Author : Geoffrey A. Moore
Publisher :
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 1998
Category : High technology industries
ISBN : 9781841120010
Geoffrey Moore reveals the dynamics behind the market for high-tech stocks and outlines the forces that catapult a select number of companies to huge success. The Gorilla Game is a must-read for the thousands of high-tech managers and marketeers who made his first two books best-sellers, as well as for all investors looking for a reliable guide to the rapidly changing world of high technology.
Author : Christopher Chabris
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0307459667
Reading this book will make you less sure of yourself—and that’s a good thing. In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology’s most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific findings to demonstrate an important truth: Our minds don’t work the way we think they do. We think we see ourselves and the world as they really are, but we’re actually missing a whole lot. Chabris and Simons combine the work of other researchers with their own findings on attention, perception, memory, and reasoning to reveal how faulty intuitions often get us into trouble. In the process, they explain: • Why a company would spend billions to launch a product that its own analysts know will fail • How a police officer could run right past a brutal assault without seeing it • Why award-winning movies are full of editing mistakes • What criminals have in common with chess masters • Why measles and other childhood diseases are making a comeback • Why money managers could learn a lot from weather forecasters Again and again, we think we experience and understand the world as it is, but our thoughts are beset by everyday illusions. We write traffic laws and build criminal cases on the assumption that people will notice when something unusual happens right in front of them. We’re sure we know where we were on 9/11, falsely believing that vivid memories are seared into our minds with perfect fidelity. And as a society, we spend billions on devices to train our brains because we’re continually tempted by the lure of quick fixes and effortless self-improvement. The Invisible Gorilla reveals the myriad ways that our intuitions can deceive us, but it’s much more than a catalog of human failings. Chabris and Simons explain why we succumb to these everyday illusions and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against their effects. Ultimately, the book provides a kind of x-ray vision into our own minds, making it possible to pierce the veil of illusions that clouds our thoughts and to think clearly for perhaps the first time.
Author : Peggy Rathmann
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2004-09-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0399242600
This roomy trim size is perfect for sharing with groups and lap sitters, and will stand up to years of repeat readings.
Author : James Carse
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 24,30 MB
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1451657293
“There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.” Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are more mysterious. Their object is not winning, but ensuring the continuation of play. The rules may change, the boundaries may change, even the participants may change—as long as the game is never allowed to come to an end. What are infinite games? How do they affect the ways we play our finite games? What are we doing when we play—finitely or infinitely? And how can infinite games affect the ways in which we live our lives? Carse explores these questions with stunning elegance, teasing out of his distinctions a universe of observation and insight, noting where and why and how we play, finitely and infinitely. He surveys our world—from the finite games of the playing field and playing board to the infinite games found in culture and religion—leaving all we think we know illuminated and transformed. Along the way, Carse finds new ways of understanding everything, from how an actress portrays a role to how we engage in sex, from the nature of evil to the nature of science. Finite games, he shows, may offer wealth and status, power and glory, but infinite games offer something far more subtle and far grander. Carse has written a book rich in insight and aphorism. Already an international literary event, Finite and Infinite Games is certain to be argued about and celebrated for years to come. Reading it is the first step in learning to play the infinite game.
Author : Anthony Browne
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 2015-08
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9781406361414
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Author : Mordechai Neuman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 2016-03-28
Category :
ISBN : 9781523460731
This full-colored, eye-catching, 50-page 8.5" x 8.5" book serves as a primer to "feelings" and "emotions" for young children. It contains six simple lessons, designed to be reviewed with parents, teachers, or therapists: introduction to feelings; uncomfortable feelings; expressing feelings; emotion regulation; sensitivity to others' feelings; and confronting feelings. The book is themed around two children who discover all kinds of feelings by observing the behaviors and feelings of animals.
