Winnerofthe2010PulitzerPrize "Amagisterialwork...Youcan'thelpthinkingabouttheeconomiccrisiswe'relivingthroughnow."--TheNewYorkTimesBookReview ItiscommonlybelievedthattheGreatDepressionthatbeganin1929resultedfromaconfluenceofeventsbeyondanyoneperson'sorgovernment'scontrol.Infact,asLiaquatAhamedreveals,itwasthedecisionsmadebyasmallnumberofcentralbankersthatweretheprimarycauseofthateconomicmeltdown,theeffectsofwhichsetthestageforWorldWarIIandreverberatedfordecades.Asyetanotherperiodofeconomicturmoilmakesheadlinestoday,LordsofFinanceisapotentreminderoftheenormousimpactthatthedecisionsofcentralbankerscanhave,theirfallibility,andtheterriblehumanconsequencesthatcanresultwhentheyarewrong.
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“The invaluable advice in How to Wow guarantees your successin any meeting situation, from the boardroom to the breakfasttable.” –Keith Ferrazzi, author of Never Eat Alone In today’s fast-paced world, where an elevator ride with your CEOcan turn into an impromptu meeting, your lunch date can become ajob interview, and your conversation at a cocktail party may be apreamble to a potential business merger, knowing how to marketyourself in any situation is vital. Corporate coach Frances ColeJones has helped numerous CEOs, celebrities, and publicpersonalities present their best selves on camera and onstage, inboardrooms and in person; now in her new book, How to Wow, sheshares her strategies for making your mark in business and inlife. Every encounter, Jones believes, provides you with an opportunityto positively influence colleagues, employers, neighbors–evencompetitors. Not only your words, but your tone of voice and yourbody language speak volumes. The question, however, is: A
Good reading isn’t just about knowing the words. It’s about being able to understand what is being read and putting it to use. This fully updated edition of Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day guides the reader throughout the specific techniques of reading comprehension—from extracting the main ideas to "reading between the lines"—in an easy 20-step program. Each step takes just twenty minutes a day. This book is for anyone preparing to take a job-related exam that tests for reading comprehension skills. Included is a "Before and After" score-yourself test, to diagnose strengths and weaknesses and chart your progress.
Six Pixels of Separation is the first book to unify the concepts of Personal Branding, Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship in a clear, fun and provocative manner. By using extraordinary case studies, this book offers a complete set of tools, tactics and insights to empower individuals to reach a global audience and consumer base with a few clicks of the mouse, and almost all of them for free. Digital marketing expert Mitch Joel unravels the fascinating world of new marketing, with a brand new perspective. Entrepreneurs are leveraging the digital channels to get their voices out there, connecting to similar others, becoming better community citizens and, ultimately, making more money and rocketing their personal and business lives into the stratosphere. The trick is, Personal Brands are becoming bigger than corporate brands--and in Six Pixels of Separation, readers will begin to understand how and why certain entrepreneurs have mastered the internet to propel their businesses. 作者简介：Mitch Joel
Practical techniques show you how to form realistic ambitions,develop your skills, and achieve your objectives. Learn all you need to know to make the most of your potential atwork, from setting goals to developing the determination, energy,and skills required to achieve them. Achieving Excellence not onlyshows you how to network effectively and make the most of yourtime, but also provides practical techniques for improving yourmemory, sharpening mental agility, thinking creatively, andreducing stress. Power tips help you to overcome every obstacle inthe quest to fulfill your ambitions and achieve success in theworkplace. The Essential Manager have sold more than 1.9 millioncopies worldwide! Experienced and novice managers alike can benefitfrom these compact guides that slip easily into a briefcase or aportfolio. The topics are relevant to every work environment, fromlarge corporations to small businesses. Concise treatments ofdozens of business techniques, skills, methods, and problems arepresen
The third edition of this highly accessible book is designedfor people who want to understand how multinational firms work andwhat their consequences for the economy and for political choicesare. It is designed to be readily useful to students of economicsand business administration and to scholars (teachers andresearchers) with interests in multinational enterprises.
