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This is a wonderful book that lays out effective tools, techniques, and strategies for working with geographically diverse teams. This book is so appropriate for our virutal organization that my entire management team will have copies soon!

We loved this book so much that we have all our team members read it AND we give it away as sales gifts to potential clients.

This book was so helpful and easy to read. It was unique because of the fabulous story it told (with a really cool twist of an ending) ... a how-to storybook for today's virtual world.

I couldn't put it down, read it in one sitting and have benefitted from it every day since. It really helped me straighten out my virtual leadership nightmare. Thanks so very much!

First of all, I enjoy "instructional fiction" as conveyed in business quick-reads like "Virtual Leadership." This type of business novel is fun to read! Also, this contemporary business text covers an important topic in the age of virtual organizations and e-businesses -- how to establish and manage virtual teams. Enjoy!

The 7 Universal laws is easy reading which is good because you will want to refer to it constantly. The ideas presented are the kind which make you wonder why you hadn't seen it so clearly before. Simply useful.

this book is very simple, and interesting. this book for evey one working with people. you will learn

A lucid, light read that offers powerful insights. This book is a must for the business or marketing person's reference library. Thoroughly enjoyed it!

For somebody who wants to start his own business, this was a great book to read. He helps you understand what really needs to be done, at the same time showing why something working, or didn't. He talks about what really matters in starting your own business, while choosing the best risk. He starts from creating a business to Application of strategies. I believe this is a great book and a must read if you want to start your own business.

Excellent service and book was in very good condition. I lost my book during shipping, but they gave me another new one within couple of days. so excellent customer service.

Unlike the usual management book that tends to be littered with success/failure anecdotes and little else, this book gives solid business advice that can provide immediate and worthwhile guidance. So whether you have just set out on your managerial career or are a member of the gray-haired 'been around the block a few times' executive club, Creating and Dominating New Markets will provide a great return on your investment - time and money.

The corporate life is much like a chicken coop: the few chickens on the top of pecking order have friends and a full access to the feeder. Once a chicken slides down the pecking order, it is unlikely to regain its spot. At least, not at the age of 50 and not without strong connections.
Jerry Meyer, an ex-senior executive at MacDonnell-Douglas, wrote a painfully frank story of a corporate chicken, who made it to the top of pecking order without connections or old money, and fell back to the bottom.
It is a must-read for every executive wannabe. Maybe, the reader will think of Meyer's message and reconsider the career strategy: it is safer to be paid for what you DO than for what you ARE. A title is no substitute for skill, creativity and, most important, sense of self-worth.

I so enjoyed this book I devoured it in one sitting -- which surprised even me. I have not a thing in common with the author: I am not male, I'm nowhere near 50, I have never been a senior executive and I've never been fired. In fact, I'm a stay-at-home mother. But Meyer writes well. And if you've ever had to look for a job under any circumstances, you'll identify. Don't believe the reviewers who call Meyer bitter -- he's not, he's just very, very specific about the details of his humiliation. His book does raise real questions about employers today, but more to the point, it's a good read.

Even if you are securely employed or living off a comfortable trust fund, this book is a superb read, painfully funny, sharp-witted, well written. Though I had never much sympathy for six- figure executives, Meyer's take on that world still engaged me to read the book in one sitting

One of the truly interesting books in financial analytics. I studied under Dr. Teall at Pace, NYC and he brings his amazing and lucid teaching style to the book. The chapters are well presented and the book is written in an extremely readable style. Moreover chapters 4 and 5 are really good and gave me a good understanding of the material. All in all a very good book that every MBA student should read.

This book is clear, concise and comprehensive. The book provides a good overview of the various aspects of financial analytics. It served me well in reviewing matrix algebra as it applies to finance - variance-covariance analysis.

I found the text Financial Market Analytics useful and comprehensive. In addition, it is presented in a nice way, which allows readers to leverage their previous understandings.

Apart from the presented theories/discussions the text provides numerous computational examples in a systematic and thoughtful fashion, helping enhance those topics. Both undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from the text. Although spending most the time talking about essential matters, the book still gives room for further investigating for those numbercrunchers with computing innate knacks.

I strongly recommend the text to students and practitioners who regard finance as the professional fields, at present or in the future. I myself thank the author, Prof. John Teall for contributing such a good text.

Mr. Walker is clear and concise in his depiction of how the options markets work. He details various strategies and makes options investing understandable to those new to it.

