The Business of Value Investing: Six Essential Elements to Buying Companies Like Warren Buffett

A blueprint to successful value investing

Successful value investors have an ingrained mental framework through which all investments decisions are made. This framework, which stems from the father of value investing, Benjamin Graham-who believed that investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike-can put you in a better position to improve the overall performance of your portfolio.

Written by Sham Gad-founder of the Gad Partners Funds, a value-focused investment partnership inspired by the 1950s Buffett Partnerships-The Business of Value Investing effectively examines the fundamental tenants of this approach and skillfully illustrates the six essential elements of the entire process. Opening with some informative discussions of how value investing focuses more on buying a piece of a business, and less on buying a company’s stock, this reliable resource quickly moves on to detail exactly what it takes to become a successful value investor.

  • Outlines the six essential elements required for a successful risk averse value investment approach
  • Contains case studies that illustrate how to approach investing in an intelligent, businesslike fashion
  • Walks you through the pitfalls that most investors initially fall into

With The Business of Value Investing as your guide, you’ll quickly become familiar with one of the most effective investment strategies ever created.

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Bare Knuckle People Management: Creating Success with the Team You Have – Winners, Losers, Misfits, and All

One of the biggest challenges for new managers is how to get the best out of each of their team members so they achieve superior results—and make you, the new manager, look good! In Bare Knuckle People Management authors Sean O’Neil and John Kulisek cut through the crap to show managers how to push their teams to success, not by following fluffy leadership training but by using the skills that got them promoted in the first place.

Forget kumbayas or one-minute managing. The best people managers know that approaches that work great with one employee will be lost on the next. With the same irreverent and straightforward style they use in their management training workshops, O’Neil and Kulisek describe the 16 basic worker types you must learn to recognize, from The Badass to The Burnout, and how to customize your leadership style for each type.

The authors encourage the readers to take pieces of what works from each of the sections and they also remind them to follow the gut instinct that got them to their new management position in the first place. Written in short, easily digestible sections, and both entertaining and insightful throughout, Bare Knuckle People Management is perfect for any manager pressed for time and in need of some straightforward advice.

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Getting Started in Global Investing (Getting Started in…)

Praise for Robert Kreitler and Getting Started in Global Investing

“Robert Kreitler provides sensible strategies to help investors safely navigate the treacherous waters of international investing. As global markets begin a strong recovery, Getting Started in Global Investing could not be more timely.”-Burton G. Malkiel, Author, A Random Walk Down Wall Street and Global Bargain Hunting

“In a global marketplace, it pays to be a global investor. Unfortunately, many U.S. investors look no further than our borders in their search for great investments. If you’re ready to expand your horizons, Bob Kreitler’s Getting Started in Global Investing makes an ideal travel companion.”, -Don Phillips, CEO, Morningstar, Inc.

“U.S. stocks represent less than half of the total value of all equities worldwide. Now more than ever U.S. investors can’t afford to think the ‘market’ is represented by the 30 companies in the DJIA. This book is a great place to start when you decide to adopt a global perspective.” –Mark Hulbert, Editor, The Hulbert Financial Digest

“Getting Started in Global Investing provides a blueprint any investor can use to participate in world markets.”-Mark G. Holowesko, Chief Investment Officer, Templeton Global Equity Group

“Outstanding, readable, and fast moving, this groundbreaking book provides vital information for island investors.”-Julian Block, Tax attorney, Larchmont, New York

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eXtreme Project Management: Using Leadership, Principles, and Tools to Deliver Value in the Face of Volatility

Today’s new breed, eXtreme projects are different. They feature high speed, high change, high complexity, high risk, and high stress.  While traditional projects follow the classic model of ready, aim, fire, eXtreme project managers succeed by shooting the gun and then redirecting the bullet while not loosing sight of their moving target. eXtreme Project Management provides a practical guide for leaders working under high risk and high pressure while producing the desired bottom-line results.  Based on Doug DeCarlo’s extensive experience in working with more than 250 project teams, his eXtreme project management model is built around an integrated set of principles, values, skills, tools, and practices proven to consistently work under conditions of rapid change and uncertainty. eXtreme project management is based on the premise that you don’t manage the unknown the same way you manage the known.  It’s a people-centric approach to high performance that makes quality of life a fundamental part of the project venture.

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The Economics of Financial Markets and the 1987 Crash

This is a systematic account of the antecedents and economic consequences of the stock market crash of 1987 in the world’s major financial centres. In determining the causes of that crash, the author examines the ways in which finance and capital markets operate and concludes that the crash was an economically insignificant event in the general inflation of capital markets. Toporowski further argues that rather than the crash itself, it was capital market inflation that eventually contributed to the economic slump of the 1990s. In so doing, he presents original theories on finance and capital markets, banking cycles, financial regulation and the economic consequences of deregulation. The book also features a critique of Keynes’ liquidity preference theory and an account of how Japanese financial institutions helped Wall Street and the London market after the crash.

