Jeremy: 2147 books
Percy Tau
Road to Glory
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Percy Tau grew up with seven siblings and a single mom in the mining town of Witbank. For Percy and his family, life is tough as their mother struggles to make ends meet. But there is one thing that brings the Tau boys together: soccer. At the Mmagobana Primary School, they quickly make a name for...
AB de Villiers
Road to Glory
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
‘AB hopped over the boundary rope and onto the field, grinning at the sight and sound of a packed Wanderers Stadium. He swung his bat from side to side and listened to the crowd roaring his name.’
So begins the wonderfully entertaining story of the rise to fame of one of South Africa’s...
Hashim Amla
Road to Glory
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Hashim Amla began his career in Tongaat, Durban, where he and his brother played cricket in the street in front of their neighbourhood mosque. Hashim was noticed by scouts and won a place at the prestigious DHS school, where he made a name for himself as a schoolboy cricketing prodigy. Through many...
Business Strategy
A guide to effective decision-making
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
The effectiveness of a good strategy well implemented determines a business' future success or failure. Yet history is full of strategic decisions, big and small, that were ill-conceived, poorly organized and consequently disastrous. This updated guide looks at the whole process of strategic decision-making,...
by Taylor Robert P.; Govindarajalu Chandrasekar; Levin Jeremy ; Meyer Anke S.; Ward William A.
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2008
While energy efficiency projects could partly meet new energy demand more cheaply than new supplies, weak economic institutions in developing and transitional economies impede developing and financing energy efficiency retrofits. This book analyzes these difficulties, suggests a 3-part model for projectizing...
Beyond Budgeting
How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2003
The traditional annual budgeting process--characterized by fixed targets and performance incentives--is time consuming, overcentralized, and outdated. Worse, it often causes dysfunctional and unethical managerial behavior. Based on an intensive, international study into pioneering companies, Beyond...
Getting to Like
How to Boost Your Personal and Professional Brand to Expand Opportunities, Grow Your Business, and Achieve Financial Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
In the last decade alone, the face and nature of the job market has evolved dramatically. It's now a given that personal branding will have a significant impact on your professional opportunities. It's not an exaggeration that your brand and reputation could make--or break--your career.
In...
Writing Securities Research
A Best Practice Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
The book highlights the major risks that securities analysts (and other securities professionals) face. The various laws, rules and regulations that securities analysts are subject to are broadly split into three categories: research-specific rules and regulations; market-wide laws; and society-wide...
BSS: Effective Decision Making
10 steps to better decision making and problem solving
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Decisions and problems can often leave people with a dilemma: knowing that a decision is required, but uncertain how to ensure that it is the best one and that it will be successfully executed. The paradox is that the very pressure for a decision often breeds indecisiveness. Think on Your Feet addresses...
by Séverine Saintier, Jeremy Scholes
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Commercial Agents and the Law is a practical approach to the modern law relating to commercial agency agreements, a complete guide to the workings of the relationship between commercial agents and their principal within its domestic and European context. This book is a complete guide to the workings...
Becoming a Lean Library
Lessons from the World of Technology Start-ups
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Becoming a Lean Library: Lessons from the World of Technology Start-ups provides a guide to the process and approach necessary to manage product development.
Using techniques and philosophies pioneered by Toyota's lean manufacturing success, Becoming a Lean Library provides library leadership...
The Squam Lake Report
Fixing the Financial System
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.
The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights...
by Jeremy West
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Wine Uncorked
*A Beginner's Guide to Tasting, Pairing and Selecting the Perfect Wine for Every Occasion *
Wine. Comes in bottles or boxes. Made from grapes. Maybe that is all you know of one of the favorite beverages around the world. Perhaps all else is a mystery. It’s possible you...
100 Great Business Ideas
From leading companies around the world
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Are you looking for a great idea or some inspiration to start a new venture or to help you grow your existing business? This book contains 100 great business ideas, extracted from the world’s best companies.Ideas provide the fuel for individuals and companies to create value and success. Indeed...