In my 11 years as a futures investor, broker, and author, I have never seen someone with as much grasp of options investing as Mr.Walker and have the capability to explain it.

Comprehensive, simple, full of examples - worth the money.

Yes, As a beginner I can confidently say I know what option is, it's uses and the risk involve. The Author did not only explain the principle but gave practicable example everyone can relate to. All in simple and plain English, you don't need to have been to a school of economy to know what an option is. With the help of this book, I can't look stupid when others uses terminologies relating to option. Keep up the good work Joseph.

Exiled from Hitler's totalitarian regime to neighboring Switzerland, Röpke emerged as the man credited for the Federal Republic of Germany's postwar boom and was influential on the policies of Germany's Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard. Wilhelm Röpke stands apart from most economists in that he thinks on a more humane level rejecting crude utilitarian calculations in favor of sound empirical reasoning. The crux of Röpke's economic thought is that the individual has meaning. The individual is more than a mere hyperatomized cog in the machine. He recognizes that the market is not some abstract ideology (contrary to Novak's concept adulation of 'democratic capitalism.') Moreover, the market does not exist in a vacuum, but within a transcedent moral order. The market economy represents "the economic order proper to a definite social structure and to a definite spiritual and moral setting." He criticizes "the cult of the colossal" and giganticism where individuals "become mere passively activated mass particles or social molecules." Centralism, which Röpke detests, leads to socialism, a colossal state, an impersonal bureaucracy, and a dehumanized society. Röpke's Humane Economy, on the other hand, posits that a decentralized order is the path to freedom, vibrant communities, properity, and overall human happiness.

Röpke notes that the sound economic order of free enterprise "must find its place in a higher order of things which is not ruled by supply and demand, free prices and competition. It must be firmly contained within an all-embracing order of society in which the imperfections and harshness of economic freedom are corrected by law and in which man is not denied conditions of life appropriate to his nature." Röpke poigantly surmised that: "The market economy, and with social and political freedom, can thrive only as part and under the protection of a bourgeois system. This implies the existence of a society in which certain fundamentals are respected and color the whole network of social relationships: individual effort and responsibility, absolute norms and values, independence based on ownership, prudence and daring, calculating and saving, responsibility for planning one's own life, proper coherence with the community, family feeling, a sense of tradition and the succession of generations combined with an open-minded view of the present and the future, proper tension between individual and community, firm moral discipline, respect for the value of money, the courage to grapple on one's own with life and its uncertainties, a sense of the natural order of things, and a firm scale of values." Röpke astutely observes that civil society is awash in problems from cultural fragmentation, urbanization, and gargantuan institutionalism. He recognizes the benefits and limits of the market economy, which he eloquently defends.

This classic economic treatise recently was rereleased from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. I also recommend Wilhelm Ropke: Swiss Localist, Global Economist by John Zmirak from ISI's Library of Modern Thinkers Series, which is an insightful biography and introduction to the economic, political and social thought of this brilliant man.

One of the great errors prevalent in economics is the assumption that an economy is a kind of endogenous entity which can be understood entirely on its own terms, without reference to social, political, and psychological factors. This error is especially prevalent among those ideologues who believe that, while politics affects economics, economics never affects politics. But this is clearly not how things stand in social reality. Politics and economics exist within a complex web of causal interdependence. No attempt to impose through politics a specific brand of economics can ever hope to be successful, since waves of causation from the economic realm will ricochet back into the political realm, thus altering the original economic program.

The political right, especially in its libertarian and pro-market incarnations, has never properly understood this insight into social reality. In their polemic economic tracts, they implicitly assume that "society" or the "government" could choose at any time to adopt any economic principle it liked, regardless of the likely social or political consequences of that principle. Libertarians tend to support any economy policy which they believe will bring about greater freedom and efficiency, ignoring all the while the disastrous consequences the policy might have in the political and social realms. The great merit of Wilhelm Roepke's "Humane Economy" is that he sedulously avoids this error. Roepke is one of the few pro-market who understands that the free market does not exist in vacuo and that the market cannot be defended as a good-in-itself. In the "Humane Economy," Roepke points out that free enterprise depends on sociological, moral, and cultural factors for its maintenance and survival. The "sphere of the market, of competition, of the system where supply and demand move prices and thereby govern production, may be regarded and defended only as part of a wider general order encompassing ethics, law, the natural conditions of life and happiness, the state, politics, and power," writes Roepke. "Individuals who compete on the market and there pursue their own advantage stand all the more in need of the social and moral bonds of community, without which competition degenerates most grievously." Roepke's defense of the market rests firmly on time-tested conservative principles. He dissects the corrosive effects of mass society and social rationalism and warns against those two "slowly spreading cancers of our Western economy," "the irresistible advance of the welfare state and the erosion of the value of money, which is called creeping inflation." There are few books which detail the crisis of modern civilization in the West better than this one; and none which offer a more convincing vision of a genuinely "humane" economy.

