The Part-Time Real Estate Investor: How to Generate Huge Profits While Keeping Your Day Job Review

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(More customer reviews)I've read and reviewed a number of "how to make millions investing in real estate" type of books, and I didn't think I'd ever need to read another one, since they are mostly the same (in varying degrees of quality). However, I was attracted to the Part-Time Real Estate Investor precisely because of the humility of its title -- it seeks to help real people achieve real income from real estate while keeping their feet planted solidly on the ground. Since I know the realities of the current real-estate market precludes the possibility of doing it full time (at least from my starting position), I decided to take a gamble on this book, and I wasn't disappointed.
As with any "how-to" real-estate investment book, the Part-Time Real Estate Investor covers a lot of ground, and thus is skimpy on the details in some areas. Fortunately though, this book focuses on some areas that are ignored by the pie-in-the-sky type of investment books. For example, it spends ample time on subjects like "Buying Your First Home," buying a home with bad credit, "Land Contract and Lease Purchases," etc. The bad credit chapter was particularly informative, I thought, as it examines whether or not you should buy a home with below-average credit, given the higher interest rates you'll incur. Most books are simply rah-rah for homebuying (and selling), but this one is more sensitive to individual's situations.
There is no ONE book that will tell you everything you need to know about being a real-estate investor, but this one is a good place to start, particularly for people with realistic and modest goals. Others, like those from the Rich Dad series or by author William Bronchick, are also helpful, especially from a psychological perspective. But this book contains some of the best pure information of any I've read. I would advise others in my shoes to grab this book as well as two others I recently reviewed, Inspect Before You Buy (by Charlie Rose) and Your Real Estate Closing Explained Simply (by Michelle Blain), which go into those two areas in greater depth than this book is able to. No ONE book will teach you all you need to know, but these three books as a set come pretty close!

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Fortune Magazine states, 97 out of 100 self-made millionaires made their fortunes through Real Estate Investing, and the next 10 years will be a Golden Era for the informed Real Estate Investor. If you are saying to yourself That sounds great but I can not quit my job and begin investing full time. I have bills, kids in school, car payments, and a mortgage to support, you are in luck. This new book is for you! You will learn how to become a skilled professional Real Estate Investor who can generate thousands, and yes, even millions of dollars, in your spare time. Unlike starting a retail business where you need to be there every day, you can work a full-time job and invest in real estate on the side, and reap huge profits. The key is time. The real estate investing business is a perfect part-time business because real estate is a business where the assets appreciate and cash flow is generated even when you are absent. This new book will give you the information and advice necessary to buy, finance, and successfully manage a small number of positive cash flow producing properties in your spare time. Investing in real estate is one of the safest and smartest investments you can make. Real estate appreciates at a rate far greater than the rate of inflation, builds equity, provides a steady return on investment, provides cash flow, and can offer substantial tax benefits. With the sound guidance in this book you will be able to retire comfortably and EARLY! A sampling of what s covered in this encyclopedic book includes: how to find below-market deals, investing with little or no down payment, seller financing, foreclosures and REOs, investment property, negotiating, purchase offers, managing rental property, flipping, auctions, tax sales, financing, mortgage terms, agents, cash flow, inspections, contracts, tenants, lease agreements, insurance, taxes and accounting, escrow, essential mathematical calculations, sample forms, development, taxation, and exchange rules.

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Strategic Error-Proofing: Achieving Success Every Time with Smarter FMEAs Review

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(More customer reviews)Though I don't recommend this book as dinner table chatter, (unless you are an engineering wonk) I do recommend the book as a means to clearly understand the importance of smarter FMEA's. (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) Clearly a visionary in his industry, John J. Casey has fun with his material, using analogies to Rip Hamilton's free-throw shooting and the baking of chocolate chip cookies.
Casy makes his argument by driving his points toward his preference of SET over the status quo. As in Chapter 3, Casey steadfastly argues to set your engineer free, let him or her be pro-active, give them a road map to become an effective problem solver. Casey goes on to say, "Better ideas will pop up as time goes on, and with the SET method, they will be able to see the opportunities to deploy the better methods with minimal effort."
With plenty of charts, matrix's, and analysis, Casey's depth of knowledge on the subject matter unfolds in lucid and concise writing. Problem solving on corporate production floors will be heightened on account of the meticulous presentation of this soon to be, industry classic.

