Book Description
A market beating method for finding success in trading stocks
Value is a concept that frequently eludes investors -- especially when it comes to stocks. In many cases, successfully identifying value can make the difference between picking a winner and getting burned. The Value Connection offers a systematic and doable method investors can use to take advantage of value in the stock market. Based on author Marc Gerstein's "Value Connection" method, this book will show investors how to find potentially attractive value connections, analyze specific situations to see if the value connection is sound, buy the best value connected opportunities, and sell stocks for which the value connection has weakened. The proven four-step method outlined -- which allows investors to understand the relationship between a company and its stock -- will help any investor screen the stock market for the best values out there. Real world examples make understanding this revolutionary investing method easy.
Marc H. Gerstein (New York, NY) is the Director of Investment Research at Multex. Prior to that, he was in the research and editorial department at Value Line. Over the course of two decades he analyzed stocks across a wide variety of industries and sectors, including household products, specialty retail, restaurants, mining, energy, hotel/gaming, homebuilding, airlines, railroads, and media. Gerstein appears periodically on CNNfn, Bloomberg TV, and is often quoted in USA Today, CBS MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, and Money Online. He is also the author of Screening the Market (0-471-21559-7).
Book Description
Five core assumptions characterize invitational rhetoric: (1) the purpose of communicating is to gain understanding; (2) the speaker and the audience are equal; (3) different perspectives constitute valuable resources; (4) change happens when people choose to change themselves; and (5) all participants are willing to be changed by the interaction. The goals of invitational rhetoric are to clarify ideas and to create an environment in which growth and change can occur for both audience and speaker. Speakers can facilitate the exchange of ideas by creating conditions of freedom, safety, value, and openness. Freedom is at the heart of an invitation to transformation--the freedom to choose to change; safety generates confidence for all participants to express ideas; value recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of all participants; and openness is a willingness to explore diverse perspectives. This ideal environment increases the possibilities of achieving mutual understanding. The authors designed the book as a concise guide for becoming adept and creative presentational speakers. Sample presentations reflect the diversity of interactional goals, focus, frames, organizational patterns, forms of elaboration, and connections discussed in the text.
Customer Reviews:
Unbridled Silliness, Not Apt For Adults.......2007-01-27
This book is rubbish. It begins with the very old (and very absurd) argument that words ARE reality (as differentiated from the idea that words DESCRIBE reality); and very few contemporary students will recall how Dr. Johnson, when confronted with this absurdity, became so angered that he said "I refute it thus!" and kicked a rock so badly that he hurt his foot. Anyone forced to read this tripe -- as too many students are -- will sooner or later envy Johnson's ability to dismiss this blather with ONLY a hurt foot. The book allows for no other alternatives...it several times intimates or directly states that an individual's truth is unassailable or inviolate, without regard to whether that "truth" is delusional, provably false, or a complete crock. This is a splendid device for making everybody feel good, but sadly inadequate and inappropriate for the needs of those wanting to understand and become proficient at rhetoric and/or public speaking. It is a thinly disguised effort to bring the world into compliance with the somewhat ding-bat idea that thought, debate, and human intercourse can all be safely set aside in the name of making sure that even the idiots among us feel comfortable. Nothing...I say again, NOTHING...in this book provides guidance or instruction in the skills necessary for effective public speaking, or for the analysis of good/bad public speaking, or, really, how to speak in public outside of the nah-nah nu-nu feel-good blather that one might have hoped would by now have left the American scene. The idea, held by some, that this cloud-coo-coo-land type of thinking will contribute to the intellectual development of students is one of the most astounding examples of how far off the track is our educational system. If you want to play patty-cakes with your brain, buy this book. If you want something serious or effective, look somewhere else: this book is for weak people who want to feel good about themselves without doing the work necessary to change themselves or their worlds.
This text makes a difference!.......2001-10-09
If you are interested in helping your students move from average to really engaging, effective, and ethical public speakers, you really ought to check out INVITING TRANSFORMATION.
Finally, here's a public speaking text that teaches sound theoretical principles for communication in a contemporary context. Students are provided with scores of explanations and examples to help them create presentations that are dialogical (speaking "with" audiences) rather than monological (performing "for" audiences). The result is that students' presentations are more focused and engaging--not "cookie cutter" or trite.
The theory of inviting transformation is one that makes sense to students, and it shows, as their presentations are markedly improved after learning it. My colleagues across our campus have told me that they can identify the students who have had my public speaking course by their effective presentations. I attribute this success to Foss and Foss' ideas in INVITING TRANSFORMATION.
Certainly, this text will be a part of every public speaking course I ever teach. You really ought to check it out.
Thank you for the unique invitation!.......2001-09-19
Finally, a public speaking text unlike all the others. Foss and Foss offer students and teachers an approach to communication that privileges values so vital to out country's multicultural landscape such as safety, value, freedom, and openness.
