-Titulo Original : The Wealthy Barber, Updated 3rd Edition: Everyones Commonsense Guide To Becoming Financially Independent-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: Quite simply the best financial self-help book.--Money Book Club, Book-of-the-Month Club Even if you consider yourself a financial basket case, Chilton explains how you can easily put an effective financial plan into action. In this third edition of one of the biggest-selling financial-planning books ever, David Chilton simplifies the complex puzzles of personal finance and helps you achieve financial independence. With the help of his fictional barber, Roy, and a large dose of humor, Chilton shows you how to take control of your financial future--slowly, steadily, and with sure success. Chiltons plan (detailed in an entertaining story) is no get-rich-quick scheme, but it does make financial independence possible on nothing more than an average salary. This third edition has been updated with assistance from the Arthur Andersen Corporation. Review . . . quite simply the best financial self-help book. --Money Book Club, Book-of-the-Month Club From the Inside Flap . . . quite simply the best financial self-help book.--Money Book Club, Book-of-the-Month Club In this new and updated edition of one of the biggest-selling financial-planning books ever, David Chilton simplifies the complex puzzles of personal finance and helps you achieve financial independence. With the help of his fictional barber, Roy, and a large dose of humor, Chilton shows you how to take control of your financial future--slowly, steadily, and with sure success. Chiltons plan (detailed in an entertaining story) is no get-rich-quick scheme, but it does make financial independence possible on nothing more than an average salary. This third edition has been updated with assistance from the Arthur Andersen Corporation, and covers the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and other recent developments. Even if you consider yourself a financial basket case, Chilton explains how you can easily put an effective financial plan into action. From the Back Cover . . . quite simply the best financial self-help book. --Money Book Club, Book-of-the-Month Club In this new and updated edition of one of the biggest-selling financial-planning books ever, David Chilton simplifies the complex puzzles of personal finance and helps you achieve financial independence. With the help of his fictional barber, Roy, and a large dose of humor, Chilton shows you how to take control of your financial future--slowly, steadily, and with sure success. Chiltons plan (detailed in an entertaining story) is no get-rich-quick scheme, but it does make financial independence possible on nothing more than an average salary. This third edition has been updated with assistance from the Arthur Andersen Corporation, and covers the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and other recent developments. Even if you consider yourself a financial basket case, Chilton explains how you can easily put an effective financial plan into action. About the Author David Chilton is the president of Financial Awareness Corporation, a financial consulting firm. The Wealthy Barber and The Wealthy Barber Returns TV shows have enjoyed tremendous popularity since first airing on Public Television in the spring of 1993. Previous editions of this book have sold 2 million copies...

-Titulo Original : The 80/20 Principle The Secret To Achieving More With Less-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: Be more effective with less effort by learning how to identify and leverage the 80/20 principle: that 80 percent of all our results in business and in life stem from a mere 20 percent of our efforts. The 80/20 principle is one of the great secrets of highly effective people and organizations. Did you know, for example, that 20 percent of customers account for 80 percent of revenues? That 20 percent of our time accounts for 80 percent of the work we accomplish? The 80/20 Principle shows how we can achieve much more with much less effort, time, and resources, simply by identifying and focusing our efforts on the 20 percent that really counts. Although the 80/20 principle has long influenced todays business world, author Richard Koch reveals how the principle works and shows how we can use it in a systematic and practical way to vastly increase our effectiveness, and improve our careers and our companies. The unspoken corollary to the 80/20 principle is that little of what we spend our time on actually counts. But by concentrating on those things that do, we can unlock the enormous potential of the magic 20 percent, and transform our effectiveness in our jobs, our careers, our businesses, and our lives. Review From The 80/20 Principle: The 80/20 Principle can and should be used by every intelligent person in their daily life...It can multiply the profitability of corporations and the effectiveness of any organization. It even holds the key to raising the quality and quantity of public services while cutting their cost... The 80/20 Principle asserts that a minority of causes, inputs, or effort usually lead to a majority of the results, outputs, or rewards. Taken literally, for example, 80 percent of what you achieve in your job comes from 20 percent of the time spent. Thus for all practical purposes, four fifths of the effort--a dominant part of it--is largely irrelevant. To learn how you can tap the hidden potential of the 80/20 principle in your life, read Richard Kochs exciting new book. From the Inside Flap How anyone can be more effective with less effort by learning how to identify and leverage the 80/20 principle--the well-known, unpublicized secret that 80 percent of all our results in business and in life stem from a mere 20 percent of our efforts. The 80/20 principle is one of the great secrets of highly effective people and organizations. Did you know, for example, that 20 percent of customers account for 80 percent of revenues? That 20 percent of our time accounts for 80 percent of the work we accomplish? The 80/20 Principle shows how we can achieve much more with much less effort, time, and resources, simply by identifying and focusing our efforts on the 20 percent that really counts. Although the 80/20 principle has long influenced todays business world, author Richard Koch reveals how the principle works and shows how we can use it in a systematic and practical way to vastly increase our effectiveness, and improve our careers and our companies. The unspoken corollary to the 80/20 principle is that little of what we spend our time on actually counts. But by concentrating on those things that do, we can unlock the enormous potential of the magic 20 percent, and transform our effectiveness in our jobs, our careers, our businesses, and our lives. From the Back Cover an be more effective with less effort by learning how to identify and leverage the 80/20 principle--the well-known, unpublicized secret that 80 percent of all our results in business and in life stem from a mere 20 percent of our efforts. The 80/20 principle is one of the great secrets of highly effective people and organizations. Did you know, for example, that 20 percent of customers account for 80 percent of revenues? That 20 percent of our time accounts for 80 percent of the work we accomplish? The 80/20 Principle shows how we can achieve much more with much less effort, time, ...

-Titulo Original : House Of Versace The Untold Story Of Genius, Murder, And Survival-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: Versace. The very name conjures up images of outrageous glamour and bold sexuality, opulence and daring. All of course true, but only half the story. Versace is also the legacy of a great creative genius from a poor, backward part of southern Italy who transformed the fashion world through his intuitive understanding of both women and how a changing culture influenced the way they wanted to dress. The first book in English about the legendary designer, House of Versace shows how Gianni Versace, with his flamboyant sister Donatella at his side, combined his virtuosic talent and extraordinary ambition to almost single-handedly create the celebrity culture we take for granted today. Gianni Versace was at the height of his creative powers when he was murdered in Miami Beach. The story was front page news around the world and the manhunt for his killer a media obsession. His beloved sister Donatella demanded no less than a funeral befitting an assassinated head-of-state to be held in Milan’s magnificent cathedral. In what was the ultimate fashion show, the world’s rich and beautiful - Princess Dianna, Elton John, Carla Bruni, Naomi Campbell, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Anna Wintour and others - gathered to mourn a man already considered one of fashion’s great pioneers. Deborah Ball, a long-time Milan correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, conducted hundreds of interviews with Versace family members, Gianni Versace’s lovers and business rivals, models such as Naomi Campbell whom he helped shoot to international stardom and fashion industry icons, including Anna Wintour, the legendary editor of Vogue. Ball vividly recounts the behind-the scenes struggles - both creative and business - of Donatella as she stepped out of her brother’s long shadow and took control of the House of Versace. The book offers the first inside look at the enormous challenges Donatella faced in living up to Gianni’s genius, her struggle with a drug habit, her battles with her brother Santo and the mystery of why Gianni left control of his house to Donatella’s young daughter, Allegra. House of Versace is a compelling, highly readable tale of rise from obscurity, a painful fall and ultimate redemption as the Versace empire returned to health - for now. Bringing together fashion, celebrity, business drama, jet-set lifestyles, and a notorious crime, House of Versace is an old-fashioned page-turner about a subject of enduring fascination. Review Meticulously researched…answers more questions about the family behind the high-flying brand than most of us could think to ask. The Wall Street Journal writers account … helps humanize a legendary family.--The Wall Street Journal Deborah Ball got the story. Thanks to an impressive degree of access to both Santo and Donatella, as well as to a host of their friends and family members, this Wall Street Journal writer describes in riveting detail what the siblings were thinking behind their grief-stricken visages.--The Washington Post Readers may feel as if they are breaking through the sequined barrier that has sheltered the family from the worlds eye; that the shroud of mystery around them is finally lifted. The result is a read that is genuinely honest and riveting.--The Associated Press About the Author A native of Boston, DEBORAH BALL has been a business journalist in Europe for more than 15 years. For 12 years, she has been a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in Milan, London and Zurich, covering a wide variety of business, finance and political topics. Between 1999 and 2002, she covered the European luxury goods sector for the Journal. Ms. Ball currently lives between Italy and Switzerland with her husband Fabrizio. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. One “They’ve Shot Gianni” It was midafternoon on July 15, 1997, and a breathless heat had settled on Rome, making the Eternal City so hot that stiletto heels...

