Playing Hardball

Author : George Stalk,Robert Lachenauer,John Butman
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781591391678

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Hardball by George Stalk,Robert Lachenauer,John Butman Pdf

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 : Don Kukla
Publisher : Baker's Plays
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Playing Hardball by Don Kukla Pdf

Author : Johnson
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Pat Heim,Tammy Hughes,Susan K. Golant
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Lawrence Frank
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : IND:39000005497339

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Playing Hardball by Lawrence Frank Pdf

The discipline of folklore is the basis for this study of the verbal expressions that are used by baseball players during games. The analysis of the personal interaction that occurs within the structure of the game provides a deeper understanding of the ethos of our national game and of American culture itself. This study is aimed at both the professional folklorist, in its broad scope of analysis and interpretation, and the baseball fan who realizes that there is much more to the game than just runs, hits, and errors.

Author : Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 0130232831

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Playing Hardball by Lucy Jane Bledsoe Pdf

Will works after school and plays baseball too. For a time things are going OK. Then things start going bad. He stops playing baseball so he can keep his job. People who Will thinks are his friends really are not. In the end, Will finds out who his real friends are.

Author : Globe Fearon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
ISBN : 0835909956

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Playing Hardball by Globe Fearon Pdf

Author : Paul S. Herrnson
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015049562955

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Playing Hardball by Paul S. Herrnson Pdf

Drawn from cutting-edge research by leading scholars in the field, this book focuses on the major obstacles politicians must confront when competing in congressional elections. The book examines candidate emergence strategy and targeting, fund-raising guidelines, negative advertising and voter mobilization. It provides readers with a manageable perspective on congressional elections and real-life American politics, enhancing readers' ability to make the connections between the theory and practice of politics. The essays address the campaign process and decision-making, the candidates, campaign finances, campaign staff and voter communication techniques. For individuals interested in the election process and political campaigning.

Author : Steven J. Bennett
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000011788461

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Playing Hardball with Soft Skills by Steven J. Bennett Pdf

Author : Daniel Coyle
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015032754353

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Hardball by Daniel Coyle Pdf

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 : Craig Allen Cleve
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786418978

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Hardball on the Home Front by Craig Allen Cleve Pdf

More than 5000 major and minor league baseball players left the baseball diamond to serve in the military during World War II, but President Roosevelt insisted that baseball still be played to boost the country's morale. More than 400 replacement players made their major league debuts between 1943 and 1945, among them Sal Maglie, Andy Pafko, Red Schoendienst and Stan Musial. The author of this book points out that the true story of wartime baseball rests mostly with the players whose careers were not so well remembered or documented. He highlights nine players--Frank Mancuso, Ford Mullen, Ed Carnett, Lee Pfund, George Hausmann, Cy Buker, Bill Lefebvre, Eddie Basinski, and Nick Strincevich--who took the field while the major leaguers were fighting in the war. They share their memories of being called up to play in the majors, and their feelings about providing much needed and much wanted entertainment to thousands of Americans during the war years.

Author : Grant Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195304470

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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 : Judith A. Reisman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060056186

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"Soft Porn" Plays Hardball by Judith A. Reisman Pdf

Author : Tobias Moskowitz,L. Jon Wertheim
Publisher : Crown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780307591807

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Scorecasting by Tobias Moskowitz,L. Jon Wertheim Pdf

In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost. Drawing from Moskowitz's original research, as well as studies from fellow economists such as bestselling author Richard Thaler, the authors look at: the influence home-field advantage has on the outcomes of games in all sports and why it exists; the surprising truth about the universally accepted axiom that defense wins championships; the subtle biases that umpires exhibit in calling balls and strikes in key situations; the unintended consequences of referees' tendencies in every sport to "swallow the whistle," and more. Among the insights that Scorecasting reveals: • Why Tiger Woods is prone to the same mistake in high-pressure putting situations that you and I are • Why professional teams routinely overvalue draft picks • The myth of momentum or the "hot hand" in sports, and why so many fans, coaches, and broadcasters fervently subscribe to it • Why NFL coaches rarely go for a first down on fourth-down situations--even when their reluctance to do so reduces their chances of winning. In an engaging narrative that takes us from the putting greens of Augusta to the grid iron of a small parochial high school in Arkansas, Scorecasting will forever change how you view the game, whatever your favorite sport might be.

Author : Roy J. Lewicki,Alexander Hiam
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118046944

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Mastering Business Negotiation by Roy J. Lewicki,Alexander Hiam Pdf

Mastering Business Negotiation is a handy resource for any leader or manager who needs practical strategies and ideas when conducting business negotiations. Grounded in solid research, the authors - experts in the field of business negotiation - reduce the huge volume of available information into an accessible handbook for busy executives who need to prepare for everyday negotiations as well as for more demanding and complex negotiation situations. Mastering Business Negotiation offers down-to-earth advice for learning to play the negotiation game and shows how to: Understand the game so you can better control what happens Predict the sequence of negotiation activities and move from disagreement toward agreement Identify the strategies and tactics of other players in the game. Apply the rules of the game - the "do's and don'ts" that will ultimately lead to success