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Hedge Fund of Funds Investing: An Investor's Guide
Author Joseph G. Nicholas
Hedge funds have rightly gained the attention of private and institutional investors in recent years, proving themselves as useful portfolio diversifiers and preservers of wealth while greatly dispelling their reputation as an "unsafe" investment. Yet investors atte....
Release Date 2004/01 -
Author Alan Vengel , Greg Wright
Written by two experienced salesmen who have built successful careers while keeping both fun and profitability front and center, "Sprout!" combines practical wisdom with a clever gardening analogy to provide an easy-to-implement model for success.
Release Date 2004/01 -
Author Jeffrey Liker
How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industryIn factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inven....
Release Date 2003/12 -
Author Richard Ferncase
Over the decades, distribution has remained the most elusive aspect of filmmaking. The Web provides filmmakers with a new option for distribution, exhibition, and broadcast. While other media streaming technologies are available, QuickTime remains the most pop....
Release Date 2003/12 -
The Project Management Question and Answer Book
Author Marina N. GRASHINA , Michael W. NEWELL
What is a project charter? How about a work breakdown structure? Do you know the basic steps behind risk quantification? And why is it important to be acquainted with Goldratt’s critical chain theory? The Project Management Question and Answer Book is a one-s....
Release Date 2003/12 -
Everyday Letters for Busy People: Hundreds of Samples You Can Adapt at a Moment's Notice
Author Regina McAloney , Debra Hart May
Here are hundreds of tips, techniques, and samples that will help you create the perfect letter (or e-mail!) no matter what the occasion or circumstance, no matter how little time you have.A phone call, page, or text message may be faster, but sometimes only a lette....
Release Date 2003/12 -
Author Stephen Young
The world is drifting without a clear plan for its economic development. Communism is dead, but in the wake of Enron and similar scandals, many see capitalism as amoral and too easily abused. A blueprint for progress is needed and Moral Capitalism provides one.....
Release Date 2003/12 -
Leadership in Action: Going the Distance: The Challenges of Leading a Dispersed Team
Author Sonya Prestridge , Michael E. Kossler
When team members are spread out in various locations, it presents new obstacles for the team leader. Here are some of the potential pitfalls that leaders of dispersed teams need to look out for and how they can keep them from hindering team performance. ....
Release Date 2003/12 -
Leadership in Action: A Question of Leadership - Under What Circumstances can Leaders Change?
Author Ann Pinney Renn , Claudia Busch Lee
If leaders can identify the desired behaviors, measure and reinforce those behaviors, and establish supportive consequences, they can create the circumstances under which change can occur.
Release Date 2003/12 -
The New Solution Selling, 2nd Edition
Author Keith M. Eades
THE MARKET-PROVEN PRINCIPLES OF SOLUTION SELLING FOR TODAY'S HIGH-SPEED, HIGHER-PRESSURE SALES ENVIRONMENTThe long-awaited sequel to Solution Selling, one of history's most popular selling guidesNearly 10 years ago, the influential bestseller Solution Selling lite....
Release Date 2003/11 -
Guide to LaTeX, Fourth Edition
Author Patrick W. Daly , Helmut Kopka
Published Nov 25, 2003 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting series. The series editor may be contacted at [email protected]. LaTeX is the text-preparation system of choice for scientists and acade....
Release Date 2003/11 -
Handbook of the Economics of Finance
Author Rene M. Stulz , M. Harris , George M. Constantinides
Volume 1A covers corporate finance: how businesses allocate capital - the capital budgeting decision - and how they obtain capital - the financing decision. Though managers play no independent role in the work of Miller and Modigliani, major contributions in f....
Release Date 2003/11 -
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Marketing, 2nd edition, 2nd Edition
Author Sarah White
From online marketing to old-fashioned word-of-mouth, readers will find a comprehensive update on key marketing basics, as well as such topics as: € Guerilla marketing€ Marketing to Boomers and Latinos€ Online marketing€ Targeted-but-affordable direct mail€ Sample m....
Release Date 2003/11 -
Getting Bigger by Growing Smaller: A New Growth Model for Corporate America
Author Thomas T. Stallkamp , Joel M. Shulman
Large, mature companies always become trapped at some point in the declining stages of what has become known as the corporate life cycle. Historically this barrier to continued growth has been, and is still, as unavoidable as death and taxes.In Getting Bigger by Gro....
Release Date 2003/10 -
WebDAV: Next-Generation Collaborative Web Authoring
Author Lisa Dusseault
WebDAV: Next-Generation Collaborative Web Authoring is the complete guide to Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), the IETF standard for Web authoring and wide area collaboration. Experienced implementer Lisa Dusseault covers WebDAV from bits on t....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Author Wendy Taylor , Chris Pirillo , John C. Dvorak
Online! The Book"If you go online, see how much more you can gain, without the pain. Fascinating, fun, and delightfully written. The invaluable tool for everyone that makes you laugh out loud to read." --Scott Cook, Founder and Chairman of Intuit Software"There is o....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Agile Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer
Author Scott Ambler
Describes Agile Modeling Driven Design (AMDD) and Test-Driven Design (TDD) approaches, database refactoring, database encapsulation strategies, and tools that support evolutionary techniquesAgile software developers often use object and relational database (RDB) tec....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Leadership in Action: Reader Forum - The Creation of a Leader in Shakespeare's "Henry V"
Author Sharon Discorfano
As the Royal Shakespeare Company production made clear, there are people and there are events, and then there is the way those people and events are construed. The ideal? Henry V: charismatic, eloquent, inspiring, and capable of leading others to victory as he stand....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Leadership in Action: Class Acts: When Leaders are Teachers, Good Things Happen
Author Edward Betof
More and more companies seeking a systematic approach to leadership development are creating corporate universities. At least one company has instituted as an integral element of its corporate university the practice of having most of the programs taught by the orga....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Leadership in Action: In Focus - Leader Development - Personal Lives, Powerful Lessons
Author Patricia J. Ohlott , Marian N. Ruderman
Most leaders say they get their most influential and effective developmental training on the job. Too often, however, these same leaders discount what can be learned from experiences outside of work.
Release Date 2003/10 -
Cisco Security Professional's Guide to Secure Intrusion Detection Systems
Author Syngress
Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, and its Intrusion Detection Systems line of products is making in roads in the IDS market segment, with major upgrades having happened in February of 2003.Cisco Security Professional's Guid....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results
Author Eli Schragenheim , David J. Anderson
"This book does a good job of describing the methods employed at Sprintpcs.com ... over 250 people practicing Feature Driven Development and reporting their progress to me at the monthly operations review." --Scott B. Relf, Chief Marketing Officer, Sprint PCS"A trem....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Supply Chains: A Manager's Guide
Author Ph.D. David A. Taylor
“An excellent summary of the state of supply chain management going into the twenty-first century. Explains the essential concepts clearly and offers practical, down-to-earth advice for making supply chains more efficient and adaptive. Truly a survival guide for exe....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Author Dr. Marlene Caroselli
In an age of ethical decay at organizations of every type, a call is being sounded for accountabiliy. Accordingly, companies must educate their employees and executives regarding acceptable practice. The Business Ethics Activity Book presents an array of provocativ....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Translating Strategy into Shareholder Value
Author Raymond J. Trotta
Too often there are serious missed signals between a company’s stated goals and the methods employed to try to reach them. Translating Strategy into Shareholder Value is a unique look at how the planning process relates to the achievement of shareholder value....
Release Date 2003/09