In My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Page by page, Derman details his adventures in this field—analyzing the incompatible personas of traders and quants, and discussing the dissimilar nature of knowledge in physics and finance. Throughout this tale, he also reflects on the appropriate way to apply the refined methods of physics to the hurly-burly world of markets.

A famous expert reveals his professional secrets. Learn how to build your willpower, how to waste time for pleasure and profit, and how to work smarter, not harder. A practical nononsense guide to managing your personal and business time. Paper.

The rules that can make or break your career. For anyone who's breaking in, moving up, or just trying to make agreat professional impression, this essential guide offersreal-life anecdotes and advice to help you build competence andconfidence in the tricky arena of modern business etiquette.Includes: "Blunder Busters"-proven strategies to help you tackle anythingfrom office dating to business lunches "Sir, your fly is unzipped!"-the art of verbal diplomacy Contemporary guidelines for goof-proof e-mail The top ten career killers and how to beat them Global gaffes: easy ways to avoid overseas embarrassment Grace under fire-surviving dining disasters, party faux-pas andeverything in-between

You're holding a handbook for visionaries, game changers, andchallengers striving to defy outmoded business models and designtomorrow's enterprises. It's a book for the business modelgeneration.Disruptive new business models are emblematic of ourgeneration. Yet they remain poorly understood, even as theytransform competitive landscapes across industries. Business ModelGeneration offers you powerful, simple, tested tools forunderstanding, designing, reworking, and implementing businessmodels. Business Model Generation is a practical, inspiring handbook foranyone striving to improve a business model - or craft a newone. Business Model Generation will teach you powerful and practicalinnovation techniques used today by leading companies worldwide.You will learn how to systematically understand, design, andimplement a new business model — or analyze and renovate an oldone. Business Model Generation practices what it preaches. Coauthoredby 470 Business Model Canvas practitioners from forty-f

This Diary will Change Your Life contains 52 weekly instructions to make the year 2009 more interesting for you than for other, lesser people.Dope your imagination and let the true you shine forth, blinding everyone in your vicinity.

Book De*ion In this fascinating book, Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important policy debate of this generation with the romance and mystery of lost worlds.

A framework for improving managerial effectivenessbased on thetimeless principles of Peter Drucker Peter Drucker believed thatmanagement, at its core, is a liberal artthat it is inherently ahuman activity and, as such, must be informed by the disciplinesthat affect human character development, cooperation, performance,innovation, and change. Managers informed by philosophy,literature, law, art, psychology, and other such disciplines,according to Drucker, make the best managers. In Drucker's Lost Artof Management, the world's foremost Drucker scholar and the firstDrucker archivist investigate their subject's timeless vision tocreate a new, more effective management approach. Maciariello andLinkletter explain Drucker's vision for creating a society offunctioning organizationsa society in which citizenship andbusiness interests benefited one another. His management principleswere at the core of this vision. Each of the five chapters in thebook integrates disciplines in the liberal arts with requirementsto succe

With honesty, empathy, and a dazzling knowledge of how moneyworks, Suze Orman invites us into a realm where our lives andfinances can prosper in harmony. Practical, spiritual, and aboveall financially sound, "The Courage to Be Rich" takes us throughthe financial milestones of our lives and shows us how to: * Clearaway financial clutter * Break debilitating patterns * Protectfinances when entering marriage or romantic partnerships * Startover after divorce or death of a spouse * Differentiate betweengood and bad debt * Invest for the future * Give generously, liverichly * Learn and teach the value of money "Orman prods thefearful, the angry and the impoverished to dig deep into thepockets of their souls for spiritual and financial riches. A]holistic approach...Orman offers sound advice on money marketfunds, IRAs, estate planning and financing big-ticket items such ashomes and autos, but her most compelling advice hits us in theemotional pocketbook." ("USA Today") "The reigning shaman and highpriestess o

The nonprofit sector is growing rapidly, creating a major need for expert advice on how to manage these organizations effectively. Management legend Peter Drucker provides excellent examples and explanations of mission, leadership, resources, marketing, goals, and much more. Interviews with nine experts also address key issues in this booming sector.

