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A terrific handbook to have on your shelf for a quick refresher or as supplementary reading.......2006-05-15
This is a terrific book that I wish had been available when I was taking my finance courses in b-school. The core topics in finance are well known and fairly standardized. However, students just learning can find the subject a bit counterintuitive and bewildering, no matter how normalized it becomes with familiarity. This book would be a great supplement for students struggling through huge textbooks and trying to get a handle on the basics. Of course, they should have the basic math required to execute these formulae or it won't be very helpful.
Another group that will benefit greatly from a handbook like this are people whose job is focused in an area that uses a narrow portion of the subject matter, but occasionally need or want to refresh themselves in matters not part of their everyday work. Picking this book off the shelf and reading a few pages on the relevant topic will put you right back in the swing of things.
The book has thirty clearly focused chapters that are broadly organized into four parts: Risk and Return, Valuation, Other Important Topics (such as NPV, IRR, Real Options, Corporations and Value Creation, Options, Futures and Forwards, and Currencies), and Statistical Background. Another really nice feature of the book is that, where relevant, the author includes material to help you implement the chapter material in Excel. Using spreadsheets is the way to go in finance, and this material is most useful. However, it is basic information and there are other books to help you with advanced topics and Excel. There are also a few problems provided in each chapter for you to work through and develop more intuition on the subject matter.
The author writes clearly, has chosen good intuitive symbols for the equations, and is clear where there are differences of opinion, problems with certain models, and cautions the reader on certain aspects of investment (such as currencies). Yes, this is NOT a substitute for more in depth reading on these topics, but it is a wonderful handbook and great for a quick refresher.
I am quite happy to have this on my finance shelf.
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Presents concepts well........2000-09-28
Key concepts are logically well presented. The book is easy to read with a lot of examples, but the text can be easily skipped to get to the points. The book helps with generating and organizing ideas, constructing more effective sentences, and troubleshooting writing problems. The book is not about grammar, but it is a practical analysis of how to write better.
Engineering your writing success.......2000-04-06
I'm a processes enginner at a power plant. I didn't know how can I improve my writing skill on the job such as writings of report, proposal, procedures, letters, memos and e-mail, which were daily assaignments. Once, I attended a business writing course, and the instructor advised me to buy this book, and I did. It's a great book not only for the professional engineers but also for the technicians, and the students of engineering colleges. I highly recommend this book and I say for all engineers go for it.
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Touism Development: Principles, Processes, and Policies (Hospitality, Travel & Tourism)
William C. Gartner
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ASIN: 0471284475 |
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For tourism professionals and urban and regional planners, this highly readable text introduces tourism development as a process with its own organizational structures and its own responses to the economic cycle of supply and demand. Here, the author keeps pace with the changing trends in tourism, its link with economic theory, and academic research as well as accessibility to travelers with across-the-board economic backgrounds.
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The Best of Personal Excellence: The Magazine of Life Enrichment
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This timeless collection of prize articles includes the most respected authorities on personal and professional development. From Montel Williams to Katharine Graham to William Bennet, you'll read about how you--as well as every other person--possess the potential to improve the quality of life, how facing obstacles is always better than running from them, and how taking risks is fundamental to personal growth. This insightful and inspiring book will help you in six areas: taking initiative, defining direction, meeting challenges, making progress, developing your career, and improving continuously.
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The Best of Personal Excellence: The Magazine of Life Enrichment
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These compilations feature the most popular articles and writers.
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The Hamster Revolution is a timely solution to both the widespread problem of email overload as well as most people's inefficient (or nonexistent) systems for categorizing and storing email messages. This book provides the practical steps needed to deal with these problems and become more efficient in our work.
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Quick Read Can Make a Diffference in Managing Email.......2007-09-26
Taking cue from The One Minute Manager, Zapp!, Fish! and Who Moved My Cheese?, The Hamster Revolution uses a parable to show how to better manage and organize e-mail and information. The hamster represents people endlessly running on the wheel of e-mail. Right away, I start using concepts from the 90-minute book. Considering I'm an organized person, that says something.