Author : BusinessNews Publishing,
Publisher : Primento
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 251101839X
The must-read summary of Geoffrey Moore, Paul Johnson and Tom Kippola's book: "The Gorilla Game: An Investor's Guide to Picking Winners in High Technology". This complete summary of the ideas from Geoffrey Moore, Paul Johnson and Tom Kippola's book "The Gorilla Game" shows how the real challenge in business is how to identify the potential star performers of tomorrow before their stock becomes highly valued in the marketplace. In their book, the authors explain how "gorilla game investing" is a strategy designed to answer that challenge. It focuses specifically on high technology stocks and industry sectors. Within those sectors, a ‘‘gorilla’’ is a market leading company with a dominant position. This summary demonstrates "gorilla game investing" and how it can lead to huge profits. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand key concepts • Expand your knowledge To learn more, read "The Gorilla Game" and discover the key to finding the future giants and making the right investment.
Author : Geoffrey A. Moore
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0061845159
The Possibilities Are Staggering: Had you invested $10,000 in Cisco Systems back in early 1990, your investment would now be worth $3,650,000 Similarly, a $10,000 investment made in Microsoft in 1986 would be valued at more than $4,721,000 today $10,000 invested in Yahoo! in 1996 would today be worth $317,000 How do you get in on those deals—especially if you're not a Silicon Valley insider? How do you buy the high-tech win-ners and avoid the losers? How do you find the Yahoo!s, Microsofts, and Ciscos of tomorrow? The answers are here, in this newly revised edition of the national bestseller The Gorilla Game. The book reveals the dynamics driving the market for high-tech stocks and out-lines the forces that catapult a select number of compa-nies to "gorilla" status—dominating the markets they serve in the way that Yahoo! dominates internet portals, Microsoft dominates software operating systems, and Cisco dominates hardware for data networks. Follow the rules of The Gorilla Game and you will learn how to identify and invest in the "gorilla candidates" early on—while they are still fighting for dominance, and while their stocks are still cheap. When the dust clears and one company clearly attains leadership in its market, you'll reap the enormous returns that foresighted investors in high-tech companies deserve. This new edition of The Gorilla Game has been updated and revised throughout, with new focus and new insights into choosing the internet gorillas—the companies that are destined to dominate internet commerce. Bestselling author Geoffrey A. Moore is one of the world's leading consultants in high-tech marketing strategy. Here you'll find his groundbreaking ideas about tech-nology markets that made his previous books bestsellers, combined with the work of Paul Johnson, a top Wall Street technology analyst, and Tom Kippola, a high-tech consul-tant and highly successful private investor. Together they have discovered and played the gorilla game and now give readers the real rules for winning in the world of high-tech investing. Step by step you'll learn how to spot a high-tech market that is about to undergo rapid growth and development, how to identify and spread investments across the potential gorillas within the market, and how to narrow your investments to the single, emerging leader—the gorilla—as the market matures. High-tech investing can be extremely risky, but investors who learn to play the gorilla game can avoid many of the traps and pitfalls and instead start capitalizing on untold profits. Personal wealth is only a gorilla game away.
Author : Tom Blomley
Publisher : IIED
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : 1843697785
Author : Donald Scherer
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1626344132
Only one company can lead, prosper, and win in any technology market. Will it be yours? The marketplace leader, or Marketplace Gorilla, will win 50 percent of the revenue and 75 percent of the profits in a given market space. Every new enterprise hopes to reach this status, but most will fail. Whether a company employs a direct or inside sales approach, neither methodology will allow a sales team to acquire enough customers to dominate the market. Author Donald Scherer makes it clear out of the gate why these traditional sales methods will simply not work for most technology companies. Instead, he provides step-by-step instructions on how you can HYPERSCALE your sales operation by building a high-velocity sales assembly line based on the principles used by modern manufacturers. Employing these techniques will help your company mass-produce sales while simultaneously lowering the costs of sales—a powerful combination that leads to incredibly profitable growth, which eliminates the need for enormous amounts of institutional funding. Scherer’s techniques are based on the experiences of CrossBorder Solutions, an unfunded, undercapitalized software company that was sold to Thomson Reuters for a home-run valuation. He further refined his approach as the CEO of AssemblySales.com, a SaaS company that helps early-stage companies hyperscale their sales operations.
