Everyone Else Must Fail

Everyone Else Must Fail

Author: Karen Southwick

Publisher: Crown Currency

Published: 2003-12-23

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1400052319

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Karen Southwick’s unauthorized account provides the full story of Larry Ellison’s brilliant, controversial career. Ellison’s drive and fierce ambition created Oracle out of the dust and built it into one of America’s great technology companies, but his unpredictable management style keeps it constantly on the edge of both success and disaster. The hostile bid for PeopleSoft is just the most recent example. With one clever strategic move, Larry Ellison threw much of the business software field into play. The saying “It’s not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail” has been so often used by or associated with Ellison that most people think it originated with him. It’s actually attributed to Genghis Khan, but it’s a dead-on way to describe not only the way Ellison thinks about competitors but the way he runs Oracle. His weapons are not marauding hordes, but Oracle’s possession of database technology that is crucial for keeping mission-critical information flows working at thousands of organizations, corporations, nonprofits, and government agencies. Inside Oracle, Ellison has time and again systematically purged key operating, sales, and marketing people who got too powerful for his comfort. Most notable was Ray Lane, Oracle’s president for nine years, who was widely credited with bringing order out of the chaos that was Oracle in the early nineties and growing it into a ten billion dollar company. Ellison got rid of the one key person who was building confidence with Wall Street, business partners, and customers that Oracle was no longer flying by the seat of its pants and had its act together. Ellison’s mania for absolute control and his inability to coexist with the very lieutenants who bring much-needed stability to the company have brought Oracle to the brink of collapse before, and may well do it again. Ellison is a throwback to an earlier, much more freewheeling version of capitalism, the kind practiced by the nineteenth-century robber barons who ran their companies as private fiefdoms. Larry Ellison is one of the most intriguing and dominant leaders of a major twenty-first-century corporation, and Everyone Else Must Fail raises the question of whether Oracle’s products and the reliance placed in them by so many are too important to be subject to the whims of one man. While giving credit to Ellison’s brilliance and devotion, the book sounds a warning about an ingenious man’s tendency to be his own company’s worst enemy.


Americans or Americants? How America Became a Can’t-Do Society

Americans or Americants? How America Became a Can’t-Do Society

Author: Dave Sinclair

Publisher: Magus Books

Published:

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13:

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The American carnage is here. Hollyweird plays the slapping game (Will Smith and all that!). The Woke play the crying game. QAnon plays the game that no one sane can understand. Has America become a satirical show? Is a team of comedians running America? They're all into black comedy, the darker the humor the better, until no one can any longer distinguish comedy from tragedy. Do you want to come backstage, and see behind the scenes, see what's really going on? You are in the theater of the absurd. You must have worked that out by now. Or is it the theater of cruelty? I always get those two mixed up. What's for sure is that thanks to all the madness, Americans became Americants. Can Americans ever get back to America Can? Or is it America Can't from now on? George Bernard Shaw said, "All great truths begin as blasphemies." When you are a conman, everything looks like a con. When you are a sucker, everyone suckers you. A poker proverb says, "If you've been in the game 30 minutes and you don't know who the sucker is, you're the sucker." Did America become a nation of suckers? America is run by conmen, grifters, swindlers and hucksters ruling over patsies, marks, suckers and dupes. That's the truth. Is it the great American blasphemy?! Come inside for the blackest comedy and heaviest irony and satire, as well as lots of serious commentary on the State of the Union. And possible solutions to the nightmare. Trigger Warning (for those of a sensitive disposition): This content contains heavy satire, irony, sarcasm and black comedy. Keep your wits about you.


Abraxas: Beyond Good and Evil

Abraxas: Beyond Good and Evil

Author: Michael Faust

Publisher: Magus Books

Published:

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13:

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An extraordinary division exists between Western and Eastern religious thinking. No one in the mainstream media ever draws any attention to it. Why is this debate never allowed to happen? One thing is certain: either everyone in the East is going to hell, or the Western "believers" are the most deluded people in history. Was Western religious thinking ever compatible with Eastern religion and, if so, what caused the astonishing divergence of later history? What happened to one of the oldest religions in the world, belonging to the mysterious secret society known as the Illuminati, the first Grand Master of which was the demigod Pythagoras? Is the God of Abraham actually the Devil, as the ancient Gnostics maintained? Is this planet of ours hell, ruled over by the Prince of Darkness masquerading as God? Here is wisdom - the True God is Abraxas. His is the same message as Nietzsche's: we must learn to live beyond good and evil.


