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Find Your Zone of Genius: How to Redefine Intelligence, Become an Expert on Yourself, and Make Greatness a Given (Ignite Reads)
by Laura GarnettGet in the ZONEIn Find Your Zone of Genius, you will learn the thoughts and behaviors that will help you spend more time in what author Laura Garnett calls your Zone of Genius—that sweet spot where you're challenged, fulfilled, and happily engaged in the work you're doing.Both aspirational and practical, Laura introduces a methodology based on a performance tracker tool that has helped Laura's high-profile clients at Linkedin, Capital One, and Verizon transform their careers and lives—and will help do the same for you!"Work doesn't have to feel like, well, work. With Laura's advice, you can find your Zone of Genius, accomplish more, and stop counting the minutes until quitting time."—LAURA VANDERKAM, author of Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done
Find a Job Through Social Networking
by Diane Crompton Ellen SautterWith this guide, readers will discover how to launch their social networking efforts and will gain advice for maximizing LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs and other sites. They'll also learn how to find jobs, seek advice, research employers, build a network, and create online portfolios and blogs.
Find the Fire: Ignite Your Inspiration--and Make Work Exciting Again
by Scott MautzWouldn&’t you love to feel as engaged and energized as you were on day one? The key is to quit waiting for it to happen and take control of the process yourself.Once upon a time, you probably learned the thrill of a good day&’s work and were inspired to work harder and accomplish more. Then the honeymoon ended, burnout set in, and you began going through the motions uninspired.?In Find the Fire, discover how you can shake off the malaise and dial up the motivation. Whether you're wrestling with fear, disconnectedness, boredom, lack of creative outlets, overwhelm, or other issues, you will find applicable insights, exercises, inspiring stories, checklists, and more as you learn about the nine forces that drain inspiration.In this compelling book, you will learn how to:reconnect with your coworkers and managers,boost your self-confidence and personal presence,and how to stay in control during tough times.Discover how to empower yourself, not waiting for others to fill that need, and how you can still produce work you&’re proud of, even after many years of performing the same tasks.You&’ve probably been asking yourself lately what inspires you now. But the more applicable question is, how did you lose the inspiration you once had in the first place? Learn to find that again.
Find the Perfect Job: Generation Y--Shaping Your Personal Career Strategy
by Tamara EricksonWhen you select a specific job, you are committing yourself to four things: location, the company's reputation, which you will be associated with, the colleagues you will work with day-to-day, and your actual assignment. Be sure to ask the right questions and look for the right signals when you are interviewing. While it is a lot to think about, it's necessary to do so if you want to find the job that works for you.
Find the Right Role and Scope: The CMO's New Job Description
by David AakerIn order to meet the challenge of reducing barriers to silo cooperation, the CMO must take on a new role in the organization. However, there are a variety of roles to choose from, from that of a facilitator to others that are more ambitious. The selection of the right role, which will vary over activities and over time, can be critical to CMO success or even survival. The determination of the country, product, and functional scope of the CMO team will balance and focus scale.
Find. Build. Sell.: How I Turned a $100 Backyard Bar into a $100 Million Pub Empire
by Stephen J. HuntWhat does it take to turn an underperforming business into roaring success? Discover how one of Australia’s most successful hotel publicans turned his $100 backyard beer garden into a $100 million pub empire. In his straightforward and down-to-earth Australian style, Stephen J. Hunt outlines the blueprint and frameworks he uses to turn failing and under-performing business into multi-million-dollar successes. Hunt draws on his own dishwasher-to-pub-mogul story to provide readers with an actionable roadmap to formulating an idea, raising money, recruiting employees, fending off competitors, and, eventually, cashing out. You’ll learn how to: turn your passion into profit and assess the right business opportunities for you rebrand (on a budget) to exponentially increase the value of a business develop a bullet-proof team culture that creates loyalty for life negotiate the best price when buying or selling a business pitch to investors using language they understand and value. Whether you’re buying, selling or reinvigorating an online or bricks-and-mortar business, or simply looking to improve your long-term business and career goals, this step-by-step guide shows you how to use simple principles, systems and procedures to quickly (and easily) unlock vast value from any business.
