Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Business Review Weekly
Author: Business Review
Author: Statistical Reference Index
Author: Targeting the Powerful
Author: Vanessa HackPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000947998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
If your organisation wants to tap into the wealth and influence of the rich and powerful, you need to know as much about them as possible. Prospect research, already used by fund-raisers with considerable success in the USA to target key people, can make all the difference to the success or failure of your initial approach. Targeting the powerful: international prospect research is a highly practical guide to prospect research, written by a leading expert. It explains how to conduct in-depth research into a person, company or charitable foundation, and how to use the information to recommend a line of approach most likely to succeed. Contents:What is prospect research?; Setting up a prospect research department; Online, CD-ROM, the Internet or paper? Ethics, security and confidentiality; Day to day questions; Finding the prospects; Marketing your organisation to the prospect; People; Company information; Foundations and trusts; International comparisons; A report on a new country; General sources for a new country; Specific international resources; The United Kingdom; Western Europe and Scandinavia; Central and Eastern Europe; Asia-Pacific; The United States; Canada; The rest of the world; Addresses; Index.
Why Nations Fail
Author: Daron AcemogluPublisher: Currency
ISBN: 0307719227
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories. Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including: - China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West? - Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority? - What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions? Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.
A Subject Index to Current Literature
Author: Australian Public Affairs Information ServicePublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Distribution Data Guide
Author: Why Startups Fail
Author: Tom EisenmannPublisher: Currency
ISBN: 0593137027
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.
APAIS 1994: Australian public affairs information service
Author: Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Computerized manufacturing automation : employment, education, and the workplace.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428923640
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description