Russell Kirk tended to take the view of Edmund Burke that the age of Sophists, Economists, and Calculators was upon us and that the unbought graces of life were gone. Kirk found the priests of the dismal science to be a blinkered breed who worshipped the god Efficiency, but from that judgment he excluded Wilhelm Ropke, whose work was aimed at returning economics to the human scale.

Ropke opposed the rise of the National Socialists in his native Germany. When Hitler came to power, Ropke was forced to leave, having lectured against the centralizing economics of that regime. But after the Second World War he returned to play a large role in Germany's postwar recovery, which was based on market solutions. From experience he had no confidence in systems of centralized authority -- socialism, communism, or collectivized decision-making of any kind. Against these he believed in local institutions, such as the small town of his birth, family, church, local community, neighborhood, and what Burke called the little platoons in which we travel.

Further, he had no faith in an abstract capitalism that excluded moral considerations. The essence of A Humane Economy is that the most important facets of life transcend the economic sphere. Ropke builds his argument by looking at the moral foundations and ethical conditions necessary for a market economy to function, and by locating the market economy within necessary limits and spheres of activity. He also examines the destructive effects of mass society: crowded cities, bureaucratic hospitals, ubiquitous industry, egalitarian democracy, the absurd pace and busy-ness of modern life, and the myth of the sovereign people over the individual person. The remaining chapters look at the welfare state, chronic inflation, and the importance of ownership and private property.

The line that Ropke draws is between centrism and decentrism. With centrism comes the gradual erosion of the human element. Just as Ortega y Gassett showed how modernity had excluded man from art, so Ropke is arguing that economics has gradually excluded man from economics. While art had become preoccupied with abstract ideas, economics was being treated as a science, surrounded by theory, charts, and graphs. What economists should have been doing, argues Ropke, is adapting economic policy to man, not trying to adapt man to economics.

Readers should have no trouble recognizing this dehumanization at work in today's world. Contra Ropke, the centralizing impulse is on the rise in both government and the workplace. Books about economics have earned their reputation for dullness, but Ropke transcends the genre. His book is readable and re-readable, with a wider view than the blinkered breed usually gives us. Perhaps in time A Humane Economy will receive a proper hearing.

We have heard much about the crisis of third world debt and what to do about it from liberal ("forgive the debt") and right-wing ("bankrupt the suckers") commentators. James Henry asks a more fundamental question, where did the money go? Why is there so little to show for the more than $2.7 trillion of debt, aid, and investment made available to the developing world since the 1970s? One answer is that it was not spent but stolen and wasted, maybe as little as one-third of it ending up on the ground. Much of the rest has gone to provide the political elites of recipient countries with retirement homes in pleasant places.

Henry, a lawyer and economist by training and an investigative journalist by avocation, has been working on this story since the late 1980s. He travelled to more than 50 countries in pursuit of it and his book contains original, first-hand accounts of decades of unscrupulous financial behavior in the Philippines, Brazil, Nicaragua, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Mexico.

What started off as an economist's enquiry into the paradox of third world debt has ended up as an indictment of the first world corporations that helped to create it. Henry tells how many of the world's leading banks and financial groups have, often with the complicity of their governments and supranational institutions, created and fuelled the new high-growth global markets for dirty debt, capital flight, money laundering, tax evasion, corruption, illicit weapons traffic, and other new transnational forms of dubious economic activity.

This is an essential book. Corruption is the scandal of third world debt. Attempts to relieve it must include the means to prevent its happening again.

For anyone wishing to get a clear and concise walk through the back-door dealings of International Banking, in specific what it has done to consistently derail and sabotage emerging financial markets, this is a must read.

