books about: companies     books:       The Pleasure of My Company Low Price150 reviews Hyperion, 2007 OCD - Outstanding, Comical, Delightful! How Martin weaves OCD, a pie company essay contest, a student shrink, a toddler, a Rite-Aid pharmacist, and Magic Squares into such a touching and brilliant novella is amazing. Highly recommend.             The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers17 reviews Keith R. Mcfarland Crown Business, 2008 Vision is the Key to Breakthrough! The Breakthrough Company goes where Good to Great left off. Asking the question: How does a company become a Breakthrough Company. An excellent book for anyone to read who is trying to build a company which will turn into a mega corporation.             Valuation Workbook: Step-by-Step Exercises and Tests to Help You Master Valuation (Wiley Finance)24 reviews Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart, ... Wiley, 2006 Good read but brush up on your math I found this book to be a great read in learning about all the various aspects that go into the valuation of a company. It does a great job of making you look at what makes a company tick and how it affects a valuation. The base of the book is the DCF (Discounted Cash Flows) model. It describes many of the formulas used. I am not a math major or anything so many of them were over my head. The ...             Chronicles of the Black Company11 reviews Glen Cook Tor Books, 2007 The Black Company ROCKS excellent story, probably the 5th time i've read it. very happy to find the stories in a combination book.             Battlefield: Bad Company: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)3 reviews Michael Knight Prima Games, 2008 Doesn't compare to other Prima guides After purchasing and loving the Shadowrun Prima guide, I was expecting the same great guide for Battlefield: Bad Company. However, I was very disappointed. The pages are not nice and glossy paperstock. They are thinner and feel more like a newspaper feels. There is way too much focus on single player. Over 100 pages are dedicated to the single player campaign. Only 10 pages about ...             Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"19 reviews Don Malarkey, Bob Welch St. Martin's Press, 2008 Should Be Required Reading For All Returning War Vets! Don Malarkey offers yet another heart-felt memoir from those brave Band of Brothers, Easy Company, 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment. Malarkey writes deep from the heart on every page of this gripping account of his life. From humble beginnings growing up in Astoria, Washington to attending the University of Oregon, Malarkey beautifully describes the people, places, and occurrences that had the ...             The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It86 reviews Marcia Angell Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005 Your Life depends on this information The media in general and the medical industry in particular do not want you (patient) to read and be informed about what you are being prescribed and the consequences. They also are dealing with symptoms instead of causes. Prevention is not in the medical dictionary terminology. Drugs do not heal! Drugs should be a short term interrupter and not a progression from one prescription to another and ...             Selling to Big Companies49 reviews Jill Konrath Kaplan Business, 2005 An excellent read! If you are selling into big companies, you must read this book! It presents an easy to follow strategy and plan that you can implement today. Jill understands what it takes to win complex sales. Benefit from her insight! Lee B. Salz... author of Soar Despite Your Dodo Sales Manager             How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without: 18 Ways to Become Indispensable3 reviews Glenn Shepard Wiley, 2006 Excellent book If you want to earn as much as you can earn, for the work you do -- if you want to be as valuable, indeed as indispensable, to your employer as you can be -- Glenn Shepard explains clearly and completely how and why. And how far. And every bit of it makes perfect sense. If you've been told to work harder and sacrifice deeper -- but you find that you can't articulate the why and how -- and if ...             In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency)81 reviews Alexander Mccall Smith Anchor, 2006 Mystery and Laugh Out Loud Funny O Boy! Want some mystery? Good clean humor? No violence? Precious Ramotswe, a traditionally-built woman without apology, and her pals are here for us. She and her assistant, Grace (who gets advice from her colorful designer shoes), are very entertaining and many times, laugh-out-loud funny. I read the entire Ladies' Detective series in a couple of weeks. The books average about 200+ pages ...             