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How to Open a Financially Successful Bed & Breakfast or Small Hotel: With Companion CD-ROM

This comprehensive handbook with companion CD-ROM will clearly demonstrate how to set up, operate and manage a financially successful bed & breakfast or small hotel. Whatever your reason for wanting to open a bed and breakfast, keep in mind that at it takes more than dreams and rooms to achieve success, it is a business that must show a profit. This book will separate the romantic notions of owning a B&B from the business end. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through finding a location that will bring success, learn how to draw up a winning business plan (The Companion CD-ROM has the actual business plan you can use in MS Word TM), how to buy and sell a bed & breakfast, basic cost control systems, profitable menu planning, Reservation Systems, successful kitchen management, equipment layout and planning, food safety & HACCP, housekeeping, successful beverage management, reservation networks, legal concerns, sales and marketing techniques, room rate formulas, arrival, billing, departure, learn how to set up computer systems to save time and money, learn how to hire & keep a qualified professional staff, brand new IRS tip reporting requirements, managing and training employees, generate high profile public relations and publicity, learn low cost internal marketing ideas, low and no cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales, learn how to keep bringing customers back, accounting & bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting and profit planning development, as well as thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. There are literally hundreds of innovative ways demonstrated to streamline your business. Learn new ways to make the kitchen, bars, dining room, and front office run smoother and increase performance. Shut down waste, reduce costs, and increase profits. In addition operators will appreciate this valuable resource and reference in their daily activities and as a source of ready-to-use forms, web sites, operating and cost cutting ideas, and mathematical formulas that can be easily applied to their operations. The Companion CD-ROM contains all the forms in the book as well as a sample business plan you can adapt for your own use.

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International Economics

This classic text has sold well for a half century because it covers all the conventional areas of international economics in an easy-to-understand manner.

The 13th edition continues to provide the best blend of events and analysis, so that readers can build their abilities to understand global economic developments and to evaluate proposals for changes in economic policies. The book is informed by current events and by the latest in applied international research. It combines rigorous economic analysis with attention to the issues of economic policy that are alive and important today. This concise and readable text uses economic terminology when it enhances the analysis, but avoids jargon for jargon’s sake. Like earlier editions, it also places international economics events within a historical framework. The overall treatment continues to be intuitive rather than mathematical and is strongly oriented towards policy.

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Small Business Management: An Entrepreneur’s Guidebook

Operating any business is complex and challenging, but it provides interesting, creative, and rewarding experiences. Small Business Management, Sixth Edition, takes a practical and down-to-earth approach to planning, organizing, and running a small business. While employing current research and theory, Small Business Management takes a pragmatic “how-to” perspective illustrating many practical examples and applications from the business world. It explains how to achieve optimum benefits from the limited resources available to small firms, as well as how to plan for growth and succession in a business. It also explores arguments both for and against owning a small business. The enhancements to this edition serve to strengthen and reinforce without minimizing or losing the original qualities and usefulness of the textbook. The business plan remains a very important building block for this edition in both examples and format.

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Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers

This classic study of how 282 men in the United States found their jobs not only proves “it’s not what you know but who you know,” but also demonstrates how social activity influences labor markets. Examining the link between job contacts and social structure, Granovetter recognizes networking as the crucial link between economists studies of labor mobility and more focused studies of an individual’s motivation to find work.

This second edition is updated with a new Afterword and includes Granovetter’s influential article “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problems of Embeddedness.”

“Who would imagine that a book with such a prosaic title as ‘getting a job’ could pose such provocative questions about social structure and even social policy? In a remarkably ingenious and deceptively simple analysis of data gathered from a carefully designed sample of professional, technical, and managerial employees . . . Granovetter manages to raise a number of critical issues for the economic theory of labor markets as well as for theories of social structure by exploiting the emerging ‘social network’ perspective.”—Edward O. Laumann, American Journal of Sociology

“This short volume has much to offer readers of many disciplines. . . . Granovetter demonstrates ingenuity in his design and collection of data.”—Jacob Siegel, Monthly Labor Review

“A fascinating exploration, for Granovetter’s principal interest lies in utilizing sociological theory and method to ascertain the nature of the linkages through which labor market information is transmitted by ‘friends and relatives.’”—Herbert Parnes, Industrial and Labor Relations Review

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Careers with the Pharmaceutical Industry

In recent years, many factors have combined to change the operating environment of the international pharmaceutical industry leading to greater specialisation and sophistication. This new edition will give an update of the different opportunities in drug discovery and development and the scientific, medical or other specialist training needed to accomplish them. The scope of this edition has been broadened to encompass all major roles, including marketing and sales.

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