Published to critical acclaim twenty years ago, and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about American finance. It is a rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned, ones that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J. P. Morgan’s empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the financial crisis of 1987, acclaimed author Ron Chernow paints a fas...
Releasedatum: 2010-03-16 89,00 kr
An intimate look at the legendary British designer behind Apple's most iconic products - including the Apple Watch With the death of Steve Jobs in 2011, JONY IVE has become the most important person at Apple. Some would argue he always was. Steve Jobs discovered Ive in 1997, when he found the scruffy British designer toiling away in a studio surrounded by hundreds of sketches and prototypes. Jobs instantly realised he had found a talent who could reverse Apple's decline, and become his 'spiritua...
Releasedatum: 2013-11-18 115,00 kr
* WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * An insider's account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs. Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on Apple's campus in Cupertino, California; but only a handful sit at the drawing board. Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly-respected software engineer who worked in the final years of the Steve Jobs era—the Golden Age of Apple. Ken ...
Releasedatum: 2018-09-04 105,00 kr
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson share the secret to sales success: don't just build relationships with customers. Challenge them! What's the secret to sales success? If you're like most business leaders, you'd say it's fundamentally about relationships - and you'd be wrong. Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson, and their colleagues at CEB have studied the performance of thousands of sales reps worldwide. Their conclusion? The best salespeople...
Releasedatum: 2012-10-01 149,00 kr
'A business classic. You're pretty much guaranteed to get your money's worth - if not much, much more' Jason Hesse, Real Business This revised and expanded edition of the bestselling book, The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman, gives you everything you need to transform your business, your career or your working life forever. An MBA at a top school is an enormous investment in time, effort and cold, hard cash. And if you don't want to work for a consulting firm or an investment bank, the chances are ...
Releasedatum: 2011-02-03 Genre:Näringsliv och privatekonomi 129,00 kr
'David Marquet is the kind of leader who comes around only once in a generation . . . his ideas and lessons are invaluable' Simon Sinek, author of Start With Why Captain David Marquet was used to giving orders. In the high-stress environment of the USS Santa Fe, a nuclear-powered submarine, it was crucial his men did their job well. But the ship was dogged by poor morale, poor performance and the worst retention in the fleet. One day, Marquet unknowingly gave an impossible order, and his crew tr...
Releasedatum: 2015-10-08 Genre:Näringsliv och privatekonomi 115,00 kr
“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.” —New York Times Book Review A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco. An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, it includes a new afterword by the authors that brings this remarkable story of gr...
Releasedatum: 2009-10-13 Genre:Näringsliv och privatekonomi 125,00 kr
In a book that is both inspirational and filled with practical information and successful strategies, Manny Khoshbin shows you how to build extraordinary wealth through real estate investing. Rich in common sense and Manny's unwavering love of the game, the cornerstones of his phenomenal success, this book will pave your path to financial freedom. If you are already a real estate investor, this will become your go-to book for taking your game to the next level. If you are a new investor, this bo...
Releasedatum: 2013-07-07 89,00 kr
In his popular Stanford University lectures, New York Times bestselling author Shirzad Chamine reveals how to achieve one’s true potential for both professional success and personal fulfillment. His groundbreaking research exposes ten well-disguised mental Saboteurs. Nearly 95 percent of the executives in his Stanford lectures conclude that these Saboteurs cause “significant harm” to achieving their full potential. With Positive Intelligence, you can learn the secret to d...
Releasedatum: 2012-04-03 Genre:Näringsliv och privatekonomi 75,00 kr
The classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors. When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Twenty years later Toyota passed GM as the world’s largest auto maker. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota’s lean production system that is the basis for its enduring success. Authors Womack, Jones, and Roos pr...
Releasedatum: 2007-03-13 199,00 kr
Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about banking as the average person: almost nothing. Bankers, he thought, were ruthless, competitive, bonus-obsessed sharks, irrelevant to his life. And then he was assigned to investigate the financial sector. Joris immersed himself in the City for a few years, speaking to over 200 people - from the competitive investment bankers and elite hedge-fund managers to downtrodden back-office staff, reviled HR managers and those made redundant...
Releasedatum: 2015-09-15 79,00 kr
What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization? ' Team of Teams provides a blueprint for how to cope with increasing complexity in the world. A must read for anyone who cares about the future - and that means all of us' Daniel Levitin, author of The Organized Mind ________________ When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Fo...
Releasedatum: 2015-11-26 Genre:Näringsliv och privatekonomi 115,00 kr
Från tolvårsåldern var mitt huvud fyllt av bara två tankar som sedan dess nog aldrig lämnat min skalle: flickor och resor ut i världen. Herman Lindqvist, journalisten och författaren som har skrivit Sveriges historia i elva band och fått både folkets och kungens barn att sluka den, han vänder nu blicken mot sitt eget liv och ger oss sin egen historia: Mitt i allt. Herman Lindqvist växte upp på svenska ambassaden i Helsingfors där hans far var pressattaché. En ström av politiker oc...
