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How to be a Billionaire: Proven Strategies from the Titans of Wealth
Martin Fridson Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 047133202X |
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Forget Regis Philbin's Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Martin Fridson's How to Be a Billionaire sets its sights much higher, and therefore seems an even more appropriate (if somewhat less realistic) goal for today's tycoon wannabes. There are some 200 individuals in the U.S. alone who now breathe this rarefied air, writes Merrill Lynch managing director Fridson, and no reason why those who adopt their philosophies cannot join them. To that end, he studied more than a dozen of the self-made super-rich, including Sam Walton, Bill Gates, Wayne Huizenga, and Warren Buffett. He then synthesized their techniques for success into nine strategies: take monumental risks, do business in new ways, dominate your market, consolidate an industry, buy low, thrive on deals, outmanage the competition, invest in political influence, and resist unions. Dividing profiles of these high fliers into chapters focused on their prevailing principles, he shows how each played a critical role in the growth of an empire. Walton didn't invent discounting, for example; he tweaked existing practices for the late-20th-century marketplace. Likewise, Huizenga didn't start individual companies but integrated existing competitors into powerhouse organizations. While Billionaire may not be a true self-help manual, it does offer a fascinating glimpse at tactics used by those who've played the game and won. --Howard RothmanBook Description
"A truly enlightening work filled with fundamental strategies that have worked for others.Martin Fridson documents the essential principles inherent in every billionaire's success."Customer Reviews:
Not for everyone..........2007-01-28
Exceptional addition to any business library..........2006-12-07
That's Right - Shoot for Billion with a "B".......2006-05-11
Great read - well worth your time!.......2006-04-16
The bedside book for every moneymaker and aspiring billionaire!.......2006-03-09
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Intellectual Capital: Core asset for the third millennium
Annie Brooking Manufacturer: International Thomson Business Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1861520239 |
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This is an "ideas" book for managers keen to understand and interpret the nature of a business which principally sells its knowledge: knowledge assets based in its people, systems, brands, intellectual property and other intangibles. Organisations which provide competitive advantage through their use of intangible assets don't fit the classical model. This book shows that intangible assets are becoming as important as tangible assets in a knowledge based service-oriented economy. It provides practical advice on how to identify, document and manage these assets. The book provides a framework for organisations planning for re-engineering and downsizing, a method for determining who and what is valuable to the corporation, given a variety of circumstances. Intellectual Capital will also assist senior managers who want to value or acquire an enterprise where the assets are intangible and are not recorded in their published accounts.Customer Reviews:
The Four Components of Intellectual Capital.......2001-07-14
As known, the subject of intellectual capital appeared on the business world in the 1990s. Patrick H.Sullivan writes, in his 'Value-Driven Intellectual Capital,' "this history actually began in the early 1980s, as managers, academics, and consultants around the world began to notice that a firm's intangible assets, its intellectual capital, were often a mojor determinant of the corporation's profit...By the mid 1990s it was becoming clear that there were two separate but related paths of thinking about intellectual capital. One path, the knowledge and brainpower path, focused on creating and expanding the firm's knowledge. The other path, the resource-based perspective, was concerned with how to create profits from a firm's unique combinations of intellectual and tangible resources."
In this context, Annie Brooking defines intellectual capital as the term given to the combined intangible assets which enable the company to function. And hence, she formulates her first IC concept as 'Enterprise = Tangible Assets + Intellectual Capital.' According to Brooking, the intelectual capital of an enterprise can be split into following four categories:
1. Market assets: all market related intangibles, including brands, customers, customer loyalty, company name, backlog, distribution channels, business collaborations, various contracts and agreements such as licensing, franchises and so on.
2. Intellectual property assets: know-how, trade secrets, copyright, patent, design rights, and trade and service marks.
3. Human-centred assets: education, vocational qualifications, work related knowledge, occupational assessments, psychometrics, and work related competencies.
4. Infrastructure assets: management philosophy, corporate culture, management processes, information technology systems, networking systems, and financial relations.
At last words, she says that "our method brings together intangible assets which most companies already have but fail to manage in a coherent way...Organizations that realize their ability to succeed in the third millennium will be dominated by intangible assets are already putting their intellectual capital teams together."
Highly recommended.
Recommended readings on Intellectual Capital:
* Johan Roos et.al. - Intellectual Capital
* Patrick H.Sullivan - Value-Driven Intellectual Capital
* Thomas A.Stewart - Intellectual Capital
* Leif Edvinsson and Michael S.Malone - Intellectual Capital
* Karl-Erik Sveiby - The New Organizational Wealth
Do We Really Know?.......2000-01-07
The subtitle of Brooking's book introduces her perspective on intellectual capital: "Core Asset for the Third Millennium Enterprise." She identifies four categories of assets: market (the potential an organization has due to market-related intangibles), intellectual property (know-how, trade secrets, copyright, patent, and various design rights), human-centered (talents, skills, experience, loyalty), and infrastructure (whatever brings order, safety, correctness, and quality to an organization).
