Robert Hagstorm "The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy "

It's no secret that most mutual funds fail to beat the performance of the S&P 500. And if the pros can't beat the averages, it's not unreasonable to assume that most individual investors can't, either. Why? According to Robert Hagstrom, author of The Warren Buffett Portfolio, a big reason is the industry's emphasis on diversification. In the interest of minimizing risk, many investors have "become intellectually numb to its inevitable consequence: mediocre results." As a result, they wind up owning too many stocks and churn their portfolios unnecessarily (for example, the average mutual fund holds 100 stocks and turns over 80 percent of its portfolio annually). In The Warren Buffett Portfolio, Hagstrom shows how Buffett and others use the idea of focus investing to organize winning portfolios.
Unlike Hagstrom's first book, The Warren Buffett Way, which describes how the world's greatest investor selects individual companies, this book looks at the mathematics, the psychology, and the mental models necessary to build a successful portfolio. The basic ideas: Pick no more than 10 to 15 companies with good track records and high probabilities of future success; plan to hang onto them for at least five years; and ignore predictions and the sometimes terrifying swings in market behavior. It's hard to argue with Hagstrom's approach, especially when he practices what he preaches. His fund, the Legg Mason Focus Trust, has 15 stocks, an annual turnover rate of 9 percent, and percentage annual returns in the mid-30s. For thoughtful investors and devotees of Warren Buffett, who are looking for more than the next hot stock tip, The Warren Buffett Portfolio is well-written guide. Recommended.
In a straightforward follow-up to his bestseller, The Warren Buffett Way, Hagstrom shows how to put Buffett's ideas into practice. Buffett, universally described as one of the world's greatest investors, has made a fortune with a number of extremely large bets on a relatively small number of companies. By doing so, Hagstrom, who runs a mutual fund for the Legg Mason investment house, correctly points out that Buffett flies in the face of orthodox notions of portfolio diversity. Buffett's approach, which Hagstrom calls "focus investing," limits his investments to an extremely small number of stocksA10 or 15Athat he thinks have the greatest long-term potential. In The Warren Buffett Way, Hagstrom identified how Buffett chooses those stocks. And here, in his straightforward followup, he shows the benefits of this approach: if you pick right, returns will be far greater than the market as a whole. The problem, of course, is that you have to pick winners. That, as Hagstrom notes, still takes hard work and discipline.

Year: 1999
Published: John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 246
Format: pdf

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Bulkowski "Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns"

In this revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Thomas Bulkowski updates the classic with new performance statistics for both bull and bear markets and 23 new patterns, including a second section devoted to ten event patterns. Bulkowski tells you how to trade the significant events -- such as quarterly earnings announcements, retail sales, stock upgrades and downgrades -- that shape todays trading and uses statistics to back up his approach. This comprehensive new edition is a must-have reference if you're a technical investor or trader. Place your order today. "The most complete reference to chart patterns available. It goes where no one has gone before. Bulkowski gives harddata on how good and bad the patterns are. A must-read for anyone that's ever looked at a chart and wondered what was happening." -- Larry Williams, trader and author of Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading

Year: 2000
Pages: 345
Format: pdf

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Michael C. Donaldson "Negotiating For Dummies, 2nd Edition"

People who can’t or won’t negotiate on their own behalf run the risk of paying too much, earning too little, and always feeling like they’re getting gypped. Negotiating For Dummies, Second, Edition offers tips and strategies to help you become a more comfortable and effective negotiator. And, it shows you negotiating can improve many of your everyday transactions—everything from buying a car to upping your salary. Find out how to:
Develop a negotiating style
Map out the opposition
Set goals and limits
Listen, then ask the right question
Interpret body language
Say what you mean with crystal clarity
Deal with difficult people
Push the pause button
Close the deal
Featuring new information on re-negotiating, as well as online, phone, and international negotiations, Negotiating for Dummies, Second Edition, helps you enter any negotiation with confidence and come out feeling like a winner.

Year: 2007
Published: For Dummies
Pages: 384
Format: pdf

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Lynn Stafford-Yilmaz, Lawrence Zwier "400 Must Have Words for the TOEFL"

For students whose first language is not English and who wish to study at a university with an English-based curriculum, no admittance test is more important than the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). 400 Must-Have Words for the TOEFL helps you score well by arming you with the most important English vocabulary words commonly found on this crucial exam. This timely guide also encompasses the recent changes made to the test, including the emphasis on conversation and spontaneous communication to mirror the interactive nature of the classroom. 400 Must-Have Words for the TOEFL also includes:
* Activities such as paraphrasing, synonym and antonym exercises, and identifying prefixes and suffixes
* Strategies on how to incorporate new words into everyday vocabulary
* Chapters on identifying synonyms and paraphrasing sentences, roots, prefixes, and suffixes

Year: 2005
Published: McGraw-Hill
Pages: 222
Format: pdf

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John Bowden "Writing a Report: How to Prepare, Write and Present Effective Reports (How to) (7Rev Ed edition)"

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With this updated 7th edition, John Bowden offers a comprehensive and practical guide to report writing. Among the topics featured are preparation and planning, collecting and handling information, style, grammar, and writing and revising a report.

Year: 2004
Published: How To Books Ltd
Pages: 199
Format: pdf

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David Butler "Business Planning: A Guide to Business Start-Up"

Much of the contents of this book are based on empirical experience – been there, done it, got the T-shirt, and learnt by my own mistakes over a fifteen-year period; and so I hope that by passing on this experience, I might save the readers some grief of their own. The book is intended to serve two key purposes, which for many of its target audience, will overlap each other.
The book has been deliberately formulated to raise a continuous stream of questions throughout, which are intended to prompt the reader to relate them to their own particular business situation. If you keep asking yourself these questions at each stage, then hopefully you will avoid some of the problems that befall many new businesses in the early stages.
The biggest problem faced by small firms is that of surviving the first year or two. A basic knowledge of the process of planning and organizing a business can substantially increase the chances of survival, with or without the accompanying qualifications. This book is aimed at providing some of that knowledge and information to improve those chances. Good luck with your venture!