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While FMEA has helped many companies improve quality by teaching them how to avoid what can go wrong, it doesn't show how to make things go right. That is what the Success Every Time (SET) does. Developed by renowned manufacturing visionary John Casey, SET defines a logic stream for engineers to strategically incorporate no-cost or low-cost error-proofing devices to help production operators.
When SET is executed completely, failure is not an option. The operators interface with their parts and tools in such a way that either the product is made correctly, or the product/process is stopped. Operators can make only good parts-nothing else. For this reason, proper implementation of SET drives higher first time yield, increases customer satisfaction, improves warranty claims, improves profits, and helps you compete.
John J. Casey has published multiple articles on quality initiatives and is well recognized in the Automotive Industry. Mr. Casey is seen as an automotive industry visionary and is cited as the father of GM's Global Quality Tracking System that was the cornerstone of GM's 85% improvement on inbound quality over a 4-year period.

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The Expert's Edge: Become the Go-To Authority People Turn to Every Time Review

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(More customer reviews)There is an old expression that says that knowledge is power. Yet, if no one knows you have the knowledge, does it matter? Ken Lizotte, with his concept of being a thought leader, helps experts create market visibility that they could never achieve on their own. He also helps experts come out of the shadows and into the limelight. Having knowledge is one thing. Being recognized as an expert is another. The knowledgeable starve while the thoughtleaders thrive!
- Lee Salz, author of Soar Despite Your Dodo Sales Manager

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You've seen them everywhere-on the covers of books and magazines, quoted in newspaper articles, interviewed on the radio and TV. They are the "thoughtleaders," the high-profile professionals who rise above everyone else in their field to become the go-to experts in all forms of media.

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An action-ready program of proven success strategies, this easy-to-follow game plan can turn any level of entrepreneur into the must-have expert that prospects and media seek out before all others.You raise your profile, expand demand for your services, and increase your profits. Just follow the "Five Pillars of Thoughtleading":

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A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present Review

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(More customer reviews)This is one of the best books on economic history that I have read. This book is an excellent start for a person interested in economic history: it is well written, it is well structured, and overall fun to read. This book is an excellent overview and a very good guide. One thing for sure: it's an excellent way to spend your time. It enriched my knowledge of economics and history and became a good companion.

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This classic book offers a broad sweep of economic history from prehistoric times to the present and explores the disparity of wealth among nations. Now in its fourth edition, A Concise Economic History of the World has been updated to reflect the stunning changes in the world economy since 1989. Truly a definitive history of globalization, the new edition has been expanded to include coverage of the most recent developments in the European Union, East Asia, and, in general, transition economies. Comprehensive and global in scope, this concise text features ample illustrations and a fully updated annotated bibliography that guides readers to the relevant scholarly literature. Now available in eleven languages, including Spanish (second edition), French, German (two volumes), Polish, and Chinese, this unique work remains an invaluable, lively, and accessible text for both undergraduate and graduate students of European economic history, the history of globalization, and world development.

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Working With Americans: How to Build Profitable Business Relationships Review

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(More customer reviews)"Having read about Working with Americans (which until then I hadn't realised was a subject!) I wanted to get it to help me understand the owrking relationdhip I had witn an American colleague. I was then fortunate enough to find that Allyson Stewart-Allen was our course leader for a course on Strategic Business Planning. She is as dynamic, enthusiastic and inspiring as this brilliant book. It is fun, enjoyable, informative and educational. I only hope they write many, many more books.!

