It's the People, Stupid!
Karen Phelan is sorry. She really is. She tried to do business by the numbers--the management consultant way--developing measures, optimizing processes, and quantifying performance. The only problem is that businesses are run by people. And people can't be plugged into formulas or summed up in scorecards.
Phelan dissects a whole range of consulting treatments for unhealthy companies and shows why they're essentially fad diets: superficial would-be fixes that don't result in lasting improvements and can cause serious damage. With a mix of clear-eyed business analysis, heart-wrenching stories, and hard-won lessons for both consultants and the people who hire them, this book is impossible to put down and impossible to ignore. Karen Phelan and other consultants may have "broken" your company, but she's eager to make amends. "Finally, an author challenging our broken management models who has credibility--she has been there. Karen Phelan not only explains why the emperor--our sacred ways of managing--has no clothes but provides us with insightful alternatives that promise to add real value to our organizations and the people that make them function."
--Dean Schroeder, award-winning coauthor of Ideas Are Free
"Funny, irreverent, and outrageous, this book is making a deeply serious point: talking to actual people and figuring out how to help them work together better is what's going to make organizations stronger, not another PowerPoint presentation."
--Rosina L. Racioppi, President and CEO, Women Unlimited, Inc.

This book contains profiles of some of America's richest people and how they got that way - and how you can too. While we can't promise that this book will elevate you to the ranks of the super-rich, we can say that within its pages you'll discover everything you need to know about how, exactly, many of America's most famous (and infamous) millionaires and billionaires acquired their fortunes. The big surprise is that all of the super-wealthy it profiles got where they are today by taking one of just ten possible roads-including starting a business, buying real estate, investing wisely, and marrying extremely well. Whether you aspire to shameful wealth or just a demure fortune, bestselling author and self-made billionaire, Ken Fisher, will show you how to walk in the footsteps of tycoons-all the way to the financial success you dream of and deserve. Packed with amusing anecdotes of individuals who have traveled (or tumbled) down each road to wealth. It extracts valuable lessons on how you, too, can achieve serious wealth, and, just as importantly, hold onto it. It provides powerful tools for determining what you need to do to position yourself for success and "Guideposts" and "Warning Signs" to help keep you safely on your road to success. The Second Edition features more profiles and instructive examples than were found in the bestselling first edition.

腾讯官方唯一授权的权威传记
著名财经作家吴晓波倾力之作
当市值最高的中国互联网公司，遇上中国财经界最冷静的一双眼睛
读懂腾讯，读懂中国互联网
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内容简介
本书全景式地记录了腾讯崛起的经历，并以互联网的视角重新诠释了中国在融入全球化进程中的曲折与独特性。
从1998年开始创业到成为世界级互联网巨头，腾讯以即时通信工具起步，逐渐进入社交网络、互动娱乐、网络媒体、电子商务等领域，在超高速发展的同时亦饱受争议，在“3Q大战”的激烈冲突之后又进一步走向开放……腾讯的发展路径，亦是中国互联网企业成长的缩影。我们可以看到，中国的互联网人在应用性迭代和对本国消费者的行为了解上，找到了自己的办法，并开始领跑全球。
读懂腾讯，读懂中国互联网。

Israel leads the world in start-ups, particularly in the tech sector, and Senor and Singer explain why in this compelling book. Among the reasons: The social networks and educational opportunities afforded by near-universal military service; lax immigration laws that create a diversity of thought and experience; and an authority-questioning worldview that keeps complacency at bay and hierarchies relatively flat. As a strictly non-Zionist Jew (that means I feel no cultural connection with Israel or with the notion of a homeland), even I was considering emigration when I finished this book! - Stepcase Lifehack

