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Flower, Raymond: Year of the Tiger. The Raffles Centenary
Book Number: 28269
Raffels Hotel. Times. n.d. 4to hardcover 63pp, b/w illus. inscribed by author. very good+ / very good+ d/w.
Keywords: Year of the Tiger Flower Raymond raffles hotel singapore sling
Price: $18.00 |
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Ridderstrale, Jonas.: Funky business : talent makes capital dance
Book Number: 28467
London BookHouse Publishing 2000 8vo softcover pp b/w illus. very good. "Funky Business is a better book than most novels but it is not for bedtime. It will jerk you out of your complacency and make you question your very existence. It will transform your brain." - Customer Management "... the duo launch into a poweful critique of new business realities. This is not what business people learned at Harvard Business School." "The launch of their book, Funky Business, may mark Nordstrum and Ridderstrale's promotion to the major guru league."nn Move it. In 1995, 1000 new soft drinks were launched on the Japanese market. A year later, 1% of them were still for sale. Move it fast. If you are driving a 1990 model car, approximately six years were spent developing it. Today, most companies do that job in two years. Move it faster. At Hewlett Packard, the majority revenues come from products that did not exist a year age. Move it now. In Tokyo, you can order a customized Toyota on Monday and be driving it on Friday. More products, more markets, more people, more competition. In a world of abundance and excess, competition is total and competition is personal. Difference rules.If you think about it, most of what your business does could be bought from someone else using the Yellow Pages or an Internet search engine. How are you going to be attractive? By being more efficient? By doing it cheaper? Come on! This is the age of time and talent, where we are selling time and talent, exploiting time and talent, hiring time and talent, packaging time and talent. Today, the "critical resources" wear shoes and walk out the door around 5.30pm every day. Karl Marx was right; the workers should own the critical means of production - it's small
Keywords: Business Management Nordstrom K (Kjell) Funky business talent makes capital dance Ridderstrale Jonas
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Bennett, Rod: 10 X 10. Ten Years By Ten Opinions
Book Number: 28582
Australia: Magenta Press, 1990. 8vo. hardcover. 232pp. very good. /very good d/w.' ' '
Keywords: australian business
Price: $15.00 |
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Keen, Peter G. W.: Shaping the Future: Business Design Through Information Technology
Book Number: 29024
[Boston, Mass.] Harvard Business School Press 1991 8vo hardcover 264pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. This book aims to provide managers with comprehensive and practical advice on their role in managing information technology as a business resource. Business change and technical change fuel each other, and the challenge for management is to get ahead of the curve, not just react to it. Managers must take the lead in setting the competitive priorities for exploiting IT. They have to drive technology, not delegate it to specialists or abdicate responsibiltity for its impact on the organization. This book describes the competitive, organizational, economic, and technical aspects of using information technology for business design. It highlights key management policy decisions, business opportunities, and potential problems in seven areas: competitive positioning through IT: geographic positioning; designing the organization; deploying human capital; managing the economics of information captial; positioning the firm's IT platform; and aligning business and technology. The book offers advice on managing information technology as a business resource and describes the competitive, organizational, economic, and technical aspects of using IT for business design. It highlights key management policy decisions, business opportunities, and potential problems in seven areas.
Keywords: Business Finance Law Shaping the Future Business Design Through Information Technology Keen Peter G W
Price: $18.00 |
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Cairncross, Frances.: The death of distance : how the communications revolution will change our lives
Book Number: 29207
London Orion Business Books 1997 8vo hardcover 303pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Amazon.co.uk ReviewnWhat will be the most significant economic factor to shape our future? Renowned Economist writer Frances Cairncross proclaims that it's the "death of distance" caused by the communications revolution. This book suggests that the relationships between people will change radically within the next century, affecting our home and work lives, and the way we govern ourselves. Because the Internet removes all geographic boundaries, Cairncross asserts that people and businesses will relocate wherever they want, making it difficult for countries to enforce tax laws. Governments will be under extreme pressure to offer the best public services to attract businesses and individuals. Cairncross also predicts that people's reading and writing skills will improve because they'll have to communicate effectively using electronic means. nnAlthough Cairncross voices concerns over our inability to "control" what goes over the Internet, she ultimately looks on the communications revolution as enabling a more liberal exchange of ideas. This perceptive book, written for a general rather than technical audience, adds yet another voice to the debate over the pros and cons of a technical society. nnSynopsisnNever before in human history has technology changed as fast as it is doing now and the biggest changes are taking place in communications and computers, which are being combined in astonishing ways. This book discusses this communications revolution.
Keywords: Telecommunication Telecommunication Social aspects Telecommunication Forecasting The death of distance how the communications revolution will change our lives Cairncross Frances
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Shaw, Tim: Best Seller. Tim Shaw's Sales Success Secrets
Book Number: 29552
Australia: Pan Macmillan, 1995. 8vo. softcover. 266pp. very good. Inscribed by author.."Powder Works! Tim Shaw 1977".
Keywords: tim shaw selling sales marketing australian and there's more steak knives
Price: $25.00 |
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Cooper, Coral: How to Sell to Women
Book Number: 29875
Australia Carol Cooper 1996 8vo softcover 125pp b/w illus. very good+.
Keywords: Business Economics Management How to Sell to Women Cooper Coral
Price: $15.00 |
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Gates, Bill: Business At the Speed of Thought
Book Number: 30104
Ringwood, Vic. Penguin Books Australia 1999 8vo hardcover 470pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Bill Gates, chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation, reveals how expanding technology is propelling the business world into an exciting new economic era...how every manager can - and must - stay ahead of the curve, and how integrated
Keywords: computers Business Economics Management Business At the Speed of Thought Gates Bill
Price: $28.00 |
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Semler, Ricardo: Maverick! : the success story behind the world's most unusual workplace
Book Number: 30123
London Century 1993 8vo hardcover 272pp, b/w illus. very good, page edges browned / very good d/w. This is an account of an extraordinary company "turnaround" achieved by the ultimate in participatory management. Ricardo Semler inherited his family company, Semco (manufacturer of marine pumps, industrial dishwashers, truck filters and mixing equipment), when he was aged 19. By 1980 it was on the brink of bankruptcy - but a decade later, during a period of savage recession in Brazil, it had been transformed into a rapidly growing company with profits of 10% on sales of $37 million. This was achieved by Ricardo Semler throwing out the rule book: getting rid of all manuals and written procedures. Workers make the decisions previously made by their bosses. Assembly-line workers can come and go as they please set their own schedules and production schedules. Every corporate decision is put to the vote. Some workers even set their own pay levels. This was all achieved by a series of 30 programmes designed to change the entire working environment. Ricardo Semler is Chief Executive Officer of Semco, a Brazilian manufacturing company.
Keywords: Semler Ricardo 1959 Semco Management Employee participation Case studies Industrial equipment industry Brazil Sao Paulo Maverick! the success story behind the world's most unusual workplace Semler Ricardo
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Brown, Antony: Cuthbert Heath. Maker of the Modern Lloyd''s of London.
Book Number: 30967
London C.E. Heath 1993 4to. hardcover. 191pp. index, b/w illus. near fine. / near fine d/w.
Keywords: Cuthbert Heath. Maker of the Modern Lloyd''s of London.
Price: $28.00 |
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