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Gold Trading Boot Camp: How to Master the Basics and Become a Successful Commodities Investor
Gregory T. Weldon Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471728004 |
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Praise for Gold Trading Boot Camp "If speculate you must, read Weldon first."
—James Grant, Editor, Grant's Interest Rate Observer
"This book delivers on all of the essential elements of successful financial literature. Weldon provides a compelling context, walks through the metrics that affect the price action, and assimilates the decision-making process in kind. From soup to nuts, this is one of the most comprehensive tutorials I've read on the subject of commodities."
—Todd Harrison, founder and CEO, Minyanville Publishing and Multimedia, LLC
"The gold price is rising in today's turbulent financial times. Preparation and knowledge are essential to profit from higher prices, and this book provides everything you need to take advantage of the trading opportunities thatlie ahead."
—James Turk, founder, GoldMoney.com
"This book, with its insights into the current investment climate coincides with what many feel is a new bull market in gold. There is no 'one-size-fits-all' investment approach, but every investor who applies such preparation and rigor as Greg outlines will certainly have increased returns with fewer losses. It should be on every investor's bookshelf, handy for reference, and re-read every year. Greg puts paid to the notion of random walk!"
—Kim Evans, CEO, Global Building and Supply
Customer Reviews:
decent into, nothing new.......2007-06-07
Very Well Written Even for the Novice or Advanced Investor.......2007-05-20
Traders bonanza.......2007-04-17
Fantastic book.......2007-04-04
Good stuff.......2007-04-03
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The Sourcing Solution: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating a Successful Purchasing Program
Larry Paquette Manufacturer: AMACOM/American Management Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0814471919 |
Book Description
The purchasing function is in the middle of unprecedented change. The transformation is being driven by globalization in consumer and supplier markets, as well as by rapid technological advances that facilitate procurement on any scale.The Sourcing Solution offers a clear overview of the new tools of sourcing success, including e-commerce and Internet strategies, supply-chain management technology, inventory auction sites, strategic sourcing initiatives, offshore and international sourcing, and much more. Author Larry Paquette brings his considerable experience to this engaging and accessible guide, designed to give readers practical ideas for use in their own organizations and throughout their careers.
The Sourcing Solution is a timely resource for professionals at all levels, including:
* Newly promoted buyers who will use it as a basic introduction to purchasing, filled with great ideas for how to do the job better * Managers whose growth and new responsibilities require understanding of broader issues * Executives who need to identify shortfalls in current sourcing initiatives, set new procurement goals, and develop strategies and metrics for ensuring
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Insightful!.......2004-04-23
A Guidepost for Success.......2004-04-16
As Paquette points out, this book provides an overview approach to sourcing, and lists and briefly covers the steps required to improve the probability of attaining success. For the new buyer, this is a checklist of learning and experience required. For the manager of a company looking to install a sourcing process, The Sourcing Solution identifies areas to be concerned with. As the reader goes through the text, they are free to create a sylibus of topics they feel they need to explore further.
This book is not intended to be the "Be all, final sourcing reference" when it comes to sourcing. Instead, it is a well written guide to sourcing of the future. I found it to be an entertaining read that presents the material in an informative, yet interesting manner.
Good for general managers, not for professional purchasers.......2004-04-10
Why? The book is a little bit superficial in nature, just scraping issues without providing you with the tools you need to actually solve problems. As an example, Paquette talks about a Japanese technique called SMED. In the single page dedicated to the issue, you do not really learn what it is. The only advantage of being mentioned is that you may feel inspired to find out if it fits your company and how to implement it. Paquette includes some literature links, unfortunately without regularely quoting them in the text. So you have to start an own research or ask someone to do so for you.
This leads me to my final conclusion: In my opinion, professional purchasers may find the book too little revealing. Still, it is a good book, however for a different audience: The typical reader would be the head of a commercial department, who has also taken over the responsability for a purchasing sub-department and needs to have some introductory insights to understand the state and the potential for his purchasing unit.