覆雨翻云的中国网事； 荡气回肠的产业传奇；虚拟世界的真实讲述；万象网络的还原走笔。
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本书记录了一群在中国创造属于自己历史的人和他们的故事，他们是中国互联网自1995年兴起的波澜壮阔中的弄潮儿和财富新贵的代表：马化腾、丁磊、张朝阳、马云、陈天桥、李彦宏、史玉柱、田溯宁、张树新、王志东、王峻涛、雷军、周鸿祎、陈一舟……他们用互联网创造和推动着这个国家的历史，并改写了自己的财富路径，他们分属于三类人：海归（从海外归来的创业者）、本土技术爱好者（极客）和商业价值发现者（商人）。
中国互联网产业作为一个产业，从诞生到现在不过15年时间，但在短短的15年里，却产生了接近40家在海外市场上上市的公司，其中超过15家公司达到过10亿美元市值的高位，这些公司的领袖以其无比阳光的财富路径，成为新一代中国企业家的中坚力量。但我们不能简单地把中国互联网的成功看作是一个支柱产业的崛起这么简单，而更应该把它看作是我们这个民族在改革开放的大时代下自我意识觉醒的一次大的提升，一次全民自发的集体性的自我赶超，一次从下到上，由民众自觉自发的创富运动。它让一代人开始有了自我意识的觉醒，并帮助我们这个国家更好的开放，更好的用世界通行的商业语言进行沟通。
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林军和他撰写的这本关于中国互联网产业历史的书，脉络清晰、生动鲜明地把这样一大批创业者的形象和他们的动人故事呈现在读者眼前，值得一读。
——中国互联网协会理事长、中国科协副主席 胡启恒
林军和他的这本关于中国互联网产业历史的著作用足够多的事实告诉我们，我们是完全有可能遵从不作恶的基本道德底线，做最好的自己的。
——Google全球副总裁、大中华区总裁 李开复
中国互联网产业发展可分三个阶段，窄带互联网的建设（能上网）、宽带互联网的建设（更快上网）和目前的互联网大规模应用创新（更好上网）。幸运的是，我都作为一分子积极地参与到其中，而更宽广的路才刚刚开始。可贵的是， 林军先生在他的书中用他的笔和心记录下这一切。
——中国宽带产业基金董事长 田溯宁
读林军的这本关于中国互联网产业历史的书，就像回到了那段激情燃烧的岁月。
——卓越网创始人、金山公司副董事长 雷军
林军对互联网这个行业的观察和记录超过12年，写这本书的时间超过3年，用这么长的时间做这样一件有功德的事情，难能可贵。林军和这本关于中国互联网产业历史的书值得期待。
——松禾资本董事长 罗飞
身为互联网投资领域的先驱之一，我一向认为，中国有朝一日必将成为互联网的主要市场，如今事实已经摆在眼前。林军这本书记述了中国的互联网发展历史，描摹出一群优秀的互联网企业家和风险投资人，生动地再现了梦想变成现实的过程。若想了解中国互联网的过去与未来，林军这本书不容错过。
——《零重力》作者、美国畅销书作家、风险投资人 史蒂夫•哈蒙

"Understanding Business" by Nickels, McHugh, and McHugh has been the number one textbook in the introduction to business market for several editions for three reasons: the commitment and dedication of an author team that teaches this course and believes in the importance and power of this learning experience, we listen to our customers, and the quality of our supplements package. We consistently look to the experts - full-time faculty members, adjunct instructors, and of course students - to drive the decisions we make about the text itself and the ancillary package. Through a series of focus groups, symposia, as well as full-book, single-chapter, revised manuscript reviews of both text and key ancillaries, we have heard the stories of more than 600 professors and their insights and experiences are evident on every page of the revision and in every supplement. As teachers of the course and users of their own materials, the author team is dedicated to the principles of excellence in business education. From providing the richest most current topical coverage to using dynamic pedagogy that puts students in touch with today's real business issues, to creating groundbreaking and market-defining ancillary items for professors and students alike, "Understanding Business" leads the way.

