John wiley sons aug 2010 (65 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE HANDBOOK FOR LEADERS The Prince is often regarded as the first true leadership book. It shocked contemporary readers with its ruthless call for fearless and effective action. With simple prose and straightforward logic Machiavelli's guide still has the power to surprise and inform anyone hoping to make their way in the world. This keepsake edition includes an introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon, drawing out lessons for managers and business leaders, and showing how The Prince remains vital reading for anyone in the realm of business or politics.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone presents a collection of intellectually stimulating new essays that address the philosophical issues relating to risk, ethics, and other aspects of climbing that are of interest to everyone from novice climbers to seasoned mountaineers.\* Represents the first collection of essays to exclusively address the many philosophical aspects of climbing\* Includes essays that challenge commonly accepted views of climbing and climbing ethics\* Written accessibly, this book will appeal to everyone from novice climbers to seasoned mountaineers\* Includes a foreword written by Hans Florine.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A lifetime of reflections on the joys, terrors, and triumphs of sailing-from Britain's greatest yachtsmanThe first man to sail solo and non-stop around the world, in 1969, Robin Knox-Johnston instantly became an international legend. In addition to setting other global sailing records, he has led sailing expeditions to far flung destinations, amassing a breadth of experience few can equal. In his new book, a compilation of his monthly articles in Yachting World, Sir Robin shares his thoughts on the majesty, mystery, and dangers of sailing the open seas. He describes the 'Joy of the Solo Sailor' as well as the realities of safety at sea and life on board a yacht, recalling his escape from a perfect storm, night terrors and waves capable of devouring a ship.\* Allows readers to experience the joys (going round the Horn of Africa in a day) of sailing, as well as close calls\* Sheds light on the role of the media and sailing as well as the changing face of sailingA fascinating record of heroic and larger-than-life exploits from Britain's most famous celebrated yachtsman, Knox-Johnston on Sailing is a fascinating account of one man's quest for physical challenge and adventure-and the rewards they offer.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Confused by metaphysics In a muddle with aesthetics Intimidated by Kant Then look no further! Philosophy For Dummies, UK Edition is a complete crash-course in philosophical thought, covering key philosophers, philosophical history and theory and the big questions that affect us today. Tying in with standard UK curricula and including core topics such as logic, ethics and political philosophy, this impartial, expert guide cuts through the jargon to give you the facts. Whether you're a philosophy student or a complete beginner, Philosophy For Dummies, UK Edition will get you thinking and talking about philosophy in no time, and with maximum confidence.…

Kombiprodukt. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Master the most popular woodwindWant to play the clarinet No problem! This hands-on guide teaches you all the fundamental techniques you need to play this popular woodwind alone or in a group setting.Clarinet For Dummies gives you the ideal introduction to play clarinet. You ll begin by learning how to properly hold a clarinet and move on to getting a consistent sound, reading music, and playing songs in a variety of styles, including classical, pop, and jazz.\* Step-by-step instruction on finger placement, posture, and basic up-keep for the instrument\* Tips on how to buy or rent a clarinet\* Accompanying CD offers play-along recordings of every exercise featured in the bookWhether you ve never held a clarinet or are looking to brush up on skills from your youth, Clarinet For Dummies is packed with friendly, easy-to-follow instructions to have you playing this versatile instrument with ease!Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of Elektronisches Buch file.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A fascinating exploration of the philosophy behind NBC's hit TV series, 30 RockWith edgy writing and a great cast, 30 Rock is one of the funniest television shows on the air--and where hilarity ensues, philosophical questions abound: Are Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy ethical heroes Kenneth redefines 'goody two shoes', but what does it really mean to be good Dr. Leo Spaceman routinely demonstrates that medicine is not a science, so what is the role of the incompetent professional in America today In 30 Rock and Philosophy, Tina Fey and her fellow cast members are thrust onto the philosophical stage with Plato, Aristotle, Kantand other great thinkers to examine these key questions and many others that involve the characters and plotlines of 30 Rock and its fictional TGS with Tracy Jordan comedy show.\* Takes an entertaining, up-close look at the philosophical issues behind 30 Rock's characters and storylines, from post-feminist ideals to workaholism and the meaning of life\* Equips you with a new understanding of Liz Lemon, Jack Donaghy, Tracy Jordan, Jenna Maroney, Dr. Spaceman, and other characters\* Gives you deep and meaningful new reasons (who knew ) for watching Tina Fey and your other favorites on 30 RockIdeal for both casual and diehard fans, this book is the essential companion for every 30 Rock-watcher.