Welcome to the world of high-powered investment banking. Please check your soul at the door. Meet John and Peter, two young business school graduates, grabbing their chance to become lords of the investment universe, as they run willingly into the open arms of one of Wall Street's giants, DLJ. Frustrated foot soldiers in a designer white-collar army, the two find themselves embedded in the strata of overworked and overlooked lemmings furiously trying to spin straw into gold. It's a high-stakes pressure cooker fueled by 20-hour days, inflated salaries, senseless prospects, outlandish characters, and strip club lap dances. Suddenly, escaping with their sanity seems like the wisest investment of all -- if it's still on the market.

A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. Aninternational conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprisingscientific revolution. Albert-László Barabási, the nation'sforemost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on anintellectual adventure to prove that social networks, corporations,and living organisms are more similar than previously thought.Grasping a full understanding of network science will someday allowus to design blue-chip businesses, stop the outbreak of deadlydiseases, and influence the exchange of ideas and information. Justas James Gleick brought the discovery of chaos theory to thegeneral public, Linked tells the story of the true science of thefuture.

Brian Tracy is one of the world's leading authorities on success and personal achievement, addressing more than 100,000 men and women each year in public and private seminars. In Maximum Achievement, he gives you a powerful, proven system -- based on twenty-five years of research and practice -- that you can apply immediately to get better results in every area of your life. You learn ideas, concepts, and methods used by high-achieving people in every field everywhere. You learn how to unlock your individual potential for personal greatness. You will immediately become more positive, persuasive, and powerfully focused in everything you do. Many of the more than one million graduates of the seminar program upon which this book is based have dramatically increased their income and improved their lives in every respect. The step-by-step blueprint for success and achievement presented in these pages includes proven principles drawn from psychology, religion, philosophy, business, economics, politics

Think about the most powerful speech you’ve ever heard aleader give. What made that speech–and that speaker–memorable waslikely a mix of authenticity, stage presence, masterful delivery,and–above all–an inspirational message. Nobody ever walked out of a great speech saying, “I loved the wayshe used PowerPoint.” Yet, all too often, speakers rely on toolslike it to carry them through a presentation. Real leaders speak to make a difference, to promote a vision, tochange the way people think and feel and act. Their ability to leadgoes hand in hand with their ability to get their message across,no matter what size audience they’re addressing. Drawing on hisyears of experience in coaching executives, Christopher Witt showsnot just how to make a speech but why and when you should make one.His practical advice on how to take your game to the next levelincludes: ? You are the message. Who you are–your character, experience,values–shapes the message your listeners hear.

The LNCS series reports state-of-the-art results in computer science research, development, and education, at a high level and in both printed and electronic form. Enjoying tight cooperation with the R&D community,with numerous individuals, as well as with prestigious organizations and societies, LNCS has grown into the most comprehensive computer science research forum available. The scope of LNCS, including its subseries LNAI, spans the whole range of computer science and information technology including interdisciplinary topics in a variety of application fields. The type of material published traditionally includes - proceedings (published in time for the respective conference) - post-proceedings (consisting of thoroughly revised final full papers) - research m0nographs (which may be based on outstanding PhD work,research projects, technical reports, etc.)

Make the ultimate teenage success guide part of your life every daySean Covey's "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens" has helped hundreds of thousands of teens find a path toward success and personal fulfilment. Now, with "Daily Reflections for Highly Effective Teens, " comes a book that will inspire teens to understand, appreciate, and internalize the power of the 7 Habits. With this day-by-day success guide, teenagers will learn how to improve their self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, make important decisions, and live healthier, more self-confident lives. Packed with great quotes, excellent ideas, and inspiration, Sean Covey's warm, insightful, and humorous guide gives teens a road map for surviving and thriving in adolescence and beyond.

What is that makes urban myths so persistent but many everydaytruths so eminently forgettable? How do newspapers set aboutensuring that their headlines make you want to read on? And why dowe remember complicated stories but not complicated facts? In thecourse of over ten years of study, Chip and Dan Heath haveestablished what it is that determines whether particular ideas orstories stick in our minds or not, and "Made to Stick" is thefascinating outcome of their painstaking research.Packed full ofcase histories and thought-provoking anecdotes, it shows, amongother things, how one Australian scientist convinced the world he'ddiscovered the cause of stomach ulcers by drinking a glass filledwith bacteria, how a gifted sports reporter got people to watch afootball match by showing them the outside of the stadium, and howhigh-concept pitches such as 'Jaws on a spaceship' ("Alien") and'Die Hard on a bus' ("Speed") convince movie executives to investvast sums of money in a project on the basis of almost noinformati

From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever.

