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The Little Green Handbook Seven Trend...
Brief Summary
Published for the first time in the United States, The Little Green Handbook is a unique reference work that illustrates the most important global developments facing us today, explains them, and suggests area for positive change.
It relates physical trends to social and political repercussions, drawing together evidence from many interrelated fields to explain the science behind the news stories, sound bites, and cocktail-party banter. Just how serious are our environmental problems? Are we doing enough to deal with them? How many people can the planet sustain? What are the long-term effects of continued environmental damage? How fast is the process of global warming? What are the implications of our continued dependence on fossil fuels?
The Little Green Handbook has the answers. This user-friendly sourcebook is filled with up-to-date facts and figures, making complex but vitally important ideas simple. It is our duty to ensure a sustainable future for our children; The Little Green Handbook gives us the information we need to make this possible.
ISBN:9780312425814
Author:Ron Nielsen
It Is Just You Everything’s Not Shit
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The Optimist’s Encyclopedia.
In this A-Z of all things nice, Steve Stack takes the reader on an alphabetical tour of the good things in life.
Trivial things such as dunking biscuits, drawing pictures in steamed up windows and the sound jelly makes.
Big important things like falling in love, Nobel Peace Prize winners and the Internet.
And pretty much everything in between from Lego to the shipping forecast, popping bubble wrap to meerkats with guest appearances from Sir David Attenborough, Oliver Postgate, Columbo and The Flaming Lips.
It Is Just You, Everything’s Not Shit is the perfect gift for the cynic in your life. It will cheer up even the most miserable of old gifts.
ISBN:9781905548675
Author:Steve Stack
Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit
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An encyclopedic attack on modern culture so hilariously bitter that it actually becomes uplifting. Based on two runaway UK bestsellers, this new American edition has been ingeniously adapted and features exclusive new material for US audiences by Brendan Hay, a former Daily Show headline producer and contributing writer to America: The Book.
If you hate chick lit, Che Guevara merchandise, pop Kabbalah, cosmetic-surgery-gone-wrong-as-tv-programming, DVDs with ads you can't skip, or any of a few hundred other insanely annoying modern things, then this book will finally lend creedence to your frustrations.
Say NO to the awful ideas, terrible people, useless products, and infuriating doublespeak that increasingly dominates our lives. Never before has there been a book so completely full of shit.
Clearly, it isn't just you...
ISBN:9780446197885
Author:Steve Lowe, Alan McArthur and Brendan Hay
Is It Just Me Or Has the Shit Hit the...
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Is It Just Me Or Has the Shit Hit the Fan? Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global Misery
The authors of Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit? survey the post-crash landscape—are we better people now, or just the same people with less money?
"Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter Suri (with her thick dark hair and wide eyes . . . ) has been named the most 'influential' A-list toddler in a new Forbes list. The two-year-old beat Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's kids . . . " Forbes has an Influential Toddler list. Forbes has an Influential Toddler list.Forbes has, it bears repeating, an Influential Toddler list.
From bank bailouts to enviro-copouts; from Tory politicans listening to The Jam to celebrity credit crunch "victims" Grant Bovey and Anthea Turner; from BNP coppers to Christian theme parks to middle-class shoppers banging on about budget supermarkets; plus everyone banging on about The Wire. Funny, sharp, and timely, Is It Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan? asks the crucial questions of the new age, like; why are the people who screwed the world still running the world and screwing the world until we're all screwed more than we've ever been screwed before?
ISBN:9781847443656
Author:Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur
How Dell Does It by Steven Holzner
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From $1,000 in capital to $47 billion in gross income, Dell is now the world's leading computer Systems Company.
How Dell Does It delineates Dell's incredible successes and the lessons learned on the way to becoming #1 on Fortune's Most Admired list--and shows how you can apply these successes to your businesses.
You'll get an insider look at the cornerstone of Dell's model: zero-tolerance for inventory, and the flexibility allowed by that policy, which is sure to be a central business paradigm, especially in the tech industry, in coming years.
ISBN:9780070611818
Author:Steven Holzner
Secrets of Superstar Sales Pros Strat...
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Secrets of Superstar Sales Pros: Strategies for Success from Zig Ziglar, Mary Kay Ash, John Henry Patterson, and the Best Names in Sales
Top salespeople aren't born, they're made-but how?
