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Why, despite all the mentoring programs, executive training seminars, working women's networks, and other initiatives, are professional women still not where they want to be? Why are many women stereotyped as less effective than men?
Why are they frequently less visible? Is there really a set of unwritten "rules of the game" that women just don't know about? What can a woman manager do to avoid being stereotyped and to develop and showcase her skills and competencies, thereby gaining parity with men?
In an attempt to answer those questions, Fortune 500 consultants Dr. Donna Brooks and Lynn Brooks undertook a landmark research project involving hundreds of executives and managers, of both sexes, at many of the world's leading companies. In Ten Secrets of Successful Men That Women Want to Know, the authors take you behind the facade of corporate political correctness to reveal how women in the workplace are really perceivedæand how those perceptions (or misperceptions) continue to keep many talented women from the success they deserve.
Contrary to what many women believe, making it in the corporate world is as much about knowing how to "work" the organizational culture as it is about doing a superlative job. Working from their findings, Donna and Lynn Brooks have developed a set of ten powerful strategies that you can use to gain the skills and competencies that successful leaders draw on. Among other important lessons you'll learn are how to change stereotypes and gain visibility by cultivating a network, ways to develop a personal brand, and how to create a professional portfolio. You'll also discover the value of finding mentors who'll show you the ropes and advocates who'll champion your cause. And you'll uncover strategies for advertising your skills and accomplishments and for recognizing opportunities for advancement and seizing them.
And throughout Ten Secrets you'll encounter many eye-opening true-life experiences of successful leaders who learned the "rules of the game" the hard way, and who, throughout the book, share their observations on the kinds of challenges facing ambitious women in the corporate, nonprofit, and government sectors. You'll also read surprisingly candid comments by executives who reveal what they really think about women and men in the workplacewhy they succeed and why they don't, their fundamental strengths and weaknesses, and how women can best capitalize on their strengths.
The first book to reveal how men think differently about success and what women need to do differently to move up the ladder, Ten Secrets of Successful Men That Women Want to Know is must-reading for women managers at every stage of their careers.
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Fantastic book with valuable insight........2006-12-14
After my wife read this book, I decided to read it as well because she said the book was filled with valuable information. I can honestly say she was right. I recommend that all women who are interested in being highly successful in business and life read this terrific book. The information is valuable to BOTH men and women and I strongly recommend this purchase. The price is well worth it. As a corporate sales manager, I have purchased the books as a training aid for my entire sales force.
Great Info - Not Just for Women.......2002-06-13
A friend of mine (a woman) suggested that I take a look this book. I was skeptical at first because of the title, but I found that many of the strategies detailed in the book were just as applicable for men as for women. I was especially interested in the chapters on developing key leadership skills, building effective networks and communication. The many quotes and insights/experiences from CEOs and other senior executives were helpful to put the topics of the book into perspective - great for comparing notes. I plan to share the book with both my male and female colleagues.
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- Which is worse...the book or the class Dr. Sheldon taught?
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This original text on the basics of option pricing is accessible to readers with limited mathematical training. It is for both professional traders and undergraduates studying the basics of finance. Assuming no prior knowledge of probability, Sheldon Ross offers clear, simple explanations of arbitrage, the Black-Scholes option pricing formula, and other topics such as utility functions, optimal portfolio selections, and the capital assets pricing model. Among the many new features of this second edition are: a new chapter on optimization methods in finance, a new section on Value at Risk and Conditional Value at Risk; a new and simplified derivation of the Black-Scholes equation, together with derivations of the partial derivatives of the Black-Scholes option cost function and of the computational Black-Scholes formula; three different models of European call options with dividends; a new, easily implemented method for estimating the volatility parameter. Sheldon M. Ross is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University in 1968 and has been at Berkeley ever since. He has published nearly 100 articles and a variety of textbooks in the areas of statistics and applied probability including Topics in Finite and Discrete Mathematics (Cambridge University Press, 2000), An Introduction to Probability Methods, Seventh Edition (Harcourt Science snd Technology Company, 2000), Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists (Academic Press, 1999), A First Course in Probability, Sixth Edition (Prentice-Hall, 2001), Simulation, Third Edition (Academic Press, 2002), and Stochastic Processes (John Wiley & Sons, 1982). He is the founding and continuing editor of the journal Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a recipient of the Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist Award.
