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 rything contains an intriguing story. What the Dog Saw is Gladwell at his very best - asking questions and seeking answers in his inimitable style.
Every day on the job, you face common challenges. And you needimmediate solutions to those challenges. The Pocket Mentor Seriescan help. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools,self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify yourstrengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you'reat your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable, conciseguides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work withspeed, savvy, and effectiveness. The latest volume in the series: Setting Goals Setting goals is a key part of any manager's job. Through goalsetting, you define business outcomes that you and your team willaccomplish collectively and individually. Managed effectively, thegoal-setting process creates a long-term vision that motivates youand your employees to reach even the most challengingobjectives. Use this book to start setting goals more skillfully in yourgroup. You?ll find a wealth of suggestions to help you: -Define unit and individual go
Why is Japan, a country that looked economically invincible a decade ago stagnating, while long-moribund Ireland booms? What qualities will insure the continued dominance in the new millennium of U.S. culture, society and business? In The Global Me, The Wall Street Journal's G. Pascal Zachary provides a provocative roadmap to the new civilization arising out of sweeping shifts in the world economy. He reveals—through vivid examples of individuals and institutions—that the key new determinants for economic, political and cultural success are, surprisingly, national diversity and a "mongrel" sense of self. Roaming the globe, Zachary shows how the rise of new forms of identity and migration are helping to determine exactly who will win and lose in the next century. Zachary's thesis isn't just about countries, but about individuals, too. In his tour of a new global civilization, we meet a fascinating gallery of characters who possess an intriguing mix of "roots" and "wings." Strong enough to know who they are
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in coommon? Why do drug dealers still live with their mums? How much do parents really matter? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life - from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing - and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book:Freakonomics 作者简介 Steveb D. Levitt teaches economics at the University of Chicago. He recently received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every two years to the best American economist under forty. Stephen J. Dubner live
Old Europe’s new crisis. Europe, the charming continent of windmills and gondolas. Butlately, Europe has become the continent of endless strikes anddemonstrations, bombs on the trains and subways, radical Islamiccells in every city, and ghettos so hopeless and violent even thepolice won’t enter them. In Spain, a terrorist attack promptsinstant capitulation to the terrorists’ demands. In France, thesuburbs go up in flames every night. In Holland, politicians andartists are murdered for speaking frankly about Islamicimmigration. This isn’t the Europe we thought we knew. What’s going on overthere? Traveling overland from London to Istanbul, journalist ClaireBerlinski shows why the Continent has lately appeared sobewildering—and often so thoroughly obnoxious—to Americans.Speaking to Muslim immigrants, German rock stars, French cops, andItalian women who have better things to do than have children, shefinds that Europe is still, despite everything, in the grip of thesame old
作者水皮，知名财经评论家，是财经新闻界的元老级人物，紧跟中国经济潮流二十余载。擅长以新闻手法解读经济方略，其专栏“水皮杂谈”拥有众多忠实读者，致力于为读者解读股市发展动向。本书以“风”为线索，记录了水皮在新一轮市场载浮载沉中的心路历程，是沉浸中国股市20余年经验积累的精华展现。 “风”来去无踪，却既有摧毁一切、又有催生万物的力量。跟水皮读懂股市之风，选时不如选势，不再被市场驾驭，成为市场的主宰者。