-Titulo Original : The Power Of Zero, Revised And Updated How To Get To The 0% Tax Bracket And Transform Your Retirement-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: OVER 300,000 COPIES IN PRINT, WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON THE 2018 TAX CUTS.Theres a massive freight train bearing down on the average American investor, and its coming in the form of higher taxes.The United States Government has made trillions of dollars in unfunded promises for programs like Social Security and Medicare-and the only way to deliver on these promises is to raise taxes. Some experts have even suggested that tax rates will need to double, just to keep our country solvent. Unfortunately, if youre like most Americans, youve saved the majority of your retirement assets in tax-deferred vehicles like 401(k)s and IRAs. If tax rates go up, how much of your hard-earned money will you really get to keep?In The Power of Zero, McKnight provides a concise, step-by-step roadmap on how to get to the 0% tax bracket by the time you retire, effectively eliminating tax rate risk from your retirement picture. Now, in this expanded edition, McKnight has updated the book with a new chapter on the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, showing readers how to navigate the new tax law, and how they can extend the life of their retirement savings by taking advantage of it now.The day of reckoning is fast approaching. Are you ready to do what it takes to experience the power of zero? About the Author David McKnight graduated from Brigham Young University with Honors in 1997. Over the past 20 years David has helped put thousands of Americans on the road to the zero percent tax bracket. He has made frequent appearances on Bloomberg Radio, in Investors Business Daily and national publications like the New York Times and Reuters. His bestselling book The Power of Zero has sold over 250,000 copies. As the President of David McKnight & Company, he mentors hundreds of financial advisors from across the country who specialize in The Power of Zero retirement approach. He currently resides in Grafton, Wisconsin with his wife Felice and their seven children. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. ONEA Gathering Storm“Delight in smooth-sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State . . .”-Winston Churchill, The Gathering StormOn January 11, 2011, a CPA named David M. Walker appeared on national radio and made a grim prognostication: Based on the current fiscal path, future tax rates will have to double or our country could go bankrupt. He then challenged the national listening audience to come up with a four-letter word that would explain why. The calls came pouring in. “Debt?” came one answer. “Wars?” came another. “Kids?” came the next. After a few more wayward guesses, David Walker finally revealed the answer. “It’s math.”Who is David Walker, and what does math have to do with the future of our country? For an 11-year period starting in 1998, David Walker served as the Comptroller General of the United States and as the head of the Government Accountability Office. In short, he was the CPA of the USA, and the nation’s chief auditor. Having performed in that capacity during both the Clinton and Bush administrations, he knows more about our country’s fiscal state than perhaps anyone else on the planet. Since his resignation in 2008, Walker has been crisscrossing the country, raising the warning cry, and discussing sensible solutions with anyone who will listen.To understand the urgency behind David Walker’s mission, you need look no further than the mathematical realities facing Social Security. The Social Security Act was passed into law in 1935 as the lynchpin of Roosevelt’s “New Deal” with America. When it was first implemented, the math behind it (based on expected birth rates and life expectancies) ensured its financial viability into perpetuity. There were an astounding 42 workers putting money into Social Security for every one person who took money out. Ironically, the official retirement ag...

-Titulo Original : Economics In One Lesson The Shortest And Surest Way To Understand Basic Economics-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: With over a million copies sold, Economics in One Lesson is an essential guide to the basics of economic theory. A fundamental influence on modern libertarianism, Hazlitt defends capitalism and the free market from economic myths that persist to this day. Considered among the leading economic thinkers of the “Austrian School,” which includes Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich (F.A.) Hayek, and others, Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993), was a libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of The Freeman magazine, an influential libertarian publication. Hazlitt wrote Economics in One Lesson, his seminal work, in 1946. Concise and instructive, it is also deceptively prescient and far-reaching in its efforts to dissemble economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy. Economic commentators across the political spectrum have credited Hazlitt with foreseeing the collapse of the global economy which occurred more than 50 years after the initial publication of Economics in One Lesson. Hazlitt’s focus on non-governmental solutions, strong - and strongly reasoned - anti-deficit position, and general emphasis on free markets, economic liberty of individuals, and the dangers of government intervention make Economics in One Lesson every bit as relevant and valuable today as it has been since publication. Review A magnificent job of theoretical exposition.-Ayn Rand“I strongly recommend that every American acquire some basic knowledge of economics, monetary policy, and the intersection of politics with the economy. No formal classroom is required; a desire to read and learn will suffice. There are countless important books to consider, but the following are an excellent starting point: The Law by Frederic Bastiat; Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt; What has Government Done to our Money? by Murray Rothbard; The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek; and Economics for Real People by Gene Callahan.If you simply read and comprehend these relatively short texts, you will know far more than most educated people about economics and government. You certainly will develop a far greater understanding of how supposedly benevolent government policies destroy prosperity. If you care about the future of this country, arm yourself with knowledge and fight back against economic ignorance. We disregard economics and history at our own peril.”-Ron Paul, Representative from Texas From the Inside Flap A simple, straightforward analysis of economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy. About the Author Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993), was a libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of The Freeman magazine, an important libertarian publication. Hazlitt wrote Economics in One Lesson, his seminal text on free market economics, in 1946, bringing his ideas and those of the so-called Austrian School to the American scene. His work has influenced the likes of economist Ludwig von Mises, novelist and essayist Ayn Rand, and 2008 Libertarian Party Presidential nominee and congressman, Ron Paul. Hazlitt has been cited as one of the most influential literary critics and economic writers of his time. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1 THE LESSONEconomics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics or medicine-the special pleading of selfish interests. While every group has certain economic interests identical with those of all groups, every group has also, as we shall see, interests...

-Titulo Original : Smart Women Finish Rich, Expanded And Updated-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: THE MILLION-COPY NEW YORK TIMES, BUSINESS WEEK, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERIS BACK - COMPLETELY UPDATED!With over ONE MILLION copies sold - Smart Women Finish Rich is one of the most popular financial books for women ever written. A perennial bestseller for over two decades, now Bach returns with a completely updated, expanded and revised edition, Smart Women Finish Rich, to address the new financial concerns and opportunities for todays women. Whether you are just getting started in your investment life, looking to manage your money yourself, or work closely with a financial advisor, this book is your proven roadmap to the life you want and deserve. With Smart Women Finish Rich, you will feel like you are being coached personally by one of Americas favorite and most trusted financial experts. The Smart Women Finish Rich program has helped millions of women for over twenty years gain confidence, clarity and control over their financial well-being--it has been passed from generations to generation -- and it now can help you. Review REVIEWS AND PRAISE: “Smart Women Finish Rich is simply a remarkable book that is even more relevant now that when it was first published. Twenty years later, this Anniversary edition will help a new generation of women achieve financial security and live lives of independence and purpose. --Richard Bradley, Editor-in-Chief, Worth magazine “There’s a reason why Smart Women Finish Rich has sold over a million copies - it works! David Bach has helped millions of women for over two decades be smarter with their money. His no-nonsense approach will inspire you to take action to live your best life.” --Jean Chatzky, financial editor NBC Today, host of HerMoney podcast “David Bach is the one financial expert to listen to when you’re intimidated by your finances. His powerful and easy-to-use program will show you how to spend, save and invest your money to afford your dreams.” --Tony Robbins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Money: Master the Game “In Smart Women Finish Rich, David Bach empowers us to take control of our finances and become better investors. This book is a must read for any woman who wants to make sure her money is working as hard for her as she worked to earn it.” --Randi Zuckerberg, New York Times bestselling author of Pick Three and Dot Complicated “When I first started my career, I was deep in debt and full of shame, fear, and embarrassment about money. Smart Women Finish Rich helped me turn that around and create what I’d always dreamed of: real financial freedom. I’ve recommended this book to millions of our fans and will continue to do so. Because when women are economically empowered, the whole world wins.” --Marie Forleo, author of Everything is Figureoutable and Host of the Award-Winning show Marie TV “Smart Women Finish Rich is THE definitive guide for all women seeking financial independence and a prosperous life. Seriously - get this book, read it and use it. You’re older self will thank you.” --Farnoosh Torabi, bestselling author of When She Makes More and host of So Money podcast “Straight-shooting, action-oriented tips for getting a handle on your spending and savings habits…presented in a straightforward, non-intimidating manner perfect for the finance newbie.” --ABCNews “[David] Bach gets across complicated stuff: how to organize a portfolio, keep the taxman at bay, invest in yourself, and earn more, all of which makes this book one of the best overall.” --Working Women “The best financial writers keep it simple, and David Bach is absolutely one of the best. Bach makes it clear that financial security is a matter of understanding a few simple rules and applying them consistently. When you absorb the lessons of Smart Women Finish Rich, you will retire secure and in command of your retirement.” --Eric Schurenberg, former editor of Money Magazine and CBS Money Watch, CEO of Ma...

