With major financial scandals popping up in greaternumbers—and with more inevitably on the way—it has never been moreimportant for you to understand what dishonest companies do totrick investors. Since the early 1990s, FinancialShenanigans has been helping investors unearth deceptivefinancial reporting at the most critical time— before they suffermajor losses. Now, the third edition broadens its focus to include thenewest, most sophisticated techniques companies use to misleadinvestors.

In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability. Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles, this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by: Eliminating wasted time and resources； Building quality into workplace systems； Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology； Producing in small quantities； Turning every employee into a qualitycontrol inspector.

Kessler, bestselling author of Running Money, made his fortune speculating on Silicon Valley. Now he turns his nose for new technology to medicine. Will the same advances that revolutionized computers ripple through hospitals, changing how health care works? Kessler interviews doctors, technicians, radiologists and the businessmen behind technology in medicine. Advances in radiology—which encompasses all the ways we peek inside our bodies, from X-rays to MRIs—are beginning to make our hospitals look like Star Trek. New scanners can provide a high-resolution, three-dimensional image of the heart and allow doctors to spot blockages. Computer-aided diagnostic software is slowly replacing radiologists in looking for cancer in mammograms. But HMOs, lawsuits and patients' desire for personal care may prevent these new techniques from ever being used. As Kessler asks, "What if the future was here with no one to pay for it?" Kessler has a raconteur's ability to entertain, and his outsider's view of medicine is fa

Manage the risk and maximize the reward! Risk. It's what business is all about. The key to success is toanticipating and managing the risks that can impact business. TheComplete Idiot's Guide(r) to Risk Management provides the keyinformation necessary to manage business risk successfully. ?The basic categories of business risk ?How to indentify the specific factors that affect any particularbusiness ?How to create practical risk models to plan ahead ?How to lessen the impact of risk events should they happen ?How to profit from strategic risk taking

Why do good teams fail? Very often, argue Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman, it is because they are looking inward instead of outward. Based on years of research examining teams across many industries, Ancona and Bresman show that traditional team models are falling short, and that what's needed - and what works - is a new brand of team that emphasizes external outreach to stakeholders, extensive ties, expandable tiers, and flexible membership. The authors highlight that X-teams not only are able to adapt in ways that traditional teams aren't, but that they actually improve an organization's ability to produce creative ideas and execute them - increasing the entrepreneurial and innovative capacity within the firm. What's more, the new environment demands what the authors call "distributed leadership," and the book highlights how X-teams powerfully embody this idea.

Zigzag Your Way to Success! Have you ever set your sights onthe top of a mountain and then started your ascent by headingstraight through the trees and up the sheer cliffs? Or driven inyour car to the other side of town--as the crow flies? Of coursenot! Because you instinctively know that, just as a river has towend its way around obstacles, the best route is never actually astraight line! In The Zigzag Principle, Rich Christiansen applies afoundational law of nature to business management,entrepreneurship, goal-setting, and life in general as he exploreswhy zigzagging toward our intended outcomes is more effective thantrying to bulldoze our way through whatever stands between us andour objectives. Christiansen helps you get started, make your wayover the big hill to initial profitability, and minimize risksalong the way. A s the head of well-established corporations and asthe brains behind numerous start-ups, Christiansen has been throughit all, and he's charted all the zigs and zags you'll encounter. InThe

The succession of crises facing the U.S. economy in 2008 and 2009 have thrown a bright spotlight on Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. Each of his moves to address the disastrous economic conditions are reported and analyzed at length in the press as he works to mitigate the effects of the sub-prime lending debacle and resulting credit crisis. Bernanke is undergoing a stern test as America's central banker — a test created for him, in large part, by his predecessor, Alan Greenspan. This new paperback edition of Bernanke’s Test is completely updated with events through the end of 2009. As such, it's among the most valuable and up-to-the-minute works on Bernanke's career as Fed chair published to date, making it an essential look at the central figure shaping the recovery of the U.S. and world economies.

The Way of the Dog is a self-help classic. It tells the story of failed salesman, Derek Stubbins, who wanders into a brothers Grimm nightmare and gets turned into a dog. He has to learn the way of the dog to get by. He has to develop the simple, clear way of thinking that a sheepdog has for its task. In doing so, he finds that he can achieve any goal he desires. It is the perfect pathway to success. Why a dog? A dog has only two states of thought, which are happy, and waiting to be happy. When it has a task to do, it sees the beginning and the end. It doesn't become anxious or depressed at the size of the job, but just undertakes it and deals with obstacles as they come. It always succeeds. Geoff Burch taps into the core of great personal development writing in The Way of the Dog. He focuses on the two big questions - what do you want to do with your life and how do you do it? By following the way of the dog, each obstacle in your path is dealt with unfailingly, one at a time. And if you don'

