Tells how to develop a corporate strategy to find less polluting ways to operate

Green is gold :business talking to business about the environmental revolution

Business & Money

Patrick Carson

Management & Leadership

HarperBusiness

The Character of a Corporation: How Your Company's Culture Can Make or Break Your Business

Gareth R. Jones

Rob Goffee

Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry

Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry

Direct from Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry

Catherine Fredm Dell, Michael & Fredman

Today's overworked business owners and managers don't have the time or the expertise to learn the complex technicalities of contract law -- and many feel they can't afford high-priced legal advice. Yet, they must deal with a myriad of contractual agreements on a regular basis, including leases, purchases and sales, borrowing, insurance, partnerships and employment agreements. Understanding and using these contracts can mean the difference between a smooth, successful relationship -- and a lawsuit, or even bankruptcy.Timothy Grayson, an independent commercial advisor for a wide variety of clients, has written a practical, clear and concise primer to help guide the average business person through the legal maze of contract law.In plain language, Every Canadian's Guide to Common Contracts demystifies a wide range of contracts, explaining why contracts are required, and what makes up a written contract. He gives numerous examples of common contract. He gives numerous examples of common contracts, examining and explaining specific clauses. Drawing on his own experiences with clients, he offers real-life case studies and invaluable advice: -- How a contract works -- differences between form and substance -- Unraveling legal terminology -- Dealing with "Boilerplate" agreements -- When and how to use your lawyer effectively and efficientlyAn indispensable time and money saving guide, Every Canadian's Guide to Common Contracts should be a required

Every Canadian's guide to common contracts: The essential reference for business owners, managers, and consumers

Grayson, Timothy Demkiw

Reference

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: How I Turned Around IBM by Louis Gerstner (2002-11-12)

Gerstner Jr., Louis V.

Biographies & Memoirs

Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book

The ultimate business how-to book by the icon of American business and one of the world's most revered and respected leaders, Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric. Winning explores the changes of recent times and the new economic realities, and more than that, it identifies the central, immutable principals of doing business right and doing it well. "Winning is a book for the people in business who sweat, get their nails dirty, hire, fire, make hard decisions, and pay the price when those decisions are wrong," said Welch. "I see this book as a handbook for people in the trenches, turning their companies and the economy around, not just today, but for years to come. I think it will be useful for people just starting their careers or their own businesses to seasoned managers running multi-billion dollar enterprises. I've learned an enormous amount about what works and what doesn't work throughout my career and I'm very excited about sharing it in Winning." Welch will teach people how to win in business by distilling his experience in three critical areas: working within an organization, dealing with competitors, and handling matters of life and career. Critical to Welch's writing such an accessible, useful guide is his unique collaboration with his wife, Suzy, the former editor of the Harvard Business Review, who brings expertise in management, writing talent and a woman's sensibility to articulating the components of Welch's success.

JACK WELCH~SUZY WELCH

What,s the question every business should be asking itself? According to Jeff Jarvis, it,s WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO? If you,re not thinking or acting like Google - the fastest-growing company in the history of the world - then you,re not going to survive, let alone prosper, in the Internet age. An indispensable manual for survival and success that asks the most important question today,s leaders, in any industry, can ask themselves: What would Google do? To demonstrate how to emulate Google, Jarvis lays out his laws of what he calls "the new Google century," including such insights as: Think Distributed Become a Platform Join the Post-Scarcity, Open-Source, Gift Economy The Middleman Has Died Your Worst Customers Are Your Best Friends and Your Best Customers Are Your Partners Do What You Do Best and Link to the Rest Get Out of the Way Make Mistakes Well ...and More He applies these principles not just to emerging technologies and the Internet, but to other industries-telecommunications, airlines, television, government, healthcare, education, journalism, and yes, book publishing-showing ultimately what the world would look like if Google ran it. The result is an astonishing, mind-opening book that will change the way readers ask questions and solve problems.

What Would Google Do?

JEFF JARVIS

In an inspirational guide designed to read like a fable, a shaman, working as a business consultant, applies his knowledge of animal spirits to a troubled company to help restore balance and organization while helping its CEO become a better leader.

The Corporate Shaman: A Business Fable

Whiteley, Richard

Business Culture

Pride Before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era

Reveals how a group of business rivals persuaded the U.S. government to indict Microsoft for monopolistic practices, chronicles the ensuing trial, and discusses the damage it has inflicted on the first business empire of the Information Age. Reprint.

Heilemann, John

Professionals & Academics

Beat the Pros at Their Own Game
All too often, you learn about good stocks far too late to profit from the information. By the time you actually buy a stock, professional investors have already been there, bought the stock, driven up the price, and are just waiting to unload it at an inflated price.
All That's About to Change. . . .
In Ahead of the Market, Mitch Zacks shows investors how they can spot stocks that are poised to take off long before the rest of the crowd learns about them. How? By unlocking the gems of priceless information buried in Wall Street's often self-serving research. 
Ahead of the Market is the first book, ever, that enables you to profitably use the analyst stock research for which Wall Street firms pay more than one billion dollars annually. Many investors have rightly felt misled in the past by analysts who continued to hype stocks as prices plummeted. You may have even concluded that Wall Street research is totally worthless. But it's not.
In Ahead of the Market, Mitch Zacks shows that analysts actually provide a wealth of market-moving information that can generate exceptional returns if interpreted correctly.The key is to use the research produced by Wall Street analysts the same way the professional money managers do.
Pioneered by the firm Zacks Investment Research and based on more than twenty years of intensive analysis, the investment strategies revealed in this book are indeed the same ones used by successful professional investors everywhere.
In these pages you will learn how to form an investment plan by locating stocks that are poised for price appreciation and avoiding stocks heading for a fall. Zacks shows how you could have prevented being burned when the recent bubble burst, if you had known how to use analyst research correctly and teaches you the rules of the research game so you will not fall victim the next time around. In sum, this book is your guide to picking the right stock at the right time.
Mitch Zacks's groundbreaking research provides new insights and new strategies to:
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<li>Use revisions to analysts' earnings estimates to predict the rise and fall of stock prices </li>
<li>Interpret the real meaning behind analysts' stock recommendations </li>
<li>Employ the "cockroach" phenomenon and other methodologies to predict earnings surprises before they occur </li>
<li>Determine how to react when a company reports earnings and how to profit from "post-earnings announcement drift"</li>
<li>Understand and profit from "analyst creep"—the reason that earnings estimate revisions occur incrementally over time</li>
<li>Avoid being duped by the games that companies play with their earnings reportsWhether the economy is healthy or stalled, whether the market is up or down, by focusing on the strategies contained in this book you will always come out ahead. Well-picked individual stocks will always carry the day. Now with Ahead of the Market, you will finally have the same tools institutional investors have and will be able to find great stocks in any market environment. </li>
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Ahead of the Market: The Zacks Method for Spotting Stocks Early - In Any Economy

Zacks, Mitch

Economics

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