Top Business & Economics eBooks

Outsourcing Through RentACoder eBook by Miller, Nicole

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 53:11:33 GMT

There probably couldn't be a more appropriate time to disseminate this book's economic solutions. Outsourcing Through RentACoder, called "required reading" by RentACoder CEO Ian Ippolito, is about outsourcing through the site and saving the economy all in one.

RentACoder isn't just a freelance job site. It's a venue where American employers can hire out work right here in the U.S. This book explains the why and how with chapters on bringing RentACoder into the workplace, checklists, worksheets, an extensive outsourcing roadmap, and more.

Crush It! eBook by Vaynerchuk, Gary

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 53:11:33 GMT

Do you have a hobby you wish you could indulge in all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take that passion and make a living doing what you love. In Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. Then one day he turned on a video camera, and by using the secrets revealed here, transformed his entire life and earning potential by building his personal brand. By the end of this book, readers will have learned how to harness the power of the Internet to make their entrepreneurial dreams come true. Step by step, Crush It! is the ultimate driver's manual for modern business.

C++ Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations: C++ Programming Certificatation Review eBook by Stewart, Jim

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 53:11:33 GMT

Customer Review: This is one of the worst book. I dont understand why they have named it as "C++ Interview Book". More than half of the question are platform/IDE specific which discuss why a particular error (compile time/run time) was generated. You will not find words like class, objects, polymorphism, inheritance and any of the C++ features in this book.

Corporate Finance: Theory & Practice eBook by Vernimmen, Pierre / Quiry, Pascal / Le Fur, Yann

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 53:11:33 GMT

Customer Review: I think the book is concise, fully comprehensible and is ideal reading for every modern-day financial manager

Basic Financial Management eBook by Symonds, Curftis, W

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 53:11:33 GMT

Basic Financial Management

2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Review eBook by Falcone, Paul

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 53:11:33 GMT

"No managerial or administrative task is as universally dreaded as the performance review. Supervisors may know the points they need to get across, but putting them on paper is another matter. This book puts the the right words at their fingertips, with ready-to-use phrases and words, action items, and descriptions that managers, supervisors, and HR professionals can use to evaluate performance, prepare development plans, and address performance problems. 2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Appraisals covers the 25 most commonly rated factors, including productivity, time management, decision making, and teamwork, as well as specific roles such as customer service, finance, sales, and more. The book provides hundreds of phrases to use in performance improvement plans, plus an appendix of helpful individual words."

A Concise Summary of Human Resource Management eBook by Williams, Anderson C

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 53:11:33 GMT

This book covers most of the hot button topics in human resource management. It includes discussions of illegal immigrants, affirmative action, sexual harassment, rising healthcare costs, the social security crisis, the aging baby boomers, career development, Americans With Disabilities, Selecting the best workers for a business without violating equal opportunity laws, global outsourcing and how to deal with labor unions. If you are new to the subject of human resource management, this book will give you a quick and handy introduction.

Borrowing Brilliance eBook by Murray, David Kord

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 53:11:33 GMT

In a book poised to become the bible of innovation, a renowned creativity expert reveals the key to the creative process''''borrowing.'

As a former aerospace scientist, Fortune 500 executive, chief innovation officer of two major companies, inventor and software entrepreneur, David Murray has made a living by coming up with new and innovative ideas. In Borrowing Brilliance he explains the origins and evolution of a business idea by showing readers how new ideas are merely the combinations of existing ideas. Since brilliance is actually borrowed, it's easily within reach. It's really a matter of knowing where to borrow the materials and how to put them together that determines creative ability. Murray presents a simple Six-Step process that anyone can use to build business innovation:

Step One: Defining''Define the problem you're trying to solve.

Step Two: Borrowing''Borrow ideas from places with a similar problem.

Step Three: Combining''Connect and combine these borrowed ideas.

Step Four: Incubating''Allow the combinations to incubate into a solution.

Step Five: Judging''Identify the strength and weakness of the solution.

Step Six: Enhancing''Eliminate the weak points while enhancing the strong ones.

Each chapter features real-life examples of brilliant borrowers, including profiles of Larry Page and Sergey Brin (the Google guys), Bill Gates, George Lucas, Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and other creative thinkers. Murray used these methods to re-create his own career and he shows how you can harness them to find your own creative solutions. First you copy, then you create. And the further from your own company you look, the more creative the solution.

Crossing the Chasm eBook by Moore, Geoffrey A

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 53:11:33 GMT

Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. Crossing the Chasm has become the bible for brining cutting-edge products to progressively larger markets. This revised and updated edition provides new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing, with special emphasis on the Internet. It's essential reading for anyone with a stake in the world's most exciting marketplace.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking eBook by Gladwell, Malcolm

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 53:11:33 GMT

New author afterword! How do we make decisions - good and bad - and why are some people so much better at it than others? That's the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in the follow-up to his huge bestseller The Tipping Point. Utilizing case studies as diverse as speed dating, pop music, and the shooting of Amadou Diallo, Gladwell reveals that what we think of as decisions made in the blink of an eye are much more complicated than assumed. Drawing on cutting edge neuroscience and psychology, he shows how the difference between good decision-making and bad has nothing to do with how much information we can process quickly, but on the few particular details on which we focus. Leaping boldly from example to example, displaying all of the brilliance that made The Tipping Point a classic, Gladwell reveals how we can become better decision makers - in our homes, our offices and in everyday life. "Gladwell's real genius is as a storyteller. He's like an omniscient, many-armed Hindu god of anecdotes: he plucks them from every imaginable field of human endeavor".Royally entertaining. - Lev Grossman, Time

