Celebrating Failure is the definitive how-to manual for leaders seeking to embrace the power of failure as a learning tool to improve their organizations and achieve ever-greater goals. The business world (and, lately, the political arena) is convinced that the number one topic is change. Heath posits that it might well be failure, because if you do it right, failure can become a launching pad for change.
Heath contends that “positive failures” are not only necessary steps on the path to success, but encourage greater freedom to take risks in pursuit of one’s life goals. This counterintuitive but powerful title includes:
• Engaging stories of real-life business and personal failure experiences.
• Practical steps to apply each chapter’s “lessons” and change your approach to risk-taking and failure.
• Positive, effective ways to eliminate the “fear of failure” that can holdyou back in today’s competitive, fast-changing world.
Heath’s insightful stories lay out his own failures and reveal his human side as a son, father, athlete, and business leader.
Ralph Heath
Ralph Heath
Ralph Heath is president of Ovation Marketing, an ad agency he founded in 1978 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Ovation was twice named to INC magazine’s 500 fastest-growing companies. Heath is a John Caples advertising award winner and was recognized as Midwest Direct Marketer of the Year. He is a motivational speaker and has taught advertising at the University of Wisconsin. He is president of two nonprofit organizations, Mississippi Valley Conservancy and Human Powered Trails. Heath has been honored as a four-time Triathlon All-American, and is a two-time finisher of the Hawaii Ironman and a 2008 bronze medalist in Wisconsin cycling.
“Success is falling nine times and getting up ten times.” – Jon Bon Jovi
As the most dynamic and rapidly growing region in the world over the past decade, Asia has attained a new level of prosperity. Yet Developing Asia’s newfound economic ascendancy remains precarious. As 2008 came to an end, every economy in the region had either slowed sharply or tumbled into outright recession. Far from having the autonomous capacity to “decouple” from weakness elsewhere in the world, export-led Developing Asia had become even more tightly tied to foreign markets than was the case a decade earlier. The once-bright future is now uncertain. Investors, business managers, policymakers, and political leaders all need to dig more deeply to uncover the challenges, opportunities, and risks that lurk in this critical region.
In Stephen Roach on the Next Asia, Morgan Stanley’s Asia Chairman offers his views on where the Asian economy has been and where it is going. This collection of essays, written by Roach over the past three years—three of the most tumultuous years in modern economic history—tells how the Asia story has played out to this point and what that saga portends for the future. Roach looks at the global economic crisis and the debate over globalization. He details China’s challenges in rebalancing its economy and examines U.S.-China tensions over trade policy. And he analyzes the additional challenges facing Japan, India, and Korea. Drawing insight from what went right and wrong, the author attempts, in a concluding chapter, to paint a picture of what it may take to realize the hopes and dreams of the Asia Century. Macro risk assessment, he reveals, is critical to understanding the forces that will shape the Next Asia.
And the Next Asia is alreadycoming into focus. Consistent with the region’s penchant for change, it looks to be very different from the Asia of the past thirty years. The transition from old to new will need to be driven by a major rebalancing of its economy—with export- and investment-led growth giving way to a more balanced macro structure, increasingly supported by internal private consumption. For all those who want to deepen their understanding and capitalize on these changes, Stephen Roach on the Next Asia provides an invaluable guide.
Stephen S. Roach
Stephen Roach
Stephen S. Roach has been a thought leader on Wall Street for over thirty years. Currently the Hong Kong based Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, for the bulk of his career he served as the firm’s chief economist, heading up a highly regarded team of economists around the world. His recent research on globalization, the emergence of China and India, and the capital market implications of global imbalances has appeared widely in the international media and in testimony before the U.S. Congress. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1982, he worked in senior capacities at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company and the Federal Reserve Board in Washington D.C. He holds a PhD in economics from New York University and was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a jet-lagged resident of multiple time zones, splitting his time between eight Asian countries and his family home in Connecticut.
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, and a healthy helping of popular culture clears the cobwebs from Kant. Philosophy has had a public relations problem for a few centuries now. This series aims to change that, showing that philosophy is relevant to your life–and not just for answering the big questions like “To be or not to be?” but for answering the little questions: “To watch or not to watch House?” Thinking deeply about TV, movies, and music doesn’t make you a “complete idiot.” In fact it might make you a philosopher, someone who believes the unexamined life is not worth living and the unexamined cartoon is not worth watching.
The second book in the Essential Tools For series… on the topic of Management Consulting
This second book looks at how a management consultant needs to think, view and analyse the workings of an existing organisation in order to efficiently and effectively work to improve the issues facing a business.
