More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (Council on Foreign Relations Books (Penguin Press))

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (Council on Foreign Relations Books (Penguin Press)) Review

"Splendid...the definitive history of the hedge fund, a compelling narrative full of larger-than-life characters and dramatic tales." -- The Washington Post

Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of twenty-first- century capitalism. Beating the market was long thought to be impossible, but hedge funds cracked its mysteries and made fortunes in the process. Drawing on his unprecedented access to the industry, esteemed financial writer Sebastian Mallaby tells the inside story of the hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009.

More If You Had to Choose, What Would You Do?

More If You Had to Choose, What Would You Do? Review

This work is intended for ages 7+. This new interactive book encourages parents and teachers to talk to children about their values and helps kids formulate their own personal value system in the face of peer pressure, even when following their own conscience means going it alone. The twenty-five contemporary scenarios presented are situations that children can easily identify with, and the questions at the end of each chapter encourage productive, in-depth discussions about the moral choices suggested by a particular story. Readers can easily personalise each short tale or use them as jumping-off points to make up their own problem scenarios to fit specific circumstances. Above all, this is a fun book! Kids will enjoy reading through each short situation and then deciding what they would do.

Value-Added Selling : How to Sell More Profitably, Confidently, and Professionally by Competing on Value, Not Price

Value-Added Selling : How to Sell More Profitably, Confidently, and Professionally by Competing on Value, Not Price Review

In a marketplace too often focused on price, Value-Added Selling provides sales professionals with a market-proven approach for selling customers on the inherent value of a product. Based on a value-selling model proven to work across industries and product lines, this step-by-step book explains how to define value in the client's terms, orient a pitch to fit the client's needs, and close the deal. It gives sales pros the tools and confidence they need to­­now and forever­­deemphasize price in the selling equation.

Understanding Other People: The Five Secrets to Human Behavior

Understanding Other People: The Five Secrets to Human Behavior Review

This book should not be missed by anyone who wants to improve the quality of their relationships! Leveraging decades of experience working with people in many different areas and experiences, Beverly Flaxington has found a way to explain to all of us what we simply don't learn naturally - how to understand and communicate with others more effectively. Readers will gain the insights they need to identify relationship missteps, and then apply easy-to-learn techniques to bring relationships to a more meaningful level in both personal and business settings.

Less Work, More Value.: An article from: Association Management

Less Work, More Value.: An article from: Association Management Review

This digital document is an article from Association Management, published by American Society of Association Executives on March 1, 2000. The length of the article is 2166 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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Title: Less Work, More Value.
Author: Debra Rosencrance
Publication:Association Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2000
Publisher: American Society of Association Executives
Volume: 52 Issue: 3 Page: 49

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When Time Management Fails: How Efficient Managers Create More Value with Less Work

When Time Management Fails: How Efficient Managers Create More Value with Less Work Review

WHEN TIME MANAGEMENT FAILS is based on more than 300 interviews with exceptionally efficient managers. By using examples from typical office settings, anecdotes and excerpts from over 50 interviews, the book shows how some managers create more value for their organizations and obtain greater appreciation, compensation and promotion while at the same time reducing their work hours. WHEN TIME MANAGEMENT FAILS was featured in the Wall Street Journal’s CareerJournal.com and endorsed by 11 bestselling experts in productivity and personal growth. The foreword is written by David Allen, author of the internationally acclaimed bestsellers Getting Things Done and Ready for Anything. To find our more and read 20% of the book FOR FREE visit www.BeyondTimeManagement.com

The New Glucose Revolution Shopper's Guide to GI Values 2009: The Authoritative Source of Glycemic Index Values for More Than 1,000 Foods (Low GI Shopper's Guide to GI Values)

The New Glucose Revolution Shopper's Guide to GI Values 2009: The Authoritative Source of Glycemic Index Values for More Than 1,000 Foods (Low GI Shopper's Guide to GI Values) Review

Whether you’re grocery shopping, planning dinner, eating out, or meeting with your nutritionist or dietitian, the fourth annual edition of the Shopper’s Guide to GI Values 2009—previous editions of which have sold more than 140,000 copies—is a must for everyone seeking healthier eating habits. Newly revised and updated, the convenient, at-a-glance tables make this the one necessary guide for people following the glycemic index (GI) for health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, or PCOS; to lose weight; or to improve their overall well-being and fitness. Shopper’s Guide is the only annually updated book of GI values, featuring more than 1,200 foods and their GI values and comprehensive nutritional data for calories, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, fiber, and sodium.

