Download or read book Why the Best Laid Investment Plans Usually Go Wrong written by Harry Browne and published by Fireside. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaches investors how to understand their own financial problems while establishing diversified and balanced permanent portfolios and decide what to hold or risk in their variable portfolios
Download or read book Best of Plans Gone Wrong written by Robert Bottomley and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fast reading mystery novel keeping reader interest right up to the last page. Readers will easily see themselves as character development and humor will appeal to a large range of readers. It follows the lives of ordinary people in southern Wisconsin dealing with unforeseen events that change their lives in unimaginable ways. What happens here could happen anywhere. Without mistakes made there would be no crime. With each mistake comes regret. Characters don't always learn from experience in order to avoid making the same mistake again or something worse. Crime has more than one victim as it complicates many lives. Readers will be able to see themselves and decide for themselves the direction of their lives.This story is a realistic complication for innocent people who are in the wrong place, destroying their good plans. The damage is enough for good people to intercede to set things right again.This is Robert Bottomley's fourth book since 2015. All books for sale on Amazon.com.
Download or read book A Plan Gone Bad written by Gregg Stoner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1967, and Bob Cruz and Dave Ford have been best friends since they met in the third grade at grammar school eleven years ago. Just finishing their freshman year at a community college, they have a mutual interest in guns and hunting, and they spend every available minute hunting in the fields outside their hometown of Fresno, California. The Vietnam War is in full swing and Bob and Dave know it’s just a matter of time before they’re drafted and sent overseas. They decide to enlist in the Marine Corps through the buddy system. Unlike most young men, their desire to become Marines and go to Vietnam is combined with a strong desire to kill the enemy Viet Cong. Avid hunters, they have a perverse desire to kill people before entering boot camp so they can determine if they have what it takes to be killers. Bob and Dave concoct what they believe is a foolproof plan. But their perfect murder has flaws that result in a living nightmare.
Download or read book What to Do When Things Go Wrong A Five Step Guide to Planning for and Surviving the Inevitable And Coming Out Ahead written by Frank Supovitz and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manage every business problem like you were born for it—from a problem customer to a career-threatening crisis It’s not being negative or pessimistic to assume that something will always go wrong in business and in your career. It’s being realistic. What you do when crisis hits is the only thing matters—and this proven guide delivers everything you need to take positive action with confidence, skill, and professionalism. In What to Do When Things Go Wrong, Frank Supovitz, the man who has been behind-the-scenes at major events like the Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, and Indy 500 guides you through the process of making sure you handle inevitable problems as if it’s something you do day in and day out. Whether you’re revealing a new strategy to your team, presenting last year’s numbers to the C-suite, or opening your own business, What to Do When Things Go Wrong helps you think through and prepare for all potential problems. You’ll learn why things go wrong, how to best go about preventing crisis, and how to fix them when they happen anyway. Complete with stories from the author’s clients, executives, entrepreneurs, and others, What to Do When Things Go Wrong is your playbook for ensuring the results you deliver reflect the smart, hard-working professional you are.
Download or read book When All Plans Fail written by Paul R. Williams and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural disaster. Virulent disease. Terrorist attack. In almost an instant, the safe world you have known is turned upside down. Such catastrophic events are not restricted to the movies. They are becoming true-life headlines around the world.
Download or read book Why Startups Fail written by Tom Eisenmann and published by Currency. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.
Download or read book Mission Met written by Eric Ryan and published by Mission Met LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic planning, when done well, can powerfully transform your small nonprofit. However, as Eric Ryan has learned over nearly twenty-five years of nonprofit leadership, there are many barriers to effective strategic planning. In this practical and easy-to-read book, he’ll help you overcome these barriers by teaching you: - The leadership mindset for effective strategic planning - How to structure a practical, two-section plan - A simple four-step planning cycle - Strategies for getting your staff and board’s buy-in - Techniques for measuring progress on your plan - A format and approach to writing powerful goals - How to write your organization’s mission, vision, and values - And more... Further, you’ll get access to numerous free worksheets, templates, and videos that supplement this book. Employing these tools and strategies will help you and your team create and execute a plan that will lead to a more financially secure and impactful nonprofit.
Download or read book Journey to Joy written by Josh Moody and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embedded in the Bible is an underused handbook for moving step by step through real life with real joy. This is a guide to that journey. It will take you through each of the 15 steps from disappointment to rejoicing. Along the way you will discover how to follow God in family life, in church, at work, when people hurt you, when you need help, when you need a laugh, and more. The Psalms of Ascent were designed to make us happy pilgrims through the test of life without faking it and without failing it. Read this book and embark on a journey to joy.
Download or read book Good Strategy Bad Strategy written by Richard Rumelt and published by Currency. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.
Download or read book Beyond the Bridges written by Jerry M. Hay and published by Inland Waterways. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond The Bridges takes the reader through all aspects of river life. From canoes to steamboats, from river history to river lore. It is both a great reference book for those who wish to do their own river boating and has entertaining chapters about the author's own mishaps and adventures. Jerry Hay began is river adventures on the Wabash River in Indiana and has since traveled and made river maps on many rivers by canoe, kayak, steamboats, powerboats and even towboats. Millions of people cross bridges each day with no idea of the adventure, power, and magic that a river offers. After reading this book, one will look at the rivers differently while glancing over the guard rail at the waterways below. He or she will know what it is really like.......Beyond The Bridges. Available to download to your device as an ebook.