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This original text on the basics of option pricing is accessible to readers with limited mathematical training. It is for both professional traders and undergraduates studying the basics of finance. Assuming no prior knowledge of probability, Sheldon Ross offers clear, simple explanations of arbitrage, the Black-Scholes option pricing formula, and other topics such as utility functions, optimal portfolio selections, and the capital assets pricing model. Among the many new features of this second edition are: a new chapter on optimization methods in finance, a new section on Value at Risk and Conditional Value at Risk; a new and simplified derivation of the Black-Scholes equation, together with derivations of the partial derivatives of the Black-Scholes option cost function and of the computational Black-Scholes formula; three different models of European call options with dividends; a new, easily implemented method for estimating the volatility parameter. Sheldon M. Ross is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University in 1968 and has been at Berkeley ever since. He has published nearly 100 articles and a variety of textbooks in the areas of statistics and applied probability including Topics in Finite and Discrete Mathematics (Cambridge University Press, 2000), An Introduction to Probability Methods, Seventh Edition (Harcourt Science snd Technology Company, 2000), Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists (Academic Press, 1999), A First Course in Probability, Sixth Edition (Prentice-Hall, 2001), Simulation, Third Edition (Academic Press, 2002), and Stochastic Processes (John Wiley & Sons, 1982). He is the founding and continuing editor of the journal Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a recipient of the Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist Award.
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"Introductory" for a math major.......2007-09-15
This is an introductory book on modern options pricing mathematics, for math major types. If you don't have good knowledge of calculus you won't understand the formulas in the book. The early chapter on probability theory is basic, but there is a big jump from this chapter to the material in the rest of the book. I don't believe someone without a strong math or physics background would understand the chapter on Brownian motion. There are also no solutions given to the end-of-chapter exercises. If you are a math or engineering grad student, you would probably find this book light reading. If you are not, this is not the book for you.
financial engineering.......2006-11-14
Another good book from Dr. Sheldon Ross. Beginning with basic probability, discusses the concepts of options, Arbitrage, Black-Scholes equation, Geometric Brownian Motion, Utility values, Dynamic Programming etc in a very easy-to-understand manner. This is a very good book for an intro to financial engineering.
It is a wonderful book........2005-12-01
Does anybody know whether the book has a students' manual or solutions to the exercises of each chapter.
Which is worse...the book or the class Dr. Sheldon taught?.......2005-08-05
I was unfortunate to have taken Dr. Ross's graduate level class. He taught directly from his book which was not an elementary introduction to mathmatical finance. If you do not have a strong background in finance or math....buy another book.
Its easy to read!.......2003-07-17
This is a pretty good book for whom doesn't have strong background in financial engeering. It begins from probability and I think this is a very good point to start. On the other hand, you also can know the where the formula comes from because the author use a small space to explain it. It is pretty funny!
One problem, this book doesnot cover all of the importnat topics such as Ito calculus but it is still a good book.
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This mathematically elementary introduction to the theory of options pricing presents the Black–Scholes theory of options as well as introducing such topics in finance as the time value of money, mean variance analysis, optimal portfolio selection, and the capital assets pricing model. The author assumes no prior knowledge of probability and presents all the necessary preliminary material simply and clearly. He explains the concept of arbitrage with examples, and then uses the arbitrage theorem, along with an approximation of geometric Brownian motion, to obtain a simple derivation of the Black-Scholes formula. In the later chapters he presents real price data indicating that this model is not always appropriate and shows how the model can be generalized to deal with such situations. No other text presents such topics in a mathematically accurate but accessible way. It will appeal to professional traders as well as undergraduates studying the basics of finance.
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Change the title to gain 5 stars.......2001-02-17
I somewhat agree and disagree with other reviewers. The assumption of this book is "this book aims to people who has no background in probability, normal random, and geometric Brownian motion". Therefore, this book is suitable for managers, business students or CFO who want to get their first book in stochastic finance. This book serves its purpose in that regard -compiling all basics and introductory issues in concise book. However, owning to the author's reputation and the title of the book, this book may distract your understanding before purchasing. Prof. Ross wrote several serious math book and many great stochastic books. So readers may expect more from this book. I'm quite happy to see Ross wrote a simple book for every one as well as the hard-core mathematics books for someone. Also, the title is somewhat distort the real meaning of this book. This book should have the title as "Mathematical Finance for Managers" or "Mathematical Finance for Business", which are more suitable. For both agree and disagree in some contents, I rate this book for 3 stars and which to see similar works to this book from Ross.
