Industries Professions category: 12443 books
The Big Flatline
Oil and the No-Growth Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
In an urgent follow-up to his best-selling Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller, Jeff Rubin argues that the end of cheap oil means the end of growth. What it will be like to live in a world where growth is over?
Economist and resource analyst Jeff Rubin is certain that the world's...
Do It Smart
Seven Rules for Superior Information Technology Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1999
A decade ago, manufacturing companies had visions of paperless offices, automated plants, and virtual enterprises. But the euphoria quickly evaporated when these visions failed to materialize. Now, from in-depth interviews in a worldwide survey of seventy manufacturing firms, a research team from...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2011
This mammoth book provides a feast of entertainment for movie western fans. Originally published under the title, "Westerns for a Rainy Saturday", this greatly expanded edition details not only typical matinee westerns like "Riders of Destiny" (starring John Wayne), "The Duel...
Season Finale
The Unexpected Rise and Fall of the WB and UPN
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In the mid-1990s, two major Hollywood studios, Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures, each launched their own broadcast television network with the hope of becoming the fifth major player in an industry long dominated by ABC, CBS, NBC, and, more recently, Fox. Despite the odds against them, the WB and...
The Sports Strategist
Developing Leaders for a High-Performance Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Today's high-performance sports business is more complex than ever before and presents new challenges to the industry at all levels. Sports organizations are fighting hard for the money and engagement of fans, media, and sponsors while facing unprecedented competition both domestically and internationally....
Slingshot
AMD's Fight to Free an Industry from the Ruthless Grip of Intel
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
When Hector Ruiz joined AMD, quickly ascending to the CEO’s suite, he took the helm of a dynamic company that was nonetheless struggling against perceptions that it could not contend with Intel, the Goliath of the microchip industry. Though AMD’s technology, products, and pricing were keeping...
by Shaun Finnie
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
In 1955 Walt Disney presented the world's first theme park. Disneyland opened with just 18 rides and attractions. Today there are eleven Disney parks around the globe. Visitors can spend weeks at a time in these resorts, often staying in one of Disney's own hotel rooms. But in the last fifty...
by Tom Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Whether you’re a financial services expert or novice, you understand the business. You’ve worked hard to gain your product knowledge. You watch industry trends. But, do you know how to talk to clients so they’ll listen?
The Art of Selling Financial Services depends upon the collaboration...
Harriman vs. Hill
Wall Street’s Great Railroad War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In 1901, the Northern Pacific was an unlikely prize: a twice-bankrupt construction of the federal government, it was a two-bit railroad (literally—five years back, its stock traded for twenty-five cents a share). But it was also a key to connecting eastern markets through Chicago to the rising West....
by Richard Finney
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Those who can’t do… teach.
This old adage has ended up being true with previous books on screenwriting. The authors of those books had no real industry experience as working screenwriters on produced movies. Or their experience was so old, what they had to teach was not relevant for today’s...
by Jeffrey Liker
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Transform your company the Toyota way!
Two essential guides streamlined into a SINGLE EBOOK PACKAGE
Toyota. The name says it all: Innovation. Efficiency. Quality. Excellence.
The Toyota Way—Management Principles and Fieldbook explains how the legendary automaker consistently achieves...
Max Factor
The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
**The true story of a poor immigrant who built a Hollywood cosmetics empire is told in “**this biography of the man who gave the world a makeover” (Publishers Weekly).
There was a time when “nice girls” didn’t wear makeup. Max Factor changed all that. Born Maksymilian Faktorowicz...
Eagle on the Street
The SEC and Wall Street during the Reagan Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A “spellbinding account” of Wall Street deregulation in the 1980s, based on a Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post series (The New York Times Book Review).
Described by the New York Times Book Review as “worthy of being on the same shelf” as Liar’s Poker, Greed and Glory on Wall...
Don't Eat This Book
Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
For thirty days, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. The resulting documentary earned him an Academy Award nomination and broke box-office records worldwide.
But there’s more to the story, and in Don’t...