100 Great Businesses and the Minds Behind Them

Author: Emily Ross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
100 GREAT BUSINESSES AND THE MINDS BEHIND THEM is special because rather than pretending there is only one way to run a business, it looks at a diverse collection of business people and their businesses and how they make their enterprises work. From daring, risk-loving entrepreneurs such as Richard Branson and Aussie Home Loans John Symond, through to the conservative creator of Liquid Paper Bette Nesmith Graham and Warren Buffett to driven individuals such as Manolo Blahnik, Enjo's Barb de Corti and James Dyson, this book is an accessible collection of true stories from Australia and around the world, that offer inspiration, ideas and lessons on the principles of successful business. Quirky characteristics of the entrepreneurs are shared and turning points in the life of the businesses when great products meet viable business plans are detailed. It is a book with lasting lessons on the art of making your business a success. Where better to look for business advice than from the world's best?

VIVA MAC

Author: Andrea Benoit
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 148752028X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
The first cultural history of the iconic brand M·A·C Cosmetics, VIVA M·A·C charts the evolution of M·A·C's revolutionary corporate philanthropy around HIV/AIDS awareness. Drawing upon exclusive interviews with M·A·C co-founder Frank Toskan, key journalists, and fashion insiders, Andrea Benoit tells the fascinating story of how M·A·C's unique style of corporate social responsibility emerged from specific cultural practices, rather than being part of a strategic marketing plan. Benoit delves into the history of the M·A·C AIDS Fund and its signature VIVA GLAM fundraising lipstick, which featured drag performer RuPaul and singer k.d. lang in its first advertising campaigns. This lively chronicle reveals how M·A·C managed to not only defy the stigma associated with AIDS that alarmed many other corporations, but to engage in highly successful AIDS advocacy while maintaining its creative and fashionable authority.

Demystifying Your Business Strategy

Author: David Lei
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136268022
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
While scores of strategic management books have been written, many books fail to take into consideration the influences that shape and constrain managers’ ability to formulate and execute well-thought out strategies. Demystifying Your Business Strategy acknowledges and harnesses those influences, providing practitioners with a helpful new approach to developing and maintaining a competitive advantage. In this book, David Lei and John W. Slocum offer readers a comprehensive overview of the drivers of evolutionary advantage, recognizing that sources of competitive advantage for any organization will necessarily shift and evolve in response to changes in the industry environment. Demystifying Your Business Strategy also offers practical insights on how to spot "inflection points" of strategic transition and identify signals that indicate when an organization needs to develop a new source of competitive advantage. With in-depth discussion of the four different types of business strategies that many firms pursue and the strategic disciplines that support them, this book can provide significant insight and direction to managers at all levels within an organization.

தொழில் முனைவோர் கையேடு / Thozhil Munaivor Kaiyedu

Author:
Publisher: Kizhakku
ISBN: 8184930348
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
எதை விரும்புகிறோமோ அதைத்தான் நாம் அடைகிறோம். அசாதாரணமான கனவுகள் அசாதாரணமான வெற்றியைக் கொண்டு வந்து குவிக்கிறது. இதுதான், இவ்வளவுதான் என்று சுருங்காமல், சற்றே விசாலமாகக் கனவு கண்டால் எப்படி இருக்கும்? மாதச் சம்பளம். வருடாந்திர சம்பள உயர்வு. சொந்த வீடு. ஒரு கார். இவை சராசரிக் கனவுகள். அட்டகாசமாக ஒரு பிசினஸ் பிளான். செயல்படுத்த சொந்தமாக ஒரு நிறுவனம். சொல்வதைச் செய்து முடிக்க ஒரு டீம். புதிய ஐடியாக்களை முனைப்புடன் முயன்று பார்க்கவேண்டும். புதிய வாசல்களைத் திறக்கவேண்டும். மேலே, இன்னும் மேலே என்று வளரவேண்டும். நான். என் நிறுவனம். என் குடும்பம். என் டீம். என் சமூகம். ரிஸ்க்கான கனவுதான். சந்தேகம் இல்லை. ஆனால் சாதித்து முடித்துவிட்டால், உங்களை அடித்துக்கொள்ள ஆள் இல்லை. ஆட்டத்துக்கு நீங்கள் தயாரா? முதலீடு, பின்னணி எது பற்றியும் கவலைப்படவேண்டாம். குவியும் போட்டியாளர்கள் குறித்து அச்சம் கொள்ளவேண்டாம். எந்தத் துறை, எங்கிருந்து ஆரம்பிக்கவேண்டும் என்று குழம்பித்தவிக்கவேண்டாம். அடிப்படையில் இருந்து தொடங்கி படிப்படியாக, ஒரு பிசினஸ் பிளானை உங்களுக்காக வடிவமைத்துக்கொடுக்கிறது இந்நூல். வெற்றிகரமான ஒரு தொழிலதிபராக உங்களை உருமாற்றுவதற்குத் தேவைப்படும் அத்தனை வழிமுறைகளையும் உள்ளடக்கிய ப்ளூப்ரிண்ட் இது.

