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Given the enormous success of Built To Last, which Jim Collins wrote with Jerry Porras, there has been intense interest in Jim's follow-up work, Good To Great. Collins led a team of people to investigate how companies successfully moved a good organization into a great one. This SuccessTools discussion guide was developed to share a number of critical lessons from the new book, including: 1) why it's important to pick the right people, 2) why you have to face brutal facts, 3) why you need a simple concept to drive your entire business, 4) why it's crucial to become rigorously disciplined, and 5) why technology is best used to accelerate, not steer, a business. SuccessTools is a BH SmartDoc which provides a way to think about and start a key element on a management to-do list. BH SmartDocs are published by BrownHerron Publishing and are sold exclusively by Amazon.com..
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Today's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity, quality, and speed, managers have embraced tools such as TQM, benchmarking, and reengineering. Dramatic operational improvements have resulted, but rarely have these gains translated into sustainable profitability. And gradually, the tools have taken the place of strategy. As managers push to improve on all fronts, they move further away from viable competitive positions. Michael Porter argues that operational effectiveness, although necessary to superior performance, is not sufficient, because its techniques are easy to imitate. In contrast, the essence of strategy is choosing a unique and valuable position rooted in systems of activities that are much more difficult to match..
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Boards of directors typically believe that transforming a company from merely good to truly great requires a larger-than-life personality--an egocentric chief to lead the corporate charge. Think "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap or Lee Iacocca. In fact, that's not the case, says author and leadership expert Jim Collins. The essential ingredient for taking a company to greatness is having a "Level 5" leader at the helm--an executive in whom extreme personal humility blends paradoxically with intense professional will. Collins paints a compelling and counterintuitive portrait of the skills and personality traits necessary for effective leadership. He identifies the characteristics common to Level 5 leaders: humility, will, ferocious resolve, and the tendency to give credit to others while assigning blame to themselves. Collins fleshes out his Level 5 theory by telling colorful tales about 11 such leaders from recent business history. He contrasts the turnaround successes of outwardly humble, even shy, executives like Gillette's Colman M. Mockler and Kimberly-Clark's Darwin E. Smith with those of larger-than-life business leaders like Dunlap and Iacocca, who courted personal celebrity. The jury is still out on how to cultivate Level 5 leaders and whether it's even possible to do so, Collins admits. Some leaders have the Level 5 seed within; some don't. But Collins suggests using the findings from his research to strive for Level 5--for instance, getting the right people on board and creating a culture of discipline. "Our own lives and all that we touch will be better for the effort," he concludes..
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A short (65 pages) e-booklet that is designed to give you the confidence and insight you need to pursue the American dream--starting your own business with little or no money..
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If leadership, at its most basic, consists of getting things done through others, then persuasion is one of the leader's essential tools. Over the past several decades, experimental psychologists have learned which methods reliably lead people to concede, comply, or change. Their research shows that persuasion is governed by several principles that can be taught and applied. The first principle is that people are more likely to follow someone who is similar to them than someone who is not. Second, people are more willing to cooperate with those who are not only like them but who like them, as well. Third, experiments confirm the intuitive truth that people tend to treat you the way you treat them. Fourth, individuals are more likely to keep promises they make voluntarily and explicitly. Fifth, studies show that people really do defer to experts. Finally, people want more of a commodity when it's scarce; it follows, then, that exclusive information is more persuasive than widely available data..
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Use This Concept Check 400 Question and Answer Workbook to Study for the 2008 Chartered Financial Analyst Level 1 Exam

It is critical that you design a successful study program. There are no short cuts to passing the CFA exam, and pass rates have been falling. It is a tough exam and you will need to both learn the underlying material and do plenty of practice questions that test your knowledge and prepare you for the CFA-style question and answer format.

This Volume 1 workbook is just what the title states. It has 400 questions that cover the 76 Reading Assignments for 2008 CFA Level I. It teaches you the basic concepts covered in the CFA Preliminary Readings and tests your understanding of them, preparing you to move on to more advanced study materials. It includes Concept Check questions, with explanations and references related to specific LOS statements, and is accompanied by a free download test engine that generates multiple mock exams.

This unbeatable package of comprehensive Preliminary Reading Assignments and Concept Check Questions includes:

400 Concept Check Questions covering all 18 exam study sessions and 76 learning outcome statements.

Helpful tips and time management techniques to calm your pre-exam jitters and put you in control.

FREE DOWNLOAD of the exclusive TotalRecallPress.com Self-Help and Interactive Exam Study Aid. Our interactive test engine generates randomized mock exams designed to identify your strengths and weaknesses so you can determine where best to allocate your limited study time.

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For an additional set of 500 unique practice Questions you will want to purchase the following companion that covers all 18 Study Sessions with each of the 76 Learning Outcome Statements.

ExamWise Volume 2 CFA 2008 Level I Certification: Concept Check Q & A Workbook For
Chartered Financial Analyst (with Download Practice Exam Software) ISBN # 978-1-59095-949-7

Authors: Jane Vessey, Afdal Pamilih, and David Stewart are CFA's with combined experience in venture capital, asset management and valuation, structural reorganization, and private client management. They have extensive experience in teaching CFA online, college, and professional development courses. Their books, articles, manuals, practice exams, analysis, commentary, and study guides have appeared widely in the financial management, securities, and exam preparation industries..
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This is the most comprehensive guide to classical music recordings. Drawing on the reviews by Gramophone magazine's unparalleled roster of critics, the guide offers authoritative opinions on over 3000 recordings from popular works like the Beethoven symphonies to more obscure repertoire for the classical music aficionado..
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This book offers an amazing collection of 100 successful personal statements for medical school admission. The essays are grouped into 20 different categories, which show the dozens of topics, approaches and writing styles that successful applicants have used to gain admission into top US medical schools. The book also includes numerous examples of personal statements that explain extenuating circumstances in a candidate's academic history, such as a disappointing GPA and MCAT score. By sharing these essays, the editor, an Ivy League admissions expert, offers the most comprehensive resource available to current applicants. Competition is fierce at top medical schools,where an exceptional personal statement is mandatory. Before you tackle your own essay, check this intriguing one-of-a-kind collection. .
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Since 1990 this pocket handbook has been used by thousands of physicians, medical students,nurse midwives, nurses and other healthcare providers. Now in this completely rewritten and revised UPDATED 6th EDITION you can find everything that you need to provide comprehensive healthcare to women. This Desk Edition contains page-for-page the identical information found in the smaller pocket-sized version but in a larger format. This Desk Edition also contains the PDA Download allowing readers to have the best of both worlds: print and electronic. Written for a wide range of medical professionals, this pocket-sized compendium is dedicated to all aspects of Obstetrics and Gynecology and contains over 500 tables, flowcharts and figures making each topic easier to recall. Many useful resources from recent original articles are now at your fingertips in one source-book..
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