Towards a More General Theory of Value

Towards a More General Theory of Value Review

This collection of essays on monopolistic competition is designed for the general economist and to serve as a text or supplementary reader for courses in economic theory, advanced theory, and various applied fields, including marketing and industrial organization.

Value-Based Fees: How to Charge - and Get - What You're Worth (Ultimate Consultant (Pfeiffer))

Value-Based Fees: How to Charge - and Get - What You're Worth (Ultimate Consultant (Pfeiffer)) Review

In this thoroughly revised edition of his classic book, Alan Weiss shows how consulting fees are dependent on only two things: value provided in the perception of the buyer and the intent of the buyer and the consultant to act ethically. Many consultants, however, fail to understand that perceived value is the basis of the fee, or that they must translate the importance of their advice into long-term gains for the client in the client's perception. Still others fail to have the courage and the belief system that support the high value delivered to clients, thereby reducing fees to a level commensurate with the consultant's own low self-esteem. Ultimately, says Weiss, consultants, not clients, are the main cause of low consulting fees.

Always Room for One More

Always Room for One More Review

Lachie MacLachlan, the generous hero of this enchanting tale, is the exception to the rule that the Scots are a thrifty lot. In his "wee house in the heather," Lachie lives with his family of twelve, and he welcomes to his hearth every weary traveler who passes by on a stormy night. "There's always room for one more," says Lachie, and how his grateful guests say a wonderful "thank you" provides a delightfully warm and tender ending to this hilarious tale of kindness.

The story, derived from an old Scottish folk song, is reflected superbly in the charming illustrations of Nonny Hogrogian.

 

Always Room for One More is the winner of the 1966 Caldecott Medal.

Crush Price Objections: Sales Tactics for Holding Your Ground and Protecting Your Profit

Crush Price Objections: Sales Tactics for Holding Your Ground and Protecting Your Profit Review

Hold the line on price in every transaction— from the leading expert on Value-Added Selling!

These days it seems like we’re always in a buyer’s market. But even at a time when the word value is used interchangeably with cheap and the Internet is a bargain hunter’s paradise, there are ways for sales professionals to regain the upper hand.

In Crush Price Objections, Tom Reilly, bestselling author of Value-Added Selling, teaches field-tested tactics for engaging price shoppers and holding the line on declining profits. It provides tips and tactics for:

• Developing a price-objection counterattack before you meet with buyers
• Using questions and compelling presentations to move the conversation away from the subject of price
• Destroying price objections if they surface
• Understanding why and when to raise your prices
• Creating winning bids—on paper and online

Crush Price Objections offers you the tactical support you need to focus specifically on price resistance in order to attain maximum profit in the most challenging circumstances. Let Tom Reilly show you how to stop haggling—and start closing!

The New Glucose Revolution Shopper's Guide to GI Values 2010: The Authoritative Source of Glycemic Index Values for More Than 1,300 Foods

The New Glucose Revolution Shopper's Guide to GI Values 2010: The Authoritative Source of Glycemic Index Values for More Than 1,300 Foods Review

Whether you’re looking to lose weight, help manage conditions like diabetes or hypertension, or simply eat for lifelong good health, adopting a low-GI diet is the scientifically proven way to reach your goal. This 2008 guide, updated with more than 500 new foods, makes it easier than ever to select smart, low-GI choices for all your meals. Featured are: The GI value for over 1,000 popular foods and prepared meals-twice as many as 2007 All-new expanded nutrient data-including serving size, calories, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, fiber, and sodium per serving of each food Advice on shopping and eating out to guide your daily food choices Essential advice for incorporating low-GI foods into a gluten-free diet

The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit (Little Books. Big Profits)

The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit (Little Books. Big Profits) Review

An accessible, and intuitive, guide to stock valuation

Valuation is at the heart of any investment decision, whether that decision is to buy, sell, or hold. In The Little Book of Valuation, expert Aswath Damodaran explains the techniques in language that any investors can understand, so you can make better investment decisions when reviewing stock research reports and engaging in independent efforts to value and pick stocks.

Page by page, Damodaran distills the fundamentals of valuation, without glossing over or ignoring key concepts, and develops models that you can easily understand and use. Along the way, he covers various valuation approaches from intrinsic or discounted cash flow valuation and multiples or relative valuation to some elements of real option valuation.