Check out the new series website featuring sample chapters, tool of the month and solve your management problems
Second book in a new series that see’s Simon Burtonshaw-Gunn’s The Essential Toolbox broken down and expanded to find the essential tools for a range of business areas
This volume includes 30% new material in the form of new tools and techniques for guiding consultants
Covers: Development of Management Consultancy; Problem resolution and Decision Making; Top 10 Tools for Consultancy Interventions; Consultancy delivery and Facilitation; Consultancy Governance and Ethics
Active author, Simon Burtonshaw-Gunn speaks regularly
Easy to use practical tools and techniques guiding the consultant and business person through their organisational conflicts
About the Author: Simon Burtonshaw-Gunn is a practising management consultant with over 30 years experience in both the public and private sectors and covering a range of organizations and industries. He holds two Master’s degrees and a PhD in various Strategic Management topics. This second book includes a forward by Malik Salameh.
With more than 100,000 copies in print, Financial Statements is a perfect introduction to financial accounting for non-financial managers, stock-market investors, undergraduate business and MBA students, lawyers, lenders, entrepreneurs, and more. Most introductory finance and accounting books fail either because they are written “by accountants for accountants” or the authors “dumb down” the concepts until they are virtually useless. Financial Statements deftly shows that all this accounting and financial-reporting stuff is not rocket science and that you can understand it!
Ittelson empowers non-financial managers by clearly and simply demonstrating how the balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement work together to offer a “snapshot” of any company’s financial health. Every term is defined in simple, understandable language. Every concept is explained with a basic, straightforward transaction example. And with the book’s uniquely visual approach, you’ll be able to see exactly how each transaction affects the three key financial statement of the enterprise. Two new major sections with nine new chapters were added to this revised second edition of Financial Statements, simply the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to financial reporting available.
Thomas R. Ittelson
Thomas R. Ittelson is a scientist, businessman, author and teacher with many years of hands-on experience in business development and marketing for technical companies. As a consultant to entrepreneurs, Ittelson has written business plans and prepared financial projections that have helped raise more than $500 million in start-up equity capital. Financial Statements was born from the author’s efforts to teach client entrepreneurs how to design and use financial statements in their start-up businesses.
How has your March been so far? Has it been full of ‘muchness’ ?
Over here at Book Galaxo, we have a bit of ‘muchness’ (such irony..) to give away !
The Witch of Portobello
Task:
1. Besides The Witch of Portobello, The Alchemist and The Devil and Miss Prym, name us titles of 3 other books written by Paulo Coelho.
2. Name us the title of the authorized biography on Paulo Coelho, that was written by Fernando Morais and released in 2009.
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Answers will be accepted until 17 th March 2010. We have 3 copies of the book, The Witch of Portobello, ISBN 9780061349959 (valued at RM 69.90) to give away.
Do type your answers at the comment column below. Only those who live in West Malaysia only are eligible to participate and win the prizes.
If there are more than 3 contestants, the winners will be determined through our own mini lucky draw. Hurry, the clock is ticking…
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her.
When Beard’s professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster.
Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, SOLAR is a serious and darkly satirical novel, showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing and complex problem of our time. A story of one man’s greed and self-deception, it is a profound and stylish new work from one of the world’s great writers.
MBA Edge provides undergraduates, executives, managers and aspiring managers a guide to becoming outstanding leaders through acquiring a Master of Business Administration degree.
It has a multifaceted approach in helping business practitioners appreciate the complexity of the business world and what the MBA degree can offer in terms of value-added knowledge to understand and enhance the competitive edge of todays organisations. At the same time it attempts to cover all the various aspects of the MBA degree from the perspective of a non-MBA reader of the book in order to anticipate all the questions they have in mind about the degree so that the reader will be able to absorb and benefit more when they finally decide to embark on the enriching journey of acquiring the esteemed MBA degree.
This book is intentionally colourful and dynamic in design to capture your attention and, at the same time, be informative and provocative to sustain that interest. This book will open your mind to a world of new possibilities and challenges as you embark on the route many have taken and found fruitful: the journey of lifelong learning through the MBA.
What is the “one” secret to a successful, fulfilling life? Don’t we all want to know just that? Best-selling author and goal-achievement expert Peggy McColl spent many years pondering that question and searching for the answer. Her driving curiosity took her from inspirational books to self-help workshops and lectures, as she absorbed the best advice from dozens of highly successful people, each of whom had their own ideas about the “one” secret. Like many people who are searching for a sense of purpose, Peggy looked outside herself for guidance. She learned a great deal, creating a better life for herself as she applied the wise teachings of others, yet true happiness eluded her until she finally realized what it actually was: everything she needed to know was within her already! In The Won Thing, Peggy shares the lessons she learned during her journey of self-discovery, and will also show you how to discover and realize your own dreams. Her intention is to awaken you to your innate ability to create and enjoy the secret recipe for fulfillment: your Won Thing!
Peggy McColl
Peggy McColl
Peggy McColl is an internationally recognized expert in the area of destiny achievement whose purpose is to make a positive contribution to the lives of millions of others. She has been inspiring individuals, experts, professional athletes, and organizations to reach their potential for the past 25 years. She is the president and founder of Dynamic Destinies Inc., an organization committed to delivering sound principles for creating lasting and positive change. Peggy lives in Quebec, Canada, with her son, Michel, and her husband, Denis.
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