-Titulo Original : The Fourth Industrial Revolution-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolu­tion, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wear­able sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine “smart factories” in which global systems of manu­facturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individu­als. Schwab also offers bold ideas on how to harness these changes and shape a better future-one in which technology empowers people rather than replaces them; progress serves society rather than disrupts it; and in which innovators respect moral and ethical boundaries rather than cross them. We all have the opportunity to contribute to developing new frame­works that advance progress. Review “Only organizations driven by purpose and values will be fully able to shape and benefit from the seismic technological, social and economic transformations underway. Klaus Schwab compellingly outlines why all of us must work to ensure that the Fourth Industrial Revolution has at its heart the stakeholder principle, ensuring that the benefits of transformation are as much a public good as a private gain. This book is required reading for my entire leadership team.” -Marc R. Benioff, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Salesforce, USA:“In The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Professor Klaus Schwab puts forth a thoughtful framework for leaders to meet the challenge of maximizing the benefits of the profound technological, social and economic transformation reshaping society. Drawing on over four decades of bringing together governments, private sector and other parts of civil society, Schwab starts a wide-ranging discussion on how we can help to ensure that the Fourth Industrial Revolution drives progress for humankind.” - Sheryl Sandberg, COO and founder of LeanIn.Org “This book is essential reading for corporate leaders, policy makers and citizens interested in navigating the challenges and understanding the opportunities which lie ahead thanks to the impact of emerging technologies. Clearly, the profound shifts happening will leave no business model untouched and no society unshaken. Klaus Schwab reminds us of our individual and collective power to ensure that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a far more sustainable, empowering and inclusive one than the last three.” - Muhtar A. Kent, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company, USA: “From how we work and share information to how we address global crises like fresh water and climate change, we know that technology will define humanity’s future. Here Klaus Schwab provides an excellent framework for thinking about how we can shape technology to deliver a future society in keeping with our deepest human values.” - L. Rafael Reif, President, Massachusetts Institute of Tec...

-Titulo Original : Ai 2041 Ten Visions For Our Future-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years? A WALL STREET JOURNAL, WASHINGTON POST, AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * “This inspired collaboration between a pioneering technologist and a visionary writer of science fiction offers bold and urgent insights.”-Yann LeCun, winner of the Turing Award; chief AI scientist, “Amazingly entertaining . . . Lee and Chen take us on an immersive trip through the future. . . . Eye-opening.”-Mark Cuban AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand-new forms of communication and entertainment. In liberating us from routine work, however, AI will also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order. Meanwhile, AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias. AI is at a tipping point, and people need to wake up-both to AI’s radiant pathways and its existential perils for life as we know it.In this provocative, utterly original work, Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers, teams up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping short stories, they introduce readers to an array of eye-opening 2041 settings, such as:* In San Francisco, the “job reallocation” industry emerges as deep learning AI causes widespread job displacement* In Tokyo, a music fan is swept up in an immersive form of celebrity worship based on virtual reality and mixed reality* In Mumbai, a teenage girl rebels when AI’s crunching of big data gets in the way of romance* In Seoul, virtual companions with perfected natural language processing (NLP) skills offer orphaned twins new ways to connect* In Munich, a rogue scientist draws on quantum computing, computer vision and other AI technologies in a revenge plot that imperils the worldBy gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers urgent insights into our collective future-while reminding readers that, ultimately, humankind remains the author of its destiny. Review “An invaluable and entertaining vision of the future.”-Ray Dalio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles“To say that AI 2041 is enlightening and valuable, is to understate its significance. . . . AI 2041’s scientific fiction gives us a way to open our eyes to what is actually going on all around us and where things are heading.”-John Kao, Forbes“By blending imaginative storytelling and technical expertise, Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan bring to life a vision for AI that addresses both our curiosity and our fears. Read this captivating book to better understand how and when certain technologies are likely to mature, and what that could mean for all of us.”-Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft“We have reached a momentous inflection point with AI, and no other book I’ve read captures it with such stunning insight and imagination. Instead of wondering whether to trust AI, we must think of it as a tool-one that we humans are in charge of shaping. Kai-Fu Lee’s brilliant analysis in AI 2041 embodies this urgent mandate for humanity, while Chen Qiufan’s gripping stories reveal how AI can become a bridge between previously unsolvable problems and a future of new possibilities.”-Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO, Thrive Global“AI 2041 is the perfect fusion of science and fiction, illuminating the pervasive impact artificial intelligence will have in our lives and the challenges we face in shaping a techno-future that benefits all of humanity.”-Marc Benioff, chair and CEO, Salesforce“Applying AI to business usually means learning the technology first and then figuring out how to apply it. AI 2041 allows readers to take the exact ...

-Titulo Original : The Great Game Of Business, Expanded And Updated The Only Sensible Way To Run A Company-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: The Great Game of Business started a business revolution by introducing the world to open-book management, a new way of running a business that created unprecedented profit and employee engagement. The revised and updated edition of The Great Game of Business lays out an entirely different way of running a company. It wasn’t dreamed up in an executive think tank or an Ivy League business school or around the conference table by big-time consultants. It was forged on the factory floors of the heartland by ordinary folks hoping to figure out how to save their jobs when their parent company, International Harvester, went down the tubes. What these workers created was a revolutionary approach to management that has proven itself in every industry around the world for the past thirty years-an approach that is perhaps the last, best hope for reviving the American Dream. Review The whole concept of The Great Game of Business is beautiful -consistency, alignment, and transparency, infused with core values and brought to life with powerful mechanisms. It is inspired and inspiring, a classic. -Jim Collins, author of Good to Great “The Great Game of Business is one of the top 10 most important business books for all growth-minded company leaders to read. Why? It details how to create the critically important “line of sight” every employee needs to be fully engaged and driving toward a common goal. And Jack’s book details how to get everyone in your company focused with one eye on the financial impact of their decisions. Then watch profits and cash soar.” -Verne Harnish, CEO of Gazelles and author of The Greatest Business Decisions of All TimeThis is the brilliant story of the most radical act committed by a businessman in this century. You cant run or manage your business the old way once you read The Great Game. -Paul Hawken About the Author JACK STACK is Founder, President and CEO of SRC Holdings Corporation, a 100% Employee-Owned Company employing over 1200 people, with sales of over $450,000,000. SRC Holdings Corporation operates 31 business units including Joint Ventures with John Deere, Case New Holland and Navistar, and maintains two venture capital incubator funds. A pioneer of the leadership model known as Open Book Management, Stack is the author of two books on the subject, The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome. His expertise in using the open book model has helped SRC Holdings Corporation start, acquire, and own over 60 small and medium size businesses and created thousands of jobs since 1983. In addition, SRC Holdings Corporation has increased its stock value 292,000% since 1983. Jack has been called the “smartest strategist in America” by Inc. Magazine and one of the “top 10 minds in small business” by Fortune Small Business Magazine. Jack is a contributing editor for Inc. Magazine and contributing business writer for The New York Times. He is a popular public speaker and a practitioner of the open book model. SRC Holdings Corporation has received international recognition because of its success, including the Top 100 Companies to Work for in America, WorldBlu Most Democratic Workplaces, the National Business Ethics Award and the Business Enterprise Trust Award. Jack has served as a world judge for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Institute and as an advisor for this group since 1998. Jack designed the first ever United Way Entrepreneurial Fund to encourage innovation within the non-profit community. He is the father of five children and grandfather of six. BO BURLINGHAM is editor-at-large-and former executive editor-of Inc. magazine and chairman of the Small Giants Community ( smallgiants.org). His book Small Giants: Companies That Choose To Be Great Instead of Big was a finalist for the 2006 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award. His most recent book, co-authored with Norm Brodsky...