In the story, Harold the Hamster receives a visit from an information coach to help him with e-mail and information management. Harold is a person who turned into a hamster because e-mail and information trapped him on a figurative hamster wheel.
Harold and his coach think aloud as they explore his e-mail habits and inbox to find the problem areas. The banter between the two gives the reader insight into why something doesn't work and how to fix it. Their comments mirror what many of us think when we're drowning in messages. Though cheesy at times, the story quickly explains the how, what, and why without confusing readers with dry writing.
I was eager to discover the secret of COTA, the concept for creating folders named Clients, Output, Teams and Administration. COTA also represents the order of priority. The Clients folder receives top honors on the hierarchy than Output. Administration gets thrown to the bottom of the pile where it belongs. But this concept isn't as foolproof as the authors make it sound.
They state that you won't run into a situation when an email or document belongs in two folders. However, if that should happen -- then the document belongs in the one higher up on the COTA ladder. Furthermore, the system serves departments and teams best.
COTA won't work well for personal use (the authors apparently have another system for this, but information isn't available yet) or a small business like mine where I'm a freelancer working on a computer that houses both business and personal information.
Furthermore, not everyone will know what some things mean such as EOM (end of message) or NRN (no reply needed). These require teaching others and a team setting would adapt to that better than a lone person who must explain it in many individuals. EOM and NRN should become as standard as smilies, but they're far from there.
Some advice might sound common sense or old news to some people, but the authors share lesser known or new concepts. The book has had positive impact on my e-mail habits, and for what it is worth, that opinion comes from a long-time e-mail user (the days of BBSes -- pre-Internet).
Great new tips for email.......2007-06-20
Purchased the audio tape for the car. Easy listening and great tips on productivity for managing email overload. Makes you think before you send an email, sculpt it, use categories for easier identification/prioritization and shows new system for filing and finding anything anytime. It worked for me and can warmly recommend to everybody! Join the Hamster Revolution!
I want my 90 minutes back........2007-06-13
If you have any system of organizing your email already in place, don't bother reading this book.
First of all, this book is written in a "For Complete Morons" "Who Moved My Cheese?" style which I found to be a complete turn-off.
The first half of the book tells you what's wrong with your email style, which is news only to those that don't know how to conduct business communication in the first place. "Is the content of your email appropriate and professional?" I should hope so. Then it goes on to say you should convert your coworkers to the wonderful time-saving methodologies you've learned in this book, and direct them to the book web site. Any student of human nature can tell you, you can't really force anyone to do anything they don't want to do, you can only set an example and hope that they want to emulate it. If you are the boss, I suppose you can order people to follow the guidelines in this book, but otherwise it suggests giving your peers critiques of what's wrong with the email they've been sending you, a technique that's sure to make you near and dear to their hearts.
The second half of the book, which I eagerly anticipated, makes suggestions, then breaks its own rules, resulting in a confusing set of directions that aren't ultimately very useful. For example, the book states that you should be able to sort any email you receive into one folder, without wasting time deliberating over the decision between folders. You are supposed to organize your emails into Clients, Output, Teams, and Admin folders. If something falls into two folders, for example, some Output for a Client, it goes into the first folder in the COTA order-- the Client folder. But when would you ever create output that doesn't have a Client? And Clients in this case includes external AND internal customers. If your organization has a lot of output that isn't created FOR anybody, you have bigger problems than email.
Some of the other suggestions are obvious but presented as epiphany, such as, use subfolders within the COTA folders. Has it ever occurred to you that you could use email subfolders? Does your organization already use instant messaging for asynchronous messages? Guess what, you don't need this book.
In a FAQ at the end of the book, there is a tip that was not new to me, but which has worked for me. Turn off your email notifications (popups, sounds, etc.) and check your email about twice a day for a dedicated block of time. Otherwise every time you receive an email, you are interrupted from your flow of work.