Year: 2000
Published: Butterworth-Heinemann
Pages: 288
Format: pdf

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Loral Langemeier "The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Creating a Cash Machine for Life"

Loral Langemeier first introduced her exclusive Wealth Cycle system in the national bestseller The Millionaire Maker. Now, in The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Creating a Cash Machine for Life, she reveals how you can learn to earn more money by building a viable business. The Cash Machine is simple to start and sustain. You'll use skills you already possess and build a reliable team to help. Whether you want to partner with others or create your own team to start, fix, or buy a business, Langemeier shows you how to turn it into a Cash Machine that makes money from Day One.
This book delivers a step-by-step action plan for starting up your Cash Machine, helping you to
Identify your personal skill set
Brainstorm a business idea and model it after a similar venture
Test the sales potential
Create a Cash Machine Plan
Build and manage your team
Develop short- and long-term marketing strategies
Grow your business-and make more money!
Langemeier gets you up to speed on marketing, sales, operations, finance, and management to keep your business operating effectively. She also shares instructive and inspiring real-life examples of successful Cash Machines and explains how to use profits to fuel the Wealth Cycle.
In order to be truly wealthy, you need more than a 9-to-5 salary and investments: you need a Cash Machine. The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Creating a Cash Machine for Life gives you the necessary tools to begin your journey to a lifetime of financial happiness-today!

Year: 2007
Published: McGraw-Hill
Pages: 240
Format: pdf

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John Grisham "The Broker"

Before he was sent to federal prison for treason (among other things), Joel Backman was an extremely powerful man. Known as "the broker," Backman was a high roller--a lawyer making $10 million a year who could "open any door in Washington." That is, until he tried to broker a deal selling access to the world's most powerful satellite surveillance system to the highest bidder. When caught, Backman accepted prison as the one option that would keep him safe and alive, since the interested parties (the Israelis, the Saudis, the Russians, and the Chinese) were all itching to get their hands on his secrets at any cost. Little does he know that his own government has designs on accessing that information--or at least letting it die with him. Now, six years after his incarceration, the director of the CIA convinces a lame duck president to pardon Backman, and the broker becomes a free man--and an open target.
The Broker marries the best of John Grisham's many talents--his ability to immerse himself in the culture of small town life (in this case, Bologna, Italy), and his uncanny mastery of the chase. The first half of the book focuses on Backman's transformation from infamous power broker to helpless victim in his own game. Upon his release from prison, Backman is taken into "protective custody" and whisked off to Italy where he is assigned a new identity, and a tutor to help him blend in. Sure he is on the run, but some readers may feel that Backman's time spent in Bologna is a bit too leisurely--readers join him on an almost cinematic tour through the Italian town, complete with language and history lessons. Impatient readers will be happy to know that the final half of the novel is classic Grisham--a fast-paced, thrilling cat and mouse chase pitting Backman against the numerous agencies that want him dead--as the broker makes a move to take back his life.

Year: 2005
Published: Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: pdf

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John Jeston "Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations (3rd edition)"

Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations provides organizational leadership with an understanding of Business Process Management and its benefits to an organization. This book also gives Business Process Management practitioners a framework and a set of tools and techniques that provide a practical guide to successfully implementing Business Process Management projects and provides a holistic approach and the necessary details to deliver a Business Process Management project.
Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations delivers:
* a proven in-depth step-by-step framework for the Business Process Management practitioner.
* insights into how to embed Business Process Management within an organization to ensure a continuous business process involvement culture.
* practical tools, explanations and assistance in the successful implementation of a BPM project.
* more than 50 case studies to illustrate various steps and aspects of the framework.
* an overall view and understanding of Business Process Management and the move towards a process-centric organization.
* Encompasses best practices and an overview of the most important tools and methods
* An in -depth framework for the Business Process Management practitioner.
* Insights into how to embed Business Process Management within an organization to ensure a continuous business process improvement culture.
* Practical tools, explanations and assistance in the successful implementation of a BPM project.
* Includes in excess of 50 case studies to illustrate various points in the book.

Year: 2006
Published: Butterworth-Heinemann
Pages: 464
Format: pdf

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Welch Winning by Jack Welch (1st edition)"

Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations provides organizational leadership with an understanding of Business Process Management and its benefits to an organization. This book also gives Business Process Management practitioners a framework and a set of tools and techniques that provide a practical guide to successfully implementing Business Process Management projects and provides a holistic approach and the necessary details to deliver a Business Process Management project.
Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations delivers:
* a proven in-depth step-by-step framework for the Business Process Management practitioner.
* insights into how to embed Business Process Management within an organization to ensure a continuous business process involvement culture.
* practical tools, explanations and assistance in the successful implementation of a BPM project.
* more than 50 case studies to illustrate various steps and aspects of the framework.
* an overall view and understanding of Business Process Management and the move towards a process-centric organization.
* Encompasses best practices and an overview of the most important tools and methods
* An in -depth framework for the Business Process Management practitioner.
* Insights into how to embed Business Process Management within an organization to ensure a continuous business process improvement culture.
* Practical tools, explanations and assistance in the successful implementation of a BPM project.
* Includes in excess of 50 case studies to illustrate various points in the book.

Year: 2006
Published: Butterworth-Heinemann
Pages: 464
Format: pdf

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