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The Economist:Successful Strategy Exe...
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The Economist: Successful Strategy Execution: How to keep your business goals on target
Strategy-to-performance gaps foster a culture of under-performance Unrealistic plans create the expectation throughout the organization that plans simply will not be fulfilled. This book shows how to overcome such failings and implement strategy effectively. Common failings include:
Companies rarely track their performance against long-term plans - less than 15% of companies make it a regular practice to go back and compare the business' results with the performance forecast for each business unit in its prior years' strategic results rarely meet projections - when companies do track performance, it rarely matches the prior years' projection.
The consequence is year-after-year of under-performance relative to the original plan A lot of value is lost in translation - a combination of poor communications, misapplied resources, limited accountability and lack of information creates an in-built strategy-to-performance gap.
This new title in The Economist series shows how businesses can overcome such failings and implement strategy effectively, using facts and anecdotal evidence from the real experiences of firms.
ISBN:9781846686054
Author:Michel Syrett
The Reality Test
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How is it that the most carefully-laid business strategies can go horribly wrong when put into practice? Robert Rowland Smith's answer, based on years of experience in high-level consultancy, is that 'reality eats strategy for breakfast' strategy, based on projections and assuming business is a rational pursuit, can't deal with the messy reality of life.
More helpful are these practical questions that can help you plan what to do when your business comes into contact with reality. From learning the lessons of the past (rather than fixating on the future) to finding out what your business is really about, he explains the real-life factors that lead to success or failure. Including many new examples from the front line, from all around the world, The Reality Test will help you establish yourself as more effective and distinctive than your competitors, who follow the same rigid theoretical avenues.
Whether you ask 'Are you making enough of your weaknesses?' or 'Are you 100% productive 100% of the time?', it's time to stop living in strategy La-La Land and face reality.
ISBN:9781847659187
Author:Robert Rowland Smith
Inside Coca Cola
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Inside Coca-Cola: A CEO's Life Story of Building the World's Most Popular Brand
This first book by a Coca-Cola CEO tells an extraordinary personal and professional worldwide story.
Isdell helped put out huge public relations fires (India and Turkey), opened markets (Russia, Eastern Europe, Philippines, and Africa), championed Muhtar Kent, the current Turkish-American CEO, all while living the ideal of corporate responsibility.
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ISBN:9781250013712
Author:Neville Isdell
In the Jaws of the Dragon
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In the Jaws of the Dragon: America's Fate in the Coming Era of Chinese Dominance
In recent years, popular wisdom has held that opening American markets to Chinese goods was the best way to promote democracy in Beijing?that the Communist Party's grip would quickly weaken as increasingly affluent Chinese citizens embraced American values.
That popular wisdom was wrong. As Eamonn Fingleton shows in this devastating book, the culmination of twenty years of research and study, instead of America changing China?i.e. making China more democratic?China is changing America.
While the Chinese people's rising affluence is, of course, an occasion for wholehearted rejoicing, Uncle Sam should give the Chinese power system a wide berth?lest he catch his coattails in the jaws of a dragon.
ISBN:9780312561628
Author:Eamonn Fingleton
The HR Scorecard
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The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance
Three experts in Human Resources introduce a measurement system that convincingly showcases how HR impacts business performance.
Drawing from the authors' ongoing study of nearly 3,000 firms, this book describes a seven-step process for embedding HR systems within the firm's overall strategy--what the authors describe as an HR Scorecard--and measuring its activities in terms that line managers and CEOs will find compelling.
Analyzing how each element of the HR system can be designed to enhance firm performance and maximize the overall quality of human capital, this important book heralds the emergence of HR as a strategic powerhouse in today's organizations.
ISBN:9781578511365
Author:Dave Ulrich, Mark A. Huselid and Brian E. Becker
The House of Morgan
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal as "brilliantly researched and written," the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned.
It is the definitive account of the rise of the modern financial world. A gripping history of banking and the booms and busts that shaped the world on both sides of the Atlantic, The House of Morgan traces the trajectory of the J. P. Morgan Empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the private saga of the Morgans and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved.