-Titulo Original : Start With No...the Negotiating Tools That The Pros Dont Want You To Know-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: Start with No offers a contrarian, counterintuitive system for negotiating any kind of deal in any kind of situation-the purchase of a new house, a multimillion-dollar business deal, or where to take the kids for dinner.Think a win-win solution is the best way to make the deal? Think again. For years now, win-win has been the paradigm for business negotiation. But today, win-win is just the seductive mantra used by the toughest negotiators to get the other side to compromise unnecessarily, early, and often. Win-win negotiations play to your emotions and take advantage of your instinct and desire to make the deal. Start with No introduces a system of decision-based negotiation that teaches you how to understand and control these emotions. It teaches you how to ignore the siren call of the final result, which you can’t really control, and how to focus instead on the activities and behavior that you can and must control in order to successfully negotiate with the pros. The best negotiators: * aren’t interested in “yes”-they prefer “no” * never, ever rush to close, but always let the other side feel comfortable and secure * are never needy; they take advantage of the other party’s neediness * create a “blank slate” to ensure they ask questions and listen to the answers, to make sure they have no assumptions and expectations * always have a mission and purpose that guides their decisions * don’t send so much as an e-mail without an agenda for what they want to accomplish * know the four “budgets” for themselves and for the other side: time, energy, money, and emotion * never waste time with people who don’t really make the decisionStart with No is full of dozens of business as well as personal stories illustrating each point of the system. It will change your life as a negotiator. If you put to good use the principles and practices revealed here, you will become an immeasurably better negotiator. Review Start with No, by negotiation coach Jim Camp, is a tenaciously contrarian guide to the art and science of give-and-take that proposes a viable alternative for todays prevailing win-win approach. Beginning with an inverse premise--that having the right to say no and veto any agreement is actually the key to favorably concluding the various deals and transactions we face every day--Camps procedure counters the common emotion-based urge to compromise (a defeatist mind-set from the first handshake) with a series of less intuitive decision-oriented actions. My system teaches you how to control what you can control in a negotiation, Camp writes. When you do so, you can and will succeed (understanding that success sometimes means walking away with a polite good-bye). Emphasizing the importance of this underlying attitude, his method combines related steps like defining a mission, understanding the adversary, assessing fiscal and emotional investments, preparing an agenda, and tracking behavior. Each is fully explained, as are associated skills such as how to structure a question to elicit a truly helpful response (e.g., What else do you need? vs. Is there anything else you need?). Despite its unorthodox manner, if diligently applied, the route that Camp details here may indeed produce winning results. --Howard Rothman From Publishers Weekly Negotiation coach Camp has been under the radar since 1989, helping clients reach deals at Motorola, Merrill Lynch and IBM. He now brings his advice to the general public. Asserting that the term win-win has become a clich , he suggests readers enter into every negotiation knowing that if the offer doesnt meet their expectations, they should walk away. He also advocates leaving emotions out of negotiations. Whether we like it or not, it really is a jungle out there in the world of business, and its crawling with predators. Camps solid advice will help people control negotiations and prepare themselves for anything. Copyrig...

-Titulo Original : The Conversation How Seeking And Speaking The Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals And Organizations-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * An essential tool for individuals, organizations, and communities of all sizes to jump-start dialogue on racism and bias and to transform well-intentioned statements on diversity into concrete actions-from a leading Harvard social psychologist.FINALIST FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD * LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD“Livingston has made the important and challenging task of addressing systemic racism within an organization approachable and achievable.”-Alex Timm, co-founder and CEO, Root Insurance CompanyHow can I become part of the solution?In the wake of the social unrest of 2020 and growing calls for racial justice, many business leaders and ordinary citizens are asking that very question. This book provides a compass for all those seeking to begin the work of anti-racism. In The Conversation, Robert Livingston addresses three simple but profound questions: What is racism? Why should everyone be more concerned about it? What can we do to eradicate it? For some, the existence of systemic racism against Black people is hard to accept because it violates the notion that the world is fair and just. But the rigid racial hierarchy created by slavery did not collapse after it was abolished, nor did it end with the civil rights era. Whether it’s the composition of a company’s leadership team or the composition of one’s neighborhood, these racial divides and disparities continue to show up in every facet of society. For Livingston, the difference between a solvable problem and a solved problem is knowledge, investment, and determination. And the goal of making organizations more diverse, equitable, and inclusive is within our capability.Livingston’s lifework is showing people how to turn difficult conversations about race into productive instances of real change. For decades he has translated science into practice for numerous organizations, including Airbnb, Deloitte, Microsoft, Under Armour, L’Oreal, and JPMorgan Chase. In The Conversation, Livingston distills this knowledge and experience into an eye-opening immersion in the science of racism and bias. Drawing on examples from pop culture and his own life experience, Livingston, with clarity and wit, explores the root causes of racism, the factors that explain why some people care about it and others do not, and the most promising paths toward profound and sustainable progress, all while inviting readers to challenge their assumptions.Social change requires social exchange. Founded on principles of psychology, sociology, management, and behavioral economics, The Conversation is a road map for uprooting entrenched biases and sharing candid, fact-based perspectives on race that will lead to increased awareness, empathy, and action. Review “A one-stop resource for anyone wanting to understand the causes and manifestations of racism. . . . There is nothing wishy-washy here: all assertions are backed up with research and explanations. . . . Just right for this moment. . . . invaluable . . . clear step-by-step advice.”-Financial Times “Dr. Robert Livingston is a leader in identifying steps to combat bias, and his work is a critical resource for those committed to expanding inclusion and belonging. At Airbnb we have been lucky to partner with him on these important efforts, and we know that The Conversation will be a tool for anyone seeking to advance equality.”-Brian Chesky, CEO and co-founder, Airbnb“An extraordinarily timely book. Just as companies and organizations in the U.S. and around the world are focusing anew on the entrenched bias in their culture, The Conversation comes along to offer a path forward. The Conversation is a major achievement.”-Robin J. Ely, Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School “Livingston has made the important and challenging task of truly addressing systemic racism within an organiza...

-Titulo Original : Leading Without Authority How The New Power Of Co-elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams, And Reinvent Collaboration-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Never Eat Alone redefines collaboration with a radical new workplace operating system in which leadership no longer demands an office, an official title, or even a physical workplace. “An actionable methodology for any team to thrive during the decade of exponential change ahead.”-Peter H. Diamandis, founder of XPRIZE and Singularity University, bestselling co-author of Abundance, Bold, and The Future Is Faster Than You ThinkIn times of stress, we have a choice: we can retreat further into our isolated silos, or we can commit to “going higher together.” When external pressures are mounting, and employees are working from far-flung locations across the globe, says bestselling author Keith Ferrazzi, we can no longer afford to waste time navigating the complex chains of command or bureaucratic bottlenecks present in most companies. But when we choose the bold new methodology of co-elevation as our operating model, we unlock the potential to boost productivity, deepen commitment and engagement, and create a level of trust, mutual accountability, and purpose that exceeds what could have been accomplished under the status quo. And you don’t need any formal authority to do it. You simply have to marshal a commitment to a shared mission and care about the success and development of others as much as you care about your own. Regardless of your title, position, or where or how you work, the ability to lead without authority is an essential workplace competency.Here, Ferrazzi draws on over a decade of research and over thirty years helping CEOs and senior leaders drive innovation and build high-performing teams to show how we can all turn our colleagues and partners into teammates and truly reboot the way we work together. Review “Leading Without Authority is the must-read guidebook for radical transformation. Keith Ferrazzi’s concept of co-elevation provides an actionable methodology for any team to thrive during the decade of exponential change ahead.”-Peter H. Diamandis, founder of XPRIZE and Singularity University, bestselling co-author of Abundance, Bold, and The Future Is Faster Than You Think “Ferrazzi is breaking new ground in defining what leadership can mean in the emerging world of work. He shows that humility, curiosity, and candor can serve as the connective tissue binding us to our mission, to one another, and to a sense of purpose larger than ourselves.”-Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global “I’m excited to bring ‘co-elevation’ (as a new word, as a new book, and as a concept) to Zappos to help bring our culture and our business to the next level.”-Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, New York Times bestselling author of Delivering Happiness “Ferrazzi brilliantly shows how building mutually beneficial partnerships marks the future of all work, and demonstrates how anyone can lead if they’re willing to make themselves vulnerable and put the project mission and their partners first, turf and hierarchy last.”-Kristin Yetto, chief people officer at eBay “A brilliant, unique approach to building relationship capital by creating trusting and lasting human connection, not merely digital contact-inside and outside your company.”-Peter Guber, co-owner of the Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Los Angeles FC “A masterful guide to thriving in today’s very weird workplace . . . Get this right, and it doesn’t matter that the business world is roiled by change and disruption.”-Dave Asprey, founder of Bulletproof, New York Times bestselling author of The Bulletproof Diet “Ferrazzi has gone into the trenches to figure out what it really takes to empower people and make teams more than the sum of their parts. This book will be a staple in every leader’s library.”-Adam Grant, host of the TED podcast WorkLife, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals About the Author Keith Ferrazzi is the founder and CEO of Ferr...

