Kingmaker: Be the One Your Company Wants to Keep... on Your Terms
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  • Learning from real life experience
  • A must-read for anyone in business
  • Hits a nice stride in part 2...
  • The One I AM Going To Keep!
  • Kingmaker : Exactly Right !
Kingmaker: Be the One Your Company Wants to Keep... on Your Terms
Joanne Cini
Manufacturer: Financial Times Prentice Hall
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4 out of 5 stars Learning from real life experience.......2006-09-12

I was impressed by the clarity with which the writer uses her life and professional experience and share it with us readers.
I learned a lot about myself and the decisions we all need to make to obtain the life we want. She is crystal clear on reminding us what we need to succeed in the professional arena, and to bravely look at our lives and make the necessary adjustments to obtain what we want in life.

5 out of 5 stars A must-read for anyone in business.......2005-07-09

The book is excellent. It really helped to conceptualize some of the things I would like in my next step, such as growth opportunities and people I can learn from. Somehow, it also helped me embrace some of my strengths and gave me some additional courage.

4 out of 5 stars Hits a nice stride in part 2..........2004-12-27

In today's business environment, it's nearly impossible to have a guaranteed job or position at a company. Joanne Cini's book Kingmaker - Be The One Your Company Wants To Keep... On Your Terms (Prentice Hall) can help you navigate those waters and put you in a much better overall position.

Chapter List:

Part 1 - People, Profit, Politics, and Process: Who's A Kingmaker?; The Seismic Shift; A Word About Profit; Politics At Large; Politics In The Day To Day; Losing Like A Winner; Ego, Fear, and Competition; The Responsibility Of Leadership; The Champion; Embrace Diversity; Summary of Part 1

Part 2 - Excel, Execute, and Enjoy!: Value Yourself If You Intend To Be Valuable; How Can You Affect The Company's Margin?; Become Your Manager's Go-To Person; Getting A Handle On Obsession And Defensive Action; When Is It OK To Break Rank?; Interview Discovery; How To Pick (And Get Along With) Your Boss; Management By Type; Preparing For Your Annual Review: Managing Your Value Perception; Keeping Clear On What You Think You Want; Summary Of Part 2

Part 3 - Planning For Passion And Prosperity: Branding Yourself: The Art Of Free Agency; Achieving Fulfillment Through Great Work; Letting Go And Having A Life; The Freedom Plan; When Leaving Is The Only Answer; Summary Of Part 3; Your Personal Value Kingdom

The concept of being a kingmaker means having a stake in the rise of your boss to "king" status. Your future is linked and interwoven to theirs, and you need to know how to manage your career to take advantage of that fact. Cini relates wisdom and lessons learned in her 24 years in the television industry to help the reader through those landmines.

In the first part of the book, there seems to be a lot of relating of bad incidents and how she came to leave her job. I'll admit to being less than thrilled with the content, and started to wonder if this was going to be just a book of whining about how unfair corporate America can be. But Part 2 is where the book came together for me. She gets very practical about steps and attitudes that need to be present for an individual to excel in their jobs. And if you can make yourself one of these people, then you'll be considered one of those people who companies won't let go of, and you'll do it without selling out. The questions at the end of each chapter help you to think through things on a practical level.

Overall, a useful book on making sure you are the person that will survive the rough times in any corporate environment. There's something in there for everyone at every level.

5 out of 5 stars The One I AM Going To Keep!.......2004-12-22

This is a great study on the inner career workings of one of America's biggest industries: TV Advertising. A seasoned Executive, Cini does a great job painting a portrait of the front-line corporate career battles we've all experienced, and detailing the tremendous lessons to be learned. No matter what your level of experience in corporate America, there's a pearl or two of wisdom from Cini that can benefit you.

If you are new to the ebb and flow of the daily grind, then take Cini's advice as the new best friend who will help you get to the top. The years of experience relfected here, plus the user-friendly format, should take much of they mystery out of knowing what to do to get ahead, without resorting to unethical behaviors.

