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Why the Markets Went Crazy: And What It Means for Investors
Tim Lee
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Tim Lee has a unique insight into the workings of the stock market bubble of 1995-2000 and the implications for the future. He argues that the bubble of the dot.com era reveals far more than has been realized. Deep-seated flaws in the whole investment process used by the big fund managers are increasingly coming to light, as well as mistakes by policy makers and central banks. He suggests that in the future, inflation will return and the US dollar will inevitably collapse. Tim Lee was right at the center of the boom and has much of value to say to professional investors as well as anybody trying to understand this and the long term consequences.
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Have you ever wondered why you feel at home in some places but not in others? Or why you feel uneasy in a room you have never set foot in before? The ancient Chinese art of feng shui - the art of perfect placement - holds the answers to these questions, and many more.
The Feng Shui Kit contains everything you need to benefit from this fascinating art. Find out how the flow of life-giving energy, or ch'i in and around your home and workplace could be affecting your health, wealth and personal happiness. Use the specially designed feng shui compass and ruler to discover your lucky and unlucky directions, forces and colors for every situation. And the pa kua mirror provided will deflect malign forces and spirits. The book contains full instructions and draws upon the wisdom of one of the few fully qualified feng shui masters living in the west, Man-Ho Kwok. Whether it is rearranging a bed or desk, or deciding upon the location of your new home, The Feng Shui Kit will help you feel in complete harmony with your surroundings.
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the most complete kit out there.......2000-08-12
Admittedly, the whole feng shui craze is a little overblown, but when I went looking for a kit to help me understand it, I found that this was the most comprehensive one out there. Easy enough for me--a rookie--to understand, I think that it's the sort of thing that I'll be able to go back to time and time again.
Dissapointing.......1999-07-02
I was excited to buy this book for my wife. She has tried to work with it several times and it is not as easy as it appears. On the other hand, after she decorated our new home, most of it was the way it was suggested. I would suggest to buy something else for your home and maybe a cheaper but more practical handbook.
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The first complete resource on an ever-growing field, updated and expanded to reflect the impact of the New Economy on the industry
This unique A-to-Z resource provides a complete game plan for novice management consultants trying to break into the business along with expert guidelines for veterans looking to expand their services. Sugata Biswas and Daryl Twitchell cover all the bases, from the origins and history of the field to how to zero in on becoming established in one of the many unique specialties within the industry. They also provide a detailed directory of the top fifty consulting firms in the nation. This Second Edition features new and/or added information on such critical topics as the rapidly emerging field of e-consulting; consulting start-ups, incubators, and other New Economy enterprises; and an exploration of how increased competition for graduating MBAs is changing the consultant recruiting and hiring process.
Sugata Biswas (Santa Monica, CA) is a management consultant with the Viant Corporation. Daryl Twitchell (New York, NY) is a management consultant with Front Line Capital Corporation.
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This book is GOLDEN to any new hire considering consulting.......2007-10-19
I'm coming from a medical/public health background, several years out of college and newly considering a health-business career in this amorphous industry called "consulting."
As a result, I'm starting fresh and had no idea where to begin - learning about the companies, the lifestyle, the work, how to position myself to a possible employer, what subcategories to use when describing my skills set within the industry, and where to learn simple business vocabulary like "elevator pitch," "position myself," "leverage," "human capital," and a hundred other words.
In those regards, this book has been GOLDEN. It does a fantastic job of explaining the management consulting industry (and by extension, all types of consulting companies focusing on assisting company management in various business areas). This book starts at ground level, defining consulting in a nuanced, understandable way to an outsider before giving a history of the profession and its subtypes (ie way companies think of themselves within the industry). This is useful information to understand the way you have to approach these companies and showcase your skills so that you'll seem valuable to them. It's not a straightforward thing to do, even if you have a stellar medical resume.
The book goes on to give a lot of information/practice about the case interview, salary negotiation, and other invaluable information that I found helpful as I'm getting into the industry. It rolls several books worth of knowledge into one.
