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by Robert E. Gunther
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Making Smart Decisions (9780132354639) by Robert E. Gunther. Available in print and digital formats. Understand the real impact of stress on your decision-making–so you can use it to your advantage...
Mastering the Roll
Succeeding Amidst Change Means Trying New Things, Failing, and Trying More
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Your Job Survival Guide: A Manual for Thriving in Change (ISBN: 9780137127023) by Gregory Shea and Robert E. Gunther. Available in print and digital formats. Pilot a kayak, not an ocean liner! In turbulent times, you will capsize, but you can learn to prepare for...
Making It Work at Work
A Guide to Career Development and Fulfillment (Collection)
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Master Powerful Ways to Find Purpose, Fulfillment, and Greatness at Work!
Four great books show you how to find purpose, fulfillment, and greatness at work--no matter where you work or how fast your workplace is changing! Imagine the leaders of one of New York’s top real-estate firms coming...
Turbulent Times, You Can¿t Expect Others to Save You, In
How to Keep Yourself Prepared for Any Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Your Job Survival Guide: A Manual for Thriving in Change (ISBN: 9780137127023) by Gregory Shea and Robert Gunther. Available in print and digital formats. Develop the mindset and skills to recover when your career “boat” capsizes--because, in today’s whitewater...
by Jim McTague
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
In just the past few years, the equity markets have been transformed into a high-speed casino that’s a pure crapshoot: a white-knuckle rollercoaster ride that has left individual investors legitimately terrified of equities. The Flash Crash of May 6, 2010–when the DJIA plummeted 734 points in 17...
Wealth
Grow It and Protect It, Updated and Revised
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Discover the best ways to build, protect, and sustain family and business wealth across generations! Wealth is the world's most valuable guide to wealth management for individuals, families, business owners, and the "upwardly affluent." In the six years since Stuart Lucas first wrote this...
Exchange Traded Funds
The Nuts and Bolts
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The ETF Trend Following Playbook: Profiting from Trends in Bull or Bear Markets with Exchange Traded Funds (ISBN: 9780137029013) by Tom Lydon. Available in print and digital formats. Why ETFs are attracting millions of...
Broken Markets
How High Frequency Trading and Predatory Practices on Wall Street Are Destroying Investor Confidence and Your Portfolio
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The markets have evolved at breakneck speed during the past decade, and change has accelerated dramatically since 2007's disastrous regulatory "reforms." An unrelenting focus on technology, hyper-short-term trading, speed, and volume has eclipsed sanity: markets have been hijacked by high-powered...
A Manager's Guide to Project Management
Learn How to Apply Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
There are plenty of books about project management, but this is the first one written for the people who have the most at stake: the senior executives who will ultimately be held accountable for the successes of the projects they approve and supervise. Top enterprise project management expert Michael...
Service Management, Student Workbook
An Integrated Approach to Supply Chain Management and Operations
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
With this hands-on study guide to accompany the reference on integrating the many disciplines that comprise service operations management, authors Haksever and Render help students master all aspects of the field. Fully aligned with Service Management, this workbook-style book includes chapter learning...
Trade the Trader, Video Enhanced Edition
Know Your Competition and Find Your Edge for Profitable Trading
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
When you trade, you're not just trading companies that deliver goods or services. You're trading against other traders who care about only one thing: taking your money. That's the #1 hard reality of trading - and most traders either don't know it, or don't act as if they do. In this book, top trader...
by Michael R. Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About What Customers Want (9780137142262) by Michael R. Solomon. Available in print and digital formats. Fully exploit the powerful human sense your marketing has overlooked for too long: scent. As scientists continue to discover the powerful effects of...
Big Data Analytics Beyond Hadoop
Real-Time Applications with Storm, Spark, and More Hadoop Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Master alternative Big Data technologies that can do what Hadoop can't: real-time analytics and iterative machine learning. When most technical professionals think of Big Data analytics today, they think of Hadoop. But there are many cutting-edge applications that Hadoop isn't well suited for, especially...
Web and Network Data Science
Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Master modern web and network data modeling: both theory and applications. In Web and Network Data Science, a top faculty member of Northwestern University’s prestigious analytics program presents the first fully-integrated treatment of both the business and academic elements of web and network...