If you are a mid-career, semi-seasoned pro, then the descriptive scenarios of real-life engagements coupled with the lessons learned, and the insightful takeaways, should help guarantee your continued rise to the top.

Finally, your career is one aspect, but there's another job we all have: life. Cini closes with some valuable introspective advice on where to look to ensure what you do and how you do it, lines up with what you truly want to be about.

5 out of 5 stars Kingmaker : Exactly Right !.......2004-03-27

Kingmaker by Joanne Cini is a must read for anyone who wants to survive and thrive in today's no frills, high productivity business environment. It has already become required reading in our company.
Kingmaker : Be the One Your Company Wants to Keep. on Your Terms
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    Joanne Cini
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    Market Neutral Strategies (Wiley Finance Series)
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      An inside view of what makes market neutral strategies tick and how they can be implemented

      Market neutral strategies have gained attention for their potential to deliver positive returns regardless of the direction of underlying markets. As these strategies have built a record of good performance in recent years, their benefits have become apparent. Market Neutral Strategies draws on the wisdom and experience of professional practitioners to describe strategies that are being utilized by some of today's leading institutional investors. This book provides readers with an insider's view of what makes these strategies work and how they can be implemented successfully. Topics covered include long-short equity and convertibles, fixed income and merger arbitrage; the tax and ERISA implications of market neutral investing; and the failure of two notorious "market neutral" ventures, Askin Capital Management and Long-Term Capital Management.

      Bruce I. Jacobs (Florham Park, NJ) and Kenneth N. Levy are cofounders and principals of Jacobs Levy Equity Management, in Florham Park, New Jersey. They are coauthors of Equity Management: Quantitative Analysis for Stock Selection. Bruce Jacobs holds a PhD in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the author of Capital Ideas and Market Realities: Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes.

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      An inside view of what makes market neutral strategies tick and how they can be implemented Market neutral strategies have gained attention for their potential to deliver positive returns regardless of the direction of underlying markets. As these strategies have built a record of good performance in recent years, their benefits have become apparent. Market Neutral Strategies draws on the wisdom and experience of professional practitioners to describe strategies that are being utilized by some of today's leading institutional investors. This book provides readers with an insider's view of what makes these strategies work and how they can be implemented successfully. Topics covered include long-short equity and convertibles, fixed income and merger arbitrage; the tax and ERISA implications of market neutral investing; and the failure of two notorious "market neutral" ventures, Askin Capital Management and Long-Term Capital Management. Bruce I. Jacobs (Florham Park, NJ) and Kenneth N. Levy are cofounders and principals of Jacobs Levy Equity Management, in Florham Park, New Jersey. They are coauthors of Equity Management: Quantitative Analysis for Stock Selection. Bruce Jacobs holds a PhD in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the author of Capital Ideas and Market Realities: Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes
      The 50-Plus Market: Why the Future Is Age Neutral When It Comes to Marketing & Branding Strategies
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      • Assessing the affluent, over-50 market
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      5 out of 5 stars Assessing the affluent, over-50 market.......2006-04-13

      ick Stroud's THE 50-PLUS MARKET shows that the typical marketer's rush to reach young consumers is ignoring a potentially lucrative market: that of older consumers ages 50 and older. However as the Boomer generation ages this market can no longer be ignored: THE 50-PLUS MARKET provides a new approach to how companies interact with older customers, advocating age-neutral marketing strategies to ensure the growing numbers of affluent over-50 consumers aren't overlooked.
      Market-Neutral Investing: Long/Short Hedge Fund Strategies
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      • Highly Recommend!
      • Very good primer on this investment style
      • Good introduction, not too heavy
      • not for professionals
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      Joseph G. Nicholas
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      2 out of 5 stars Not the best source for informatin.......2004-03-29

      Nicholas runs a hedge fund consulting company and a lot of what he writes is not industry standard but rather what he thinks should be industry standard. There's a lot of different definitions in the HF industry on what long/short equity really means. Nicholas won't tell you what other authorities think. So this is a book with a very narrow focus, but even in this area it fails to clearly identify the risks of these equity hedge funds. You have to keep in mind that this guy is a promoter of the HF industry, so he's not an unbiased analyst of what hedge funds can do and cannot do. He's here to "sell" hedge funds... and to sell his company's services. I do not recommend this book because it's not objective at all.