BUT, I'd still recommend buying an additional pure case interview practice book to supplement this one when you get past the need for industry exploration, resume editing, and positioning, and on to pure interview prep.
If only we could put the tree back in the forest..........2007-10-05
This book is dedicated to general job seeking and interviewing techniques applicable to any employment situation. The chapter on consulting models and case questions is decent, but the remaining 200+ pages are irrelevant drivel that sheds little light on the inside machinations of a consulting firm, consulting positions, duties, expectations, and daily life. After spending a couple of hours reading this book, I feel no more prepared to approach leading firms for interviews than before I picked this title up.
great book, especially the cases..........2007-04-01
great little book this one. provides a definitive overview of the consulting industry. it is not biased in any way - so it highlights the pitfalls of the profession, as well as its perks. i think the best part is probably the case frameworks and the 100 sample cases. it has the 10 different types of cases you could expect, and then provides a worked answer in dialogue format - which makes it particularly helpful if you want to practice cases with a friend. all in all, a great guide - thoroughly recommended.
Exellent Book.......2002-02-16
Excellent as a textbook. I use it to teach a university-level management consulting class. Many of the relevant topics covered provide a very good basis for in-class discussion. It is well written and insightful, presenting an accurate portrayal of what it is to be a management consultant. I especially like the sections scripted by industry veterans. I recommend this book to anyone interested in or considering a career in management consulting.
useful.......2001-10-28
This is a useful guide, though can be a bit simplistic at times. Still, it is worth reading, particularly if you are very new to the industry. Also recommended for consulting careers are the Vault Guide to the Case Interview and the Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms.
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A Solid Consulting Guide.......2006-10-21
This is the first book I bought on the subject of consulting and it served as a reliable guide in taking my first steps when I finally left my former job to launch my practice.
It covers all the basics, including how to review and develop your skills inventory, identify and exploit consulting opportunities, sell and market your services etc. Of particular value from my point of view are the chapters on low cost/no cost marketing.
I have made so many mistakes in the past, but no more!.......2002-03-17
I have read other consulting how-to guides, but this one really puts me on the path of more satisfied customers and greater profits. Besides going over contracts, it covers useful elements for websites, strategic marketing plans, and even provides methods to market your services (with examples too)! I should have bought this book when I have my first consulting gig in 1992 it would have saved me thousands.
If you can't afford this book right now, get a used copy while they are available, go to the library, but what every you do get this book. Consider that my free advice to consultants, if you would like to discuss this further, consultations are available.
solid info that you need and cant find elsewhere.......2001-08-06
shenson was the consultants consultant
this book tells you how to do it but also gives you the metrics you need to make sure that you do it right
this was the first full coverage consulting book. there was a groundbreaking one some years earlier by another author but it did not cover as many considerations nor give any solid numbers.
this book covers all the aspects you need to be successful. if it does nothing more than keep you from charging too little then it was worth the price.
i have used the advice when i was a consultant and found that it works.
if you have an interest in being an independent consultant you must read it. if you are only a contract employee you could still gain by reading it.
ted nicholas is a master marketer and his inputs strengthen a book taht was already the best. . .
Indispensable for new and experienced consultants.......2000-09-06
Generally IT consultants do not have extensive marketing experience. This books provides excellent insights to indirect marketing techniques that work. Consultants, IT consultants in particular, will derive keen marketing insights from this book. The book is written in an easy-to-read style and structured very well. When bulleted items are presented, they are immediately followed by an explanation, one for each item.
Great Resource.......2000-06-19
This book is a great resource. The author covers everyhing from small details to larger issues. This book is a good resource for people wanting to become a consultant or who are already consulting.
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Fire Your Boss And Hire Yourself.
Impossible? Not according to nationally bestselling author Stephen M. Pollan. As he says in this new and empowering book, "You don't have to accept your current work situation. You can be in control of your job and your stream of income, so you're never again subject to the whims, prejudices, moods, or circumstances of your so-called boss."