Releasedatum: 2012-09-14 89,00 kr
Bestselling author David Maister teams up with Charles H. Green and Robert M. Galford to bring us the essential tool for all consultants, negotiators, and advisors. In today's fast-paced networked economy, professionals must work harder than ever to maintain and improve their business skills and knowledge. But technical mastery of one's discipline is not enough, assert world-renowned professional advisors David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, and Robert M. Galford. The key to professional success,...
Releasedatum: 2001-10-09 169,00 kr
How many pizzas are delivered in Manhattan? How do you design an alarm clock for the blind? What is your favorite piece of software and why? How would you launch a video rental service in India? This book will teach you how to answer these questions and more. Cracking the PM Interview is a comprehensive book about landing a product management role in a startup or bigger tech company. Learn how the ambiguously-named "PM" (product manager / program manager) role varies across companies, what...
Releasedatum: 2013-12-02 75,00 kr
Pay brand-new employees $2,000 to quit Make customer service the responsibility of the entire company-not just a department Focus on company culture as the #1 priority Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business Help employees grow-both personally and professionally Seek to change the world Oh, and make money too . . . Sound crazy? It's all standard operating procedure at Zappos, the online retailer that's doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually. After de...
Releasedatum: 2010-06-07 Genre:Näringsliv och privatekonomi 119,00 kr
Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune , this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios). Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar Whale is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" ( Publishers Weekly ), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history. In 2009, a chubby, m...
Releasedatum: 2018-09-18 Genre:Näringsliv och privatekonomi 119,00 kr
NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The stories in this book make for a fascinating and remarkably complete pantheon of just about every common despair and every joy related to game development.” — Rami Ismail, cofounder of Vlambeer and developer of Nuclear Throne Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze...
Releasedatum: 2017-09-05 115,00 kr
Behind the bitter rivalry between Apple and Google—and how it's reshaping the way we think about technology The rise of smartphones and tablets has altered the industry of making computers. At the center of this change are Apple and Google, two companies whose philosophies, leaders, and commercial acumen have steamrolled the competition. In the age of Android and the iPad, these corporations are locked in a feud that will play out not just in the mobile marketplace but in the courts and on scr...
Releasedatum: 2013-11-12 105,00 kr
A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we -- the everyday people whose data powers AI -- aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have no input into -- one largely free from re...
Releasedatum: 2019-03-05 129,00 kr
The industrial age of energy and transportation will be over by 2030. Maybe before. Exponentially improving technologies such as solar, electric vehicles, and autonomous (self-driving) cars will disrupt and sweep away the energy and transportation industries as we know it. The same Silicon Valley ecosystem that created bit-based technologies that have disrupted atom-based industries is now creating bit- and electron-based technologies that will disrupt atom-based energy industries. Clean D...
Releasedatum: 2014-06-17 79,00 kr
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1. An exciting future, but the book needs editing. - The book makes a clear case for a brave new world with clean energy and revolutionized transportation. The points are supported by tons of facts, but some analogies don't hold water and many sections get very repetitive and needs editing to be more readable.
2015-11-02
Now a documentary on CBS All Access. Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry. In 1990, Nintendo had a virtual monopoly on the video game industry. Sega, on the other hand, was just...
Releasedatum: 2014-05-13 89,00 kr
Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why? The Seventh Sense is the story of what all of today's successful figures see and feel: the forces that are invisible to most of us but explain everything from explosive technological change to uneasy political ripples. The secret to power now is understanding our new age of networks. Not ...
Releasedatum: 2016-05-17 119,00 kr
From the author of the bestselling Bank 2.0 and founder of Movenbank, the world’s first mobile direct bank, BANK 3.0 discusses the latest trends defining financial services and explores the challenges • Mobile Wallet, Tablet and Cloud Computing and Social Media • How mobile technology is completely changing the context of banking • How customer advocacy is killing traditional brand marketing • The growth of the de-banked consumer who doesn’t need a bank at all
Releasedatum: 2012-11-01 65,00 kr
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in t...
Releasedatum: 2019-01-15 169,00 kr
The inside story of the epic turnaround of Ford Motor Company under the leadership of CEO Alan Mulally. At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered all three Detroit automakers a bailout. General Motors and Chrysler grabbed the taxpayer lifeline, but Ford decided to save itself. Under the leadership of charismatic CEO Alan Mulally, Ford had already put together a bold plan to unify its...
