StandOut: The Groundbreaking New Strengths Assessment from the Leader of the Strengths Revolution

StandOut: The Groundbreaking New Strengths Assessment from the Leader of the Strengths Revolution
by Marcus Buckingham
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Publication Date: September 13, 2011

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StandOut introduces the next-generation strengths assessment from Marcus Buckingham, co-author of Now, Discover Your Strengths, the book that launched StrengthsFinder.

The product of a massive data set and rigorous statistical testing, the StandOut assessment unveils your two key strength roles and shows you how find your edge and win at work. Where other assessments stop at description, StandOut takes the next step and provides practical advice on what to do to make the most of the strengths you have. Each of the nine possible strength roles is fully delineated in the book, with a wealth of detail, including:

• Where you will be at your most powerful,
• How you can make an immediate impact
• How you can win as a leader, manager, salesperson, or individual contributor.

While the book and assessment are invaluable for people at every level of an organization, StandOut offers new insights and powerful tools specifically designed for managers in the optional Manager's Team Report. This tool gives any manager an overview of her entire team's strengths and provides a "cheat sheet" and coaching guide to help get the best performance from each team member.

Whether you're an individual who wants to find your edge, a manager trying to fully understand the strengths of your team, or a leader in an organization looking to stay on the cutting edge of the strengths movement, you need StandOut. Marcus Buckingham's latest work is essential for anyone who cares about using strengths to win at work.

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You Are a Brand!: How Smart People Brand Themselves for Business Success

You Are a Brand!: How Smart People Brand Themselves for Business Success
Catherine Kaputa (Author)
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If you're seeking new ways to get ahead in a very competitive business world, this book can teach you how to brand yourself as a success.If you're seeking new ways to get ahead in a very competitive business world, this book can teach you how to brand yourself as a success. Read more

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The Great Crash Ahead: Strategies for a World Turned Upside Down

The Great Crash Ahead: Strategies for a World Turned Upside Down
by Harry S. Dent, Rodney Johnson
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Release Date: September 20, 2011

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In his most recent New York Times bestselling book, The Great Depression Ahead, Harry S. Dent, Jr., predicted that the stimulus plan created in response to the first crisis would hit demographic and debt saturation headwinds and ultimately fail. In 2010, the stimulus plan had started to fail, and it was already stalling by the first quarter of 2011. The Great Crash Ahead outlines why the next crash and crisis is inevitable, and just around the corner—coming between 2012 and 2014.

With incisive critical analysis and historical examples, this book lays bare the traditional assumptions of economics. Dent shows that the government doesn’t drive our economy, consumers and businesses do; that the Fed does not create most of the money in our economy, the private banking system does; and that the largest generation in history is now saving for or moving into retirement, meaning slowing growth. This is the new normal! Our banking system borrowed to lend for the first time in history with unprecedented leverage and debt levels of $42 trillion, way beyond the massive government debt. But the government’s promises and unfunded liabilities take the cake, at an estimated $66 trillion and growing!

These massive debts will have to be restructured in a time of slowing spending, and this means a deflationary crisis, which is very different from the inflationary crisis of the 1970s and requires very different personal, investment, and business strategies. Dent and Johnson outline these strategies in very practical detail. In the coming years, the greatest surprise will be that the U.S. dollar becomes the safe haven and appreciates just when everyone is calling for it to crash, while the gold and silver bubbles burst along with the stock and commodity bubbles. And real estate will see another round of declines just when everyone thought it could go no lower. The Great Crash Ahead is about making smart, cautious investments—avoiding the sort of high-risk, high-profit investment schemes that sank the world economy.

The road to recovery will be filled with challenges and will require massive change, such as debt restructuring, plans for greater employment, the restructuring of social welfare programs such as social security and health care, budget cuts, and higher taxes—in short, a revision of the kind of lifestyle that characterized the “Roaring 2000s.” The good news is this process will eliminate tens of trillions of dollars of debt and can make way for growth again as the echo boom generation ascends. Or we can continue on our present course and end up like the Japanese, with no growth and high debt two decades later. Read more

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis (Author)
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The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."—Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair

The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can't pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren't talking.

Michael Lewis creates a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 bestseller Liar's Poker. Out of a handful of unlikely-really unlikely-heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our time.

The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."—Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair

The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can't pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren't talking.

Michael Lewis creates a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 bestseller Liar's Poker. Out of a handful of unlikely-really unlikely-heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our time. Read more

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Financial Management: Theory & Practice (with Thomson ONE - Business School Edition 1-Year Printed Access Card)

Financial Management: Theory & Practice (with Thomson ONE - Business School Edition 1-Year Printed Access Card)
by Eugene F. Brigham, Michael C. Ehrhardt
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Give future and current managers a thorough understanding of the financial theory that is essential for developing and implementing effective financial strategies in business today. Brigham/Ehrhardt's leading Financial Management: Theory and Practice (13th Edition) is the only text that strikes a perfect balance between solid financial theory and practical applications. Readers gain a strong working knowledge of today's changed financial environment as this edition examines recent financial crises, the global economic crisis, and role of finance in the business and students' personal lives. This book's relevant presentation, numerous examples and emphasis on using Excel spreadsheets shows readers how to increase the value of a firm. Integrated practice using Thomson ONE-Business School Edition gives readers hands-on experience using the same research tool Wall Street professionals rely upon daily. This book is both the ideal choice for today's introductory MBA course as well as a valuable reference tool for students throughout their academic and business careers.

