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In this title, Doc Searls maps out the implications of acustomer-driven business revolution that's flipping the paradigm ofsupply and demand, and putting consumers in charge. Who owns themarketplace? Is it business - or the customer? According to DocSearls, widely-read journalist and blogger and co-author of "TheCluetrain Manifesto", customers are on the verge of becoming trulyfree and independent actors in the marketplace with the power oftelling vendors what they want, how they want it, and where andwhen they should be able to get it. This imperative shift incustomer power will alter the balance of the market and usher inwhat Searls calls the "intention economy". In this book, Searlslays out a map for an economy driven by consumer intent, wherevendors can - and must - respond to the actual intentions ofcustomers, instead of simply vying for customer attention in hopesof selling them what they might want. In the intention economy,individual power increases, demand drives supply, and informationprecedes mone

Three years after the events of The Golem's Eye, the youngmagician Nathaniel is an established member of the BritishGovernment. But he faces unprecedented problems: foreign wars aregoing badly and Britain's enemies are mounting attacks close toLondon. Increasingly distracted, he is treating Bartimaeus worsethan ever: the long-suffering djinni is growing weak from too muchtime in this world, and his patience is at an end. Meanwhile,undercover in London, Kitty has been stealthily completing herresearch into magic and Bartimaeus' past. She hopes to break theendless cycle of conflict between djinn and humans - but will shebe able to get anyone to listen? Before any of these problems canbe resolved, disaster strikes London from an unexpected source andthe destinies of Bartimaeus, Nathaniel, and Kitty are throwntogether once more. They have to face treacherous magicians, along-fermented conspiracy, and an enemy from 'The Other Place' thatthreatens London and the world. Worst of all, they must somehowcope wit

Now available in paperback--the book that has, since 1992,become the primer for open-book management, a new method based onthe concept of democracy, the spirit of sports, and the reality ofnumbers. Includes a "user's guide" and a discussion guide createdespecially for this edition.

John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader,spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing thebest--and the brainiest--bond arbitrage group in the world. Amysterious and shy midwesterner, he knitted together a group ofPh.D.-certified arbitrageurs who rewarded him with filial devotionand fabulous profits. Then, in 1991, in the wake of a scandalinvolving one of his traders, Meriwether abruptly resigned. For twoyears, his fiercely loyal team--convinced that the chief had beenunfairly victimized--plotted their boss's return. Then, in 1993,Meriwether made a historic offer. He gathered together his formerdisciples and a handful of supereconomists from academia andproposed that they become partners in a new hedge fund differentfrom any Wall Street had ever seen. And so Long-Term CapitalManagement was born. In a decade that had seen the longest and most rewarding bullmarket in history, hedge funds were the ne plus ultra ofinvestments: discreet, private clubs limited to those

Everyone in business wants to increase produc-tivity-moor output and less input,lower costs and higher profits.And noneedle's proven harder to budge than the one on the“productivity meter.” That's why jason Jason,coauthor of the worldwide bestseller It's NOt the Big That Eat the Small…It's the Fast That Eat the Slow,took on the assignment fo identify the world's most productive companies and find out exactly what makes them models of productivity. 作者简介： Jason Jennings,a consultant and author,has been named one of the world's top twenty-five keynote speakers.His previous book,on the world's fastest comapnies,achieved worldwide bestseller status and has been translated into twenty-three languages.When not traveling the globe on business assignments or adven-ture travel,he and his family live in Tiburon,California.