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Anybody who has ever done business with Americans can testify that there are more differences than similarities between Americans and most business cultures in the rest of the world. There are differences in cultures, values, etiquette and even 'common' business language -- which is quite often, well, uncommon. When it comes to building relationships and doing business deals with Americans, understanding and appreciating these behaviors, culture and business manners is vital to success. Everybody wants to work with people they relate to, who they believe they can trust -- and ultimately who 'speak my language'. Working with Americans not only illuminates why Americans think and operate as they do, but also shows what you can do to play to your US colleagues' preferences and business practices.This is the guide to understanding Americans in business, their culture and thinkingwhich will make you a more informed and confident manager and envoy. With confidence enhanced, you can be more relaxed, have fun, and focus on building lasting, profitable relationships.

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Now Is Your Time to Win Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a book that will help you accept your situation exactly the way it is, and give you 7 practical steps that help you control those things in your life that you have control over, and not worry about areas that you can't control. It gives you great advice from achievers that inspire and give you hope at the same time. The forward by the late Og Mandino challenges you to read Now Is Your Time To Win through once, and then to go back and study the steps until they become a part of you.... and it will make a difference in your performance and your overall attitude toward challenges and life in general.

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You Can't Manage Time: But You Can Manage Many Priorities Review

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Susan de la Vergne has been teaching and giving lectures on time management and Emotional Intelligence (EI) for twenty-five years. Her publication, You Can't Manage Time - But You Can Manage Many Priorities, is an engaging read that strays from typical time management books. YCMT delivers a personal, thorough look at how "time management" is unrealistic, while showing that it is very possible to accomplish more and to have more time when first you take the time to make yourself aware. What is multi-tasking? It's a term that many employers ask that you do well. But how many of us actually do supreme work while multi-tasking? De la Vergne's book explains that multitasking is an impossible reality to demand of ourselves. Tasks are best completed when we focus our energy. This doesn't mean that we should only focus on one thing each time we set about to work, but it does mean that we should focus intently on one thing at a time, moving on after a certain set time period or once we have accomplished a specific goal we have set for ourselves. YCMT explains that our only enemy to production and accomplishment, aside from things that are out of our control, is negative thinking. The worst thing you can do for yourself is distrust the possibility of a positive outcome. Do you feel like you have a different set of 24-hours, 1440 minutes a day, than that of everyone else in the world? It's simply not true. Take stock of your time. Make a journal with what you do with your hours, hour-by-hour for a week or more if necessary. Like the Law of the Conservation of Energy, time is not something created or destroyed. The minute we realize that it is certainly limited and does not regenerate, is the minute we internalize what it means to live in the moment, be responsible with ourselves, and use time to each of our own benefit.


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Frank Wood's Business Accounting: Accounting (ISE) (v. 1) Review

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(More customer reviews)The Textbook is ideal for anyone who wants to obtain a excellent grounding in Financial Accounts. This is excellent and suitable book for Financial Accounts Students, particularly MBA (finance).

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Business Accounting is the world's best-selling textbook on bookkeeping and accounting. Its clear explanations, in simple language, a wealth of worked examples and large number of questions and answers, have made it a popular choice with both students and lecturers for over thirty years. Other popular features are its comprehensiveness, the clarity of presentation and layout and the structured manner in which it builds knowledge in logically progressing short chapters. In this edition the distribution of chapters between the two volumes has been rationalised. Volume 1 now includes more-complete coverage of special accounting procedures and partnerships. Chapters on partnership dissolution, joint venture accounts, bills of exchange, and consignment accounts, have been incorporated from Volume 2. A selection of recent questions from examining boards and professional bodies has been included.Business Accounting 1 ISE is only available in the following countries:AFRICA - Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, ZimbabweTHE WEST INDIES, ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC - Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuata, Western SamoaASIA - Bangladesh, Bhutan, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, ThailandMEDITTERANNEAN AND NEAR EAST - Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Turkey

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The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever Review

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(More customer reviews)I'm glad that I finally got the book after seeing Teri on the Oprah show and the Metro Channel. Her reporting genius and years of experience show as she single-handedly unveils this industry which too often tends to believe its own hype. It was especially interesting to read her accounts of the ways in which the homogenization of large American retail stores has bolstered designers' marketing and branding efforts and subsequently, and ironically, led to the death of fashion. This read was especially timely as I watch my hip trendy New Yorker friends spending $200 on banal denim pants in assorted hues. My only regret is that Teri never once conceded that designers are artists; her approach was strictly business and on those terms this book is brilliant.

