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What'd I Say: The Atlantic Story- 50 Years of Music By : Ahmet Ertegun ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The official behind-the-scenes story of the meteroic rise of Rock and Roll by the people who made it history. Book Detail : Author : Ahmet Ertegun Pages : 565 pages Publisher : Welcome Rain Publishers Language : eng ISBN-10 : 1566490480 ISBN-13 : 9781566490481   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure By : Henry Petroski ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly sixty-five thousand bridges in the United States as "structurally deficient." This crisis--and one need look no further than the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota to see that it is indeed a crisis--shows little sign of abating short of a massive change in attitude amongst politicians and the American public.In The Road Taken, acclaimed historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from historical and contemporary perspectives and explains how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health. Recounting the long history behind America's highway system, Petroski reveal...

The Target Story: How the Iconic Big Box Store Hit the Bullseye and Created an Addictive Retail Experience By : Bill Chastain ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Imagine?if you could be a fly on the wall? as?a family enterprise?becomes?one?of?the most successful companies in the world.?The Target Story?will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled the big box store to become the retail giant it is today.??In an industry that has seen constant disruption over the last two decades, Target has experienced tremendous growth. Establishing a strong eCommerce business and cultivating a?sought-after?in-store experience has kept this iconic brand at the top of the?retail?game. From same-day fulfillment to brand partnerships, Target has successfully fought the domination of online marketplaces by thinking outside the big box.??The?growth, prosperity, and expansion?strategies?that c...

Indian Motorcycle?: America's First Motorcycle Company By : Darwin Holmstrom ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : 2017 Gold Medal Winner of the International?Automotive Media Competition!?Indian Motorcycle(R): America's First Motorcycle Company(tm) tells the complete story of Indian, America's first mass-produced motorcycle maker, from its start as a bicycle manufacturer to the purchase of the brand by Polaris Industries in 2011 and the subsequent new Indian motorcycles. In the early years of the 20th century, Indian dominated the world's racetracks, earning the brand a worldwide reputation for quality, performance, reliability, and technical innovation, but the once-mighty company fell on hard times and in 1953 was forced to file bankruptcy.The Indian brand never quite died, though, thanks in large part to fanatically devoted enthusiasts, who tried to resurrect it for over half a century. Finally Polaris, maker of the highly regarde...

Wild Ride: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty By : Ann Hagedorn Auerbach ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : An award-winning writer chronicles the tragic story behind the downfall of horse racing's crown jewel.Founded in 1924 by Chicago mogul William Monroe Wright, Calumet Farm was to the world of thoroughbred racing what the New York Yankees are to baseball -- a sports dynasty. The stable bred so many superstars that it became the standard by which all achievements were measured in the horse racing industry. But during the 1980s, a web of financial schemes left Calumet destitute.Wild Ride is Ann Hagedorn Auerbach's investigation of the fast-track, multibillion-dollar thoroughbred industry and the fall of Calumet -- the inside story of a debacle that extended further than anyone could have imagined. Spanning four generations, this fast-paced saga brings to life a gallery of colorful charact...

Big Book of Harley-Davidson: Special Centennial Edition By : Thomas Bolfert ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Chronicles the rise of a modern legend, from its humble beginnings in a 10-foot by 15-foot shed to its present position, a century later, as one of the world's most successful motorcycle manufacturers. Follow the trail of this American success story as it winds through history, decade by decade, influenced by wars, the economy, and intense competition from domestic and foreign rivals. Illustrated by over 1,000 photographs dating back to the turn of the century, The Big book of Harley-Davidson provides a revealing acount of this American icon. The Special Centennial Edition is updated to include new information. Book Detail : Author : Thomas Bolfert Pages : 316 pages Publisher : Motorbooks Language : ISBN-10 : 0760314462 ISBN-13 : 9780760314463   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, A...