In this instant New York Times Bestseller, Geoff Smart andRandy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution towhat The Economist calls “the single biggest problem in businesstoday”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs acompany $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours.This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider thatthe typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50percent. The silver lining is that “who” problems are easily preventable.Based on more than 1,300 hours of interviews with more than 20billionaires and 300 CEOs, Who presents Smart and Street’s A Methodfor Hiring. Refined through the largest research study of its kindever undertaken, the A Method stresses fundamental elements thatanyone can implement–and it has a 90 percent success rate. Whether you’re a member of a board of directors looking for a newCEO, the owner of a small business searching for the right peopleto make your company grow, or a pare

In this absorbing tale, you watch the timeless principles ofservant leadership unfold through the story of John Daily, abusinessman whose outwardly successful life is spiraling out ofcontrol. He is failing miserably in each of his leadership roles asboss, husband, father, and coach. To get his life back on track, hereluctantly attends a weeklong leadership retreat at a remoteBenedictine monastery. To John's surprise, the monk leading the seminar is a formerbusiness executive and Wall Street legend. Taking John under hiswing, the monk guides him to a realization that is simple yetprofound: The true foundation of leadership is not power, butauthority, which is built upon relationships, love, service, andsacrifice. Along with John, you will learn that the principles in this bookare neither new nor complex. They don't demand special talents;they are simply based on strengthening the bonds of respect,responsibility, and caring with the people around you. Perhaps thisis why The Servant has touche

The degree to which markets incorporate information is one ofthe most important questions facing economists today. This bookprovides a fascinating study of the existence and extent ofinformation efficiency in financial markets, with a special focuson betting markets. Betting markets are selected for study becausethey incorporate features highly appropriate to a study ofinformation efficiency, in particular the fact that each bet has awell-defined end point at which its value becomes certain. Usinginternational examples, this book reviews and analyses the issue ofinformation efficiency in both financial and betting markets. PartI is an extensive survey of the existing literature, while Part IIpresents a range of readings by leading academics. Insights gainedfrom the book will interest students of financial economics,financial market analysts, mathematicians and statisticians, andall those with a special interest in finance or gambling.

You should worry about your legacy later in your career, atthe edge of retirement—right? Not according to Robert Galford andRegina Maruca. In Your Leadership Legacy, these authors argue thatthinking about your legacy now makes you a better leader today.Based on stories of top leaders who have shaped successful careers,the book explores the art of “legacy thinking,” helping you toformulate a legacy that will exert a positive effect on your workimmediately. The authors provide a disciplined approach to framingyour legacy, as well as shaping it over time. They start with theidea that your legacy is defined by how others approach work andlife as a result of having worked with you. They then demonstratehow to assess your current impact on those around you, strengthenthat impact, and pass along the best of yourself in the process.While many leaders “find themselves” and hone their workaccordingly only after a major life crisis, Your Leadership Legacyenables all leaders to craft their work and build

Twenty-five years ago, Herb Kelleher reinvented air travelwhen he founded Southwest Airlines, where the planes are paintedlike killer whales, a typical company maxim is "Hire people with asense of humor," and in-flight meals are never served--just sixtymillion bags of peanuts a year. By sidestepping "reengineering,""total quality management," and other management philosophies andemploying its own brand of business success, Kelleher's airline hasturned a profit for twenty-four consecutive years and seen itsstock soar 300 percent since 1990. Today, Southwest is the safest airline in the world and ranksnumber one in the industry for service, on-time performance, andlowest employee turnover rate; and Fortune magazine has twiceranked Southwest one of the ten best companies to work for inAmerica. How do they do it? With unlimited access to the people and inside documents ofSouthwest Airlines, authors Kevin and Jackie Freiberg share thesecrets behind the greatest success story in commercial aviation.Read it and d

This book explores the long-term forces shaping businessattitudes in the British and American cotton industries from theeighteenth to the twentieth century. Mary Rose traces social,political and developmental differences from the early stages ofindustrialization. She demonstrates how firms become embedded innetworks, and evolve according to business values and strategies.The book examines local and regional networks, the changingcompetitive environment, community characteristics and nationaldifferences. Rose's findings challenge traditional views with newevidence that the character and achievements of each industryuniquely reflect local circumstances and historical experience.This is a critical synthesis of the multidisciplinary literature onthe cotton textile industries of two major industrial nations and astudy of the changing forces influencing decision making. Animportant contribution to comparative business history, this bookwill be of interest to graduates and scholars in all areas ofbusiness and econo

