Sun Tzu's Business & Management Series: Applying Sun Tzu's Art of War in Customer Service, Corporate Planning, Human Resource Management, Marketing, Selling and Winning

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Sun Tzu's Business & Management Series: Applying Sun Tzu's Art of War in Customer Service, Corporate Planning, Human Resource Management, Marketing, Selling and Winning
Khoo Kheng-Hor
Manufacturer: Pelanduk Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 967978827X

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Recognized as the oldest military treatise of all time, Sun Tzu's Art of War has been studied by world leaders, military strategists and business executives all over the world. It is chockfull of practical tips on how ancient generals could win battles in defense of their territories or capture those of others. By drawing inspiration from Sun Tzu's tested strategies and applying them to various aspects of business and management, Khoo Kheng-Hor has managed to translate what is a complicated treatise into readable prose. With this series of books, you will find surviving and thriving in the cut-and-thrust of today's competitive and often combative workplace so much easier.

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Great book on investing

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Okay, I have to ease off a little

Mr. Pond on Channel 23

Great investment guide - especially with rocky stock markets

Your Financial Future: 4 Easy Steps to Successful Investing
Jonathan D. Pond
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Hundreds of thousands of people nationwide already have benifited from the fanancial expertise of Jonathan D. POND---author, speaker, radio and televison host and commentator, and one of america's most respected authorites on investing. In just four easy steps, Pond effectively demystifies the investing process, offering simple, step-by-step guidance for assembling and managing a well diversified portofolio that will enable you to reap substantial monetary rewards without having to pay exorbitant commissions, loads, and management fees.

No matter what your age, means and background---whether you wish to invest $500 or $1million---the key to YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE is 4 EASY STEPS TO SUCESSFUL INVESTING. Here are all the valuable strategies to help you achieve your financial dreams, and in language that is easy to understand and follow, so that any potential investor can effortlessly grasp even the most complex investing concepts

Exploring every viable option---from stocks, bonds and mutual funds to CDs, IRA's, 401(k)s and real estate---Jonathan D. Pond helps your figure out how much to invest, where to invest it, and when and how to rebalance your investment allocation most profitability.

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Great book on investing.......2003-10-30

With such a preponderance of lousy information out there by so called "financial experts", I found it refreshing to read Ponders book and find advice that actually worked.

I also enjoy your commentaries.

Thank you Mr. Ponder!

MORE FOR THE OLDER INVESTOR.......2002-03-11

I agreed with alot of what he had to say,but I think his approach is too conservative for the younger investor.He is very strongly into bond funds and feels that everybody should have at least 6 or 7 different bond funds.Are you kidding me? Why should a 30 year old have bonds at all? I prefer to be a little bit more aggressive at least until I'm 50, then maybe bonds would make more sense.Just my opinion.

Okay, I have to ease off a little.......2000-02-04

I'm going to ease off quite a bit here from the (previous message) on the book and author...there, I've taken most of the headlock squeeze off of little J Jonathan ... and say that I think these books; like JPs for example, can set a good financial foundation for kids, adults, and successfully retire you at 65; BUT if you were wrecked by reading Market Wizards or New Market Wizards where everything else now falls short AND you're now looking to make..... 200 BILLION DOLLARS..... in 3 to 5 years, like ME and DR. EVIL, then it might not work. I'm always looking for the next real level so I toss most stuff back on the shelf. Now where are the REAL experts who can get us THERE? I can hear them laughing already.

Mr. Pond on Channel 23.......1999-04-25

I was watching Mr.Pond's commentary on Business Channel 23 about the great market we've had and three choices if it doesn't stay great: stop loss orders, options, and diversification. He's full of it! I have a page full of blue chip stocks that stopped me out 7% plus, then soared without me. It doesn't work. Most people lose on options and I lost out on thousands to the indexes from being diversified. This guy makes his money selling books. I'll tell him to his face he's full of it.

Great investment guide - especially with rocky stock markets.......1998-10-14

If the very idea of learning about investing gives you a headache, take a deep breath, then relax and read this book. Personal finance expert Jonathan Pond lays out all the strategies clearly and simply, then guides you toward creating a balanced investment portfolio. His chapter, "Oh No! Surviving a Market Decline," will help you sleep nights even when the Dow takes a big dip.