By examining the successful careers, philosophies, and work habits of some of the world's most brilliant achievers, Secrets of Superstar Sales Pros reveals hundreds of practical ideas that can make you a super achiever-in your own right. Here are just a few of the people and ideas you'll be hearing about:
• Dale Carnegie on how selling with a personal touch can help you sell yourself and win people over
• Lillian Vernon on making buyers feel special, working your way up, and taking chances
• Larry King on making mistakes, learning from your errors, and treating prospects with courtesy and respect
• Zig Ziglar on how a positive attitude can change your life
• Mary Kay Ash on the role of self-fulfillment
• Tony Schwartz on how to make the "deep sell”
• Gerard Nierenberg on why negotiation is really about finding win-win solutions
ISBN:9780071475891
Author:Gerhard Gschwandtner
Science Business The Promise the Real...
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Why has the biotechnology industry failed to perform up to expectations—despite all its promise? In Science Business, Gary P. Pisano answers this question by providing an incisive critique of the industry. Pisano not only reveals the underlying causes of biotech's problems; he offers the most sophisticated analysis yet on how the industry works.
And he provides clear prescriptions for companies, investors, and policy makers seeking ways to improve the industry's performance. According to Pisano, the biotech industry's problems stem from its special character as a science-based business. This character poses three unique business challenges: how to finance highly risky investments under profound uncertainty and longtime horizons for R&D, how to learn rapidly enough to keep pace with advances in drug science knowledge, and how to integrate capabilities across a broad spectrum of scientific and technological knowledge bases.
The key to fixing the industry? Business models, organizational structures, and financing arrangements that place greater emphasis on integration and long-term learning over shorter—term 'monetization' of intellectual property. Pisano maintains that all industry players—biotech firms, investors, universities, pharmaceutical companies, government regulators—can play a role in righting the industry. The payoff? Valuable improvements in health care, and a shinier future for human well-being.
ISBN:9781591398400
Author:Gary P Pisano
Beyond the Core Expand Your Market Wi...
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All companies must grow to survive--but only one in five growth strategies succeeds. In Profit from the Core, strategy expert Chris Zook revealed how to grow profitably by focusing on and achieving full potential in the core business. But what happens when your core business provides insufficient new growth or even hits the wall? In Beyond the Core, Zook outlines an expansion strategy based on putting together combinations of adjacency moves into areas away from, but related to, the core business, such as new product lines or new channels of distribution.
These sequences of moves carry less risk than diversification, yet they can create enormous competitive advantage, because they stem directly from what the company already knows and does best. Based on extensive research on the growth patterns of thousands of companies worldwide, including CEO interviews with 25 top performers in adjacency growth, Beyond the Core
• Identifies the adjacency pattern that most dramatically increases the odds of success: "relentless repeatability;"
• Offers a systematic approach for choosing among a range of possible adjacency moves; and
• Shows how to time adjacency moves during a variety of typical business situations.
Beyond the Core shows how to find and leverage the best avenues for growth--without damaging the heart of the firm.
ISBN:9781578519514
Author:Chris Zook
The Science of Growth How Facebook Be...
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The Science of Growth: How Facebook Beat Friendster--and How Nine Other Startups Left the Rest in the Dust
The lean entrepreneurship movement has captivated Silicon Valley and entrepreneurs across the country. It's provided an agile framework to develop the right product solution for a given target market, and is now used by almost every fledgling company to do just that.
The next challenge is growth - to achieve the financial returns and, more importantly, the impact they dreamed of when starting off on their adventure. Why do some companies realize the VC's goal of a 10x return on investment, while others flounder? What differentiates the companies that become part of the fabric of our lives and remain responsive, no matter how big they get from those that quickly fade?
To find out, Ammirati looks at 20 different companies in pairs, who have achieved product-market fit at about the same point in history with the same general target customer-one of which has gone on to achieve real scale, while the other languished. As his research reveals, just a handful of choices-among them, who to partner with, how to finance growth, and how to use data-make all the difference in the world. With such intriguing examples as LinkedIn vs. Spoke, Facebook vs. Friendster, and McDonald's vs. White Castle, Ammirati shows the secret of "the science of growth" and how to cultivate it in any organization.
ISBN:9781250074294
Author:Sean Ammirati
Marketing That Matters Ten Practices ...
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Whether you're an entrepreneur building a new enterprise, the leader of an established socially responsible business, or a marketing professional at a Fortune 500 company who wants to make a difference, this "in-the-trenches" guide provides action steps for creating marketing programs that benefit your company and the world.
