ThePrinceisoftenregardedasthefirsttrueleadershipbook.Itshockedcontemporaryreaderswithitsruthlesscallforfearlessandeffectiveaction.Withsimpleproseandstraightforwardlogic,Machiavelli'sguidestillhasthepowertosurpriseandinformanyonehopingtomaketheirwayintheworld. ThiskeepsakeeditionincludesanintroductionbyTomButler-Bowdon,drawingoutlessonsformanagersandbusinessleaders,andshowinghowThePrinceremainsvitalreadingforanyoneintherealmofbusinessorpolitics.

This updated paperback edition of Inside the House of Money lifts the veil on the typically opaque world of hedge funds offering a rare glimpse at how today's highest paid money managers approach their craft. Now with new commentary, author, Steve Drobny takes you even further into the hedge fund industry. He demystifies how these star traders make billions for their well-heeled investors, revealing their theories, strategies and approaches to markets. Whereas some still maintain that rationality permeates financial markets, Drobny captures a different dimension, showing how the unquantifiable human forces of emotion and intuition are also at play. Along the way, readers get an inside look at firsthand trading experiences through some of the major world financial crises of the last few decades including tragedies such as September 11th. Whether Russian bonds, Pakistani stocks, Southeast Asian currencies or stakes in African brewing companies, no market or instrument is out of bounds for these elite glo

Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties,showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-termsustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of anenterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? Howcan good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieveenduring greatness?

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Tips, techniques, and trends on harnessing dashboardtechnology to optimize business performance. In Performance Dashboards, Second Edition, author Wayne Eckersonexplains what dashboards are, where they can be used, and why theyare important to measuring and managing performance. As Director ofResearch for The Data Warehousing Institute, a worldwideassociation of business intelligence professionals, Eckersoninterviewed dozens of organizations that have built various typesof performance dashboards in different industries and lines ofbusiness. Their practical insights explore how you can effectivelyturbo-charge performance–management initiatives with dashboardtechnology. Includes all-new case studies, industry research, news chapterson "Architecting Performance Dashboards" and "Launching andManaging the Project" and updated information on designing KPIs,designing dashboard displays, integrating dashboards, and types ofdashboards. Provides a solid foundation for understanding per

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The international bestseller The Toyota Way explained thecompany's success by introducing a revolutionary 4P model fororganizational excellence-Philosophy, People, Process, and ProblemSolving. Now, in Toyota Culture, preeminent Toyota authoritiesJeffrey Liker and Michael Hoseus reveal how Toyota selects,develops, and motivates its people to become committed to buildinghigh-quality products-and how you can do the same for yourcompany. Toyota Culture examines the ?human systems? that Toyota has putin place to instill its founding principles of trust, mutualprosperity, and excellence in its plants, dealerships, and officesaround the world. Beginning with a look at the evolution of theToyota culture and why its people are the heart and soul of theToyota Way, the authors explain the company's four-stage processfor building and keeping quality people: Attract, Develop, Engage,and Inspire. Drawing upon numerous examples from Liker's decades of researchas well as Hoseus' insider access as a Toyota

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Taking Brand Initiative offers a revolutionary approach tocorporate branding that looks beyond the marketing value of brandscompany–to–customer and the HR significance of brandscompany–to–employee. It places the management of brands at thesenior level of management as it radiates throughout theorganization. In this groundbreaking book, international brandingthought leaders, Mary Jo Hatch and Make Schultz explain how acompany′s brand is just as important to ?outsiders??politicians,suppliers, and analysts as it is to company insiders. They show howonly the corporate brand can integrate all the company′s stafffunctions and provide a vision for competition andglobalization.