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A must-read book for every CEO-Robert C. Goizueta, CEO, The Coca-Cola Company A brilliant, succinct analysis of the American corporation today. Novak convincingly portrays this much-reviled institution as an unparalleled creator of wealth, mobilizing people and capital to perform innovative, complex tasks, its very independence from government making it a vital bulwark for democracy and liberty.--Forbes

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Correction, should be read by every person in America.......2001-12-06

... and the rest of the western world. This is an incredible book, successfully debunking every anti-corporate myth. Far more than the usual abstract pro-capitalist treatise; it focuses on the single institution that underpins the success of capitalism, AND that is the sole salvation of the Civil Society - the corporation.

should be read by the head of every corporation in America.......2001-03-19

Since at least the 1982 publication of his book, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, Michael Novak has been the leading voice in the effort to reconcile Catholicism and capitalism, an effort which bore spectacular fruit with the 1991 papal encyclical, Centisimus Annus. The tension between the two -isms, though partially a function of the fact that Capitalism is associated with Protestantism, was for the most part a fairly natural result of capitalism's dependence on individualism and self-interest, as opposed to Catholicism's hierarchical and authoritarian structure and Christianity's requirement of selflessness and charity.

The three essays in this collection, originally delivered as the Pfizer Lectures at the American Enterprise Institute, address the future of the corporation, intellectual property rights, and corporate governance. They are unified by the way in which Novak treats business and the corporation as institutions which have important moral roles to play in society. First he discusses the fact that corporations are voluntary associations, which allow individuals to work together in ways that make them more powerful and effective than they could ever be on their own and which serve important social ends :

From the point of view of civil society, the business enterprise is an important social good for four reasons. First, it creates jobs. Second, it provides desirable goods and services. Third, through its profits, it creates wealth that did not exist before. And fourth, it is a private social instrument, independent of the state, for the moral and material support of other activities of civil society.

In fact, he argues, the effectiveness of corporations in providing goods and services, in creating wealth, jobs, and opportunities, and in providing a counterweight to the power of central government, makes them second in importance only to religious organizations in terms of the role they have played in creating and guaranteeing democracy.

In this section he makes the really intriguing point that some of the earliest capitalist corporations were born out of the Catholic monasteries of the Middle Ages. He quotes the great modern Tory historian Paul Johnson to the effect that :

A great and increasing part of the arable land of Europe passed into the hands of highly disciplined men committed to a doctrine of hard work. They were literate. They knew how to keep accounts. Above all, perhaps, they worked to a daily timetable and an accurate annual calendar--something quite alien to the farmers and landowners they replaced. Thus their cultivation of the land was organized, systematic, persistent. And, as owners, they escaped the accidents of deaths, minorities, administration by hapless widows, enforced sales, or transfer of ownership by crime, treason and folly. They brought continuity of exploitation. They produced surpluses and invested them in the form of drainage, clearances, livestock and seed...they determined the whole future of Europe; they were the foundation of world primacy.

This is ingenious both for the insight that the great innovation that these first corporate entities offered was continuity, of a type that was not available to individuals or even to families, and for the way in which it implicates the Church in the creation of capitalism. Novak's writing is characterized by this unique combination of perceptive analysis on general issues combined with more subtle demonstrations that capitalism and Christianity are and have been compatible.

The second section, on intellectual property, is so compelling that it actually made me rethink my position on Napster. Most of us have been tape recording albums, videotaping shows, "borrowing" computer programs, and now burning cd's, for so long that we've become inured to the idea that the underlying products are ours to exploit and that this will have little or no effect on the artists who create this product. Novak draws upon Abraham Lincoln's 1850 Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions in order to make the case that protection for patents and copyrights is one of the central innovations of the American system, one that deserves to be defended. He points out, for instance, that the right of inventors and authors to receive royalties is the only "right" mentioned in the body of the Constitution. It can hardly be a coincidence that the country which affords such creative activity the greatest protection has been the most creative nation. Novak discusses the ways in which these protections, which reward those who are willing to share their ideas and to take risks to develop them into products, have served to benefit not merely the innovators themselves but the society at large, and concludes :

Patent regimes recognize the right of inventors and authors to the fruit of their own labors as a right in common law. They do so because this right serves the common good by stimulating useful inventions and creative works from which a grateful public benefits. Far from protecting private interests at the expense of the common good, patent protection advances the common good by means of private interest. The common good is the end, private interest is the means.

Here again, we see that although it is often blithely assumed that capitalism serves only individual interests, it is in fact the most effective way for society in general to achieve progress.

In the final section, Novak discusses the various threats to the corporation presented by the various efforts to change how they are governed. He cites Michael Oakeshott's differentiation between the "civic association" and the "enterprise association" :

The civic association aims at something larger than any particular end, interest, or good: the protection of a body of general rules and a whole way of life; in other words, the larger framework within which, and only within which, the pursuit of particular ends becomes possible, peaceable, and fruitful. Given such a framework, individuals are free to choose myriad activities. The state is a civic association, he thought, or at least should be; so is the church; and so are many kinds of clubs, charitable organizations, and associations for self-improvement.

... By contrast, Oakeshott noted, the enterprise association is built to attain quite particular purposes... Enterprise associations are focused, purposive, instrumental, and executive: they fix a purpose and execute it.

