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Successful business alliances today are critical to the competitive advantage of many companies. Mastering Alliance Strategy presents state-of-the-art thinking and practices for using partnerships effectively. This essential resource will help you understand and use alliances better, whether you are a new or seasoned alliance professional, a business-development specialist, a line manager, or a top executive. The authors argue that the secrets to success lie not solely in the intricacies of a deal but also in the strategy and organization behind the deal. They draw ideas and tools from years of research and reporting on four elements that are key to an effective alliance strategy:
- Designing the alliance and crafting the agreement
- Managing the alliance after it is launched
- Leveraging a constellation of alliances
- Building an internal alliance capability
Customer Reviews:
Inject Risk into Business Relations for Higher Return.......2003-12-01
James D. Bamford, Benjamin Gomes-Casseres and Michael J. Robinson have put together an interesting collection of essays about the life cycle of alliances and the people in charge of these alliances. Rightly, the authors emphasize alliance strategy rather than strategic alliance. The essays are grouped around four themes: designing alliances, managing alliances, competing in constellations and building an alliance capability. Practitioners can reflect on their own alliances to see what they eventually can do better to further improve their performance in each of the four areas. The authors close their treatise by looking at some master builders. The authors correctly point out that there is no one solution for all. What works in one company can fail in another. Corporate culture plays a key role in making difficult to successfully borrow alliance best practices from other companies for another organization usage. As a side note, "Building, Leading and Managing Strategic Alliances" by Fred A. Kuglin is a good complement to the topics covered in "Mastering Alliance Strategy."
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Sixteen full-page black-and-white illustrations depict a host of smiling seraphs: with harps, in pensive poses, accompanied by cherubs, surrounded by doves, frolicking amid billowing clouds, and more. Simply color, place near a bright light and be dazzled by a heavenly glow.
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I love Angels.......2006-08-27
This stained glass coloring book was beautifully drawn. Not little kiddie pictures but beautiful pieces of art. It was a joy to color. I used markers and colored pencils. Colored pencils colored in one direction in the background make the reverse side of the picture look like stained glass. This tip was on the inside cover page of the book. Great!
One of my Favorite books.......2006-02-28
I do stained glass and glass painting and polymer clay and this is just a wonderful inspiational book.Im so glad I bought a few of these stained glass and other coloring books as they call them.I dont color on them but use the pictures to pick and choose colors to use on my projects of angels and fairies...Im really glad to have been able to find these books..B.W.
An angelic coloring book for all ages........1999-08-04
This book has exquisite pictures of angels which allow you to feel their energy as you color the pictures. Your finished product is your work of art which helps you feel connected to the divine.
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These 16 heavenly beauties will brighten any room with their celestial glow. The full-page black-and-white illustrations, boldly outlined and printed on translucent paper, depict lovely winged creatures — alone and in groups — holding a child, playing musical instruments, guiding children across a bridge, floating serenely above the clouds, surrounded by floral garlands, and more.
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Eight handsome figures include celestial beings reading, playing stringed instruments, holding a sword, blowing a horn, and more.
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These books are great and they really work........1999-05-27
These books are great and they really work. I have them in most of my windows.
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Color 8 heavenly figures and place near a source of bright light to brighten Christmas trees, evergreen garlands, and windows.
Customer Reviews:
Super Nice Little Book for the value.......2006-02-28
This is a super nice little book for the value.perfect for glass painting or a layout of angels.im glad I took a chance on this one.you cant go wrong.B.W.
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Adam Smith's Library
H. Mizuta
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Adam Smith's Library: A Catalogue
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Adam Smith is considered the founding father of economics. Yet to form an accurate picture of the theoretical basis of his work, it is necessary to know what influenced him. This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to all the books which were in Adam Smith's library at the time of his death. An invaluable reference work, this book will be of enormous interest to all those interested in the genesis of early economic thought.
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Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge: I. Printed Books
N.A. Smith ,
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To bibliographers and to historians of culture in the widest sense (this) up-to-date author-title catalogue, giving the place, imprint and date of publication together with the entry numbers, where appropriate, of Pollard and Redgrave and Wing, will need no recommendation. Its contents (are) as near to an epitome of late 17th-century English civilisation as we are likely to find. RICHARD OLLARD, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTSamuel Pepys's great collection is the finest surviving seventeenth-century library and one of the major libraries of the world despite its relatively modest size. It is as remarkable as the Diary itself, and comprises some 3,000 volumes of medieval manuscripts and early printed books in artistically important bindings, many political papers (especially concerning the Navy), a great collection of ballads, seventeenth-century music, calligraphy, maps, and a large collection of prints and drawings of historical and artistic interest.