Infrastructure's Role in Lowering Asia's Trade Costs: Building for Trade By : Douglas H. Brooks ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : This book analyses and draws policy implications from infrastructure's central role in lowering Asia's trade costs. Infrastructure is shown to be a cost-effective means of lowering trade costs and thereby promoting regional growth and integration. This book combines thematic and country studies, while breaking new ground in quantifying infrastructure's impact on Asia's trade costs. The contributors examine empirical estimates of Asia's trade costs and infrastructure's influence on those costs while also contributing to a better understanding of the region's logistics challenges. The book includes interesting case studies of rapid growth and congestion (in PRC), inland transportation challenges (India), port competition in an archipelago (Indonesia) and transportation modal switching ...

Flying Blind: Boeing's Max Tragedy and the Lost Soul of an American Icon By : Peter Robison ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cutthroat management--that contributed to one of the worst tragedies in modern aviationBoeing is a century-old titan of American industry. The largest exporter in the US, it played a central role in the early days of commercial flight, World War II bombing missions, and moon landings. It remains a linchpin in the awesome routine of air travel today. But the two crashes of its 737 MAX 8, in 2018 and 2019, exposed a shocking pattern of malfeasance, leading to the biggest crisis in the company's history. How did things go so horribly wrong at Boeing?Flying Blind is the definitive expos? of a corporate scandal that has transfixed the world. It reveals how a broken corporate culture paved the way for disaster, losses that we...

Knights of the Broadax: The Story of the Wyoming Tie Hacks By : Joan Trego Pinkerton ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : At one time, Wyoming provided most of the ties for the nation's railroads. Knights of the Broadax, the Story of the Wyoming Tie Hack, recalls the period beginning in 1914 when strong men, mostly Scandinavians, were carving railroad crossties out of the upper Wind River mountains. Their only tools were their own brute strength, a crosscut saw, a broadax and a double-bitted ax. A good Hack could cut as many as 50 ties a day, with most destined for the Chicago and North Western Railroad.Set against the breathtaking beauty of northwestern Wyoming, this story in words and more than 180 photos, takes the reader back to a way of life lived in near isolation, with only the company town owned the Wyoming Tie & Timber Company.By the early 1930s mechanization began to influence the business as 3-man mobile sawmills became available...

Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex By : William D. Hartung ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : Enthralling and explosive, Prophets of War is an expos' of America's largest military contractor, Lockheed Martin. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his famous warning about the dangers of the military industrial complex, he never would have dreamed that a company could accumulate the kind of power and influence now wielded by this behemoth company. As a full-service weapons maker, Lockheed Martin receives over 25 billion per year in Pentagon contracts. From aircraft and munitions, to the abysmal Star Wars missile defense program, to the spy satellites that the NSA has used to monitor Americans' phone calls without their knowledge, Lockheed Martin's reaches into all areas of US defense and American life. William Hartung's meticulously researched history follows the company's meteoric gro...

A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity By : Nicholas D. Kristof ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : With scrupulous research and on-the-ground reporting, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore how altruism affects us, what are the markers for success, and how to avoid the pitfalls. In their recounting of astonishing stories from the front lines of social progress, we see the compelling, inspiring truth of how real people have changed the world, underscoring that one person can make a difference. ?A Path Appears offers practical, results-driven advice on how best each of us can give and reveals the lasting benefits we gain in return. Kristof and WuDunn know better than most how many urgent challenges communities around the world face to?day. Here they offer a timely beacon of hope for our collective future. Book Detail : Author : Nicholas D. Kristof Pages : 400 pages Publisher : Vintage Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0345805100 ISBN-13 : 97...

Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World By : Alexia Salvatierra ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : With so many injustices, small and great, across the world and right at our doorstep, what are people of faith to do? Since the 1930s, organizing movements for social justice in the U.S. have largely been built on assumptions that are secular origin--such as reliance on self-interest and having a common enemy as a motivator for change. But what if Christians were to shape their organizing around the implications of the truth that God is real and Jesus is risen? Alexia Salvatierra has developed a model of social action that is rooted in the values and convictions born of faith. Together with theologian Peter Heltzel, this model of faith-rooted organizing offers a path to meaningful social change that takes seriously the command to love God and to love our neighbor as ourself. Book Detail : Author : Alexia Salvatierra Pag...

Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the "Ground Zero Mosque" Controversy By : Rosemary Corbett ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Drawing on a decade of research into the community that proposed the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque," this book refutes the idea that current demands for Muslim moderation have primarily arisen in response to the events of 9/11, or to the violence often depicted in the media as unique to Muslims. Instead, it looks at a century of pressures on religious minorities to conform to dominant American frameworks for race, gender, and political economy. These include the encouraging of community groups to provide social services to the dispossessed in compensation for the government's lack of welfare provisions in an aggressively capitalist environment. Calls for Muslim moderation in particular are also colored by racist and orientalist stereotypes about the inherent pacifism of Sufis with respect...

Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) By : David Bornstein ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create amore peaceful world.David Bornstein's previous book on social entrepreneurship, How to Change the World, was hailed by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times as a bible in the field and published in more than twenty countries. Now, Bornstein shifts the focus from the profiles of successful social innovators in thatbook--and teams with Susan Davis, a founding board member of the Grameen Foundation--to offer the first general overview of social entrepreneurship. In a Q & A format allowing readers to go directly to the information they need, the authors ma...

Older and Wiser: New Ideas for Youth Mentoring in the 21st Century By : Jean E Rhodes ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : Youth mentoring programs must change in order to become truly effective. The world's leading expert shows how.Youth mentoring is among the most popular forms of volunteering in the world. But does it work? Does mentoring actually help young people succeed? In Older and Wiser, mentoring expert Jean Rhodes draws on more than thirty years of empirical research to survey the state of the field. Her conclusion is sobering: there is little evidence that most programs--even renowned, trusted, and long-established ones--are effective. But there is also much reason for hope.Mentoring programs, Rhodes writes, do not focus on what young people need. Organizations typically prioritize building emotional bonds between mentors and mentees. But research makes clear that effective programs emphasize the development of specific social, emotional, and...

Once a Warrior: How One Veteran Found a New Mission Closer to Home By : Jake Wood ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : The book that America needs right now.--Tom Brokaw, journalist and author of The Greatest GenerationWhen Marine sniper Jake Wood arrived in the States after two bloody tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he wasn't leaving war behind him--far from it. Ten years after returning home, Jake's unit lost more men to suicide than to enemy hands overseas. He watched in horror as his best friend and fellow Marine, Clay Hunt, plunged into depression upon returning, stripped of his purpose, community, and sense of identity. Despite Jake's attempts to intervene, Clay died by suicide, alone.Reeling, Jake remembered how only one thing had given Clay a measure of hope: joining him in Haiti on a ragtag mission to save lives immediately following the 2010 earthquake. His military training had rendered him unusually effective in high-stakes situations. ...

Building Your Volunteer Team: A 30-Day Change Project for Youth Ministry By : Mark DeVries ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : Do you find yourself again and again wondering what it would take to get some new volunteers onboard for your ministry? And yet does it seem that you are never able to focus your energy on recruitment? Maybe you find yourself saying things like: "It's just easier for me to do it myself." At one level, of course, this is true. Almost always, it is easier to "do it ourselves." We avoid the hassle of having to coordinate and communicate. We avoid having to follow up with people who drop the ball. Youth leaders Mark DeVries and Nate Stratman have heard dozens of reasons why leaders choose not to build a solid volunteer team. But faithful ministry is not a do-it-yourself project. It's more than just recruiting--it involves changing the culture of your ministry so that volunteers want to become involved.That...

Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference By : William MacAskill ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Most of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem worthy, choose careers we consider meaningful, and patronize businesses and buy products we believe make the world a better place.?Unfortunately, we often base these decisions on assumptions and emotions rather than facts. As a result, even our best intentions often lead to ineffective?and sometimes downright harmful?outcomes. How can we do better? While a researcher at Oxford, trying to figure out which career would allow him to have the greatest impact, William MacAskill confronted this problem head on. He discovered that much of the potential for change was being squandered by lack of information, bad data, and our own prejudice. As an antidote, he and his colleagues developed effective altruism, a practical, data-driv...