The problem that corporations (enterprise associations) now face is that politicians and political activists are trying to blur these lines and turn them into civic institutions, with responsibilities for meeting all kinds of political and social purposes. This diffusion of aims, unwise as it may be, is perhaps appropriate for government organizations : if affirmative action and the like are going to be implemented somewhere, better that it be in government which is already moribund. But one need only look at the havoc such social experiments have wreaked on the military [as Stephanie Guttman has done in her excellent book : The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars? (2000)(Stephanie Gutmann) (Grade: B+)] in order to see the disastrous effects of making an organization with a single purpose (being prepared to fight and win) try to satisfy a multitude of political purposes (gender neutrality, acceptance of homosexuals, etc.). Such fiddling by the political class has rendered our once mighty fighting forces politically correct, but much less formidable.

Corporate America now finds itself prey to these same pressures. Already overregulated on the environmental, labor, and other fronts, business finds itself under attack for not being sufficiently socially conscious. They are being asked to ignore the bottom line, to eschew profits, and to instead focus on their role in local communities. It is supposed that society would be better off if corporations were governed so as to "benefit" their employees and their neighbors, and governed in the way that government thinks fashionable at the moment, rather than being run with mere efficiency and profits in mind. One would have thought that the long and disastrous European experiment with Socialism and the spectacular failure of Japan's once vaunted economic planning would have put this argument to rest, but, alas, such is not the case. There will apparently always be a class of activists, politicians, and bureaucrats who believe that they, if given the opportunity, could run the economy. But having seen how inefficiently they run our governments, we should resist them at all costs.

In this book, Michael Novak is really trying to steel business people, to whom the initial lectures were addressed, for this fight. He seeks to warn them that they must not give up the freedom from government interference which has made American industry so uniquely creative an

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MP Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis w/ Online Learning Center w/ PW Card
Edward Blocher , Kung Chen , Gary Cokins , and Thomas Lin
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis, by Blocher/Chen/Cokins/Lin is the first cost accounting text to offer integrated coverage of strategic management topics in cost accounting. The text is written to help students understand more about management and the role of cost management in helping a firm or organization to succeed. This text aims to teach management concepts and methods, and how managers use cost management information to make better decisions and improve their company's competitiveness. In teaching these key management skills, the text takes on a strategic focus. It uncovers issues such as: How does a firm compete? What type of cost management information is needed for a firm to succeed? How does the management accountant develop and present this information? This text helps students learn why, when, and how cost information is used to make effective decisions that lead a firm to success.

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In Search of the Nonprofit Sector

Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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No consensus on IS search.(Search for new president): An article from: The Non-profit Times
Jeff Jones
Manufacturer: NPT Publishing Group, Inc.
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008FVZN8
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from The Non-profit Times, published by NPT Publishing Group, Inc. on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1598 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: No consensus on IS search.(Search for new president)
Author: Jeff Jones
Publication: The Non-profit Times (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: NPT Publishing Group, Inc.
Volume: 16 Issue: 23 Page: 1(2)

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In Search of the Nonprofit Sector I: The Question of Definitions

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In Search of the Nonprofit Sector I: The Question of Definitions
Lester M. Salamon , and Helmut K. Anheier
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In Search of the Nonprofit Sector II: The Problem of Classification

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In Search of the Nonprofit Sector II: The Problem of Classification
Lester M. Salamon , and Helmut K. Anheier
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The private nonprofit sector: facts in search of theory =: Or Toward a field of "institutionalmetrics" (Discussion papers - Institute for Research on Poverty)

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The private nonprofit sector: facts in search of theory =: Or Toward a field of "institutionalmetrics" (Discussion papers - Institute for Research on Poverty)
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A Complete Handbook for Selling Your Own Home
Carole Dietrich
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This book is for the serious seller wanting to maximize time and energy striving for a quick sale netting top dollar. The information covers the practical aspects of a real estate transaction in a well organized process. Using a very organized and systematic approach, A Complete Handbook for Selling Your Own Home teaches you how to prepare not only your house for a sale but also how to prepare yourself. Learn how to set up a detailed marketing plan, do a market analysis, write ad's that get attention and design eye catching brochures. The spiral binding makes it easy to access the worksheets, sample contract with disclosures and addenda, and checklists that are included. All of which come with detailed instructions. Take full advantage of the multiple page glossary and the special section designed to help plan your move. There are no complex strategies or techniques to boggle you. Terminology and procedure may vary depending on where you live but the steps ! should basically be the same.

Renewable Energy Handbook for Homeowners: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Making (and Selling) Your Own Power from the Sun, Wind and Water

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Basic RE and conservation information
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Renewable Energy Handbook for Homeowners: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Making (and Selling) Your Own Power from the Sun, Wind and Water
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These Two Books are Different!.......2005-11-24

I wanted to clarify what the reviewer above says about this book and "Smart Power". This book (The Renewable Energy Handbook) is geared more towards off-grid applications whereas Smart Power is for on-grid folks. Not surprisingly, there is some overlap between the two books but their focus is different, especially since The Renewable Energy Handbook has been revised and updated and is almost twice the size.