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation.Co-created by 470 'Business Model Canvas' practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition.Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you're ready to change the rules, you belong to 'the business model generation!'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The second edition of Dyslexia in the Workplace is a comprehensive guide to how dyslexic adults in employment can improve their skills, and how their employers and other professionals can help. - Offers invaluable insights for overcoming obstacles to success, enhancing workplace efficiency and ensuring that dyslexic employees achieve their full potential - Written in an accessible style that is perfect for professionals and dyslexic individuals alike - Covers related syndromes such as dyspraxia, attention deficit disorder and visual stress - Explores the legal obligations and other issues that are important to workplace managers, especially human resources professionals - Provides authoritative guidance on recent case law relating to dyslexia. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This new edition of Prejudice provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, introducing the major theoretical ideas as well as providing a critical analysis of recent developments.\* Takes a social psychological perspective, analysing individual behavior as part of a pattern of intergroup processes\* Covers the major research, including classical personality accounts, developmental approaches, socio-cognitive research focussing on categorization and stereotyping, prejudice as an intergroup phenomenon, and ways to combat prejudice\* Illustrates concepts with examples of different kinds of prejudice drawn from everyday life\* Includes a new chapter on prejudice from the victim's perspective\* Fully updated throughout, with expansion of the notions of explicit and implicit manifestations of prejudice.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation. Co-created by 470 'Business Model Canvas' practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition. Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you're ready to change the rules, you belong to 'the business model generation!'Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 278 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for The Teaching Portfolio 'This new edition of a classic text has added invaluable, immediately useful material. It's a must-read for faculty, department chairs, and academic administrators.' ?Irene W. D. Hecht, director, Department Leadership Programs, American Council on Education 'This book offers a wealth of wisdom and materials. It contains essential knowledge, salient advice, and an immediately useful model for faculty engaged in promotion or tenure.' ?Raymond L. Calabrese, professor of educational administration, The Ohio State University 'The Teaching Portfolio provides the guidelines and models that faculty need to prepare quality portfolios, plus the standards and practices required to evaluate them.' ?Linda B. Nilson, director, Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, Clemson University 'Focused on reflection, sound assessment, and collaboration, this inspiring and practical book should be read by every graduate student, faculty member, and administrator.' ?John Zubizarreta, professor of English, Columbia College 'All the expanded and new sections of this book add real value, but administrators and review committees will clearly benefit from the new section on how to evaluate portfolios with a validated template.' ?Barbara Hornum, director, Center for Academic Excellence, Drexel University 'This book is practical, insightful, and immediately useful. It's an essential resource for faculty seeking promotion/tenure or who want to improve their teaching.' ?Michele Stocker-Barkley, faculty, Department of Psychology, Kishwaukee Community College 'The Teaching Portfolio has much to say to teachers of all ranks, disciplines, and institutions. It offers a rich compendium of practical guidelines, examples, and resources.' ?Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Associate Provost for Faculty Development, University of Massachusetts Amherst 'Teaching portfolios help our Board on Rank and Tenure really understand the quality and value of individual teaching contributions.' ?Martha L. Wharton, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs and Diversity, Loyola University, Maryland. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Featuring a collection of essays by leading experts, Female Sexual Offenders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment is the first book to bring together current research, clinical assessment, and treatment techniques of female sexual offenders into one accessible volume. - Describes the most recent research data regarding female sexual offenders, covering such issues as female-perpetrated sexual abuse prevalence and juvenile offenders - Includes an assessment of the risk of recidivism, international treatment initiatives, and a discussion on the use of the polygraph with female sexual offenders - Features practitioner-focused essays which evaluate current assessment strategies, treatment needs, effectiveness, and processes for female sexual offenders.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A guide for community banks to rebuild and strengthen their businessWith Community Banking Strategies, author Vincent Boberski, a financial professional who has spent years working with senior management and the boards of directors at local banks, skillfully reveals how community banks can compete against bigger institutions in the wake of the most significant financial crisis since the 1930s.Chapter by chapter, he offers practical advice on many of the most important issues in this area, including portfolio management, balance sheet management, and dealing with interest rate and credit cycles. Along the way, Boberski also offers in-depth insights on establishing and encouraging the lasting client relationships that produce the most essential piece of the banking business: focusing on increasing core deposits, which is at the heart of any good local bank.