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A revealing and unflinchingly honest exploration of the fashion industry, including profiles of the great designers, reviews the history of couture from the days of French designers wielding total authority to the current market-driven industry ruled by consumers. Reprint.

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Marketing in the Age of Google: Your Online Strategy IS Your Business Strategy Review

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(More customer reviews)Although overall a book with a lot of tips, the author does not explain things as well as she could. For instant, she starts talking about Google Trends and doesn't tell us where to find it online (I guess there's Google for that ;). That said, there are a lot of good gems she shares. Here are some:
-Searchers click on organic results 85% of the time
-Companies connect with searches in two ways: Paid and Organic
-Longer search queries = fewer paid results appearing to the searcher
-Videos and images draw users away from the paid search column
-50% of searchers will see the 7th search result
-100% of searchers look at the first organic result; 50% look at the first paid result
-Increased organic results = increased brand awareness
-organic results last over time, whereas paid results stop the second you stop paying for them
-Searchers click on a brand 92% of the time when a brand is in both paid and organic results
-A search is on avg. three words long; nearly 25% are only one word
-Women are more deliberate in reading search results
-A #1 ranking is less important than people think. If you rank in the top 3 to 4 results and have a more compelling title and description, you may own the click
-Searchers don't even look at the entire title. They look at the left half of it
-Remember that every page of your site is a potential entry for visitors
-The days of normal search results that everyone sees the same are now over
-YouTube is the second largest search engine
-Results that contain both video and images, searches start with that first, then go above, and then below in their scan

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Search has changed everything. Search has become woven into our everyday lives, and permeates offline as well as online activities.
Every business should have a search strategy. How a business appears online can impact consumer influence as much as if not more than offline advertising like TV commercials. A business's search strategy can have a dramatic impact on how consumers interact with that business.
But even more importantly, search engine activity provides amazingly useful data about customer behavior, needs, and motivations. Accessing search data is like conducting focus groups with millions of people for free. Search isn't just for marketers and techies. It can provide valuable insight on business strategy and product strategy.
Companies of all sizes – from startups to global enterprise level corporations, and even businesses without web sites – can benefit from understanding how consumers are searching for them and talking about them online, both as a powerful acquisition channel and a vast repository of market research.
In this non-technical book forexecutives, business owners, marketers, and product managers, search engine strategy guru Vanessa Fox-who created Google's portal for site owners, Googgle Webmaster Central -explains what every marketer or business owner needs to understand about how search rankings work, how to use search to better understand your customers and attract new ones, how to develop a comprehensive search strategy for your business, and how to build execution of this strategy into the businesses processes. This isn't another book about paid search for advertisers. This book focuses on organic listings – the unpaid results that receive 86% of searcher clicks.
Written by search engine guru Vanessa Fox, formerly Google's search engine strategy spokesperson and creator of Google Webmaster Central
Explains from a businessperson's perspective how to develop a successful search engine strategy
Shows how to use the easily accessible data from search engines to increase qualified traffic, better understand customers, and strengthen customer relationships
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Trading Option Greeks: How Time, Volatility, and Other Pricing Factors Drive Profit (Bloomberg Financial) Review

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(More customer reviews)When I bought this book, I was expecting really in-depth analysis of various Greeks and their effects on basic option positions as well as complex spreads. However, I was bit disappointed.
If you have read any decent preliminary option trading books (Natenberg, McMillan et al) or if you have been trading option spreads for say 1+ year, this book would be useless. In aggregate there would be about 10-12 page material which may useful for such people. Last chapter on relationships between implied and realized volatility is OK.
For some reason the author has morbid fear for graphs of positions and greeks. He ends up giving tables after tables to illustrate effect of various greeks on option position.
If you are at a stage where you think I buy call option when I am bullish and I buy put option when I am bearish, this book will help you understand the effects of other equally important variables in pricing and trading, but then there are so many other which give this information in a better fashion in my opinion.

