How to Grow Your Business Without Driving Yourself Crazy (Grow Your Business Without Driving Yourself Crazy, 1)

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The larger your company grows, the tougher it can be to grow yet larger. This book tells how to tackle the barriers to growth encountered by most successful small businesses. The practical tools are derived from the author's work with over 1,000 business owners over 20 years. Also excellent for start-ups and managers of larger companies and organizations.

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Easy to read, full of tools and great information........2003-04-03

The book provides all the tools and information that a small business owner needs to overcome self-defeating business patterns, solve problems, grow, and become more profitable. Sections of the book are set up to guide the reader through the process, step by step, while overcoming barriers, setting up a plan of action and staying on track. The book is full of questions that the business owner needs to ask him/herself in order to move to the next level and beyond. Not full of theory learned in business school, but practical, useful, clear knowledge from the school of hard knocks. Style is chatty and interesting with tools, charts, tips, tables and humorous drawings.

Best Business Book I Ever Read!.......2003-01-24

This book has set me free! I have a small business and I was working all the time with never enough time to do everthing that is required. With Mike's very helpful guidance I now get more done and have a life outside of work. This book can be of great help to any small business owner.

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Invaluable resource.......2000-09-10

This guide was of invaluable assistance to me in forming my new corporation. It makes what can be a daunting task seem relatively simple: it is clearly written, well-organized, and extremely thorough, and its tone is friendly and encouraging. Not only does it have the (correct!) phone numbers, addresses, and fax numbers for all the relevant filing agencies, but any forms that you might need are available electronically, at no additional cost, from the author. Staff is also available by phone to answer questions; I called several times and found them to be consistenly helpful and responsive. I can't recommend this book highly enough if you are planning to start your own business!

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Authoritative and comprehensive yet concise and convenient, this is the definitive single volume reference guide to the management sciences. In 1400 entries totalling half a million words, it covers all the concepts, terminology and techniques of management theory and practice.Compiled by an international team of editors from eleven of the world's top business schools, it provides definitions and discussions written by leading researchers at Harvard, Stanford, Duke, London Business School and many other leading institutions.Entries range between concise definitions of terms and longer 5,000 word essays reviewing today's understanding of central concepts in management theory. Throughout, the book combines academic rigor with clarity and accessibility.For the student of business and management, the Concise Encyclopaedia will be an essential vade mecum for their studies; for the specialist, it offers insights from leading researchers; for the working manager it will be a one stop guide to today's management theory.

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The Concise Dictionary of Management
David A. Statt
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Blackwell's Concise Encyclopedia of Environmental Management

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Blackwell's Concise Encyclopedia of Environmental Management

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Drawing on entries from The Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management, this dictionary will provide a quick reference for those working in the field of environmental management - consultants, planners, environmental advisors in industry. Around 650 key terms will be defined in language that can easily be understood by the non-expert. Key acronyms will be included. Socio/economic terms will be discussed as well as scientific terms.

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A Concise Dictionary of Business

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0192116673

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This entirely new compilation of over 4000 entries is intended for a wide range of business students, businesspeople, and the experts who advise them. All the traditional areas of business are covered--accountancy, commerce, shipping, insurance, advertising, management, industrial relations,
and banking--as well as the new terminology that has grown up around the globilization of stock, commodity, and financial markets. Here, for example, are the meanings of "dead-cat bounce," death-valley curve," "degearing," "drop-dead fee," and "drop lock." The dictionary will also be an indepensable
aid to business in the European Community, featuring such terms as "ECU," "ERM," "Euro-ad," and "eurobond." In addition to these strictly business terms, the dictionary also provides concise explanations of controversial terms in economics, such as "economic growth," and "Laffer curve"; and of the
terms a businessperson might be expected to understand in the fields of computing and printing. This book will be of interest to business students at all levels and professionals in all areas of business.