-Titulo Original : Rule #1 The Simple Strategy For Successful Investing In Only 15 Minutes A Week!-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “The clearest and best book out there to get you on the path to riches. This one’s special!”-Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s Mad Money “Great tools for anyone wanting to dabble in the stock market.”-USA Today Phil Town is a very wealthy man, but he wasn’t always. In fact, he was living on a salary of $4,000 a year when some well-timed advice launched him down a highway of investing self-education that revealed what the true “rules” are and how to make them work in one’s favor. Chief among them, of course, is Rule #1: “Don’t lose money.” In this updated edition to the #1 national bestseller, you’ll learn more of Phil’s fresh, think-outside-the-box rules, including:* Don’t diversify * Only buy a stock when it’s on sale * Think long term-but act short term to maximize your return * And most of all, beat the big investors at their own game by using the tools designed for them! As Phil demonstrates in these pages, giant mutual funds can’t help but regress to the mean-and as we’ve all learned in recent years, that mean could be very disappointing indeed. Fortunately, Rule #1 takes readers step-by-step through a do-it-yourself process, equipping even the biggest investing-phobes with the tools they need to make quantum leaps toward financial security-regardless of where the market is headed. Review “Towns investment guide is manna from heaven… engaging and accessible… Town’s ability to break down that philosophy into a detailed, step-by-step program that can be understood by any reader with basic math skills is unique… will leave readers feeling empowered and ready to manage their money themselves.”-Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Extraordinarily readable…provides investors with surefire tools to outperform costly advisors. Follow Town’s simple, time-tested precepts, and even unsophisticated investors will leave most mutual fund managers in the dust.” -Arthur Levitt, author of Take on the Street and former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission“A really smart, homework-driven read that tells you precisely how to do it. Rule #1 may be the clearest and best book out there to get you on the path to riches. This one’s special!” -James J. Cramer, host of CNBC’s “Mad Money” and Markets Commentator, thestreet “Rule #1 is an investment Bible for our time. In fun, easy-to-understand words, Phil Town tells you how to buy quality stocks at a discount.” -Rich Karlgaard, publisher, Forbes magazine, and author of LIFE 2.0“For the individual investor, Rule No. 1 should be, ‘Read Rule #1.’ This book debunks a lot of myths in the market and provides pearls of common-sense wisdom…Indeed, Rule #1 rules.” -Gene Marcial, Senior Writer, Business Week“Rule #1’s common-sense, pragmatic approach is money in the bank. This step-by-step guide is methodically researched and terrifically accessible … Can you really beat the mutual fund mangers and so-called experts at their own game? Hell yes!” -Jonathan Hoenig, Portfolio Manager, Capitalistpig Hedge Fund, and regular contributor to Fox News Channel“Rule #1 is probably one of the most inclusive, no nonsense, fundamental books about investing in the stock market I’ve ever read. This book is a must-read for everyone; from beginner students of the market to super know-it-alls.” -Danielle Hughes, President and CEO, Divine Capital Markets LLC“A refreshing departure from those boring investing books… If youre tired of being shut out of how exactly the rich guys on Wall Street make money, this important book will teach you how to run with the bulls. Its priceless.” -Elizabeth MacDonald, Senior Editor at Forbes Magazine; regular, “Forbes on Fox” About the Author An ex-Green Beret and former river guide, Phil Town is a self-made millionaire several times over and America’s most widely sought-after speaker on investing. Phil Town appears regularly on the same dais as Rudy Giuliani, Jimmy Carter, and Colin Powell as part of the...

-Titulo Original : Your First Year In Real Estate, 2nd Ed. Making The Transition From Total Novice To Successful Professional-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: Newly Expanded with More Expert Advice to Help You Build a Winning Real Estate Career Welcome to the world of real estate sales, and the start of an exciting new career! Your destiny is now in your hands. Along with endless opportunities, flexible hours, and the freedom to chart your own path, you also have the potential to earn fabulous amounts of money. All you need for total success is preparation. Revised and expanded, Your First Year in Real Estate contains the essential knowledge you need to start off right in today’s vastly changed real estate market, avoid common first-year missteps, and get the inside edge that will take you to the top. Real estate expert Dirk Zeller has compiled the industry’s proven secrets and strategies that will enable novice agents to hit the ground running and excel from day one. You’ll get the insider’s guide to:* Selecting the right company * Developing valuable mentor and client relationships* Using the Internet and social networking to stay ahead of the competition (NEW!)* Setting-and reaching- essential career goals* Staying on top in today’s challenging real estate climate (NEW!)* And so much more.Concise and thorough, Your First Year in Real Estate is like having the top coach right by your side. Review “Dirk Zellers approach is brilliant! He gives the best basic marketing techniques to his students. I applaud this book.”-Bonnie S. Mays, vice president, Realty World America, and executive director, Realty World Academy “Follow the advice in this book and you will join the growing list of real estate professionals who call Dirk Zeller their mentor!”-Rick DeLuca, nationally recognized real estate speaker From the Back Cover Classic Insight into Building a Fabulous Career in Real EstateWelcome to the world of real estate sales! Now, you control your destiny. A career in real estate offers endless opportunities, the freedom of flexible hours, and the potential to earn fabulous amounts of money. But to reach your goals you need to be prepared. Before you dive in, you must learn everything you can and discover the edge that will take you to the top.Inside, experienced and top-notch real estate professional Dirk Zeller presents the secrets to success that will allow you to excel from day one. Full of practical answers and step-by-step solutions to the fields most common obstacles and challenges, Your First Year in Real Estate will help you build a solid foundation for a lifetime of real estate success.Be a real estate champion from day one by knowing how to: -Select the right company and get off to the right start -Develop valubable mentor and client relationships -Master your sales skills -Achieve the financial results you desire -Set--and reach--important career goals Dirk Zellers approach is brilliant! He gives the best basic marketing techniques to his students. I applaud this book.--Bonnie S. Mays, vice president, Reality World America, and executive director, Reality World AcademyFollow the advice in this book and you will join the growing list of real estate professionals who call Dirk Zeller their mentor!--Rick DeLuca, nationally recognized real estate speaker About the Author DIRK ZELLER is the CEO and head coach of Real Estate Champions, which provides consulting and developmental training for real estate professionals, and is a regular columnist for Realty Times. Visit realestatechampions for more information. Also available as an [and on audio from Random House] Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1Selecting the Right CompanyWelcome to your new career in real estate! You have chosen what is for many people a very challenging and rewarding labor of love: selling real estate. The fact that you are here, reading this book, is a good sign: You are already looking for an edge, advantages, and knowledge that will help push you to the top of your profession. So lets begin....

-Titulo Original : The Young Entrepreneurs Guide To Starting And Running A Business Turn Your Ideas Into Money!-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: It doesnt matter how old you are or where youre from; you can start a profitable business. The Young Entrepreneurs Guide to Starting and Running a Business will show you how.Through stories of young entrepreneurs who have started businesses, this book illustrates how to turn hobbies, skills, and interests into profit-making ventures. Mariotti describes the characteristics of the successful entrepreneur and covers the nuts and bolts of getting a business up, running and successful. Review For the real goods, go straight to Mariottis book.--Inc. magazineThe Young Entrepreneurs Guide is the bible of self-help. It not only tells the story of many young people who have made the journey to success and self-respect, but shows step-by-step how you can do the same.--Jack Kemp About the Author Steve Mariotti is the founder of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), a non-profit organization that has taught over twenty-five thousand young people across the country how to start their own small businesses. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Difference Between an Entrepreneur and an EmployeeMany people dream of owning their own business, being their own boss, and enjoying the reward of unlimited earnings. Entrepreneurship is the American dream. But most people hesitate to take the plunge. Like them, you may worry that you dont have enough money, time, or experience to start and operate your own small business.Michelle insists that there is always time to start your own business, even if youre a single mother and a full-time college student. Michelle should know; at age nineteen, she started her own business while attending college and caring for her daughters -- Angela, three years old, and Erica, age eighteen months -- and her newborn son, Kristian. Before she started her clothing resale company, À La Mode, Michelle knew nothing about running a business and had very little money. When I met Michelle, I thought she had tremendous natural elegance and poise, but it was clear that she was living a difficult life as a single mother of three children. Today, shes a successful entrepreneur.Like Michelle, most Americans earn money by working in business. Business is the buying and selling of products and services in order to make money. Someone who earns a living by working for someone elses business is an employee of that business.There are many different kinds of employees. At Ford Motor Company, for instance, some employees build the vehicles, some sell them, and some manage the company. But they all have one thing in common -- they do not own the business, they work for others who do.Entrepreneurs, in contrast, are both owners and employees. An entrepreneur is responsible for the success or failure of his or her business.Sell Something for More Than It Costs You to Buy (or Make) ItMichelle loved fashionable clothes, but she lived in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The stores in New Bedford didnt always sell the latest fashions, and, when they did, they charged high prices. During an entrepreneurship class conducted by the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Inc. (NFTE), Michelle took a trip to Manhattans wholesale clothing district. This visit gave Michelle her business idea. A wholesaler is a business that purchases products in bulk from the manufacturer and sells smaller quantities to retailers. Retailers buy small quantities from wholesalers and sell single items to customers. At each step along the road from the manufacturer to the customer, the price of the product increases.Michelle was surprised that wholesale prices were much lower than the prices of clothing in stores. Michelle knew there were, in her hometown, many young women like herself who would love to buy the latest fashions at reasonable prices. During her visit to the wholesale district, Michelle learned that all she needed to do to be able to buy...