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America's #1 salesman, the legendary Ralph R. Roberts, is back with a recipe for success that no salesperson, novice or veteran, can afford to be without. If you've already read Walk Like a Giant, Sell Like a Madman, you're ready for more of this super-salesman's powerful, practical advice. If you haven't, you can make up for lost time by studying this new book.
More than perhaps any other human on the planet, Ralph Roberts lives, eats, and breathes selling. Dubbed "America's scariest salesman" by Time for his accomplishments, which include selling over six hundredhouses per year, fifty times more than the average real estate agent, Ralph is in great demand as a speaker and seminar leader. So extensive were his out-of-town speaking engagements that his own staff spoke up and said, "Why don't you stay home and teach us a thing or two?" He immediately began series of popular weekly sales seminars for his employees, on which 52 Weeks of Sales Success is based.
Ralph now offers the same sales-generating wisdom and closing tools to everyone trying to reach his or her full potential. He reveals strategies to meet the turn-of-the-century sales environment head-on:
- Spot business opportunities where your competition doesn't.
- Learn tips for breaking the sales slump.
- Know how to get the most out of your past clients--and when to "fire" a customer.
- Acquire surefire methods to supercharge your networking efforts.
- Learn the keys to marketing a home-based business.
- Design outlines for developing your daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly success checklists.
In addition, Ralph presents the strategies and techniques of other sales superstars from many different industries, including advertising, investment, auto, home decorating, home-based business, audio-visual production, Internet service, insurance, travel, and mortgage brokering, to name just a few.
The strategies Ralph imparts in 52 Weeks of Sales Success will set you apart from every other salesperson. You'll learn how to look for and listen to what people want and try and find in for them; how to identify the true decision maker in the family in order to expedite closings; most important, you'll learn Ralph's technique for making an impression. It's all in this book, packed with infectious enthusiasm, wonderful personal stories about his own goal-setting and achievements, and down-home wisdom about setting priorities.
Ralph's message can get you incredible results. Aimed straight at the problems of entrepreneurial salespeople, Ralph's methods will help you:
- Conquer your fears of selling!
- Eliminate nonproductive habits!
- Get to the point of closing fate!
- Walk away with more sales than ever before!
- Close every deal!
Customer Reviews:
"...Sell Like a Madman" revisited.......2001-02-07
I read Ralph Roberts' previous book, "Walk Like a Giant, Sell Like A Madman" prior to reading this one. I found the information much the same, but organized differently.
Taken on a week-by-week basis as Mr. Roberts recommends, it could be a useful guide for your business. It's a basic reminder to us that it's the little things that count with our existing and future customers.
It's the little things that count........2000-11-30
I sold Real Estate in the Detroit Metro area back in 1978, it was a tough market back then, left Real Estate for an Engineering position after two years. I have worked for this company that follows every business fad that comes along. Seven years ago we re-engineered and we Engineers had to be jacks and/or jills of all professions (Marketing, Accounting, Engineering, Administration etc....). At first many of us were scared and afraid to sell or market anything. It had been 20 years since I sold Real Estate but I looked at my old selling manuals and nothing seemed to help. I read about Ralph Roberts in a local paper here in Macomb County and went right to his office and purchased his book. This book has helped me sell over a Million dollars worth of Product and I am the No. # 1 Salesperson for our Company. This book is not only about about selling Real Estate but about preparing and being mentally ready to make sales, I've fallen in love with selling again. Thank You Ralph - Someday I would like to meet you and buy your lunch.
Great Reminder!.......2000-08-03
Although this information can be fairly obvious - it is often overlooked. This quick and easy reference can be thumbed through in order to gain new a new approach regularly. Doing the same thing day in and day out makes you very regimeneted but this book helps the creative juices to flow.
not helpful to me.......2000-04-28
I'm a new agent and I don't think this book is very helpful. The information in it is pretty obvious and not specific enough to help me. I think the book is a waste of money.
Good Book.......2000-01-26
Good book. I had alread read Sell like a madman by same author and was concerned that this would cover the same info. It had new info and was very easy to read. With 52 chapters I'm planning on reviewing 1 chapter in each of my weekly sales meetings for a year.
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