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A Time of Silence: Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco's Spain, 1936-1945 (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare) Review

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(More customer reviews)A reader may be a bit disconcerted on first reading this book. There is much talk about "discourses" and "symbolism" and "ideology" and one might conclude that we are about to read a book of cultural studies on Francoist Spain. It is not so much that cultural studies are bad as that before we talk about perceptions of an event it might be a better idea to have a clear idea of what actually happened. As it happens such fears are groundless. What we have here is a brilliant portrait of the cruelty of Franco's regime. It is amazingly well documnted, with 95 pages of notes to 174 of text.
Richards argues that the ideology of the New State had two basic components. On the one hand the state had to purge Spain of the half of it who were secular, liberal, socialist, or regionalist. In a sense Franco's Spain would have to wage a permanent civil war against half of its own population. The other prong of the ideology was that Spain would follow a firm and ruthless policy of self-sufficiency. It has long been a cliche of much conservative and centrist discourse that notwithstanding the aid Franco got from the Axis, he should not be viewed as a fascist, but more as a classically "authoritarian" ruler, and therefore setting the stage for the properly pro-Western democracy that was to follow. Franco's goal were fundamentally traditional, as opposed to the radical ideology of the world's totalitarian regimes. Indeed, one could say the Nationalists were preferable to the Loyalists, who were now little more than Communist puppets. Such a thesis will soon appear next year when a book on that subject will be published by professional anti-communist Ronald Radosh. After reading this book, such complacent views will be placed firmly on the defensive.
For Richards starts with a chapter on the Francoist eliminiation of dissent. On the Loyalist side much of the violence was spontaneous in the aftermath of the breakdown of establish order in the wake of the coup. Juan Negrin, so often and so falsely dismissed as a Communist puppet, actually went of his way to patrol with militias in order to prevent political assasinations. On the nationalist side, by contrast, there was constant talk of extermination, liquidation, of an utterly uncompromising crusade from politicians who were proud of and not ashamed of the Spanish Inquisition. The Nazi press praised the Nationalists for their vigor: "The Marxist parties are being destroyed and exterminated down the very last cell far more dramatically even than here in Germany." Perhaps 6,000 were summarily executed in Seville alone before February 1937. (Richards adds "This was not violence which was `necessary' in any military sense: there was no organized armed resistance to speak of." ) In Granada perhaps 8,000 were killed, and perhaps 4,000 were killed in the first week at Malaga. A thousand were killed in the conquest of San Sebastian in the Basque Country, and another thousand at Bilbao. There were fourteen concentration camps in the area of Valencia alone, while Mussolini's son in law, Count Ciano, believed that there were 200 executions daily in conquered Madrid in the summer of 1939.
This cruelty was encouraged by an ideology that had a misogynist contempt for independent woman, and had a morbid support for "chastity" and "purity." But should also read Richard's chapters on autarky. Much of Franco's support came from smallholders, and Franco spoke of freeing Spain from the noxious influence of the cities. But in fact the peasants would be rendered powerless by Franco. Wheat production was lower in 1949 than at the end of the war, and what wheat did exist was guaranteed at high prices for rich producers, and subjected to speculation and the Black Market. Consumption of wheat fell by more than a quarter in the first decade of Falangist rule, as officials refused to upset their autarkic dreams by importing wheat to a country that could not feed itself. Indeed scarce food was shipped to Germany and Italy. While overcrowding and poverty increased, profits boomed and industrialists strengthened their privileges. All in all the first two decades to the New State were a total loss. A 1991 article by Giovanni Arrighi in the New Left Review demonstrates this. In the thirties Spain per capita wealth was about 40% of the European core. By 1959, Spain's wealth was less than 20%. Only after the economic boom did it rise again to pre civil war levels. In other words, a total waste.