Releasedatum: 2012-03-13 Genre:Näringsliv och privatekonomi 39,00 kr
'This book has had an enormous impact' Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft 'Spectacular. Mind-blowing in its expansiveness and profundity' Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple ' Iconic ' Clay Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma Cryptocurrencies are changing the world. They grant everyday people the power to invest, disrupt the world order and contribute towards a better future. Blockchain is the ingeniously simple technology that powers cryptos. It is a public ledger to which everyone has acc...
Releasedatum: 2016-05-10 115,00 kr
The No.1 New York Times Bestseller In China, for the first time, the people who weigh too much now outnumber those who weigh too little. In Mexico, the obesity rate has tripled in the past three decades. In the UK over 60 per cent of adults and 30 per cent of children are overweight, while the United States remains the most obese country in the world. We are hooked on salt, sugar and fat. These three simple ingredients are used by the major food companies to achieve the greatest allure for the l...
Releasedatum: 2013-02-28 149,00 kr
This is a Summary of Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford’s The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO. The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ...
Releasedatum: 2016-06-11 45,00 kr
'The ultimate takedown' New York Times ' The problem of Facebook is Zuckerberg. And the question posed by this splendid book is: what are we going to do about him?' Observer 'A comprehensive account . . . drawn from first-hand testimonies. Thoroughly engaging' The Times 'What marks this book out is how it gets under the corporate bonnet . . . to build a picture of astounding corporate arrogance and irresponsibility' Sunday Times 'An explosive new book' Daily Mail ________________________________...
Releasedatum: 2021-07-13 Genre:Näringsliv och privatekonomi 75,00 kr
Tänk dig att du sitter på ett kafé och sköter ditt jobb. Kaféet ligger ena dagen på en kullerstensgata i ett somrigt Visby, en annan på en regnig gata i New York. Det kan också vara ditt alldeles egna köksbord du sitter vid medan snöflingorna dalar ned utanför. Eller uppkrupen i soffan en stund efter att barnen har somnat. Vi lever i en digital värld och att vara digital nomad innebär att digitalisera sitt arbetsliv. Vi behöver inte längre stå i en butik för att sälja varor ell...
Releasedatum: 2019-03-20 129,00 kr
Short-listed for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2015 A Best Business Book of the Year, Forbes Magazine A Times of London Book of the Week Best Narrative Business Book of 2015 by Strategy+Business In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the smartphone market. Today that number is less than one percent. What went so wrong? Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to th...
Releasedatum: 2015-05-26 Genre:Näringsliv och privatekonomi 105,00 kr
This is the classic exposé of the Fed that has become one of the best-selling books in its category of all time. Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician's secrets are unveiled. Here is a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, the pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A boring subject? Just wait. You'll be hooked in five minutes. It reads like a detective story – which it really is, but it's all true. This book is...
Releasedatum: 1994-07-01 149,00 kr
The story of McKinsey & Co., America’s most influential and controversial business consulting firm, “an up-to-date, full-blown history, told with wit and clarity” ( The Wall Street Journal ). If you want to be taken seriously, you hire McKinsey & Company. Founded in 1926, McKinsey can lay claim to the following partial list of accomplishments: its consultants have ushered in waves of structural, financial, and technological change to the nation’s best organizations; they remapped...
Releasedatum: 2013-09-10 Genre:Näringsliv och privatekonomi 179,00 kr
'Packed with insights and details that will both amaze and appal you' - Oliver Bullough, author of Butler to the World Across the world, HSBC likes to sell itself as ‘the world’s local bank’, the friendly face of corporate and personal finance. And yet, a decade ago, the same bank was hit with a record US fine of $1.9 billion for facilitating money laundering for ‘drug kingpins and rogue nations’. In pursuit of their goal of becoming the biggest bank in the world, between 2003 to 2010,...
Releasedatum: 2022-06-09 Genre:Näringsliv och privatekonomi 109,00 kr
The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak . They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little . As a matter of fact, it's not their responsibility to tell you the truth. It's your responsibility to find it and i...
Releasedatum: 2019-02-04 95,00 kr
Neal Schaffer helped revolutionize the way professionals utilize LinkedIn with his award-winning book Windmill Networking: Understanding, Leveraging & Maximizing LinkedIn. He now does the same to enlighten companies how to develop business on LinkedIn with Maximizing LinkedIn for Sales and Social Media Marketing. Thought LinkedIn was just for job seekers? Think again. LinkedIn is the most important destination for your sales and social media marketing efforts if your company is selling...
Releasedatum: 2011-09-02 Genre:Näringsliv och privatekonomi 69,00 kr
If you want to get rich, no matter how inexperienced you are in investment, this book can help you. Its message is that you must learn neither to avoid risk nor to court it foolhardily, but to manage it - and enjoy it too. The 12 major and 16 minor Zurich Axioms contained in this book are a set of principles providing a practical philosophy for the realistic management of risk, which can be followed successfully by anyone, not merely the 'experts'. Several of the Axioms fly right in the face of ...