\* Details the strategies, products, and tactics that will enable community banks to create opportunities out of market dislocations and effectively manage risk\* Reveals how to capture consistently profitable growth at the expense of regional and national competitors\* Discusses what it takes to transform newfound market dynamics into customer relationships that touch both sides of the balance sheetIf you want to gain a better understanding of the strategies that could consistently lead to success in this field, this book is the best place to start.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It's not the best companies that prevail in the marketplace, but rather the best brands. The goal of business strategy is not just to be better, but different. Learn how to build a differentiating value proposition by clearly and carefully defining your brand boundaries: Calling, Competencies, Customers, and Culture.Positioning for Professionals shows how a well-defined value proposition can help professional service firms create their own success instead of copying the success of others, including such concepts as:\* How and why professional service brands become homogenized\* Why standing for everything is the same as standing for nothing\* Why there's no such thing as full service\* Deep and narrow as a strategic imperative\* Why it's better to be a profit leader than a market leader\* Differentiation and price premiums\* How to map your brand on the matrix of relevance and differentiation\* How to define a value proposition that will make your firm intensely appealing to the customers who want you for what you do bestBased on the proven premise that the most profitable business strategy is not to aim at the center of the market, but rather at the edges, Positioning for Professionals is written for leaders, managers, and other senior executives of service companies in with a particular emphasis on professional service firms.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A great reference for all beginner traders. Aiki Trading will look at a robust method to understand what the market is doing in a specified timeframe. Essentially, markets are either trending up, trending down, or is in sideways or range bound congestion. Chapters are devoted to each of these three conditions, and the concepts are explained in depth. In addition, specific trading strategies will be explored for the different market conditions. These strategies are what I define as high probability, low risk trading strategies that have higher probability of success because it conforms to the nature of how markets behave. With more than 25 years of experience in financial markets, Jeffery's stock market career began in 1977 with JM Sassoon and continued with Kim Eng Securities. During his time in Stock-broking, Jeffery witnessed many cycles of boom and bust, including the 1987 meltdown in worldwide equity markets. In 1997, Jeffery joined Refco Singapore. During this time he developed new expertise in International Futures Markets and FX. Jeffery joined CMC in April 2007. He was responsible for the content and presentation of CMC's educational programmes. And he is currently the Resident Trainer with SGX Academy, and is based in Singapore.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Information doesn't just provide a window on the business, increasingly it is the business. The global economy is moving from products to services which are described almost entirely electronically. Even those businesses that are traditionally associated with making things are less concerned with managing the manufacturing process (which is largely outsourced) than they are with maintaining their intellectual property. Information-Driven Business helps you to understand this change and find the value in your data. Hillard explains techniques that organizations can use and how businesses can apply them immediately. For example, simple changes to the way data is described will let staff support their customers much more quickly; and two simple measures let executives know whether they will be able to use the content of a database before it is even built. This book provides the foundation on which analytical and data rich organizations can be created. Innovative and revealing, this book provides a robust description of Information Management theory and how you can pragmatically apply it to real business problems, with almost instant benefits. Information-Driven Business comprehensively tackles the challenge of managing information, starting with why information has become important and how it is encoded, through to how to measure its use.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Is management any more than common sense Do employers really know how to recruit the best people for their firms How important is training to employee development Which management techniques motivate employees best Is money the best motivator These are key questions which every ambitious organisation should be asking about itself and the way it operates. Or do they simply represent the latest fashionable management fads promoted by trendy consultants.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society.