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From Entrepreneur's Popular Mentor Series
Business competition for start-up seed money is tougher than ever. Banks and venture capitalists demand more than a general business plan before risking scarce funding. A start-up has to create a plan targeted precisely to the interests of a potential investor.
Rule's Book of Business Plans for Start-Ups has been completely revised and updated to cover everything from defining the business concept to maintaining a healthy cash flow, but with a focus on entrepreneurs. There are special tips on how to impress funding sources, conduct research, attract investors, and locate resources.
Covering virtually every business category, there are updated sample business plans for:
- Manufacturing or assembly concerns
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- Service providers
- Home-based operations
- Nonprofit organizations
- Combination businesses with more than one profit center
Roger Rule has written the definitive guide for developing all the elements of a start-up business plan into the cohesive and professional format favored by today's prudent investors.
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Establishing a network and a selling attitude.......2001-09-12
Actually this old book is very much worth reading!
Henry Rogers has figured out the rules of:
a) Establishing a positive attitude
b) Excellent negotiating techniques
c) The ability to do serious networking!
15 years after this book was written all of the above has become important elements of building both an successful individual career and a successful business. The book is very well read and Rogers apply his rules with live examples and anecdotes spices up with a good sense of humour.
I have grown so fond of this book that I read it every time I face difficult meetings, job interviews etc. Just reading a chapter now and then maintains MY positive attitude and gives me tools to handle my work and career.
Or get one used - it is definitely worth the dollar ;-)
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- 46 years of experience condensed
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Get Ahead: Scovil's Seven Rules for Success in Management
Roger Scovil
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Former corporate executive Roger Scovil gives readers the inside secrets to effective and enjoyable business management.
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46 years of experience condensed.......2001-03-20
I always believe that information is most applicable in "context". This review comes from someone who is at the beginning of their management career. I have been working with PricewaterhouseCoopers for over three years now and am beginning to assume greater professional management responsibilities.
Not only do I think that this book is excellent and its 7 rules applicable to anyone looking to "Get Ahead" in their career, I have had the pleasure of working alongside Mr. Scovil as we both serve as members of the Board of Advisors for the non-profit organization AIESEC at Georgia Tech.
This book condenses 46 years of professional experience into 7 simple rules. Not theory, not guesswork...this comes from someone who was CEO of a major international corporation! I'm sending a copy to all my friends in management and leadership positions.
MANAGEMENT WISDOM.......2001-03-12
After a forty-six year career in business, Roger Scovil shares with us key rules in getting ahead in business. If you want to manage successfully in business, government, the non-profit sector and your life, this book is for you.
Roger Scovil's seven rules for success in management are a common sense approach in operating an efficient and thriving business. On the surface they may sound simplistic but these simple rules will make or break a company if not employed. Don't make enemies, hire smarter people than yourself, delegate, train your subordinates, treat clients with respect, get on the boss's wave length and remember the organizational chart are the rules. Scovil's explanation of applying those rules is the key to your successful career.
Anyone who is in management in any form should have this book as their personal mentor. It is full of wisdom, informative and gives you practical advice to enable for you to succeed both in the corporate world but also in life.
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ROGERS RULE FOR SUCCESS
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Rogers' Rules for Businesswomen: How to Start a Career and Move Up the Ladder
Henry C. Rogers
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Rogers' Rules for Success/Cassette
Henry Rogers
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Our society is churning out more numbers than ever before, whether in the form of spreadsheets, brokerage statements, survey results, or just the numbers on the sports pages. Unfortunately, people’s ability to understand and analyze numbers isn’t keeping pace with today’s whizzing data streams. And the benefits of living in the Information Age are available only to those who can process the information in front of them.
What the Numbers Say offers remedies to this national problem. Through a series of witty and engaging discussions, the authors introduce original quantitative concepts, skills, and habits that reduce even the most daunting numerical challenges to simple, bite-sized pieces. Why do the nutritional values on a Cheerios box appear different in Canada than in the U.S.? How is it that top-performing mutual funds often lose money for the majority of their shareholders? Why was the scoring system for Olympic figure skating doomed even without biased judges?
By anchoring their discussions in real-world scenarios, Derrick Niederman and David Boyum show that skilled quantitative thinking involves old-fashioned logic, not advanced mathematical tools. Useful in an endless number of situations, What the Numbers Say is the practical guide to navigating today’s data-rich world.
