Word: manual
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Unfortunately, that's exactly not the premise of this otherwise fascinating treatise, in which Grove offers up a readable user's manual for the new digital economy, plus a how-to for managers worried about their business and, by extension, their career. This book is about finding rational ways to survive what Grove calls the "10x"--tenfold--factors that can threaten to change everything about a business in an instant. Just as the car turned horse buggies into curiosities, new technology like the Internet, Grove predicts, will render obsolete hundreds of businesses that are thriving today. The lessons Grove...
...fancy myself a cafe-kind of intellectual," says Washington, who also believes in the value of manual labor--admitting he borrows this theory straight from his Social Studies 10 reading on Marx. "Work is a way of regnerating yourself," he says. "There's a lot to be said for being a person who uses your hands to earn your bread...
...first major product to be created by the partnership is the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide, a family health-care manual that will be published in 1998 as both a book...
...past, Pamela Lee, the Baywatch star and former Playboy model, is negotiating a deal to write a book. It's probably going to be co-written by friendly-biographer-to-the-stars Todd Gold, but, says Lee's publicist, it won't be an autobiography. A surf-rescue manual, perhaps...
...middle-class tax cut he has to start battling united Iran-Iraq forces, right-wing militia, a new worldwide plague, terrorists and aggressive TV journalists. "I don't know what to do," he says to himself in a typically Clancyesque moment of self-reflection. "Where's the manual, the training course for this...