The book hinges on true and methodical investigative journalism (sadly, a talent in these precarious times often more feared than revered), and its revelations take you far beyond whatever information has been garnered from the print media's attempts to unravel the blatant crime behind the Third World Debt Crisis.

Whether it be an account of what essentially killed the revolution in Nicaragua, the insane excesses of Imelda Marcos, or the twisted money trail leading to Sadam's WMDs, Mr. Henry will not disappoint in his efforts to reveal how we got ourselves into the Emerging Markets debacle, and what this has to say about the growing worldwide terrorism directed at the West.

I'm a Latin American scholar. Henry's well-written book manages to get below the surface, and deliver some amazing new revelations about Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, in particular. I was also interested to find out exactly where Paraguay's General Stroessner, the Phillipines' Marcos, Pakistan's Bhutto, Zaire's Mobutu, and quite a few other Third World thugs kept their foreign loot -- and not only in Switzerland! Not easy reading, but it will definitely change your perspective on the global economy....

I was not sure what to expect when I picked up the book, but for [the price] why not check it out. It was much better than anything I expected or have read in similar titles. The author gives the reader a solid foundation for entering and exiting low priced stocks. The book is filled with lots of good examples of the right time to buy beaten up stocks. The primary focus of his selection technique is technical analysis, although there is a fundamental bent thrown in. If you are thinking that there are bargins to be had after the past 2 years in the market, this is a title well worth checking out.

Very helpful in determining what, where, and when to buy stocks that have experience significant correction. Since the latest 2000 correction in the market, one would think that people will pay more attention to this type of thinking rather than simple momentum investing.

Excellent details, charts, graphs and explanations of how to chart the beginning of a turnaround for stocks that have been corrected or depressed.

The title of this book is a bit misleading in that it mentions the words "hidden values" which are usually associated with fundamental analysis. In fact, this book advocates stock trading based on charts. Everybody knows that we should "buy low and sell high". But when is the price of a stock "low"? This book will give you an answer.

I like this book because there are orginal methods I haven't seen in any other book. You can buy the book and see what to do if someone rips off your product (You make money addressing the issue). Or you can spend thousands in legal fees! This one method is worth many times the cost of the book in my opinion.

Michael Waller

I found this book very helpful. I am an engineer currently working on bringing my alternative energy invention to market. Not only I found a bunch of good advice in this book but this book made me feel that even though marketing my invention will be a lot of work, it can be done. I've read several similar books ("Idiot's guide.." and "Patents to Profit") but I think what set this one apart for me were the case studies. Reading what some of the other inventors went thru, their rises and their falls, makes you feel like you are already part of that group. I highly recommend this book.

The thing I like most about "The Inventor's Bible" is the fact that it flows. There is a background story that runs through the book as we follow the real-life history of ideas as they naturally evolve.

Many books for inventors are oriented towards the novelty/toy markets. I have found my own experience of licensing manufacturers quite different (actually easier) than most of the toy inventors' books describe. Docie's first invention was one born out of near mishap and had true safety value. He considered his first patent weak due to an overcrowded field of competitors, which makes it an even better illustration of how to proceed with an invention. But he knew it was a good idea from the start, because it was conceived from a real-life situation. His battle was differentiating his design from the many similar products already on the market. I believe that this is the #1 issue with most new inventions - closing in on 7 million patents, it's a very crowded field. Nevertheless, for an inventor that's part of the game.

My feeling is that if you have something that you KNOW has value, and you've done a thorough patent search and have a good understanding of the prior art, you should be able to justify the expense of a patent application. Then you can approach your potential manufacturers from a position of confidence. All this dancing around with non-disclosure agreements, trying to decide whether your idea is worth anything or not, seems to be putting the cart before the horse.

It might take a little patient educating on your part, but if you have something useful, someone will eventually recognize the fact and be anxious to work with you. Select and research the companies you'd like to work with, then carefully court them. Be persistent without being a nuisance. Just remember it's a lot of work for a company to add a new product to their line. You have to appreciate how big a decision it is for them to work with you - but they will!

Docie also runs a bona fide invention promotion company, as opposed to all the bogus invention submission companies out there. Remember they're like stockbrokers - they get paid regardless of results, which are usually negligible. Docie's background, interest and reputation ensure an honest and knowledgeable effort, and preclude any of the funny business that is inherent in the other outfits. The essential idea of an invention promotion company is quite valid, which unfortunately gives the bogus outfits their impetus.

Good luck with your idea!