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Building a Winning Business: 70 Takeaways for Creating a Strong Company during Good and Bad Economic Times Review

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(More customer reviews)No, this well-designed, focused book is not about Caarles Darwin's theory - or is it? Tom Salonek, a successful entrepreneur of the first order (he founded Intertech Foundation to respond to the multiple needs of families with critically ill children while he maintains his status as an award winning business man, etc etc etc) has addressed the fact that starting a new business or company in these critical economic times not only conceivable - it is possible to come to the end of the day a winner. Knowing that the bookshelves and sites for downloading Internet literature are bursting at the seams, he wisely (and thankfully for those of us who plan to use his concepts) keeps his book of how to build a winning business short, terse, pointed, and immensely usable.
This very wise young man has kept his book to the point by dividing it in to sections. In this thin but brain-heavy volume he lists '70 Takeaways' - 70 succinct clues one a few pages each that are the building blocks for his advice to those who want to make the necessary changes in this new world of Internet-ruled planning. These 'takeaways' are ideas suggested for the savvy new mind in the business world. Examples of some of these takeaways are: 'Hire Slowly' - and his method of explanation for this particular tidbit of advice is 'Avoid hasty hires. While it may seem like a simple solution in the short term, you'll end up paying more and spending more time on the process in the long run, since employees hired in a hurry rarely make a good fit' and not to give away too much of the riches of this book, some of the other takeaways (without comments) are 'Watch out for Bias', 'check in regularly', 'be patient': and on to Managing 'Keep Them Motivated' 'Fire Quickly', 'Know What Matters'; on Strategy 'Involve the Team When Defining Values', 'Ensure You Have Alignment'; on Talent Strategy 'Promotion', 'Compensation', 'Partner Relations'; on Leading 'Leaders Insist on Results, 'Leader Delegate', 'Leaders Listen'; on Problems, 'Slay Monsters Early', 'Own Your Mistakes'. That is the general drift, remembering that there are 70 of these little wise statements of advice an each follows with Salonek's commentaries.
To cap off this book as a functional and very usable resource (and there probably no competitors in this field now that Salonek has published his volume that took 15 years to write), the author offers Internet sites to download his own well-designed and easy to use forms to facilitate the skills learned in this book. The evolution bit in the heading? Well, when it comes to adapting to the new business world status post the Economic Crisis we are experiencing, there is evidence that change, and mutation, and adjustment to new technology and new ways of perceiving and being a leader and a happy employee must be addressed. It is all right here - easy wise, digestible, and entertaining at that. A terrific new book to heed. Grady Harp, July 11

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The Lean Product Development Guidebook: Everything Your Design Team Needs to Improve Efficiency and Slash Time to Market Review

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(More customer reviews)Project management professional Ronald Mascitelli presents The Lean Product Development Guidebook: Everything Your Design Team Needs to Improve Efficiency and Slash Time-to-Market, a handbook written especially for design team managers in all business fields. The focus lies upon making the product development process "lean", thereby improving both its efficiency and its effectiveness. Chapters describe how to establish product design requirements, heighten the pace of project execution, and apply self-assessment tools to keep design paradigms operating at optimal levels. The Lean Product Development Guidebook is spiral-bound, able to lay flat or be folded over on itself for easy reference, and is written in plain terms, with numerous black-and-white charts and diagrams illustrating its principles. Enthusiastically recommended as an overview resource and guideline for design team managers everywhere.