\* Collects first-rate original essays by leading figures from a range of disciplines and theoretical stances, including anthropology, art history, history, literature, sociology, cultural studies, and museum studies\* Examines the complexity of the museum from cultural, political, curatorial, historical and representational perspectives\* Covers traditional subjects, such as space, display, buildings, objects and collecting, and more contemporary challenges such as visiting, commerce, community and experimental exhibition forms.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this comprehensive resource, Raymond J. Wlodkowski and Margery B. Ginsberg describe how to meet the challenge of teaching intensive and accelerated courses to nontraditional learners and working adults. By making motivation and cultural relevance essential to instruction, they clearly show what instructors can do to enhance learning in classes that can last from three to six hours. Teaching Intensive and Accelerated Courses makes full use of the authors' twenty years of experience researching and teaching accelerated courses, along with selected strategies from Wlodkowski's classic Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn, to offer tried-and-true practices instructors can use to provide continuously engaging learning.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The overall objective of this book is to provide standards for the knowledge, skills, and attitudes expected of all hospitalists and to provide a framework for ongoing professional and curriculum development for learners at all levels. The framework is intended for use by hospital medicine program directors, directors of medical student clerkships, residency programs, fellowships, and continuing medical education, as well as other educators involved in curriculum development. The competencies do not focus on specific content, but rather general learning objectives within the skills, knowledge, and attitudes related to each topic. Attaining competency in the areas defined in these chapters is expected to require post-residency training. This training is most likely to be obtained through a combination of work experience, local mentorship, and engagement in specific educational programs or fellowship. Hospitalists, directors, and educators can create specific instructional activities and methods chosen to reflect the characteristics of the intended learners and context of the practice environment. Within each section, individual chapters on focused topics provide competencies in three domains of educational outcomes: the Cognitive Domain (Knowledge), the Psychomotor Domain (Skills), and the Affective Domain (Attitudes). To reflect the emphasis of hospital medicine practice on improving healthcare systems, a fourth section entitled Systems Organization and Improvement is also included. An attempt has been made to make the objectives timeless, allowing for creation of curriculum that can be nimble and reactive to new discoveries. Although the entire document can be a resourcefor comprehensive program development, each chapter is intended to stand-alone and thus supportcurriculum development specific to the needs of individual programs.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The ultimate guide to investor relationsYour one-stop resource for everything pertaining to your company's dealings with the investment community, Running an Effective Investor Relations Department provides investor relations professionals with essential day-to-day information. From creating and properly communicating a company's investment story, to dealing with both the sell side and buy side of the investment community, to providing guidance, and the form and frequency of that guidance, this authoritative resource covers it all.\* Addresses every possible area of the investor relations profession\* Includes chapters covering disclosure, forward-looking statements, guidance, event management, and twenty other topics\* Other titles by Bragg: The Vest Pocket Controller, Accounting Best Practices, Sixth Edition, and Just-in-Time Accounting, Third EditionPractical and thorough, this book offers the world-class guidance you need to effectively manage your investor relations department.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A practical framework for effectively managing performance in today's complex, competitive and risky global marketsThe Third Edition provides a complete framework for building best practice management processes for today's complex and uncertain world. Fully updated to reflect the events of the global economic crisis, this book provides further practical examples of companies that are successfully using the practices identified.\* Updated for the implications of the global economic crisis on management practices\* Completely rewritten section on 'What it Takes To Be An Effective Manager In An Uncertain World\* Added examples and mini case studies throughout the book from companies such as Qualcomm, IBM, Dominos, Target, Toshiba and Facebook\* Establishes new benchmarks for performance management process and practice\* Fully updated to include recent events, new learnings, technologies and emerging best practicesThis book includes serious rethinking of the way companies plan and manage performance-from the role of accounting to the skills needed to be an effective manager-including new technologies, techniques and real time management processes.