Finders Keepers: Attracting and Retaining Top Sales Professionals
by Russell J. RiendeauAre You Chasing a Purple Squirrel? (purple squirrel n: an ideal job candidate who, in reality, does not exist)Too often, managers waste time chasing a purple squirrel. A sales candidate may be skilled at selling, but can he or she relate to your industry sales cycle, costing systems, delivery schedules, and manufacturing processes? Recruiting talent is the number one issue facing companies today. How do you attract and retain elite talent in today's tight labor market? How do you evaluate motivation and ability to sell competitively in your industry? These are just some of the questions Russell Riendeau addresses in Finders Keepers. Other questions addressed include: Is your organization attractive to the best sales and management personnel? Is there a magic commission formula that will keep talent on your team? What can you do about expensive turnover in your sales force? Why is it important to brag about sales reps who have left your organization? Why should you find your replacement?
Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million
by Mark BowdenWHO hasn't dreamed OF FINDING A MILLION DOLLARS? Joey Coyle was down and out--the affable, boyish South Philadelphian hadn't found dock work in months, he was living with his ailing mother, and he was fighting a drug habit and what seemed like a lifetime of bouncing into and out of bad luck. One morning, though, while cruising the streets just blocks from his home, fate took a turn worthy of Hollywood when he spotted a curious yellow tub he thought might make a good toolbox. It contained $1.2 million in unmarked bills--casino money that had just fallen off the back of an armored truck. Told in riveting, novelistic detail by "a master of narrative journalism" (New York Times Book Review), Finders Keepers is the incredible true story of a tight-knit working-class community suddenly steeped in intrigue.
Finding #1 Stocks: Screening, Backtesting and Time-Proven Strategies (The Zacks Series #1)
by Kevin MatrasPractical trading tools and techniques developed by Zacks Investment Research While there are many stock trading systems on the market today, that use a variety of different approaches and indicators, the approach used by Zacks Investment Research is built around the number one driver of stock prices: company earnings. Based on Zacks Research Wizard product, this book provides you with market beating stock selection techniques and advice on how to build your own stock selection system. This practical guide discloses several trading methods that have outperformed the market for a long period of time and shows you how to screen stocks and develop selection criteria to build various types of stock portfolios, such as aggressive growth; growth and income; momentum; and value. Highlights several of Zacks trading methods that have outperformed the market for extended periods of time Discusses how to create customized systems incorporating elements of the Zacks approach with other types of fundamental and technical data Includes a 30-day free subscription to Zacks Research Wizard software Written with the serious investor in mind, Finding #1 Stocks will put you in a better position to excel in today's dynamic markets.
Finding & Hiring Talent In A Week: Talent Search, Recruitment And Retention In Seven Simple Steps
by Nigel CumberlandThe ability to recruit the right people to work for you is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career.Written by Nigel Cumberland, a leading expert on recruitment as both a coach and a practitioner, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order to build a brilliant team.The highly motivational 'in a week' structure of the book provides seven straightforward chapters explaining the key points, and at the end there are optional questions to ensure you have taken it all in. There are also cartoons and diagrams throughout, to help make this book a more enjoyable and effective learning experience.So what are you waiting for? Let this book put you on the fast track to success!
Finding & Hiring Talent in a Week: Talent Search, Recruitment And Retention In Seven Simple Steps
by Nigel CumberlandThe ability to recruit the right people to work for you is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career.Written by Nigel Cumberland, a leading expert on recruitment as both a coach and a practitioner, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order to build a brilliant team.The highly motivational 'in a week' structure of the book provides seven straightforward chapters explaining the key points, and at the end there are optional questions to ensure you have taken it all in. There are also cartoons and diagrams throughout, to help make this book a more enjoyable and effective learning experience.So what are you waiting for? Let this book put you on the fast track to success!
Finding A Career That Works For You
by Wilma R. FellmanFinding a Career That Works for You will become a treasured guide for people who are in the process of choosing a career and finding a job. Wilma Fellman helps readers better understand their interests, aptitudes, personality, and goals as the first steps in choosing a career. Then, she provides practical tips on how to find a job in a chosen field. She instructs readers in where to search for available jobs, the best ways to prepare a resume, how to write a cover letter, and how to make the best impression during a job interview. Filled with personal stories of people who love their work, this book will become your road map to finding a career that works for you.