Motorola relied heavily on teams to surpass its competition in building thelightest, smallest, and highest-quality cell phones. At 3M, teams are critical to meeting the company's goal of producing half of each year's revenues from the previous five years' innovations. Kodak's Zebra Team proved the worth of black-and-white film manufacturing in a world where color is king. But many companies overlook the potential of teams in turning around lagging profits, entering new markets, and making exciting innovations happen--because they don't know how to utilize teams successfully. Authors Jan R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith talked with hundreds of people in more than thirty companies to find out whereand how teams work best and how to enhance their effectiveness.

Real estate titan, bestselling author, and TV impresario Donald J. Trump reveals the secrets of his success in this candid and unprecedented book of business wisdom and advice. Over the years, everyone has urged Trump to write on this subject, but it wasn’t until NBC and executive producer Mark Burnett asked him to star in The Apprentice that he realized just how hungry people are to learn how great personal wealth is created and first-class businesses are run. Thousands applied to be Trump’s apprentice, and millions have been watching the program, making it the highest rated debut of the season. In Trump: How To Get Rich, Trump tells all–about the lessons learned from The Apprentice, his real estate empire, his position as head of the 20,000-member Trump Organization, and his most important role, as a father who has successfully taught his children the value of money and hard work.

Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the seemingly mundane taps into a fundamental human impulse: curiosity. From criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell takes everyday subjects and shows us surprising new ways of looking at them, and the world around us. Are smart people overrated? What can pit bulls teach us about crime? Why are problems like homelessness easier to solve than to manage? How do we hire when we can t tell who s right for the job? Gladwell explores the minor geniuses, the underdogs and the overlooked, and reveals how everyone and everything contains an intriguing story. What the Dog Saw is Gladwell at his very best asking questions and seeking answers in his inimitable style.

An MBA in a book! A distillation of the wisdom of the greatest entrepreneurs,business leaders,economists,and inspirational figures of all time--in one handy and elegant volume.No ones business education would be complete without the wisdom included in THE 101 GREATEST BUSINESS PRIN-CIPLES OF ALL TIME.From Adam Smith to Donald Trump,from Thomas Edison to Peter Drucker and Jack Welch,here are inspiring words and advice from the most creative thinkers of our time.Readers will encounter such fundamental concepts as Buy cheap,sell dear,perceptive observations like Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led（Warren Bennis）,and such expressions of basic ideals as Robert F.Kennedys impassioned declaration（paraphrasing George Bernard Shaw）,Some see the world as it is,and ask why? I see the world as it might be,and ask why not? This book will motivate and inspire its readers to work with more creativity,lead with passion and compassion,and maximize the profitability of both their careers and th

Are good manners relevant in this day and age? More so than ever, with cell phones, body piercings, e-mails, and other 21st-century accessories. Now the authors of Things You Need to Be Told offer more advice-pertinent to today's issues, and filled with both hilarious wit and practical common sense.

The art of accounting-by the numbers. The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Accounting, Third Edition takesthe guess work out of this basic business activity. This updatededition has all the current information any business person willneed to understand the "books," along with a useful workbook styleappendix to re-enforce the lessons learned throughout thebook. ? Fully updated including all new forms ? New workbook appendix with dozens of useful exercises ? Up-to-date information on the changes in payroll taxes,including the new Medicare tax

The tools you need for successful project management Intoday's time-crunched, cost-conscious global business environment,tight project deadlines and stringent expectations are the norm.Now with 25% new and updated content, "Project Management ForDummies, 3rd Edition" introduces you to the principles ofsuccessful project management and shows you how to motivate anyteam to gain maximum productivity. You'll learn how to organize,estimate, and schedule projects efficiently and effectively. You'llalso discover how to manage deliverables, issue changes, assessrisks, maintain communications, and live up to expectations bymaking the most of the latest technology and software and byavoiding common problems that can trip up even the best projectmanagers. The latest methods to manage resources and stay on trackand within a budget New coverage of the pros and cons of virtualteams Fresh tactics for team motivation and the hottest riskmanagement strategies Explanations of concepts tested in the PMPcertification exam with

