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Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use (Memo to the CEO) 5 reviews
Orit Gadiesh, Hugh Macarthur
Harvard Business School Press, 2008
Business Practices of PE Players for Non-PE Players
Two business experts from Bain & Company believe that successful practices adopted by PE players can be applied to different industries around the world. After having abundant consulting experience of working with PE players, they maintain that there are at least six deceptively simple rules in which PE players set a concrete and inescapable benchmark for corporate performance.
Like other ...
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Selling to Big Companies 48 reviews
Jill Konrath
Kaplan Business, 2005
An excellent read!
If you are selling into big companies, you must read this book! It presents an easy to follow strategy and plan that you can implement today. Jill understands what it takes to win complex sales. Benefit from her insight!
Lee B. Salz... author of Soar Despite Your Dodo Sales Manager
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The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers 15 reviews
Keith R. Mcfarland
Crown Business, 2008
"What a great research question."
The best of recently published business books began when their authors or co-authors were intrigued by a question and conducted rigorous and extensive research to locate the answer to it. Jim Collins offers an excellent case in point. He and Jerry Porras wondered why certain companies were able to sustain their success over a period of 20+ years. What they learned is provided in Built to Last. ...
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Sharpe's Company (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #13)18 reviews
Bernard Cornwell
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001
A high-water mark in the Rifleman Sharpe series
Bernard Cornwell's series of Sharpe novels has delighted countless readers over the years. Cornwell is (famously or infamously, depending on your perspective) writing these novels out of historical sequence, so even though while "Sharpe's Company" is in the middle of the Sharpe series chronologically, it is among the earliest books Cornwell wrote about Wellington's favorite rogue. And it is ...
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Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"11 reviews
Don Malarkey, Bob Welch
St. Martin's Press, 2008
Personal account of what it was like to be a citizen soldier.
Donald Malarkey has been mentioned in nearly every book written about Easy Coy, 506th PIR. Why? Not only has he fought with Company from Normandy to the Eagle's Nest, but because he was a great soldier, and a man in which you could depend on, no matter how low the stakes were.
This is why the book is so good, a very personal account from training to intense combat, from laughter to horror, and ...
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The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It86 reviews
Marcia Angell
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005
Your Life depends on this information
The media in general and the medical industry in particular do not want you (patient) to read and be informed about what you are being prescribed and the consequences. They also are dealing with symptoms instead of causes. Prevention is not in the medical dictionary terminology. Drugs do not heal! Drugs should be a short term interrupter and not a progression from one prescription to another and ...
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The Pleasure of My Company Low Price147 reviews
Hyperion, 2007
The Pleasure of My Company
Very accurate portrayal of character. Recommended for any one who is dealing with anxiety, OCD and the like, or knows/loves someone who is dealing with such issues. Very true to life experiences.
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The Company (TV tie-in)128 reviews
Robert Littell
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
Intrigue and adventure for cold Winter days
Although daunting in size, this book was a fast and easy read. Other readers have accurately written excellent 5-star reviews. Previous reviews have praised the historical research, political setting and clandestine activities of the CIA as depicted by this brilliant author, Littell.
The reader is drawn into the lives of the central characters, and their families. You become emotionally ...
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In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency)80 reviews
Alexander Mccall Smith
Anchor, 2006
Mystery and Laugh Out Loud Funny
O Boy! Want some mystery? Good clean humor? No violence? Precious Ramotswe, a traditionally-built woman without apology, and her pals are here for us. She and her assistant, Grace (who gets advice from her colorful designer shoes), are very entertaining and many times, laugh-out-loud funny. I read the entire Ladies' Detective series in a couple of weeks. The books average about 200+ pages ...
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In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel87 reviews
Sarah Dunant
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
Complementary.... (a slightly different take)
Honestly, I don't read a lot of fiction. However, when I do I choose it very carefully and this historical novel did not disappoint me. As other reviewers have shared, it is a real page turner and difficult to put down.
I read many of the top reviews and I agree with them. What I have to add is a somewhat different perspective that merely complements and adds a bit of value by providing yet ...
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Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II22 reviews
Charles B. MacDonald
Burford Books, 1999
A first-rate historians war memoir
This book is probably the finest memoir of any junior officer in WW2. Unlike so many war memoirs, MacDonald keeps his focus firmly on his own experiences, and doesn't waste his readers time by speculating on `the big picture' or describing incidents which he didn't personally take part in. He sticks to what life was like for a junior officer in command of an infantry company - disorientating, ...
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A Company of Swans7 reviews
Eva Ibbotson
Young Picador, 2008
Why Do The Best Books Go Out Of Print (OOP)?
This book is not hard to find used or at a public library. Otherwise, I would hate to get anyone's hopes up. There is nothing worse than saying, "I just read a fabulous book and you will never be able to find it yourself." This novel is set in Europe and South America in the early 20th century before WWI, a time period I would like to see used more frequently. The heroine, Harriet, meets a ...
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In Mixed Company: Communicating in Small Groups and Teams 2 reviews
J. Dan Rothwell
Wadsworth Publishing, 2006
Good textbook
The Rothwell text is very well designed and thoughtfully applied. It would serve well for a course in small group communication. It not only discusses the concepts through the lens of small group communication, it also applies the concepts to real life situations.
The chapters are structured with sections to help the reader better understand the concepts and better recap the chapters. These ...
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Valuation Workbook: Step-by-Step Exercises and Tests to Help You Master Valuation (Wiley Finance)23 reviews
Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart, ...
Wiley, 2006
The CD mentioned in the summary is disappointingly not included with this book....
The book itself is excellent and exactly what I was hoping for.
Amazon Customer services assured me that the CD was included and even sent me a second copy but there was no CD again..... I thought it was too much of a bargain to be true...and it was !! I will scrutinise the summary more diligently next time ;)
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In the Company of Women: Indirect Aggression Among Women: Why We Hurt Each Other and How to Stop17 reviews
Pat Heim, Susan Murphy, ...
Tarcher, 2003
This Book has Changed my Life.
I have to say, I felt pretty disgusted with myself, having to pretend to be insecure and self-depreciating, just to get other women to like me. But by God it works.
I tested the techniques out on my very next female customer. I refused to accept her compliments, kept downplaying myself and my accomplishments, while praising her instead and pointing out all the ways in which I felt she was ...
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The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea (Modern Library Chronicles)19 reviews
John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge
Modern Library, 2005
A wonderful quick historical overview of corporate development....
This really was a fascinating read into the evolution of companies into the corporations we know today. This gives the full global view of how stock holding companies became the modern corporation. Excellent!
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Chronicles of the Black Company11 reviews
Glen Cook
Tor Books, 2007
The Black Company ROCKS
excellent story, probably the 5th time i've read it. very happy to find the stories in a combination book.
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In The Company Of Heroes87 reviews
Michael J. Durant, Steven Hartov
NAL Trade, 2004
A great read
A riveting true story, well written. If you didn't already respect the skill and bravery of the US armed forces, you will after reading this book.
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Guide to Analysing Companies (Economist (Hardcover))3 reviews
Bob Vause
Profile Books, 2005
Looking beyond the numbers
Concise, insightful and easy to read, this book is an excellent introduction for the ordinary people. The books reliance on examples - both real and fictitious - is what makes it stand out from rest of the crowd.
The first section introduces you to various pieces of information on the balance sheets, income and cash flow statements. There are no complicated equations or quick-fix formulate. ...
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