Finding Allies, Building Alliances: 8 Elements that Bring--and Keep--People Together
by Rich Mckeown Mike LeavittYour business challenges extend far beyond you and your firm, to the competitors within your industry and the regulators outside it. Finding solutions to larger issues requires cooperation between diverse stakeholders, and in this rapidly changing world, only those able to adapt and network successfully will produce fast, competitive solutions. How can leaders successfully bridge divides and turn competitors into collaborators? Leavitt and McKeown explain how a well-chosen network can become a powerful alliance. Whether you're launching a new partnership, or rehabilitating one already in progress, Finding Allies, Building Alliances will help you find workable solutions to the most complex problems. Written by Mike Leavitt, former Governor of Utah who brought the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City, former US Secretary of Health and human services, and former head of the EPA; with his former Chief of Staff and business partner Rich McKeown, co-founder of Leavitt Partners Includes a framework of 8 elements that will help any leader foster and maintain an effective, productive collaborative venture Shows how better collaboration can not only solve problems, but boost the competitiveness and resilience in all sectors Finding Allies, Building Alliances is essential reading for any business leader looking for transformative solutions and a sustainable future.
Finding Alpha
by Eric FalkensteinPraise for Finding Alpha "Eric Falkenstein is more than one of the smartest and funniest people in finance. He's been a banker, a key model builder at a major rating agency, and a hedge fund trader. In this tour de force, he outlines the successes and failures of financial theory applications in the real world from the perspective of an aggressive early adopter of the best ideas in finance. To this day, I think Eric's private firm default model is one of the best papers ever published in applied finance, and this wonderful book falls into the same category. " -Donald R. van Deventer, PhD, founder and Chief Executive Officer, Kamakura Corporation "People dismissed Columbus when he said the world was round. Thank goodness he persisted. Like Columbus, Falkenstein challenges standard thinking, only this time about risk and reward. As the meltdown of the capital markets has shown, the financial industry clearly missed something with regard to risk management. As an industry, we need to consider alternative theories on risk, and clearly Falkenstein is on to something here. Agree with him or not, Finding Alpha is worth a read. " -Kevin M. Blakely, President and CEO,The Risk Management Association "Writing through the lens of an experienced practitioner, Falkenstein digests decades of research in capital markets, financial economics, and investment psychology that have shaped modern investment theory. This text is an excellent companion for portfolio managers, investment students, or anyone seeking to better understand the relationship between risk, returns, and financial reward. " -Todd Houge, PhD, CFA, The University of Iowa How do we find alpha whenrisk does not correlate with return? Finding Alpha is a practical guide to achieving alpha when conventional measures of risk rarely correlate with higher returns. Author Eric Falkenstein-a PhD who has also been a risk manager and portfolio manager-tells the story of alpha from its beginnings to its current reversal, where risk is now evidenced by return as opposed to vice versa. Falkenstein begins by walking readers through the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), as well as other well-documented theories about risk and return, and explores how these theories measure up to current empirical evidence being documented by researchers and academics. He also outlines a novel approach to the issues of how benchmark risk and investor overconfidence affects expected asset returns, how to understand the nature of alpha and risk, and how to use practical applications of alpha-seeking strategies that he developed as a successful hedge fund manager. Finding Alpha concludes by outlining some real-life applications of alpha in finance and explains how the search for alpha affects the day-to-day life of all financial professionals.
Finding Alphas
by Igor TulchinskyDesign more successful trading systems with this practical guide to identifying alphas Finding Alphas seeks to teach you how to do one thing and do it well: design alphas. Written by experienced practitioners from WorldQuant, including its founder and CEO Igor Tulchinsky, this book provides detailed insight into the alchemic art of generating trading signals, and gives you access to the tools you need to practice and explore. Equally applicable across regions, this practical guide provides you with methods for uncovering the hidden signals in your data. A collection of essays provides diverse viewpoints to show the similarities, as well as unique approaches, to alpha design, covering a wide variety of topics, ranging from abstract theory to concrete technical aspects. You'll learn the dos and don'ts of information research, fundamental analysis, statistical arbitrage, alpha diversity, and more, and then delve into more advanced areas and more complex designs. The companion website, www.worldquantchallenge.com, features alpha examples with formulas and explanations. Further, this book also provides practical guidance for using WorldQuant's online simulation tool WebSim® to get hands-on practice in alpha design. Alpha is an algorithm which trades financial securities. This book shows you the ins and outs of alpha design, with key insight from experienced practitioners. Learn the seven habits of highly effective quants Understand the key technical aspects of alpha design Use WebSim® to experiment and create more successful alphas Finding Alphas is the detailed, informative guide you need to start designing robust, successful alphas.