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The problems with numbers written at a level where those with the problems can understand them.......2006-06-17
This is an outstanding book, describing in detail, yet in layman's terms, many of the problems regarding the public's understanding of mathematics. Mathematical reality is what it is; hunches and intuition are just that, sometimes true, which is what is fondly and emphatically remembered, but most often false and conveniently forgotten. The authors discuss topics such as:
*) What mathematics should be taught in the public schools.
*) How mathematics should be taught in the public schools.
*) The reality of regression to the mean and how short-term high achievement is natural.
*) The myth of being in a hot streak.
*) Why the average can be open to more than one interpretation.
*) Pareto's law.
*) How much conditional probability can change the odds.
All are presented in language and terms that anyone can understand.
The most interesting point they made is that most of the quantitative skills needed in life are taught before one exits the sixth grade. While skills such as trigonometry and logarithms are widely used, the majority of people will survive just fine without them. Therefore, the key to making sure that the greatest good is done for the greatest number is to make sure subsequent math education does not reduce those critical quantitative skills.
There have been many popular books written in the last few decades lamenting the lack of number skills in the American populace. This book is one of the best, not only does it point out the problems, it also is written at a level where those with the problems can understand it. And that is no easy task.
All my life I have been misusing the numbers.......2006-06-13
In a way, I feel very frustrated with this wonderful book, it remainded me when my father recommended me the 7 Habits of Covey and told me " Its sad I found this at 60 and not a your age"... well, its sad to be 42, a mechanical engineer and someone who studies math as a hobby to suddenly realize that I have been using numbers without a guide to their context..
All I can say that this should be required education material at all levels of schooling..
Excellent. Why did it take me so long to read it?.......2006-01-20
For some reason I purchased this book, started reading it, and got side tracked for about a year. At the time that I put it aside I guess it hadden't made a big impact on me to the point that when I picked it up again last week I wasn;t expecting much. How worng i was, I now have to go back and re-read the beginning. Chapters 4 through 8 are some of the best writings I have read on numerical thinking, probability and staistics in a long time. The last chapter is outside of my area of expertise, but i resonate with a lot of what the authors are talking about. innumeracy is rampent.
A great book.......2005-06-14
This book should be required reading for every high school graduate in the country. It is full of useful information to expand you numerical thought process. I highly recommend it, five stars!
Making Sense of the Numbers We See Every Day........2005-03-17
Premised on the idea that we now live in a "quantitative information age", in which a person can hardly get through a day without reaching some conclusion based on numerical data, but that most people are poor quantitative thinkers who routinely make poor decisions because they are unskilled in analyzing numerical data, authors Derrick Niederman and David Boyum offer us "What the Numbers Say", a guide to spotting the most common kinds of data manipulation and determining what those numbers really mean. I should say that you do not need to know any mathematics beyond a 6th grade level to understand this book or to successfully decipher the numerical data that one encounters in everyday life. "What the Numbers Say" is engaging, clear, and easy to read. There are interesting examples taken from the stock market, business world, and current events for every subject that is discussed. And the examples don't have a pervasive political bias.
"What the Numbers Say" starts off by explaining "The Ten Habits of Highly Effective Quantitative Thinkers" and then dedicates each of six chapters to a different type or facet of quantitative data. "For Good Measure" explains the importance of understanding what unit your numbers are expressing, the problems inherent in distilling an assortment of data into a single number -such as an index, and troubles with rounding numbers. "Playing the Percentages" explores the traps of adding fractions, dealing with negative returns, percentages of percents, and ordinals, i.e. rankings. "Gaining Perspective" talks about very big numbers, very small numbers, and very sensitive numbers -especially denominators. "Throwing a Curve" is about non-linear relationships, including quadratic relationships and exponential relationships (growth and depreciation). "Taking Chances" discusses the three schools of probability: classical, frequentist, subjectivist and various methods of expressing probability. "The Proof is in the Numbers" is a chapter about Statistics that addresses the confusion of correlation and cause, sample sizes, data mining, and surveys. In "A Peace Offering for the Math Wars", the authors offer a critique of the current mathematics curricula and the lack of quantitative thinking instruction in U.S. schools, including their suggestions for remedying some of the problems.
In the book's last chapter, the authors get up on their soapbox about mathematical and quantitative education in American schools, so I trust they won't mind if I get up on mine. I wholeheartedly agree with most of what they say, but I find the authors' reaction to American students' performance in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study puzzling. U.S. students are always "smack in the middle of the pack" in those studies, which leads Mr. Niederman and Mr. Boyum to conclude that American students are bad at math and that American schools are bad at teaching it. I don't know why anyone gets bent out of shape about the TIMSS results. Americans do better than average. There are always some anglophone nations that do worse and some that do better. I think the results for American students are rather good considering that we have a significant population of non-native-English speakers in our schools and a very heterogeneous population -culturally, ethnically, and geographically- in general. In any case, the authors acknowledge that "mathematical knowledge and quantitative reasoning are quite different things". So why the fuss?
