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In this volume are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits, either by the superior
manner in which they exercised them or by the noble use they made of the leisure which success in them
usually gives. Such men are the…

To build a stockmarket worth over $200bn in the space of some 12
years is a remarkable achievement. It has been a privilege during the
course of my research to meet some of the people involved. Their experience
and expertise has shaped my…

The traditional call center—rows of agents in headsets answering calls—is becoming
obsolete. In a consumer-driven, Internet-enabled world, your customers aren‘t just
calling you. They want to reach you via email, IM, text, and more. And…

Contemplating a book about contrarian investing is like thinking about climbing Mt. Everest. You're excited by the challenge, but overwhelmed by the difficulty. Fortunately, many great investors and thinkers have climbed that mountain before and in…

The members of every generation believe the business environment
in which they work is tougher than ever before.
Today we are no exception. Those who follow us will likely be
no exception. Well, guess what? Everybody’s right!

The object of this paper is to discuss money-making; to examine its prevalence as an aim among people
generally and the moral standards which obtain among those who consciously seek to make money.
The desire to make money is common to most men.…

The collapse of the so-called ‘bubble economy’ in Japan in the first part of
the 1990s saw a sharp drop in the rate of annual GDP growth between 1991
and 1992 followed by several years of stagnation, several years of recovery,
and then a…

For over a million years man has been trying to predict his future.He has always failed-and his failures are buried the dust of history. Legendary fortune tellers, prophets, oracles, medicine men, astrologers, numerologists, mystics, charlatans, and…