-Titulo Original : How Remarkable Women Lead The Breakthrough Model For Work And Life-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: The Remarkable discoveries about what drives and sustains successful women leaders.Based on five years of proprietary research, How Remarkable Women Lead speaks to you as no other book has, with its hopeful outlook and unique ideas about success. Its the new right stuff of leadership, raising provocative issues such as whether feminine leadership traits (for women and men) are better suited for our fast-changing, hyper-competitive, and increasingly complex world. The authors, McKinsey & Company consultants Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston, establish the links between joy, happiness, and distinctive performance with the groundbreaking model of Centered Leadership. The books personal stories and related insights show you the magic that happens when you put the five elements of Centered Leadership-meaning, framing, connecting, engaging, and energizing-to work. They include:* How Alondra de la Parra built on her strengths and passions to infuse her life with meaning and make her way in the male-dominated world of orchestra conducting* How Andrea Jung, the CEO of Avon, avoided a downward spiral when the company turned down by firing herself on Friday and re-emerging on Monday as the new turnaround CEO* How Ruth Porats sponsors at Morgan Stanley not only helped her grow but were also her ballast for coping with difficult personal and professional times*How Eileen Naughton recovered after losing her dream job, landing on her feet at Google and open to a new leadership opportunity * How Julie Coates of Woolworths Australia makes energy key to her professional success, with reserves for her second shift as wife and motherHow Remarkable Women Lead is both profoundly moving and actionable. Woman or man, youll find yourself in its pages and emerge with a practical plan for breaking through at both work and in life. Review How Remarkable Women Lead offers some interesting ideas, such as learning to frame events in a positive light and to adapt to setbacks with optimism rather than self-doubt and pessimism. But some of the books interviews with top executives-like Avons Andrea Jung, Xeroxs Anne Mulcahy and former Qantas chairman Margaret Jackson-are long on platitudes and short on the details of how these business leaders handled various challenges.--The Wall Street JournalWe are always looking for new perspectives on growing great women leaders. How Remarkable Women Lead is a great read, with real insights and actionable ideas! The inspiring stories give an intimate look at how remarkable women really get things done, providing a development model valuable to both women and men. This refreshing and action-oriented book stands out!-Susan P. Peters, vice president, executive development and chief learning officer, General ElectricWhat makes this book singular and valuable is its wide-lens focus on the personal qualities that lead to exemplary leadership. Dont be taken in by the title: men have as much to learn from this book as women.-Warren Bennis, distinguished professor of Business Administration and university professor, University of Southern California, and author of On Becoming a LeaderHere are the stories of amazing women leaders in the context of an imaginative and pragmatic framework that rests on a rich fact base. It puts to rest stereotypes we have about who leaders are and how to lead. The seeds for our future are in here. The new CEO is a woman or a man who is not afraid to drop the John Wayne costume.-Gary Hamel, author of The Future of Management and Leading the RevolutionHow Remarkable Women Lead is a book that will truly resonate with all women. It is personal, powerful, and revealing and thereby true to how we women live and lead. The storytelling makes this unlike any business book I know; these are people who have faced every challenge imaginable and still made their mark. So truthful, so revealing, its a book at once inspirational and practical-a unique dual...

-Titulo Original : Customers For Life How To Turn That One-time Buyer Into A Lifetime Customer-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: In this completely revised and updated edition of the customer service classic, Carl Sewell enhances his time-tested advice with fresh ideas and new examples and explains how the groundbreaking “Ten Commandments of Customer Service” apply to today’s world.Drawing on his incredible success in transforming his Dallas Cadillac dealership into the second largest in America, Carl Sewell revealed the secret of getting customers to return again and again in the original Customers for Life. A lively, down-to-earth narrative, it set the standard for customer service excellence and became a perennial bestseller. Building on that solid foundation, this expanded edition features five completely new chapters, as well as significant additions to the original material, based on the lessons Sewell has learned over the last ten years. Sewell focuses on the expectations and demands of contemporary consumers and employees, showing that businesses can remain committed to quality service in the fast-paced new millennium by sticking to his time-proven approach: Figure out what customers want and make sure they get it. His “Ten Commandants” provide the essential guidelines, including: * Underpromise, overdeliver: Never disappoint your customers by charging them more than they planned. Always beat your estimate or throw in an extra service free of charge. * No complaints? Something’s wrong: If you never ask your customers what else they want, how are you going to give it to them? * Measure everything: Telling your employees to do their best won’t work if you don’t know how they can improve. From the Inside Flap letely revised and updated edition of the customer service classic (more than 600,000 copies sold), Carl Sewell enhances his time-tested advice with fresh ideas and new examples and explains how the groundbreaking Ten Commandments of Customer Service apply to todays world.Drawing on his incredible success in transforming his Dallas Cadillac dealership into the second largest in America, Carl Sewell revealed the secret of getting customers to return again and again in the original Customers for Life. A lively, down-to-earth narrative, it set the standard for customer service excellence and became a perennial bestseller. Building on that solid foundation, this expanded edition features five completely new chapters, as well as significant additions to the original material, based on the lessons Sewell has learned over the last ten years. Sewell focuses on the expectations and demands of contemporary consumers and employees, showin From the Back Cover In this completely revised and updated edition of the customer service classic (more than 600,000 copies sold), Carl Sewell enhances his time-tested advice with fresh ideas and new examples and explains how the groundbreaking Ten Commandments of Customer Service apply to todays world. Drawing on his incredible success in transforming his Dallas Cadillac dealership into the second largest in America, Carl Sewell revealed the secret of getting customers to return again and again in the original Customers for Life. A lively, down-to-earth narrative, it set the standard for customer service excellence and became a perennial bestseller. Building on that solid foundation, this expanded edition features five completely new chapters, as well as significant additions to the original material, based on the lessons Sewell has learned over the last ten years. Sewell focuses on the expectations and demands of contemporary consumers and employees, showing that businesses can remain committed to quality service in the fast-paced new millennium by sticking to his time-proven approach: Figure out what customers want and make sure they get it. His Ten Commandants provide the essential guidelines, including: - Underpromise, overdeliver: Never disappoint your customers by charging them more than they planned. Always beat your estimate or throw in an extra service fre...

-Titulo Original : Masters Of Scale Surprising Truths From The Worlds Most Successful Entrepreneurs-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: What can you learn from a Silicon Valley legend and a pantheon of iconic leaders? The key to scaling a successful business isn’t talent, network, or strategy. It’s an entrepreneurial mindset-and that mindset can be cultivated.“If you’re scaling a company-or if you just love a well-told story-this is a book to savor.”-Robert Iger, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Ride of a LifetimeBehind the scenes in Silicon Valley, Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock) is a sought-after adviser to heads of companies and heads of state. On each episode of his podcast, Masters of Scale, he sits down with a guest from an all-star list of visionary founders and leaders, digging into the surprising strategies that power their company’s growth. In this book, he draws on their most riveting, revealing stories-as well as his own experience as a founder and investor-to distill the secrets behind the most extraordinary success stories of our times.Here, Hoffman teams up with Masters of Scale’s executive producers to offer a rare window into the entrepreneurial mind, sharing hard-won wisdom from leaders of iconic companies (including Apple, Nike, Netflix, Spotify, Starbucks, Google, , and Microsoft) as well as the bold, disruptive startups (such as 23andMe, TaskRabbit, Black List, and Walker & Co.) that are solving the problems of the twenty-first century.Through vivid storytelling and incisive analysis, Masters of Scale distills their collective insights into a set of counterintuitive principles that anyone can use. How do you find a winning idea and turn it into a scalable venture? What can you learn from a “squirmy no”? When should you stop listening to your customers? Which fires should you put out right away, and which should you let burn? And can you really make money while making the world a better place? (Answer: Yes. But you have to keep your profits and values aligned.)Based on more than a hundred interviews and including a wealth of new material never aired on the podcast, this unique insider’s guide will inspire you to reimagine how you do business today. Review “[Hoffman] seizes on traits that might otherwise be missed . . . [and] earnestly contends that, through careful attention to leadership and culture, the propulsive drive to grow can be disentangled from the toxic behavior so often associated with explosive expansion. It feels like the triumph of hope over experience.”-The Wall Street Journal“Whether you’re at a startup or working to drive change within a large organization, the business principles in this book will help you deploy your strategy with creativity, integrity, and realism.”-Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft Corporation“Think of this book as a mentorship in ten chapters, with stories and advice from people you might already admire, as well as people whose journeys are just starting. Youll come away with at least a couple of new mantras and a new understanding of the how and why of building your business.”-Franklin Leonard, founder of The Black List “Reid Hoffman has a talent for getting right to the heart of a business case and turning it into an unforgettable lesson. If you’re scaling a company-or if you just love a well-told story-this is a book to savor.”-Bob Iger, executive chairman, The Walt Disney Company“[Reid Hoffman] shows how any company of any stripe can bake generosity and social good into its DNA, and how making a positive contribution to the world can be the driving force that helps your company scale.”-Daniel Lubetzky, executive chairman and founder of KIND and New York Times bestselling author of Do the KIND Thing “A book to take with you into battle as you build a company or a career. It’s full of enjoyable stories, but the killer feature is the sharp insights that Hoffman draws out-specific, memorable, and actionable mindsets.”-Reed Hastings, co-founder and co-CEO, Netflix“To lead with vision and heart, start by listening and learni...