Finding Alphas: A Quantitative Approach to Building Trading Strategies (The Wiley Finance Series)
by Igor TulchinskyDiscover the ins and outs of designing predictive trading models Drawing on the expertise of WorldQuant’s global network, this new edition of Finding Alphas: A Quantitative Approach to Building Trading Strategies contains significant changes and updates to the original material, with new and updated data and examples. Nine chapters have been added about alphas – models used to make predictions regarding the prices of financial instruments. The new chapters cover topics including alpha correlation, controlling biases, exchange-traded funds, event-driven investing, index alphas, intraday data in alpha research, intraday trading, machine learning, and the triple axis plan for identifying alphas. • Provides more references to the academic literature • Includes new, high-quality material • Organizes content in a practical and easy-to-follow manner • Adds new alpha examples with formulas and explanations If you’re looking for the latest information on building trading strategies from a quantitative approach, this book has you covered.
Finding Clarity: How Compassionate Accountability Builds Vibrant Relationships, Thriving Workplaces, and Meaningful Lives
by Marc LesserA SURPRISING PATH TO BREAKTHROUGH COMMUNICATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS For Marc Lesser the key to healthy relationships and effective workplaces is compassionate accountability — a practical and trainable way to clarify and achieve shared visions of success. Numerous examples include: • facing rather than avoiding conflict for the long-term benefit of all. • working with and through difficult emotions with clarity, care, and connection. • understanding the stories we live by and evaluating whether they’re serving us well. • learning to listen and lead in ways that align with our mission and values. Marc works from the premise that problems are inevitable and that the success of an enterprise or relationship relies on how they are resolved. This applies to any joint effort — in a workplace, a family, a civic organization, a community, a country, or the world at large.
Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit
by E. Roy Weintraub Till DüppeThe remarkable story and personalities behind one of the most important theories in modern economicsFinding Equilibrium explores the post–World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof of its central dogma—that a competitive market economy may possess a set of equilibrium prices. The model economy for which the theorem could be proved was mapped out in 1954 by Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu collaboratively, and by Lionel McKenzie separately, and would become widely known as the "Arrow-Debreu Model." While Arrow and Debreu would later go on to win separate Nobel prizes in economics, McKenzie would never receive it. Till Düppe and E. Roy Weintraub explore the lives and work of these economists and the issues of scientific credit against the extraordinary backdrop of overlapping research communities and an economics discipline that was shifting dramatically to mathematical modes of expression.Based on recently opened archives, Finding Equilibrium shows the complex interplay between each man's personal life and work, and examines compelling ideas about scientific credit, publication, regard for different research institutions, and the awarding of Nobel prizes. Instead of asking whether recognition was rightly or wrongly given, and who were the heroes or villains, the book considers attitudes toward intellectual credit and strategies to gain it vis-à-vis the communities that grant it.Telling the story behind the proof of the central theorem in economics, Finding Equilibrium sheds light on the changing nature of the scientific community and the critical connections between the personal and public rewards of scientific work.
Finding Financial Freedom: A Biblical Guide to Your Independence
by Grant R. JeffreyFollow God's rules for financial freedom. In today's uncertain times, how can you achieve the goal of financial independence? Success depends on a balanced strategy that is based on timeless biblical wisdom and up-to-date financial guidance. Finding Financial Freedom is your guide to prosperity that lasts. Written by Bible scholar and professional financial planner Grant R. Jeffrey, this book shows how you can: · identify and avoid financial traps· escape the spiritual bondage created by a lifestyle of debt · develop a disciplined savings plan that leads to successful investing· claim God's promise of giving and receiving· shift your thinking from "more income" to "keeping more of your income"· make decisions today that will protect your family and guarantee an income through your retirement years.Here is biblical financial wisdom that's as immediate as the bills crowding your mailbox. Get started today on the biblical road to wealth with Finding Financial Freedom.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Finding Focus: Own Your Attention in an Age of Distraction
by Zelana MontminyA must-read action plan to reclaim your focus, direct your attention, and save your mind in an era of endless distraction. Our brains are wired for focus. We are designed for it, we crave it, and yet in our current age of overload, we often feel like our minds are bolting from one distraction to the next, with sustained focus always just out of reach. Finding Focus is an empowering guide to reclaiming your most precious resource: your attention. Leading behavioral scientist Dr. Zelana Montminy unveils the science behind focus and distraction, revealing how our hyperconnected reality and the endless flux between digital and physical life fragments our thoughts and diminishes our well-being. Finding Focus equips you with powerful strategies to: · Silence the noise · Rewire your brain · Unleash your potential · Rediscover yourself If we can control our attention and be present, if we choose when and how we engage, we have a greater sense of wellbeing, deeper fulfillment, and a clear purpose. Finding Focus invites you to ask the question &“Where do I want to direct my focus today?&” It is a call to arms for anyone yearning to break free from the grip of distraction and live a life brimming with purpose and connection.