Insightful!.......2004-03-10
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The Outsourcing Handbook: How to Implement a Successful Outsourcing Process
Mark J Power , Kevin Desouza , and Carlo Bonifazi Manufacturer: Kogan Page ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0749444304 |
Book Description
Outsourcing is now increasingly used as a competitive weapon in today's global economy. The Outsourcing Handbook is a step-by-step guide to the whole outsourcing process. It looks at key factors in the success of a project as well as problem areas and potential pitfalls. It provides an objective, repeatable process that allows organizations to maximize returns on outsourcing investments. Unlike most outsourcing books, The Outsourcing Handbook takes a process-oriented, actionable, and structured approach to understanding the intricacies of constructing, managing, and even terminating an outsourcing engagement.Customer Reviews:
The Outsourcing Handbook: How to Implement a Successful Outsourcing Process.......2006-09-02
A definitive study of corporate outsourcing as the evermore popular weapon in the multinational competition of global economics.......2006-06-14
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The Real Estate Developer's Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Real Estate Development With Companion CD-ROM
Tanya Davis Manufacturer: Atlantic Publishing Company (FL) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1601380348 |
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Are you the Next Donald Trump? Successful real estate developers can become enormously wealthy. However, the flip side is many developers run out of cash before cashing in. Poor cash flow is the primary cause of business failure for real estate developers. This new book details how to become a successful real estate developer and demonstrates step-by-step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful real estate development enterprise. The author has explored every avenue in explaining this potentially rewarding yet risky business. The book covers the entire process of establishing a small real estate development firm and the ongoing management necessary in an easy-to-understand way, pointing out methods to increase your chances of success, and showing how to avoid the many common mistakes that can doom a start-up. The book focuses on small developments that you can start by yourself featuring both residential and commercial applications. Once the basic skills are learned, the book points out areas of expansion by leveraging your first investment. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through finding your first location that will bring success, learning how to draw up a winning business plan, installing basic cost control systems, assembling your team of experts, generating high profile public relations and publicity, learning low cost marketing ideas and low- and no-cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales, setting up accounting and bookkeeping procedures, and auditing. There are thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. You will learn the development process, governmental issues, environmental issues, demographics and trends, market research, site selection, feasibility analysis, due diligence, preliminary pro forma, property acquisition, project design/refined pro forma, entitlements, financing/final pro forma, construction, operation, feasibility studies, financing, market analysis, construction, and asset management. The new companion CD-ROM contains all the forms demonstrated in the book for easy use in a PDF format.Customer Reviews:
Practical guide for a complex subject.......2007-09-13
Perfect for any collection catering to real estate professionals who would strike out on their own........2007-09-02
A great comprehensive tool!.......2007-08-20
Trying to figure out if this is a career you want? This will help........2007-08-17
Everything You Need to Make Your Investment a Success.......2007-06-20
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Business Valuation Bluebook: How Successful Entrepreneurs Price, Sell And Trade Businesses
Chad Simmons Manufacturer: Facts on Demand Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1889150479 |
Book Description
This user-friendly manual includes updated forms, checklist, tables, examples and anecdotes that enable entrepreneurs to get professional valuation results.Customer Reviews:
Excellent!!.......2007-04-23
Invaluable Handbook for Entrepreneurs.......2002-10-15
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Successful IT Outsourcing: From Choosing a Provider to Managing the Project (Practitioner Series)
Elizabeth Sparrow Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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ASIN: 1852336102 |
Book Description
Outsourcing permeates the IT world and has had a profound impact on the work of IS professionals. Nearly all will, at some stage in their careers, work with outsourced services as customer or supplier. Elizabeth Sparrow's insights into the benefits and pitfalls of this complex area will help IS professionals tackle the challenges of outsourcing. Combining relevant background information with practical guidance this book covers the whole outsourcing process, from the initial decision to outsource through to managing the outsourced services on a day-to-day basis.
Successful IT Outsourcing considers:
- The objectives behind outsourcing
- The selection of a service provider
- The management and measurement of the performance of outsourced services
- The role of the outsourcing contract
- Why outsourcing sometimes fails and how to turn failure into success
Features and Benefits:
- Describes the origins of IT outsourcing, and recent developments
- Examines the way in which an organization might determine whether to outsource and how it can choose a service provider
- Discusses how to develop effective outsourcing relationships
- Provides context and advice to assist IS professionals, whose work is being outsourced, as they consider their future careers and the possibility of transferring to a new employer
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Balanced, agenda-free & realistic.......2004-07-01
The process set forth in this book is straightforward. There are no innovative wrinkles, not should there be in my opinion. The tasks, completely covered in individual chapters, are:
- Establish objectives and parameters for outsourced services. Clarify the business drivers, define service objectives, analyze the business case, and examine factors such as staff transfers, etc. The business case analysis material in this book is particularly strong in that it looks at a multitude of factors. I also like the elicitation of stakeholder views and requirements in the initial stage of the process.
