Hard Ball

Author : George Stalk,Robert Lachenauer,John Butman
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781591391678

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Classic Strategies for Unapologetic Winners “It” is a strategy so powerful and an execution-driven mind-set so relentless that companies use it to gain more than just competitive advantage ¿ they achieve an industry dominance that is virtually unassailable and that competitors often try to explain away as unfair. In their “hardball manifesto,” authors George Stalk and Rob Lachenauer of the leading strategy consulting firm The Boston Consulting Group show how hardball competitors can build or maintain an enviable competitive edge by pursuing one or more of the classic “hardball strategies”: unleash massive and overwhelming force, exploit anomalies, devastate profit sanctuaries, raise competitors’ costs, and break compromises. Based on twenty-five years of experience advising and observing a range of companies, the authors argue that hardball competitors can gain extreme competitive advantage ¿ neutralizing, marginalizing, or even destroying competitors ¿ without violating their contracts with customers or employees, and without breaking the rules. A clear-eyed paean to the timeless strategies that have driven the world’s winning companies, Hardball Strategy redefines and reinterprets the meaning of competition for a new generation of business players.

Author : Daniel Coyle
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015032754353

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With frankness and poignancy, he tells of the team's joys, losses, and small but essential victories, and of the neophyte coaches whose role moves haltingly from teaching baseball to being big brothers, disciplinarians and ultimately friends.

Author : Will Weaver
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780064472081

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Hard Ball by Will Weaver Pdf

Battle in the Bullpen For as long as Billy Baggs can remember, rich townie and ace pitcher Archer "King" Kenwood has been his nemesis--both on the field and off. And the summer before they enter high school, their long-standing rivalry explodes into violence. Desperate to keep the peace between his two star players, Coach Anderson comes up with a plan: If they want to play, they have to pay--by spending a week together, twenty-four hours a day. But will Coach's plan make things better? Or just a whole lot worse? After a family tragedy on the farm, Billy Baggs’s life is finally back on track. He’s starting high school. He’s caught the eye of the baseball coach and even a few college scouts. He has prospects for a girlfriend—Suzy Langen, the catch of the ninth grade. But blocking Billy’s path is King Kenwood, town rich kid and ace pitcher. As the two boys’ rivalry turns violent, it is left to Coach Anderson to find a solution. In the process, both Billy and King come to find their real problems might lie closer to home—with their own fathers.

Author : Pat Heim,Tammy Hughes,Susan K. Golant
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780698183292

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Hardball for Women by Pat Heim,Tammy Hughes,Susan K. Golant Pdf

The bestselling guide fully updated for the post-Lean In era For nearly two decades, Hardball for Women has shown women how to get ahead in the business world. Whether the arena is a law firm, a medical group, a tech company, or any other work environment, Hardball for Women decodes male business culture and shows women how to break patterns of behavior that put them at a disadvantage. It explains how to get results when you “lean in” without being thrown off balance. Illustrated with real-life examples Hardball for Women teaches women how to: Successfully navigate middle management to become a leader in your field Be assertive without being obnoxious Display confidence Engage in smart self-promotion Lead both men and women—and recognize the differences between them Use “power talk” language to your advantage

Author : James P. Quirk,Rodney D. Fort
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691146577

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Hard Ball by James P. Quirk,Rodney D. Fort Pdf

What can possibly account for the strange state of affairs in professional sports today? There are billionaire owners and millionaire players, but both groups are constantly squabbling over money. Many pro teams appear to be virtual "cash machines," generating astronomical annual revenues, but their owners seem willing to uproot them and move to any city willing to promise increased profits. At the same time, mayors continue to cook up "sweetheart deals" that lavish benefits on wealthy teams while imposing crushing financial hardships on cities that are already strapped with debt. To fans today, professional sports teams often look more like professional extortionists. In Hard Ball, James Quirk and Rodney Fort take on a daunting challenge: explaining exactly how things have gotten to this point and proposing a way out. Both authors are professional economists who specialize in the economics of sports. Their previous book, Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports, is widely acknowledged as the Bible of sports economics. Here, however, they are writing for sports fans who are trying to make sense out of the perplexing world of pro team sports. It is not money, in itself, that is the cause of today's problems, they assert. In fact, the real problem stems from one simple fact: pro sports are monopolies that are fully sanctioned by the U.S. government. Eliminate the monopolies, say Quirk and Fort, and all problems can be solved. If the monopolies are allowed to persist, so will today's woes. The authors discuss all four major pro team sports: baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Hard Ball is filled with anecdotes, case studies, and factual information that are brought together here for the first time. Quirk and Fort devote chapters to the main protagonists in the pro sports saga--media, unions, players, owners, politicians, and leagues--before they offer their own prescription for correcting the ills that afflict sports today. The result is an engaging and persuasive book that is sure to be widely read, cited, and debated. It is essential reading for every fan.

