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  The Online Marketplace Advantage...

  Adrien Nussenbaum, Philippe Corrot

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  Revolutionize your business with the power of marketplacesIn today's digital-first economy, marketplaces are growing at twice the rate of overall eCommerce—and proving that traditional eCommerce is no longer enough. With The Online Marketplace Advantage: Sell More, Scale Faster, and Create a World-Class Digital Customer Experience, the duo behind more than 300 of the world's most successful marketplaces reveals the strategies every enterprise needs to take the lead.Through dozens of case studies, real-word examples, and proprietary marketplace research you'll learn:● How to turn the marketplace model into your business's competitive advantage● The make-or-break decisions for launching an industry-leading enterprise marketplace fast● The best practices to achieve marketplace scale, and the most common pitfalls that separate the winners from the losersWith The Online Marketplace Advantage, discover the complete playbook you need to break through with a successful, scalable marketplace strategy that puts your business on a path to unprecedented growth—permanently.

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  Pro Leadership - Establishing...

  Andrew Wyatt

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  A top coach shares twenty-four principles of leadership drawn from his experience founding and running his company—and shows you how to “go pro.” 
   
  Each of the chapters in Pro Leadership focuses on a pro leadership principle required to be mastered if a leader desires to “go pro”—taken from the yellow legal pad Andrew Wyatt kept in the center drawer of his desk during the twenty-four-year history following the founding of his company. Each time he learned a lesson, he would write it on the legal pad. 
   
  Many books have been written on leadership. Andrew has read many, and believes aspiring leaders would benefit from doing the same—after all, leaders are readers. Pro Leadership is meant to add to this already valuable library, with three goals: 
   
   To offer a fresh perspective on the vital role of leaders 
   
   To help readers change the way they think about leadership 
   
   To inspire, to equip, and to encourage leaders to “go pro” 
   
  Pro Leadership benefits from something that can’t be bought: the wisdom of experience, both good and bad, gained over a long and rewarding career. Now leaders of the present and the future can embark on their own journey with the guidance of the founder of Andrew Wyatt Leadership LLC.

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  The Leadership Moment - Nine...

  Michael Useem

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  Are you ready for the leadership moment? Learn valuable lessons from the stories of:● Merck's Roy Vagelos, who commits millions of dollars to develop a drug needed only by people who can't afford it● Eugene Kranz, who struggles to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts home after an explosion rips through their spacecraft● Arlene Blum, who organizes the first women's ascent of one of the world's most dangerous mountains● Nancy Barry, who leads Women's World Banking in the fight against Third World poverty● Wagner Dodge, who faces the decision of a lifetime as a fast-moving forest fire overtakes his firefighting crew● And more

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  Fundamentals of Credit and...

  Arnold Ziegel

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  Arnold Ziegel formed Mountain Mentors Associates after his retirement from a corporate banking career of more than 30 years at Citibank. The lessons learned from his experience in dealing with entrepreneurs, multinational corporations, highly leveraged companies, financial institutions, and structured finance led to the development and delivery of numerous senior level credit risk training programs for major global financial institutions from 2002 through the present. This book was conceived and written as a result of the development of these courses and his experience as a corporate banker. It illustrates the fundamental issues of credit and credit analysis in a manner that tries to take away its mystery. The overriding theme of this book is that when an investor extends credit of any type, the goal is "to get your money back", and with a return that is commensurate with the risk. 
  
  The goal of credit analysis is not to make "yes or no" decisions about the extension of credit, but to identify the degree of risk associated with a particular obligor or a particular credit instrument. This is consistent with modern banking industry portfolio management and the rating systems of credit agencies. Once the 'riskiness" of an obligor or credit instrument is established, it can be priced or structured to match the risk demands or investment criteria of the entity that is extending the credit. A simple quote from Mr. J. P. Morgan is used often in this text - "Lending is not based primarily on money or property. No sir, the first thing is character". This statement represents one of the conflicts in modern credit analysis - that of models for decision making versus traditional credit analysis. The 2008 financial crisis was rooted in the mortgage backed securities business. 
  
  Sophisticated models were used by investors, banks, and rating agencies to judge the credit worthiness of billions (and maybe trillions) of dollars worth of residential mortgage loans that were packaged into securities and distributed to investors. The models indicated that these securities would have very low losses. Of course, huge losses were incurred. Mr. Morgan had a good point. In this case is was both property and character. The properties that were the collateral for many of the mortgages had much less value than was anticipated. The valuation of the collateral was naïve and flawed. Many assumptions were made that the value of homes would rise without pause. Many mortgage loans were made that were at or even above the appraised value of a residence.
  
  But character was a huge, perhaps larger, factor behind these losses. Many of the residential mortgage loans were made to individuals who knew that they did not have the income to make the required payments on the mortgages. Many of the mortgage brokers and lenders who made these loans also knew that many of the borrowers were not properly qualified. And, many of the bankers who securitized these loans also may have doubted the credit quality of some of the underlying mortgages. If bankers and rating agencies understood the extent of the fraud and lax standards in the fundamental loans backing the mortgage securities, or were willing to acknowledge it, the fiasco would not have occurred.

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  Boomer Brand Winners & Losers -...

  Barry Silverstein

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  What was the name of the first maple flavor instant oatmeal cereal? 
   What brand is the oldest major soft drink in America? 
   What do the “m’s” in M&Ms stand for? 
   Who was the Barbie doll named after? 
   Which toothpaste had Bucky Beaver as a mascot? 
  The answers to these burning questions – and many more – can be found in the book, Boomer Brand Winners & Losers: 156 Best & Worst Brands of the 50s and 60s. 
  This remarkable book features fascinating stories of 156 best and worst brands of the Boomer era. Relive the days of Cap’n Crunch and Cocoa Puffs, E-Z Pop and Pop-Tarts, cap guns and comic books. Recall the time when automobiles ruled the road and a transistor radio was “advanced technology.” Learn how television played a key role in brand advertising. Discover which brands blossomed and which were a bust.

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  The Honey Bee - A Business...

  Jake Stenziano

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  A business parable that teaches the value of cultivating multiple streams of income—the surest, most achievable means of creating generational wealth.The Honey Bee tells the story of Noah—a disappointed, disaffected salesman who feels like his life is going nowhere until the day he has a chance encounter with a man named Tom Barnham, the beekeeper. In his charming, down-home way, Tom the “Bee Man” teaches Noah and his wife Emma how to grow their personal wealth using the lessons he learned from his beekeeping passion.Full of concrete lessons delivered through chapter after chapter of engaging vignettes, each of which includes actionable advice for new or aspiring entrepreneurs. Workbook-style sections at the end of each chapter help bring the lessons home, including questions to help you apply the lessons to your own business, and links to rich digital resources for even more information on how to get started creating your own multiple streams of income.

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