Too simple for mathematicians, too complex for laypersons.......2001-02-16
The level of mathematical maturity in the book is not well thought out. The book is simplistic to anyone with mathematical exposure to probability models but too complex for the non-mathematician to follow.
excellent book for non-mathematician.......2000-06-22
This book is very simple for mathematical students,but it is well tailored for non-mathematical students or practitioners. It presents arbitrage theorem and the proof of the theorem in different ways of approaches,so it is good one for readers to gasp the idea from different perspetive.
Good but too simple.......1999-10-21
After reading Stochastic Processes which is a very good I was very pleased when I saw a new book about option pricing from Ross, but I am quite disapointed because the technical level is too low and I expected much better from professor Ross.
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Necturus -- Oh how I wish there was more info on these.......2000-05-14
I found the book of the utmost help with my studies of the anatomy of the necturus. After all, how many of us can actually say we have seen a necturus, let alone study its anatomy?
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Sholokhov's book introduces the reader to a New World that is not merely the Don Region, but the world of the author's inimitably poetic prose; giving fifteen years of his life to the creation of And Quiet Flows the Don. He began the first book at the age of twenty, in 1926. The last was finished in 1940. While Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace (1863-69) immortalized the Napoleonic campaigns to the eve of the Decembrist revolt, And Quiet Flows the Don showed the destruction of the Cossacks and the birth of a new society.
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Sholokhov has moment of incandescent literary brilliance.......2007-08-26
Sholokhov is no Tolstoy (as Gorki attempts to equate thuis work to War and Peace).
The Garry translation is no Maude (Tolstoy) translation equivalent.
In this opinion the long sprawling vicious and lustful affair of Gregor and Aksina, --reckless, rollicking and tragic though it was does not approach the depth and meaning of the affair of Bunchuk and Anna--the young ardent revolutionary. The GREAT tragedy in this book is their love affair, the primal. visceral, elemental love of Bunchuk for Anna and the horror of his stunned self negating nether world of mourning, Nothing in the book equals the strength of that narrative in this opinion--and there, the author walked with the greatest of the great Russian Authors despite the Stalionist stench that permeates the attempt at poetry and philosophical substance in the idealistic musings of young Anna.
A brutal book to say the least. I think the character dialogues are the best parts of this book and I think the author should have attempted a play here and there--perhaps approaching Chekov. What was missing from this book? ---That was a scene that one thought was definitely going to happen And that was a final visit to the general's mansion by Gregor. You may say he delt with that in the final and rough hewn leaving of a desperate Aksina--I think not because she was ever on his mind even in pitched battles or their aftermath. NOT his wife--always Aksina. The general's 8000 acres and his Czarist officer son whom Gregor beat up---should have played into the end of this novel----perhaps the sequel may have it, but it surely was missing here.
There was symbolic mood coloring in pastoral and animal discriptions- and how this author loves the color 'lilac'.
A Good read, I hope the sequel is as good----BUT the author was a revered commie---and sooner or latre the party line finds its way in to Soviet era literature--
Insight into Russian history by a Nobel Prize - winner.......2005-06-18
I am glad to see "And Quiet Flows the Don" is back in print! Sholokhov won the Nobel Prize for this novel of war and revolution among the Don Cossack host. Although painted across a backdrop of history, it is primarily the love story of Gregor and Aksinya. As much of great 20th century Russian literature, the style harks back to Tolstoy, but the subject matter is undeniably Soviet. Published in 1929, "And Quiet Flows the Don" was the pinnacle of Sholokhov's career. He never again produced a work to compare, although to be fair to him, his career coincided with the height of Stalinist conformity in the arts. This was an era when simply being a famous writer was dangerous - think of the careers of Pasternak, Babel, and Pilnyak. If Sholokhov descended into the role of a party hack churning out the obligatory Socialist Realist pap, at least he lived to a ripe old age!
Mixed reaction.......2004-04-11
A story about village Cossacks who lived through the first world war, followed by the Russian Revolution, it seems to be modeled upon War and Peace. Despite very negative presentations of women and some Sovietized propaganda throughout, it does provide a view of the Cossack life and culture. However, once the wars begin, the book gets carried away with battle, and the threads of lives introduced at the beginning aren't wrapped up at the end, leaving the reader feeling unfulfilled.
A modern masterpiece.......2003-12-19
I first read this magnificent epic in 1970 and have reread it at least three times since. Sholokhov captures the breath and sweep of the steppes of Russia as he draws the reader into maelstrom of the First World War, the Russian Revolution and Civil War. It is a time and a land that was caught between the modern industrialized West and the near medieval Russia- Cossack Calvary charging German machine guns, the slash of sabers, and the incongruity of machine guns mounted on ox carts.