Bill Strickland has spend the past thirty years transformingthe lives of thousands of people through Manchester Bidwell, thejobs training center and community arts program he founded inPittsburgh. Working with corporations, community leaders, andschools, he and his staff strive to give disadvantaged kids andadults the opportunities and tools they need to envision and builda better, brighter future. In Make the Impossible Possible, Bill Strickland shows how eachof us, by adopting the attitudes and beliefs he has lived by everyday, can reach our fullest potential and achieve the impossible inour lives and careers--and perhaps change the world a little in theprocess. Through lessons from Strickland's own life experiences andthose of countless others who have overcome challengingcircumstances and turned their lives around, Make the ImpossiblePossible teaches us how to build on our passions and strengths,dream bigger and set the bar higher, achieve meaningful success,and inspire the lives of others.

In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability. Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles, this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by: ·Eliminating wasted time and resources ·Building quality into workplace systems ·Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology ·Producing in small quantities ·Turning every employee into a qualitycontrol inspector

"One of the best baseball—and management—books out....Deserves aplace in the Baseball Hall of Fame."—Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball.Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-lifegeneral manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateurbaseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "thesingle most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) butalso what "may be the best book ever written on business" (WeeklyStandard). I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The storyconcerned a small group of undervalued professional baseballplayers and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit forthe big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the mostsuccessful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea forthe book came well before I had good reason to write it—before Ihad a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with aninnocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball,the Oa

Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for usall in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begunto get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hitthe rest of the world in the face too? Just how broke are wereally? Boomerang is a tragi-comic romp across Europe, in which Lewisgives full vent to his storytelling genius. The cheap credit thatrolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than asimple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entiresocieties the chance to reveal aspects of their characters theycould not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stopfishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turntheir country into a pi?ata stuffed with cash and allow as manycitizens as possible to take a whack. The Irish wanted to stopbeing Irish. The Germans wanted to be even more German. MichaelLewis's investigation of bubbles across Europe is brilliantly,sadly hilarious. He also turns a merciless eye on America: on

Managers working in today's organizations often focus more on results than on the people who achieve those results. But regularly evaluating the performance of your employees is critical to improving the efficiency and output of your organization. Performance reviews have changed significantly in the past few years. Companies today are looking for the key characteristics, known as competencies, that help the most successful people in their field to be so successful. Managers and employees need to focus on those competencies, especially during performance review discussions.

How to Plan and Execute Strategy provides you with 24 practical steps for creating, implementing, and managing market-defining, growth-driving strategies. Encompassing every stage of the strategic process, this tactic-filled handbook shares exactly what you need to know in order to: Define your businesses Know your market Understand your opportunities and threats Set feasible goals and objectives Create the strategies to achieve your objectives Identify and set priorities Write your business plan Get the right people Communicate the strategy and obtain commitment Integrate across functions Execute with discipline Monitor results, evaluate, and react Every successful company has benefited from an excellent corporate strategy. With the proven techniques in this portable, hands-on guide, your business will reap the same rewards. How to Plan and Execute Strategy shows how to get a leg up on your competition and sustain

Business revolves around making decisions, often riskydecisions, usually with incomplete information and too often inless time than we need. Executives at every level, in everyindustry, are confronted with information overload, less leeway formistakes, and a business environment that changes rapidly. In lightof this increased pressure and volatility, the old-fashioned waysof making decisions–depending on intuition, common sense, andspecialized expertise–are simply no longer sufficient. Distillingover thirty years of groundbreaking research, WinningDecisions , written by two seasoned business advisers and worldleaders in behavioral decision studies, is a comprehensive,one-of-a-kind guide to the proven methods of making criticalbusiness decisions confidently, quickly–and correctly. Decision-making is a business skill which managers often take forgranted in themselves and others–but it's not as easy as some mightthink. The authors, whose expertise has been sought out by over ahundred companies, includi

Everyone knows that Toyota has had an amazing twenty-five- yearrun, rising from a humble Japanese start-up to a thriving globalgiant. But how did it pass Ford and GM to become the world’slargest auto manufacturer? And how does it continue to thrive whileso many competitors are struggling and failing? Journalist David Magee dug deeply into Toyota’s past and present,interviewing senior executives who rarely talk to the press, alongwith many other sources. The powerful lessons that he distills,especially about corporate culture, are valuable for managers inall industries.

-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.

