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Jesus Built an Inspired Team. You Can, Too.
Laurie Beth Jones has given hundreds of thousands of business readers insight into how the ideas of Jesus can be used to enhance performance. In
Teach Your Team to Fish, Jones focuses on one of the most critical areas for anyone in business: teamwork. Leaders today face their greatest challenges not only in defining strategies and getting updated information but also in getting diverse human beings to pull together without falling apart.
Jesus is a role model for team leaders everywhere.
Teach Your Team to Fish offers dozens of stories from the Bible, showing how Jesus managed his team of disciples and other followers, with suggestions for how to apply these lessons to real-world teambuilding and management problems. It offers guidance and inspiration on:
• How to excite your team members in order to motivate them
• How to ground them so they’ll be realistic about what can be achieved
• How to transform them into a truly well-functioning team
• How to release them into the world to improve teams elsewhere
Laurie Beth Jones provides many examples of companies in which teams work well together and offers lessons that can help team leaders everywhere sustain themselves and achieve their common goals.
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Awesome leadership book.......2007-02-21
This book is probably the best and easiest leadership books I have ever read. Laurie Beth Jones did an amazing job keeping the chapters short, but powerful. This is a book you will want on your desk, like a business reference! Unbeliveable!! A must read for every person who leads anything or anybody!
More wisdom from a crackpot.......2005-07-22
Ms. Jones is delusional thinking Jesus was a capitalist (remember the story about Jesus driving the money changers out of the Temple). I expect her next venture will be to sell snake oil.
Instead of wasting your money on this book, why not buy a good book on astrology or the bible and skip this hallucinogenic translation.
unbelievable.......2004-07-20
I am French and for us it is unbelievable how in the US religion and management could be mixed. This book is a good example. It is nice to read it even if some chapters are a bit strange : "He (Jesus) understood mergers and acquisitions" using as an example "a sower went out to sow ...".
Teach Your Team to Fish.......2004-05-11
This book is a wonderful tool for focusing on the importance of your relationship with the people in your team or your employees. It gives a simple, easy to read, but important message on working with people using the example of Jesus and his disciples. I highly recommend it to anyone who manages/supervises people including children! Well written and well worth the read.
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Since its introduction in the early 1980s, the risk-neutral valuation principle has proved to be an important tool in the pricing and hedging of financial derivatives. Following the success of the first edition of ‘Risk-Neutral Valuation’, the authors have thoroughly revised the entire book, taking into account recent developments in the field, and changes in their own thinking and teaching. In particular, the chapters on Incomplete Markets and Interest Rate Theory have been updated and extended, there is a new chapter on the important and growing area of Credit Risk and, in recognition of the increasing popularity of Lévy finance, there is considerable new material on: · Infinite divisibility and Lévy processes · Lévy-based models in incomplete markets Further material such as exercises, solutions to exercises and lecture slides are also available via the web to provide additional support for lecturers.
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Good mix.......2001-12-03
I have read this book... from a learning perspective of trying to learn what the theory behind options pricing is it is a great book. A lot of more recent topics are missing, but as a starter book for those who already price options/work in the industry without having learned all the theory (or in my case forgotten what they learned in school) it is a great read and a great reference.
Excellent and brief compendium of financial theory.......2000-10-18
This book covers quite a few fields (axiomatic probability, stochastic processes, financial theory) to the extent that they relate to valuation of securities. Naturally, the scope of coverage in such a brief tome (
< 300 p.) is limited. It is written clearly and with precision, with sufficient number of exercises provided at chapters' ends. I would say that it goes to greater depth than Neftci, and is far more rigorous than Wilmott. Incomparably easier to understand than Merton. The only shorcomings I can find are relative paucity of examples and inadequate Index.