It's not more money, bigger offices, better benefts, or flextime. Recent surveys reveal that the number one reason employees quit their jobs is that theydon't feel valued on a human level. Growing employment opportunities and the lure of Internet companies have brought this problem to near crisis level. Now, Dottie Gandy, a former regional director with the Franklin Covey Company, provides a simple, principle-based solution that will work to solve the problem in any business. In this clear, straightfoward book, she gives us a step-by-step plan that managers can implement immediately and which yields compelling results, including:
本书是作者对原书作了全面修订，一是增补了近几年研究新制度经济学的成果；二是增加了西方新制度经济学的新内容，并对初版一些的地方作了修改。本书关于新制度经济学的框架是作者在研究新制度经济学文献的基础上构建的，这个框架可能不完善，但它较好地反映了当代新制度经济学的基本面貌，适合在校大学生、研究生和其他对新制度经济学感兴趣的读者参阅。
什么样的投资环境风险？ 什么样的买点安全性最高？ 什么样的股票上涨潜力？ 祖良老师凭借十多年的投资实践经验，助您快速提高炒股赢面！ 《交易：揭秘市场语言和板块轮动规律》主要从大势研判、板块取舍及个股选择三方面展开学习，不仅系统介绍了分析、操作方法，而且落实到细节，对投资过程中的疑难困惑做了精辟的解答。 通过《交易：揭秘市场语言和板块轮动规律》的学习，将使您掌握判断市场、捕捉热点和选股汰股的专业技能，丰富和补充自己的炒股体系，逐渐成为一名理性的、合格的投资者，在风险市场有效控
赵景波编著的《荒漠化与防治教程(普通高等教育规划教材)》主要包括荒漠化地区的自然环境、风蚀荒漠化、水蚀荒漠化、蒸发盐渍荒漠化、石漠化和亚热带的红土退化、冻融荒漠化、生物动力荒漠化和荒漠化监测与评价，共十章内容。在各类荒漠化动力类型中，主要包括了荒漠化的分布、发生动力、条件、影响因素、形成的地表景观和物质组成类型、等级划分、治理技术与措施等。《荒漠化与防治教程(普通高等教育规划教材)》吸收了国内外新的研究成果，增加了生物动力荒漠化新类型，区分了荒漠化的动力和第二动力，内容全面系统。 本书为大专院校本科生教材，也可作为研究生教材，并可供地理、生态、水土保持、农牧业与环境科学研究人员和大专院校教师参考。
Created in 1959, Amway has had an integralpart in shaping and improving the lives and lifestyles of millions of people around the world. Not just a business, but an opportunity for personal success and achievement, it 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.With provo cative insights, into the first four decades of Amway,this valuable book shows where the company satnds at the dawn of the nes millennium——and how it will continue to move forward in the twenty-first century. In addition to the actual history of Amway,you'll read the uplifting stories of people around the world whose lives have been totally transformed by its philosophy-astonishing accounts of personal success that will motuvate you to improve your own life by
Every day on the job, you face common challenges. And you needimmediate solutions to those challenges. The Pocket Mentor Seriescan help. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools,self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify yourstrengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you'reat your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable, conciseguides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work withspeed, savvy, and effectiveness. The latest volume in the series: Executing Strategy That strategy you've defined for your group isbrilliant--promising better market share, higher profits, or someother impressive business result. But your strategy won't deliverthe expected outcomes if you and your group don't execute itthatis, if you don't put it into action by implementing the rightstrategic initiatives. This volume helps you master the challenging art of strategyexecution. You'll learn how to: -Craft action plans for the strategic initiatives
本书是作者对原书作了全面修订，一是增补了近几年研究新制度经济学的成果；二是增加了西方新制度经济学的新内容，并对初版一些的地方作了修改。本书关于新制度经济学的框架是作者在研究新制度经济学文献的基础上构建的，这个框架可能不完善，但它较好地反映了当代新制度经济学的基本面貌，适合在校大学生、研究生和其他对新制度经济学感兴趣的读者参阅。
《资产证券化与结构化金融：金融的极限》是我目前见过的、少有的结合资本市场与商业银行业务的著作。看完《资产证券化与结构化金融：金融的极限》之后，我发现作者确实对商业银行业务有过扎实的学习与研究。当然，由于作者没有真正从事过商业银行业务，隔行如隔山，对商业银行的一些观点难免有些偏差。然而，资本市场的投资银行人员如此费心研究商业银行业务，确实让我产生了思考。这或许正是中国金融业混业经营趋势的外在体现。商业银行的从业人员也需要认真研究资本市场的业务了。
In the summer of 2003, the New York Times Magazine sent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded young economist at the University of Chicago. Levitt was not remotely interested in the things that interest most economists. More... Instead, he studied the riddles of everyday lifefrom cheating to crime to child-rearingand his conclusions turned the conventional wisdom on its head. For instance, he argued that one of the main causes of the crime drop of the 1990s was the legalization of abortion twenty years earlier. (Unwanted children have a greater likelihood of becoming criminals; with so many unwanted children being aborted in the 1970s, the pool of potential criminals had significantly shrunk by the 1990s.) The Times article yielded an unprecedented response, a deluge of interest from thousands of curious, inspired, and occasionally distraught readers. Levitt and Dubner collaborated on a book that gives full play to Levitts most compelling ideas.