Releasedatum: 2010-08-27 129,00 kr
A comprehensive and authoritative exploration of Bitcoin and its place in monetary history When a pseudonymous programmer introduced "a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party" to a small online mailing list in 2008, very few people paid attention. Ten years later, and against all odds, this upstart autonomous decentralized software offers an unstoppable and globally accessible hard money alternative to modern central banks. The Bitcoin Standard analyz...
Releasedatum: 2018-03-23 179,00 kr
Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Tom Wainwright provides a fresh, innovative look into the drug trade and its 250 million customers. More than just an investigation of how drug cartels do business, Narconomics is also a blueprint for how to defeat them. How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the 300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creati...
Releasedatum: 2016-02-23 119,00 kr
What happens when there is almost unlimited choice? When everything becomes available to everyone? And when the combined value of the millions of items that only sell in small quantities equals or even exceeds the value of a handful of best-sellers? In this ground-breaking book, Chris Anderson shows that the future of business does not lie in hits - the high-volume end of a traditional demand curve - but in what used to be regarded as misses - the endlessly long tail of that same curve. As our w...
Releasedatum: 2010-11-30 115,00 kr
• Selected by Fortune Magazine as 1 of 8 "must read" sales books • Gold Medal Winner in Sales Book Awards • 20 Best Sales Books winner, Sales HQ Reviews: Jill’s book came to life with her real life experience and success. She had instant credibility with our field staff. Her messages of how to access and service decision-makers inside companies resonated with everyone in the room. The result is improved efficiency in assisting Minnesota’s business customers with their hiring, recruitme...
Releasedatum: 2012-06-21 Genre:Näringsliv och privatekonomi 65,00 kr
ALLA LJUGER FÖR DIG Man säger att du inte ska fråga dina vänner om din affärsidé håller, de älskar allt du gör och kommer att ljuga för dig, ge dig komplimanger och sina generella åsikter. Detta är sant, men man missar poängen. Du kan fråga vem som helst om idén är bra. Men det är en dålig fråga som besvaras med mycket partiskhet, och alla kommer att ljuga för dig åtminstone lite grann. ATT GÖRA RÄTT ÄR MYCKET VÄRT Att prata med kunder är en av de absolut viktigaste fö...
Releasedatum: 2019-01-31 99,00 kr
Innovation does not have to be a mystery. This short book describes the process leading up to the moment of the innovative idea. With specific tools to help you enhance your creative problem solving and to help your team incorporate innovation into their work.
Releasedatum: 2011-12-09 9,00 kr
More American children recognize Super Mario, the hero of one of Nintendo’s video games, than Mickey Mouse. The Japanese company has come to earn more money than the big three computer giants or all Hollywood movie studios combined. Now Sheff tells of the Nintendo invasion–a tale of innovation and cutthroat tactics.
Releasedatum: 1994-03-29 159,00 kr
Verksamhetsutveckling - ett samlingsbegrepp som innefattar många områden från problemlösning till ledarskap. Men för att nå resultat måste vi ha verksamhetsutvecklingens ABC under kontroll! Verksamhetsutvecklarens ABC behandlar kärnan i verksamhetsutveckling. Du måste ha svaren på VARFÖR? VAD? och HUR?
Releasedatum: 2021-03-08 89,00 kr
The stock market is one of the best day trading environments, because it has very few regulations for new traders. As long as you have a stable internet connection, a computer and a little cash, you can freely join other day traders. However, doing this does not assure you of profits. Quite a number of things need to be accomplished before you can celebrate success. Intraday trading has the capacity to help you attain a big leverage, as the rate of return on your investments can be quite high. H...
Releasedatum: 2019-12-17 15,00 kr
A Radical New Model for Unleashing Your Company’s Potential In most organizations nearly everyone is doing a second job no one is paying them for—namely, covering their weaknesses, trying to look their best, and managing other people’s impressions of them. There may be no greater waste of a company’s resources. The ultimate cost: neither the organization nor its people are able to realize their full potential. What if a company did everything in its power to create a culture in which eve...
Releasedatum: 2016-03-01 Genre:Näringsliv och privatekonomi 279,00 kr
In just a decade and half Jack Ma, a man who rose from humble beginnings and started his career as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into the second largest Internet company in the world. The company’s $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the world’s largest, valuing the company more than Facebook or Coca Cola. Alibaba today runs the e-commerce services that hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers depend on every day, providing employment and income for tens of millions more. A Rockefel...
Releasedatum: 2016-04-12 115,00 kr
This “inside account captures the energy—and the madness—of the software giant’s race to develop a critical new program. . . . Gripping” ( Fortune Magazine). Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary David Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving ...
Releasedatum: 2014-04-01 55,00 kr