Bookkeeping and Accounts, Multiple Choice Questions & Answers eBook by Carson, Moses, B

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 53:11:33 GMT

Bookkeeping and Accounts, Multiple Choice Questions & Answers

21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com eBook by Daisey, Mike

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 53:11:33 GMT

"Boy meets dot-com, boy falls for dot-com, boy flees dot-com in horror. So goes one of the most perversely hilarious love stories you will ever read, one that blends tech culture, hero worship, cat litter, Albanian economics, venture capitalism, and free bagels into a surreal cocktail of delusion. In 1998, when Amazon.com went to temp agencies to recruit people, they gave them a simple directive: send us your freaks. Mike Daisey -- slacker, onetime aesthetics major, dilettante -- seemed perfect for the job. His ascension from lowly temp to customer service representative to business development hustler over the course of twenty-one dog years is the stuff of both dreams and nightmares. With lunatic precision, Daisey describes the lightless cube farms in which book orders were scrawled on Post-its while technicians struggled to bring computers back online; the fourteen-hour days fueled by caffeine, fanaticism, and illicit day-trading from office desks made from doors; his strange compulsion to send free books to Norwegians; and the fevered insistence of BizDev higher-ups that the perfect business partner was Pets.com -- the now-extinct company that spent all its assets on a sock puppet. In these pages, you'll meet Warren, the cowboy of customer service, capable of verbally hog-tying even the most abusive customer; Amazon employee #5, a reclusive computer gamer worth a cool $300 million, who spends at least six hours a day locked in his office killing goblins; and Jean-Michele, Mike's girlfriend and sparring partner, who tries to keep him grounded, even as dot-com mania seduces them both. At strategic intervals, the narrative is punctuated by hysterically honest letters to CEO Jeff Bezos -- missives that seem ripped from the collective unconscious of dot-com disciples the world over. 21 Dog Years is an epic story of greed, self-deception, and heartbreak, a wickedly funny anthem to an era of bounteous stock options and boundless insanity. "

Change by Design eBook by Brown, Tim

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 53:11:33 GMT

The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. In reality, most innovations are borne from rigor and discipline. Breakthrough ideas''whether for a new bicycle, an advertising campaign, a treatment plan for diabetes, or a program aimed at tackling the national obesity epidemic''emerge not by chance, but by studying and embracing the immediate challenges we encounter every day in our offices and homes, laboratories and hospitals, classrooms and conference rooms, and in all the spaces in between. We don't simply realize solutions; we design them. In this book Tim Brown, CEO of the celebrated innovation and design firm IDEO, introduces us to design thinking. Design is not just about creating elegant objects or beautifying the world around us. The best designers match necessity to utility, constraint to possibility, and need to demand. These design thinkers rely on rigorous observations of how we use spaces and the objects and services that occupy them; they discover patterns where others see complexity and confusion; they synthesize new ideas from seemingly disparate fragments; and they convert problems into opportunities. Design thinking is a method in which genius, in the end, is not required. Design thinking is valuable not just in so-called creative industries or for people tasked with designing products. Rather, it is often most powerful when applied to abstract, multifaceted problems: improving a guest experience at a hotel, encouraging bank customers to save more, or developing a compelling narrative for a public-service campaign. It has been used by organizations such as Nokia to rethink global gaming and by the Department of Energy to encourage conservation. Design thinking is now being applied to address a wide range of issues and concerns, from the delivery of clean drinking water in the developing world to improving the efficacy of airport security and microfinancing. This is not a book by designers for designers; this is a blueprint for creative leaders seeking to infuse design thinking''an approach for creative problem solving''into all facets of their organizations, products, or services to discover new alternatives for business and society as a whole. Written with imagination, humor, and vision, this vital and inspiring guide is essential reading for anyone confronting the challenges of today in order to create the opportunities of tomorrow.

Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market: Technical and Fundamental Strategies to Profit from Market Moves eBook by Lien, Kathy

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 53:11:33 GMT

Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market: Technical and Fundamental Strategies to Profit from Market Moves

Decision Support Systems eBook by Power, Daniel J

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 53:11:33 GMT

Decision Support Systems: Frequently Asked Questions is the authoritative reference guide to computerized Decision Support Systems.

Author Dan Power has spent almost 30 years building, studying and teaching others about computerized Decision Support Systems. Dr. Power is first and foremost a Decision Support evangelist and generalist. From his vantage point as editor of DSSResources.COM, he tracks a broad range of contemporary DSS topics.

In this DSS FAQ, Dr. Power answers 83 frequently asked questions about computerized decision support systems. The FAQ covers a broad range of contemporary topics and the questions are organized into 8 chapters.

DSS FAQ helps readers understand questions like:

What is a DSS?

What kind of DSS does Mr. X need?

Does data modeling differ for a Data-Driven DSS?

Is a Data Warehouse a DSS?

Is tax preparation software an example of a DSS?

What do I need to know about Data Warehousing/OLAP?

What is a cost estimation DSS?

What is a Spreadsheet-based DSS?

Decision Support Systems: Frequently Asked Questions is a useful resource for IT specialists, students, professors and managers. It organizes important Ask Dan! questions (with answers) published in DSS News from 2000 through 2004.