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Just Because I'm Latin Doesn't Mean I Mambo
Juan Roberto Job Manufacturer: One World/Ballantine ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0345416732 Release Date: 1998-02-17 |
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Just Because I'm Latin Doesn't Mean I Mambo: A Success Guide for Hispanic Americans is a deadly serious (yet consistently upbeat and witty) attempt to break down the various stereotypes and cultural barriers that regularly conspire to keep many in America's fastest-growing population segment from realizing their true potential in the corporate world. Juan Roberto Job, the son of Mexican immigrants and a leading consultant on diversity and change management, combines his own personal experiences with observations of others' triumphs and tribulations to present solid advice on getting ahead without selling out.Book Description
"To succeed in the corporate world, we Latinos must fight the perception that we are foreigners. We have to make hard choices about goals and values and learn to blend the cultures of our Latin heritage and our corporate community."Customer Reviews:
Excellent.......2007-08-03
Advice for Getting Ahead.......2005-12-22
Take the good. Leave out the bad!.......2001-06-12
Not as good as you think.......2001-06-11
We are at a time where, Latinos are growing in great numbers and where Americans are embracing the Latino culture (think Buena Vista Social Clun, salsa dancing, the "Latin Explosion"). I think that now Latinos have more latitude in their behavior at work to stay true to their culture, not like Mr. Job suggests. He gives extreme examples of how people do not even serve latin-american food when their bosses come over. Not serving Latin-American food or playing Latin-American music, seems very extreme. I think your colleagues will probably appreciate this and see it as an opportunity to know more about your culture.
While Mr. Job does make some good points, it seems the message he's trying to send out is to sell out, don't feel guilty about it, your career is #1, then comes family AND YOU MUST FOLLOW THESE RULES if you want to advance. He contradicts himself so much throughout this book, he tells you that you will maintain 2 identities, your corporate one and the one where you are Latino, however, he then goes on to show examples where people lose their Latino identities and take on this corporate identity both inside and out of the office. He tells you to dress like them, talk like them, be like them, essentially, wow where's the sense of self in this book.
He does devote one chapter to "Living the American Dream Latin Style," which basically reenforces the notion that the american dream latn style can be achieved after one is in a high enough position, because as he puts it, "The more successful you are and the higher you rise within your organization, the more latitude you are allowed in your behavior, especially regarding the very cultural differences that set you apart from other executives in the first place."
I recommend that those who do buy this book, to extract the good advice and points, especially about challenging stereotypes, but to be weary of the message he's giving about losing your identity.
Fantastic!.......2001-04-09
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Just Because I'm Latin Doesn't Mean I Mambo: A Success Guide for Hispanic Americans
Juan Roberto Job Manufacturer: One World/Ballantine ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OVH2Y2 |
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Value Sweep: Mapping Growth Opportunities Across Assets
Martha Amram Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1578514584 |
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The stock market routinely values corporate growth opportunities. But inside companies, managers struggle to quantify the value of growth initiatives and to align internal valuations with those in the financial markets. Value Sweep is the first book to lay out a simple and transparent valuation method that works for the varied growth opportunities facing the modern corporation.
Based on extensive research and years of frontline work within corporations, valuation and strategy expert Martha Amram takes readers beyond the numbers, providing a new lens and a better vocabulary for envisioning, understanding, and valuing growth across a wide sweep of assets-from mature businesses to those being reshaped by intellectual property and e-commerce.
Rigorous, yet easy to use, this innovative approach allows managers to place diverse growth projects on a single "map" of value. This comparison enables them to better direct resources and attention to the most valuable projects.
Value Sweep tackles the hard valuation issues and shows:
· When to use traditional valuation methods, such as Discounted Cash Flow, and when to use more innovative methods such as decision analysis or real options
· How to quickly value growth opportunities and compare the result to sensible valuation benchmarks
· Why venture capital valuations are so sensitive to fluctuations in the stock market
· Why it is difficult to value intellectual property and how to use approximate valuation results in negotiations
· Why the simplest valuation methods work best for investments in information technology
· How to roll up project-level valuations into a corporate growth engine
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Martha Amram is an independent consultant and adviser to Fortune 500 companies and start-ups, and the author of Real Options (ISBN 0875848451, HBS Press, 1998). She lives in Palo Alto, California.
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Breakthrough Thinking on the Creation of Value.......2002-09-05
Here are several important questions which many organizations are now struggling to answer:
1. How can the value of growth from our new products and innovations be compared to the value of existing business?
2. Is there any rationale behind our valuations based on Internet growth expectations? Is there a way to identify and track the changing value of growth?
3. What's the value of our intellectual property? What is the value of our business models built around selling of ideas?
