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What Is Strategy? (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Today's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity, quality, and speed, managers have embraced tools such as TQM, benchmarking, and reengineering. Dramatic operational improvements have resulted, but rarely have these gains translated into sustainable profitability. And gradually, the tools have taken the place of strategy. As managers push to improve on all fronts, they move further away from viable competitive positions. Michael Porter argues that operational effectiveness, although necessary to superior performance, is not sufficient, because its techniques are easy to imitate. In contrast, the essence of strategy is choosing a unique and valuable position rooted in systems of activities that are much more difficult to match..
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Discussion Guide: Jim Collins' Good To Great -- The Book That Followed Built To Last
Given the enormous success of Built To Last, which Jim Collins wrote with Jerry Porras, there has been intense interest in Jim's follow-up work, Good To Great. Collins led a team of people to investigate how companies successfully moved a good organization into a great one. This SuccessTools discussion guide was developed to share a number of critical lessons from the new book, including: 1) why it's important to pick the right people, 2) why you have to face brutal facts, 3) why you need a simple concept to drive your entire business, 4) why it's crucial to become rigorously disciplined, and 5) why technology is best used to accelerate, not steer, a business. SuccessTools is a BH SmartDoc which provides a way to think about and start a key element on a management to-do list. BH SmartDocs are published by BrownHerron Publishing and are sold exclusively by Amazon.com..
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ExamWise® Volume 1 CFA 2008 Level I Certification With Preliminary Reading Assignments For Chartered Financial Analyst (With Download Software) (Examwise)
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Start Here to pass the CFA Level I exam Use This Concept Check 400 Question and Answer Workbook to Study for the 2008 Chartered Financial Analyst Level 1 Exam It is critical that you design a successful study program. There are no short cuts to passing the CFA exam, and pass rates have been falling. It is a tough exam and you will need to both learn the underlying material and do plenty of practice questions that test your knowledge and prepare you for the CFA-style question and answer format. This Volume 1 workbook is just what the title states. It has 400 questions that cover the 76 Reading Assignments for 2008 CFA Level I. It teaches you the basic concepts covered in the CFA Preliminary Readings and tests your understanding of them, preparing you to move on to more advanced study materials. It includes Concept Check questions, with explanations and references related to specific LOS statements, and is accompanied by a free download test engine that generates multiple mock exams. This unbeatable package of comprehensive Preliminary Reading Assignments and Concept Check Questions includes: 400 Concept Check Questions covering all 18 exam study sessions and 76 learning outcome statements. Helpful tips and time management techniques to calm your pre-exam jitters and put you in control. FREE DOWNLOAD of the exclusive TotalRecallPress.com Self-Help and Interactive Exam Study Aid. Our interactive test engine generates randomized mock exams designed to identify your strengths and weaknesses so you can determine where best to allocate your limited study time. Membership access at Customized Forum Associates www.FinancialCertification.com. FREE communication and collaboration with current financial candidates from around the world in our Forums area. Users can view, post, and reply to messages relating to specific financial topics or general interest. For an additional set of 500 unique practice Questions you will want to purchase the following companion that covers all 18 Study Sessions with each of the 76 Learning Outcome Statements. ExamWise Volume 2 CFA 2008 Level I Certification: Concept Check Q & A Workbook For Chartered Financial Analyst (with Download Practice Exam Software) ISBN # 978-1-59095-949-7 Authors: Jane Vessey, Afdal Pamilih, and David Stewart are CFA's with combined experience in venture capital, asset management and valuation, structural reorganization, and private client management. They have extensive experience in teaching CFA online, college, and professional development courses. Their books, articles, manuals, practice exams, analysis, commentary, and study guides have appeared widely in the financial management, securities, and exam preparation industries..
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Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration
Few things are more misunderstood and cause more fear and suspicion than the combination of female sexuality and the Internet Naked on the Internet explores how women use cyberspace, personally and professionally, to learn about themselves, connect with others, and make a living. Author Audacia Ray then goes further, examining the Internet as a valuable — though often problematic — sexual space. Ray combines her insider's knowledge with the voices of a variety of women whose firsthand experiences include camming, chatting, and making websites; dating, hooking up, and forming friendships; sex and relationship blogging; and making porn and doing other forms of sex work. She also examines the power of sexual health and online support communities and the technology that enables physical sexual encounters. Naked on the Internet is a guide to the ways women use, experience, and cash in on the Internet, as well as a critical analysis of the empowering and oppressive aspects of women's online experiences. .