Throughout Intellectual Capital, Brooking includes a number of "audits" which enable her reader to measure value of an organization's brand, name, backlog, distribution, collaboration, patent(s), copyright(s), design, trade secrets, human-centered assets, employee education, vocational qualification, work related knowledge, occupational assessment, work related competency, corporate learning, management philosophy, corporate culture, information technology systems, database, networking, IT management, and IC management.
Brooking explains HOW to make accurate measurements of these and other intangible assets, and, suggests HOW to manage them with meticulous care. The "Corporate Culture for Collaboration" audit in Chapter 6, all by itself, is well worth the price of the book.
Unless and until organizations accurately measure both their tangible and intangible assets, it will be impossible to determine the real-world value of those organizations. This is especially true as dot.com companies proliferate.
Too good to be true. Another stunner from the mostress........1999-02-06
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Accounting Career Strategies
James V. Felix Manufacturer: Career Planning Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0910595003 |
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Business Professional's Kit for Dummies
Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts Manufacturer: MacMillan Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0764552732 |
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Business Professional's Kit For Dummies is the ultimate how-to manual for making it in the work world. Perfect as a training supplement for new employees or a ready reference for the seasoned professional trying to keep pace with new workplace technology. Coverage includes: handling the shift from paper to electronic media, using the information superhighway to further your business, business etiquette for the new office environment, savvy business travel strategies, and conducting winning presentations and meetings. An enclosed CD-ROM disk has basic business forms and tons of helpful resources. Business Professional's Kit For Dummies also addresses questions and challenges of the self-employed/work-at-home professional such as: setting up a virtual office, managing your taxes, handling insurance, and staying in the office loop when you work off the beaten path. Business Professional's Kit For Dummies is the working person's reference for the new millennium.
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Inside the Minds: Managing for Profits - CEOs from Shuffle Master, BioReliance, AccuCode & More on Key Strategies for Increasing Profits Exponentially in Any Economy (Inside the Minds)
Manufacturer: Aspatore Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1587622211 |
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Inside the Minds: Managing for Profit Centers is an indispensable guide for company leaders in any industry looking to expand their business and grow their profits. Featuring Presidents and CEOs representing some of the nation's fastest growing private companies, this book provides targeted, specific advice from a wide range of leading executives. Authors raise critical points about how to identify a company's main profit centers and strategically build upon these strongholdings. Each chapter articulates key and fundamental strategies for growing profits in both strong, as well as unstable economies, and offers advice on the finer points of business - from leveraging key technologies to effective risk management, touching upon everything in between. This title is a must-read for executives across all industries in search for practical, strategic plans for increasing profits and sustaining long-term business growth.
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The Ultimate How to Book: Strategies for Personal Achievement
Harry Alder Manufacturer: Gower Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0566081512 |
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Career development discussions as a team-building strategy.: An article from: Bank Marketing
Richard Koonce Manufacturer: Bank Marketing Assn. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00097RIZE Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Bank Marketing, published by Bank Marketing Assn. on September 1, 1997. The length of the article is 666 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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Career-building strategies.(for finance officers in public administration): An article from: Government Finance Review
Mark Morgan Manufacturer: Government Finance Officers Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FX4D2 Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Government Finance Review, published by Government Finance Officers Association on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2883 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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Career-building strategies: it's time to do a job assessment. Are your skills helping you the corporate ladder? (Career Skills).: An article from: Strategic Finance
Mark Morgan Manufacturer: Institute of Management Accountants ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008ETPXQ Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Strategic Finance, published by Institute of Management Accountants on June 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2902 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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It's about time: strategies for managing your work priorities.(Careers): An article from: Strategic Finance
Max Messmer Manufacturer: Institute of Management Accountants ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00084C19Q Release Date: 2005-08-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Strategic Finance, published by Institute of Management Accountants on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 885 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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Goal/Objective Setting Profile: Packet of 5
Jon Warner Manufacturer: HRD PRESS, INC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 087425714X |
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Would you like to be more successful at establishing goals, objectives and plans for the future - and sticking to the task? This self-scoring questionnaire assesses your ability in seven competencies that contribute to good or bad goal-setting skills: Vision clarity, direction and target setting, planning and organizing, measurement and milestones, communuication and engagement, motivation and commitment, and results focus. Includes interpretation instructions and a personal action plan to address the issue identified and improve your track record for completion
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Food Supply Chain Management
Michael A. Bourlakis , and Paul W. H. Weightman Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1405101687 |