Hard to believe anything other than luck and maybe fate, never mind a book, can make someone fall in love with you, but oddly enough, Leil Lowndes seems to offer the advice that can do just that in How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You. The sensation of falling in love comes from a chemical secreted by the nervous system, phenylethylamine (or PEA, as Lowndes calls it, as in "Scientists tell us only PEA-brained people fall in Love"), and the trick is to trigger the manufacture of PEA in your potential love partner, giving him or her the sensation of being in love. Lowndes offers 85 techniques for "Hunters and Huntresses" to capture their "Quarry." Much of what the book offers is common sense--the power of eye contact and compliments--but it's presented in a new way and with such detail that it seems that it can't help but work. Following some of her advice will have you treading that fine line between nice and obsequious, and at times, this book may sound offensive to some, advising the reader to play w

A friend’s recommendation is more powerful than anyadvertisement. In the world of Facebook, Twitter, and beyond, thatrecommendation can travel farther—and faster—than ever before. LIkeable Social Media helps you harness the power ofword-of-mouth marketing to transform your business. Listen to yourcustomers and prospects. Deliver value, excitement, and surprise.And most important, learn how to truly engage your customers andhelp them spread the word

With tips on eye contact, asserting oneself in uncomfortable situations, speaking directly, and giving constructive criticism, this is the essential guide to using the spoken word more effectively. Fast and actionable tools and strategies for improving critical management skills—culled from Harvard Business School Publishing’s respected newsletters Harvard Management Update and Harvard Management Communication Letter

Most managers coach employees by giving them feedback and evaluating their performance, right? Wrong. Coaching differs markedly from other managerial functions. With its wealth of tips, worksheets, and self-assessments, this handy guide shows managers how to use coaching—not only to strengthen direct reports’ skills but also to rev up their performance to unprecedented levels. The books in this series offer immediate solutions to the challenges managers face every day. Each book is packed with handy tools, checklists, and real life examples, including a Test Yourself section to help identify strengths and weaknesses. For all readers eager to address the daily demands of work, these books are ideal.

Risk control and derivative pricing have become of majorconcern to financial institutions, and there is a real need foradequate statistical tools to measure and anticipate the amplitudeof the potential moves of the financial markets. Summarisingtheoretical developments in the field, this 2003 second edition hasbeen substantially expanded. Additional chapters now coverstochastic processes, Monte-Carlo methods, Black-Scholes theory,the theory of the yield curve, and Minority Game. There arediscussions on aspects of data analysis, financial products,non-linear correlations, and herding, feedback and agent basedmodels. This book has become a classic reference for graduatestudents and researchers working in econophysics and mathematicalfinance, and for quantitative analysts working on risk management,derivative pricing and quantitative trading strategies.

Not just a business, but an opportunity for personal success and achievement, Amway has spread the old-fashioned American dream across the globe-from South America to the Pacific Rim. This definitive history of Amway delves deep into the heart and soul of the organization. It is an inspirational, motivational chronicle of the company as a whole-its ideology, goals, beliefs, ethics, and sense of values-filled with uplifting stories of people around the world whose lives have been totally transformed by the Amway philosophy.

To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate yourorganization's competitive strategy into day-to-day actions thatwill enable your company to win in the marketplace. This meanschanneling resources into the right efforts, striking a balancebetween innovation and control, and getting everyone pulling in thesame direction. How to accomplish all this? Continually ask the rightquestions, advises Harvard Business School professor Robert Simons.By posing these provocative questions, you identify critical gapsin your strategy execution processes, focus on the most importantchoices you must make, and understand what's at stake in eachone. In this concise guide, Simons presents the seven key questionsyou and your team must regularly explore together: ·Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your companyto deliver maximum value to that customer? ·How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees,and customers? Is everyone in your company committed to thosevalues?

Today – six years after it was created in a Harvard dorm room– over 500 million people use Facebook regularly, in just aboutevery country on earth. That a company this powerful andinfluential was started as a lark by a couple of 19-year-olds makesit a fascinating and surprising tale. That one of them, thevisionary Mark Zuckerberg, had the maturity, strategic smarts andluck to keep his company ahead of its rivals anchors thetale. With exclusive inside access to all the company’s leaders DavidKirkpatrick tells of the vision, the tenacity, the refusal tocompromise, and the vision Zuckerberg has to remake the internet. Abrilliant and fascinating cast of characters created Facebook andKirkpatrick has interviewed all of them. Never before haveZuckerberg and his closest colleagues told what really happened asthey built their dynamo while eating fast food, staying up allnight, and thumbing their noses at how things are usually done.