In today's difficult work environment, gone are the days of finding satisfaction through your job, gone is the time when your job was secure, and gone are the days when your employer cared about you. This new environment requires new rules, and Pollan has provided surprisingly fresh and intriguing methods for finding "success" on the job.
Pollan's bold and unique message begins with the idea that you must "fire your boss." By this he means you can no longer rely on your manager or your company for economic security. Instead, you must put yourself in charge of your working life. In this thought-provoking and counterintuitive career guide, Pollan presents a seven-step program and a series of exercises that give you the confidence, power, and will to achieve the life of your dreams.
Once you have changed your mind-set and learned the new rules of the game, you can start the process of moving to a richer, more enriching, and more enjoyable life. And the best part about it? Your boss will love you for it.
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Fire Your Boss
And Hire Yourself.
Impossible? Not according to nationally bestselling author Stephen M. Pollan. As he says in this new and empowering book, ""You don't have to accept your current work situation. You can be in control of your job and your stream of income, so you're never again subject to the whims, prejudices, moods, or circumstances of your so-called boss.""
In today's difficult work environment, gone are the days of finding satisfaction through your job, gone is the time when your job was secure, and gone are the days when your employer cared about you. This new environment requires new rules, and Pollan has provided surprisingly fresh and intriguing methods for finding ""success"" on the job.
Pollan's bold and unique message begins with the idea that you must ""fire your boss."" By this he means you can no longer rely on your manager or your company for economic security. Instead, you must put yourself in charge of your working life. In this thought-provoking and counterintuitive career guide, Pollan presents a seven-step program and a series of exercises that give you the confidence, power, and will to achieve the life of your dreams.
Once you have changed your mind-set and learned the new rules of the game, you can start the process of moving to a richer, more enriching, and more enjoyable life. And the best part about it? Your boss will love you for it.
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Hard hitting truths about the real world of work!.......2006-11-11
Imagine you're attending a career enhancement seminar and suddenly you're doused with a giant bucket of ice cold water. In essence, "Fire Your Boss" is just that. Stephen Pollan's discourse on the stark realities of the real world of work shatter all the hyperbole and fluff of "careering" in not just corporate America but any occupational arena. It's an easy, conversational and straightforward read that IMHO should be called "Hire Your Boss". Pollan, a life coach with the style, chutzpah and hubris of a Donald Trump/Scott Adams hybrid, elaborates on the criticality of taking care of your number one customer in the microeconomic marketplace-your boss. Pollan supports the essence of this approach with references to how the economic landscape has changed over the last few decades and how it's helped to perpetuate agency activity in organizations. Simply put, managers will continue to act purely out of self-interest rather than an alignment with organizational objectives. With this in mind, what will avail those of the non-management cadre the most is looking out for the needs of supervision, with more of a "hired gun" approach rather than that of a sycophant. Many of Pollan's precepts will at first seem counterintuitive--such as "work for the money, the love will follow" or "lose your career, get a job" and may come across as trite and cynical. However when taken in context the underlying schema is this: a job is a means of providing income-no more, no less. Trying to find personal fulfillment therein is a recipe for self-destruction. The author does a fine job of using the experiences of his clients to help illustrate these key concepts and concludes by offering a seven-step roadmap to help one achieve empowerment and independence in the modern job market.
Although Pollan drives across some salient points about the contemporary world of work he does tend to oversimplify a bit with regards to some management behavior. Furthermore, some of his coping strategies have the guise of tactics that only a New York Attorney could formulate. Wait-Pollan IS a New York Attorney. In sum, this is as an island of sanity in a sea of "Be a Star at Work" banter that perpetuates the dangling-carrot-over-the-sea-of-cubicles syndrome. Finally, when you boil this down you realize that one as an employee should consider themselves self-employed. I find it a good affirmation of what work really should be and a refreshing rebuttal to all the careering pundits whose success is predicated on management's mystification of office life.
Not for the faint of heart!