One of the difficulties in teaching public speaking has always been the fear factor: most people are terrified to speak in public. Because "Inviting Transformation" conceptualizes the role of the speaker in partnership and community with the audience, rather than in control of them, the students see themselves working WITH an audience rather than against them. By focusing on concepts such as safety and value in a communication context, I have also discovered that this approach has helped make students more reflective of their listening and participation skills. Overall, we begin to see how all aspects of our communication can be conducive to an environment of dialogue.
A different look at public speaking.......2001-09-08
Sonja and Karen Foss give a different perspective on presentational speaking. The audience is to be valued and invited to change -- just as the speaker is valued and comes to a speaking situation willing to change. This book gives us the opportunity to look at all types of communication not just public speaking. A great text for any speaking course or anyone looking to improve their presentational speaking.
It's not like the others -- and that's the point.......2001-08-02
I've read and taught from many different texts on public speaking. If you need or want a traditional approach to public speaking, then you have dozens from which to choose. This text takes a refreshingly different route.
The authors stress the relationship between the speaker and the audience, and emphatically do NOT define communication as persuasion. Instead of focusing on the speaker's individual goals, for example, they focus on the goals that can be reached WITH the audience, thereby allowing for the possibility that all parties can be transformed through the interaction.
One chapter that I've found especially beneficial is the chapter on speech designs ("Constructing Connections"). Most texts give the exact same five or six major speech designs (problem-solution; categorical; chronological; etc.) This text gives twenty. Many texts use the same speeches as examples (from Ronald Reagan, Barbara Bush, Martin Luther King...). This text uses non-traditional examples from various speaking contexts.
You get the idea.
Some folks will find this approach surprisingly challenging. But that, in itself, is part of its appeal to me.
Book Description
This ready-to-use staff training manual covers three basic areas: safety and sanitation, food production skills and service ability. Discusses standard industry procedures and practices with instructions for customizing to individual restaurant operations. Presents 30 training outlines featuring ready-to-photocopy transparency masters and employee materials such as summaries, exercises and quizzes. Also includes a variety of suggested training techniques.
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How does a champion think? An authority on high-level achievement, Denis Waitley has studied the amazing similarities in the mental strategies of great champions in both business and sport. Distilling years of research into the psychology of winning, Waitley shows how you can make these mental traits you own and outlines a 21-day program for doing so. Among the topics covered in The New Dynamics of Winning:Focusing your mind for peak performance anywhere, anytimeHow paying the price prepares you for success. How to use stress to your advantagePrevalent self-destructive beliefsThe psychology traits of those who become winner A guide and an inspriration to achieving your personal best, The New Dynamics of Winning clear, no-nonsense advice on what it takes to succeed in any field of endeavor.
Customer Reviews:
Dr. Waitley's best book to date!.......2004-06-23
Having enjoyed better than average success as an athlete, in fact, competing in national and international competitions, I have always felt that it takes work and effort for even the naturally gifted to become winners.
In the New Dynamics of Winning, you will learn:
> 7 rules for winners
> 5 most prevalent self destructive beliefs
> The secret of mental toughness
> How to use stress to your advantage
> A 21 day program to develop the champions mindset
> And so much more
I also recommend Empires of the Mind, a book which came out about the same time as this one. Both are revolutionary.
I have been studying Dr. Denis Waitley for many years. In Empires of the Mind, he finds the difference between the winner and simply winning.
This book will empower you towards self leadership. Although written in the early 90's, his ideas are as fresh and applicable today as they were almost a decade ago. In fact, m any of the newer leadership books borrow tremendously from the ideas developed by Dr. Waitley and explained in Empires of the mind.Great book.
Powerful and pragmatic.......2004-06-17
Everyone wants to become a champion. And now Dr. Waitley shares new technology that will turn average individuals into champions and win the gold medal.
Great book Dr. Waitley.
Inspirational and Practical.......1999-09-23
This book shows the reader how to literally practice goals that lead to success. Denis Waitley uses stories and charts to motivate and inspire success. It is easy to read and use. -- Samuel Oliver, author of, WHAT THE DYING TEACH US: LESSONS ON LIVING.
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Canada is facing a shortage of 1 million skilled workers in next 5 years due to its aging workforce. This book describes the main duties, employment requirements and example of titles for a list of professions approved for Canadian immigration under federal skilled worker class of new Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) effective from June 28, 2002. If you want to immigrate into Canada as a skilled worker under the federal skilled worker class then you have to match the work experience requirement under six selection factors to secure a maximum of 21 points towards your eligibility for immigration. In order to secure these points, candidates have to provide an experience certificate/letter with their immigration application from the current or previous employers stating the title, job description and main duties.
This book provides you a meter stick and reference to judge or match your job description and main duties listed on your experience letter against National Occupational Classification ( NOC ) of Canada thus enable you to ensure that you are filing your application under the correct profession to avoid the possibility of rejection.
This book is also a unique resource for foreign trained professionals (educated out of Canada) looking for a long-term or short-term employment in Canadian workplace and want to know the exact employment requirements for hot professions in Canada then this book will guide you to start working towards your employment eligibility in Canada in your profession.