Download or read book The Rich Father with Poor Children written by Terryson Himayumbula and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every child has a dream when they start off in life to become someone great and do great things. Somehow along the line of growth, those dreams are lost. Ninety percent of the world population is lateral, eking out a living by hard work and toil and still have a lot of month at the end of the money. This writer asks if this is or was the intention of our creator Father. This book explains how our Father is immensely rich and boasts of great abundance. It tells how earth’s children choose to be poor and how the Creator Father feels sad. Most importantly, this book explains how one can start to live a life expressing the abundance of the universe in total joy and fulfillment. There is proof that such a life of maximum abundance exists and 10 percent of the earth’s population testifies to that fact. You don't have to push drags, hit a jackpot, or win a great lottery to get into that 10 percent bracket. Yes, there are some people that have much from such venues, but research has shown that wealth gained in that manner is short lived and few get real satisfaction from it. You could live a life of abundance, a life of your dreams, if you learnt the secrets of linking yourself with the mind of the creator. This book reveals the fact that money and wealth are not the cause of wealth or poverty. It shows that each person’s mind, attitude, approach, and preparedness to meeting money and wealth determine whether or not one becomes rich or poor. A person’s mind also determines what level of wealth or poverty one will attain. The words of Solomon, the great king of Israel, then rings true again: “As a man thinks in his heart, so is He.”
Download or read book My Top 20 Training Tips written by Pamela Tyree Griffin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and seasoned trainers and facilitators will benefit from these 20 tips The goal is to help others avoid some of the presentation pitfalls many experience. This QR or Quick read is designed to take a minimum of time to bring "News You Can Use-RIGHT NOW!" (And afterall,"It's for the good of all mankind!".)
Download or read book Performance and Productivity in Public and Nonprofit Organizations written by Evan M. Berman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised edition of this accessible text provides a balanced assessment and overview of state-of-the-art organizational and performance productivity strategies. Public and nonprofit organizations face demands for increased productivity and responsiveness, and this practical guide offers strategies based on current research and scholarship that respond to these challenges. The book's comprehensive coverage includes: rationale for productivity and performance improvement; evolution of productivity improvement; the quality paradigm; customer service; information technology; traditional approaches to productivity improvement; re-engineering and restructuring; partnering and privatization; psychological contracts; and community based strategies. In addition to updating the examples of the first edition, this new edition also highlights the growing use of enterprise funds, partnership models of privatization, and web-based service delivery. Each chapter concludes with a useful summary and all-new application exercises.
Download or read book Go in Practice written by Matt Farina and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary Go in Practice guides you through 70 real-world techniques in key areas like package management, microservice communication, and more. Following a cookbook-style Problem/Solution/Discussion format, this practical handbook builds on the foundational concepts of the Go language and introduces specific strategies you can use in your day-to-day applications. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Go may be the perfect systems language. Built with simplicity, concurrency, and modern applications in mind, Go provides the core tool set for rapidly building web, cloud, and systems applications. If you know a language like Java or C#, it's easy to get started with Go; the trick is finding the practical dirt-under-the-fingernails techniques that you need to build production-ready code. About the Book Go in Practice guides you through dozens of real-world techniques in key areas. Following a cookbook-style Problem/Solution/Discussion format, this practical handbook builds on the foundational concepts of the Go language and introduces specific strategies you can use in your day-to-day applications. You'll learn techniques for building web services, using Go in the cloud, testing and debugging, routing, network applications, and much more. After finishing this book, you will be ready to build sophisticated cloud-native Go applications. What's Inside Dozens of specific, practical Golang techniques Using Go for devops and cloudops Writing RESTful web services and microservices Practical web dev techniques About the Reader Written for experienced developers who have already started exploring Go and want to use it effectively in a production setting. About the Authors Matt Farina is a software architect at Deis. Matt Butcher is a Principal Engineer in the Advanced Technology Group at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. They are both authors, speakers, and regular open source contributors. Table of Contents PART 1 - BACKGROUND AND FUNDAMENTALS Getting into Go A solid foundation Concurrency in Go PART 2 - WELL-ROUNDED APPLICATIONS Handling errors and panic Debugging and testing PART 3 - AN INTERFACE FOR YOUR APPLICATIONS HTML and email template patterns Serving and receiving assets and forms Working with web services PART 4 - TAKING YOUR APPLICATIONS TO THE CLOUD Using the cloud Communication between cloud services Reflection and code generation
Download or read book The Naked Roommate For Parents Only written by Harlan Cohen and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your child is going off to college, there's a surprise around every corner... But that doesn't mean you can't be prepared! The Naked Roommate: For Parents Only is a witty and wise survival guide for everything you need to know about the college experience. Harlan Cohen, America's most trusted college transition expert, delivers the best advice, facts, stats, tips, and stories from parents, students, and experts across the country to ensure that you and your child will have an incredible and meaningful college experience. The Summer Before What, when, and how to prepare The emotional roller coaster and letting go Calling, Texting, and Facebooking New ways to keep in touch How much is too much To A or Not to B Professors, grades, and actually going to class When to step in (and when not to) Paying the Bills Financial aid tricks and tips Budgets, books, and the best campus jobs The First Few Months Move-in, roommates, and homesickness What not to do when you're missing them Keeping Them Safe Drinking, partying, and other things your kid might not be doing Knowing your campus support resources Get this freshman survival guide for yourself when you pick up these other helpful college guides: The Naked Roommate by Harlan Cohen The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2021 by Ted Fiske The Fiske Guide To Getting In To The Right College by Ted Fiske College Essay Essentials by Ethan Sawyer (The College Essay Guy) College Admission Essentials by Ethan Sawyer (The College Essay Guy)
Download or read book The Complete Sherlock Holmes written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