But more than a story of war, this is a story of people. Sholokhov creates for us characters who we deeply care about. The doomed love affair between the protagonist Gregor and Aksinia is both filled with passion and heartache. We even come to care about Akisina husband, the brutal Stephen, We see them caught up in catastrophic events far beyond their control. Although often cited and an apologist for Stalin, I wondered as I read it why it was published in Soviet Union. Our hero Gregor is first swept up on one side of this conflict to the other- clearly he is not a dedicated revolutionary, but just a man trying to survive in a conflict he cannot comprehend. It is a story of survival, love, and revenge. Since my last reading of this novel probably fifteen years ago, I can still vividly picture in my mind the word images that Sholokhov crafted with his pen. Images as simple as the flies settling on the ceiling of the peasants hut, to Stephen brutally stomping his wife Aksinia. His description of the First World War is brutal, perhaps surpassing Remarques All is Quiet on the Western Front.
Russians write great novels and this is one of the best. If you are unfamiliar with Russian literature you would do well to read Quiet Flows the Don as your first Russian novel.
A vivid and involving epic.......2003-10-03
I have read this book more than 5 years prior to writing this review, but I have yet to read an epic that has as lasting an impression as this one. The author, a humanist to the core, gently weaves the scenes over the myriad of characters. The reader is pulled into the scenes - he doesn't remain a reader. It has a raw, fresh appeal to it, even now. Need I go on?
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A historic classic.......2005-11-12
In the same league as "A tale of two cities". A great story set in the backdrop of the Cossack life during the most turbulent times in Russia. In four volumes, this great romantic work will keep you absorbed till the very end...
Breathtaking.......2004-09-16
With this book Sholokov has created an absolute masterpiece that not only vividly recreates the world of the Don Cossacks, but slowly, agonizingly, shows how the Great War and the subsequent Civil Wars savaged that world, leaving nothing untouched. Amazingly for a book written during Soviet times, it slips the stink of propoganda: the Cossacks, sometimes choosing sides arbitrarily, massacres each other with numbing disregard for ideology. Sholokov couples the tragic sweep of events with a artist's eye for detail, loving recreating the pastoral pre-War Eden, and soberly describing the smoking ruins that envelope it. Perhaps the book becomes slightly overlong in the second volume, but that is a small price to pay for something so splendid.
First complete edition in English.......2003-12-06
Sholokhov's mighty work came out in English in the early 1950s if I recall; it may have been late 1940s. The translation was incomplete and the title was "And Quiet Flows the Don". A sequel came out under the title, "The Don flows Home to the Sea", both published by Wishart and Lawrence, a UK publisher with the courage to sponsor such works. Neither volume I now learn reflected accurately what Sholokhov wrote.
When the 1996 translation appeared, brilliantly executed and edited, I snapped it up immediately and also sent a copy to a former spouse in Europe. I read Sholokhov's first work as a teenager and still recall the inability to put the book down as well as being emotionally shocked at several sections of the narrative.
I came across this page in seeking any book by Professor Murphy since he has written extensively on the Cossacks and Sholokhov; re-reading the book raises my curiosity to learn more about that region of the former USSR and its inhabitants. I take the opportunity to recommend a rattling good read that provides an inside view of life in the pre-revolutionary Don basin and a rather well balanced view of the revolution and the civil war. Yes, yes, the hero Stokman is a little too upright and heroic as a communist and yes, the kulak/capitalist Molkhov a little too villainous... but these were small pecadillos when the book was written. If the model of Stokman was intended to inspire readers, they could have had far worse models!
The work did not earn the author the Nobel literature prize for nothing!
Schlock.......2002-06-14
Awful commie propaganda. Slanderous portraits of Liberals and of the Whites in the civil war. Wafer-thin characters all around, from decadent blood-sucking nobles to gooey warm camaraderie amongst their "class enemies." Read Tolstoy instead. Life is too short.
The epic story of the Cossacks in a Nobel winning novel.......1999-11-05
Certainly a masterpiece, spellbinding for 1300 pp., I happened on this amazing book as a remainder at The Strand in New York. Difficulty keeping the generals apart and whose side they were on, but a captivating story that has led me to learn to read and write Russian with hopes of living there/studying there. I had been a fan of Russian poetry for a while, esp Ahkmatova, but this is really simply an unbelievable story. Would be interested in reading more about World War I and this part of the world. Read The Guns of August and now need to read the equivalent for this area. Your suggestions are encouraged.
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How to Say It For Women: Communicating with Confidence and Power Using the Language of Success
Hardball for Women: Rev. Ed.