Crazy Is a Compliment

Author: Linda Rottenberg
Publisher: Portfolio
ISBN: 1591847990
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Reveals how companies like GE and Burberry have broken the corporate mould, and introduces us to entrepreneurs like Leila Velez, who started a multi-million hair-care company from her kitchen sink in Rio.

Business Brilliant

Author: Lewis Schiff
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062253522
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
“Useful insights” about what self-made successes do differently, from the coauthor of The Middle-Class Millionaire (Publishers Weekly). In Business Brilliant, Lewis Schiff combines compelling storytelling with groundbreaking research to reveal what America’s self-made rich already know: It’s synergy, not serendipity, that produces success. He explodes common myths about wealth—and explains how legendary entrepreneurs such as Richard Branson, Suze Orman, Steve Jobs, and Warren Buffett have subscribed to a set of priorities that’s completely different from those of the middle class. Schiff identifies the seven distinct principles practiced by individuals who may or may not be any smarter than the rest of the population, but seem to understand instinctively how money is made. This guide also reveals how these business icons excel in areas of team building, risk management, and leadership development to accumulate their wealth. And he offers a practical four-step program—from choosing one’s livelihood and pinpointing skills to focus on to negotiating job terms and salary—in order to bring upon greater success. “Schiff builds his narrative on solid evidence, including research data comparing and contrasting the self-made person with the usual middle class.” —Booklist

Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia

Author: Chris Berry
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9622099750
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
These timely essays highlight regional cross-fertilization in music, film, new media, and popular culture in Northeast Asia, including analysis of gender and labor issues amid differing regulatory frameworks and public policy concerning cultural production and piracy.

Talent Development in Gifted Education

Author: Joyce VanTassel-Baska
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000416151
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 299

Book Description
This volume brings together experts in gifted education to explore critical perspectives in talent development across the lifespan, guiding readers toward a deeper understanding of advanced learners and their education. Chapters in the first section delve into the foundational theory, research, and models of practice underpinning gifted education and talent development, while the second section examines the practical applications of talent development in assessment, programming, and ongoing research. The book concludes with an exploration of talent throughout the lifespan, featuring detailed case vignettes to illustrate development across diverse fields of practice. Ideal for researchers as well as students of gifted education and creativity studies, this comprehensive handbook challenges readers to interrogate what they think they know about giftedness and talent development.

Build the Damn Thing

Author: Kathryn Finney
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593329260
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
The Wall Street Journal Bestseller featured in Bloomberg, Fast Company, Masters of Scale, the Motley Fool, Marketplace and more. An indispensable guide to building a startup and breaking down the barriers for diverse entrepreneurs from the visionary venture capitalist and pioneering entrepreneur Kathryn Finney. Build the Damn Thing is a hard-won, battle-tested guide for every entrepreneur who the establishment has left out. Finney, an investor and startup champion, explains how to build a business from the ground up, from developing a business plan to finding investors, growing a team, and refining a product. Finney empowers entrepreneurs to take advantage of their unique networks and resources; arms readers with responses to investors who say, “great pitch but I just don’t do Black women”; and inspires them to overcome naysayers while remaining “100% That B*tch.” Don’t wait for the system to let you in—break down the door and build your damn thing. For all the Builders striving to build their businesses in a world that has overlooked and underestimated them: this is the essential guide to knowing, breaking, remaking and building your own rules of entrepreneurship in a startup and investing world designed for and by the “Entitleds.”

Forbes Best Business Mistakes

Author: Bob Sellers
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470768339
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Today's top business leaders reveal how to make even the biggest mistakes work for you Forbes Best Business Mistakes reveals practical lessons from some of today's most successful business leaders to show you how to turn a bad business situation into a success. Based on exclusive sit-down interviews with some of today's most successful men and women, author Bob Sellers shares their stories to provide valuable insights and lessons that can help you can learn from their mistakes. Those profiled in Forbes Best Business Mistakes include the likes of Wall Street guru Peter Lynch, larger-than-life media personalities Jim Cramer and Suze Orman, legendary CEO Jack Welch, and newcomer Jason Kilar, CEO of Hulu, who is poised to change the movie and TV industry landscape as we know it forever. Other names include PIMCO's Bill Gross and Mohamed El-Erian and Home Depot Founder Arthur Blank. Reveal how top business and financial leaders turned their biggest mistakes into success stories Based on exclusive interviews with some of today's most successful professionals, from Jason Kilar of Hulu to Suze Orman Contains practical lessons on how you can turn a bad business situation around As Malcolm Forbes put it, "Failure is success if we learn from it." Forbes Best Business Mistakes shares the missteps of others so you can learn from them, be inspired by them, and succeed where you may not have seen opportunity before.