What will happen with email? It is indeed a growing problem, I can't argue with that. I hope that Outlook develops better search technology, like that embedded in GMail. If you are one of the many Outlook users, you know that when your folders reach a certain size, an advanced search can take 15 minutes or more. However, creating a new folder structure isn't likely to do much for you, except cost you the time it takes to reorganize all of your mail.
A must-read for everyone who uses email.......2007-05-28
Getting overloaded with emails over the last 3-4 years. So decided to buy some books on the subject to improve. Bought 3 books from Amazon - Emails, Conquer Your Email Overload and Hamster Revolution. Find Hamster Revolution the best. I can see Hamster in me with over 500 emails in my in-box and having problems in relocating some of the infor later. This book is NOT about how to use Outlook. What I like is the story-telling method the authors used to bring across, otherwise a dry and technical subject, with interesting, lively and useful ideas. Strategy 1 is an eye opener for me. So simple and yet so useful ! Find it so enlightening and useful that I am thinking of asking the company to engage them for an in-house workshop ! Well done, guys !
It's a parable for a practical email management course which really works.......2007-05-19
If email is demanding more and more of your business time, it's time to take in THE HAMSTER REVOLUTION, which tells of an HR director who meets an efficiency coach and learns a simple management system. It's a parable for a practical email management course which really works, includes a case study showing how over 2,000 Capital One associates cut their email time by 23 percent, and tells how to add quality into email management strategy for optimum results. Busy managers in particular will relish its advice, making THE HAMSTER REVOLUTION especially recommended for business libraries.
Diane C. Donovan
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The Book of CalmRelaxing Ways to Manage Stress
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Brookfield Public Schools: Connecticut School District uses website as the primary source of communications and manage their marketing message. finalsite ... : An article from: District Administration
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Title: Brookfield Public Schools: Connecticut School District uses website as the primary source of communications and manage their marketing message. finalsite enhances the management of BPS's branding, essence, and content delivery via the web through their On-Demand web services for Schools including School sites, teacher sites, athletics sites and more.(CASE STUDY)
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District Administration (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
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Volume: 41
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This digital document is an article from District Administration, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2005. The length of the article is 725 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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Title: Brookfield public schools: Connecticut School District uses website as the primary source of communications and manage their marketing message. finalsite enhances the management of BPS's branding, essence, and content delivery via the web through their On-Demand web services for Schools including School sites, teacher sites, athletics sites and more.(CASE STUDY)
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Date: October 1, 2005
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Volume: 41
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(Contains 6 cassettes) Listen to this exceptional group of management action cassettes and learn the skills you need to rise to the top! 1) It's your meeting, make it work. How to manage meetings, the critical links in your company's chain of communication. Develop realistic agendas and objectives. Create guidelines to control runaway discussions, clarify issues, and summarize main points. 2) Listening: The quiet side of communication. Do you often feel your employees aren't telling you the whole story? This tape gives you the skills you need to listen with all your senses and pick up the underlying feelings and messages behind the words. 3) One-to-one communication: How to get the results you want. Nothing you do is more critical to your getting results than your ability to communicate one to one. Make a difference in your day-to-day management success with the techniques outlined on this tape. 4) Winning approval for your ideas. Now you have to sell it. Apply the four Cs of successful advocacy, capturing attention, clarifying your message, compelling belief in your idea and convincing your listeners that your idea is practical and profitable. 5) How to deliver unpopular messages. Whether you have to criticize an employee, deny a request, or deliver bad news to groups or individuals, this tape is for you. Packed with specific solutions and down-to-earth examples. 6) How to negotiate anywhere, anytime, every day. Use new and different strategies of negotiating with family, friends, and business associates. Learn a set of five principles tailored to each situation.