The Concise Dictionary of Business Management

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The Concise Dictionary of Business Management
David Statt
Manufacturer: Routledge
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With increased coverage in areas like human relations management, business economics, corporate strategy, financial management, information technology, and management accounting and marketing, this second edition of The Concise Dictionary of Business Management has been completely revised and updated to reflect the changing world of work and new technology. It has been expanded to include many new terms and buzzwords such as: contracting out, telecommuting, occupational choice, glass ceiling, superwoman, electronic brainstorming, internet and virtual corporation. It is the ideal quick reference guide for students and professionals wanting to cut through the jargon of business and management.

Concise Dictionary of Business Terminology (A Spectrum book)

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Concise Dictionary of Business Terminology (A Spectrum book)
Albert G. Giordano
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Dictionary Longman Concise of Business English

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Dictionary Longman Concise of Business English
J. H. Adam
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Fast Focus on Tqm: A Concise Guide to Companywide Learning

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Fast Focus on Tqm: A Concise Guide to Companywide Learning
Derm Barrett
Manufacturer: Productivity Press
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ASIN: 1563270498

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Finally, here's one source for all your TQM questions. Compiled in this concise, easy-to-read handbook are definitions and detailed explanations of over 160 key terms used in TQM. Organized in a simple alphabetical glossary form, the book can be used either as a primer for anyone being introduced to TQM or as a complete reference guide. It helps to align teams, departments, or entire organizations in a common understanding and use of TQM terminology. For anyone entering or currently involved in TQM, this is one resource you must have.

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Good book!.......2000-04-09

Nice bok... better if u read it

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Key Business Concepts: A Concise Guide
Bengt Karlof
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Performed at home, the Shabbat ritual draws observant Jews together each week. This rite of communal and religious affirmation is also a time for celebration--work ceases and family and friends gather for prayer and feasting. Though many cookbooks explore Shabbat food, none has done so more comprehensively and with greater savvy than Shabbat Shalom, cookbook editor Susan Friedland's collection of 175 recipes for every course of the Friday and Saturday Shabbat meals. Certain to be welcomed by all those who cook for the Shabbat, the book will also appeal to anyone interested in exemplary versions of Jewish-American dishes for everyday enjoyment.

But Shabbat Shalom goes further. Embracing the cooking of the entire Diaspora, the book not only offers familiar, Eastern-European-derived treats like roast chicken, brisket, kugels, and the slow-cooking stews called cholents, but also "new" Shabbat dishes like Duck with Pomegranate and Walnut Sauce from Iran, Lamb Tagine from Morocco, Cauliflower Pie from Italy, and Halibut in Lemon-Egg Sauce from the eastern Mediterranean, among other easily made entrées. Challah recipes are included, as are recipes for pareve desserts--simple but delicious sweets like Apple-Honey Brown Betty, Banana Sorbet, and a truly seductive chocolate mousse. With graceful notes on Sabbath history and observance and useful menus for year-round menu planning, Shabbat Shalom is an indispensable guide to the meaning of the Shabbat and the pleasures of its table. --Arthur Boehm

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Recently, more and more Jewish families and singles have embraced the meal and its ceremonies as an occasion to draw together to affirm their faith and renew their common ties. Shabbat Shalom features both classics, like brisket, kugels, and cholents, and contemporary dishes, like Chicken with Pomegranates and Walnuts and Curried Meatballs.

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Among the very few religious rituals performed in the home, the Sabbath stands at the center of Jewish religious observance. Recently, more and more Jewish families and singles have embraced the meal and its ceremonies, as an occasion to draw together to affirm their faith and renew their common ties. From an acclaimed cookbook author and editor comes the first comprehensive book of recipes and menus for the Jewish Sabbath meal. 175+ recipes.

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An excellent addition to the Jewish cookbook collection........2001-08-11

This book is inspiring. It is filled with recipes that help set apart Shabbat as a special, sacred day. I loved the text and anecdotes peppered throughout, but the food is the star here. The recipes are consistently elegant and innovative, and the menu suggestions at the back of the book are useful. While the food is sophisticated, many recipes are not time-consuming. It's nicely organized into appropriate sections as well.