• Includes case studies and examples that will help build your valuation skills
• Written by Aswath Damodaran, one of today's most respected valuation experts
• Includes an accompanying iPhone application (iVal) that makes the lessons of the book immediately useable

Written with the individual investor in mind, this reliable guide will not only help you value a company quickly, but will also help you make sense of valuations done by others or found in comprehensive equity research reports.

The Values & Virtues Book (Young Women of Faith Library, Book 10)

The Values & Virtues Book (Young Women of Faith Library, Book 10) Review

Surprising as it may seem, values and virtues are important to kids like you these days. While young people don't claim to totally understand what they are, you'd probably like to know more. Because values and virtues can be rather abstract concepts to define, The Values andamp; Virtues Book serves as an excellent resource at a time when you are developing your own independence and ideals. Offering girls useful tips and skills for improving study habits, sportsmanship, relationships, and more, bestselling author Nancy Rue unscrambles the mystery by providing clear, concrete, biblically based examples that girls can easily understand and apply to their lives.

Rediscovering Value: Leading the 3-D Enterprise to Sustainable Success

Rediscovering Value: Leading the 3-D Enterprise to Sustainable Success Review

"To paraphrase a number of philosophers, the major challenge any executive or manager (and especially any CEO) faces is that his or her experience of the reality of the organization is not the same as the reality itself. How then does an executive: 1) develop a more accurate and complete representation of the organization, 2) identify critical business issues and improvement opportunities across this system, 3) design a way forward, and 4) install the feedback and measurement mechanisms necessary to ensure the organizational system delivers the performance and stays on course? This is where this book comes into its own."
-- Michael DeNoma president and CEO, Chinatrust Commercial Bank

"Every CEO (or executive managing a business) should read and understand Rediscovering Value if they want to effectively lead and manage their company. Leading a company without an understanding of the value and resource dimensions and how to manage them is like flying an airplane without a navigation system. The team at PDL has done an unbelievable job of describing the principles of an organization and how to effectively organize, lead, and manage the enterprise. Our company used PDL's systems approach to planning and managing and it was like turning on the lights in a dark room. Our people became process- and work-focused and morale improved dramatically as we moved away from the silo approach of running a business. Rediscovering Value is a must-read for any executive."
-- Steve Hassenfelt CEO, Granville Capital, Inc.

From author of the acclaimed Improving Performance, an exploration of the concept of Value Management and technology, comes the next step resource that introduces the transformation model. Rediscovering Value gives a preliminary description of the SOE phase, and covers the dimensions of the model. The book dissects each phase of the model, and describes what is accomplished along each dimension, the criteria to reach the next phase, and the key challenges of each phase (Stabilize, Optimize, Exploit in detail). It lays out the success factors for effective process design, improvement, and management.

Innovation on overtime: with the right strategic management approach, you can get a lot more value from your intellectual property. Understand what ... Here's how.: An article from: CMA Management

Innovation on overtime: with the right strategic management approach, you can get a lot more value from your intellectual property. Understand what ... Here's how.: An article from: CMA Management Review

This digital document is an article from CMA Management, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2003. The length of the article is 2698 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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Title: Innovation on overtime: with the right strategic management approach, you can get a lot more value from your intellectual property. Understand what you have and you will profit. Here's how.
Author: Debbie LeValliant
Publication:CMA Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2003
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 77 Issue: 7 Page: 16(4)

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Living Values Activities for Children Ages 3-7 (Living Values)

Living Values Activities for Children Ages 3-7 (Living Values) Review

As pervasive violence shatters our nation, the call for values echoes through headlines and school hallways as educators, parents and children become increasingly concerned and affected.

The Living Values series offers a variety of experiential activities for teachers and parents to help them teach children and young adults to develop twelve critical social values: cooperation, freedom, happiness, honesty, humility, love, peace, respect, responsibility, simplicity, tolerance and unity. In each book, these twelve values are explored using age-appropriate lessons that incorporate group discussions, reading, quiet reflection time, songs, artwork and action-oriented activities.

These lessons are already in use in more than 1,000 locations in sixty-two countries. Pilot results indicate that students are enthusiastic and teachers report a decrease in aggressive behavior and more motivated students. The Living Values Educational Program was born when twenty educators from around the world gathered at UNICEF Headquarters in New York in 1996 to discuss the needs of children and how to better prepare students for lifelong success. These global educators identified the curriculum and the program was ready for piloting in February of 1997.