Adulting 101 Book 2: #liveyourbestlife By : Josh Burnette ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Growing old is mandatory.? Growing up is optional. Welcome to your twenties: the land of in-between. It?s a decade of transition and change that carries an expectation of figuring it all out by thirty. Many of us launch into this season of life feeling woefully unprepared and anxious, wondering how we can already feel so lost.Adulting 101 Book 2: #liveyourbestlife provides you with a clear vision of what a healthy adult looks like, equips you with the necessary tools to begin a meaningful adulthood, and offers critical resources to fulfill your purpose. With relatable stories, relevant research, and input from trusted mental health professionals, this book will help you:assess yourself honestlyimplement lasting, healthy habitsdevelop social awareness and emotional and cultural intelligencecultivate grit and resilienceidentify signs of anxiety, depression, ...

Purposeful Retirement: The Baby Boomers' Guide to a New Level of Happiness By : Hyrum W. Smith ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : You ve had a successful life and career by almost all measures. Now, you re retiring. You are definitely not a couch potato and need something meaningful and inspiring for your second act. Is there a way to make intelligent choices? Can you learn from the lives and experiences of people who have chosen a purposeful retirement? Award winning author, distinguished speaker, and successful businessman Hyrum W. Smith offers tested and actionable approaches to finding that perfect retirement niche. In this book, Hyrum enables you to map the step-by-step route to a retirement that is not just enjoyable but is also deeply fulfilling on a personal level. Author Hyrum W. Smith shares a life-time of wisdom into this encouraging guide todiscovering your true passion, re-imagining your life, and trying out new possibilities....

Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients By : Ray Moynihan ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : Thirty years ago, the head of the drug company Merck made some remarkably candid comments about his distress that his company's market was limited to sick people. Suggesting he would like Merck to be more like the maker of Wrigley's chewing gum, the CEO said it had long been his dream to make drugs for healthy people, to "sell to everyone." That dream now drives the marketing machinery of the most profitable industry on earth. From award-winning Ray Moynihan, -- one of the world's top medical journalists -- Selling Sickness reveals how widening the boundaries of illness and lowering the threshold for treatments is creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits. This in turn is driving up personal drug bills and threatening to bankrupt national health systems all over...

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things By : William McDonough ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : "Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model, dating to the Industrial Revolution, that creates such fantastic amounts of waste and pollution in the first place. Why not challenge the belief that human industry must damage the natural world? In fact, why not take nature itself as our model for making things? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we consider its abundance not wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective.Waste equals food. Guided by this principle, McDonough and Braungart explain how products can be desig...

Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town By : Brian Alexander ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass House, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown 35 years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion.The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world?s largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster?s society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster?s citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon as he tries to rescue the company from the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhi...

Manufacturing Processes: Materials, Productivity, and Lean Strategies By : J. Barry DuVall ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Manufacturing Processes provides an excellent introduction to today?s manufacturing processes, as well as an overview of automated manufacturing systems. The text concentrates on the five major types of industrial materials: metals, plastics, ceramics, woods, and composites. It provides thorough coverage of the forming, separating, fabricating, conditioning, and finishing processes related to each material. The text includes a chapter covering the materials and manufacturing processes used in packaging finished goods. Book Detail : Author : J. Barry DuVall Pages : 528 pages Publisher : Goodheart-Willcox Language : ISBN-10 : 1605255696 ISBN-13 : 9781605255699   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

Welcome Problems, Find Success: Creating Toyota Cultures Around the World By : Nate Furuta ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : In this book, author Nate Furuta, former chair and CEO of Toyota Boshoku America Inc., shares the story of his decades of experience directly leading the establishment of Toyota cultures outside Japan. Furuta was the first Toyota employee on the ground at New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI), Toyota's joint venture in California with General Motors, where he directly led the establishment of the most revolutionary labor-management agreement in the history of the US auto industry. In addition, Furuta was the first Toyota employee on the ground in Georgetown Kentucky at Toyota's first full-scale, wholly owned manufacturing operation outside Japan, where he led (working directly with President Fujio Cho) the establishment of Toyota's general management systems and culture there.This book tells the stories of...

The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America By : Gabriel Winant ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Men in hardhats were once the heart of America's working class; now it is women in scrubs. What does this shift portend for our future?Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy--particularly health care, which employs more Americans than any other industry. Gabriel Winant takes us inside the Rust Belt to show how America's cities have weathered new economic realities. In Pittsburgh's neighborhoods, he finds that a new working class has emerged in the wake of deindustrialization.As steelworkers and their families grew older, they required more health care. Even as the industrial economy contracted sharply, the care economy...

