Coach Yourself to Success is a great primer for new investors or those who have little or no knowledge about investments. It also provides good brush-up text for more experienced investors who may want or need to analyze their portfolios. As the author explains, you should continuously keep up and change your allocations as circumstances dictate. The writing is clear, the concepts simple and the advice down-to-earth and basic. Most individual investors will find the book a practical resource.

Hardbound. The Handbook is a definitive reference source and teaching aid for econometricians. It examines models, estimation theory, data analysis and field applications in econometrics. Comprehensive surveys, written by experts, discuss recent developments at a level suitable for professional use by economists, econometricians, statisticians, and in advanced graduate econometrics courses.

This classic book secured Benjamin Graham's status as a Wall street immortal. the carefully honed methods for finding undervalued stocks and bonds he described here have never been equaled, and have already outlived their author by more than 20 years. Even as Security Analysis has gone through five editions and nearly a million copes, you can learn time-tested investment secrets and strategies by going back to the source - THE ORIGINAL - and paying close attention to its wisdom. Written just five years after the crash, Security Analysis's message today is just as vivid, just as lucid, and just as vital as it was in 1934.

Based on an in-depth research study, this book provides an avenue for managers and researchers to explore, examine, and describe interorganizational trust relationships in e-commerce participation. Identified are trust behaviors in business relationships as they relate to e-commerce. In comparing their own organization with those researched, managers can then examine their own and their trading partners' trust behaviors.

In helping establish a new field of study in the organizational sciences, POS, this book examines a variety of positive dynamics in businesses and organizations that give rise to extraordinary outcomes. Positive Organizational Scholarship does not adopt one particular theory or framework, but encompasses any phenomenon that leads to positive, nurturing results. This collection of essays, written by established senior scholars, explains why and how these commonsense prescriptions work.

Forge positive, productive East/West business relationships by understanding how the other side thinks. Focusing on who the Chinese and Americans are, and why they behave in certain ways, this pragmatic yet sensitive approach to building East/West business relationships urges readers to seek understanding ahead of quick answers. Bicultural businessman Charles Lee outlines the traditional, social, political, and economic factors affecting Chinese and American business environments, deconstructing the myths of the "cowboy" and the "dragon."

The study raises new questions regarding job satisfaction, work performance, and employees' well-being in regard to their personal Internet usage. The findings show that not all personal web usage leads to work inefficiency; in some activities, it may even eventually increase job satisfaction. The study also recommends various strategies that management can implement to enhance employees' well-being, such as Workplace Internet Usage Decision Grids, Adaptive Internet Monitoring and Filtering Policy, and user education/training. These strategies will help researchers and practitioners understand possible Internet usage patterns of employees and better advise on positive Internet usage policies that fit their jobs and personal agenda.

Leveraging the New Human Capital forever changes the way managers see today's highly complex employees. Through interviews with corporate executives, overviews of available research and four stories of major corporations, the book sets out five specific strategies organizations can use to adapt to this new workforce.

Training is about improving overall organizational performance, and no individual is more accountable for a company's performance than its CEO. It follows, then, that Workplace Learning and Performance professionals (a.k.a. trainers) must learn what chief executives hope to achieve through their company's training efforts, and that they must satisfy the expectations of those executives and other key stakeholders.

Like product and service markets, employment markets go up and down, but they never stand still. For any staffing strategy to be effective, it must be responsive to changes both within and outside the organization. Consequently, such initiatives must be designed with the same forethought, care, and commitment that go into other business strategies.

According to Jim Hoopes, the fundamental principles on which business is based-authority, power, control-are increasingly at odds with principles of life in a democratic society-freedom, equality, individualism. False Prophets critically examines the pioneering theories of the early management thinkers, such as Taylor, Follett, Mayo, and Deming, which intended to democratize corporate life yet have proved antithetical to the successful practice of business.

The Hurdle book is Tim Berry's latest, a practical step-by-step guide to a business plan you can take to the bank and implement in your company. The Hurdle book includes a 53 page workbook to capture your information as you progress through your business plan. Do it Yourself.

Taking readers behind the Boardroom door, this book demystifies the role of the CEO, debunks the three most widely-held organizational myths about the limits of openess and personal power, and details a system of metrics to measure and manage a new set of competencies for the Board, its directors, and the company as a whole.

The Product Manager's Handbook is the essential guide to successful product management in today's fast-changing business world. Product and brand managers, as well as upper-level sales, marketing, and branding executives, will find the text thorough and informative as it explains and analyzes the product manager's role in both traditional, hierarchical organizations as well as in newer horizontal, team-driven decision-making structures.