Based on extensive interviews and access to the family and business archives, The House of Morganis an investigative masterpiece, a compelling account of a remarkable institution and the men who ran it, and an essential book for understanding the money and power behind the major historical events of the last 150 years.
ISBN:9780802138293
Author:Ron Chernow
The Gods That Failed
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The Gods That Failed: How the Financial Elite Have Gambled Away Our Futures
MARKETS ARE NOT MAGIC.
DEBT IS NOT FREEDOM.
THE GODS HAVE FAILED.
A risk-prone, privatized profit-driven economic model overseen by a largely unaccountable, greedy and arrogant elite has resulted in one of the worst financial crises in history.
The over-paid heroes of Wall Street and the City worshipped the gods of globalisation, financialisation and speculation, and during the years of economic growth we, and our governments, worshipped them too. But high in the boardrooms of Mount Olympus, the reckless lust of banks for big bonuses and bigger profits led to excesses that have proved unsupportable.
The warning signs were ignored - now the Masters of the Universe are toppling and we're footing the bill.
Find out how an unregulated elite were able to run riot with your cash, and find out how to stop it happening again.
ISBN:9780099523680
Author:Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson
Hegemony or Survival
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Noam Chomsky, the world's foremost intellectual activist, presents an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow.
From the funding of repressive regimes to the current 'war on terror', from the toppling of governments opposing its beliefs to the invasion of Iraq, America pursues its global strategy no matter what the cost. With the rigour and insight that have made him our most important unraveller of accredited lies, Noam Chomsky reveals the truth and the true motives behind America's quest for dominance - and seeks also to show how the world may yet step back from the brink.
ISBN:9780141015057
Author:Noam Chomsky
The Future of Money
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The Future of Money: Introduction by Vince Cable (World Class Thinking on Global Issues)
The state of the global economy affects every single one of us. With economic growth threatened by financial regulation and the East and West at competitive odds, the real solutions to global recession can only come through international co-operation.
Featuring world leaders, Nobel Prize-winning economists, award-winning writers and opinion formers The Future of Money brings together the finest thinking to suggest solutions to this global predicament.
ISBN:9780753522042
Author:Oliver Chittenden and Vince Cable
Free How todays smartest
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Free: How today's smartest businesses profit by giving something for nothing
What happens when advances in technology allow many things to be produced for more or less nothing? And what happens when those things are then made available to the consumer for free?
In his groundbreaking new book, The Long Tail author Chris Anderson considers a brave new world where the old economic certainties are being undermined by a growing flood of free goods - newspapers, DVDs, T-shirts, phones, even holiday flights. He explains why this has become possible - why new technologies, particularly the Internet, have caused production and distribution costs in many sectors to plummet to an extent unthinkable even a decade ago.
He shows how the flexibility provided by the online world allows producers to trade ever more creatively, offering items for free to make real or perceived gains elsewhere. He pinpoints the winners and the losers in the Free universe. And he demonstrates the ways in which, as an increasing number of things become available for free, our decisions to make use of them will be determined by two resources far more valuable than money: the popular reputation of what is on offer and the time we have available for it. In the future, he argues, when we talk of the 'money economy' we will talk of the 'reputation economy' and the 'time economy' in the same breath, and our world will never be the same again.
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ISBN:9781905211494
Author:Chris Anderson
Economics in One Lesson
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Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is a classic economic primer. But it is also much more, having become a fundamental influence on modern "libertarian” economics of the type espoused by Ron Paul and others.
Considered among the leading economic thinkers of the "Austrian School,” which includes Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich (F.A.) Hayek, and others, Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993), was a libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of The Freeman magazine, an influential libertarian publication. Hazlitt wrote Economics in One Lesson, his seminal work, in 1946. Concise and instructive, it is also deceptively prescient and far-reaching in its efforts to dissemble economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy.
