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Author : Mike Tauser
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312566040
Author : Richard Rumelt
Publisher : Currency
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307886231
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.
Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781786259691
Herbert Asbury presents here a vivid and startling account of New York gangdom from its beginning in Revolutionary times to comparatively recent days. Here are the stories of the great gangs which terrorized the city and at times menaced its very existence—from the Bowery Boys and the Dead Rabbits to the Gophers and the Eastmans. Kid Dropper, Dopey Benny, Gyp the Blood and Owney Madden are a few of the gangster luminaries described, not to mention such female evildoers as Gallus Mag and Sadie the Goat. Nor have the underworld’s lesser lights been overlooked; for these pages are crowded with a host of gang warriors, pickpockets, tong leaders, murderers, politicians, gamblers, prostitutes, dive-keepers and a few would-be reformers. Mr. Asbury has created such a rich, factual background for this chronicle of crime and gangsterism that the book gains considerable stature as a revealing picture of New York City’s history through a century of frenzied growth and expansion. Whether you read it as such or merely for amusement, it is a swift, exciting experience.
Author : John Bickerdyke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Ale
ISBN : PRNC:32101068975208
Author : Ralph Nevill
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Excerpt from Light Come, Light Go: The passion for speculation which, throughout all ages, has captivated the great bulk of humanity, would seem to be an innate characteristic of mankind. It assumes various forms and guises which often deceive those over whom it exercises its sway, and becomes in numberless cases a veritable obsession, causing its victims to devote the whole of their time, thoughts, and money—sometimes even their lives—to its service. Devotees of the simpler forms of gambling, such as are to be procured at the card-table and on the race-course, are often looked down upon by people who are themselves under the sway of other insidious, if more reputable, modes of tempting fortune. For all speculation, whether it be in pigs or wheat, stocks and shares, race-horses or cards, is in essence the same—its main feature being merely the desire to obtain “something for nothing,” or in other words to acquire wealth without work. Gambling, of no matter what kind, is thus a conscious and deliberate departure from the general aim of civilised society, which is to obtain proper value for its money. The gambler, on the other hand, receives either a great deal more than he gives or nothing at all.
Author : John Philip Quinn
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066231118
This book is about a history of the vice in ancient and modern times all over the world and makes an exposition of its alarming prevalence and destructive effects. This work discusses with an unreserved and exhaustive disclosure of such frauds, tricks and devices as are practiced by "Professional" gamblers, "Confidence Men" and "Bunko Steerers", in order to alert readers not to fall into a trap.
Author : Becky Chambers
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250236227
Winner of the Hugo Award! In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, bestselling Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series, gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They're going to need to ask it a lot. Becky Chambers's new series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Eric Schlosser
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780547750330
An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.
Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015065597562
Author : Martyn Cornell
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752475943
Amber, Gold & Black is the most comprehensive history of British beer in all its variety ever written. Learn all there is to know about the history of the beers Britons have brewed and enjoyed down the centuries: Bitter, Porter, Mild and Stout, IPA, Brown Ale, Burton Ale and Old Ale, Barley Wine and Stingo, Golden Ale, Gale Ale, Honey Ale, White Beer, Heather Ale and Mum. This is a celebration of the depths of our beery heritage, a look at the roots of the styles we enjoy today, as well as those ales and beers we have lost, and a study of how the liquids that fill our beer glasses, amber gold and black, developed over the years. Whatever your knowledge of beer, from beginner to buff, Amber, Gold & Black will tell you things you never knew before about Britain's favourite drink.
Author : Ian Fleming
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781551997933
The author of the phenomenally successful James Bond series takes you on a tour of some of the most amazing cities in the world, including Honolulu, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Macau, Geneva, Tokyo, Berlin, Vienna, Naples and Monte Carlo. The book is based on a series of newspaper articles written by Fleming, and describes the cities with the same mix of a novelists imagination and an intelligence operative’s keen eye that made the 007 stories so gripping. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in ebook form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
Author : Judith Heumann,Kristen Joiner
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807019504
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction "...an essential and engaging look at recent disability history."— Buzzfeed One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy’s struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her paralysis, Judy’s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 Sit-In, the longest takeover of a governmental building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy successfully pressured the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled peoples’ rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann’s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.
Author : Don K. Nakayama,Peter J. Kernahan,Edward E. Cornwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736921215
Author : Nathaniel Goodwin
Publisher : Litres
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040877003
Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1946-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465514523
The novels is dominated by the heroic John Scarborough, a wealthy squire who, with almost superhuman energy, contrives from his deathbed to defeat the hated law of entail. Seeking to bequeath his estate to the worthier of his two sons, in his pursuit of justice he subjects them to a testing examination, baffles the lawyers, and scandalizes society. The social world also comes under Trollope's ironic gaze. His searching treatment of the various codes governing courtship and marriage, money-lending, gambling, and even fox-hunting, reveals compellingly the frustration of youth and the sadness of age.