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Manage the Message
Bryan Thresher , and
Jim Biggin
Manufacturer: Random House Business Books
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Have you been wanting to say goodbye to your job and find the work that you were really meant to do? If so, teaches Barbara Moses, it's time for you to become a "career activist." Knowing your unique gifts and passions -- and how to find a place for them in any economy or job market -- is your key to a lifetime of success and sanity. On "Creating Your Authentic Career," this nationally acclaimed career guru ("Fast Company," NPR, the "Today Show") teaches you:
How to identify your real (and often neglected) talents and bring them to our rapidly changing marketplace
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If you've been working longer hours than ever, wanting a career that brings you greater fulfillment and meaning at the end of the day, and just need some expert guidance, here's the savvy, real-world course you need to begin "Creating Your Authentic Career."
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Standard and Poor's Personal Wealth Website
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill College
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College is not the automatic answer to "What happens after high school?" In order for college to be the answer, many steps must be taken: forms have to be filled out and submitted, and long range planning needs to occur. The planning actually needs to start as early as the eighth grade! College Countdown is a survival kit for teens and parents who are struggling to get through this intense and confusing process. It is designed to help families organize all the stuff required by college admissions. This helpful workbook includes: tear-out timelines and checklists; financial aid ideas; internet resources; inside advice on admissions essays and interviews; and much more.
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A must read!.......2002-04-12
As a professional interested in helping teens get their maximum potential out of the pre-college experience, I found this book to be most helpful and timely. Whether you're a high school student who is just beginning to think about college or a parent who is confused about all the new procedures and time tables, this book will guide and inspire you throughout the entire process. With expert information, a great, reader-friendly layout, and lots of practical advice, this book is the only resource you'll ever need to navigate the waters of the college admissions process!
hi.......2001-08-17
I havent read this book but my Aunt Jill wrote it and i am sure its good
College Countdown.......2000-03-10
I recommend this book for all of my students who are planning to attend college. The book is comprehensive, easy to follow, and unlike other books on college it has handy examples of sample resumes, worksheets for listing college visits and contacts, sample questions for interviews, timelines for scholarships and applications, and a sample of a thank you note for recommendations. The book is easy to follow and is based on Mrs. VonGruben's own personal experiences with her children. The college industry has become a big business and wise students and parents need to explore all options. This book will help them to know when to begin the college planning process, how to go about it, and enable students and parents to make wise decisions regarding college.
A Must Read!.......2000-02-21
VonGruben crafts a must read for any graduating high school student or high school parent. From Financial Aid to Admissions, this is an invaluable tool. Hats off to VonGruben!
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Bedside Guide.......1999-11-06
Something every parent should read. I teach at a University and this book is very helpful at reminding parents what it's like to go off to college for the first time. After reading the book parents usually feel more empowered to help their children. A perfect accompaniment to this book is Major in Success by Patrick Combs. It changes lives.
Excellent overview of important issues.......1996-07-02
This book gives advice that will save you money, time and heartache. The book has a healthy mix of practical advice and amusing anecdotes. It will broaden your perspective, and allow you to better manage your expectations as you send your child to college
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The Parents' Financial Survival Guide
Theodore E. Hughes , and
David Klein
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- Getting Started as a Financial Planner: Revised and Updated Edition
- Getting Started in Financial Consulting
- Guide to Analysing Companies (Economist (Hardcover))
- Healthcare Finance: Basic Tools for Non-Financial Managers (Health Care Finance (Baker))
- How to Beat the High Cost of Health Care: the "Total Benefits" Strategy
- How To Reduce Workplace Conflict And Stress: How Leaders And Their Employees Can Protect Their Sanity And Productivity From Tension And Turf Wars
- I'll Grant You That: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Funds, Designing Winning Projects, and Writing Powerful Grant Propos
- Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets
- Inside Volatility Arbitrage : The Secrets of Skewness
- Interest Rate Risk Modeling : The Fixed Income Valuation Course
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