Authors: Nikki Ross.
Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Kaplan Business
Publication Date: 2000-06-19


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    For the first time, investors will discover how to apply the three vital investment steps for todays markets along with time-tested strategies for acquiring wealth and keeping it. Nikki Ross profiles five legends, revealing how they gather and evaluate information and make investment decisions.

Each chapter provides vital strategies for creating a sound investment plan.

*WARREN BUFFETT: the super-combination investor shares insights about how to profit from annual reports and what to look for in stock research reports. *PHIL FISHER: the investigative growth investor tells how to pick stocks with tremendous profit potential by evaluating management, products, and policies of companies. *BENJAMIN GRAHAM: the value numbers investor provides important financial numbers and ratios to evaluate companies. Grahams followers give expanded criteria for 21st century value investing. *T. ROWE PRICE: the visionary growth investor discusses how to evaluate the life stage of a company, warning signals of slowing growth, and trends affecting stocks, updated by disciples. *JOHN MARKS TEMPLETON: the spiritual global investor, and one of the first money managers to invest internationally, gives 16 timeless investment rules and strategies for global investing in todays volatile markets. ...

Authors: Frederick L. Allen.
Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Collins
Publication Date: 1995-07-05


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    "A clear, convincing, anecdotal, often fascinating portrayal not just of Coca-Cola's corporate brilliance, but of how it inveighed its way into the center of American, and world, consciousness."--The Financial Times...

Authors: Gary Fellers.
Hardcover, 128 pages
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Publication Date: 1994-10


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    "Easy to read and fast paced ... I closed the book feeling motivated to get started using the concepts in our own company". Ken Blanchard The One Minute Manager Edwards Deming's "14 Points for Managers" and "7 Deadly Diseases of Management" in a concise and effective text with a light tone and pertinent examples....

Authors: Carlos Ghosn.
Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Business
Publication Date: 2006-03-21


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    In Shift, Carlos Ghosn, the brilliant, audacious, and widely admired CEO of Nissan, recounts how he took the reins of the nearly bankrupt Japanese automotive company and achieved one of the most remarkable turnarounds in automotive—and corporate—history.

When Carlos Ghosn (pronounced like “phone”) was named COO of Nissan in 1999, the company was running out of gas and careening toward bankruptcy. Eighteen short months later, Nissan was back in the black, and within several more years it had become the most profitable large automobile company in the world. In SHIFT, Ghosn describes how he went about accomplishing the seemingly impossible, transforming Nissan once again into a powerful global automotive manufacturer.

The Brazilian-born, French-educated son of Lebanese parents, Ghosn first learned the management principles and practices that would shape his decisions at Nissan while rising through the ranks at Michelin and Renault. Upon his arrival at Nissan, Ghosn began his new position by embarking on a three-month intensive examination of every aspect of the business. By October 1999 he was ready to announce his strategy to turn the company around with the Nissan Revival Plan. In the plan, he consistently challenged the tradition-bound thinking and practices of Japanese business when they inhibited Nissan’s effectiveness. Ghosn closed plants, laid off workers, broke up long-standing supply networks, and sold off marginal assets to focus on the company’s core business. But slashing costs was just the first step in Nissan’s recovery. In fact, Ghosn introduced changes in every corner of the company, from manufacturing and engineering to marketing and sales. He updated Nissan’s car and truck lineup, took risks on dynamic new designs, and demanded improvements in quality—strategies that quickly burnished Nissan’s image in the marketplace, and re-established the company in the minds of consumers as a leader in innovation and engineering.

Like the best-selling memoirs of Jack Welch, Lou Gerstner, and Larry Bossidy, SHIFT is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to transform and re-create a world-class company. Written by one of the world’s most successful and acclaimed CEOs, SHIFT is an invaluable guide for business readers everywhere....

Authors: Bruce W. Marcus. Sherwood Lee Wallace.
Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 1997-11-03


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    The acknowledged bible on investor relations

Investor relations is an essential facet of any publicly traded company, inevitably affecting its stock price, investments, and liquidity. Maximizing Your Investor Relations provides practical guidance needed to master this complex undertaking and advocate persuasively on your company's behalf to achieve greater recognition and value. Comprehensive and thoughtful, it focuses on controlling the day-to-day mechanics of investor relations to more effectively compete for capital.

BRUCE W. MARCUS (Easton, Connecticut) has held senior executive positions with Mobil Corporation, Arthur Young & Co., and Coopers and Lybrand. SHERWOOD LEE WALLACE (Northbrook, Illinois) is President and CE of the Investor Relations Company....

Authors: Paul Dolan. Thom Elkjer.
Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Bloomberg Press
Publication Date: 2003-11
Edition: 1

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    TRUE TO OUR ROOTS sets forth the simple but powerful management principles that enabled Fetzer Vineyards under Paul Dolan to become one of America's biggest and best-know wineries even as it was becoming a model for sustainable business practices everywhere. Dolan and Fetzer led the California wine industry toward profound change in how wineries and grape growers preserve their environment, strengthen their communities, and enrich the lives of their employees, without sacrificing the bottom line.

Filled with personal anecdotes and practical wisdom, this book offers inspiration and guidance to business managers who see the compelling need to build and grow healthy, sustainable organizations....

Authors: Perry J Ludy.
Hardcover, 162 pages
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Date: 2000-01-15
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    Profits and people are often seen as competing needs in business, but in Perry J. Ludy's view, cultivating a loyal, productive workforce is crucial to business success. In Profit Building, Ludy -- who has worked for top companies in every major field from manufacturing to retail -- outlines a new approach called PBP (Profit Building Process), specific techniques for improving profitability by stimulating creative thinking and motivating teams to work together more effectively.

This program gives business leaders a daring yet accessible approach to increasing earnings without the shortsighted solution of layoffs. Using step-by-step examples, Ludy shows how to encourage employee participation in an atmosphere where creative problem solving flourishes. This entails the systematic application of four interdependent concepts: teams, innovation management, brainstorming, and action step planning....

Authors: Joe Watson.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication Date: 2006-10-31


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Authors: Stanley Bing.
Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Publication Date: 2007-02-12


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    The world's first corporate case study, as only the best-selling Stanley Bing could tell it.

A family business prospers through a series of brutal consolidations and rational growth. Then senseless internal conflicts lead to a long line of demented CEOs, monumental expansion, and foolish diversification—at a high cost in shattered lives. In the end, a series of reverse takeovers leaves the once-proud but now overextended and corrupt parent company at the mercy of less-civilized operations that previously cringed at the grandeur of the corporate brand.

Enron? WorldCom? Try Rome, whose rise and fall carry a moral that lingers to this day for the managers, employees, and students of any global enterprise. Stanley Bing—whose satirical business books are as savagely funny as they are insightful—mingles business parable and cautionary tale into an ingenious, often hilarious new telling of the story of the Roman Empire....

Authors: Michael Erbschloe. John Vacca .
Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Course Technology
Publication Date: 2003-03-10
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Guide to Disaster Recovery presents methods to identify vulnerabilities and take appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate failure risks for an organization. This book provides the networking professional with a foundation in disaster recovery principles, including preparation of a disaster recovery plan, assessment of risks in the enterprise, development of policies and procedures, an understanding of the roles and relationships of various members of an organization, implementation of the plan, testing and rehearsal of the plan, and actually recovering from a disaster. The book takes an enterprise-wide approach to developing a disaster recovery plan. Students will learn how to create a secure network by putting policies and procedures in place, and how to restore a network in the event of a disaster....