XENOPHON the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C. THE ECONOMIST records Socrates and Critobulus in a talk about profitable estate management, and a lengthy recollection by Socrates of Ischomachus' discussion of the same topic.
For years, prospective M.B.A. students seeking guidance on which business schools to consider have had to rely on rankings compiled with vague methodologies, subject to the biased opinions of students and school administrators. Now come The Wall Street Journal and Harris Interactive, the worldwide market-research firm, with their second annual survey that has become the single most important reference tool for students, school administrators, and corporate recruiters. Using a carefully constructed methodology and Harris Interactive's online polling expertise, The Wall Street Journal Guide to the Top Business Schools 2003 shows students what corporate recruiters -- the "buyers" of budding management talent -- really think of the schools and their students. Each profile of the 50 top M.B.A. programs, as well as of the 50 runners-up, includes information on admissions, enrollment, test scores, the industries and companies most likely to hire the school's graduates, and graduates' expected first-year salarie
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second ofsix children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cubreporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driveron the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated forhis services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921.In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning fromjournalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris,associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and GertrudeStein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-gamehunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position incontemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the NobelPrize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man andthe Sea. He died in 1961.
Fifth Edition--Revised and Expanded. A new edition of the classic guidebook that started the "Working From Home" revolution. Paul and Sarah Edwards have completely updated their bestselling home-office guide to meet the needs of today's millions of small-business people. This comprehensive update of America's premier guide to home-based employment features complete and easy-to-follow advice on: -- equipping and computerizing the up-to-date home office; -- funding your venture--and staying out of debt; -- keeping your work and personal life separate; -- making cyberspace work for your individual business needs, and much more. "No home office is complete without a copy of Working From Home." --Bernadette Grey, Home Office Computing "If I had to choose only one book for my home-office reference shelf, this is the one I would choose. It's thorough, up-to-date, informed by detailed research, user-friendly, and fun to read." --Thomas E. Miller, National Work-at-Home
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The Handbook for Leaders 24 Lessons for Extraordinary Leadership "What makes a great leader?" Thousands of workers in both North America and Europe were asked that one simple question. Their top responses are compiled in "The Handbook for Leaders." This precise, no-nonsense rulebook lists the 24 competencies and guidelines identified time and again as essential for becoming an effective and extraordinary leader, including: Focus on results Cultivate interpersonal skills Lead organizational change Learn from mistakes Develop your people Be open to new ideas Take initiative Build strengths Fix fatal flaws Take a non-linear approach Be accountable The ability to lead is far more than just a natural gift. Study after study shows that leadership is a concrete and learnable skill, one that can be acquired and honed by studying and applying specific proficiencies, attitudes, and habits. Let "The Handbook for Leaders "introduce you to the requirements for effective leadership, then provide you with a systematic progr
It's hard to think of a CEO that commands as much respect as Jack Welch。 Under his leadership， General Electric reinvented itself several times over by integrating new and innovative practices into its many lines of business。 In Jack: Straight from the Gut， Welch， with the help of Business Week journalist John Byrne， recounts his career and the style of management that helped to make GE one of the most successful companies of the last century。 Beginning with Welch's childhood in Salem， Massachusetts， the book quickly progresses from his first job in GE's plastics division to his ambitious rise up the GE corporate ladder，which culminated in 1981。 What comes across most in this autobiography is Welch's passion for business as well as his remarkable directness and intolerance of what he calls ”superficial congeniality”--a dislike that would help earn him the nickname ”Neutron Jack。” In spite of its 496 pages， Jack: Straight from the Gut is a quick read that any student or manage
Zig Ziglar This may be a landmark business book. Through his personal failures and outrageous successes, Steve Scott reveals surefire principles and strategies that are timeless and right on target. Steve is living proof that failure is an event, not a person. Donald Trump Steve Scott's uncanny insights and strategies am so specific and easily applied, I believe they can empower any reader, whether a collie student, small business owner, or the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, to achieve levels of success they haven't yet dreamed of. Dennis Waitley Author, Empires of the Mind A totally new, innovative breakthrough in helping common people achieve uncommon success. Steve Scott's notebook is the 21st century guidebook for all of us. Laser accurate, reality, based, time.tested and incredibly insightful.
So much to do, so little time, so best to start early. Full of things to make, achieve, learn (and some things you shouldn't learn) this is the perfect handbook for any child who wants to revel in being young and not-boring. Can you Make an origami crane? Lie convincingly? Operate as a spy? Parents may need these skills (not origami) to wrest their child's copy from them and indulge in all the fun they should have had.
The bestselling reference title has been updated and revised.Expanding upon the original rules of the House of Representatives,put together by General Henry Roberts, this second edition featuresnew topics and improved existing topics for today's informationage!.
How Full Is Your Bucket? reveals how even the briefestinteractions affect your relationships, productivity, health andlongevity. Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and abucket , and grounded in 50 years of research, this book will showyou how to greatly increase the positive moments in your work andyour life - while reducing the negative. Filled with powerfulstrategies and engaging stories, How Full Is Your Bucket? is sureto inspire lasting changes and has all th emakings of a timelessclassic.
“The tell-all register includes a wacky collection of … questions， to help you determine what you should be looking for。” “…you probably want to forget most of your dates。 But you’ll have more fun if you record the gory details…” They say you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince。 Here’s a saucy self-discovery dating journal for savvy “swingles” to help them have fun along the way。 Kissing Frogs is an interactive journal that will continue to entertain for years to come。 From the “Rate the Date” questionnaires to the “Hit the Road， Toad” checklist， this journal provides plenty of space to record what women have learned about themselves and what they’ve gleaned about men。 It leaves no rock unturned， and no frog unexamined!