New recipes for the day of rest.......2000-08-01

Susan Friedland is a cookbook editor at HarperCollins, so she knows a tad about recipe books and a lot about frying onions. She is also the author of The Passover Table. With humor, Friedland updates the Shabbat dinner menu from just brisket, matza balls, and roast chicken (which are included), and adds innovations like Spinach Soup; Sorrel Stuffed eggs; or Fish Cocktail-UNCLE Louie, which is a kosher version of Crab Louis; Chickpeas with Braised Codfish; Pears Poached in Red Wine; Duck in pomegranate and walnuts; and Vegetarian Cholents. I especially liked the Chicken and Macaroni dish from Brooklyn's Aleppo / Halab / Syrian-Jewish community, or better yet, the fattoush shabbat salad (cucumbers, garlic, mint, olive oil, and scallions); and the pot roast braised in vinegar. Oh, and did I mention that Freidland also includes a recipe for Gundi, the Iranian Jewish shabbat meatball soup.

Shabbat Shalom.......2000-03-24

Great recipes that add some diversity to the shabbat. Provides some totally new but festive meals to my table. I highly recommend this book for an addition to your cookbook library.

Shabbat Shalom : Recipes and Menus for the Sabbath

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Shabbat Shalom : Recipes and Menus for the Sabbath
Susan R. Freidland
Manufacturer: Little, Brown
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A practical manual on futures & options

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Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, Fifth Edition (Solutions Manual)
John Hull , and John C. Hull
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Great help on the course!.......2004-01-23

There are many exercises after each chapter of Hull's book and they help a lot in understanding the chapter's content and many questions are very classic. You've got to have this solution manual to know the answers! More importantly, many of the homework questions and even exam questions in my class were very similar to the exercises and I benefited a lot from having this solutions manual! Thank you!

A practical manual on futures & options.......2002-10-27

Well, what can I say. Hull's solutions manual is practical but not entirely useful book. I need more professional solved cases, specially of the real life. The exercises are very simple. Any way, it's a good manual for beginners in derivatives instruments.

Solutions manual; Options Futures ..........2000-05-24

clearly the best reference for a derivative trader...

Review of Oprions, Futures and Derivatives: Solution Manual.......2000-04-15

Hull's Solution Manual is an excellent addition to the text. It allows an individual to do problems following each chapter with in depth answers that may not be provided by professors. The questions and answers allow for understanding the material.

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This new book will help readers improve their investment performance in any market environment. It focused on intelligent investing approaches for every portion of a portfoliovalue stocks, high-octane stocks, international securities, mutual funds, bonds and folios.

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Corporate Power and Social Responsibility: A Blueprint for the Future
Neil H. Jacoby; Foreword Arthur F. Burns
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Corporate Power and Social Responsibility: A Blueprint for the Future
Neil H. Jacoby , and Neil H. Jacobi
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ASIN: 0029159407

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One of America's most distinguished economists, Neil H. Jacoby has served as a public member of the Phase II pay board, an economic adviser to President Eisenhower, founding dean of UCLA's Graduate School of Management, and a consultant to numerous government agencies and private corporations. In Corporate Power And Social Responsibility he gives a thorough, objective "social assessment" of the American corporation. He identifies trends which point to a changing corporate role at home and abroad and he offers creative reforms of corporate and public policy which will promote a more "just, efficient, creative and democratic society."

Jacoby finds no evidence to support New Left charges that the U.S. has become a "corporate state." In fact, he says, corporate political power is waning, conglomeration is tapering off, the corporate share of the nation's wealth is holding steady at 28%.

Competition, says Jacoby, is on the increase. Where price and quality of materials and manufacturing were once the only factors, mushrooming technology, new business practices and new markets have created new competitive pressures. An increasing variety of product features, services, warranties, credit terms and trade-in allowances have multiplied consumer choices. As a smaller and smaller proportion of personal income is spent on necessities, competition between different kinds of products has become more important (should discretionary income go for a sail boat or a trip to Europe?). In many industries, increasing competition from foreign manufacturers is a factor. Rapid changes in business practices and technology have even made potential competition from entering firms and new products an important consideration.