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Is Your Job Making You “Stupid”? Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations , once wrote that aperson who spends his life performing the same repetitive tasks“generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for ahuman creature to become.” Wow! Now that’s not a pretty picture.Unfortunately, much of our work today consists of those boring,repetitive tasks. But maybe you’re one of the many who have gotten caught up inthinking work is just something you do to support your weekends.Work is that necessary evil, a means to an end, or just a cursefrom God. You probably take your role of providing for yourself andthose depending on you seriously. But you don’t expect to enjoyyour work—you just do what has to be done. Only now you’re seeing that even loyalty and dependability bringno guarantees. Lately you’ve seen coworkers who have been let goafter years of faithful service. Perhaps your entire industryhasbeen shaken by outsourcing or changing technology. Mayb
Managing Projects Large and Small: The Fundamental Skills forDelivering on Cost and On TimeWhen it comes to project management,success lies in the details. This book walks managers through everystep of project oversight from start to finish. Thanks to thebook's comprehensive information on everything from planning andbudgeting to team building and after-project reviews, managers willmaster the discipline and skills they need to achieve stellarresults without wasting time and money.The Harvard BusinessEssentials series is for managers at all levels but is especiallyrelevant for new managers. It offers on-the-spot guidance,coaching, and tools on the most relevant topics in business. Eachbook includes the critical information that managers need on agiven topic-from budgeting to hiring to communication tostrategy-and offers interactive tools and worksheets that translateadvice into action. Providing ready answers to day-to-day issues,these guides make sound, trusted mentoring advice availablewhenever manag
You know it's happening within your organization. Your people, armed with cheap, accessible technology, are connecting with customers and building innovative new solutions. But who are these creative problem-solvers? How can you be one? And just as important--how can you lead them? We call them HEROes: highly empowered and resourceful operatives. Your company needs them because in the age of Twitter, iPhones, Facebook, YouTube, and an ever-evolving torrent of Web information, your customers now come to the table armed with more data and access than ever before, and in many cases, your company is overmatched. In Empowered, Forrester's Josh Bernoff--coauthor of the pioneering book Groundswell--and Ted Schadler explain how to transform your company by unleashing the mighty force of these HEROes. Like John Bernier and Ben Hedrington at Best Buy, who built an army of 2,500 tweeting employees to reach out to customers online. Or Ross Inglis, who tapped into Internet computing resources to open an entirely new
The unconscious sprang to the attention of the West a hundredyears ago, and we are still struggling to absorb its full impact.It was one thing to understand the concept, to see it and believeit, but another to live with it, to take in fully its challenge toour deepest cultural assumptions. Today, as we expand ourunderstanding of its reach, we are still coming to grips with whatit means. This “new unconscious” is driven by the identities weassume, the groups we belong to, the ideas we inherit, thelanguages we use–all the elements that provide meaning andstructure to our world. What You Don’t Know You Know is about this emergentunderstanding, and how it forces us to rethink our relationshipswith each other as well as our beliefs about what it means to be aperson, to have a self. It is for all those who want a betterunderstanding of the complexity of human motivation, whether as anexecutive faced with employees resisting change, an electedofficial trying to forge agreements among competing i
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
Even the actions of a single person can help to change theworld. How? Through simple acts of leadership and compassion. Openup this book, and discover the true stories of people whose actionshave caused a chain reaction at work and in their communities.Among them: A manager who gives an employee some supportive praise, and as aresult literally saves his life (page 231). A small group of bank tellers who spearhead a movement to raisemillions of dollars for breast cancer, making it the biggestfundraiser in North America, and enhancing their company’sreputation (page 213). A sales manager who gets a copy of a groundbreaking book that leadsto a transformation of the company’s operations. As a result,hundreds of millions of pounds of carpet waste avoid the landfill,and the company sparks a revolution in its industry (page 12).
American capitalism is in dire straits, caught in a perilouspattern of increasing volatility, decreasing investor returns, andongoing bad behavior by executives. And it's getting worse. Sincethe turn of the twenty-first century, we've seen two massivevalue-destroying market meltdowns and a string of ethics breaches,including accounting scandals, options-backdating schemes, and thesubprime mortgage debacle. Just what is going on here? Is it theinevitable decline of the American economy? Is it the new normal ina technology-enabled global marketplace? Or is it possible that thevery theories we've embraced to underpin our capital markets areactually producing these crises? In "Fixing the Game", Roger Martinreveals the culprit behind the sorry state of American capitalism:our deep and abiding commitment to the idea that the purpose of thefirm is to maximize shareholder value. This theory has led to amassive growth in stock-based compensation for executives and,through this, to a naive and wrongheaded linkin
J. K. Rowling’s novels about Harry Potter and the HogwartsSchool of Witchcraft and Wizardry have captured the imaginations ofpeople everywhere. In If Harry Potter Ran General Electric,bestselling business author Tom Morris (If Aristotle Ran GeneralMotors) uncovers the values and timeless truths that underlieRowling’s hugely popular books and illuminates the lessons theyoffer to all of us in our careers and daily lives. But, you say, Harry Potter lives in a world of magic. What can wepossibly learn to apply to our own careers and everyday lives?Morris shows that the most difficult problems Harry and his friendsface are rarely solved by the use of magic alone. Rather, they areconquered by intelligence, reasoning, determination, creativity,friendship, and a host of other classic virtues–the very qualities,in fact, that make for success in every aspect of our lives. Blending an array of provocative examples from the novels withthought-provoking commentary on contemporary management practi