Author : Sara Paretsky
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101133828

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Hardball by Sara Paretsky Pdf

Chicago politics—past, present, and future—take center stage in this complex and compelling V.I. Warshawki novel from New York Times bestselling author Sara Peretsky. Tracking down missing persons is part of V.I. Warshawski’s job. But Lamont Gadsden has been missing for more than forty years—last seen heading out into the 1967 blizzard, in the midst of Chicago’s racial unrest. V.I. figured the search would be futile. She didn’t realize it would be lethal...or lead to troubling discoveries about her own family. And when her young cousin Petra disappears, an angry preacher, a jailed gangbanger, and politics from both past and present interconnect—and plunge V.I. into a mystery as unsettling as the ’60s themselves. A New York Times Notable Crime Book of the Year One of NPR’s Top Five Crime Novels of the Year

Author : D. Szasz,L.A. Bunimovich,D. Burago,N. Chernov,E.G.D. Cohen,C.P. Dettmann,J.R. Dorfman,S. Ferleger,R. Hirschl,A. Kononenko,J.L. Lebowitz,C. Liverani,T.J. Murphy,J. Piasecki,H.A. Posch,N. Simanyi,Ya. Sinai,T. Tel,H. van Beijeren,R. van Zon,J. Vollmer,L.S. Young
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783662040621

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Hard Ball Systems and the Lorentz Gas by D. Szasz,L.A. Bunimovich,D. Burago,N. Chernov,E.G.D. Cohen,C.P. Dettmann,J.R. Dorfman,S. Ferleger,R. Hirschl,A. Kononenko,J.L. Lebowitz,C. Liverani,T.J. Murphy,J. Piasecki,H.A. Posch,N. Simanyi,Ya. Sinai,T. Tel,H. van Beijeren,R. van Zon,J. Vollmer,L.S. Young Pdf

Hard Ball Systems and the Lorentz Gas are fundamental models arising in the theory of Hamiltonian dynamical systems. Moreover, in these models, some key laws of statistical physics can also be tested or even established by mathematically rigorous tools. The mathematical methods are most beautiful but sometimes quite involved. This collection of surveys written by leading researchers of the fields - mathematicians, physicists or mathematical physicists - treat both mathematically rigourous results, and evolving physical theories where the methods are analytic or computational. Some basic topics: hyperbolicity and ergodicity, correlation decay, Lyapunov exponents, Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, entropy production, irreversibility. This collection is a unique introduction into the subject for graduate students, postdocs or researchers - in both mathematics and physics - who want to start working in the field.

Author : L.A. Bunimovich,D. Burago,N. Chernov,E.G.D. Cohen,C.P. Dettmann,J.R. Dorfman,S. Ferleger,R. Hirschl,A. Kononenko,J.L. Lebowitz,C. Liverani,T.J. Murphy,J. Piasecki,H.A. Posch,N. Simanyi,Ya. Sinai,T. Tel,H. van Beijeren,R. van Zon,J. Vollmer,L.S. Young
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-04
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3540676201

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Hard Ball Systems and the Lorentz Gas by L.A. Bunimovich,D. Burago,N. Chernov,E.G.D. Cohen,C.P. Dettmann,J.R. Dorfman,S. Ferleger,R. Hirschl,A. Kononenko,J.L. Lebowitz,C. Liverani,T.J. Murphy,J. Piasecki,H.A. Posch,N. Simanyi,Ya. Sinai,T. Tel,H. van Beijeren,R. van Zon,J. Vollmer,L.S. Young Pdf

Hard Ball Systems and the Lorentz Gas are fundamental models arising in the theory of Hamiltonian dynamical systems. Moreover, in these models, some key laws of statistical physics can also be tested or even established by mathematically rigorous tools. The mathematical methods are most beautiful but sometimes quite involved. This collection of surveys written by leading researchers of the fields - mathematicians, physicists or mathematical physicists - treat both mathematically rigourous results, and evolving physical theories where the methods are analytic or computational. Some basic topics: hyperbolicity and ergodicity, correlation decay, Lyapunov exponents, Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, entropy production, irreversibility. This collection is a unique introduction into the subject for graduate students, postdocs or researchers - in both mathematics and physics - who want to start working in the field.