Paco Underhill, the Margaret Mead of shopping and author of the huge international bestseller Why We Buy, now takes us to the mall, a place every American has experienced and has an opinion about. The result is a bright, ironic, funny, and shrewd portrait of the mall -- America's gift to personal consumption, its most powerful icon of global commercial muscle, the once new and now aging national town square, the place where we convene in our leisure time. It's about the shopping mall as an exemplar of our commercial and social culture, the place where our young people have their first taste of social freedom and where the rest of us compare notes. Call of the Mall examines how we use the mall, what it means, why it works when it does, and why it sometimes doesn't.

Do you remember where the deed to your house is, what you paidfor the painting hanging over your mantle, where your lifeinsurance documents are? Have you photographed your belongings?Have you thought through your estate planning? Does anyone knowwhat to do if something happens to you? Does everyone know whatyour wishes are? Life Organizer: The Essential Record Keeper Estate Planneris the perfect place for storing all essential information, andfinding lots of personal planning advice. Learn how an estate planis, well…planned, and what you need to get started. In one handylocation, find reader-friendly explanations, definitions, tips,worksheets and storage space for everything you need to organizeyour wishes and assets, and get on with your life! Nancy Randolph Greenyway, the extraordinary co-author of Pass itOn: A Practical Approach to the Fears and Facts of Planning YourEstate (Hyperion), combines clear and friendly prose with legalexpertise to make Life Organizer the definitive resourc

In the business world, confrontations are inevitable --whether they're with your employees, peers, bosses, or evensuppliers and customers. Ignored or handled badly, confrontationscan damage workplace relationships and ruin careers. This volume helps you master the art of effectively managingdifficult interactions. You'll learn how to: Determine which confrontations are worth an investment of yourtime and energy Understand and manage the strong emotions that can arise duringconfrontations Design solutions that meet all stakeholders' needs Coach your direct reports to resolve confrontationsproductively

Since Peter Senge published his groundbreaking book The FifthDiscipline, he and his associates have frequently been asked by thebusiness community: "How do we go beyond the first steps ofcorporate change? How do we sustain momentum?" They know thatcompanies and organizations cannot thrive today without learning toadapt their attitudes and practices. But companies that establishchange initiatives discover, after initial success, that even themost promising efforts to transform or revitalizeorganizations--despite interest, resources, and compelling businessresults--can fail to sustain themselves over time. That's becauseorganizations have complex, well-developed immune systems, aimed atpreserving the status quo. Now, drawing upon new theories about leadership and the long-termsuccess of change initiatives, and based upon twenty-fiveyears of experience building learning organizations, the authors of TheFifth Discipline Fieldbook show how to accelerate success and avoidthe obstacles that can stall momentum. The

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A Harvard Business Review Book. Widely acknowledged as theworld's foremost authority on leadership, John Kotter has devotedhis remarkable career to studying organizations and those who runthem, and his bestselling books and essays have guided and inspiredleaders at all levels. Here, in this collection of his acclaimedHarvard Business Review articles, is an astute assessment of thereal work of leaders, as only John Kotter can offer. To complementthe HBR articles, Kotter also contributes a new piece, a thoughtfulreflection on the themes that have developed throughout his work.Convinced that most organizations today lack the leadership theyneed, Kotter's mission is to help us better understand whatleaders--real leaders--do. True leadership, he reminds us, is anelusive quality, and too often we confuse management duties andpersonal style with leadership, or even mistake unworthy leadersfor the real thing. Yet without leadership, organizations move tooslowly, stagnate, and lose their way. With John Kotter on What