-Titulo Original : The Hype Machine How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, And Our Health--and How We Must Adapt-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: A landmark insider’s tour of how social media affects our decision-making and shapes our world in ways both useful and dangerous, with critical insights into the social media trends of the 2020 election and beyond “The book might be described as prophetic. . . . At least two of Aral’s three predictions have come to fruition.”-New YorkNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED * LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD Social media connected the world-and gave rise to fake news and increasing polarization. It is paramount, MIT professor Sinan Aral says, that we recognize the outsize effect social media has on us-on our politics, our economy, and even our personal health-in order to steer today’s social technology toward its great promise while avoiding the ways it can pull us apart.Drawing on decades of his own research and business experience, Aral goes under the hood of the most powerful social networks to tackle the critical question of just how much social media actually shapes our choices, for better or worse. He shows how the tech behind social media offers the same set of behavior influencing levers to everyone who hopes to change the way we think and act-from Russian hackers to brand marketers-which is why its consequences affect everything from elections to business, dating to health. Along the way, he covers a wide array of topics, including how network effects fuel Twitter’s and ’s massive growth, the neuroscience of how social media affects our brains, the real consequences of fake news, the power of social ratings, and the impact of social media on our kids.In mapping out strategies for being more thoughtful consumers of social media, The Hype Machine offers the definitive guide to understanding and harnessing for good the technology that has redefined our world overnight. Review “Eminently relevant . . . [The Hype Machine] offers hope that we can re-engineer social media to better serve society.”-New Scientist“A timely and far-reaching book of great interest to anyone concerned with building a healthy public sphere in the twenty-first century.”-Zeynep Tufekci, author of Twitter and Tear Gas“What Sinan Aral has achieved with his new book The Hype Machine is probably the most comprehensive and best-structured presentation of social media’s effects based on existing scientific studies and collective experience.”-The Y Circus “The scenario Aral describes should scare any technology leader, user of social media technology, or citizen within a democracy. . . . This book is worth reading to understand the sophistication of social media analytics alone.”-Myles Suer, CMS Wire “This is the most important book of the year! Our friendships, economy, and society now depend on billions of social media connections, and no one on the planet understands them better than Sinan Aral. . . . A lively, engaging masterpiece.”-Erik Brynjolfsson, bestselling co-author of The Second Machine Age“In a sea of books about social media, this is the one to read. Aral understands the new social age like no one else, and The Hype Machine offers the single best examination of how social media works and how we can make it better.”-Clint Watts, author of Messing with the Enemy“An immensely interesting, informative, and provocative look at the biggest technological questions of our time, and the future of our democracy.”-Eli Pariser, bestselling author of The Filter Bubble“The Hype Machine is a riveting story of social media’s impact on how we live. Part spy novel and part science thriller, this book is an essential guide to ensuring our digital future.”-Jonah Berger, bestselling author of Contagious“A breathtaking journey through the economics, technology, and behavioral psychology of how we can capture the promise of social media and avoid its peril.”-Maria Ressa, CEO of Rappler and a Time Person of the Year for 2018“Full of rigor and insight, The Hype Machine tackles some of the most pr...

-Titulo Original : How To Think A Survival Guide For A World At Odds-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now. -David Brooks, New York TimesHow to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume-but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper’s, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America’s culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us-political, social, religious-Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we’re doomed to be divided, but because the people involved simply aren’t thinking. Most of us don’t want to think. Thinking is trouble. Thinking can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and it can complicate our relationships with like-minded friends. Finally, thinking is slow, and that’s a problem when our habits of consuming information (mostly online) leave us lost in the spin cycle of social media, partisan bickering, and confirmation bias. In this smart, endlessly entertaining book, Jacobs diagnoses the many forces that act on us to prevent thinking-forces that have only worsened in the age of Twitter, “alternative facts,” and information overload-and he also dispels the many myths we hold about what it means to think well. (For example: It’s impossible to “think for yourself.”) Drawing on sources as far-flung as novelist Marilynne Robinson, basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain, British philosopher John Stuart Mill, and Christian theologian C.S. Lewis, Jacobs digs into the nuts and bolts of the cognitive process, offering hope that each of us can reclaim our mental lives from the impediments that plague us all. Because if we can learn to think together, maybe we can learn to live together, too. Review Absolutely splendid . . . Jacobs’s emphasis on the relational nature of thinking is essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now . . . Back when they wrote the book of Proverbs it was said, By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. These days, a soft tongue doesn’t get you very far, but someday it might again.”-David Brooks, New York Times“Wise and delightful . . . In seven brief chapters, Mr. Jacobs suggests methods by which readers may cultivate habits that encourage the charitable and clear expression of thought . . . The reasons educated and otherwise well-functioning Americans have fallen into habits of name calling and gross intellectual dishonesty, he argues, can’t be boiled down to philosophical disagreements or some atavistic cultural neurosis. It’s the result of laziness. Mr. Jacobs insists we must try harder.”-Wall Street JournalThis may not be the most uncivil political era of all time, Jacobs argues, but there’s something about it that is distinctively terrible . . . How to Think is part essay, part lament, part how-to guide for processing the world more generously. -The Atlantic“Refreshing and hopeful, even as it points out some of our worst habits of ‘not thinking’-our tendency toward snap judgment, for instance, or our creation of and animosity toward ‘Repugnant Cultural Others.’ . . . Whatever your positions, this book is a guide in how you should hold those positions, and how you should regard and interact with those of a fundamentally different mind. -The Paris Review (Staff Pick)Witty, engaging, and ultimately hopeful, Jacobs’s guide is sorely needed in a society where partisanship too often trumps the pursuit of knowledge.-Publishers Weekly“Wonderful . . . a lively antidote to magical thinking.” -Christianity Today“Just when it feels like weve all lost our minds, here comes Alan Jacobs’s How to Think, a book infused with the thoughtfulness, generosity, and humor of a lifelong ...

