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Comprehensive, perceptive, instructive and entertaining…will be a valuable work of reference for those interested in banking history. — Leopold de Rothschild, Director, NM Rothschild & Sons
One of the best written and most accurate accounts of international banking politics that I’ve seen. — Padraic [...]
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A striking feature of African history is the volume of commerce and production that has been possible without the full panoply of credit, insurances, future markets, stock companies, limited liability, and other legal and financial services that make up the formal sector of modern economies. The contributions to this volume investigate [...]
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From Publishers Weekly
If Veeck is right, most employees in the American workplace lead lives of quiet desperation, working in mind-numbing, joyless jobs alongside uninspiring bosses and boring co-workers. In this sometimes amusing, but often repetitive, self-help guide, Veeck, part owner of six minor league baseball [...]
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Enron was a $100-billion-a-year company in October 2001–America’s seventh-largest. The Houston-based energy firm enjoyed warm ties with newly installed President George W. Bush. Earnings were up 26 percent from the previous quarter, while Fortune magazine had named Enron the country’s most innovative company six years in a row. Less than two [...]
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A resource for integrating faith and finances, Faithful Finances 101 is a first-person narrative by an outspoken advocate of faith-based investing. Financial counselor Gary Moore strips the veneer from evangelical views of the illusions that dominated much of the economic scenes of the last two decades and offers, with “hopeful realism,” [...]
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`Young entrepreneurs will find this a fascinating read!’ Junior Education - March 2001
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
This is another “How To” guide and part of the successful series that tells [...]
Ethical misconduct can shipwreck your company. Avoid scandal with MANAGING RISKS FOR CORPORATE INTEGRITY: HOW TO SURVIVE AN ETHICAL MISCONDUCT DISASTER. Inside, you’ll discover powerful insight into dealing with, and preventing, ethical disasters. You’ll not only learn how to identify, illustrate, and define ethical misconduct; you’ll get the expert’s guide to preventing, [...]
From Library Journal
Through painstaking research, including interviews with workers, managers, executives, and others on three continents, the MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity, a team of leading physical and social scientists, engineers, and business educators, has studied the decline in U.S. industrial performance from an international perspective. The [...]
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Author Bob Servant found a new way to deal with spam….Servant’s communiques may inspire you to come up with your own creative responses. — –Wired
You’ll find yourself laughing out loud as the spammer scrambles to meet Servant’s increasingly ludicrous demands….Getting even never felt so good. — [...]
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Amazon.com Review
As more of us come to understand the hefty personal price that often accompanies major professional success, fewer of us are willing to blindly sacrifice so much in order to attain it. How to Succeed in Business Without Working So Damn Hard is a combination [...]
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