Author: Darrell K. Rigby
Publisher: Bain and Company
Keywords: guide, executive, tools, management
Number of Pages: 69
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0965605965
ISBN-13: 9780965605960

The past dozen years in business have witnessed an explosion in the use of management tools and techniques. The tools range from broad processes such as strategic planning and benchmarking to highly focused initiatives such as the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. Keeping up with the tools and deciding which ones to use have become an essential part of every executive?s responsibilities. But it?s a tough job. New tools appear every year, while others seem to drop off the radar screen. There is no Consumer Reports to help executives sort through what works best in any given sit

Authors:Various, Sandra Kong,
Publisher: PPP Company Ltd
Keywords: asia, pacific, management, treasury, guide, cash, hsbc
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-10-31
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 9881702631
ISBN-13: 9789881702630

The content of the 11th edition of this Guide again reflects the increasing influence of evolving supply chain management activities on cash and treasury management practices across the region and globally. Industry experts have contributed to articles on subjects ranging from multi-enterprise supply chains, trade insurance and Islamic forms of finance. These topics reflect the ever-growing sophistication and importance of cash and treasury management as a professional discipline within companies and financial institutions.

Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: success, story, outliers
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-11-18
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0316017922
ISBN-13: 9780316017923

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians

Author: Darrell Huff
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: statistics, lie
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 1993-09
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0393310728
ISBN-13: 9780393310726

Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than inform.

Author: Kip S. Thorne
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: commonwealth, fund, book, program, legacy, outrageous, holes, time, warps, einstein, black
Number of Pages: 619
Published: 1995-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0393312763
ISBN-13: 9780393312768

In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work, Dr. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, answering the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know what they know? Features an introduction by Stephen Hawking.

Author: Joseph Wambaugh
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: novel, crows, hollywood
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-03-25
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0316025283
ISBN-13: 9780316025287

When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they’re just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from the nefarious nightclub-owner Ali Aziz. What Nate and Bix don’t know is that Margot’s no helpless victim: the femme fatale is setting them both up. But Ms. Aziz isn’t the only one with a deadly plan. In HOLLYWOOD CROWS, Wambaugh returns once again to the beat he knows best, taking readers on a tight

Author: Ori Brafman
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Keywords: behavior, irrational, irresistible, sway
Published: 2008-06-17
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1598876295
ISBN-13: 9781598876291

Like the bestsellers Blink and Freakonomics, this lively narrative is a fresh view of the world, explaining the previously inexplicable and revealing hidden influences on human decision-making. A Harvard Business School student pays over $200 for a $20 bill. Washington, DC, commuters ignore a free subway concert by a violin prodigy. A veteran airline pilot attempts to take off without control tower clearance and collides with another plane on the runway. Why do we do the wildly irrational things we sometimes do? Drawing on cutting-edge research from the fields of social psychology, behavioral