Leverage Competencies: What Financial Executives Need to Lead

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Financial leaders can no longer succeed on financial skills alone: "soft" leadership skills are now crucial to success. Leverage Competencies shows how eight great companies are helping their financial managers become outstanding business leaders. Discove

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GK INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series)
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Are the combined human resources at GK INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, INC. productive? There is no absolute answer to this question. This report considers the extent to which the company's labor deployment indicators differ from global benchmarks. In this report we consider forecasts of differences between labor ratios and the resulting return on this human investment compared to global benchmarks; the estimation of such differences is commonly called a "gap analysis." What is the ratio of short-term and long-term assets to employee? What are typical capital-labor ratios? How different are these ratios to companies serving the same link in the value chain? What are the average sales and net profits per employee compared to global benchmarks? These and over 50 other indicators of labor productivity are considered in this report. The report does so by going beyond traditional analyses by considering companies competing in the same or similar industrial classification at a global level. The goal of this report, therefore, is to assist consultants, human resource managers, strategic planners, and corporate officers in gauging estimates of a company's human resource indicators compared to firms competing or participating in the same economic sector, at the global level. This report is not about whether a particular company or industry has performed well or poorly in the past or will do so in the future. With the globalization of markets, greater foreign competition, and the reduction of entry barriers, it becomes all the more important to benchmark a company's human resource indicators against other firms on a worldwide basis. Doing so, however, is not an obvious task. First, one needs to find firms competing in the same sector, but not necessarily competing directly with the company in local markets. These firms should not be perceived, therefore, to be direct competitors to the company in question, but simply those that have been classified by various sources (e.g. EDGAR or similar foreign filings), as competing to serve customers in the same link of the value chain, or broad industrial classification, as identified by SIC, NAICS or similar codes. Second, given the international nature of the task, one needs to control for exchange rate volatility. Finally, one needs use comparable financial standards. This report overcomes these issues and gives full human resources benchmarks vis-a-vis worldwide competitors who are present in the same narrow industrial classification. Benchmarks cover labor-asset ratios, labor-liability ratios, and labor-income ratios. Since our reports are printed on demand, the statistics reported are for the latest quarter and are the most up to date available (4 updates are produced each year). Each report provides over 100 statistics and 40 graphs to the reader. This reports is on GK INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, INC., HOUSTON, USA.

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS CORP.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series)

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INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS CORP.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series)
Icon Group Ltd.
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The goal of this report is to assist managers in gauging a company's financial performance vis-a-vis firms competing in the same sector, at the global level. In particular, this report covers INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS CORP., NORCROSS, USA. With the globalization of markets, greater foreign competition, and the reduction of entry barriers, it becomes all the more important to benchmark a company's performance against other firms on a worldwide basis. Doing so, however, is not an obvious task. First, one needs to find firms competing in the same sector. Second, one needs to control for exchange rate volatility. Finally, one needs to use comparable financial standards. This report overcomes these issues and gives full financial benchmarks vis-a-vis worldwide competitors who are present in the same narrow industrial classification. Benchmarks cover assets, liabilities, income and ratios. Since our reports are printed on demand, the statistics reported are for the latest quarter and are the most up to date available (4 reports are produced each year). Each report provides over 100 statistics and 40 graphs to the reader.

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS CORP.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis (Labor Productivity Series)

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INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS CORP.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis (Labor Productivity Series)
Icon Group Ltd.
Manufacturer: Icon Group International, Inc.
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Binding: Ring-bound
ASIN: 0597331464

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This book is designed for human resources managers and directors of personnel who are concerned with labor productivity. It gives benchmarks and gap analyses used to gauge a company's performance vis-a-vis firms competing firms in the same sector, at the global level. In particular, this report covers INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS CORP., NORCROSS, USA. With the globalization of markets, greater foreign competition, and the reduction of entry barriers, it becomes all the more important to benchmark a company's performance against other firms on a worldwide basis. Doing so, however, is not an obvious task. First, one needs to find firms competing in the same sector. Second, one needs to control for exchange rate volatility. Finally, one needs to use comparable financial standards. This report overcomes these issues and gives full human resources benchmarks vis-a-vis worldwide competitors who are present in the same narrow industrial classification. Benchmarks cover labor-asset ratios, labor-liability ratios, and labor-income ratios. Since our reports are printed on demand, the statistics reported are for the latest quarter and are the most up to date available (4 updates are produced each year). Each report provides over 100 statistics and 40 graphs to the reader.