Author : Grant Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190292058

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The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang by Grant Barrett Pdf

Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as Beltway bandit and boondoggle, angry white male and leg treasurer, juice bill and Joe Citizen, banana superpower and the Big Fix. We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as gerrymander, but also of lesser-known terms such as cracking (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and fair-fight district (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party). Each entry includes the definition of the word, its historical background, and illuminating citations, some going back more than 200 years. (We learn, for instance, that a term as seemingly current as political football actually dates back to before the Civil War.) Selected entries will have extended encyclopedic notes. The book also features sidebar essays on topics such as political words in Blogistan; a short history of "big cheese"; all about chads and the 2000 election; the suffix "-gate" and all the related Watergate terms; and the naming of legislation. Political junkies, policy wonks, journalists, and word lovers will find this book addictive reading as well as a reliable guide to one of the more colorful corners of American English.

Author : Johnson
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994-03-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1878067435

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When Women Played Hardball by Johnson Pdf

Briefly traces the history of professional women's baseball, and offers profiles of seven players

Author : César Brioso
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780813059525

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Havana Hardball by César Brioso Pdf

In February 1947, the most memorable season in the history of the Cuban League finished with a dramatic series win by Almendares against its rival, Habana. As the celebration spread through the streets of Havana and across Cuba, the Brooklyn Dodgers were beginning spring training on the island. One of the Dodgers' minor league players was Jackie Robinson. He was on the verge of making his major-league debut in the United States, an event that would fundamentally change sports--and America. To avoid harassment from the white crowds in Florida during this critical preseason, the Dodgers relocated their spring training to Cuba, where black and white teammates had played side by side since 1900. It was also during this time that Major League Baseball was trying its hardest to bring the "outlaw" Cuban League under the control of organized baseball. As the Cubans fought to stay independent, Robinson worked to earn a roster spot on the Dodgers in the face of discrimination from his future teammates. Havana Hardball captures the excitement of the Cuban League's greatest pennant race and the anticipation of the looming challenge to MLB's color barrier. Illuminating one of the sport's most pivotal seasons, veteran journalist César Brioso brings together a rich mix of worlds as the heyday of Latino baseball converged with one of the most socially meaningful events in U.S. history.

Author : Don Kukla
Publisher : Baker's Plays
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Playing Hardball by Don Kukla Pdf

Author : Robert L Shook
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781402214851

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Hardball Selling by Robert L Shook Pdf

Straightforward secrets and strategies for salespeople who want to join the winning top 5 percent of the sales force •Get your foot in the door •Control the sale without manipulation •Create a sense of urgency •Let the buyer participate •Learn the crucial subtleties of an aggressive approach •Target the biggest sales •Sell abroad And much more For many companies, 20 percent of their sales force generates 80 percent of their sales volume. In this hands-on guide, Robert L. Shook, a master salesman, teaches the high-pressure strategies that mean the difference between a super seller and a salesperson. The methods spelled out in this book describe what it takes to be in the elite 5 percent. In Hardball Selling, Shook inspires all salespeople to dare to be different and master hard selling without browbeating or offending customers. Shook spent 17 years in the trenches perfecting his successful strategies. Using the four basic principles of hardball selling, he guides you through all the steps, from getting past the "gatekeeper" to the single-minded tactics necessary to close a sale. "Shook's Hardball Selling is provocative and controversial—and filled with wonderful selling tips. I highly recommend it to every salesperson."—Martin D. Shafiroff, the world's No. 1 stockbroker

Author : Martin Appel
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803277849

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Hardball by Martin Appel Pdf

When Bowie Kuhn became baseball commissioner in 1969, attendance at games was declining, labor disputes were flaring, and many teams were suffering from poor management and marketing. Fifteen years later, when Kuhn retired, the sport was flourishing. Kuhn had overseen tumultuous changes issuing from a challenge to the reserve clause, the 1981 strike, escalated salaries, free agency, and his controversial rulings on matters ranging from gambling to broadcasting. In Hardball Kuhn reveals how the decisions were made and forthrightly challenges his detractors. The former commissioner offers many colorful anecdotes and strong opinions about baseball's greatest legends from Jackie Robinson to Howard Cosell. In a new afterword to this Bison Books edition, Bowie Kuhn, who now resides both in Jacksonville, Florida, and on Long Island, gives his take on the state of baseball since his retirement as commissioner in 1984.

Author : Bryan Tsao,Carolina Bolado,Joe Distelheim
Publisher : ACTA Publications
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0879463414

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The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2008 by Bryan Tsao,Carolina Bolado,Joe Distelheim Pdf

A comprehensive analysis of the entire 2007 baseball season from the first pitch to the last out, including a breakdown of the post season and the World Series. Key features include: ? Reviews of how 2005 played out in each of baseball's six divisions ? An in-depth look at the minor leagues ? Detailed team stats and graphs ? Team-by-team individual hitting and fielding numbers ? A postseason and World Series round up