Makers Of Fortune

Author : Michael Useem,Harbir Singh,Liang Neng,Peter Cappelli
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610396592

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Fortune Makers by Michael Useem,Harbir Singh,Liang Neng,Peter Cappelli Pdf

Fortune Makers analyzes and brings to light the distinctive practices of business leaders who are the future of the Chinese economy. These leaders oversee not the old state-owned enterprises, but private companies that have had to invent their way forward out of the wreckage of an economy in tatters following the Cultural Revolution. Outside of brand names such as Alibaba and Lenovo, little is known, even by the Chinese themselves, about the people present at the creation of these innovative businesses. Fortune Makers provides sharp insights into their unique styles--a distinctive blend of the entrepreneur, the street fighter, and practices developed by the Communist Party--and their distinctive ways of leading and managing their organizations that are unlike anything the West is familiar with. When Peter Drucker published Concept of the Corporation in 1946, he revealed what made large American corporations tick. Similarly, when Japanese companies emerged as a global force in the 1980s, insightful analysts explained the practices that brought Japan's economy out of the ashes--and what managers elsewhere could learn to compete with them. Now, based on unprecedented access, Fortune Makers allows business leaders in the United States and the rest of the West to understand the essential character and style of Chinese corporate life and its dominant players, whose businesses are the foundation of the domestic Chinese market and are now making their mark globally.

Author : James Belich
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742288222

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Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders From Polynesian by James Belich Pdf

A new paperback reprint of this best-selling and ground-breaking history. When first published in 1996 Making Peoples was hailed as redefining New Zealand history. It was undoubtedly the most important work of New Zealand history since Keith Sinclair's classic A History of New Zealand.Making Peoples covers the period from first settlement to the end of the nineteenth century. Part one covers Polynesian background, Maori settlement and pre-contact history. Part two looks at Maori-European relations to 1900. Part three discusses Pakeha colonisation and settlement.James Belich's Making Peoples is a major work which reshapes our understanding of New Zealand history, challenges traditional views and debunks many myths, while also recognising the value of myths as historical forces. Many of its assertions are new and controversial.

Author : R. C. J. Stone
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781775581161

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Makers of Fortune by R. C. J. Stone Pdf

So many businesses rose and fell in nineteenth-century Auckland that the city was called a &‘graveyard of enterprise'. By far the most serious and general collapse came during the decade of depression and banking crises which overtook the whole colony after 1885. Auckland's commercial elite, which had dominated the city's business for a generation and had launched some of New Zealand's most important financial institutions, was discredited. Some of its members were impoverished. In the 1890s this failure was explained in moralistic terms. It was seen as the just penalty for speculative rashness. Makers of Fortune suggests that although optimism was almost an Auckland trait and was incited by rapid city growth, other economic forces were also at work. There was, for one, the ease with which funds could be obtained from abroad. Many Auckland businessmen tried to make their way by the application of the Victorian ideal of self-help. Some succeeded; other failed after early success. Through contemporary newspapers and business and legal records Dr Stone has traced a story of the fates of individual industries, firms and entrepreneurs, which also illuminates the impulses of colonial business in general.

Author : Connie Podesta
Publisher : Made For Success Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781613397701

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Make a Fortune Selling to Women by Connie Podesta Pdf

Want to Close The Deal? Want to Make The Sale? Want to Retain More Customers? Are you selling to the dominant economic force in the country?

There are 190 million of them in the U.S. alone. They have $4.4 trillion in collective buying power. They purchase 85% of all products and services, and they influence most of the rest of the purchases. They are responsible for 85% of the checks written. Forty-seven percent of them are stockholders. Who are they? Women.

In Make a Fortune Selling to Women, Connie Podesta combines psychology and sales tactics to create a how-to guide for how to sell to women and how to market to women.

With a lively voice and no-nonsense tone that both men and women will appreciate, Podesta offers specific tips for overcoming the big five Deal Breakers:

1. She doesn't want to play the game
2. She doesn't think the salesperson views her as a legitimate decision maker
3. She doesn't like the salesperson
4. She doesn't trust the salesperson
5. She doesn't think the salesperson is the right person for the job

Riddled with revealing anecdotes, Make a Fortune Selling to Women describes the male and female approach to the buying experience--without being condescending to either gender. And both salesmen and saleswomen will rely on this book to help them secure more sales with women. Discover exactly the right approach when selling to women and use it to close the deal.