-Titulo Original : Trailblazer The Power Of Business As The Greatest Platform For Change-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The founder and co-CEO of Salesforce delivers an inspiring vision for successful companies of the future-in which changing the world is everyone’s business.“The gold standard on how to use business as a platform for change at this urgent time.”-Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates and author of Principles: Life and WorkWhat’s the secret to business growth and innovation and a purpose-driven career in a world that is becoming vastly more complicated by the day? According to Marc Benioff, the answer is embracing a culture in which your values permeate everything you do.In Trailblazer, Benioff gives readers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of one of the world’s most admired companies. He reveals how Salesforce’s core values-trust, customer success, innovation, and equality-and commitment to giving back have become the company’s greatest competitive advantage and the most powerful engine of its success. Because no matter what business you’re in, Benioff says, values are the bedrock of a resilient company culture that inspires all employees, at every level, to do the best work of their lives. Along the way, he shares insights and best practices for anyone who wants to cultivate a company culture positioned to thrive in the face of the inevitable disruption ahead.None of us in the business world can afford to sit on the sidelines and ignore what’s going on outside the walls of our workplaces. In the future, profits and progress will no longer be sustainable unless they serve the greater good. Whether you run a company, lead a small team, or have just draped an ID badge around your neck for the first time, Trailblazer reveals how anyone can become an agent of change.Praise for Trailblazer“A guide for what every business and organization must do to thrive in this period of profound political and economic change.”-Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase“In Trailblazer, Benioff explores how companies can nurture a values-based culture to become powerful platforms for change.”-Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube Review “Trailblazer is an urgent and compelling book for anyone in business who yearns to fulfill a higher mission in the world. Marc’s powerful and poignant stories of leadership remind each of us what we can achieve when we abandon business as usual and make our values the driving force of our work.”-Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, author and philanthropist“Marc Benioff is a champion in more ways than one! I was truly inspired by his example of how values like trust, inclusion and giving back are the foundation of successful businesses and careers. Trailblazer lays out a model for a winning culture where everyone has an equal opportunity to have their voice heard.”-Billie Jean King, tennis champion and social-justice and equality activist“Benioff shares how his business became hugely successful not in spite of his determination to do what he believed in, but because of it. He provides a role model for talented young people in the business world, and for everyone who wants to make a positive impact.”-Jane Goodall, primatologist and world-renowned conservationist“With intelligence, candor and spiritual depth, Benioff generously shares invaluable lessons-often learned the hard way working through contentious and challenging situations-from two decades leading one of the world’s most admired companies. From the Salesforce teams that have collectively volunteered millions of hours to improve public schools and other compelling causes, to the companys stance on social issues beyond the bottom line, Benioff sets an incredibly inspiring example.”-will.i.am, Grammy award-winning artist, tech innovator, and philanthropist“In Trailblazer, Marc shares his journey establishing a set of values deeply woven into the fabric of Salesforce. By creating a company rooted in trust, Marc explores how companies can nurture a value-based cult...

-Titulo Original : The Present The Gift For Changing Times-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: For over two decades, Spencer Johnson has been inspiring readers with his simple yet profound stories of the challenges we face in these times of unprecedented change. The Present is an engaging story of a young man’s journey to adulthood, and his tireless search for The Present, a mysterious and elusive gift he first hears about from a wise old man. This Present, according to the old man, is the most valuable gift a person can receive. Why? Because it is the one thing that doesn’t change in changing times. As the young boy becomes a man, he grows disillusioned with his work and his life. So he returns to ask the old man to help him find The Present. The old man responds, “Only you have the power to find The Present for yourself.” Heeding the old man’s advice, the young man embarks on a worldwide search for this magical gift that remains unchanging in a changing world, and holds the secret to personal happiness and lifelong success. It is only after the young man has searched high and low and all but given up his relentless pursuit that he discovers The Present-and all of the promises it offers. Like the young man, you may find that it is the best gift you can ever give to yourself - and to those you care about. Review “Many of the people I have observed could have been even happier and more successful, in their careers and their lives, had they been given the gift of The Present.”-Norman Augustine, Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation; Former Under Secretary of the U.S. Army About the Author Spencer Johnson, M.D., is one of the most respected and beloved authors in the world. He has helped millions of readers discover how to use simple, profound truths that lead to less stress and more success at work and at home. Inspiring and entertaining people with his insightful stories that speak directly to the heart and soul, he is often referred to as the best there is at taking complex subjects and presenting simple solutions that work.Dr. Johnson is the author or co-author of many New York Times bestsellers, including three #1 titles: Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change In Your Work and Life; The One Minute Manager®, the world’s most popular management method, co-authored with Kenneth Blanchard; and The Present: The Gift That Makes Your Work And Life Better Each Day!After graduating with a B.A. in psychology from the University of Southern California, Dr. Johnson received his M.D. degree from the Royal College of Surgeons, and completed medical clerkships at the Mayo Clinic and the Harvard Medical School.He served as Director of Communications for Medtronic, the inventors of cardiac pacemakers; Research Physician at The Institute for Inter-Disciplinary Studies; Consultant to The Center for Study of the Person; and most recently Leadership Fellow at the Harvard Business School.His work has captured the attention of major media, including the BBC, CNN, Fortune, New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Today show, Time magazine, and USA Today.Over thirty million copies of Dr. Johnson’s books are available in more than forty languages. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Before the StoryLate one afternoon, Bill Green received an urgent phone call from Liz Michaels, who he used to work with. She had heard Bill was experiencing great success, and she got right to the point, Could I meet with you soon? she asked. He thought he heard strain in her voice. Bill said yes and rearranged his schedule so they could meet for lunch the next day. When Liz entered the restaurant, he noticed how tired she looked. After some small talk and ordering their meals, Liz told him, I have Harrisons job now.Congratulations, Bill said. Im not surprised youve been promoted.Thanks, but the problems are mounting, she admitted. A lot has changed since you were with us. We have fewer people, but more work. There never seems to be enough time ...

-Titulo Original : The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook Strategies And Tools For Building A Learning Organization-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: Senges best-selling The Fifth Discipline led Business Week to dub him the new guru of the corporate world; here he offers executives a step-by-step guide to building learning organizations of their own. From the Publisher Senges best-selling The Fifth Discipline led Business Week to dub him the new guru of the corporate world; here he offers executives a step-by-step guide to building learning organizations of their own. From the Inside Flap -selling The Fifth Discipline led Business Week to dub him the new guru of the corporate world; here he offers executives a step-by-step guide to building learning organizations of their own. From the Back Cover Senges best-selling The Fifth Discipline led Business Week to dub him the new guru of the corporate world; here he offers executives a step-by-step guide to building learning organizations of their own. About the Author Peter M. Senge, senior lecturer at MIT and the founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), is the author or coauthor of several bestselling books, including The Fifth Discipline, Schools That Learn, and Presence. He was named as one of the 24 people who had “the greatest influence on business strategy over the last 100 years” by the Journal of Business Strategy...

-Titulo Original : The Money Book For Freelancers, Part-timers, And The Self-employed The Only Personal Finance System For People With Not-so-regular Jobs-Fabricante : Currency-Descripcion Original: Having trouble earning and saving enough as a freelancer? Learn the money secrets every self-employed person needs to know!Can your earning style be cheerfully described as a cycle of feast or famine? Are the checks for every gig or project you invoice for arriving well after you need to pay your monthly bills? Every freelancer knows its not easy living on an irregular income. But now you can take heart. Longtime freelancers and bestselling authors Joseph DAgnese and Denise Kiernan share the easy-to-follow system that allowed them to build wealth and financial security while never sacrificing the creative careers they loved.Every self-employed persons journey is unique, but wealth-building actually consists of taking the same simple but critical actions with your money month after month. Through trial and error, DAgnese and Kiernan hammered out a money-management system that allows people without a weekly paycheck to achieve precious financial peace of mind. For the first time, you can get your hands on their best practices for achieving your long-held money goals.The Money Book for Freelancers, Part-Timers, and the Self-Employed describes a completely new, comprehensive system for earning, spending, saving, and surviving as an independent worker. From interviews with financial experts to anecdotes from real-life freelancers, plus handy charts and graphs to help you visualize key concepts. Youll discover how to pay bills even when the money isnt flowing your way, how to put in place a bulletproof system for saving, how to eradicate debt, and how to plan for all the things you absolutely deserve.This entertaining book is packed with straightforward, honest, and practical advice, as well as easy-to-follow savings plans you can activate tomorrow. If you like quick, punchy reads, then youll love having Joe and Denise on your team. You cannot afford to miss the indispensable course that has helped thousands of freelancers take the empowered path to achievable wealth and financial security.Buy The Money Book for Freelancers, Part-Timers, and the Self-Employed and start on your path to prosperity today. Review “‘The Money Book’ lays out the key issues for workers who dont have benefits. It hits on the major themes of saving regularly, planning for retirement, and managing your taxes when you, the worker, are ultimately responsible. Its conversational tone makes it easily accessible for readers who arent inclined to read about how to crunch numbers and budget.”-Associated PressThe Money Book is an indispensable survival guide that belongs on the desk of every independent worker who is willing do whatever it takes to achieve success.- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette“Through trial and error, veteran freelancers DAgnese and Kiernan worked out a money-management system that allowed them to save for emergencies and retirement, pay off debt, buy benefits, cover their taxes and survive the droughts in business that seem an inevitable part of working for yourself. They convey all this in a book thats irreverent and hugely entertaining.” -MSN Money“Developed from the personal experiences of the authors, this book is fun and relevant, with no other recent work quite comparable. Recommended for anyone who is self-employed now or is facing a new work-life situation.”-Library Journal About the Author Joseph DAgnese is a freelance writer who has written forThe New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, This Old House, and many other magazines and newspapers. He has been published extensively in Discover, and also in Seedand Wired, and was twice named to the annual anthology,Best American Science Writing. Hes the author of a childrens picture book, Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci. Denise Kiernan has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, Saveur, Discover, Ms., New York Daily News, and many other publications. She was head writer of ABCs Who Wants to be a Mi...