The Ten Commandments For Business Failure

Author : Donald R. Keough
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101535253
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ten Commandments for Business Failure written by Donald R. Keough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Keough—a former top executive at Coca-Cola and now chairman of the elite investment banking firm Allen & Company—has witnessed plenty of failures in his sixty-year career (including New Coke). He has also been friends with some of the most successful people in business history, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Rupert Murdoch, and Peter Drucker. Now this elder statesman reveals how great enterprises get into trouble. Even the smartest executives can fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility. When that happens, more bad decisions are sure to follow. This light-hearted “how-not-to” book includes anecdotes from Keough's long career as well as other infamous failures. His commandments for failure include: Quit Taking Risks; Be Inflexible; Assume Infallibility; Put All Your Faith in Experts; Send Mixed Messages; and Be Afraid of the Future. As he writes, “After a lifetime in business I've never been able to develop a step-by-step formula that will guarantee success. What I could do, however, was talk about how to lose. I guarantee that anyone who follows my formula will be a highly successful loser.”

Author : Steven C. Brandt
Publisher : Scarborough, Ont. ; New York : New American Library
ISBN 13 : 9780201103823
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entrepreneuring written by Steven C. Brandt and published by Scarborough, Ont. ; New York : New American Library. This book was released on 1982 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents ten significant operating principles for starting and managing a growth company, discussing such topics as building up a company, maintaining personal well-being in stressful situations, and selling out

Author : Daniel E. Lapin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471218685
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thou Shall Prosper written by Daniel E. Lapin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice on personal finance and creating wealth based on the principles of Jewish tradition.

Author : Jan Allen
Publisher : Light Bugs Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780976551409
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now I Know the 10 Commandments written by Jan Allen and published by Light Bugs Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the ten commandments using modern language and providing pictures and numbers to help readers memorize and understand them.

Author : David Hazony
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416562511
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ten Commandments written by David Hazony and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ACROSS THE WESTERN WORLD, the Ten Commandments have become a source of both inspiration and controversy, whether in Supreme Court rulings, in film and literature, or as a religious icon gracing houses of worship of every Christian and Jewish denomination. But what do the commandments really stand for? According to polls, less than half of all Americans can even name more than four of them. Fewer still can name all ten, or have a clear idea of the ideals they were meant to promote. For most of us, agnostics and faithful alike, they have been relegated to the level of a symbol, and the teachings they contain are all but forgotten. In Western life today, the Ten Commandments are everywhere— except where we need them most. In The Ten Commandments, David Hazony offers a powerful new look at our most venerable moral text. Combining a fresh reading of the Old Testament’s most riveting stories and ancient rabbinic legends with a fearless exploration of what ails society today, Hazony shows that the Ten Commandments are not just a set of obscure laws but encapsulate a deeply valuable approach to life—one that is as relevant now as it was when they first appeared more than two millennia ago. The Ten Commandments begins with a daring claim: Although they have become a universally recognizable symbol of biblically based religion, they are not, strictly speaking, a religious text. Rather than making a statement about faith or mystical realms inaccessible to reason, they contain a coherent prescription for how to make a better world. At their core stands what Hazony calls the "spirit of redemption," which he describes as one of the two basic spiritual components of Western civilization. While the Greeks gave us the "spirit of reason," teaching that we should be free to explore and express our views, the spirit of redemption teaches that every individual can, and should, act to improve the world. This spirit reached us from ancient Israel, in the form of the Hebrew Bible, and has stood at the heart of the most important social movements in our history. Going through the commandments one by one, Hazony shows how each represents a poignant declaration about honesty, the self, life, love, freedom, community, and inner peace. Each commandment, we discover, adds another piece to the puzzle of how the redemptive spirit may enter our lives and help us become more caring, world-changing individuals. Part memoir, part scholarship, part manifesto for a vital approach to life, The Ten Commandments tackles some of the most painful human questions that stand at the heart of who we are as modern, thinking people—and offers answers that are sure to start a new discussion about the meaning of one of our most enduring, yet least understood, traditions.

Author : T. D. Jakes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425200162
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ten Commandments of Working in a Hostile Environment written by T. D. Jakes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author shows how to bring the Christian faith into the workplace. With simple strategies and inspiring insights, Bishop Jakes helps readers understand how to put work in its proper place, recognize their blessings, and fight to take control of their work life. (Christian Religion)

Author : Steven C. Brandt
Publisher : Archipelago Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781888925029
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entrepreneuring written by Steven C. Brandt and published by Archipelago Pub. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You will discover how to set objectives for yourself and the business; select the right partners, investors, key employees; define your product or service and market; prepare a useful business plan; monitor and conserve cash and credit; expand methodically; avoid stress and look ahead.

Author : Liz Weston
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101498374
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 10 Commandments of Money written by Liz Weston and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 personal finance columnist on the Internet (Nielsen/NetRatings)-a clear prescription for financial health in the 2010s and beyond. For previous generations, living within your means was a simple formula. Now, with the staggering rise in education, health care, and housing costs, millions of people find themselves skating from paycheck to paycheck with no idea how to move forward. As the most-read personal finance columnist on the Internet, Liz Weston has heard the questions and has the answers. Her 10 Commandments of Money will help readers avoid critical mistakes, survive the bad times, and thrive in the good ones. Just a few of Weston's invaluable pointers include how to: • Balance Your Budget • Pay Down Toxic Debt • Get the Right Mortgage • Pay for College • Save for Retirement • Maximize Your Financial Flexibility Liz Weston's goal is to provide THE practical guide to the brave new world of money. What Sylvia Porter's Money Book was to the 1970s, The 10 Commandments of Money will be for the 2010s. Watch a Video

Author : Jiju Antony
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789736870
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ten Commandments of Lean Six Sigma written by Jiju Antony and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented from the perspective of practitioners, researchers and academics, The Ten Commandments of Lean Six Sigma serves as a practical guide for senior managers and executives who want to achieve operational and service excellence in various manufacturing, service and public sector organizations.

Author : Joseph Heath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199990492
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morality, Competition, and the Firm written by Joseph Heath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of provocative essays, Joseph Heath provides a compelling new framework for thinking about the moral obligations that private actors in a market economy have toward each other and to society. In a sharp break with traditional approaches to business ethics, Heath argues that the basic principles of corporate social responsibility are already implicit in the institutional norms that structure both marketplace competition and the modern business corporation. In four new and nine previously published essays, Heath articulates the foundations of a "market failures" approach to business ethics. Rather than bringing moral concerns to bear upon economic activity as a set of foreign or externally imposed constraints, this approach seeks to articulate a robust conception of business ethics derived solely from the basic normative justification for capitalism. The result is a unified theory of business ethics, corporate law, economic regulation, and the welfare state, which offers a reconstruction of the central normative preoccupations in each area that is consistent across all four domains. Beyond the core theory, Heath offers new insights on a wide range of topics in economics and philosophy, from agency theory and risk management to social cooperation and the transaction cost theory of the firm.