Publication date: 2006-01-10
Dewey code: 332.45
RRP: £45.00
Price: £29.40
Review Day-Trading the Currency Market: Technical and Fundamental Strategies To Profit from Market Swings (Wiley Trading) / John Wiley & Sons:
Authors
- Ronald N. Kahn
- Richard C. Grinold
Publication date: 1999-11-01
Dewey code: 332.60151
RRP: £46.99
Price: £29.33
Review Active Portfolio Management : A quantative approach for producing superior returns and selecting superior money managers / McGraw-Hill Professional:
Authors
- John O'Mahony
- Hannah Beecham
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.49
Review Expat Money: The Definitive Personal Finance Manual for Brits Abroad / Summersdale Publishers:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-11-19
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.18
Review Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism / HarperPerennial:
Publication date: 2004-05-17
Dewey code: 658.827
RRP: £20.00
Price: £8.48
Review Brand Portfolio Strategy: Creating Relevance, Differentiation, Energy, Leverage and Clarity / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-04-01
Dewey code: 339.47
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.62
Review Consuming Life / Polity Press:
Edition: 6Rev Ed
Publication date: 2002-08-21
Dewey code: 658
RRP: £35.99
Price: £30.04
Review Management / South-Western, Div of Thomson Learning:
Creator: Malcolm Sawyer
Edition: 16Rev Ed
Publication date: 2004-11-04
Dewey code: 330
RRP: £32.99
Price: £24.99
Review The UK Economy: A Manual of Applied Economics / OUP Oxford:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2002-11-01
Dewey code: 658
RRP: £18.99
Price: £12.26
Review Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life / Harvard Business School Press:This revolution business is exhausting work. Over Leading the Revolution's 300 pages, Gary Hamel, chairman of management consultancy Strategos, a London Business School visiting professor and research fellow at Havard, takes us on a whirlwind tour of the death of the corporation and the rise of the new economy. And it's breathless stuff too-"make innovation your enduring capability", "get off the treadmill of incrementation", and "heretics not prophets create revolutions". Hamel has not lost his touch in the years since his genre-defining Competing For the Future: he peppers his text with punchy prose, including the wonderful: "You can't use an old map to find new land. " Leading the Revolution begins by taking us through what Hamel describes as the End of Progress, whereby the evolution of industrial society is seen to be replaced by the revolution of the new economy. This change is underpinned by the rising expectations of the stakeholder economy: it is not enough to beat your last annual earnings, or be better than your competitor-the revolutionary company will be best of breed by every benchmark, nothing less. Failure to do so will leave you vulnerable to the other revolutionaries. Hamel then sets about describing the road to becoming a revolutionary in your business and turning your business into a revolution. There are no great surprises here-think illogically, go against the grain, ask the wrong questions, be unreasonable in your expectations, it's a cause not a business, listen to the periphery. But taken together, his account builds into a vivid picture of can-do. [+]The only trouble is that to act on even a fraction of his recommendations would exhaust the mightiest of managers. Perhaps that's why, in a revolution, there is only one leader-the rest of us just follow. -Chris Price.