A different take on occupational fulfillment.......2005-08-21
There are many self-help career guides that extol us to find a job within our passion. Their logic is that if we love our work, then the money will follow. However, "Fire Your Boss" takes a different tack. Stephen M. Pollan and Mark Levine instead recommend that we work for the money, and then the love will follow. From that foundation, they craft a career plan that they contend will lead to occupational success and personal well being. This flies in the face of conventional wisdom, but the authors make a compelling case.
The "Fire Your Boss" philosophy is based on the assumption that employees are disposable. In the era of downsizing and outsourcing, the scenario of a lifetime job with a single company is history. Therefore, becoming attached to one position, firm, or career path is futile. With this in mind, the authors suggest that we "fire our boss" and give up a set career plan. Once we do that, then we are free of occupational anxiety. We can remain in our job if it provides the salary and benefits we desire, or leave it for one that does. Indeed, they exhort that we must always be "fishing" for a better job elsewhere. To that end, "Fire Your Boss" pushes us to continually network outside of the job, because in the authors' words, "no one hires a stranger." We should also be fine-tuning our own personal work plan, which is based on what we can offer to a boss. Meeting the boss' needs is key to workplace success, the authors argue. If you make the boss happy and ensure he or she looks good, then your position is almost bulletproof.
On the one hand, "Fire Your Boss" crystallized my approach to work. Most of the time I like my job as a IT technician. Computers appeal to the cognitive side of my nature, but I wouldn't consider them my passion. After all, work by definition is, well, work. It's tough to be passionate about any scenario where I have to show up at a set time and provide a service or good, under penalty of dismissal for whatever reason. In that context, even a passion can become a burden. Self-employment carries the same consequences, because you still have to produce or starve. In contrast, the authors indicate that a job's purpose is to provide money for needs and wants. Personal fulfillment should be obtained outside of the workplace. As the authors would advocate, I've used my salary to try out a number of interesting activities, such as foreign travel, motorcycling, education, and martial arts. Without my income, none of these options would have been available to me. Should I try to find a job in one of those areas, like the "love your work" pundits advocate? Perhaps. But would they still be passions when I have to do them to obtain basic needs? I certainly don't disparage anyone who has found fulfillment and profit by doing his or her passion. That's an appealing life circumstance. But it doesn't work for everyone, and I appreciated the authors' alternative.
However, I struggled with them on one major point. Their exhortation to be constantly "fishing" for a better job strikes me as somewhat mercenary. Yes, most jobs these days aren't secure, and it would be foolish to pass up a good opportunity. But giving up a good job because another one looks better doesn't always pan out. For example, a number of folks have left my company for what they saw as dream jobs. However, they wound up coming back for their old slot (if it was available, that is). The grass is not always greener, and it seems like they expended a lot of time and energy for little benefit. In addition, constant job jumping would make it difficult to become vested for retirement purposes. A detailed retirement strategy based on the "fishing" methodology would have been appreciated. Plus, I find it hard to believe that one can "have a job offer always in hand." Perhaps that's possible in the clubby executive ranks, but I'm not so sure that's feasible for the rest of us drones. Sometimes old-fashioned persistence and loyalty does pay off, even when things look better elsewhere.
At any rate, "Fire Your Boss" provides a good counterpoint to the plethora of "love your work" books on the market. It provides an alternative occupational strategy for folks who are suspicious of that ideology, and whose passion is anything outside of the workplace. Even those who would like to work in their passion but are unable to do so can benefit from this book. For those reasons, I recommend it.