From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America
What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at GE and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety; these notable and fascinating accounts are as relevant today to understanding the intricacies of corporate life as they were when the events happened.
Stories about Wall Street are infused with drama and adventure and reveal the machinations and volatile nature of the world of finance. John Brooks’s insightful reportage is so full of personality and critical detail that whether he is looking at the astounding market crash of 1962, the collapse of a well-known brokerage firm, or the bold attempt by American bankers to save the British pound, one gets the sense that history repeats itself.
Five additional stories on equally fascinating subjects round out this wonderful collection that will both entertain and inform readers . . . Business Adventures is truly financial journalism at its liveliest and best.
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The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Company's practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today. The Corporation That Changed the World is the first book to reveal the Company's enduring legacy as a corporation. This expanded edition explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance and regulation drove its spectacular rise and fall. For decades, the Company was simply too big to fail, and stock market bubbles, famines, drug-running and even duels between rival executives are to be found in this new account. For Robins, the Company's story provides vital lessons on both the role of corporations in world history and the steps required to make global business accountable today.

Ward argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent. Networks of Empire proposes that early modern empires were comprised of durable networks of trade, administration, settlement, legality, and migration whose regional circuits and territorially and institutionally based nodes of regulatory power operated not only on land and sea but discursively as well. Rights of sovereignty were granted to the Company by the States General in the United Provinces. Company directors in Europe administered the exercise of sovereignty by Company servants in its chartered domain. The empire developed in dynamic response to challenges waged by individuals and other sovereign entities operating within the Indian Ocean grid. By closely examining the Dutch East India Company's network of forced migration this book explains how empires are constituted through the creation, management, contestation, devolution and reconstruction of these multiple and intersecting fields of partial sovereignty.

The Business of Empire assesses the domestic impact of British imperial expansion by analysing what happened in Britain following the East India Company's acquisition of a vast territorial empire in South Asia. Drawing on a mass of hitherto unused material contained in the company's administrative and financial records, the book offers a reconstruction of the inner workings of the company as it made the remarkable transition from business to empire during the late-eighteenth century. H. V. Bowen profiles the company's stockholders and directors and examines how those in London adapted their methods, working practices, and policies to changing circumstances in India. He also explores the company's multifarious interactions with the domestic economy and society, and sheds important new light on its substantial contributions to the development of Britain's imperial state, public finances, military strength, trade and industry. This book will appeal to all those interested in imperial, economic and business history.

A classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century
Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in the last third of the nineteenth century and the cultural changes it brought in its wake. In America's westward expansion, labor unrest, newly powerful cities, and newly mechanized industries, the ideals and ideas by which Americans lived were reshaped, and American society became more structured, with an entrenched middle class and a powerful business elite. Here, in an updated edition which includes a new introduction and a revised bibliographical essay, is a brilliant, essential work on the origins of America's corporate culture and the formation of the American social fabric after the Civil War.

When it comes to the production and distribution of mass culture, no country in modern times has come close to rivaling the success of America. From blue jeans in central Europe to Elvis Presley's face on a Republic of Chad postage stamp, the reach of American mass culture extends into every corner of the globe. Most believe this is a twentieth-century phenomenon, but here Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes prove that its roots are far deeper. Buffalo Bill in Bologna reveals that the process of globalizing American mass culture began as early as the mid-nineteenth century. In fact, by the end of World War I, the United States already boasted an advanced network of culture industries that served to promote American values overseas. Rydell and Kroes narrate how the circuses, amusement parks, vaudeville, mail-order catalogs, dime novels, and movies developed after the Civil War - tools central to hastening the reconstruction of the country - actually doubled as agents of American cultural diplomacy abroad. As symbols of America's version of the "good life," cultural products became a primary means for people around the world, especially in Europe, to reimagine both America and themselves in the context of America's growing global sphere of influence. Paying special attention to the role of the world's fairs, the exporting of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show to Europe, the release of The Birth of a Nation, and Woodrow Wilson's creation of the Committee on Public Information, Rydell and Kroes offer an absorbing tour through America's cultural expansion at the turn of the century.