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Food Supply Chain Management Edited by Michael A. Bourlakis and Paul W. H. WeightmanThe food supply chain is a series of links and inter-dependencies, from farms to food consumers ' plates, embracing a wide range of disciplines. Food Supply Chain Management brings together the most important of these disciplines and aims to provide an understanding of the chain, to support those who manage parts of the chain and to enhance the development of research activities in the discipline.Food Supply Chain Management follows a 'farm to fork ' structure. Each chapter starts with aims and an introduction and concludes with study questions that students in particular will find useful. Topics covered include the food consumer, perceived risk and product safety, procurement, livestock systems and crop production, food manufacture, retailing, wholesaling and catering. Special consideration is also given to supermarket supply networks, third party logistics, temperature controlled supply chains, organic foods and the U. S. food supply chain. A final chapter looks at the future for food supply chain management.Michael Bourlakis and Paul Weightman, the editors and contributors to this timely and fascinating book, have drawn together chapters from leading authorities in this important area, to provide a book that is an essential purchase for all those involved in the supply of food and its study. Those involved in the food supply chain within food companies and in academic establishments, including agricultural scientists, food scientists, food technologists, and students studying these subjects, will find much of great use and interest within its covers. Libraries in all universities and research stations where these subjects are studied and taught should have several copies.Dr Bourlakis and Dr Weightman teach and research at the School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U. K.Also available from Blackwell PublishingThe Microbiological Risk Assessment of FoodS. Forsythe0 632 05952 4HACCPS. Mortimore & amp; C. Wallace0 632 05648 7Listeria, 2nd editionC. Bell & amp; A. Kyriakides1 405 10618 2SalmonellaC. Bell & amp; A. Kyriakides0 632 05519 7International Journal of Food Science & amp; TechnologyPublished 10 times per yearISSN 0950-5423Metal Contamination of Food, 3rd editionC. Reilly0 632 05927 3
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Biomanipulation - Tool for Water Management (Developments in Hydrobiology)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792308603 Release Date: 2007-01-24 |
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Food Supply Chain Management: issues for the hospitality and retail sectors
Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0750647620 |
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The key to the success of a company is their ability to co-ordinate the key supply chain i.e their key suppliers and suppliers of suppliers. 'Food and Drink Supply Chain Management' looks specifically at the supply chain in the food and drink industry to provide readers with an understanding of the areas as it is now and its growing importance, and where it is going in the future.
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Primary Industries Facing Global Markets: The Supply Chains and Markets for Norwegian Food and Forest Products
Manufacturer: Copenhagen Business School Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 8763001926 |
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Quantifying the Agri-Food Supply Chain (Wageningen UR Frontis Series)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1402046928 |
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Due to globalization and internationalization of agri-food production, the arena of competition and competitive advantage is moving from individual firms operating on spot markets towards supply chains and networks. Therefore, coordination between firms within the chain becomes more important. Topics like costs, efficiency, risk and investment analysis have received little empirical attention within chain and network research. Nonetheless, these performance measures are of vital importance for continuity of individual companies, chains and networks. This book aims at offering a coherent view on this matter by discussing the possibilities and limitations of quantifying performance, risks and investments in the agri-food chain. A wide variety of approaches from different economic disciplines was used to analyse the complex systems of agri-food supply chains and develop appropriate models for management decision support. Research gaps and discussion points are identified by an international forum of researchers in order to enhance progress in this field.
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Retailing Logistics & Fresh Food Packaging: Managing Change in the Supply Chain
Kerstin Gustafsson , Gunilla Jonson , David Smith , and Leigh Sparks Manufacturer: Kogan Page ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0749446455 |
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A useful guide to the changes in modern fresh food supply chains and packaging. Demonstrates how to simplify and reorganize supply chains with global case studies and photographs. The supply of fresh food is transforming as production evolves and consumers demand more. Availability of fresh food is vital to the success of modern retailers. Retailing Logistics and Fresh Food Packaging will help organizations and academics understand the latest changes in the industry.
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3PLs add new modes of services: expansions reflect growing and changing customer demands.(News and Trends from Across the Food Supply Chain)(third-party ... Facility): An article from: Food Logistics
Leonard Klie Manufacturer: Cygnus Business Media ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00082TNUS Release Date: 2005-08-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Food Logistics, published by Cygnus Business Media on June 15, 2004. The length of the article is 777 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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Achieving operational excellence. (Technology Trends).(supply chain execution technology): An article from: Food Logistics
Kevin Keith Manufacturer: Cygnus Business Media ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FNC8O Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Food Logistics, published by Cygnus Business Media on October 15, 2002. The length of the article is 760 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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Aggregating the data: demand-driven supply chains require new data management techniques that allow manufacturers to aggregate data from a variety of streams.(supply ... : An article from: Food Logistics
Carol Casper Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000F3UD6I Release Date: 2006-03-21 |
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This digital document is an article from Food Logistics, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1585 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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At The Tip Of Transformation.(supply chain optimization and electronic commerce)(Brief Article): An article from: Food Logistics
Charles C. Poirier Manufacturer: Cygnus Business Media ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008I4YAQ Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Food Logistics, published by Cygnus Business Media on April 15, 2001. The length of the article is 842 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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More Universe at Your Fingertips: Astronomy, Activity and Resource
Manufacturer: Astronomical Society of the Pacific ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1886733988 |
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