Resultados para "The Fall" en Negocios y profesiones

As the cofounder of Waze—the world's leading commuting and navigation app with more than 700 million users to date—Levine is committed to spreading entrepreneurial thinking so that other founders, managers, and employees in the tech space can build their own highly valued companies. Levine offers an inside look at the creation and sale of Waze and his second unicorn, Moovit, revealing the formula that drove those companies to compete with industry veterans and giants alike.

¿Qué tiene Zara para que millones de personas salgan a la calle cada día con sus prendas? ¿Qué ofrece Google para que decenas de miles de personas respondan a un proceso de selección? ¿Por qué unas empresas son deseadas y otras resultan indiferentes para inversores, clientes o empleados? ¿Hay que ser guapo y poderoso para resultar atractivo?

Bastano solo 5 secondi per cambiare vita: sembra una magia, ma invece è scienza. Usato da oltre 100.000 persone in tutto il mondo, il metodo di Mel Robbins funziona in tutti i settori della vita personale e professionale con risultati immediati e duraturi. Avallata da recenti studi delle neuroscienze e potenziata dalle più moderne strategie di miglioramento personale, la regola dei 5 secondi ha il potere di "sbloccare" la mente nei momenti di dubbio, incertezza, ansia, paura e di spingerci ad agire, facendo la cosa giusta in ogni situazione.

Some 250 years after its first publication, Gibbon's Decline and Fall is still regarded as one of the greatest histories in Western literature. He reports on more than 1,000 years of an empire which extended from the most northern and western parts of Europe to deep into Asia and Africa and covers not only events but also the cultural and religious developments that effected change during that time.

La vida no es lineal, pero nos empeñamos en fijarnos metas lineales: títulos universitarios de cuatro años, planes de carrera a diez años, hipotecas de treinta años. ¿Y si pensáramos en la vida como en un gran campo de juego para la experimentación? La neurocientífica y emprendedora Anne-Laure Le Cunff propone desarrollar una mentalidad experimental para convertir los desafíos en autoconocimiento y la incertidumbre en oportunidad.

#1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco at the hands of a buyout from investment firm KKR. A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that...

This book combines the thoughts and teachings of the remodeling industry's production guru, Tim Faller, into one powerful book. Follow along as Tim shares practical solutions that can transform your production department into a powerhouse, delivering above-average profits as you delight every client.

Bring a dead deal back to life using this innovative advice that will put you on top and make you the ultimate sales machine. Dead deals are the worst. You've put in all that time and energy into trying to make something work, only to end up with it not working. Ryan Serhant shares how...

This book tells the untold story of how JPMorgan became a universal bank in the 1980s-1990s and the events leading to it being acquired by Chase in 2000. It depicts the challenges Morgan's leaders, Lew Preston and Dennis Weatherstone, confronted when the firm's business model was disrupted by the developing country debt crisis, up to its current management with Jamie Dimon.

Three powerful men converge on the banks of the Red Cedar River in the early 1900s in southern Minnesota—George Albert Hormel, founder of what will become the $10 billion food conglomerate Hormel Foods; Alpha LaRue Eberhart, the author's paternal grandfather and Hormel's executive vice president and corporate secretary; and Ransome Josiah Thomson, Hormel's comptroller. Over ten years, Thomson will embezzle $1.2 million from the company's coffers, nearly bringing the company to its knees.

John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best--and the brainiest--bond arbitrage group in the world. A mysterious and shy midwesterner, he knitted together a group of Ph.D.-certified arbitrageurs who rewarded...

From watching his colleague get shot in the testicles by a jealous producer to running Hollywood's most successful television studio, Harris Katleman had a front row seat in the development of the television industry. Through a number of hilarious accounts, Harris Katleman shares his journey from office boy to talent agent to television producer, and finally to studio head at both MGM and 20th Century Fox. Along the way, we meet industry giants including Rupert Murdoch, Bob Iger, Barry Diller, Marvin Davis, Kirk Kerkorian, Mark Goodson, and Lew Wasserman.

Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today, most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy - particularly health care, which employs more Americans than any other industry. Gabriel Winant takes us inside the Rust Belt to show how America's cities have weathered new economic realities. In Pittsburgh's neighborhoods, he finds that a new working class has emerged in the wake of deindustrialization.

A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller: This "vivid" inside story of WeWork and its CEO tells the remarkable saga of one of the most audacious, and improbable, rises and falls in American business history (Ken Auletta). ​Christened a potential savior of Silicon Valley's startup culture...

The patriarch, C. F. Seabrook, was hailed as the "Henry Ford of Agriculture." His son Jack, a keen businessman, was poised to take over what Life called "the biggest vegetable factory on earth." But the carefully cultivated facade—glamorous outings by horse-drawn carriage, hidden wine cellars, and movie star girlfriends—hid dark secrets that led to the implosion of the family business. A compelling tale of class and privilege, betrayal and revenge three decades in the making, The Spinach King explores the author's complicated family legacy and the dark corners of the American Dream.

This book has facts that will bust any myths you may have heard and give suggestions you may never think of. This book is not one that will cure night eating disorder, but it will tell you what types of professionals may be able to help and what techniques can be used at home while in the process of battling this problem with a healthcare professional. Don't let yourself or someone you know ever get too deep into a food addiction, there are many resources available to help, and this book can give many suggestions.

New York Times best-selling author and world-class satirist Stanley Bing trains his savvy eye on the world’s first and most famous multinational corporation in this humorous and insightful volume. Here, he chronicles the great city of Rome from its humble beginnings to its monumental collapse due to greed, in-fighting, and general mismanagement. Rome, Inc. then becomes a powerful lesson for business leaders, documenting the many dos and don’ts of a successful corporation.

For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was “Big Blue”—an icon. And yet over the years, IBM has gone through both failure and success. The company almost went out of business in the early 1990s, then came back strong with new business strategies and an emphasis on artificial intelligence. In this authoritative history, James Cortada tells the story of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.

In Women Money Power, business journalist Josie Cox tells the story of women’s fight for freedom and economic equality. This is an inspirational account of brave pioneers who took on social mores and the law, including the “Rosies,” who filled industrial jobs and helped win World War II, the heiress whose fortune helped create the birth control pill, the brassy banker who broke into the boys’ club of the New York Stock Exchange, and the namesake of landmark equal-pay legislation who refused to accept discrimination.

You can say goodbye to today's Internet, New York Times best-selling author George Gilder says. Soon the current model of aggregated free content populated with "value-subtracted" advertising will die a natural deat. In Life After Google, Gilder takes listeners on a brilliant, rocketing journey into the very near-future, into an Internet with a new "bitcoin-bitgold" transaction layer that will replace spam with seamless micro-payments and provide an all-new standard for global money.