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Author: Lawrence Cunningham
Publisher: Columbia Business School Publi
Published: 2020-01-14
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780231193900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMargin of Trust is the first book to distill Warren Buffett's approach to management and corporate life. It provides a definitive analysis of the tenets of the Berkshire Hathaway, system, its costs and benefits, and how it can be adapted for other organizations.
Author: Andy Serwer
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2015-05-26
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1588344975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does it mean to be an American? What are American ideas and values? American Enterprise, the companion book to a major exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, aims to answer these questions about the American experience through an exploration of its economic and commercial history. It argues that by looking at the intersection of capitalism and democracy, we can see where we as a nation have come from and where we might be going in the future. Richly illustrated with images of objects from the museum’s collections, American Enterprise includes a 1794 dollar coin, Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 telephone, a brass cash register from Marshall Fields, Sam Walton’s cap, and many other goods and services that have shaped American culture. Historical and contemporary advertisements are also featured, emphasizing the evolution of the relationship between producers and consumers over time. Interspersed in the historical narrative are essays from today’s industry leaders—including Sheila Bair, Adam Davidson, Bill Ford, Sally Greenberg, Fisk Johnson, Hank Paulson, Richard Trumka, and Pat Woertz—that pose provocative questions about the state of contemporary American business and society. American Enterprise is a multi-faceted survey of the nation’s business heritage and corresponding social effects that is fundamental to an understanding of the lives of the American people, the history of the United States, and the nation’s role in global affairs.
Author: Jayson Reeves
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2014-02
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1491724919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReeves examines the role that monopolies and market-controlling businesses play in the United States, considering the good, bad, and more complex aspects involved.
Author: Kathy Bloomgarden
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2007-02-20
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1429953756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTRUST: The Secret Weapon of Effective Business Leaders taps into a powerful current in American business – the importance of trust in a business's corporate strategy. In today's environment, leaders who add the most value to their companies tend to make decisions based not on short-term financial goals, but on strongly-held values. They develop a reservoir of trust among their key stakeholders and use it to speak frankly as challenges arise. These leaders are inspired by an adherence to principles that form, for each of them, a platform of rock-solid values they will not violate. TRUST brings into vivid focus the characteristics that make today's leaders successful, and the principles and techniques they use to earn the confidence of employees, colleagues, customers and the public. Using dozens of interviews with top business leaders, as well as real-life anecdotes and situations, CEO and business adviser Kathy Bloomgarden offers practical recommendations that can be applied by anyone, whether a corporate CEO, an executive of a not-for-profit organization, a politician, a division president, or even an ambitious young person at the beginning of his or her career.
Author: Tyler Cowen
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2019-04-09
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1250110548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Cowen. We love to hate the 800-pound gorilla. Walmart and Amazon destroy communities and small businesses. Facebook turns us into addicts while putting our personal data at risk. From skeptical politicians like Bernie Sanders who, at a 2016 presidential campaign rally said, “If a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist,” to millennials, only 42 percent of whom support capitalism, belief in big business is at an all-time low. But are big companies inherently evil? If business is so bad, why does it remain so integral to the basic functioning of America? Economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen says our biggest problem is that we don’t love business enough. In Big Business, Cowen puts forth an impassioned defense of corporations and their essential role in a balanced, productive, and progressive society. He dismantles common misconceptions and untangles conflicting intuitions. According to a 2016 Gallup survey, only 12 percent of Americans trust big business “quite a lot,” and only 6 percent trust it “a great deal.” Yet Americans as a group are remarkably willing to trust businesses, whether in the form of buying a new phone on the day of its release or simply showing up to work in the expectation they will be paid. Cowen illuminates the crucial role businesses play in spurring innovation, rewarding talent and hard work, and creating the bounty on which we’ve all come to depend.
Author: Tamar Frankel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-11-10
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0195343638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica's culture is moving in a new and dangerous direction, as it becomes more accepting and tolerant of dishonesty and financial abuse. Tamar Frankel argues that this phenomenon is not new; in fact it has a specific traceable past. During the past thirty years temptations and opportunities to defraud have risen; legal, moral and theoretical barriers to abuse of trust have fallen. She goes on to suggest that fraud and the abuse of trust could have a widespread impact on American economy and prosperity, and argues that the way to counter this disturbing trend is to reverse the culture of business dishonesty. Finally, she presents the following thesis: If Americans have had enough of financial abuse, they can demand of their leaders, of themselves, and of each other more honesty and trust and less cynicism. Americans can reject the actions, attitudes, theories and assumptions that brought us the corporate scandals of the 1990s. Though American society can have "bad apples," and its constituents hold differing opinions about the precise meaning of trust and truth, it can remain honest, as long as it aspires to honesty.
Author: Stephen R. Covey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-02-05
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1416549005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains how trust is a key catalyst for personal and organizational success in the twenty-first century, in a guide for businesspeople that demonstrates how to inspire trust while overcoming bureaucratic obstacles.
Author: Andrew J. Bacevich
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-09-10
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0805082964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA blistering critique of the gulf between America's soldiers and the society that sends them off to war. As war has become normalized, armed conflict has become an "abstraction" and military service "something for other people to do." Bacevich takes stock of a nation with an abiding appetite for war waged at enormous expense by a standing army demonstrably unable to achieve victory.
Author: American Bankers Association
Publisher:
Published: 1917
Total Pages: 978
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of the sections of the association are included in the volumes as follows: Trust company section (organized 1896) 1st, 3rd-7th, 14th- annual meetings, in v. 23, 25-29, 35- 1897, 1899-1903, 1909- ;Savings bank section (organized 1902) 2d, 8th- annual meetings in v. 29, 35- 1903, 1909- ; Clearing house section (organized 1906) 3d- annual meetings, in v. 35- 1909- ; State secretaries section (organized 1902 as Organization of Secretaries of State Bankers' Associations; became a section of the American Bankers Association 1910) 2d- annual meetings in v.38- 1912- ; National bank section (organized 1915) organization meeting in v.41- 1915-
Author: Jayson Reeves
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2011-06-15
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1462001246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJAYSON REEVES was born in Gary, Indiana and is now an author whom writes on the important subjects of government and business throughout the United States of America. Jaysons writi ng is based on the experience that he has established within working professionally throughout design, engineering, and as a investor and businessowner. As an investor, businessowner, and former partner of a civil engineering fi rm he has observed, and experienced the American society throughout Indiana, Illinois, Arizona, and other states. This experience with valued interest includes the work, and observati on of small, large, public, private businesses, and corporati ons with their adjacent values to government. These business disciplines within society, and most values of government have become the foundati on of his writi ng to enlighten the American general public.
