Archiv für June, 2010
30.06.2010 um
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Global Finance has been providing monthly news and analysis since 1987 about companies and financial institutions that do business around the world.
Global Finance delivers the full story; corporate finance, joint ventures and M&A, country profiles, capital markets, investor relations, currencies, banking, risk management, custody, direct investment, money management and all the rest-specifically tailored for corporate readers around the world.
Geographic Eligibility: Selected International
30.06.2010 um
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How I Made 2,000,000 in the Stock Market is a first hand account of how Nicolas Darvas made $2,000,000 dollars in the stock market in the space of about 2 years. Nicolas Darvas chronicles how he got involved in stock trading from losing money on rumours and bad advice to the formulation of his famous Darvas Box Theory and the accumulation of more than $2,000,000 in less than two years.
Darvas tells how he patiently stalked the stock market for stocks that triggered his buying conditions. And, how once a stock was bought it would be sold automatically by a stop loss or kept no matter what until it changed direction or stabalized for some time.
Probably the most valuble lesson the trader can take from this book is the importance of a Trading Plan. The reader is told how Darvas formulated his theories, observations and lessons from his losses into a concrete Trading Plan and how he carried it out – sometimes waiting weeks for the right trade. Also, using the plan to resist the temptation of profit taking early and missing out on large winnings.
Another lesson the trader can learn from Darvas is how crucial it is to learn from mistakes and to use these lessons to shape your goals to achieve success.
The book itself is an extremely easy read. Don??t be put of by the somewhat cheesy title either. Even if you do not trade the book would be entertaining, and if you do, it would possibly be the cheapest $10 of advice you could receive about this business.
30.06.2010 um
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This book is a practical master-class in how to manage both yourself and others to provide a team that is motivated, creative and high-performing.
Internationally recognised as a writer, teacher and consultant, Professor John Adair has written 27 books and numerous articles on leadership and management development: this is the distillation of a career’s thought and practice into one book.
The book is divided into two main sections:
Part 1: Self-management
Part 2: Managing others
Self Management
Time management
Setting and achieving goals and objectives
Decision making and problem solving
Creativity and innovation
Personal reminders and thoughts worth thinking
Managing Others
Leadership and team building
Motivation and people management
Communication and presentation
Personal reminders and thoughts worth thinking
“[John Adair] is without doubt one of the foremost thinkers on the subject in the world”–Sir John Harvey-Jones
30.06.2010 um
1:41 pm · Abgelegt unter
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Combining shrewd analysis of contemporary practices with a historical perspective, Breaking Up America traces the momentous shift that began in the mid-1970s when advertisers rejected mass marketing in favor of more aggressive target marketing. Turow shows how advertisers exploit differences between consumers based on income, age, gender, race, marital status, ethnicity, and lifesyles.
“An important book for anyone wanting insight into the advertising and media worlds of today. In plain English, Joe Turow explains not only why our television set is on, but what we are watching. The frightening part is that we are being watched as we do it.”a^€”Larry King
“Provocative, sweeping and well made . . . Turow draws an efficient portrait of a marketing complex determined to replace the ’society-making media’ that had dominated for most of this century with ’segment-making media’ that could zero in on the demographic and psychodemographic corners of our 260-million-person consumer marketplace.”a^€”Randall Rothenberg, Atlantic Monthly
30.06.2010 um
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IT service management (ITSM) is the group of processes and functions that oil the wheels of the IT machine. Without ITSM, every IT project and system would deteriorate over time until failure. ITIL is the recognized best-practice standard for ITSM, and has been around since the late 1980s, with ITIL version 3 published just recently. However, many of todays IT problems have been around for just as long – so in order to manage IT effectively, organizations must go beyond the ITIL framework.
Rob Addy provides IT service managers and professionals with practical guidance on delivering and managing IT services in an effective and efficient manner by extending the ITIL approach to deliver proactive and pragmatic IT service management. His book is a candid look at the relative merits of currently accepted wisdom regarding the provision of IT services, using the principles of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) guidance series. It describes IT service management processes related to service delivery and service support (as well as other non-ITIL areas), their objectives, shortcomings, and how these issues can be addressed in real-life situations. In addition, it delivers a workable definition of what exactly an IT service is and how it can be defined and used in practice. Overall, he gives an unbiased view of the discipline, its objectives, major processes, and their benefits and shortcomings.
Managing and mitigating IT risk is critical to the survival of every business. Success is an optional extra! Proactive IT service management can be thought of as risk management for IT: Can you afford to ignore it?
30.06.2010 um
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Despite its deep roots in the Anglo-American legal tradition, the notion of property in work, is yet to receive the attention it deserves. In this timely and thought-provoking book, Wanjiru Hjoya rises to the challenge of remedying this deficiency, arguing that the notion of workers’ property rights in their jobs is part of a deep legal and historical heritage, rather than merely a contemporary conundrum. Challenging and thought provoking, the authors contention that such reframing can play a significant role in striking a satisfactory balance between shareholders and employees in the modern corporation provides a refreshing new contribution to employment law, and puts property in work back on the agenda.
About the Author
Wanjiru Njoya holds a three-year fellowship in law at St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK. She is also a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, UK.
30.06.2010 um
12:51 pm · Abgelegt unter
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Business ratios are the guiding stars by which you steer your company’s course; they provide your targets and your standards; they direct you towards the best long-term strategies as well as the smartest short-term solutions. You can’t afford to leave them to the accountants. In Key Management Ratios, Third Edition, top financial educator Cieran Walsh teaches you everything you need to knowabout ratios to manage your business far more effectively. This book’s thoroughly updated coverage includes: financial statements, balance sheets, and P&Ls; measures and drivers of operating performance; corporate liquidity, financial strength, and cash flow; determinants of corporate value; cost,volume, and price relationships; investment ratios, acquisition analysis, and Shareholder Value-Added (SVA). Simply put, Cieran Walsh enables you to link your company’s financial fundamentals to its day-to-day operations–so you can make smarter decisions based on better information.
30.06.2010 um
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The dramatic increase in global trade confronts service firms with the challenge of adapting their services to the varying requirements of customers in different cultures. Jan H. Schumann focuses on three relationship marketing issues that are of relevance for both academics and practitioners: the establishment of trusting customer relationships, customer co-production, and the effect of word-of-mouth referrals. The results of the study, conducted on banking customers in 11 countries, show that differences in cultural values impact consumers’ behavior and cognitions. Overall, the findings from this doctoral study highlight the need for culture-specific relationship marketing in services that considers the values of specific target groups. The author outlines ways to cope with this challenge and derives implications for research and practice.
30.06.2010 um
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Fundamentals of Financial Management, 12th Edition provides the route to understanding the financial decision-making process and to interpreting the impacts that financial decisions have on value creation. Ideal for those new to financial management, this text covers the entire financial decision-making process, introducing the three major areas in financial management – the investment, financing and asset management. Also suitable for those studying for professional qualifications.
30.06.2010 um
11:00 am · Abgelegt unter
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Many different kinds of applications can benefit from multi-core parallelism, including add-ins to Microsoft Office.
Donny Amalo wrote a paper, PLINQ and Office Add-ins, where he demonstrates how to implement two parallel Microsoft Office add-ins using PLINQ:
- A parallel Monte Carlo simulation add-in for Excel
- A parallel custom spell checker add-in for Word
(This paper and many more are available through the Parallel Computing Developer Center on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/concurrency/ee851578.aspx.)
Tags: -net-4 • asynchronous • coordination • parallel-extensions
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