Still, Jacoby sees much need for improvement. He proposes measures to increase the political power of the consumer, upgrade the performance of boards of directors, expand the involvement of stockholders in company decision-making, encourage environmental responsibility, and make defense companies function efficiently.

For the future, Jacoby predicts the continued decline of corporate power as government regulation expands and new, competing interest blocs spring up. At the same time corporations will become more responsive to changing social values and priorities. The rapid growth of multinational firms, he believes, will increase the stability of the world order and promote the growth of regional and world-wide political organization.

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Evan Lieberman's analysis focuses on the politics of taxation as a way of understanding the development of governments. He compares Brazil and South Africa because of their similarities: They are upper-middle-income countries, and highly unequal--both in terms of income and racial status. Lieberman argues that different constitutional approaches to race (whether or not to grant equal citizenship to blacks) and federalism (whether to have it or not) shaped the organization of politics in the two countries, leading to the development of very different tax systems. The findings are based on extensive field research, large-scale national surveys, macroeconomic data, and various archival and secondary sources.

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Given his background, President Truman was an unlikely champion of civil rights. Where he grew up—the border state of Missouri—segregation was accepted and largely unquestioned. Both his maternal and paternal grandparents had owned slaves, and his mother, victimized by Yankee forces, railed against Abraham Lincoln for the remainder of her ninety-four years. When Truman assumed the presidency on April 12, 1945, Michael R. Gardner points out, Washington, DC, in many ways resembled Cape Town, South Africa, under apartheid rule circa 1985.

Truman’s background notwithstanding, Gardner shows that it was Harry Truman—not Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, or John F. Kennedy—who energized the modern civil rights movement, a movement that basically had stalled since Abraham Lincoln had freed the slaves. Gardner recounts Truman’s public and private actions regarding black Americans. He analyzes speeches, private conversations with colleagues, the executive orders that shattered federal segregation policies, and the appointments of like-minded civil rights activists to important positions. Among those appointments was the first black federal judge in the continental United States.

One of Gardner’s essential and provocative points is that the Frederick Moore Vinson Supreme Court—a court significantly shaped by Truman—provided the legal basis for the nationwide integration that Truman could not get through the Congress. Challenging the myth that the civil rights movement began with Brown v. Board of Education under Chief Justice Earl Warren, Gardner contends that the life-altering civil rights rulings by the Vinson Court provided the necessary legal framework for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Gardner characterizes Truman’s evolution from a man who grew up in a racist household into a president willing to put his political career at mortal risk by actively supporting the interests of black Americans.

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Informative But In Dire Need of Editing.......2004-09-02

In reading Gardner's book, I learned a lot about Truman's impressive record as a civil rights advocate during his tenure as president. Gardner presents more than ample evidence to support his thesis that HST demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to Black civil rights, despite weak (white) public interest in this issue and the political risks of alienating a powerful block of Dixiecrats. He is successful in describing the many facets of racism -- rigid segregation, voter intimidation, lynching, all-white juries, etc. -- that African Americans encountered as they returned home after presumably fighting for 'freedom and democracy' in WWII. Truman, he aptly shows, refused to ignore the glaring contradiction between U.S. ideals and practices, and understood that racism on the home front undermined the country's foreign policy goals.

Gardner is, however, so preoccupied with establishing HST as a moral and courageous leader that he tends to neglect elements of Truman's social and political environment that made it possible for him to advance a civil rights agenda and indeed, get elected in 1948 against all the odds. For example, there WAS a legacy of Black resistance to oppression by this time... and not just the nascent stirrings of a civil rights movement to which Gardner alludes. Marvey Garvey had fired the imaginations and aspirations of tens of thousands of Blacks with the organziation of the UNIA. The NAACP was well-established and published The Crisis under the editorship of W.E.B. DuBois. Langston Hughes offered up brilliant poetry and fiction that touched on the sting of Black experience in a racist America. Billie Holiday recorded the haunting song about lynching, "Strange Fruit." And of course, there were liberal Euro-Americans who genuinely believed in racial equality and human rights, just as Truman did. There is no way he could have pulled off his victory in the 1948 election without deep connections to and alliances with moderate and liberal supporters.