      5 out of 5 stars Highly Recommend!.......2003-12-06

      Market-Neutral Investing offers insightful strategies to the world of hedge funds. An industry leader, Joseph Nicholas pioneers us through his proven techniques. I highly recommend this book.

      4 out of 5 stars Very good primer on this investment style.......2003-09-04

      Joseph Nicholas is uniquely positioned to write an intelligent book about market neutral investing. He is the founder of a hedge fund research firm that tracks over 2,500 hedge funds and has developed several hedge fund indexes. The language and mathematics within the book are crystal clear. Overall, this book gives you an excellent technical foundation in market neutral investing.

      As Nicholas describes, the market neutral strategy encompasses eight different substrategies that deal with financial instruments ranging from equities, to convertible bonds, and mortgage backed securities. Nicholas dedicates a whole chapter for each substrategy. Within each chapter, he describes how a specific strategy structures its market neutral positions, how it earns its return, and what risks it bears.

      Nicholas explains clearly that market neutral investing derives its return not from market movements, but from changes in the relationship or spread between its long positions and its short positions within a certain type of securities.

      Market neutral investing consists in observing relationships between similar securities; and taking a long position in the ones that appear underpriced while taking a short position in similar securities that appear overpriced. This strategy is called convergence. The investor bets that the spread between the values of securities he is long and the one he is short will narrow. This entails that in relative term, the long positions are expected to appreciate and the short position are expected to depreciate. Thus, the values of the long undervalued positions and the values of the short overvalued positions should converge over time. That would be ideal. It does not always work out that way. Often, the long and short positions respective values do not converge, but diverge. That is what killed Long Term Capital Management.

      The one caveat is that this book comes across as a commercial for market neutral investing. Nicholas convinces you will earn superior risk adjusted returns vs. regular investing strategies. Also, you will benefit from the market neutral strategies being uncorrelated to traditional stocks and bonds markets. Thus, market neutral strategies provide you with diversification benefits.

      Regarding diversification benefits, Nicholas is correct. Given that these strategies returns are somewhat independent from market movements in the related securities, it makes sense that they would be uncorrelated to these same markets.

      Nicholas assertion that these strategies provide superior risk adjusted return is less convincing. I would not be surprised his data is victim of survivor bias. If you select only the funds that survived during your research period, you ignore all the funds that failed during this same period. As a result, you overstate the performance of this investment style by selecting only the strong survivors. Additionally, his time horizon is too short. On page 7, he graphs the risk vs. returns for different market neutral strategies during the nineties alone. That is not long enough. Granted some of these strategies did not exist for much longer. Thus, we can't tell yet if performance is for real. Also, he states that all these strategies are above the efficient frontier that represents a straight line between the T-Bill risk/return position and the S&P 500 risk/return position. But, the efficient frontier is not on a straight line, but rather on a concave line. If the efficient frontier was graphed correctly, many of the market neutral strategies would be under the efficient frontier.

      I am skeptical about the superior risk adjusted return of market neutral strategies because of my own experience. We invested in three such market neutral funds. They had alluring past performance that confirmed everything Nicholas says about such funds. The minute we invested in such funds, their performance mysteriously deteriorated. Somehow, all these funds benefited from convergence before we invested. But, suffered from divergence right after we invested. Within two years, we closed out our investment positions in all three funds, and never regretted it. Thus, I feel that data integrity, and disclosure are real issues in this industry. And, it undermines the credibility of their superior past performance.

      My reservation regarding market neutral investing are supported by well publicized failures of some of the biggest funds within this investment style. These include the failure of Long Term Capital Management and the liquidation of the Tiger Funds.