The Basics of Process Improvement By : Tristan Boutros ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : Unlike other books that promote a specific process and performance improvement discipline, this book shows organizations how to achieve success by fixing basic operational issues and problems using a broad and wide-sweeping process-based toolkit. In addition, it helps individuals who have worked in stale- or siloed-thinking enterprises make the transition to a process or improvement-oriented culture and teaches those who are unfamiliar with process tools to look at their work with a new lens and adopt a continuous improvement and analytical-thinking mindset.The authors have successfully used the various methods, tools, and concepts found in this book to overcome practical, daily problems at various organizations. This book will surely help operators, managers, practitioners, and executives, who are charged with improving processes and workplace culture, produce better ...

Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town By : Brian Alexander ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land*A New York Post Must-Read Book**A Newsweek Best New Book**One of The Week's 20 Books to Read in 2017**One of Bustle's 16 Best Nonfiction Books Coming in February 2017**Best Non-Fiction/2017 Books by the Banks*The Wall Street Journal: "A devastating portrait...For anyone wondering why swing-state America voted against the establishment in 2016, Mr. Alexander supplies plenty of answers." Laura Miller, Slate: "This book hunts bigger game. Reads like an odd?and oddly satisfying?fusion of George Packer?s The Unwinding and one of Michael Lewis? real-life financial thrillers."The New Yorker : "Does a remarkable job." Beth Macy, author of Factory Man: "This book should be required reading for people trying to understand Trumpism, ineq...

Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success By : Scott Davis ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : Three top Wall Street analysts reveal enduring lessons in sustainable success from the great industrial titans--the high-tech companies of their day--to the disruptors that now dominate the economy.Before Silicon Valley disrupted the world with new technologies and business models, America's industrial giants paved the way. Companies like General Electric, United Technologies, and Caterpillar were the Google and Amazon of their day, setting gold standards in innovation, growth, and profitability. Today's leaders can learn a great deal from their successes, as well as their missteps. In this essential guide, three veteran Wall Street analysts reveal ttitittirit220.mail4@blogger.comss lessons from the titans of industry--and offer battle-tested survival tactics for an e...

Leading the Lean Enterprise Transformation By : George Koenigsaecker ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : Updated with new information, illustrations, and leadership tools, Leading the Lean Enterprise Transformation, Second Edition describes how the metrics used by Toyota drive every line item in a financial statement in the right direction. Rather than focus on Lean tools and principles, the new edition of this bestselling reference focuses on what may be the least understood and most critical aspect of a Lean transformation: the building of a Lean culture. In addition to new appendices with background information and insightful stories on Lean leadership and implementation, it includes new information on tactical organization practices, strategy deployment, and Lean culture.An inductee to IndustryWeek's Hall of Fame, George Koenigsaecker illustrates successful strategies and valuable lessons learned with case histories of U.S. leaders who have been ins...

Start Your Own Business: The Only Startup Book You'll Ever Need By : The Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Tapping into more than 33 years of small business expertise, the staff at Entrepreneur Media takes today's entrepreneurs beyond opening their doors and through the first three years of ownership. This revised edition features amended chapters on choosing a business, adding partners, getting funded, and managing the business structure and employees, and also includes help understanding the latest tax and healthcare reform information and legalities. Book Detail : Author : The Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc Pages : 818 pages Publisher : Entrepreneur Press Language : eng ISBN-10 : 1599186292 ISBN-13 : 9781599186290   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires By : Tim Wu ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : It is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industry?from the telephone to radio to film?once existed in an open and chaotic marketplace inhabited by entrepreneurs and utopians, just as the Internet does today. Each of these, however, grew to be dominated by a monopolist or cartel. In this pathbreaking book, Tim Wu asks: will the Internet follow the same fate? Could the Web?the entire flow of American information?come to be ruled by a corporate leviathan in possession of "the master switch"?Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today?s great information powers?Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T?Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire. He shows how a battle royale for Internet?s future is brewing, and this is one war we dar...

