#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One , legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself. Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system.
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On your rise to the top, hard work and experience areimportant, but they can take you only so far. To lead in yourindustry or profession, you must be ready to assume the leader'sspeaking role. In survey after survey, the number-one skilldetermined to be indispensable to leaders is communication. Mustyou be born with this talent, or can you learn how to command aroom? In Speak like a CEO Suzanne Bates proves that you don't have tobe a natural-born speaker to develop a compelling communicationstyle all your own. Whether you're in the corner office or the OvalOffice, at the dining room table or before an audience of millions,you'll find a blueprint to speak like a leader and get results. Notanother one-size-fits-all guide to better presentations or publicspeaking, Speak like a CEO is a sophisticated approach based on thephilosophy that successful leaders have their own uniquecommunication styles. Its self-assessments, exercises, andcustomizable self-improvement plans let you zero in on yourstrengths
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.
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.
At Harvard, social acceptance and success with the opposite sex had to be applied for. In the absence of family money or innate charisma, misfit and maths prodigy Eduardo Saverin dreamed of joining one of Harvard's elite Final clubs. His best friend, painfully shy computer genius Mark Zuckerberg, turned instead to his natural talents, hacking into the university's computer system to create a rateable database of every female student on campus. Narrowly escaping expulsion after 80% of Harvarda's population voted in just two hours, crashing the entire computer system, Mark and Eduardo together refocused the site into something less controversial - The Facebook - which spread like a wildfire across campuses around the country. Within months hundreds of thousands of college kids had signed up. Suddenly Eduardo and Mark were getting nods not just from the female population, but from venture capitalists too. It was then, amidst the dizzying levels of cash and the promise of unbelievable power, that the first cracks
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.
做到流血流汗，不如做對關鍵事?? 別當職場瞎忙族，再辛苦也輪不到你加薪?? 成功不必靠蠻力，趕緊效法聰明人事半功倍的秘訣?? 掌握沒被發現的關鍵小事，輕鬆取得大收穫！???成功不必靠豪賭，輕鬆工作也有好成果！???大膽創新並非是成功的**法門，許多減少浪費??創??好表現的改革，其實來自於換??角度思??，發現顯而易見的解方，只是許多人缺乏辨識出問題的眼光。本書會引導你找出那些低垂的果實，你不必冒險挑戰難關，只要做對小事，就能積少成多取得大收穫，達成亮眼的表現！???戳破辛苦工作的迷思，做對事才是關鍵！???管理學大師彼得．杜拉克（Peter Drucker）曾說：「天底下????意義的事，就是有效率地做????根本不用做的事??」本書會帶領你找出職場上不必要的流程，破解瞎忙族的困境，讓你能把時間與精力用在*有助於提昇表現的環節。專做對的事情，工
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
Experienced readers of Warren Buffett's letters to theshareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc have gained an enormouslyvaluable informal education. This book features letters thatdistill in plain words all the basic principles of sound businesspractices.
-Worth magazine "The most entertaining book written on investing isReminiscences of a Stock Operator, by Edwin Lefèvre, firstpublished in 1923." -The Seattle Times "After twenty years and many re-reads, Reminiscences is stillone of my all-time favorites." -Kenneth L. Fisher, Forbes "A must-read classic for all investors, whether brand-new orexperienced." -William O'Neil, founder and Chairman, Investor's BusinessDaily "Whilst stock market tomes have come and gone, this remainspopular and in print eighty years on." -GQ magazine First published in 1923, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator isthe most widely read, highly recommended investment book ever.Generations of readers have found that it has more to teach themabout markets and people than years of experience. This is atimeless tale that will enrich your life-and your portfolio.
Learn the basics of practical accounting easily and painlesslywith Accounting For Dummies, 4th Edition, which features newinformation on accounting methods and standards to keep you up todate. With this guide, you can avoid accounting fraud, minimizeconfusion, maximize profits, and make sense of accounting basicswith this plain-English guide to your accountant’s language.Understand how to manage inventory, report income and expenses forpublic or private companies, evaluate profit margins, analyzebusiness strengths and weaknesses, and manage budgets for a betterbottom line.
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. With his characteristic brass and smarts, Trump offers insights on how to invest wisely impres
This book is all about those moments when we "know" something without knowing why. Here Malcolm Gladwell. one of the world's most original thinkers, explores the phenomenon of the "blink", showing how a snap judgement can be far more effective than a cautious decision. By trusting your instincts, he reveals, you'll never think about thinking in the same way again....