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The Market Maker's Edge: A Wall Street Insider Reveals How to: Time Entry and Exit Points for Minimum Risk, Maximum Profit; Combine Fundamental and ... Trading Environment Every Day, Every Trade Review

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(More customer reviews)When you buy a used book, you can tell a lot about the previous owner by what they decided to highlight. In the case of the copy I purchased, the person who originally purchased this title was intrigued by the discussion of trend following and support/resistance. Unfortunately for them, the advice this book gives in those areas is thoroughly ordinary. The fact they felt this title was worth selling is really the fault of their not realizing that it's the sections on position size, indicators, and gaps that are the really the world-class discussions in this book.
To anyone who has really struggled with the problem of position sizing (how much of a stock to buy/sell), there is only one right answer: determine the position size based the combination of where your stop order will go combined with how much money you can afford to lose. Josh provides a straightforward and totally accurate way to do that, something you'll rarely find in any recommendations for day traders. If you don't recognize chapter 2, "Five Steps to Determine the Proper Position Size" as the only right way to trade, you need to keeping reading it over again until it's totally natural to you. If you trade and you're not familiar with thinking in terms of stop loss risk relative to position size, you need this book desperately.
The chart-based examples in this book are mediocre, but the indicator ones are excellent. The biggest standout section (Chapter 17, "Oscillators and Reversal Indicators") covers a few of the popular technical indicators, showing you exactly how you could trade with them in a way most likely to be profitable. The little chart showing exactly what divergence between price action and an indicator looks like is worth the price of the title for those who don't know what that looks like--this is the clearest set of examples I've ever seen on this subject. Equally clear discussion of trading Moving Averages, Bollinger Bands, MACD Histogram, Stochastics, RSI, and Momentum follow. I agree with that author that he's hitting all of the indicators worth following for the short-term trader here. Focusing on this reliable set instead of some of the more bizarre things some traders follow is absolutely the right approach to trading.
Additional good sections in here worth owning include a look into the mechanics of what makes an opening gap in terms of what's happening on the market-maker side and a very nice chart of popular economic reports (CPI, housing, employment, etc.) showing how the market will normally react to new reports in those areas.
The main real problem with this book is that it was written before the switch to decimal notation on the exchanges, and it focuses a little too much on trading in terms of a fraction of a point. The author usually writes in terms of a percentage basis, the right way to look at stock movements, with a small conversion chart included for those not familiar with this approach. But there are a number of times where he breaks
from this and falls back to the weakly justified "set stops 1/8 point below this" kind of commentary that plagues bad trading titles.
I don't give out a 5 star rating on a book unless I consider it a classic in its field or it offers something really unique, and "The Market Maker's Edge" meets the latter critera: the sections that are good reads for day traders are both more accurate and clear than any title I've read. That's a very rare thing indeed in a body of literature dominated by ill-conceived trading ideas and downright fraud.


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Active traders must get inside the head of the all-important market maker--"The Ax"--before they can begin to truly compete.

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Time Management: For People with No Time Review

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(More customer reviews)What a delight! The reader is treated to specific steps toward efficiency and time management by the second page. Dr. Corcoran doesn't "waste any time" at all getting to the meat of the matter. I read this book through, but I'm willing to bet that reading just one page a day would improve the average person's use of time.

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Day Trading Options: Profiting from Price Distortions in Very Brief Time Frames Review