My Hope Is in You

My Hope Is in You

Author: Bill Crowder

Publisher: Our Daily Bread Publishing

Published: 2018-08-28

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1627077634

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Although the Bible was written more than two thousand years ago, the same issues the people wrestled with then are often reflected in the experiences of people today. My Hope Is in You walks you through ten psalms, encouraging you to honestly express your emotions to God and trust Him during life’s struggles. This insightful exploration includes the real-life circumstances of the psalmists that unveil feelings of fear, guilt, desperation, and other raw emotions. In each situation, you’ll be reminded of God’s faithfulness and the true hope that can only be found in Him.


All the Money in the World

All the Money in the World

Author: Peter W. Bernstein

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2008-12-02

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 030727876X

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From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, from the Google guys to hedge-fund honchos, this compulsively readable book gives us the lowdown on today richest Americans. Veteran journalists Peter W. Bernstein and Annalyn Swan delve into who made and lost the most money in the past twenty-five years, the fields and industries that have produced the greatest wealth, the biggest risk takers, the most competitive players, the most wasteful family feuds, the trophy wives, the most conspicuous consumers, the biggest art collectors, and the most and least generous philanthropists. Incorporating exclusive, never-before-published data from Forbes magazine, All the Money in the World is a vastly entertaining, behind-the-scenes look at today's Big Rich.


10X Paradigm

10X Paradigm

Author: Ashok Bhandari

Publisher: The PrintWorks

Published: 2020-12-10

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 8194182530

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How do you strive & thrive in a world without rules? How do you go from average success to super success in your business? How do you survive, sustain, scale & renew your business all at once? Learn the secrets of the 10X model that has helped many a businesses. For a bold new approach for exponential business growth, create a whole new enterprise based on Wheel & Axle Business Model. It is a unique model that is Purpose-led, Future-ready embracing value creation, delivery, retention & growth. This is The 10X Model that is developed & proven in many hugely successful growth initiatives. Every business needs to work simultaneously on survival, sustenance, scaling & renewal. For this, an enterprise needs to: one, pivot from existing set up & two, unlearn existing ways of running business. A new play of principles, policies & practices. In 10X Paradigm, there is no competition. Find out why? Get ready to harnesses turbulence of today's world to grow 10X!


Narcissism in the Workplace

Narcissism in the Workplace

Author: Andrew J. DuBrin

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1781001367

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Possessing a positive self-attitude, being self-confident, and having high self-esteem are worthwhile attributes in both work and personal life; some take these positive attributes to the extreme and become self-absorbed, self-adoring, self-centered, and show little empathy for the problems and concerns of others. In brief, they are narcissists and they can be especially problematic in business settings. This book presents information about narcissism in the workplace that is based both on empirical research and on opinion derived from systematic observation. The author uses case studies and real life examples to shed new light on workplace narcissism. The author describes both the positive and negative features of narcissism and presents strategies and tactics for dealing constructively with narcissistic traits and behaviors in oneself and in others. Self-tests and questionnaires found throughout the volume enable readers to reflect on their standing on a variety of behaviors and attitudes associated with narcissism. Each chapter includes a section labeled 'Guidelines for Application and Practice' that provides practical advice for applying the research and theories presented within. Further, each chapter concludes with a case history of narcissism, accompanied by a brief analysis of the narcissistic aspects of the case's subject. Narcissism in the Workplace serves as a manual for capitalizing on the positive aspects of narcissism and minimizing its potential negative effects. Intended for human resource professionals, researchers, and students and scholars of organizational behavior, organizational psychology, human relations and leadership, this book will also appeal to a broad range of serious minded readers who wish to learn more about, combat the difficulties of, or employ the benefits of narcissism.


Computerworld

Computerworld

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2003-12-15

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13:

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For more than 40 years, Computerworld has been the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site (Computerworld.com), twice-monthly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest global IT media network.