Speaking on another subject, the authors lament the elementary school mathematics curricula, which is full of useless stuff. That's a hopeless cause, because it doesn't take 6 years to cover basic mathematics. So most of elementary school education is filler and repetition -in all subjects. Junior high school and high school mathematics could be improved though. Not really, but at least in theory. There is nothing in a "pre-algebra" class that anyone needs to do algebra; there's nothing in a "pre-calculus" class that anyone needs to do calculus; and there's nothing in a geometry class that couldn't be memorized in 10 minutes. Ditching those courses would allow school systems to require that all students take a quantitative reasoning course and one year of calculus without placing any more burden on students or budgets. In the meantime, why not design a quantitative reasoning curriculum that could be made available to high school students taking internet or correspondence courses and publishers of homeschooling materials? As for all those students who reach for a calculator when their brain would do just fine... I recommend Isaac Asimov's short story "The Feeling of Power".
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Law and Gender Inequality: The Politics of Women's Rights in India (Law in India)
Flavia Agnes
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Law and Gender Inequality provides an invaluable analysis of the current trends of debate on the Uniform Civil Code located within a highly charged and communically vitiated political scemario and goes on to expose the communal undertones of some of the recent well published judicial
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The emergence of private authority is now a feature of the post-Cold War world. The contributors to this volume examine the implications of the erosion of the state's power in global governance. They analyze financial institutions, multinational corporations, religious terrorists and organized crime operations. Relating directly to debates concerning globalization and the role of international law, this study is of interest to scholars and students of international relations, politics, sociology and law.
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The emergence of private authority has become increasingly a feature of the post-Cold War world. In The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance, leading scholars explore the sources, practices and implications of this erosion of the power of the state. They analyse and compare actors as diverse as financial institutions, multinational corporations, religious terrorists and organised criminals, and assess the potential for reversal of the situation. The themes of the book relate directly to debates concerning globalization and the role of international law, and will be of interest to scholars and students of international relations, politics, sociology and law.
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Governance through private authority: non-state actors in world politics.(Private Authority and International Affairs )(The Emergence of Private Authority ... from: Journal of International Affairs
Tim Buthe
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Governance through Private Authority? Non-State Actors in World Politics.(reviews of two books)(Book Review): An article from: Journal of International Affairs
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Thoreau's Fable of Inscribing
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Early in Thoreau's career, he became obsessed with the problem of getting to be at home in the world. This ambitious book relates that obsession to his way of fostering at-homeness: "inscribing" himself not only through words but through such occupations as the making of books, houses, and tracks in the woods. Frederick Garber reveals that a complex fable endemic in Thoreau and perceptible from his earliest major writings puts inscribing and the quest for at-homeness in terms of a search for a home of homes, a quest that Thoreau realized must be ultimately unsuccessful. Focusing on Thoreau's major works, particularly on A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Garber explores the rich intertextual dialogue arising from this fable and Thoreau's concerns about at-homeness and inscribing. Garber discloses Thoreau's conviction that human lives are radically open-ended, at least in terms of what we can know in the present. All our modes of inscribing are inadequate, even though we can glimpse the possibility of ultimate words and sentences saying all that ever needed to be said.
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Inscribing the Other (Texts and Contexts)
Sander L. Gilman
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Inscribing the Other focuses on great authors who have by birth or choice (or both) found themselves outside the mainstream of their culture but who have still wished to address it: Goethe, Freud, Wilde, Heine, Nietzsche, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, among others. In thirteen probing, provocative essays Sander L. Gilman reinterprets their writing as it reveals their efforts to come to terms with their real or imagined sense of difference.
The chapters treat many themes and problems, ranging widely from the romantic notion of the transcendent artist to the twentieth-century artists-in-exile, and employing the perspectives of psychiatry, aesthetics, photography, politics, and the history of mentalities. The fate of Jewish writers in modern Germany, or of Yiddish writers whose language is devalued in European culture, is explored. The theme of difference and its artistic and intellectual manifestations runs throughout the book, which includes discussions of Goethe's and Wilde's homosexuality, Nietzsche's madness, Heine's refusal to be photographed, and Primo Levi's internment at Auschwitz, as well as an interview with Singer. In a frank autobiographical introduction, Gilman attempts to understand his own writing as an exercise in "inscribing the Other," in dealing with is own sense of difference through artistic creation.
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