Using real-life examples from Patagonia, General Mills, Clif Bar, and many other companies, Marketing That Matters shows how to define your company's mission, goals, and potential audience in ways that are flexible, creative, and true to your organization's core values.
They offer ten practices to engage customers using innovative marketing techniques--from discovering how customers make decisions to building committed communities of customers, employees, and strategic partners who will spread the word about your company--and potentially change the world. Marketing that Matters is the definitive handbook to help you incorporate social responsibility as a core element in your company's marketing strategy.
ISBN:9781576753835
Author:Chip Conley and Eric Friedenwald Fishman
Winning the Knowledge Transfer Race
Brief Summary
Knowledge is information that is essential to transact business in ways that improve employee performance and an organization's competitiveness. It is vital to treat such knowledge--which can be anything from trade secrets and patents to information on sales, distribution, or financing--as cherished intellectual capital. In order to innovate quickly and convert wisdom into profits you must transfer this capital in a deliberate, systematic way.
Winning the Knowledge Transfer Race shows managers how to leverage intellectual capital knowledge to achieve extraordinary results and win against fierce competition. Michael English and William Baker, pioneers and practitioners in the development and application of benchmarking and best practices, provide the solutions and practical steps for managing intellectual capital at the highest level and incorporating it into your company's best practices.
This breakthrough book examines how intellectual capital shapes markets and delivers products and services. You'll see how to apply knowledge transfer strategy into your department and organization.
Then, the authors introduce you to the best practices of some of the world's most profitable companies--such as IBM, Raytheon, Verizon, Xerox, Buckman Labs, General Electric, and Toyota--in knowledge transfer, benchmarking, and process improvement. They reveal how to duplicate these approaches, enabling you to:
• Achieve effective knowledge transfer at the highest levels of efficiency
• Innovate knowledge-based products and services with tremendous speed
• Make sharing and collaboration an integral part of every employee's job
• Stay at the forefront of changes in technology
• Increase customer satisfaction and gain market share
To stay ahead in the global race for growth and profit, Winning the Knowledge Transfer Race is the only book you need to cross the finish line first.
ISBN:0071457941
Author:Michael J English and William H Baker
Flight of the Buffalo Soaring to Exce...
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Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
A hardcover bestseller now in paperback presents a management program that encourages employee leadership--which today's companies must have more of if they are to survive the coming decades.
ISBN:9780446670081
Author:James A. Belasco and Ralph C. Stayer
How Apple Inc Changed the World
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Two guys named Steve, working in a garage, created a prototype computer designed to be different in a way no one thought possible: It would be easy to use. Those two Steves, one now a billionaire and still at the head of Apple, not only succeeded with that product, but they also broke ground in the business world in ways few thought possible:
They proved you could not only have fun at work, but pursuing a capitalist dream could be hip. How did Apple do it? How did it go from making computers that made a difference but not much of a dent in the overall market to creating a device (the iPod) and a music service (iTunes) that has changed the way we buy and experience music?
And how did the Macintosh and its successors capture the hearts and minds of computer users so deeply that being a Mac person makes you a member of a special club? That's what this book is all about. How Apple Inc. Changed the World will inspire students eager to launch a business career or work in the technology sector. Apple has never been afraid to chart its own path and readers will learn what makes the company tick.
ISBN:9788184950540
Author:Jason D OGrady
100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings
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100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings: How to Get By Without Even Trying
Funny because it's true. From the creator of the viral sensation "10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings" (5+ million views and hundreds of thousands of shares) comes the must-have book you never knew you needed, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings. In it, you will learn how to appear smart in less than half the time it takes to actually learn anything.
You know those subtle tricks your coworkers are all guilty of? The constant nodding, pretend concentration, useless rhetorical questions? These tricks make them seem like they know what they’re doing when in fact they have no clue. This behavior is so ingrained, so subtle, and so often mistaken for true intelligence that identifying it, calling it out, or compiling it into an exhaustive digest has never been attempted. Until now.
Complete with illustrated tips, examples, and scenarios, 100 Tricks gives you actionable ways to use words like "actionable,” in order to sound smart. Every type of meeting is covered, from general meetings where you stopped paying attention almost immediately, to one-on-one meetings you zoned out on, to impromptu meetings you were painfully subjected to at the last minute. It’s all here.