Finding Fortunato: How a Peruvian Adventure Inspired the Sweet Success of a Family Chocolate Business
by Adam PearsonEmbark on an up-close and personal journey into the northern Peruvian jungle as last-chance entrepreneurs accidentally stumble upon a variety of cacao thought to be extinct, in this chocolate-rich business adventure memoir. Take a front row seat to a family of entrepreneurs searching relentlessly for a sustainable competitive advantage in the wake of many failed attempts at starting a family business. When they inadvertently discover the legendary Nacional white cacao bean in a remote canyon of the Peruvian jungle, the USDA calls it &“an unprecedented discovery.&” The cacao is so rare that even acclaimed author and travel host Anthony Bourdain and chef Eric Ripert trek to this particular jungle to film a segment for Bourdain's "Parts Unknown." With no job and no other way to earn a living, the author&’s brother, Brian, moves to the jungle to live with cacao farmers—and Fortunato Chocolate is born. The family soon realize that their chocolate dream will only work if they reconceive and disrupt the supply chain. Instead of middlemen hoarding profits and keeping farmers in relentless poverty, they trade directly with them and produce what the BBC hails as "the Rolex of chocolate." Follow along as these intrepid entrepreneurs endure many heartbreaking near-victories and nail-biting adventures, ultimately shaking off failure and finding their competitive advantage in the humble white cacao bean and their ethical direct trade with the bean&’s farmers. Finding Fortunato is an inspiring and improbable tale that's infused with the indomitable entrepreneurial spirit, and revels in the gut instincts that lead to unimaginable success.
Finding Funding: Grantwriting From Start to Finish, Including Project Management and Internet Use
by Dr Ernest W. Brewer Dr Charles M. AchillesThe fifth edition of this bestseller brings the reader up-to-date with newly researched Web sites and effective strategies for writing government, foundation, and private grants.
Finding Gold with Theory-Focused Planning
by Chris Trimble Vijay GovindarajanPlanning is crucial for strategic experiments because it establishes the context for learning, but past chapters have explained why the conventional planning process is inappropriate. Theory-Focused Planning (TFP) is an entirely different approach to planning and is much better suited than conventional approaches to the dynamic and uncertain environments faced by strategic experiments. This chapter describes a solution to overcoming the barriers to learning described in chapters 7 and 8, offering six alterations executives should make to the planning process.
Finding Good Farmland: How to Evaluate and Acquire Land for Raising Crops and Animals. A Storey BASICS® Title (Storey Basics)
by Ann Larkin HansenBuying farmland is a major investment, so be sure you make an informed choice. This practical guide covers every factor you should consider before making a purchase, including government regulations, residential concerns from the surrounding area, soil conditions, and savvy financing. Whether you intend to grow abundant crops or graze a robust herd of livestock, Finding Good Farmland provides a roadmap to the land that’s right for you.
Finding Home
by Jim DalyJim Daly, president and CEO of Focus on the Family, managed to rise above his harrowing childhood, which included living in Compton, a suburb of Los Angeles. In this deeply personal memoir, he relives horrors no child should endure. A bloodcurdling neighborhood murder merely serves as the backdrop to the abuse and alcoholism within the four walls of his own home, a cycle broken only by the cancer that left him motherless. Orphaned at an early age, Jim saw firsthand the worst this world had to offer. He somehow managed to catch enough glimpses of grace that he knew he wanted more, both from himself and from a God he had to believe existed. And from that small spark of grace, a great man emerged.