Intelligent Systems and Financial Forecasting

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A good book for researchers.
Good exposition of AI and a financial application

Intelligent Systems and Financial Forecasting
Jason Kingdon
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag Telos
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A good book for researchers........1998-05-04

This is a good book, but potential buyers should realize that it is aimed at researchers, not traders. It would take considerable work to rediscover the successful neural net discussed in the book, and there is no guarantee that the net would do well in real trading because the author does not seem to have taken slippage and commissions into account.

Good exposition of AI and a financial application.......1997-10-04

This book contains a number of new and interesting insights into the application of neural networks and genetic algorithms for finance. The idea of using "network regression pruning" looks extremely powerful and it would be very interesting to see this compared with other network pruning techniques. An aspect also worth highlighting is the detailed treatment of the financial experiments which appear to have been conducted in a rigorous and careful manner. I have attended many seminars and talks in which the experimentation for financial applications has been extremely poor. In many instances there is a failure to establish objective test criteria. In this work a single test run on ten years' worth of data is conducted and the algorithm performs well, contradicting all forms of the efficient market hypothesis. The level of detail also allows the reader to reconstruct the algorithm and methods for their own use. Other books on this subject should be as clear and as open.

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on November 1, 1994. The length of the article is 2831 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Are we asking the right questions? (research pertaining to advance directives) (Advance Care Planning: Priorities for Ethical and Empirical Research)(Special Supplement)
Author: Robert Allan Pearlman
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1994
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v24 Issue: n6 Page: pS24(4)

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Are you asking applicants the right questions? When screening job applicants, sometimes it's easier to know what you don't want. Look for these red flags ... An article from: Security Management

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Are you asking applicants the right questions? When screening job applicants, sometimes it's easier to know what you don't want. Look for these red flags ... An article from: Security Management
Martin G. Enterlin
Manufacturer: American Society for Industrial Security
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This digital document is an article from Security Management, published by American Society for Industrial Security on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1679 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Are you asking applicants the right questions? When screening job applicants, sometimes it's easier to know what you don't want. Look for these red flags of problem candidates. (Viewpoint).
Author: Martin G. Enterlin
Publication: Security Management (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2002
Publisher: American Society for Industrial Security
Volume: 46 Issue: 10 Page: 134(2)

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Asking questions to get cost-effective service. (long-distance telephone services) (Special Report: Telecommunications): An article from: San Diego Business Journal

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Asking questions to get cost-effective service. (long-distance telephone services) (Special Report: Telecommunications): An article from: San Diego Business Journal
Peter A. Howley
Manufacturer: CBJ, L.P.
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This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on October 18, 1993. The length of the article is 1122 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Asking questions to get cost-effective service. (long-distance telephone services) (Special Report: Telecommunications)
Author: Peter A. Howley
Publication: San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 18, 1993
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: v14 Issue: n42 Page: p25(2)

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Asking the hard questions: interviewing and interrogation require often overlapping, but sometimes markedly different, approaches.: An article from: Security Management

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Asking the hard questions: interviewing and interrogation require often overlapping, but sometimes markedly different, approaches.: An article from: Security Management
Edward McDonough
Manufacturer: American Society for Industrial Security
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This digital document is an article from Security Management, published by American Society for Industrial Security on July 1, 2005. The length of the article is 4780 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Asking the hard questions: interviewing and interrogation require often overlapping, but sometimes markedly different, approaches.
Author: Edward McDonough
Publication: Security Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
Publisher: American Society for Industrial Security
Volume: 49 Issue: 7 Page: 85(7)