Open this book to any page and find an easy-to-digest trick with an even easier-to-digest illustration, guiding you on:
• How to nail the big meeting by pacing and nodding
• Most effective ways to listen to your coworkers while still completely ignoring them
• The key to making your presentations "interactive.”
If you hadn’t noticed these behaviors before, you will see them now—from your colleagues, your managers, and soon yourself. Each trick is a mirror to the reality of what happens in meetings, told in the form of hilariously bad advice—advice that you might just want to take. But probably not. But maybe.
ISBN:9781449476052
Author:Sarah Cooper
Get Your Shit Together by Ruth Field
Brief Summary
The B!tch is back... and she's brought The Grit Doctor along for the ride.
What's in your handbag? To-do lists scrawled on the back of receipts? An unpaid bill? Half a chocolate bar, covered in fluff? Is your handbag a metaphor for the rest of your life? Has becoming a capable, poised grown-up turned out to be more complicated than you imagined?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, and if you're tired of the crappy stuff in life grinding you down, then it's time to stop whining and Get Your Sh!t Together.
With this funny, frank, and tough-talking guide, Ruth Field and The Grit Doctor will help you:
Tackle daunting problems like a fearless superwoman
Figure out what you want from life and find the courage to Go For It
Learn how to get more sh!t done in less time
Stop feeling bad about your less-than-perfect life (because perfection's overrated anyway)
She taught you how to run; now she's going to teach you how to run your life!
ISBN:B00CTFJMJE
Author:Ruth Field
How Not to Come Second The Art of Win...
Brief Summary
Seven practical and powerful pitch proposal techniques aimed at securing new clients and business make up the core of this indispensable guide to being the most organized, prepared, and best equipped in the competitive realm of new-business proposals.
Valuable proposal checklists help ensure that a proposal pitch is complete before presentation and examples of successful pitches and information on what prospective clients look for, as well as common mistakes, are also discussed.
ISBN:9781904879626
Author:David Kean
Secrets of Success from The Co Founde...
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Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses innovation, creativity and the secrets of being a successful entrepreneur, through stories from his remarkable life and career.
Things A Little Bird Told Me
From GQ's 'Nerd of the Year' to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly positive and remarkably savvy co-founder of Twitter -- the social media platform that singlehandedly changed the way the world works. Now, Biz tells fascinating, pivotal, and personal stories from his early life and his careers at Google and Twitter, sharing his knowledge about the nature and importance of ingenuity today. In Biz's world:
• Opportunity can be manufactured
• Great work comes from abandoning a linear way of thinking
• Creativity never runs out
• Asking questions is free
• Empathy is core to personal and global success
In this book, Biz also addresses failure, the value of vulnerability, ambition, and corporate culture. Whether seeking behind-the-scenes stories, advice, or wisdom and principles from one of the most successful businessmen of the new century, THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME will satisfy every reader.
ISBN:9781455528721
Author:Biz Stone
Miss Uhuru 1963 Working for Mzee Jomo...
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Miss Uhuru 1963: Working for Mzee Jomo Kenyatta” an autobiography by Mrs. Elizabeth Mumbi Madoka
Her autobiography "Miss Uhuru 1963" captures a rich history of her interaction with the first family and includes snippets of her interaction with the current president Uhuru Kenyatta growing up and how she met her husband as they both worked for the first president of Kenya.
Gatundu Kiambu County, he and her dad were close acquaintances way before Kenyatta became president. Her beauty is to behold which explains why she was crowned miss Uhuru on 14th December 1963 in a beauty pageant organized by the Daily Nation and graced by the President and first lady Mama Ngina Kenyatta.
ISBN:MissUhuru1963
Author:Elizabeth Mumbi Madoka
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Brief Summary
Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life.
But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow’s best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home, an enigmatic man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. A trickster and a rogue, Wednesday seems to know more about Shadow than Shadow does himself.
Life as Wednesday’s bodyguard, driver, and errand boy is far more interesting and dangerous than Shadow ever imagined. Soon Shadow learns that the past never dies . . . and that beneath the placid surface of everyday life a storm is brewing—an epic war for the very soul of America—and that he is standing squarely in its path.
ISBN:9780062472106
Author:Neil Gaiman
Bird song A Novel of Love and War by ...
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Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present.
As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient.
Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.
ISBN:9780679776819
Author:Sebastian Faulks