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An inside look at what it really takes to become a better traderA proprietary trading firm consists of a group of professionals who trade the capital of the firm. Their income and livelihood is generated solely from their ability to take profits consistently out of the markets. The world of prop trading is mentally and emotionally challenging, but offers substantial rewards to the select few who can master this craft called trading.In One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading, author Mike Bellafiore shares the principles and techniques that have enabled him to navigate the most challenging of markets over the past twelve years. He explains how he has imparted those techniques to an elite desk of traders at the proprietary trading firm he co-founded. In doing so, he lifts the veil on the inner workings of his firm, shedding light on the challenges of prop trading and insight on why traders succeed or fail.An important contribution to trading literature, the book will help all traders by:\* Emphasizing the development of skills that are critical to success, such as the fundamentals of One Good Trade, Reading the Tape, and finding Stocks In Play\* Outlining the factors that really make the difference between a consistently profitable trader and one who underperforms\* Sharing entertaining, hysterical, and page turning stories of traders who have excelled or failed and why, many trained by the author, with an essential trading principle wrapped insideBecoming a better trader takes discipline, skill development, and statistically profitable trading strategies, and this book will show you how to develop all three.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Supply Network Strategies deals with how companies activate relationships with suppliers in order to become more efficient and innovative. In recent years, increasing emphasis has been placed on the ways in which these relationships link companies in supply chains and networks. In this book, the authors examine the supply side of companies from a network perspective.The IMP (Industrial Purchasing and Marketing) Group of researchers includes leading international experts in the fields of industrial / business marketing and purchasing. This group is very influential and many university courses have been developed based on the 'philosophy' of the IMP group.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - PROMOTING PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTH This book forms part of a series entitled Promoting Partnership for Health publishedin association with the UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE). The series explores partnership for health from policy, practice and educational perspectives. Whilst strongly advocating the imperative driving collaboration in healthcare, it adopts a pragmatic approach. Far from accepting established ideas and approaches, the series alerts readers to the pitfalls and ways to avoid them. DESCRIPTION Interprofessional Teamwork for Health and Social Care is an invaluable guide for clinicians, academics, managers and policymakers who need to understand, implement and evaluate interprofessional teamwork. It will give them a fuller understanding of how teams function, of the issues relating to the evaluation of teamwork, and of approaches to creating and implementing interventions (e.g. team training, quality improvement initiatives) within health and social care settings. It will also raise awareness of the wide range of theories that can inform interprofessional teamwork. The book is divided into nine chapters. The first 'sets the scene' by outlining some common issues which underpin interprofessional teamwork, while the second discusses current teamwork developments around the globe. Chapter 3 explores a range of team concepts, and Chapter 4 offers a new framework for understanding interprofessional teamwork. The next three chapters discuss how a range of range of social science theories, interventions and evaluation approaches can be employed to advance this field. Chapter 8 presents a synthesis of research into teams the authors have undertaken in Canada, South Africa and the UK, while the final chapter draws together key threads and offers ideas for future of teamwork. The book also provides a range of resources for designing, implementing and evaluating interprofessional teamwork activities. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There is an increasing need throughout the biomedical sciences for a greater understanding of knowledge-based systems and their application to genomic and proteomic research. This book discusses knowledge-based and statistical approaches, along with applications in bioinformatics and systems biology. The text emphasizes the integration of different methods for analysing and interpreting biomedical data. This, in turn, can lead to breakthrough biomolecular discoveries, with applications in personalized medicine. Key Features: - Explores the fundamentals and applications of knowledge-based and statistical approaches in bioinformatics and systems biology. - Helps readers to interpret genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic data in understanding complex biological molecules and their interactions. - Provides useful guidance on dealing with large datasets in knowledge bases, a common issue in bioinformatics. - Written by leading international experts in this field. Students, researchers, and industry professionals with a background in biomedical sciences, mathematics, statistics, or computer science will benefit from this book. It will also be useful for readers worldwide who want to master the application of bioinformatics to real-world situations and understand biological problems that motivate algorithms.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for Driven to Lead'A powerful scientific framework, grounded in evolutionary biology, that helps us think about leadership successes and failures throughout history and how we might address humanity's need for better leadership going forward.'