Author : Alan Murray
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781541789104

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Tomorrow's Capitalist by Alan Murray Pdf

The Next Big Idea Club, Best Leadership Books of 2022 In an era of political and cultural extremism, America’s corporate leaders have emerged as the pragmatic center of a movement for social and economic progress. The core tenets of a capitalist system that dominated the world for more than a century are being challenged as never before. Narratives about the failures of capitalism, the greed of the 1 percent, and the blindness of corporations to public need have made their mark and are driving change. These aren’t the superficial cosmetic fixes that generated so much cynicism in the past, but a revolution in the way corporations are imagined and run. Tomorrow’s Capitalist reveals how corporate CEOs—the ultimate pragmatists—realized that they could lose their “operating license” unless they tackle the fundamental issues of our time: climate, diversity and inclusion, and inequality and workforce opportunity. Responding to their employees and customers who are demanding corporate change, they have taken the lead in establishing the bold new principles of stakeholder capitalism, ensuring that for the first time in more than a half a century it is not just shareholders who have a say in how corporations are run. Alan Murray vividly captures the zeitgeist of the real and compelling dynamic that is transforming much of the corporate world.

Author : Gordon M. Winder,Andreas Dix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317391616

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Trading Environments by Gordon M. Winder,Andreas Dix Pdf

This volume examines dynamic interactions between the calculative and speculative practices of commerce and the fruitfulness, variability, materiality, liveliness and risks of nature. It does so in diverse environments caught up in new trading relationships forged on and through frontiers for agriculture, forestry, mining and fishing. Historical resource frontiers are understood in terms of commercial knowledge systems organized as projects to transform landscapes and environments. The book asks: how were environments traded, and with what environmental and landscape consequences? How have environments been engineered, standardized and transformed within past trading systems? What have been the successes and failures of economic knowledge in dealing with resource production in complex environments? It considers cases from northern Europe, North and South America, Central Africa and New Zealand in the period between 1750 and 1990, and the contributors reflect on the effects of transnational commodity chains, competing economic knowledge systems, environmental ignorance and learning, and resource exploitation. In each case they identify tensions, blind spots, and environmental learning that plagued commercial projects on frontiers.

Author : Philip J. Kitchen,Don E. Schultz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230554580

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Raising the Corporate Umbrella by Philip J. Kitchen,Don E. Schultz Pdf

Corporate communications are now hugely important in the success of companies and organisations. Using cases and examples from companies such as The Body Shop, Texaco, Johnson & Johnson, BP Oil & British Airways the authors introduce the framework necessary to analyse corporate communications strategies and provide clear practical guidelines for successful implementation. A must for anyone involved in corporate communications, public relations or public affairs, especially those working in multi-national or global organisations.

Author : Kelly's directories, ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555075574

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The Post office [afterw.] Kelly's directory of the watch and clock trades, goldsmiths and jewellers [&c. afterw.] Kelly's directory of the watch, clock and jewellery trades by Kelly's directories, ltd Pdf

Author : Cincinnati (Ohio)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:39694125

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Annual Reports of the City Departments of the City of Cincinnati ... by Cincinnati (Ohio) Pdf

Author : Vaudine England
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982184513

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Fortune's Bazaar by Vaudine England Pdf