Many current economic commentators across the political spectrum have credited Hazlitt with foreseeing the collapse of the global economy which occurred more than 50 years after the initial publication of Economics in One Lesson. Hazlitt’s focus on non-governmental solutions, strong — and strongly reasoned — anti-deficit position, and general emphasis on free markets, economic liberty of individuals, and the dangers of government intervention make Economics in One Lesson, every bit as relevant and valuable today as it has been since publication.
ISBN:9780517548233
Author:Henry Hazlitt
Goldman Sachs The Culture of Success
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Goldman Sachs, the nation's leading investment firm, with a solid-gold reputation and a first-class list of clients, began as a family business in a lower Manhattan basement in 1869. The secrets behind the remarkable success of Goldman Sachs since then are revealed in unprecedented depth in this fascinating and authoritative narrative history of the firm.
Former Goldman Sachs vice president Lisa Endlich draws on her insider's knowledge and access to all levels of management to bring to life a unique company that has long held its mystique intact. The most stunning accomplishments in modern American finance are explored through the story of how Goldman Sachs reached its summit.
Goldman Sachs: The Culture of Success provides a rare and revealing look inside an institution -- until recently the last private partnership on Wall Street -- and inside the financial world at its highest levels. Included here, in a new chapter, is a first look at the history behind the firm's landmark initial public offering.
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ISBN:9780684869681
Author:Lisa Endlich
The Crunch
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The Crunch: How Greed and Incompetence Sparked the Credit Crisis
On August 9, 2007 France's largest bank announced that it would suspend trading in two huge investment funds it controlled. The same day three German banks revealed that they were close to collapse. A few days later came the first run on a British bank since the 1860s as vast queues of worried investors besieged Northern Rock.
Within weeks, the government was forced to bail out this previously little known bank to the tune of £30 billion, share prices in other mortgage lenders were plummeting, and alarming news arose from several banks in the United States. Award-winning journalist Alex Brummer painstakingly traces the course of this crisis from its origins in the subprime market to its explosion on to the international scene. It is a story of greed, mismanagement, and dithering in which bankers seeking to make a quick buck, regulators engaged in turf wars and blame-avoidance, and governments paralyzed by the sheer scale of the problem all conspired to bring the banking system almost to its knees.
It is also a story of victims: the 1.5 million people in the US who have already been thrown out of their houses; the entire population of the UK who have been co-opted to guarantee Northern Rock with £30 billion of public money; borrowers everywhere who are now finding credit more expensive and harder to get.
ISBN:9781847940094
Author:Alex Brummer
The Complete Idiots Guide to Start Ur...
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Chock-full of tips for finding the right business idea for you, evaluating an idea's market potential, creating a winning sales plan, developing an effective web and social media strategy, setting up the legal part of your business, and so much more, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Starting Your Own Business, Sixth Edition, gives you the practical advice you need to start any type of business. Starting and running your own business, where you run the show your way, isn't as far-fetched as you might think. Many entrepreneurs have successfully ventured out on their own, even during tough economic times, and you can, too. Special emphasis is placed on matching you to the right business idea and writing a great business plan that will withstand tough investor scrutiny.
Author, Ed Paulson, has fully updated the content to reflect today's opportunities and challenges, and added new components that feature the basics of creating a web-based business strategy, managing your personal and business risks, business essentials for professionals such as doctors and engineers and how to successfully navigate your first year in business. In addition, this new edition features great tips for leveraging social media as a tool for selling products and marketing your business.
Useful topics included in the book: * Matching you to your new business, * Evaluating
your idea's sales potential, * Writing a fundable business plan, * Two complete sample business plans, * Figuring out if your business will make money, * Finding and working with investors, * Tips on buying an existing business or franchise, * Managing personal and business risks for your life stage, * Surviving your first year in business, * Practical marketing and social media tips, * Ideas for getting sales and managing salespeople, * Managing employees, both good and bad, * Doing business internationally, * Managing your first year's cash flow, * Developing a sound web strategy, * What to consider when incorporating, * Important business tips for professional practices.
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ISBN:9781615641512
Author:Ed Paulson
The Cash Nexus by Niall Ferguson
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000.
Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change, whether in the age of industry or Internet. But is it? Ferguson thinks it is high time we re-examined the link-the nexus, in Thomas Carlyle's phrase-between economics and politics. His central argument is that the conflicting impulses of sex, violence, and power are together more powerful than money.
Among Ferguson's startling claims are: Nothing has done more to transform the world economy than war, yet wars themselves do not have primarily economic causes.
• The present age of economic globalization is coinciding-paradoxically-with political and military fragmentation.
• Financial crises are frequently caused by unforeseen political events rather than economic fluctuations.
The relationship between prosperity and government popularity is largely illusory.
• Since political and economic liberalization are not self-perpetuating, the so-called triumph of democracy worldwide may be short-lived.
• A bold synthesis of political history and modern economic theory, Cash Nexus will transform the landscape of modern history and draw challenging conclusions about the prospects of both capitalism and democracy.
The Age of Turbulence
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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World.
The Age of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure.
Following the arc of his remarkable life’s journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board to the present, in the second half of The Age of Turbulence Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour d’horizon of the global economy.
The distillation of a life’s worth of wisdom and insight into an elegant expression of a coherent worldview, The Age of Turbulence will stand as Alan Greenspan’s personal and intellectual legacy.
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ISBN:9780713999822
Author:Alan Greenspan
Business Accounting by Frank Wood Vol...
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The Frank Wood books have taught generations of accounting students how to think and act as accountants. Now in its 14th edition, Business Accounting Volume 1 continues to offer an indispensable guide for any accounting student.
Financial accounting, financial reporting, financial analysis, and management accounting concepts are all covered in this accessible, practical text.
The 14th edition is updated to be fully compliant with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and with current IFRS terminology.
Business Travel and Tourism
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'Business Travel and Tourism' provides a comprehensive, international overview of business tourism from both a theoretical and practical perspective. With the use of case studies from around the world, 'Business Travel and Tourism' explores a broad range of issues, including:
1. The global business tourism market
2. The design of business tourism facilities
3. The role of the destination in business travel and tourism
4. The social, economic, and environmental impacts of business tourism
5. The ethical dimension of business tourism
6. The marketing of business tourism products
7. The impact of new technologies on the business tourism market
8. How to organize successful conferences, exhibitions, and incentive travel packages
Case studies include Disneyland Paris, Hong Kong, Amsterdam RAI International Exhibition and Congress Centre, Hilton, Page and Moy Marketing, Lufthansa, Air France, and Legoland UK.'Business Travel and Tourism' is the first text to offer a comprehensive overview of the growing but neglected area of business tourism.
With the use of a wide range of up-to-date case studies and major practical exercises to help students to broaden and deepen their understanding of this area of tourism, it is an invaluable text for all students on travel and tourism courses at degree and BTEC/HND level, or those taking tourism options in leisure, business studies, hospitality management or geography.
ISBN:9780750643924
Author:John Swarbrooke and Susan Horner
The Business of Tourism Management
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This exciting new book, firmly embedded in the management discipline, equips students and future managers of tourism with both the business skills and an understanding of tourism, which will enhance their employment prospects within the dynamic industry.
The Business of Tourism Management (BOTM) provides an introduction to key aspects of tourism, and to the practice of managing a tourism business. It explores the functions of management within the world of tourism, showing how tourism as a business has evolved, how the tourism and travel industry is structured, and how tourism businesses operate within their political, economic and socio-cultural environments.
Written and contributed by leading academics and practitioners in the UK, European Australia, The Business of Tourism Management is ideal for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of tourism management.
ISBN:9780273688013
Author:John Beech and Simon Chadwick
The Business of Hotels
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The fully revised edition of this well-known text by an experienced author, consultant and educator follows the structure and approach which has proved so successful since its first publication in 1980.
The book examines the hotel as a business providing commercial hospitality. It focuses on markets, money and people, and uses examples from hotel operations throughout the world.
This new edition is the outcome of a thorough revision of an established text. The new material includes a comprehensive profile of the hotel business in the 1990's and includes data, quotes and extracts from a wide range of authoritative industry sources.
ISBN:9780750641159
Author:Hadyn Ingram