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation By : Jon Gertner ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs?officially, the research and development wing of AT&T?was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the world. From the transistor to the laser, it?s hard to find an aspect of modern life that hasn?t been touched by Bell Labs.Why did so many transformative ideas come from Bell Labs? In The Idea Factory, Jon Gertner traces the origins of some of the twentieth century?s most important inventions and delivers a riveting and heretofore untold chapter of American history. At its heart this is a story about the life and work of a small group of brilliant and eccentric men?Mervin Kelly, Bill Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and Bill Baker?who spent their careers at Bell Labs. Their job was to research and develop the future of comm...

Who Is Michael Ovitz? By : Michael Ovitz ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : If you're going to read one book about Hollywood, this is the one. ? As the co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Michael Ovitz earned a reputation for ruthless negotiation, brilliant strategy, and fierce loyalty to his clients. He reinvented the role of the agent and helped shape the careers of hundreds of A-list entertainers, directors, and writers, including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Sean Connery, Bill Murray, Robin Williams, and David Letterman. ? But this personal history is much more than a fascinating account of celebrity friendships and bare-knuckled dealmaking. It's also an underdog's story: How did a middle-class kid from Encino work his way into the William Morris mailroom, and eventually become the most powerful person in Hollywood? How did an agent (even a superagent) also become a power in producing, advertising, mergers ...

Better Presentations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks By : Jonathan Schwabish ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Whether you are a university professor, researcher at a think tank, graduate student, or analyst at a private firm, chances are that at some point you have presented your work in front of an audience. Most of us approach this task by converting a written document into slides, but the result is often a text-heavy presentation saddled with bullet points, stock images, and graphs too complex for an audience to decipher--much less understand. Presenting is fundamentally different from writing, and with only a little more time, a little more effort, and a little more planning, you can communicate your work with force and clarity.Designed for presenters of scholarly or data-intensive content, Better Presentations details essential strategies for developing clear, sophisticated, and visually captivating presentations. Following th...

Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, & Be Generally Amazing on All Social Networks That Matter By : Dave Kerpen ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : Harness the power of social media to attract new customers and transform your business! More than three billion people are now on social media. If you're not in the social media marketing game, you're not in the game at all. From one of the world's leading figures in the world of social media marketing, Likeable Social Media reveals everything you need to know about building your brand and attracting & retaining loyal customers through smart, savvy social media engagement.This updated edition of the bestselling classic is packed with expert advice and new case studies that demonstrate the latest best practices. You'll find critical information about new and relevant social media platforms, such as Snapchat, along with updated tools, and tactic...

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation By : Jon Gertner ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T-was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the world. From the transistor to the laser, from digital communications to cellular telephony, it's hard to find an aspect of modern life that hasn't been touched by Bell Labs.In The Idea Factory, Jon Gertner traces the origins of some of the twentieth century's most important inventions and delivers a riveting and heretofore untold chapter of American history. At its heart this is a story about the life and work of a small group of brilliant and eccentric men-Mervin Kelly, Bill Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and Bill Baker-who spent their careers at Bell Labs.Today, when the drive to invent has become a mantra, Bell Labs...

Marvel Comics: The Untold Story By : Sean Howe ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : An unvarnished, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes account of one of the most dominant pop cultural forces in contemporary America.Operating out of a tiny office on Madison Avenue in the early 1960s, a struggling company called Marvel Comics presented a cast of brightly costumed characters distinguished by smart banter and compellingly human flaws. Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, the Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, the X-Men, Daredevil?these superheroes quickly won children's hearts and sparked the imaginations of pop artists, public intellectuals, and campus radicals. Over the course of a half century, Marvel's epic universe would become the most elaborate fictional narrative in history and serve as a modern American mythology for millions of readers.Throughout this decades-long journey to becoming a multibillion-dollar enterpris...

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads By : Tim Wu ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch (a New Yorker and Fortune Book of the Year) and who coined the term "net neutrality? - a revelatory, ambitious, and urgent account of how the capture and resale of human attention became the defining industry of our time.Feeling attention-challenged? Even assaulted? American business depends on it.Attention merchant: an industrial-scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of messaging, advertising enticements, branding, sponsored social media, and other efforts to harvest our attention. Few moments or spaces of our day remain uncultivated by the "attention merchants", contributing to the distracted, unfocused tenor of our...