A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have made it a multicultural world metropolis—and whose freedoms are endangered today. Hong Kong has always been many cities to many people: a seaport, a gateway to an empire, a place where fortunes can be dramatically made or lost, a place to disappear and reinvent oneself, and a mixing pot of diverse populations from literally everywhere around the globe. A British Crown Colony for 155 years, Hong Kong is now ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. Here, renowned journalist Vaudine England delves into Hong Kong’s complex history and its people—diverse, multi-cultural, cosmopolitan—who have made this one-time fishing village into the world port city it is today. Rather than a traditional history describing a town led by British Governors or a mere offshoot of a collapsing Chinese empire, Fortune’s Bazaar is the first thorough examination of the varied peoples who made Hong Kong. While British traders and Asian merchants had long been busy in the Indian and South East Asian seas, there were many from different cultures and ethnic backgrounds who arrived in Hong Kong, met and married—despite all taboos—and created a distinct community. Many of Hong Kong’s most influential figures during its first century as a city were neither British nor Chinese—they were Malay or Indian, Jewish or Armenian, Parsi or Portuguese, Eurasian or Chindian—or simply, Hong Kongers. England describes those overlooked in history including the opium-traders who built synagogues or churches, ship-owners carrying gold-rush migrants, property tycoons, and more. Here, too, is the visionary who plumbed Hong Kong’s harbor depths to spur reclamation, the half-Dutch Chinese gentleman with two wives who was knighted by Queen Victoria, and the landscape gardeners who settled Kowloon and became millionaires. A story of empire, race, and sex, Fortune’s Bazaar combines deep archival research and oral history to present a vivid history of a special place—a unique city made by diverse people of the world, whose part in its creation has never been properly told until now.

Author : Editors of Fortune Magazine
Publisher : Liberty Street
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1933405902

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Fortune: Secrets of Greatness by Editors of Fortune Magazine Pdf

From the editors of "Fortune" magazine comes this compendium of the advice, wisdom, and guiding principles that today's top CEOs and entrepreneurs live by in their careers and personal lives.

Author : Willard Sterne Randall
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781524745943

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The Founders' Fortunes by Willard Sterne Randall Pdf

An illuminating financial history of the Founding Fathers, revealing how their personal finances shaped the Constitution and the new nation In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America’s most consequential document with a curious note, pledging “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” Lives and honor did indeed hang in the balance, yet just what were their fortunes? How much did the Founders stand to gain or lose through independence? And what lingering consequences did their respective financial stakes have on liberty, justice, and the fate of the fledgling United States of America? In this landmark account, historian Willard Sterne Randall investigates the private financial affairs of the Founders, illuminating like never before how and why the Revolution came about. The Founders’ Fortunes uncovers how these leaders waged war, crafted a constitution, and forged a new nation influenced in part by their own financial interests. In an era where these very issues have become daily national questions, the result is a remarkable and insightful new understanding of our nation’s bedrock values.

Author : Fidelis Morgan
Publisher : Fidelis Morgan
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780957074354

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Fortune's Slave by Fidelis Morgan Pdf

London 1699. Anastasia Ashby de la Zouche, Baroness Penge, Countess of Clapham, former mistress to Charles II, has fallen on hard times. Cast into the notorious Fleet Prison by the bum-bailiffs, she is forced to turn to journalism: gathering salacious tit-bits for a scandal sheet. But the Countess and Alpiew, her maidservant, encounter more intrigue than they bargained for when a mysterious woman hires them to follow her husband Beau, whom she suspects of adultery. Their pursuit of Beau leads them to playhouses, lecture halls, the half-constructed St Paul's' Cathedral and the dives of Alsatia, only to end abruptly in a Covent Garden churchyard - leaving the Countess and Alpiew implicated in a murder. And worse is to follow, for to unravel their only clue to the identity of the real killer they must penetrate the mysteries of alchemy.

Author : Peter Nolan
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857286949

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Integrating China by Peter Nolan Pdf

In this highly relevant collection, Peter Nolan argues that every effort of policy has to be directed towards avoiding this potentially catastrophic outcome. In their search for a way forward, China’s leaders are looking to the lessons from the country’s own past, as well as to those from other countries, in order to find a way to build a stable, cohesive and prosperous society. This effort is of vital importance, not only for China, but also for the whole world.

Author : Dr Akiko Shimbo
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780754669289

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Furniture-Makers and Consumers in England, 1754–1851 by Dr Akiko Shimbo Pdf

Covering the period from the publication of Thomas Chippendale’s The Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers' Director (1754) to the Great Exhibition (1851), this book analyses the relationships between producer retailers and consumers of furniture and interior design, and explores what effect dialogues surrounding these transactions had on the standardisation of furniture production during this period. This study examines the role of pattern books and their readers; the construction of taste and style through negotiation; and daily interactions through showrooms and other services, to reveal the complexities of English material culture in a period of industrialisation.