--Nitin Nohria, Dean, Harvard Business School'Brilliant insights--straightforward, easy to comprehend, and extremely useful to anyone in business. I predict the four-drives model will replace Maslow's hierarchy of needs as the accepted way of describing human behavior.'--David N. Burt, chairman emeritus, Supply Chain Management Institute, University of San Diego'Paul Lawrence is back! Driven to Lead is the most comprehensive general theory of leadership ever created. By digging deeply into Darwin, Lawrence offers a practical guide for authentic leaders to excel in today's challenging world.'--Bill George, professor of management practice, Harvard Business School, and former chair and CEO, Medtronic'If Darwin had written a book about leadership in the twenty-first century, this would be it.'--Ranjay Gulati, Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School'It's the E = mc2 of human behavior.'--Malcolm DeLeo, Vice President of Innovation, Daymon Worldwide'This book presents a rigorous and novel theory on how evolution and the human brain can produce effective and ineffective leadership. The writing is clear. It is accessible to practitioners as well as to researchers.'--Chris Argyris, professor emeritus, Harvard Business School. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If 75 percent of all mergers fail, what makes the other 25 percent succeed Mergers, acquisitions, and alliances are more vital today than ever before in driving business success. This indispensible guide offers proven strategies and sound solutions to the multitude of integration issues that inevitably arise, and shows how to create a combined business that meets its strategic and financial objectives, competes better, and offers personal and organizational enhancements. Dubbed 'merger mavens' by Fortune magazine, the authors report lessons learned from their experience in over 100 combinations. Executives, managers, and employees alike-in all industries and sectors-will find useful examples, strategies, and tools here.Praise for Joining Forces'This book will help both M&A veterans and those new to the game. The authorsprovide great insights into the human, cultural, organizational, and strategic factors that matter in M&A success.'-Richard Kovacevich, chairman and CEO emeritus, Wells Fargo & Co.'Don't commit to the merger or acquisition without them! I have personally witnessed how hard it is on everyone-employees, shareholders, communities, and especially executives-to work through an improperly managed merger. I have known Marks and Mirvis for almost twenty-five years and the only mistake our organization made was that we did not consult them soon enough. Their new book reflects unequalled experience and intellect. Don't merge, acquire, or be acquired without it!'-Michael R. Losey, CEO (emeritus), Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM)'Joining Forces is a terrific resource for managers who want to understand thehuman dynamics of mergers and acquisitions, and a must-read for those who have to lead their companies through one. It is based on the latest research and providespractical insights and advice from authors who know M&A inside out.' -Edward E. Lawler III, Distinguished Professor of Business, Marshall School ofBusiness, University of Southern California.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The definitive guide to fixed-come securities-revised to reflect today's dynamic financial environmentThe Second Edition of the Fixed-Income Securities and Derivatives Handbook offers a completely updated and revised look at an important area of today's financial world. In addition to providing an accessible description of the main elements of the debt market, concentrating on the instruments used and their applications, this edition takes into account the effect of the recent financial crisis on fixed income securities and derivatives.As timely as it is timeless, the Second Edition of the Fixed-Income Securities and Derivatives Handbook includes a wealth of new material on such topics as covered and convertible bonds, swaps, synthetic securitization, and bond portfolio management, as well as discussions regarding new regulatory twists and the evolving derivatives market.\* Offers a more detailed look at the basic principles of securitization and an updated chapter on collateralized debt obligations\* Covers bond mathematics, pricing and yield analytics, and term structure models\* Includes a new chapter on credit analysis and the different metrics used to measure bond-relative value\* Contains illustrative case studies and real-world examples of the topics touched upon throughout the bookWritten in a straightforward and accessible style, Moorad Choudhry's new book offers the ideal mix of practical tips and academic theory within this important field. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Pocket Guide for Student Midwives is an accessible, portable book offering student midwives everything they need to grasp the key elements of midwifery language, knowledge and skills. The new edition of this useful aide-memoire is divided into two parts. The first includes relevant terms, abbreviations and definitions. The second part is a quick A-Z reference guide to common conditions, procedures, emergency situations, and supporting information, enhanced by visual material to aid comprehension of normality and anomalies. The innovative action flow charts enable rapid access to information that logically guides the reader through procedures in potentially life-threatening situations, in both home and hospital settings. A Pocket Guide for Student Midwives is essential reading for the new non-nurse student midwife, the experiencednurse entering the midwifery profession, and senior student midwives.…