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Beumer & Co (USED)

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Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt (USED)

Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt (USED)

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Self-made millionaire Harvey Mackay knows about life at the top--and knows what it takes to stay there. Now, he tells you how to get there too, with dozens of common-sense lessons from all walks of life. Whether you're selling, managing, or punching the clock, you'll find the questions and the answers you need to questions like: Do you do what you love? (The Mackay self-inventory test will help you find out.); Do you love what you do? Do you deliver more than you promise?
From closing the sale to setting off on your own, from managing in the trenches to asking for a raise, the business philosophy that's worked for millions can work for you, too.
Beyond Tallulah (USED)

Beyond Tallulah (USED)

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Beyond Tallulah, the illustrated biography of Sam Wyly, the most versatile big-company entrepreneur in American history, tells one of the most compelling untold business stories of our time. Wyly has built 10 companies in nine different industries with 500 million- or billion-dollar valuations. He's the reason that Bonanza Steakhouse, Michaels Arts & Crafts and Green Mountain Energy are household names today. And his achievements serve as a valuable point of reference for today's generation of recession-fighting Start-up Whiz Kids.

After a mercurial rise through the early computer industry in Texas, Wyly founded a data transmission company (DATRAN) with the dream of building a network of microwave towers that would enable computers to talk to each other wirelessly--20 years before the World Wide Web existed. What happened next is a case study of high-wire business dealings that speaks to the core values of American enterprise. Wyly's dealings with entrenched interests foreshadow the tough questions faced by today's readership about the proper roles of government and business in rebuilding the country. As Wyly struggled to recover from disastrous setbacks, he never stopped asking, "What's next?"

With exclusive access to Wyly and original interviews of more than one hundred of his colleagues and family members, biographer Dennis Hamilton draws an energetic and fast-paced portrait of a business career that soared high, courted disaster and carved a memorable path through five decades. In the end, this story of an American titan of industry is made distinctive--and memorable--through the details readers learn about Wyly's deft, sure-handed approach to deal making and a seeming sixth sense for the ebbs and flows of the financial market.

In Beyond Tallulah, we watch Wyly journey from small-town high school football in the South to IBM in its Information Age heyday, from the takeover wars of the 1980s to adventures in big-scale national retailing, from the Alaska pipeline to a new generation of clean energy. Wyly's life promises to fascinate and inspire readers, while also serving as a blueprint for aspiring entrepreneurs. Illustrated with more than two hundred color and black-and-white photos, Beyond Tallulah preserves Wyly's wholly original American journey--from his dirt poor Great Depression childhood in rural Louisiana to his triumph as a self-made billionaire . . . six times.

Born in 1934, Sam Wyly was raised in rural Louisiana. In 1957, he received his MBA from the University of Michigan's Business School and began his career as a salesman for IBM and then for Honeywell. Six years later, at the age of 28, Wyly was out on his own, creating his first company, University Computing, which offered computer services to local businesses. Over the course of the next 50 years, he founded or grew successful companies in computing, computer software products, oil refining, insurance, steakhouse franchising, arts-and-crafts retailing, hedge fund investing, environmentally friendly electricity, and carbon offsets.

In addition to being an entrepreneur, Wyly invests his time in educational institutions and has served as a trustee of Southern Methodist University, as vice chairman of the Princeton Parents Association, and on the board of PBS. One of Wyly's proudest endeavors was providing the start-up capital for the Dallas PBS station to create a high-quality news program in 1968. The show was called Newsroom, which evolved into what's known today as NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, one of the most trusted news sources for millions nationwide.

Over his storied career, Wyly has received many accolades and awards. Forbes named him one of its 10 greenest billionaires in 2010. In 2003, Wyly received the Murphy Award for Lifetime Achievement in Entrepreneurship from the University of North Texas Murphy Enterprise Center; in 1997, the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship a

Big Business Reader: Essays on Corporate America (USED)

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Big Fix: Inside the S&L Scandal (USED)

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The inside story of the rash of failures of American savings-and-loan institutions in the 1980s, written by a reporter on The Wall Street Journal. This account names highly-placed figures in finance and government who were involved in mismanagement, manipulation and fraud.
Book of Five Rings: The Real Art of Japanese Management (USED)

Book of Five Rings: The Real Art of Japanese Management (USED)

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Bottom Line Fever a Corporate Home Companion

Bottom Line Fever a Corporate Home Companion

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"'IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE, MEETS 'CATCH 22"- Elaine T., exec at a large knowledge-based firm.  