With a new Afterword by the author and a new Foreword by MarkCuban In this commanding big-picture analysis of what went wrong incorporate America, Alex Berenson, a top financial investigativereporter for The New York Times, examines the common threadconnecting Enron, Worldcom, Halliburton, Computer Associates, Tyco,and other recent corporate scandals: the cult of the number. Every three months, 14,000 publicly traded companies report salesand profits to their shareholders. Nothing is more important inthese quarterly announcements than earnings per share, the lodestarthat investors—and these days, that’s most of us—use to judge thehealth of corporate America. earnings per share is the number forwhich all other numbers are sacrificed. It is the distilled truthof a company’s health. Too bad it’s often a lie. Alex Berenson’s The Number provides a comprehensiv, brutallyfactual overview of how Wall Street and corporate America losttheir way during the great bull market tha

Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf. Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the competition. The truth is, you need less than you think. You don't need to be a workaholic. You don't need to staff up. You don't need to waste time on paperwork or meetings. You don't even need an office. Those are all just excuses. What you really need to do is stop talking and start working. This book shows you the way. You'll learn how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and tons more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you. With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who’s ever dreamed of doing i

Ride your personal brand to the highest level in yourfield! About the Book Steve Jobs did it at Apple. Indra Nooyi did it at Pepsi. AlanMulally did it at Ford Motor Company. What did these business leaders do exactly? They brought veryreal, positive change to their organizations by using their uniqueCEO brand. Now, executive coach Suzanne Bates explains how you canexert the same kind of influence at your company. Discover Your CEO Brand provides the insight, knowledge, andtools you need to discover your own personal CEO style and thendevelop it into a powerful presence that extends beyond yourtypical spheres of influence. Bates walks you through the processstep by step, teaching you ways to increase your visibility andinfluence by combining traditional self-branding vehicles like PRand face-to-face networking with new social-media platforms,including Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. No two sets of values, principles, vision, and skills—thefoundation of every successful CEO

Make a Mint by Mail Order! Sellcomputers, vitamins, clothing, or gourmet foods. Create and sellnewsletters on almost any topic. Make and sell your favorite artsand crafts. Would you like to join the booming mail-order business?You can! Bestselling author Ty Hicks shows you how. Youdon’t need a lot of money, years of experience, or a collegeeducation—just a mailing address and the desire to deliver productsand services quickly for the best value your customers can get. TyHicks explains in clear, easy steps how to start your mail-orderbusiness today, including: ·Getting started quickly and easily ·Creating an e-commerce Web site to promote and sell yourproducts or services directly ·Using proven marketing and promotion strategies ·Carving niche markets with unusual products and services ·Expanding your business for maximum profitability ·And much, much more!

Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around theworld before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observationrings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and boguspublic-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people withimportant ideas–business people, teachers, politicians,journalists, and others–struggle to make their ideas “stick.” Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improvethe chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick , accomplishededucators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-onthese vexing questions. Inside, the brothers Heath reveal theanatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideasstickier, such as applying the “human scale principle,” using the“Velcro Theory of Memory,” and creating “curiosity gaps.” In this indispensable guide, we discover that sticky messages ofall kinds–from the infamous “kidney theft ring” hoax to a coach’slessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new p

“Applicants looking for the competitive edge in gettingaccepted at the business school of their choice may want to perusethis book.” –Security Traders Handbook Every year, thousands apply for a finite number of places inbusiness schools. With similar grades, backgrounds, and goals,sometimes the only thing that can make an applicant stand out isthe application essay. It’s the best chance you have to shine andtip the balance in your favor. Essays That Worked for Business Schools shows that the bestessays are brief, sincere, and personal. Some are off the wall,some are bold, all are unique to their creator. One applicantwrites about starting his own airline. Another tells about thecorruption in his job as a defense contractor. And a third reflectson his license plate. From the thousands submitted each year, theforty essays in this book were considered some of the best byadmissions officers at the nation’s top business schools. As thiscollection demonstrates, with creativity and effor

Seventy percent of all IT projects fail—and scores of bookshave attempted to help firms measure and manage IT systems andprocesses better in order to turn this figure around In this book,IT experts Peter D. Weill and Jeanne W. Ross argue that the realreason IT fails to deliver value is that companies have no formalsystem in place for guiding and monitoring IT decisions. Theirresearch shows that firms with explicit IT governance systems havetwice the profit of firms with poor governance, given the samestrategic objectives. Just as corporate governance systems aim toensure quality decisions about corporate assets, the authors show,companies need IT governance systems to ensure that IT investmentsare made wisely and effectively.