Sharpe's Company (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #13)20 reviews Bernard Cornwell Signet, 2004 A high-water mark in the Rifleman Sharpe series Bernard Cornwell's series of Sharpe novels has delighted countless readers over the years. Cornwell is (famously or infamously, depending on your perspective) writing these novels out of historical sequence, so even though while "Sharpe's Company" is in the middle of the Sharpe series chronologically, it is among the earliest books Cornwell wrote about Wellington's favorite rogue. And it is ...             Guide to Analysing Companies (Economist (Hardcover))3 reviews Bob Vause Profile Books, 2005 Looking beyond the numbers Concise, insightful and easy to read, this book is an excellent introduction for the ordinary people. The books reliance on examples - both real and fictitious - is what makes it stand out from rest of the crowd. The first section introduces you to various pieces of information on the balance sheets, income and cash flow statements. There are no complicated equations or quick-fix formulate. ...             Company74 reviews Max Barry Vintage, 2007 Do you work for this Company? Having worked in and around the corporate world almost my entire life I can tell you that managers and owners do some crazy things to their employees to subtly manipulate them into doing what they actually want them to do. And you know what? It WORKS. This book explores some of the crazy inner workings of a corporation that is just a little too crazy, but since the writer used to work for ...             In The Company Of Heroes88 reviews Michael J. Durant, Steven Hartov Signet, 2006 Awesome I recently purchased this book, and I wish there were words enough to relay just how great it is. In the Company of Heros illistrates brilliantly the account of Night Stalker pilot Mike Durant, and his experience in somolian captivity. Mr. Durant may be a pilot by trade, however his story and how he tells it are amazing. This book is a great buy for anyone, but it is a MUST READ for any Army ...             The Black Company (Chronicles of The Black Company #1)146 reviews Glen Cook Tor Fantasy, 1992 A brilliant, difficult series The first book in what is possibly the best fantasy series ever written, this novel introduces us to the Black Company and sets up plot elements that continue to unfold for the length of the series. The characters are epic and their struggles titanic. Morality is murky. As others have noted, this is the anti-fantasy fantasy: gritty, realistic and unsparing. Cook's writing is incredibly ...             Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build ...17 reviews Daniel C. Esty, Andrew S. Winston Yale University Press, 2006 Must read Excellent breakdown of the drivers for companies to go green. Also excellent analyses of strategies used by the corporate world to achieve their goals with green programs. Many examples of what worked and what didn't work. Great reading!             Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use (Memo to the CEO)5 reviews Orit Gadiesh, Hugh Macarthur Harvard Business School Press, 2008 Business Practices of PE Players for Non-PE Players Two business experts from Bain & Company believe that successful practices adopted by PE players can be applied to different industries around the world. After having abundant consulting experience of working with PE players, they maintain that there are at least six deceptively simple rules in which PE players set a concrete and inescapable benchmark for corporate performance. Like other ...             In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel89 reviews Sarah Dunant Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007 GREAT READ! I enjoyed "The Birth of Venus" written by the same author, so I knew that I was in for a treat. "In the Company of the Courtesan" exceeded all of my expectations. It really transports the reader back to life in Venice in the early 1600's. The main characters, Fiametta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, are interesting, engaging and vivid; their story of survival and intrigue kept me thinking ...             The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company (Chronicles of the Black Company)2 reviews Glen Cook Tor Books, 2008 strong military fantasy "Shadow Games". The Black Company took heavy losses at the battle of the Tower of Charm. Croaker leads what is left of his comrades in arms on a quest to find the lost Annals in order to bring it to the free companies' birth city Khatovar that may not exist outside of ancient history or perhaps mythos. The expedition is dangerous from the natural predators, but they must deal with shadowmaster ...             Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't686 reviews Jim Collins Collins Business, 2001 A New Way to Look at Growing Your Business "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't" by Jim Collins was a real eye opener for me. In this book, Jim Collins, observes 28 companies over the span of 5 years. Over this period of time 11 of the companies make the leap from "Good to Great". The findings in this book were truly eye opening and inspirational. I loved the chapter on Level 5 leadership. 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