Basic RE and conservation information.......2005-09-06

This book is for the novice. Do not buy if you have purchased - Smart Power: An Urban Guide To Renewable energy and efficiency... they are almost identical.

Renewable Energy Handbook for Homeowners.......2005-08-20

i found more useful info on the internet for free

A clear and competent introduction.......2005-03-08

Here is a clear and thorough introduction for anyone interested in home renewable energy and energy efficiency. In my 30 years' professional experience in this field, I've seen good books, bad books, and obsolete books, so I appreciate this one! It's up-to-date for 2005, and will remain useful for years to come. The author gets his priorities straight, putting emphasis on conservation and efficiency, which is the key to making solar power economical. His coverage of system design and components is very good. This book will be useful for students, homeowners, and professionals who need an easy introduction.

The Complete for Sale by Owner Handbook: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Selling Your Own Home and Saving Thousands of $$$ in Real Estate Co

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The Complete for Sale by Owner Handbook: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Selling Your Own Home and Saving Thousands of $$$ in Real Estate Co
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A vivid document of life during the big band era.

Marshal Royal was a core member of the Count Basie Orchestra for twenty years during its resurgence in the 1950's and 1960's. Before that, he was a pioneer of jazz on the West Coast, playing with many bands in and around Los Angeles. A child prodigy of both the violin and saxaphone, Royal was literally born on the road as his musician parents made their way West.

Royal shares his experiences with Les Hite's Band at Sebastian's New Cotton Club, where he worked with jazz legends such as Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller. He became a founding member and "straw boss" of Lionel Hampton's Orchestra after a wartime career in U.S. Navy bands. After leaving Hampton, Royal made countless recordings as a freelancer before joining Basie, where he was responsible for rehearsing the Orchestra. Later, he became internationally known as a soloist while continuing his prolific recording career. His brother, Ernie, who was a star trumpeter in the bands of Woody Herman and Stan Kenton, is also profiled.

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Gathered Stones: Divine Encounters in Everyday Life
Michael L. Lyle
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God communicates relentlessly, and always in the midst of our everyday lives. These true stories reveal some of that awesome communication in one pastor\'s life. Partake and be inspired.

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Eloquently written story of one man's journey to Judaism
thought provoking

Gathered Stones
David Starr-Glass
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Eloquently written story of one man's journey to Judaism.......2003-12-30

Choosing to become Jewish is a very difficult decision and an arduous process for many potential converts. It is rife with the potential of alienating both friends and family in order to become the person that is trapped inside. In Gathered Stones, David Starr-Glass shares the story of his life from his childhood in rural Scotland to his conversion to Judaism and finally, his raising of a family together with his wife. Unlike many converts, Mr. Starr-Glass did not harbor any significant emotional connections to Jews until the day he met his mentor. That meeting initiated a chain of events that led to his ultimate conversion. His path, and hence his story, was not direct, but meandered as he discovered more about himself. As the author puts it, "I simply grew very quiet, and listened to a deep and unarticulated song which seemed to come from within me." Gathered Stones is a very enjoyable, eloquently written autobiography, which many will enjoy.

thought provoking.......1999-01-24

Gathered Stones is a thought provoking look into one person's quest for spiritual fulfillment, and the sometimes labrynthine path that takes. It is a deep book, and while exciting, is not an "easy read". There are passages to savor and dwell on, before allowing the plot to carry you off. Truth is stranger (and often more compelling) than fiction!

Moss Gathered by a Rolling Stone; or, Reminiscences of Travel

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Richard S Ferguson
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Catalogue of ancient and medieval pewters of China and Japan: Old wood carvings, rare helmuts & famous blades, also stone garden ornaments and other objects ... interest gathered on a recent visit to Japan

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Catalogue of ancient and medieval pewters of China and Japan: Old wood carvings, rare helmuts & famous blades, also stone garden ornaments and other objects ... interest gathered on a recent visit to Japan
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Our Horses' Tales: A Collection of Stories and Pictures Gathered By Hope Ranch Riding and Trails Association, Santa Barbara California

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Our Horses' Tales: A Collection of Stories and Pictures Gathered By Hope Ranch Riding and Trails Association, Santa Barbara California
Mary Laurel Stones
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A compendium of horse stories by the Hope Ranch Trails and Riding Association

Where hunters gathered: A study of Holocene Stone Age people in the Eastern Cape (South African Archaeological Society monograph series)

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Where hunters gathered: A study of Holocene Stone Age people in the Eastern Cape (South African Archaeological Society monograph series)
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