      If you want to track how a market neutral fund performs, you can follow one of the oldest AXA Barra market neutral fund (SSMNX). As you will see, the performance is lackluster. And, I believe it is representative of the performance of this sector.

      Besides my reservation regarding market neutral investing, this book gives you an excellent foundation on this subject.

      4 out of 5 stars Good introduction, not too heavy.......2002-07-12

      This book is up to date and starts off with a good overview. It then explains in a concise section what alpha and beta are, and also about efficient frontiers for different strategies (graphs of risk v return, showing what would happen if you were 100% strategy, 100% bonds, or a mixture of the two). It then goes into a detailed description for each strategy what the practical issues are.

      1 out of 5 stars not for professionals.......2002-03-02

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                  4 out of 5 stars Earth Science Made Simple is Simple.......2007-09-09

                  Great overview of the general topics in earth science. The only thing that I wish the book included would be question sets to review the material. I would use this book more as a resource for myself than my students.

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                        ASIN: 3540672230

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                        Raman scattering is now being applied with increasing success to a wide range of practical problems at the cutting edge of materials science. The purpose of this book is to make Raman spectroscopy understandable to the non-specialist and thus to bring it into the mainstream of routine materials characterization. The book is pedagogical in approach and focuses on technologically important condensed-matter systems in which the specific use of Raman spectroscopy yields new and useful information. Included are chapters on instrumentation, bulk semiconductors and alloys, heterostructures, high-Tc superconductors, catalysts, carbon-based materials, wide-gap and super-hard materials, and polymers.
                        Phonon Raman Scattering in Semiconductors, Quantum Wells and Superlattices: Basic Results and Applications (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics)
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                          Phonon Raman Scattering in Semiconductors, Quantum Wells and Superlattices: Basic Results and Applications (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics)
                          Tobias Ruf
                          Manufacturer: Springer
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                          ASIN: 3540633014

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                          This book presents recent results of basic research in the field of Raman scattering by optic and acoustic phonons in semiconductors, quantum wells and superlattices. It also describes various new applications for analytical materials research which have emerged alongside with scientific progress. Trends in Raman techniques and instrumentation and their implications for future developments are illustrated.
                          Raman Emission by X-ray Scattering
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                            Raman Emission by X-ray Scattering
                            D. L. Ederer
                            Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company
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                            ASIN: 9810228252

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                            The Raman Emission by X-rays (REX-I) Workshop focused on Raman Scattering of x-rays mostly from Synchrotron Radiation Sources. The advent of new high brightness sources of x-ray radiation has given new impetus to this tantalizing technique that has offered ways of obtaining new insights into the atomic and electronic structure of solids and gases, but which has been limited by weak sources of excitation. In the last five years, Raman scattering by x-rays has been observed an ubiquitous phenomena. It has been applied to yield new information about the band structure of solids and about the electronic structure of atoms. It was the object of this workshop to identify and define key issues in this rapidly developing subfield of x-ray physics by gathering together a group of theorists and experimentalists, and by providing overlap between atomic and condensed matter physics. The workshop aimed to achieve this end by providing an environment to discuss the latest developments and to initiate cross fertilization in the difference areas.
                            Raman spectroscopy and light scattering technologies in materials science: 31 July-1 August 2001, San Diego, USA (SPIE proceedings series)
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                              Raman spectroscopy and light scattering technologies in materials science: 31 July-1 August 2001, San Diego, USA (SPIE proceedings series)

                              Manufacturer: SPIE
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                              Binding: Paperback

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                              ASIN: 081944183X
                              Raman Scattering in Materials Science
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                                Raman Scattering in Materials Science
                                Willes H. Weber
                                Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
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                                ASIN: B000MUQAVG

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                                  Retold Classic Novel: Huckleberry Finn (Retold Classic Novels)
                                  Mark Twain
                                  Manufacturer: Perfection Learning
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