A professional “pitching coach” for one of the world’s largest marketing conglomerates, Jon Steel shares his secrets and explains how you can create presentations and pitches that win hearts, minds, and new business. He identifies the dos and don’ts and uses real-world examples to prove his points. If you make pitches for new business, this is the perfect book for you.

The follow-up to Victor Niederhoffer's critically and commercially acclaimed book The Education of a Speculator has finally arrived. Practical Speculation continues the story of a true market legend who ran a hugely successful futures trading firm that had annual returns of over thirty percent until unforeseen losses forced him to close operations. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Niederhoffer returned to the world of trading stocks, futures, and options, with a new colleague and a new approach and found success. Order your copy of this co…

Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world.  The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch.  Here, finally, inimitable words.  Genuinely modest, but always sure if his ambitions and achievements.  Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style. In a story rich with anecdotes and the 'rules of the road' of…

A history of the computer company Oracle identifies the events and sometimes controversial choices that contributed to its rise to one of the industry's most powerful and profitable companies, noting its penchant for reinventing itself in pursuit of new goals, and complemented by additional notes by the company's co-founder and chief executive.

Alex Brummer traces the course of the recent financial crisis from its origins in the U.S. subprime market to its explosion onto the international scene, and reveals the potentially disastrous path down which we’re all being led.

This is the perfect companion to the national bestseller "Jack Welch and the GE Way". The "GE Way Fieldbook" is the first hands-on, interactive book designed to show managers how to implement Jack Welch's leadership secrets in their own firms. Under Welch's leadership, GE's visionary programs, including Work-Out and Six Sigma, have become the benchmarks by which all other business initiatives are measured. Diagnostic exercises, practice session templates, and other never-before-published GE materials will show everyone from floor supervisors to…

This book gives a new insight into Buffett and his unique investment style. It does this by dissecting his annual reports and reassembling Buffett's wisdom in distinct categories. This makes the task of understanding and replicating Buffett's work so much easier. O'Loughlin has carefully chosen pertinent quotes and has achieved the right balance between quotes and his own comments.

Buffett is back . . . and better than before! A decade has passed since the book that introduced the world to Warren Buffett -- The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom -- first appeared. That groundbreaking book spent 21 weeks on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller list and sold over 1 million copies. Since then, Warren Buffett has solidified his reputation as the greatest investor of all time -- becoming even richer and more successful, despite the wild fluctuation of the markets. How does this value investing legend continu…

It is actually an amazing account of the life and time of John D Rockefeller and his close family. The deals done and the plans laid meant that he became the richest man every to have walked the earth - being worth (in modern money) the combined worth of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Mr WalMart three times over. The book itself explains about his methods in business and how the combination of his intellect, planning and attention to detail lead to his immense wealth.