It really works.......2005-04-08
I haven't even read the entire book, but I can attest to the effectiveness of the chapters I did read--and I plan to read the rest and put it into action as well. I read the chapter about pleasing your boss, basically finding out what your boss wants, and doing that, not what your job description says you should do. My boss likes to micromanage (he's admitted as much) so I started seeing him constantly and going over all the details of my work. Our relationship improved immensely and I started really enjoying working with him, not to mention learning a lot from him. I read the chapter about keeping your resume out there and checking out other places to work even if you really don't plan to leave. The result was that I went to an interview at another business, basically just to practice interviewing (I almost didn't go to the interview and what tipped the balance toward going was that I remembered the advice from this chapter of the book). Naturally, since there was no pressure, I was completely relaxed and really enjoyed the interview. Result: a great job offer, which I initially was going to take, till I told my boss, and he matched it and then some, and pretty much gave me carte blanche to come and go as I please in my present job. With results like these, you can bet that I can't wait to read the rest of the book! Not only am I enjoying my job more than ever, I also respect and like my boss more, I'm getting paid more, and I have more freedom in my work. I highly recommend Fire Your Boss--it has obviously worked for me.
Good way to look at things.......2005-01-22
This book has a different way of looking at your career. Basically it says forget about loving your job or career like the other guides such as What Color is Your Parachute and Do What You Love the Money Will Follow. This book says work for the money and do what you love on the weekends and nights.
Leave the dust on your resume' books!.......2004-08-16
This book will show you exactly how to get on with your new "free-lance" gun-for-hire work life in this age of outsourcing and corporate racing to the bottom.
The author very deftly and patiently gives full explanations behind his recommendations, and he is DEAD ON. Company loyalty gets you nowhere these days, and you have to think like a sword-for-hire to survive...the book tells us how.
Become your own free agent. Work to live, don't live to work. Fire your boss, quit your career, and plan your exit strategy when you first get in the door. The only way to make REAL payraises is to keep moving from job to job, industry to industry, keeping you and the money/benefits at the forefront--regardless of the Protestant work ethic we've all been raised with. It's called "job fishing", and it's the new networking (cultivated from SOCIAL life leads rather than work life leads, and yes, you now have to get a social life!). By always keeping your resume' circulating--and a pole in the water--job leads will come to YOU rather than you working for them. You simply sort through what's found its way onto your hook.
This method, as brought to us in this superb book, cuts through all the interview and hire bull--all the superficial stuff, like appearance, politics (personal and other), power struggles, and the lowdown on starting salaries (such as usually being about $5k less than the last denizen of that particular post). We can negotiate our own employment tickets now, starting with money and chosen benefits, right down to termination agreements...putting back into our hands the power to determine exactly how we enter and leave a job.
It shows you how to prioritize opportunities according to YOUR needs instead of the employer's needs, and how to KEEP that job if that's where you really want to stay for more than a year, and how to keep the raises coming.
There's also a section on how to make the best use of temp agencies, headhunter agencies, and other "traditional" job hunting techniques.
If you're just starting, starting over, or merely wishing to move on, I advise getting this book to join the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd century method of job "security." (ha-ha-ha)
In the review style of Joe Bob Briggs, this book has:
No breasts
No aardvarking
No physical attack styles
No gratuitousness of any kind
Lots of "money-fu" and "you-fu"
Not nominated for any drive-in Academy Awards...
But Wenchypoo and FedUpWithLiars still gives it 5 stars! Check it out.
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Fire Your Boss
Cheryl Thompson
Manufacturer: Clarion Marketing Group
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Owning a business of your own is not just for the overly talented or for people who have great wealth, but for anyone who has a dream, a desire and a plan of action.
Fire Your Boss addresses some of the obstacles to starting a business of your own and is packed with tips and real world advice for making your dream a reality. Dreams do come true.
Don't spend another minute of your life working at a job you hate when you can create a job, and a life, you'll love. The time is now. Invest in you! You'll be amazed at the results.
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Susinct Tips to get you Started.......2005-07-07
This is a great book! Cheryl Thompson inspires and gives some really good advice in the process. I am a self-bosser and wish I had read her book when I started. It would have helped a lot but... it is never too late so I am going to start using her advice now!!!!
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In this tape, Ron will give you the key to never going up and down on the rollercoaster of your spiritual life again! It's not a big mystery - it's simple. It's time for teenagers to get serious about their faith and realize that it is not impossible to stay strong. It's not enough to know you should do it - you also need to know how and that's exactly what you'll learn by listening to this tape.
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