Steven: 5874 books
Plan to Succeed
A Guide to Strategic Planning
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
According to a Foundation for Community Association Research report, “Strategic planning is the cornerstone of every common-interest community.” Strategic planning enables your business or organization to define and reach its goals. In this book, author Steven C. Stryker offers an accessible guide...
by Steven Kim
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Growth and prosperity are hallmarks of the modern culture. The folks bent on advancement run the gamut from the workman and entrepreneur to the executive and politician.
For all the yearnings of progress, however, it’s hard to find anyone who goes about the business of advancement in a coherent...
by Steven Kim
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2012
The stock market can crash whether or not a bubble exists. An exemplar was the smackdown of 2011 which cropped up in sync with the long-range pattern of flops but otherwise without any good reason.
The pointless breakdown had one positive outcome. Due to the confirmation of the running sequence...
by Steven Kim
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Over the past few decades, hedge funds have played a growing role in causing or aggravating blowups in the capital markets as well as banking systems. The latest fiasco was the financial crisis of 2008, which ended up crippling the financial sector and slamming the real economy.The blowup gave...
Organization and Administration of Adult Education Programs
A Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Administrators of adult education programs work in dynamic and everchanging environments. They are continually challenged with a myriad of issues related to program budgeting, marketing, strategic planning, funding, human resources, and other topics. With decades of real world experience in the field,...
The Complete Sun Tzu for Business Success
Use the Classic Rules of The Art of War to Win the Battle for Customers and Conquer the Competition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Business today is war. As you and your company fight your way back from the recession, you need to take the high ground and make a stand. You need to know how to recapture customers, boost your profit margins, rally your workforce, and identify the competition's weakness to gain an advantage.
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The Struggle for Egypt
From Nasser to Tahrir Square
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectual life, Egypt is a linchpin of the US's Middle East strategy, receiving more aid than any nation except Israel. This is not the first time that the world...
False Dawn
Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Half a decade after Arabs across the Middle East poured into the streets to demand change, hopes for democracy have disappeared in a maelstrom of violence and renewed state repression. Egypt remains an authoritarian state, Syria and Yemen are in the midst of devastating civil wars, Libya has descended...
What You Really Need to Lead
The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
WHAT MAKES A LEADER? CAN YOU REALLY LEARN TO LEAD?
You might believe that leaders are born, not made. Perhaps you think that you need to hold an important job to be a leader—that you need permission to lead. Leadership is one of the most important aspects of our society. Yet there is enormous...
Turning the Tables
An Insider's Guide to Eating Out
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Award-winning food critic Steven A. Shaw (a.k.a. "The Fat Guy") can get a last-minute dinner reservation at the most popular hot spot in town. He knows how that flawless piece of fish reached your plate. He can read between the lines of a restaurant review, and he knows the secrets of why...
The Advantage-Makers
How Exceptional Leaders Win by Creating Opportunities Others Don't
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007
Some leaders consistently see possibilities others miss. They learn more, learn faster, and transform their insights into breakaway strategies. They are more effective collaborators, more powerful influencers, better at handling adversity, and dramatically more successful at execution. They are the...
Beauty and the Business
Practice, Profits and Productivity, Performance and Profitability
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
New technologies and social networks have dramatically changed the way we communicate. But with this sweeping change, some things remain the same. First and foremost, treat your customers right. In BEAUTY and the BUSINESS, authors Gregory Buford, MD and Steven House present a framework for the highly...
by Steven B. Bunker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
In Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a character articulates the fascination goods, technology, and modernity held for many Latin Americans in the early twentieth century when he declares that “incredible things are happening in this world.” The modernity he marvels...
When Digital Becomes Human
The Transformation of Customer Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
WINNER: 2016 Chartered Management Institute Management Book of the Year - Commuter's Read Category
In an age when customers have access to vast amounts of data about a company, its product and its competitors, customer experience becomes increasingly important as a sustainable source of competitive...