FUNNY AS HELL AND WAY-l'M SORRY-WAY TOO REAL." - Terri B., Former manager, M&A arm of a major telecommunications firm 

AS YOU READ EACH CHAPTER, YOU CAN SEE IT COMING. AT LEAST, I CAN SEE IT NOW. BUT BACK WHEN IT HAPPENED TO ME, I DIDN'T SEE IT COMING AT ALL." - Paul M., line manager at a large manufacturing firm that's gone private 

IF YOU'VE BEEN THERE, YOU GET IT. IF YOU HAVEN'T, YOU DON'T. SHOULD BE MANDATORY READING FOR B-SCHOOL, SO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GET TING INTO." - Ellen M., retired exec, multinational financial firm 

'THIS IS NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN CHART. THERE'S NO METRIC. IT JUST SEEPS ITS WAY INTO EVERY CORNER OF THE CORPORATION. AND THEN IT FLUSHES ITS WAY OUT THROUGH THE MARKET." - Mike T., Former Harvard economist 

"TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN!" - Walter A., media content provider 

"THIS IS EXACTLY HOW WE GOT TO WHERE WE ARE." - John P., exec at large manufacturing firm 

IT'S THE JAMES JOYCE ULYSSES OF THE MIDDLE MANAGER. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE SHOW IS, OR WHAT SCENE YOU'RE IN, OR WHAT THE RIGHT LINES ARE, OR WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE HAPPENING NEXT, OR WHAT IT ALL MEANS. YOU KNOW FOR A FACT THAT SOMETHING'S HAPPENING. THOUGH YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, AND IT'S NOT ALWAYS FUNNY." - Chris R., SVP at a large financial institution 

"THE BALLAD OF THE HIGH-PERFORMING BABY BOOMER. THANK GOD I RETIRED IN THE 1980S. THANK GOD I INVESTED IN ZERO COUPON TREASURIES AND DIVIDEND STOCKS. I WISH YOU ALL LUCK." -Retired CEO of a large corporation 

"SIX SIGMA ON ACID." -Steve J., computer design engineer

Build Your Rep

Build Your Rep for Business Success

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"You can't stand out if your message blends in." -Rich Austin

Do you often walk away from new encounters thinking, "there goes another lost opportunity"? Landing new clients is one of the hardest tasks for any business. We can have products and services that make our competition look like amateurs, but if we don't stand out, we'll just blend into the background, and no one will notice us.

Build Your REP is designed to eliminate that frustration and show you how to grow your business using the three key steps to landing new clients: Recognition, Education, and Persuasion.

In Build Your REP, I provide step-by-step instructions with clear and simply worksheets, that will allow others to immediately recognize what you do, educate them so they fully understand, and persuade them that you have the answers to their problems.

As a life-long severe stutterer, communication has always been a challenge. With years of speech therapy, and my own personal study of communication methods, I became an accomplished business speaker and corporate trainer. I have taught thousands of people in the U.S. and overseas, all the while sharpening my skills and discovering what works and what doesn't. I've taken all of this information and created Build Your REP. I hope you enjoy it.

Build Your REP for Business Success

Build Your REP for Business Success

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Do you often walk away from new encounters thinking, “there goes another lost opportunity?” Landing new clients is one of the hardest tasks for any business. We can have products and services that make our competition look like amateurs, but if we don’t stand out, we’ll just blend into the background, and no one will notice us.

Build Your REP is designed to eliminate that frustration and show you how to grow your business using the three key steps to landing new clients: Recognition, Education, and Persuasion.

In Build Your REP, I provide step-by-step instructions with clear and simply worksheets, that will allow others to immediately recognize what you do, educate them so they fully understand, and persuade them that you have the answers to their problems.

About the author

As a life-long severe stutterer, communication has always been a challenge. With years of speech therapy, and my own personal study of communication methods, I became an accomplished business speaker and corporate trainer. I have taught thousands of people in the U.S. and over-seas, all the while sharpening my skills and discovering what works and what doesn’t. I’ve taken all of this information and created Build Your REP. I hope you enjoy it.

Buzzmarketing: Get People to Talk about Your Stuff (USED)

Buzzmarketing: Get People to Talk about Your Stuff (USED)

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Presents case stories of companies that successfully used buzz marketing practices to break into ad-saturated markets, identifying six variants of word-of-mouth marketing that can be implemented without large advertising budgets.