This publication has been produced with the approval of Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) and with the authorization of Communication Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 1M4 Canada.
This book has been splitted into two volumes. The list of approved professions for Canadian immigration under federal skilled worker class is spread over A to W, means skilled worker professions starts with the letter "A " to skilled worker professions starts with the letter `W' . For example the profession of "Dancer" starts with the letter `D' falls under the heading `D' and "Iron worker" will be under the heading `I'.
Volume-I covers the lead statement, employment requirement, main duties and additional requirements for approved professions for Canadian immigration started with the letter `A' to letter `I' as per National Occupational Classification (NOC) and volume-II covers the professions starts with the letter `J' to `W' including NOC training manual.
Customer Reviews:
Amazing Book.......2003-08-19
I was not aware that Canadian are so organized that they already pre-defined the job description, titles and main duties of every profession in their country. This book contains the approved professions for Canadian Immigration as released by Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
This book is a bible for Canadian professions. Anybody looking for a job in Canada and want to know what exactly is the job requirements in his or her field and what should be in the resume to be considered for interview.
Check its Table of Contents to find out your profession is there or not or you need volume-1 or vol-2 of this book.
Book Description
The Cashflow Quadrant is the follow-up guide to finding the financial fast track that best works for you. It reveals the strategies necessary for moving beyond just job security to greater financial security by generating wealth from four selective financial quadrants.
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'Rich Dad's CASHFLOW Quadrant' will reveal why some people work less, earn more, pay less in taxes, and feel more financially secure than others. It is simply a matter of knowing which quadrant to work from and when. Have you ever wondered . . .· What is the difference between an employee and a business owner? · Why do some investors make money with little risk while most other investors just break even? · Why do most employees go from job to job while others quit their jobs and go on to build business empires· Why, in the Industrial Age, did most parents want their children to become medical doctors, accountants, or attorneys . . . and why, in the Information Age, are these professions under financial attack? Have you noticed that many of the brightest graduates from our universities want to work for college dropouts . . . dropouts such as Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Michael Dell, and Ted Turner? Dropouts who today are the mega-rich of society. This book will answer some of these questions and also assist in guiding you to find your own path to financial freedom in a world of ever-increasing financial change. It is a book written for . . .· people who are ready to move beyond job security and begin to find their own world of financial freedom · people who are ready to make deep professional and financial changes in their lives· people who are ready to move from the Industrial Age to the Information Age It's time to get out of the rat race. 'Rich Dad's CASHFLOW Quadrant' shows you how.
Customer Reviews:
A Little Boring.......2007-10-18
Pros:
Affordable
Not too lengthy
Cons:
Too Wordy
At times complex
Rocks you to sleep
over charge.......2007-09-03
You over charge me! You charge my charge card twice!
Please fix this problem.
Thanks,
Steve O'Brien
I am currently following his advice.......2007-08-08
This book opened my eyes. It seems that everything he says is common sense, but the way he taught it really inspired me. After reading his book I decided to stop being an employee and move to the self-employed quadrant. I started my own corporation and I now have enough money to start investing in Real Estate following another of his books. I highly recommend this book to everybody.
Very Informative And A Highly Recommended Reading For EVERYONE.......2007-08-08
This one book from Robert T. Kiyosaki really opened my mind and eyes, I will have to read it again & yet again to really get a complete understanding of the Information he has in this book, And anyone that says reading it once is enough, READ It again and you will be surprised at what pops up out of the pages as do read this book. So If you are truely tired of the old RAT RACE and feel there is got to be a better way then read this book.
Uri Gofman's review of Cashflow Quadrant.......2007-07-30
this is one of the most significant books for any aspiring entrepreneur. a must have for anyone contemplating going into business for themselves.
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Three Book Set. Rich Dad, Poor Dad; Rich Kid, Smart Kid; The Cashflow Quadrant
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The Complete Guide to Wealth Preservation and Estate Planning is written for everyone from families to financial planners, lawyers, accountants, insurance underwriters, security and investment advisors and business owners.
Customer Reviews:
Carryover basis.......2001-02-10
I am searching for another book written by Jonathan Blattmachr in the 1980s with a title similar to "Carryover Basis". If anyone has a copy, please contact me at 404-588-7763.
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- The Vulture Investors, Revised and Updated
- The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Personal Finance, Fourth Edition
- The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy
- The Way of the Warrior-Trader: The Financial Risk-Taker's Guide to Samurai Courage, Confidence and Discipline
- Tom Dorsey's Trading Tips: A Playbook for Stock Market Success
- Trader Vic II: Principles of Professional Speculation (Wiley Trading)
- Trading Chaos: Maximize Profits with Proven Technical Techniques (A Marketplace Book)
- TrimTabs Investing: Using Liquidity Theory to Beat the Stock Market
- Understanding Credit Derivatives and Related Instruments (Academic Press Advanced Finance Series)
- Visionary Selling: How to Get to Top Executives and How to Sell Them When You're There
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