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(More customer reviews)Undeniably, this is the most densest book in a series of books by Augen that includes Trading Options at Expiration: Strategies and Models for Winning the Endgameand The Volatility Edge in Options Trading: New Technical Strategies for Investing in Unstable Markets and a workbook. This book is also perhaps the most targeted one and is unlikely to appeal to a broader audience.
The book in itself is fairly short (written with the gravity similar to academic journals) and has five chapters. The first chapter, though called "basic concepts" really sets the tone for the book and makes it evident that the intended audience is experienced day traders (true to the book title's implication). The chapter provides a very informed analysis of how options market (pricing) has changed in the recent crises, with specific focus on implied volatility swings and volatility skews across strike prices. The second chapter discusses automated trading and emerging trends in that field. Unless the reader uses sophisticated trading systems and is very familiar with programmed trading, the chapter is not likely to sustain significant interest, but the reader is well-advised to force yourself through the chapter. Using various detailed examples, Augen demonstrates the role of statistical analyses in trend exploitation, issues of "over fitting" indicators and volatility distortions. The third chapter (forming bulk of the book) deals with volatility distortions and how to trade them. The discussion is however based on 3-dimensional maps (implied volatility, calendar information and price) and is not really clear how accessible such tools are. Using various examples, Augen demonstrates approaches involving selling time decay and backspreads. The fourth chapter introduces a new charting tool with the premise that the principal goal of an option trader is to "arbitrage differences between implied and fair volatilities". Accessibility of the tools required and even suitability of these methods for the most aggressive casual trader (once whose primary job is not trading) is not clear here either. In the last chapter (perhaps, a neat set up for the next book?) Augen discusses special events focusing on only two - long weekends and associated price distortions and events surrounding markets "digesting" large amounts of news.
Overall, the book does absolute justice to its title - it is indeed targeting distortions for "very brief" (read minutes, mostly) and is fairly dense even for the experienced option trader. After having read all the books from the author in this field, the book on trading options near expiration was a far useful one for a broader audience in at least highlighting significant mechanics associated with expiration pricing dynamics and potential trade constructs. This book, Augen's dedicated focus on day trading, doesn't even pretend to be suitable for anyone but a niche audience. Augen does provide some interesting insights that will benefit any serious options trader, but this time, the book is perhaps a little too far out except for the very experienced and fanatic fans of Augen.

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"As a veteran reader of some 500+ trading and investing books and having interviewed hundreds of authors, I never take the approach that you can believe what you read or hear about how to make money in the market, so I try their theory, system, or ideas. Jeff Augen's book lays down clear guidelines to his intraday options strategy that I can report were profitable in the style I trade."--Vincent M. Rowe, President, Online Trading Academy, Texas"Augen's book breaks new ground with an indispensable and unique approach to evaluating option prices in different time frames. It also presents a new charting technique for evaluating very short-term trends lasting just a few minutes–a valuable technique for anyone who follows intraday markets. The statistical analysis and associated discussions around high-frequency trading are especially relevant in the modern financial world, which has come to be dominated by supercomputers and algorithmic trading. No serious stock or option trader should be without this book."--Sean Sztern, Alternative Strategies Group, Desjardins Securities, Montreal, Quebec"Jeff Augen's work on day trading options pulls the curtain back and reveals insights from the world of very short-term options trading. In doing so, he reveals insights beneficial even for the longer-term option trader. Specifically, Chapter 3 on trading volatility distortions introduces the idea of 3-D implied volatility surfaces. Far from being too advanced, this chapter addresses complex volatility issues in plain English that every option trader can understand. I wholly recommend this book."--Steve Lentz, DiscoverOptionsMinimize Your Exposure to Market Risk and Increase Profits by Trading in Very Brief Time FramesIn today's turbulent markets, traditional trading strategies have failed to provide protection from the rapid and violent changes that have swung the Dow down 330 points one day, up 280 points the next, and down 250 points at the open on the next. Fundamental analysis based on company performance and financial predictions has proven meaningless. Technical traders must now compete with institutional trading programs utilizing supercomputers that analyze and execute trades in millisecond time frames. So, how can a private investor compete in this environment?In Day Trading Options, expert option trader Jeff Augen shows you how to continue to profit even in these chaotic times. You'll learn to structure short-term trades that exploit well characterized price distortions and anomalies. You'll discover a breakthrough technique for utilizing volatility to identify the beginning and end of short-lived trends. And, you'll gain the knowledge to use this innovative technique to take advantage of financial news and planned events, rather than being at their mercy. Abandon outdated trading strategies and conventional "wisdom"Minimize your exposure to market risk and increase your profits by trading in very brief time frames and structuring positions that are direction neutral

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