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Children who claim to remember a previous life have been found in many parts of the world, particularly in the Buddhist and Hindu countries of South Asia, among the Shiite peoples of Lebanon and Turkey, the tribes of West Africa, and the American northwest. Stevenson has collected over 2,600 reported cases of past-life memories of which 65 detailed reports have been published. Specific information from the children's memories has been collected and matched with the data of their former identity, family, residence, and manner of death. Birthmarks or other physiological manifestations have been found to relate to experiences of the remembered past life, particularly violent death. Writing as a specialist in psychiatry and as a world-renowned scientific investigator of reported paranormal events, Stevenson asks us to suspend our Western tendencies to disbelieve in "reincarnation" and consider the reality of the burgeoning record of cases now available. This book summarizes Stevenson's findings which are presented in full in the multi-volume work entitled. Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects, also published by Praeger.

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A mix of good and bad stuff.......2004-06-05

This is definitely NOT the best book from dr. Ian Stevenson. The author has lost his skepticism and most of his scientific impartiality. The majority of cases included in this book lacks strong evidence sugestive of reincarnation, with the exception of a few very good cases. Because of these good cases, the book is still worth its value, but overall it is not a great work. "Children who remember previous lives" is a much better book from the same author.

Reincarnation enters academia.......2002-06-15

Ian Stevensons book is a superb scientific exploration into the generally more esoteric realm of reincarnation. He has collected over 2600 reported cases of past-life memories of which 65 detailed reports have been published. It is correct, as one reviewer claims, that these reported cases are primarily from Buddhist, Hindu, African or Native American cultures where such phenomenons are more widely accepted than in the West. But this is natural, says Stevenson, as these cultures more openly will allow a child to speak about a previous life without being disbelieved or rebuked as they may be in the Christian West. Young children are very impressionable and will generally suppress whatever his or her parent or the culture does not permit them to believe in. Thus, it is reasonable to assume that there will be more such claims in these non-Western cultures to conduct such studies. One cannot accuse Stevenson of not following a scientific approach (instrumental injunction, direct apprehension, communal confirmation), his book brims with extremly detailed reports from children whose memories have been carefully collected and matched with the data of their former identity, profession, residence, and the way they died. If this is not believable science, what is? If reincarnation is a new concept to you, read and judge for yourself. If you already believe in reincarnation, read and get more rational reason to state your case.

Interesting but . . ........2002-02-21

This is an interesting book. Much of it dove-tails with what Rabbi Yonassan Gershom has written about those who died during the Holocaust and have been reborn as blond haired-blue eyed Gentiles. Except that Dr. Stevenson's cases seem to lose their memories of the events in their previous lives at about age 7 or 8 and Rabbi Gershom's cases seem to be forever haunted by their experiences. One other thing I found disturbing about Dr. Stevenson's work is that the majority of his cases are from India, Burma, and Thailand, where reincarnation has been acceptable many centuries longer than it has been acceptable in our Western culture. It makes it much easier to doubt his cases than if the majority of his cases were from a culture that was less accedpting of the theory.

Another winner from Dr. Stevenson.......1999-01-27

This is basically the "Reader's Digest" version of a much longer, more technical work. Thus, the descriptions of some of the cases are very sketchy. Nevertheless, Stevenson's reputation is impeccable after something like 40 years in this field, and you can be pretty confident that he isn't seriously skewing the facts. He seems to be more up-front than in earlier works in acknowledging that reincarnation is really the only plausible explanation for many of these cases. The book focuses primarily on cases where birthmarks and other physical anomalies match up with injuries suffered in the prior life. The book is well-illustrated with photographs, and some of the cases are truly weird. Put this book together with something like his Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation, and your theology will be sorely challenged if it denies the reality of reincarnation.

Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect

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Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect
Ian Stevenson
Manufacturer: Praeger Paperback
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORO76C

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This book contains contributions written by the world-leading scientists in high-resolution laser spectroscopy, quantum optics and laser physics. Emphasis is placed on precision related to results in a variety of fields, such as atomic clocks, frequency standards, and the measurement of physical constants in atomic physics. Furthermore, illustrations and engineering applications of the fundamentals of quantum mechanics are widely covered. It has contributions by Nobel prize winners Norman F. Ramsey and Steven Chu, and is dedicated to Theodor W. Hänsch on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

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Not exactly your London Tourist Guide

Stay away from this book.

A dark delight!

Quirky characters and plot

London Calling

Bleeding London
Geoff Nicholson
Manufacturer: Overlook Hardcover
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Binding: Hardcover

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Not exactly your London Tourist Guide.......2005-02-05

If you haven't visited London as yet (and you certainly should), chances are you might put off your trip if you were relying solely on this book as your travel advisory.

London through Nicholson's pen is a dark depressing place, where things are much smaller than your monopoly set would have you think (even though that's partly true), people do very strange things in public (and also in private), and tourists live for walking tours of the city.

Beginning with an attempted mugging and working backwards, the plot starts off pretty well. The first three chapters introduce three very different characters, all doing something interesting, but then it kind of slides downhill, as the characters weaknesses are harshly exposed.

One is a half-way decent bloke, on a mission to salvage the honor of his girlfriend, who happens to be a stripper. Two is a kinky map seller with Japanese roots, who's plotting a map project of her own, and is a tad mentally confused. Three is a married man, who walks for a living, and decides to extend his occupation into a hobby.

Inevitably, these three have to connect in one way or the other, but Nicholson's style is not to make things believable, and sometimes he hits and sometimes he doesn't.

This is London from the cheap seats, and a bleeding lot of words that ultimately say very little.

"Footsucker" may have had a cheesy plot, but "London" rambles to an ending that comes out of nowhere and leaves you there.

Amanda Richards, February 5, 2005

Stay away from this book........2001-05-19

I was attracted to this book by a magazine's reference to it as a book capturing the feel of London. Nah. What a waste. Dumb and dry fiction with cardboard characters shuffled chaotically by the pretending but never delivering author.

Like the main hero's plan to visit each and every London's street this book idea may have sounded cool, but the book itself plain and unfunny.

The only laughing matter here is author's constant helpless trying to imitate Martin Amis-style cool wit. It never ever comes close to it, being barely amusing at its best.

Half a star for the good title. Let it be the only part you happen to read.

A dark delight!.......2001-02-13

Bleeding London is one of the quirkiest, darkest and funniest novels I have ever read! (That says a lot, for I have read thousands of novels.) It focuses on various characters whose experiences in London are both sinister and funny. Mick, Judy and Stuart are quite different, but are somehow brought together in strange ways. They all have a different take on London -- Londoners feeling foreign in their natural habitat while out-of-towners see it as an exciting and daring challenge.

Nicholson does a great job with the description of a big city. As a New York City native, I am able to identify with the story line and the dark message the author is sending. The backdrop of London is different from all of the other British novels I have read -- it shows a more realistic view of the city.

Thought provoking and darkly funny, Bleeding London should be read by those who enjoy a unique literary experience.

Quirky characters and plot.......2000-04-19

I really enjoyed this book and loved learning about the sides of a great city that I didn't know about...very entertaining.

London Calling.......2000-02-09

This wonderful novel is ideally enjoyed while living in or visiting London, seeing as how the city is a central character in it. With his typical offbeat humor, Nicholson weaves together the lives and stories of three of its denizens. Stuart is the owner of a company that does walking tours of London; burned out, he has decided to walk every single street in London in a quest for fulfillment and meaning. Julie is a native Londoner, although half-Japanese and thus is constantly being forced to prove herself a native. She keeps detailed maps of the locations of all her sexual encounters, as well as those of her partners. Mick is a Sheffielder whose stripper girlfriend was gang-raped by six well-to-do Londoners. He's come down to the unfamiliar city he hates in order to mete out some revenge. Both these and the supporting cast are wonderfully drawn characters, their paths through London are a treat.

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Bleeding London
Geoff Nicholson
Manufacturer: Overlook Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NSKH1G

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