4. Are we prepared to tell a convincing, indeed compelling "story" about our growth opportunities that supports the value of our growth? Can we provide credible numbers with that "story"?
Amram addresses all of these and many others in 15 chapters which are organized as follows: "One Map of Value" (Chapter 1) and "The Look and Feel of Growth Opportunities" (Chapter 2), followed by three Parts and an Epilogue: Expanding the Toolkit (e.g. "Discounted Cash Flow," Chapter 3), Valuing Growth (e.g. "Growth Value Benchmarks from Venture Capital," Chapter 8), Across the Sweep of Value (e.g. "Creating the Credible Growth Engine," Chapter 13), and then her Epilogue in which she focuses on "Leading Growth" in Chapter 14 and "Marking a Spot on the Face of Value" in Chapter 15. Readers will be especially grateful for a substantial Appendix which consists of nine "Tables" for growth option lookup and estimating volatility, followed by a highly informative Glossary. I provide all this information to help the reader of this review get a more specific sense of what Amram offers in this book. Amram demonstrates exceptional writing when presenting her material.
All organizations embark on a new "journey" at the beginning of their fiscal year and must make hundreds (thousands?) of decisions with regard to the allocation of their resources. Many of those decisions have profoundly serious implications...both positive and negative. Whether or not an organization survives may perhaps depend on some of those decisions. I recommend in the strongest terms possible that Martha Amram's book be read and then re-read by every decision-maker, regardless of the size or nature of her or his organization. Obviously it cannot ensure a successful "journey" but it can certainly help to improve the odds.
Those who share my high regard for this book are urged to read Heidi Mason and Tim Rohner's The Venture Imperative.
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Fiscal Federalism in Unitary States (ZEI Studies in European Economics and Law)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1402075618 |
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Decentralism of political power to regions and local government occurs worldwide in response to demands from the periphery. Such devolution of power raises a number of problems - political, financial, and legal. By gathering together important papers from a series of workshops sponsored by the SNS Constitutional Project and the Center for European Integration Studies, this volume presents a number of these problems from a truly interdisciplinary perspective.
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Crop Ferality and Volunteerism
Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0849328950 |
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At a time when much of humanity is already but one failed harvest removed from starvation, we cannot afford to ignore any potential danger to food security, especially when that danger poses a threat to rice, the staff of life for so much of the world. Crop Ferality and Volunteerism brings together research pioneers from various disciplines including the crop, plant, and weed sciences to discuss crop ferality and volunteerism. The book provides thorough coverage of crop and plant molecular biology and genetics as it pertains to ferality and weeds. In an exhaustive effort to provide complete and highly useful coverage of this impending crisis, the authors go beyond the science of the problem to discuss the potential economic and social impact of crop ferality, particularly in relationship to rice. Readers will discover a wealth of well-organized and well-written material about the overall biology and management of weeds and weedy crops. Many examples of ferality are considered, because, as the editor states, readers will discover that there is no unified theory of ferality. Thanks to the incredible diversity of the plant kingdom, "Surprises abound in every chapter."
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CROP FERALITY & VOLUNTEERISM
Jonathan B. Gressel Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000N668KC |
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Happenings and Hearsay: Experiences of a Biological Anthropologist
Gabriel Ward Lasker Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0814328407 |
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Happenings and Hearsay: Experiences of a Biological Anthropologist.(Review) (book review): An article from: Human Biology
Michael H. Crawford Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008HX04I Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Human Biology, published by Wayne State University Press on February 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1435 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events (Impact Studies)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3540257357 |
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The diversity of papers presented in this volume attest to the fact that impact cratering is very much a biological process. This volume is the tenth in a series of books resulting from the activities of the scientific programme, "Response of the Earth System to Impact Processes" (IMPACT), by the European Science Foundation. The papers were presented at an international meeting at King's College, Cambridge in 2003. These papers investigate the effects of asteroid and comet impacts on a diversity of biological and evolutionary processes including the survival of organics and microbial ecosystems to the extinction of organisms.
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Biological Processes Associated With Impact Events
Charles Cockell Manufacturer: Springer Verlag ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MC3QR0 |
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Introduction to the Physics of the Earth's Interior (Cambridge Topics in Mineral Physics and Chemistry)
Jean-Paul Poirier Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0521388015 |
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This self-contained introduction to the dispersed and sometimes controversial research about the structure, composition, and temperature of the Earth, requires no previous knowledge of geophysics or mineral physics.Download Description
Introduction to the Physics of the Earth's Interior describes the structure, composition and temperature of the deep Earth in one comprehensive volume. The book begins with a succinct review of the fundamentals of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics of solids, and presents the theory of lattice vibration in solids. It introduces the various equations of state, moving on to a discussion of melting laws and transport properties. The book closes with a discussion of current seismological, thermal and compositional models of the Earth. The new edition of this successful textbook has been enlarged and fully updated, taking into account the considerable experimental and theoretical progress recently made in understanding the inner structure of the Earth. Like the first edition, this will be a useful textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in geophysics and mineralogy. It will also be of great value to researchers in earth sciences, physics and materials sciences.