This volume is monograph. It covers various aspects of convergence theory about feasible direction methods innonlinear programming. Many basic results included here have not been contained by other books. It provides a useful state-of-art review of activity in these field.
Nobody likes performance appraisals. To make the most of them,though, managers and supervisors can take advantage of this guide,complete with the phrases and words they need to confidentlyconduct clear, objective performance reviews. Phrases are given forcommon behavior and skill categories as well as for commonfunctional areas—and they work, regardless of appraisal type.
A delightful social satire of England's landed gentry and a moving tale of lovers separated by class distinction.
2011 Reprint of 1930 Edition. A highly successful speculator shows how to use your skills as an amateur psychologist and a student of human nature to make money through the stock market. Written in a direct and affable style, "Why You Win or Lose" shares the secrets of an "outsider" on Wall Street, offering a valuable study of crowd reaction to market fluctuations. It identifies the four greatest enemies to stock market prosperity, showing how to recognize and avoid these pitfalls in instructive chapters such as "Vanity," "Greed," and "The Will to Believe." Kelly outlines the benefits of "contrary thinking" and illustrates how this style of thinking outside the box can lead not only to lucrative investments but to success in other endeavors as well.
Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor refuse to paint asimplistic picture of the future; instead, they show where to look for the insightneeded to compete and grow in the years ahead. Authors of the prophetic The500 Year Delta, they now proclaim the Age of the Individual-a world where life has never been more difficult, because it has never been easier. Today, individuals have far more power to claim their own futures than ever before, which means they have to follow four major rules to chart their courses:Know who you are。
This boastful, boyishly disarming, thoroughly engaging personal history offers an inside look at aspects of financing, development and construction in big-time New York real estate. "I don't do it for the money," maintains Trump, the son of a Queens realtor who, at age 27, bought and transfigured the colossal Hotel Commodore at Grand Central Terminal. Now 40, he has built, among other projects, and owns outright, Fifth Avenue's retail and residential Trump Tower (where he occupies a double-triplex suite); owns and operates Trump's Castle, a casino in Atlantic City; is arguably the most visible young man on Manhattan's celebrity circuit ("Governor Cuomo calls. . . . dinner at St. Patrick's Cathedral. . . . I call back Judith Krantz"); and is currently developing a controversial 100-acre West Side "Television City" project that is planned to include the world's tallest building. For those who would do likewise, Trump articulates his secrets for success: imagination, persistence, skill at "juggling provisional c
This is the only pocket-sized guide to the ever-changing, all-important world of copyrights. Written by attorneys who specialize in the field, this slim volume shows writers, composers, web masters, and other content creators what to do—and what not to do—in order to protect their work from plagiarism and theft. With sample documents and a helpful Internet and government resource guide, The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Copyrights covers everything from the current copyright laws to the most effective way to file. Complex laws explained in layman’s language Complete Internet and government resource guide Sample government filing documents Expert, up-to-date advice from attorneys 作者简介： Robert J. Frohwein is an attorney and is president and co-founder of LAVA Group, an intellectual property consulting firm. Gregory Scott Smith is an attorney, an engineer, and chief officer of intellectual property at LAVA Group.
Good business is all about dealing with people. If you have trouble interacting with clients or co-workers, you ll be circling Help Wanted ads before you know it. My First Book of Business Etiquette is an essential primer on workplace decorum, with information on: - Behaving in a meeting - Being respectful in an office full of cubicles - Conducting business abroad - The ins and outs of creative schmoozing - And much, much more. Whether you're making the transition from the dorm room to the board room -- or just want a quick refresher course on good manners -- this useful primer is bound to delight!
An essential resource for coping with the taxing ordeal ofbeing audited. The Pocket Idiot's Guide(tm) to Surviving an Audit presents allof the information a taxpayer needs to get through an audit in onepiece, including: ?What is an audit? ?The summons ?The interview ?Rights as a taxpayer ?What to bring and how to prepare your presentation ?What the auditor will bring and how he or she will prepare ?Finding a tax pro
The best time to clean up a murder scene? Sooner rather than later with a shooting in bed, to keep blood from leaching into the floor. The best time to write a scathing tell-all about your boss? After he’s dead. Best time to pose nude for Playboy? Between the ages of 18 and 25, though they have photographed women over 40. Did you need to know any of this? Probably not. Kaplan’s volume carries self-help to absurdity—it’s designed more for an occasional idle browse than as a compendium of truly useful information. That said, there are some good tips here: fish at your local fish market is freshest on Tuesdays and Fridays, according to a fish distributor in New York. Appliances are cheapest after January 1, but electronics should be bought before Thanksgiving, according to a former online retailer. Kaplan, the gambling columnist for Cigar Aficionado, has consulted experts in each area, from Donald Trump on deal-making to the stars of Car Talk for car repairs. There’s no table of contents, and the tips
Are good manners relevant in this day and age? More so than ever, with cell phones, body piercings, e-mails, and other 21st-century accessories. Now the authors of Things You Need to Be Told offer more advice-pertinent to today's issues, and filled with both hilarious wit and practical common sense.
As director of an inner-city woman's shelter, Dana Dupinskysafeguards many secrets. Some are new identities; some are newaddresses; and some are even hidden truths about herself.Passionately dedicated to Hanover House and the women she protects,Dana has always been reluctant to look for love. But now, just as acase puts her and a child in mortal danger, it seems that love hascome looking for her. Security expert Ethan Buchanan learned to stalk men in the Afghandesert. Now he vows to track down the ruthless woman who kidnappedhis godson-and falling for Dana is not in the plan. Yet her verypresence seems to chase away the ghosts that haunt him, and herskillful evasion of personal questions raises his huntinginstincts. For there's a deadly new secret at Hanover House. Abrutal killer is weaving a web of revenge with a stolen boy at itscenter. And Dana is the next victim on the list...