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Really Bad PowerPoint: (and how to avoid it)
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Building Strategy Maps
Balanced Scorecard strategy maps help organizations see their strategies in a cohesive, integrated, and systematic way, overcoming the limitations of purely financial measurement systems by clearly portraying the value-creating processes and critical roles for intangible assets. This chapter introduces the task of building a strategy map, which describes the process of transforming intangible assets into tangible customer and financial outcomes, and provides executives with a framework for describing and managing strategy in a knowledge economy..
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ExamWise® Volume 2: CFA 2008 Level I Certification: The Candidates 500 Question Concept Check Q & A Workbook For Chartered Financial Analyst (With Download Software)
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Start Here to pass the CFA Level I exam! This CFA 2008 Volume 2 workbook includes 500 Concept Check questions, with explanations and references related to specific LOS statements, and is accompanied by a free download test engine that generates multiple mock exams. It is critical that you design a successful study program. There are no short cuts to passing the CFA exam, and pass rates have been falling. It is a tough exam and you will need to both learn the underlying material and do plenty of practice questions that test your knowledge and prepare you for the CFA style question and answer format. This unbeatable package of Unique and Detailed Concept Check Questions includes: 500 Plus Concept Check Questions covering all 18 exam study sessions and 76 learning outcome statements. Helpful tips and time management techniques to calm your pre-exam jitters and put you in control. FREE DOWNLOAD of the exclusive FinancialExams.com Self-Help and Interactive Exam Study Aid. Our interactive test engine generates randomized mock exams designed to identify your strengths and weaknesses so you can determine where best to allocate your limited study time. Membership access at Customized Forum Associates www.FinancialCertification.com. FREE communication and collaboration with current financial candidates from around the world in our Forums area. Users can view, post, and reply to messages relating to specific financial topics or general interest. For an additional set of 400 unique practice Questions you will want to purchase the following companion that covers Reading Assignments and all 18 Study Sessions with each of the 76 Learning Outcome Statements. ExamWise Volume 1 CFA 2008 Level I Certification: Concept Check Q & A Workbook with Preliminary Reading Assignments For Chartered Financial Analyst (with Download Practice Exam Software) ISBN # 978-1-59095-945-9 Authors: Jane Vessey, M. Afdal Pamilih, and David Stewart are CFA's and Financial Instructors with combined experience in venture capital, asset management and valuation, structural reorganization, and private client management. They have extensive experience in teaching CFA online, college, and professional development courses. Their books, articles, manuals, practice exams, analysis, commentary, and study guides have appeared world wide in the financial management, securities, and exam prepration industries..
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Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Boards of directors typically believe that transforming a company from merely good to truly great requires a larger-than-life personality--an egocentric chief to lead the corporate charge. Think "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap or Lee Iacocca. In fact, that's not the case, says author and leadership expert Jim Collins. The essential ingredient for taking a company to greatness is having a "Level 5" leader at the helm--an executive in whom extreme personal humility blends paradoxically with intense professional will. Collins paints a compelling and counterintuitive portrait of the skills and personality traits necessary for effective leadership. He identifies the characteristics common to Level 5 leaders: humility, will, ferocious resolve, and the tendency to give credit to others while assigning blame to themselves. Collins fleshes out his Level 5 theory by telling colorful tales about 11 such leaders from recent business history. He contrasts the turnaround successes of outwardly humble, even shy, executives like Gillette's Colman M. Mockler and Kimberly-Clark's Darwin E. Smith with those of larger-than-life business leaders like Dunlap and Iacocca, who courted personal celebrity. The jury is still out on how to cultivate Level 5 leaders and whether it's even possible to do so, Collins admits. Some leaders have the Level 5 seed within; some don't. But Collins suggests using the findings from his research to strive for Level 5--for instance, getting the right people on board and creating a culture of discipline. "Our own lives and all that we touch will be better for the effort," he concludes..
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