Fisher Investments On Utilities

作者：  Fisher Investments ，Theodore Gilliland ，Andrew S. Teufel 著

出版社：Wiley 2011-3-1

简介：The Fisher Investments On series is designed to provideindividual investors, students, and aspiring investmentprofessionals the tools necessary to understand and analyzeinvestment opportunities—primarily for investing in global stocks.Each guide is an easily accessible primer to economic sectors,regions, or other components of the global stock market. While thisguide is specifically on Utilities, the basic investmentmethodology is applicable for analyzing any global sector,regardless of the current macroeconomic environment.Following a top-down approach to investing, FisherInvestments on Utilities can help you make more informeddecisions within the Utilities sector. It skillfully addresses howto determine optimal times to invest in Utilities stocks and whichUtilities industries have the potential to perform well in variousenvironments.Divided into three comprehensive parts—Getting Started,Utilities Details, and Thinking Like a Portfolio Manager—FisherInvestments on Utilities:Explains some of the sector’s key macro drivers—likeregulation, economic cycles, and investor sentimentShows how to capitalize on a wide array of macro conditions andindustry-specific features to help you form an opinion on each ofthe industries within the sectorTakes you through the major components of the industries withinthe global Utilities sector and reveals how they operateOffers investment strategies to help you determine when and howto overweight specific industries within the sectorOutlines a five-step process to help differentiate firms inthis field—designed to help you identify ones with the greatestprobability of outperformingFilled with in-depth insights, Fisher Investments onUtilities provides a framework for understanding this sectorand its industries to help you make better investment decisions—nowand in the future. With this book as your guide, you can gain aglobal perspective of the Utilities sector and discover strategiesto help achieve your investing goals.

Sustainable And Resilient Communities: A Comprehensive Action Plan For Towns, Cities, And Regions9780470536476

作者：  Andrés Duany　著

出版社：Wiley 2011-3-1

简介：　　The ultimate step-by-step action plan guidebook for makingcommunities resilient, resourceful, and healthy　　　　Many of today's communities face an unprecedented struggle toadapt and maintain their environmental, economic, and socialwell-being in an era beleaguered by fiscal constraints, uncertaintyabout energy prices and supplies, rapid demographic shifts, andaccelerated climate impacts. This step-by-step guidebook for urbanplanners and urban designers explains how to create and implementan actionable plan for making neighborhoods, communities, andregions more environmentally healthy, resource-conserving, andeconomically resilient. Sustainable and Resilient Communitiesdelineates measures for repairing, retrofitting, and transformingour built environments and supporting systems—transportation,energy, water, natural environment, food production, solid waste,and economics—through:　　　　Methods for assessing a community's key sustainabilityquotient　　Deploying tools for establishing timely performance goals andmetrics　　Developing strategies for evaluating, selecting, and implementing'high-leverage' interventions　　Activating policies, codes, programs, plans, and practices, aswell as monitoring and upgrading their performance　　The book includes a range of targeted case studies, from NewOrleans and South Carolina to Arizona and California, illustratinggeographically diverse approaches for urban contexts large andsmall.　　　　A resource for developing an ecological urbanism, Sustainable andResilient Communities employs time-proven, broadly applicablestrategies and actions that can be customized for specificenvironmental, energy, and economic conditions.

Diagnosing And Changing Organizational Culture, Third Edition: Based On The Competing Values Framework 9780470650264

作者：  Kim S. Cameron　著

出版社：Wiley 2011-3-1

简介：　　Thethirdeditionofthebest-sellingbookDiagnosingandChangingOrganizationalCultureoffersaprovenframeworkandmethodologyforhelpingmanagersandtheirorganizationscarefullyanalyzeandaltertheirfundamentalculture.Thisbookcontainsvalidatedinstrumentsfordiagnosingorganizationalcultureandmanagementcompetency,atheoreticalframeworkforunderstandingorganizationalculture,andasystematicstrategyforchangingorganizationalcultureandpersonalbehavior.Designedtobeahands-onresource,thebookincludesawealthofinstrumentsthatleaderscanusetoplottheirorganization'scultureprofile.DiagnosingandChangingOrganizationalCultureincludesamanagementcompetencyassessmentinstrumenttohelpfacilitatepersonalchangeinordertoeffectivelysupportculturechange.Thebookcanalsoserveasaninformationsourceforexplainingarobustframeworkofculturetypes.TheCompetingValuesFrameworkisprobablythemostfrequentlyappliedframeworkintheworldforassessingculture,andithasprovedtobeveryusefultoavarietyofcompaniesinclarifyingtheculturechangeprocess,aswellasinstigatingsignificantmanagerialleadershipimprovement.Filledwithnewexamplesandastep-by-stepformulafororganizationalchange,thisthoroughlyrevisedthirdeditionalsocontainsadownloadableonlineversionoftheManagementSkillsAssessmentInstrumentandtheOrganizationalCultureAssessmentInstrument.

Out Of Our Minds - Learning To Be Creative 2E 9781907312472

作者：  Ken Robinson 著

出版社：Wiley 2011-3-1

简介：Ken Robinson argues that organisations everywhere are trying tofix a problem that originates in schools and universities. Manypeople leave education with no idea what their creative abilitiesand strengths are. In a powerful and original way, he says why thisis and what organisations and individuals can do immediately torecover their creative talents.Revised edition will have following changes:Updated to accommodate recent changes to the education system(internationally), and to include more recent examples and casestudiesFocus of the book shifted to give more international examples andrefer to US education system; to appeal to overseas markets.Some of the heavier academic content has been stripped out andcontent has been adapted for more consumer/think-piece market.