Gardner points out that Truman's hands were tied by Republicans and conservative Democrats in Congress when it came to passing civil rights legislation. Instead, the president showed great political savvy by using his Executive Order powers (as he did when he desegregated the armed services) and appointing like-minded friends to the courts. One was Fred Vinson, who became Truman's chief justice and presided over a handful of Supreme Courts cases that laid the groundwork for the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954. Gardner provides a compelling description of these cases in Chapter 11, "Truman and the Vinson Court."

This book does have one major flaw, and a couple reviewers have made reference to it. Gardner repeats himself ad naseum, making the same point over and over in the same chapter and sometimes across chapters. Too much of the time, I felt like I was reading an unedited dissertation. For example, Garder (appropriately) uses quotes from a variety of primary sources, but then, rather than clarifying or elaborating on the points made in the quote, he writes virtually the same thing in a follow-up paragraph. The repetition was VERY annoying, and I found myself barely skimming sections of the book in search of the next substantive point.

Overall, there is certainly enough substance in the book to make it worth reading. Gardner does shed valuable light on Truman's civil rights record. A good editor, however, would have made for a much better reading experience.

A Marvelous Story about a True Civil Rights Hero.......2003-07-11

I bought this book after seeing Mr. Gardner on CNN and I couldn't stop reading it until I was done. As a native Missourian, Gardner eloquently tells the story of a brilliant, humble President who is our Country's little known civil rights hero. Gardner does a masterful job detailing Truman's politically fearless efforts while marvelously weaving in Truman's personal letters, thoughts and life experiences. Gardner captures Truman's political triumphs and personal victories brilliantly. Truman and Gardner's book make me proud to be a Missourian. I highly recommend this book to everyone!

Doesn't Do The Subject Justice.......2003-05-23

Gardner has examined one facet of Harry Truman, probably the most important and significant facet of Truman's time in office, which was his willingness to risk power for a moral imperative - the equality of all Americans. Even though David McCullough talks about it in his book "Truman," HST still has received far too little credit for his role as a major catalyst of the modern civil rights movement, mainly because it didn't "take root" for about ten years after he left office. But this in no way detracts from the significance of Truman's courage, which was demonstrated by his willingness to split the Democratic party and thereby risk the 1948 election for what he felt was something that was not only politically necessary, but, quite simply, morally right (although unpopular). It was HST's Civil Rights Commission and his Executive Order integrating the armed forces that finally gave the US Civil Rights movement the inertia it needed to overcome the gravity of American tradition which was still flourishing in the form of "Jim Crow."

I was not especially impressed by the writing skills of Gardner. There is far too much repetition, and not enough anecdote...especially about the African American servicemen who were being lynched as they returned from WWII. It was this inconceivable injustice that provided the moral imperative that struck Harry Truman so hard and caused him to take the steps he took. As a result, WWII became THE seminal event in 20th Century US History.

A MUST READ.......2002-12-08

A crucial aspect of American history finally told. Truman is an American hero and Gardner captures the courageousness of Truman's civil rights crusade in a compelling fashion. This important story is a must read -- and a fantastic holiday gift!

Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political R.......2002-05-05

A marvelous book that captures the seldom recognized strength and courage of this civil rights pioneer President. Prof. Gardner eloquently tells of Truman's ground breaking and couragous actions that changed the landscape of civil rights within the United States. Every American should read this book and learn about how Truman's moral convictions guided him and gave him the unwavering strength to take on widespread racist in the US without fear. Truman's story is an inspiration -- from his endearing and solid relationships with his wife and mother, to his passionate speeches before the NAACP and on the Lincoln Memorial steps. Prof. Gardner has truly painted a fabulous portrait of this remarkable President. This book is a must read!

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An invisible patch of "black ice" starts David W. Fierce's head-on collision with life. At first deep in coma, and later struggling to perform the simplest tasks we all take for granted, David was forced to start over.

Packed with eye-opening insight into the developing mind of a head injury survivor, Surviving Black Ice offers help and understanding to all survivors and those that care about them.

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