than 15 years working with hundreds of companies, he knowsthat the vast majority of employees addicted to entitlementactually want to engage, want to contribute, and feel much betterabout themselves when they are in an environment that requires themto do so. Now, with Ownership Thinking, Hams shares his strategy that willincrease your company’s productivity, employee retention, andprofitability: The Right Educ

You've got a good idea. You know it could make a crucialdifference for you, your organization, your community. You presentit to the group, but get confounding questions, inane comments, andverbal bullets in return. Before you know what's happened, youridea is dead, shot down. You're furious. Everyone has lost: Thosewho would have benefited from your proposal. You. Your company.Perhaps even the country. It doesn't have to be this way, maintain JohnKotter and Lorne Whitehead. In Buy-In, they reveal how to win thesupport your idea needs to deliver valuable results. The key?Understand the generic attack strategies that naysayers andobfuscators deploy time and time again. Then engage theseadversaries with tactics tailored to each strategy. By "inviting inthe lions" to critique your idea--and being prepared forthem--you'll capture busy people's attention, help them grasp yourproposal's value, and secure their commitment to implementing thesolution. The book presents a fresh and amusing fictionalnarrative s

Substantial market trends and transformational innovations are creating markets and making others irrelevant. The result is a major threat for nearly every business and a significant opportunity for a few. This book will be the first marketing strategy book to develop and leverage the concept of brand relevance. To remain relevant, a firm can create a new category or subcategory-- such as iPod, Cirque du Soleil, and eBay did-- where competitors are eliminated. Or a firm can redefine an existing category or subcategory by creating or elevating an offering feature or characteristic--as Prius created a subcategory defined by gas mileage and technology, or Westin did with its Heavenly Bed. In either case, a firm can create or own a new business arena or submarket in which some or all competitors are not relevant. Instead of being the best, the goal is to be the only--making competitors irrelevant.

Add this aptly titled piffle to the ranks of pink-covered girl-centric fiction that has come sailing out of England over the last two years. At age 25, Rebecca Bloomwood has everything she wants. Or does she? Can her career as a financial journalist, a fab flat and a closet full of designer clothes lessen the blow of the dunning letters from credit card companies and banks that have been arriving too quickly to be contained by the drawer in which Rebecca hides them? Although her romantic entanglements tend toward the superficial, there is that wonderful Luke Brandon of Brandon Communications: handsome, intelligent, the 31st-richest bachelor according to Harper's and actually possessed of a personality that is more substance than style. Too bad that Rebecca blows it whenever their paths cross. Will Rebecca learn to stop shopping before she loses everything worthwhile? When faced with the opportunity to do good for others and impress Luke, will she finally measure up? Rebecca is so unremittingly shallow and Luk

Marketing is shrouded in arcane mystery and buzzwords. Itfrightens many and bewilders others. Yet every business, from thehand-car-wash by the side of the road, to the world's most famousbrands, engage in marketing every single day. This is an essential,reliable, speedy and up to date guide to the most robust andimportant concepts in marketing. This book shows you how to understand and do marketing withouthaving to study a degree or a diploma in it. Along the way it showsyou what has been learned about marketing over the centuries, whatexperts can teach us that we can use ourselves, how marketing haschanged in our new ‘digital' world, and how to avoid classicmistakes. In short, this is all you need to know about marketing.

China's astonishing transformation from a centrally planned to a market economy was one of the most remarkable stories of the twentieth century. It has set the stage for what many see as a period of unparalleled future growth. During this spell of delicate and risk-fraught economic transition, one defining figure stands out as the true driving force - Zhu Rongji. A remarkable visionary, Zhu has consistently refused to follow the conventional wisdom of established economics. Instead, he has developed a unique approach for a unique situation. Author Laurence Brahm tells the inside story of Zhu's rise to power, the political obstacles that he has overcome and the policies that he has engineered to set China on a new path. While other developing countries such as Russia, have floundered badly, China continues to excite the world with its phenomenal growth. Brahm skillfully argues that Zhu's policies of managed marketization deserve international recognition as a new economic model for both developing and tr