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About This Edition

New Features

• Reorganization offers flexible coverage for one-semester or two-semester courses.
  This new edition is reorganized to address key concepts and essential topics within the first 17 chapters, ensuring that students receive the coverage they need whether in a one- or a two-semester course. Later chapters provide more advanced and expanded treatment of topics to build upon earlier material and increase student mastery of concepts.


• The latest examples reflect today's global economic crisis.
  Updated, timely real examples throughout almost every chapter demonstrate the impact of today's financial crisis in all areas of business and life. New "Global Economic Crisis" boxes in many chapters highlight specific finance issues related to the crisis.


• Chapter opening graphics emphasize the big picture for students.
  New, informative graphics at the beginning of each chapter clearly illustrate how the chapter's topics and concepts fit into the overall financial framework.


• Excel tool kits, now integrated with the text, ensure student spreadsheet proficiency.
  The authors have created Excel Tool Kits for each chapter to enhance student proficiency with spreadsheets. Tool Kit models, available as self-taught tutorials through the book's website, detail many of the features and functions of Excel. In this edition, actual screen captures from the Excel Tool Kit models appear within the text, allowing students to clearly and more closely follow the models in analysis.


• Aplia finance saves time and supports interactive learning.
  Today's fastest-growing interactive online homework management system, Aplia engages students in course concepts, ensures that they practice on a regular basis, and helps them prepare for finance with a series of tutorials. Problem sets specific to this edition provide instant grades and detailed feedback. Students have the opportunity to learn from and improve with every question.

Additional Features

• Professional power of Thomson ONE - Business School Edition lets students work with actual financial tools.
  Now students can complete financial research and analysis using the same tool that professional brokers and Wall Street analysts trust every day--Thomson ONE - Business School Edition online database. Educators and students have instant access to leading financial data sources, including Thomson Financial, Worldscope, SEC Disclosure, First Call, Datastream and more. Corresponding Thomson ONE problems in most chapters in the text enable valuable practice.


• End-of-chapter spreadsheet problems guide students through building a model.
  Partially completed, end-of-chapter spreadsheets contain financial data and instructions on how to "build a model." This structure guides the student through the problem, minimizes unnecessary typing and data entry, and makes it easy to grade the work because all student answers appear in the same location on the spreadsheet.


• Unmatched author expertise ensures a clear, contemporary approach.
  This premier authorship team combines the extensive teaching background and more than 30 years of text writing experience of Dr. Gene Brigham with the contemporary scholarship and practical, professional expertise of Dr. Mike Ehrhardt. Together, these authors deliver a consistent, accurate, and innovative approach that will keep students first in finance.


• Practical application of theory and trends highlights the role of finance today.
  The authors clearly illustrate the application of concepts and theories throughout the book's proven presentation, wealth of actual business examples, thought-provoking problem sets, and integrated mini-cases. Comprehensive mini-cases at the end of each chapter further demonstrate applications with corresponding PowerPoint slides and spreadsheets as well as solutions on the Instructor's password-protected website.


• A multidisciplinary approach demonstrates how finance affects all areas of business.
  The authors interweave various subjects throughout the text discussion to clearly demonstrate how business impacts finance and how all areas of business are affected by finance.


• Early coverage of financial statements establishes a strong context for the concepts that follow.
  Presenting financial statements early within the text provides a clear picture of what financial management is all about. Students understand how the effects of financial decisions are shared throughout the firm. Early introductions to risk analysis, discounted cash flow techniques, valuation procedures, and EVA/MVA allows the authors to use and reinforce these key concepts throughout the book.

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Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
by Sylvia Nasar
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In a sweeping narrative, the author of the megabestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. It’s the epic story of the making of modern economics, and of how economics rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands rather than in Fate.

Nasar’s account begins with Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew observing and publishing the condition of the poor majority in mid-nineteenth-century London, the richest and most glittering place in the world. This was a new pursuit. She describes the often heroic efforts of Marx, Engels, Alfred Marshall, Beatrice and Sydney Webb, and the American Irving Fisher to put those insights into action—with revolutionary consequences for the world.

From the great John Maynard Keynes to Schumpeter, Hayek, Keynes’s disciple Joan Robinson, the influential American economists Paul Samuelson and Milton Freedman, and India’s Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, she shows how the insights of these activist thinkers transformed the world—from one city, London, to the developed nations in Europe and America, and now to the entire planet. In Nasar’s dramatic narrative of these discoverers we witness men and women responding to personal crises, world wars, revolutions, economic upheavals, and each other’s ideas to turn back Malthus and transform the dismal science into a triumph over mankind’s hitherto age-old destiny of misery and early death. This idea, unimaginable less than 200 years ago, is a story of trial and error, but ultimately transcendent, as it is rendered here in a stunning and moving narrative. Read more

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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
by Michael Lewis
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Publication Date: October 3, 2011

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As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge.

Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a piñata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish.

Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations. Read more

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