- Choose a provider. This is covers the RFI/RFP process, negotiations, selection and award. All aspects of due diligence are covered in the chapter devoted to this stage.
- Manage performance. There is a solid focus on service management and contract administration in this section, and is sprinkled with good advice throughout.
- Measure performance. This is one of the strongest sections. The coverage is complete and customer-focused. It is also objective and partners with the provider - one of many indications of the balanced and objective approach the author takes.
- Risks and controls. This section addresses the transition to the provider, associated risks, and how to effectively use the contract as a control mechanism. Key risks and how to deal with them during the life of the contract are outlined. This information shows the depth of experience the author has, and the advice is genuinely useful.
- When outsourcing fails to deliver. This section is tied to the previous one. It provides common symptoms, how to proactively resolve them, escalation when necessary, including arbitration, alternative dispute resolution, and litigation if necessary (and permitted by the contract). Knowing this information in advance can help to craft contract terms and conditions that anticipate them, and protect both parties and their respective interests.
The book wraps up with a section on alternative supply models, such as application service providers, managed providers of storage, security and other models. This information shows not only future trends, but may spark ideas about how to source your services in ways other than traditional outsourcing.
Information provided in this book will work with both on- and off-shore providers; however, be aware that there are additional issues with off-shore providers, including off-site staff, time zone differences, and perceived control.
A book that I recommend reading in conjunction with this one - before reading it in fact - is "Outsourcing: How to Make Vendors Work for Your Shareholders" (ISBN 1892606046). It is more of a sanity check document that will cause you to think about objectives and alternatives to outsourcing before you embark on a course of action that leads to outsourcing.
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The Secrets to Buying and Selling a Business (Psi Successful Business Library)
Ira Nottonson Manufacturer: Entrepreneur Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1555714897 |
Book Description
Learn how to estimate the value, productivity, and potential of small business while receiving solid advice on the risks, financing, and protection of small business investments. Owners and future owners of the over 20 million small businesses in the U.S. cannot afford to be without this book.Sellers - whether you are retiring or moving on to your next business adventure - learn how to:
* Maximize the equity in your business
* Develop and present a defensible asking price
* Determine the best-qualified buyer for your business
* Negotiate the best sale price possible
Buyers - whether you are a first-time business owner, a long-time employee wanting to be your own boss, or a successful business operator seeking to expand your chain of stores - learn how to:
* Finance your purchase
* Assure the future stability of the business
* Choose between a new, old, independent, or franchise business
Professionals, Consultants, Advisers - learn how to best serve the needs of your client and protect your client and yourself from post-sale trauma. Plus, a special section on how to value and sell a professional practice.
Just some of the 23 worksheets contained in this book:
* Justification Research Strategies
* The Essential Checklist for Sharing Control of Your Business
* How to Prepare for Buyer Questions
* Cost Analyses to Improve Your Profit and Loss Statement
* How to Cut Costs and Face Serious Business Problems
* Exposing the Minuses without Losing the Sale
Audio Cassettes also Available.
Learn even more of the "ins and outs" of the buying and selling process from author, Ira N. Nottonson's Secrets to Buying and Selling a Business Audio Cassettes. Whether on the road or at home, these audio cassettes (about six hours in length) make it easy to learn additional tips and ideas not discussed in the book.
Please note: The audio cassettes provide additional information, and are not a reading of the book.
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Complete handbook of successful subcontracting
Michael D Garrett Manufacturer: Prentice-Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0131611828 |
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Computer Solutions for Business: Planning and Implementing a Successful Computer Environment
Doug Dayton Manufacturer: Microsoft Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0914845985 |
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Evidence of the need of education for efficient purchasing;: An analytical study of consumers' difficulties in choosing and buying clothing and home furnishings, ... practical suggestions for successful buying
Velma Phillips Manufacturer: AMS Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0404554474 |
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