Edition: 5
Publication date: 1994-01-01
Dewey code: 658.15
RRP: £43.99
Price: £43.99
Review Capital Investment and Financial Decisions / Financial Times/ Prentice Hall:
Publication date: 2007-10-31
Dewey code: 980.038
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.70
Review Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul / Yale University Press:
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Publication date: 2008-11-11
Dewey code: 332
RRP: £7.19
Price: £3.34
Review Financial Armageddon: We Are in a Battle for Our Very Survival]] / Frontline:
Authors
- Jerry I. Porras
- James C. Collins
Publication date: 1997-01
Dewey code: 658
Price: £11.12
Review Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies / HarperBusiness:This analysis of what makes great companies great has been hailed everywhere as an instant classic and one of the best business titles since In Search of Excellence. The authors, James C Collins and Jerry I Porras, spent six years in research, and they freely admit that their own preconceptions about business success were devastated by their actual findings-along with the preconceptions of virtually everyone else. Built to Last identifies 18 "visionary" companies and sets out to determine what's special about them. To get on the list, a company had to be world famous, have a stellar brand image, and be at least 50 years old. We're talking about companies that even a layperson knows to be, well, different: the Disneys, the Wal-Marts, the Mercks. Whatever the key to the success of these companies, the key to the success of this book is that the authors don't waste time comparing them to business failures. Instead, they use a control group of "successful-but-second-rank" companies to highlight what's special about their 18 "visionary" picks. Thus Disney is compared to Columbia Pictures, Ford to GM, Hewlett Packard to Texas Instruments, and so on. The core myth, according to the authors, is that visionary companies must start with a great product and be pushed into the future by charismatic leaders. There are examples of that pattern, they admit: Johnson & Johnson, for one. [+]But there are also just too many counter-examples-in fact, the majority of the "visionary" companies, including giants such as 3M, Sony, and TI, don't fit the model. They were characterised by total lack of an initial business plan or key idea and by remarkably self-effacing leaders. Collins and Porras are much more impressed with something else they shared: an almost cult-like devotion to a "core ideology" or identity, and active indoctrination of employees into "ideologically commitment" to the company. The comparison with the business "B" team does tend to raise a significant methodological problem: which companies are to be counted as "visionary" in the first place? There's an air of circularity here, as if you achieve "visionary" status by. achieving visionary status. So many roads lead to Rome that the book is less practical than it might appear. But that's exactly the point of an eloquent chapter on 3M. This wildly successful company had no master plan, little structure, and no prima donnas. Instead it had an atmosphere in which bright people were both keen to see the company succeed and unafraid to "try a lot of stuff and keep what works. " -Richard Farr.
Creator: Chris Freeman
Publication date: 2003-02-26
Dewey code: 330
RRP: £19.95
Price: £18.94
Review Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages / Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-04-07
Dewey code: 658.15
RRP: £62.50
Price: £38.63
Review Modern Project Finance: A Casebook: A Casebook / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 2001-07-01
Dewey code: 330.157
RRP: £18.99
Price: £11.98
Review Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences / Zed Books Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1992-09-24
Dewey code: 322
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.54
Review The State and Revolution (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Edition: 001
Publication date: 2008-06-24
RRP: £39.99
Price: £25.99
Review Management Information Systems / Cengage Learning:
Edition: Revised edition
Publication date: 2000-02-16
Dewey code: 332.750973
RRP: £29.99
Price: £26.86
Review The Vulture Investors / John Wiley & Sons:Just as night follows day, a fall inevitably trails a stock market rise. As the Internet share frenzy reaches its nadir and bankruptcies loom, the vultures start circling. Hilary Rosenberg's delightful Vulture Investors details the work of investors who pick through the carcasses of busted companies. She describes in colourful detail the efforts of Michael Price buying defaulted bonds of Storage Technology Corporation in the mid-1980s. We learn about the early training of junk bond-corporate raider Michael Milken, trading in bankrupt and near-bankrupt companies. This is an updated edition of a book that Rosenberg first published in 1992. She worked for Institutional Investor, the American Vogue magazine for corporate financiers. She skilfully imbues what is basically a dull and sad process into tales of pitched battles between financiers and investors, commenting, "Vultures are a rare breed of investor. They are willing to fly headlong against a blizzard of prevailing opinion, betting that a company on its knees will once again stand up and resume walking. In some cases, they bet that the company will be worth much more dead than alive, and that they will profit when it is sold off in pieces. [+]" Vulture Investors describes many bankruptcies and the processes by which investors have profited. We learn about the saga of the Public Service Company of New Hampshire, which had unfortunately decided to build the Seabrook Nuclear plant just as the tide of public opinion was turning in the early 1980s. Drexel Burnham, the junk-bond specialist, had been called in to raise $150 million in capital to keep the utility ticking along. Rosenberg says that "vulture investor Marty Whitman had concluded that the deal was not viable. It was a ridiculous attempt by Drexel to stave off the inevitable. The $150 million offering, said the veteran vulture in his gritty voice, "was like spitting in the ocean. When the placement memo landed on his desk, it was like a green light flashing, 'Go invest'". Readers will learn why. The book does not offer insight as to where the next arena for vulture investing will occur, and is more useful as an interesting read about characters in the US, and the tricks, techniques and negotiating tactics that worked well in the last decade, but nevertheless, for that alone, it is highly recommended. -Bruce McWilliams.
Edition: 3
Publication date: 2001-10-30
Dewey code: 658.802
RRP: £38.99
Price: £370.98
Review Marketing Communications: Contexts, Strategies and Applications / Financial Times/ Prentice Hall:
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