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  Car Wars - The Rise the Fall and...

  John Fialka

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  The resurgence of the electric car in modern life is a tale of adventurers, men and women who bucked the complete dominance of the fossil fueled car to seek something cleaner, simpler and cheaper. Award-winning former Wall Street Journal reporter John Fialka documents the early days of the electric car, from the M.I.T./Caltech race between prototypes in the summer of 1968 to the 1987 victory of the Sunraycer in the world's first race featuring solar powered cars.Thirty years later, the electric has captured the imagination and pocketbooks of American consumers. Organizations like the U.S. Department of Energy and the state of California, along with companies from the old-guard of General Motors and Toyota as well as upstart young players like Tesla Motors and Elon Musk have embraced the once-extinct technology. The electric car has steadily gained traction in the U.S. and around the world. We are watching the start of a trillion dollar, worldwide race to see who will dominate one of the biggest commercial upheavals of the 21st century.

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  This is Beyond Budgeting - A...

  Bjarte Bogsnes

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  The pressure on executive teams is immense. They keep being challenged by stakeholders about the need for change and radical transformation, and not just on becoming greener and more sustainable. The pressure is also about becoming more dynamic and adaptive and less bureaucratic. There is a jungle of models and thousands of books claiming to have the answer. No wonder many feel overwhelmed and confused.In This is Beyond Budgeting: A Guide to More Adaptive and Human Organizations, award-winning author Bjarte Bogsnes describes a tested and proven way of making organizations more adaptive and human. This involves radically changing traditional management, including the budgeting process, the central nervous system of rigid and bureaucratic organizations. In this book, you’ll learn to establish a highly decentralized and dynamic management model with more adaptive and self-regulating processes, designed in line with and not against human nature.The author explains what the Beyond Budgeting model entails and illustrates its use with real-world case studies of companies that have implemented it to great effect. He discusses the most common challenges encountered during the implementation of Beyond Budgeting, including the challenge of changing not just what we do, but also how we think. This includes discarding the two main assumptions behind traditional management; that the future is predictable and plannable, and that people can’t be trusted.This is Beyond Budgeting demonstrates how to take the principles of agile and scale them up to enterprise level, through a comprehensive model that offers a coherent combination of leadership principles and management processes. The book also describes the many benefits that companies can realize by exploring and embracing management innovation as boldly as technology innovation.This audiobook will earn a place in the libraries of managers, executives, board members, and other leaders seeking a better way to lead and manage in new and different realities, with increasing complexity and volatility, and where employees have new and different expectations, way beyond just a paycheck.

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  Confidence

  Harvard Business Review

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  Become more confident at work.You need confidence to inspire trust, communicate effectively, and succeed in your organization. But self-doubt and nerves can undermine your ability to act decisively and persuade others. What can you do to push past these insecurities?This book explains how you can use emotional intelligence to become more confident at work. You'll learn how to correct what is holding you back, how to overcome imposter syndrome, and when feeling too self-assured can actually backfire.This volume includes the work of: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Amy Jen Su, and Peter Bregman.How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

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  Rula - My Colourful Life

  Rula Lenska

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  Rula Lenska's is an extraordinary life. Born in Britain to Polish aristocrats, refugees from the Nazis and then the Soviets, Rula found fame in the 1970s as 'Q' in the TV series Rock Follies. Shortly afterwards, she accidentally conquered America with the infamous VO5 hair advert, prompting Johnny Carson to ask 'Who the hell is Rula Lenska?' The world soon found out exactly who she was, as her career went on a rollercoaster ride through classic British television series such as Minder, To the Manor Born, The Detectives, Doctor Who, Casualty, Space: 1999 and, of course, Coronation Street. This came alongside a distinguished stage career, with stellar performances in The Vagina Monologues and Calendar Girls. But her success has often been tempered with heartache. The fanfare surrounding her celebrity marriage to Dennis Waterman quickly faded amid accusations of alcoholism and spousal abuse. And then there was her surreal stint on Celebrity Big Brother, which she calls 'sixteen days of madness'... Now older and wiser, and elevated to the status of national treasure, Rula Lenska is ready to share her unbelievable story in full. And while we've all watched her life from the outside, no one has heard or seen Rula like this - unabashed, honest and thrilling.

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  Swing Trading: El Manual Del...

  Jorge Pain

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  ¿Estás interesado en obtener ganancias del mercado de valores manteniendo una mentalidad de alta recompensa? ¿Quieres entender la tendencia que se sigue en el mercado de valores?Este libro es tu respuesta.El mercado financiero es uno de los mejores mercados para comerciar hoy en día. El comercio de acciones (bursátiles) es uno de los negocios más lucrativos disponibles para ti hoy en día. No importa si eres un comerciante solitario de pequeña escala o una corporación gigante. Este pastel multimillonario es una gran oportunidad.Este libro, “El Manual Del Principiante Para Hacer Dinero Siguiendo La Tendencia” está escrito específicamente para ti - el principiante. Comienza con un enfoque introductorio básico que te permite comprender los conceptos clave del comercio Swing, una estrategia única de comercio de valores financieros.La vida sin riesgo es inexistente. Cada negocio tiene su propio riesgo. El riesgo es el costo de hacer negocios. Lo que diferencia a un comerciante astuto de un comerciante ordinario es la capacidad de conocer, comprender y apreciar el riesgo. Es sobre este conocimiento, comprensión y apreciación que un comerciante puede ser capaz de planearlo, establecer un mecanismo de seguridad y establecer cuánto está dispuesto a arriesgar para maximizar los beneficios. Este libro te proporciona información sobre varios riesgos asociados con el seguimiento de tendencias y las mejores estrategias para gestionarlos.

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  Other Peoples' Money and How The...

  Louis D. Brandeis

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  Other People’s Money and How the Bankers Use It is a collection of essays by Louis D. Brandeis that first appeared in Harper’s Weekly between November 22, 1913 and January 17, 1914 and published in book form in 1914. Other People’s Money takes to task the small cadre of investment bankers led by J.P. Morgan & Co. and known as the “Money Trust”, who would treat an ordinary person’s money on deposit as their own to use to control the banks, trusts, life insurance companies, and public service and industrial corporations that dominated American business. Brandeis marshaled an exhaustive amount of detailed research to describe the exact extent of the holdings, the interlocking directorships, the interdependence and the resulting degree of control. In doing so he exposes the principles and practices that stifle competition and lead to self-dealing and excessive enrichment. He explains clearly how they inhibit creativity and progress, foster inefficiency, and go against the grain of fundamental ideas of liberty crucial to America’s identity. His book is a warning and an analysis of the dangers to society when a small percentage of people control the yeoman’s portion of the wealth. The consolidation of production and distribution in too few hands is a recipe for oligarchy, and no republic or democracy can thrive when it allows for such an entitled, favored, exempt and all but immune aristocracy whose bloodlines are bank accounts and whose manners are defined solely by what the markets allow. His warnings reverberate eerily today in light of the practices that so damaged the American economy in 2008. At times one feels that nothing much has changed except the decimal points in the numbers. Viewed in this light, Brandeis’ writing has never been more relevant, more prophetic, or more on-point.

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