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Introduction to the Physics of the Earth's Interior.
Jean-Paul Poirier Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000UYIP8A |
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Claire D'Albe: An English Translation (MLA Texts &Translations)
Sophie Cottin Manufacturer: Modern Language Association of America ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 087352926X |
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Wild Frontier: Atrocities During the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee
William M. Osborn Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0756760011 |
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Osborn Skews Evidence for a desired result.......2006-03-26
A History of the Indian Wars .......2005-11-17
You are not welcome and we WILL kill you.......2005-10-12
William M. Osborn Loves America.......2004-07-20
My strongest recommendation.......2004-07-20
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Indian atrocities: Narratives of the perils and sufferings of Dr. Knight and John Slover, among the Indians during the revolutionary war, with short memoirs ... on the rights of the Indians, etc
H. H Brackenridge Manufacturer: U.P. James ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0008BQ1UE |
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Atrocities on Indian Women
Dipangshu Chakraborty Manufacturer: Ashish Pub House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 8176481157 |
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this book aims to make an indepth study of the various crimes which are committed against women in India.
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Indian Atrocities
Dr. Knight , John Slover , and H. H. Brackenridge Manufacturer: Ye Galleon Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0877703000 |
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United Church, feds both liable (for atrocities at the Port Alberni Indian Residential School).: An article from: Wind Speaker
David Wiwchar Manufacturer: Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00098DTYM Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Wind Speaker, published by Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) on July 1, 1998. The length of the article is 687 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Indian Atrocities: Narrative Of The Perils And Sufferings Of Dr. Knight And John Slover, Among The Indians During The Revolutionary War
Dr. Knight , and John Slover Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1430448318 |
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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1779-1879. Indian atrocities and American provocations: The year 1879 [i.e.1779] the gloomiest period of the revolution : the Sullivan Campaign and what ... at Elmira, New York, August 28, 1879
Erastus Brooks Manufacturer: s.n ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0008CK1FO |
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The bloody trail in Texas,: Sketches and narratives of Indian raids and atrocities on our frontier
J. Marvin Hunter Manufacturer: J. Marvin Hunter, Jr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007FRI6C |
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Brazil: Violence against the Macuxi and Wapixana Indians in Raposa Serra do Sol and Northern Roraima from 1988 to 1994 ([Publications] / Human Rights Watch/Americas)
Ben Penglase Manufacturer: Human Rights Watch/Americas ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006P9ZN2 |
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History of Jewell County, Kansas: With a full account of its early settlements and the Indian atrocities committed within its borders
M Winsor Manufacturer: Diamond Printing Office ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00086KCFE |
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The Fifty Greatest Conspiracies of All Time: History's Biggest Mysteries, Coverups, and Cabals
Jonathan Vankin , and John Whalen Manufacturer: Citadel Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0806515767 |
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Perfect for Paranoid Cocktail Party Conversation.......1997-10-19
You get a briefing on 50 conspiracies and suggestions for further reading, so, the next time someone at a party begins to go on about their favorite conspiracy (and doesn't everyone have at least one?), you'll be able to look them square in the eye and say, "Well, I have a theory
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Modern Machine Shop's Guide to Threads, Threading and Threaded Fasteners
Woodrow W. Chapman Manufacturer: Hanser Gardner Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 156990359X |
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This comprehensive new reference, featuring information extracted from Modern Machine Shop's Handbook for the Metalworking Industries, provides 600 large, easy to read pages of text, tables, and diagrams featuring in-depth coverage of all aspects of thread systems, threading methods, and threaded fasteners and their capabilities. Special attention has been given to the wide variety of available machining operations and tools exploited in the creation of threaded fasteners, including unusually detailed coverage of methods used to determine the ideal hole diameter for tapping operations. An important addition to this book that is not contained in the parent Handbook is a discussion on aircraft fasteners (including rivets, which are sometimes substituted for threaded fasteners) that are employed in several industries. Every effort has been made to provide current, useful, and practical knowledge that an engineer, designer, or machinist normally consults in order to select a suitable machining operation and fastener for a particular engineering application.
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Mountainous March madness in Wyoming.(snowmobiling): An article from: Snow Goer
Craig Voorheis Manufacturer: Ehlert Publishing Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000EBEGG4 Release Date: 2006-01-25 |
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This digital document is an article from Snow Goer, published by Ehlert Publishing Group on March 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2304 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books:
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