The essential guide to seamless product management for today’sfluid, unpredictable business world Long considered the most useful and insightful guide of its kind,The Product Manager’s Handbook has been fully revised and updatedto give you the edge in today’s challenging business landscape. Itfeatures expanded coverage of product development processes,intelligence-gathering techniques (including social media), and agreater emphasis on international issues. This indispensable resource proves that the techniques and toolsproduct managers use are similar—regardless of what industry theywork in and what kind of products they manage. Simply put, thisbook has everything you need for superior job performance—whetheryou manage consumer or business-to-business products created by anorganization that is hierarchical or horizontal. The Product Manager’s Handbook shows you how to integrate yourorganization’s disparate segments into a cooperative,results-focused unit that produces sa

From the man the Wall Street Journal hailed as "theguru of Revenue Management" comes revolutionary ways to recoverfrom the after effects of downsizing and refocus your business ongrowth. Whatever happened to growth? In Revenue Management, RobertG. Cross answers this question with his ground-breaking approach torevitalizing businesses: focusing on the revenue side of the ledgerinstead of the cost side. The antithesis of slash-and-burn methodsthat left companies with empty profits and dissatisfiedstockholders, Revenue Management overturns conventionalthinking on marketing strategies and offers the key to initiatingand sustaining growth. Using case studies from a variety of industries, smallbusinesses, and nonprofit organizations, Cross describes no-tech,low-tech, and high-tech methods that managers can use to increaserevenue without increasing products or promotions; predict consumerbehavior; tap into new markets; and deliver products and servicesto customers effectively and efficiently

Joe Girard was an example of a young man with perseverance and determination. Joe began his working career as a shoeshine boy. He moved on to be a newsboy for the Detroit Free Press at nine years old, then a dishwasher, a delivery boy, stove assembler, and home building contractor. He was thrown out of high school, fired from more than forty jobs, and lasted only ninety-seven days in the U.S. Army. Some said that Joe was doomed for failure. He proved them wrong. When Joe started his job as a salesman with a Chevrolet agency in Eastpointe, Michigan, he finally found his niche. Before leaving Chevrolet, Joe sold enough cars to put him in the "Guinness Book of World Records" as 'the world's greatest salesman' for twelve consecutive years. Here, he shares his winning techniques in this step-by-step book, including how to: read a customer like a book and keep that customer for life; convince people reluctant to buy by selling them the right way; develop priceless information from a two-minute phone call; make word

The universal laws of business success . . . no matter whetheryou are selling fruit from a stand or running a Fortune 500company. Have you ever noticed that the business savvy of theworld's best CEOs seems like a kind of street smarts? They sensewhere the opportunities are and how to take advantage of them. Andtheir companies make money consistently, year after year. Howdifferent is it to run a big company than to sell fruit from a cartor run a small shop in a village? In essence, not very, accordingto Ram Charan. From his childhood in India, where he worked in hisfamily's shoe shop, to his education at Harvard Business School andhis daily work advising many of the world's best CEOs, Ramunderstands business as few can. The best CEOs have a knack forbringing the most complex business down to the fundamentals—thesame fundamentals of the family shoe shop. They have businessacumen—the ability to focus on the basics and make money for thecompany. What the CEO Wants You to Know captures these insights an

"Managing Your Aspirations: Developing Personal Enterprise inthe Global Workplace" is written for anyone who meets with thequestion: 'Tell me more about yourself and where you want to go inthe future' and realizes that the answer is not simple. It is forthose who are ready to take a step back from their regular routinesto think seriously about another question: 'Does what I'm doingtoday relate to my dreams and my identity?'. The questions abovepertain to personal development, a theme that has recently become aresponsibility for individuals in corporate organizations andhigher-educational institutions. To meet this relatively new need, Bob Aubrey, founder and CEO ofMetizo, shares the Personal Enterprise Plan, comprising a set ofpersonal development strategy tools that were previously createdfor leading multinational companies and top business schools. In sodoing, he guides the reader through questions that give meaning andvalue to decisions about work, lifestyle and development, such as:Who will I

This celebrated New York Times bestsellernow poised to reach an even wider audience in paperbackis a book that is changing the way North Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas. Gladwells new afterword to this edition describes how readers can constructively apply the tipping point principle in their own lives and work. Widely hailed as an important work that offers not only a road map to business success but also a profoundly encouraging approach to solving social problems.

Services requiring parts has become a $1.5 trillion business annually worldwide，creating a tremendous incentive to manage the logistics of these parts efficiently by making planning and operational decisions in a rational and rigorous manner。This book provides a broad overview of modeling approaches and solution methodologies for addressing service parts inventory problems found in high-powered technology and aerospace applications。The focus in this work is on the management of high cost，low demand rate service parts found in multi-echelon settings。The text may be used in a variety of courses for first-year graduate students or senior undergraduates，as well as for practitioners，requiring only a background in stochastic processes and optimization。It will serve as an excellent reference for key mathematical concepts and a guide to modeling a variety of multi-echelon service parts planning and operational problems。