Probabilistic approach to derivatives valuation.......2000-04-24
The language of financial derivatives is, arguably, the language of the modern theory of martingale stochastic processes. In this approach pricing contingent claims is reduced to finding an "equivalent martingale measure". Practitioners would think in terms of risk adjusted or risk neutral valuation. To understant this topic from an abstract and rigorous point of view is a daunting task restricted to a relatively small elite. For those seeking to learn the mechanics of this discipline a good foundation is well provided by the texts from Hull, Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, as well as Jarrow & Turbull, Derivatives Securities. These books present the intuition behind the formulas and how to use them in practical situations, but they do not show where the formulas come from and much less the mathematics necessary to prove them. Before the book under review was published, this task was attempted by other authors with mixed degrees of success. Here we briefly mention three of them. Baxter and Rennie's Financial Calculus (233 pages) is written in an informal fashion about deep mathematics and one has the feeling that the essence of the topics covered can be grasped and understood from it. However, behind this innocent style there is a huge amount of sophisticated machinery that, in my opinion, should have in part been presented in more detail. An instructor is left with the feeling that it could have been much more profitable to work a bit harder on the students and give them a more complete picture of the theory. Next comes Neftci's Mathematics of Financial Derivatives (352 pages). Its language is more accessible than Baxter and it gives a more detailed and extensive description on most topics. Mathematically, though, it falls short of current usage and rigour. The book by Musiela & Rukowski, Martingale Methods in Financial Modelling (511 pages), is far more difficult than any of these and should be read and understood only by a few. It requires previous knowledge of stochastic processes at the level of, for example, Probability with Martingales by D. Williams. The book under review is an excellent text for courses and for individual readers with a modest background in probability. There is no compromise with mathematical language and concepts. They are presented precisely and illustrated by examples without the burden of more technical theorem-proving approach in advanced mathematical texts. After introducing the idea of derivatives and risk-neutral valuation, it gives a summary of modern probability theory including measure, integral, conditional expectation, modes of convergence, characteristic functions and the Central Limit Theorem. This sets the framework for the rest of the book. Stochastic processes and finance in discrete time are not pre-requites for the much more complicated continuous time but serve as a pedagogical preparation for it. The Third and Fourth Chapters are dedicated to the discrete case and key concepts are carefully analysed. Information and filtrations are discussed as well as the important random walk processes as a motivation for the Brownian Motion. The culmination of these efforts is the proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing: in an arbitrage-free complete market there exists a unique equivalent martingale measure. A very readable discussion on binomial trees is given, including the proof that in the limit of small time increments one recovers from it the usual Black-Scholes formula for a call option. Chapters Five and Six are dedicated to stochastic processes and finance in continuous time. This includes filtrations, a sketch for the construction of Brownian Motion, quadratic variation of Brownian Motion, stochastic integrals and Ito calculus, stochastic differential equations, etc. A continuous version of the Fundamental Theorem is discussed but not proven. The main formula for risk-neutral valuation in terms of expected values is proven. A general result about the relationship with other approaches is that solutions to partial differential equations have a stochastic representation in terms of expected values (Feynman-Kac Formula). On p. 211 a discussion is presented regarding our knowledge concerning continuous time securities market in comparison to the discrete case.
If you are really interested in understanding the probabilistic foundations of modern financial derivatives theory, please consider seriously this book. Another reference, in the same spirit that I recommend is the excellent notes from Shreve, Stochastic Calculus and Finance, which is not yet in book form. After reading the text by Bingham and Kiesel you will gain a solid background well worth the effort and will be able to read profitably most of the contemporary texts and articles on this subject.
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The call for science curriculum reform has been made over and over again for much of the twentieth century. Arguments have been made that the content of the curriculum is not appropriate for meeting the individual and social needs of people living in the modern world; that the curriculum has become overstuffed with topics and does not serve students especially well; and above all, that the curriculum does not generate the student learning it is expected to produce. The latest volume in a continuing series of publications from the AAAS designed to reform science education, Designs for Science Literacy presupposes that curriculum reform must be considerably more extensive and fundamental than the tinkering with individual courses and subjects that has been going on for decades. Designs deals with the critical issues involved in assembling sound instructional materials into a new, coherent K-12 whole. The book pays special attention to the need to link science-oriented studies to the arts and humanities, and also proposes how to align the curriculum with an established set of learning goals while preserving the American tradition of local responsibility for the curriculum itself. If fundamental curriculum reform is ever to occur, a new process for creating alternatives will have to be developed. Designs for Science Literacy provides the groundwork for such a process.
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