Jim Camp, the world’s #1 negotiating coach, shows how torelease the emotional pressure that’s part of any negotiation byusing his proven system of safe, decision-based negotiation thatenables you to meet all your objectives without needless, wastedcompromises or giveaways. ? Out of the blue your best customer demands a huge discount—orelse he takes his business elsewhere. ? You think you finally have a buyer for your home, but then atthe last minute she demands that you pay for new landscaping of theyard—or no deal. There are plenty of other properties for sale, andshe says she’ll walk. ? Your son is having trouble in school, and you have to thinkabout how to deal with his “my way or the highway” teacher. When confronted with these—and innumerable other—day-to-daynegotiating challenges at work and in your personal life, mostpeople start to guess about how much they should give up incompromise to make the other side happy (“I’ll just meet themhalfw

A black swan is a highly improbable event with threeprincipal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries amassive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation thatmakes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. Theastonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. ForNassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything aboutour world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personallives. Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans untilafter they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is thathumans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focusedon generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and timeand time again fail to take into consideration what we don’t know.We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, toovulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, andnot open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the“impossible.” For years, Taleb has studie

Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is thefoundation of modern economic thought and remains the single mostimportant account of the rise of, and the principles behind, moderncapitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth ofNations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understandingof contemporary society; and Robert Reich's new Introduction forthis edition both clarifies Smith's analyses and illuminates hisoverall relevance to the world in which we live. As Reich writes,"Smith's mind ranged over issues as fresh and topical today as theywere in the late eighteenth century--jobs, wages, politics,government, trade, education, business, and ethics."

本书内容包括：洋务民用企业的“仿西国公司之例”、“官督”与“商办”的互动晚清“官督商办”公司机制的走向等。

It’s Never Too Late to Top Your Personal Best. Both a riveting account of a life spent pulling off improbabletriumphs and a report back from the front of the global-energy andnatural-resource wars, The First Billion Is the Hardest tells thestory of the remarkable late-life comeback that brought the famedoilman and maverick back from bankruptcy and clinical depression.Along the way, the man often called the “Oracle of Oil” shares theinsights that have made him a legend–and describes thebillion-dollar bets he is now making in hopes of securing America’senergy independence. “Sassy...breezes along...salted with earthyaphorisms.”—Bloomberg.com “Boone’s analysis of America’s energy situation is 100 percent onthe money....The country should listen to him–now!” —WarrenBuffett, chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway “Self-deprecating and audacious...overall, it’s decidedlyinformative about the machinations of business.” –Dallas MorningNews “A fas

Now in a striking new hardcover edition, Fooled by Randomnessis the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you thinkabout business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader,renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, andNew York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan–has written amodern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luckand skill. This book is about luck–or more precisely, about how we perceiveand deal with luck in life and business. Set against the backdropof the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken forskill–the world of trading–Fooled by Randomness providescaptivating insight into one of the least understood factors in allour lives. Writing in an entertaining narrative style, the authortackles major intellectual issues related to the underestimation ofthe influence of happenstance on our lives. The book is populated with an array of characters, some of whomhave grasped, in their own way, the significance

Management consultancy is a key sector in the economic changetoward a service and knowledge economy. This book explains themechanisms of the management consulting market and the managementof consulting firms from both economic and sociologicalperspectives. It also examines the strategies, marketingapproaches, knowledge management and human resource managementtechniques of consulting firms. After outlining the relationshipsbetween transaction cost economics, signaling theory, embeddednesstheory and sociological neoinstitutionalism, Thomas Armbrüsterapplies these theories to central questions such as: Why does theconsulting sector exist and grow? Which institutions connect supplyand demand? And which factors influence the relationship betweenclients and consultants? By applying both economic and sociologicalapproaches, the book explains the general economic changes of thepast thirty years and sharpens the relationship between theacademic disciplines.