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This book offers practice tests based on the official California Police Officer Exam, along with the most-up-to date information on hiring procedures, sample applications, salary and benefits, requirements and qualifications, and more. In addition, California State Police Exam includes listings of law enforcement degree programs, customized study planners, hundreds of sample questions and answers and explanations, review of critical basic skills, and tips for passing the physical ability test and the oral interview.

Customer Reviews:

CHP.......2007-01-13

I didn't see any answers on the test that were in the book. If you're serious about joining the CHP you should do all you can to get in (including buying a book to help study), but I wouldn't go as far as to say this book helped me "cheat", or helped in any other way than giving me confidence

Simple, Concise, and Accurate.......2006-11-05

The title of my review says it all about this book. This book is a very good planning tool for talking the CHP exam...I am confident that I will be able to make my 70, with no problem whatsoever.

Goodluck

The test was MUCH easier!.......2005-07-27

This book scared me, I was terrified to take the CHP exam, but the book overstates the test difficulty. Most helpful portions were the grammar portion (teaches you what to look for and the format of the questions) and the background check. If you are concerned about your review BUY THIS BOOK. otherwise think back to your highschool SAT and breathe a sigh of relief, its not that hard.

Made the difference between "PASS" and "FAIL".......2003-05-18

This book was a tremendous help to prepare for the CHP test. The tests provided were very similar to the ones on the actual test. The whole study program outlined in the book was excellent. All the information provided was very helpful in my success in passing the test on the first try. I would highly recommend this book to anyone thinking about taking the CHP test. Thanks for the help.

If you want to pass the test the first time!.......2002-09-15

If you want to pass the California Highway Patrol's written test, buy and study this book! I bought it in August and took and passed the test at the end of August! The examples in this book mirrors what is on the C.H.P. written test. Also, if you plan on taking the written test, start doing crossword puzzles. You'll find out how that will help you when your taking the test! Good luck-

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Living on the Fault Line, Revised Edition: Managing for Shareholder Value in Any Economy
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Accessible business strategy primer for the 21st century

Living on the Fault Line, Revised Edition: Managing for Shareholder Value in Any Economy
Geoffrey A. Moore
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The fault line -- that dangerous, unstable seam in the economy where powerful innovations and savage competition meet and create market-shattering tremors. Every company lives on it; no manager can control it.

In the original edition of Living on the Fault Line, Geoffrey Moore presented a compelling argument for using shareholder value (or share price) as the key driver in management decisions. Moore now revisits his argument in the post-Internet bubble world, proving that the methods he espouses are more germane than ever and showing companies how to use them to survive and thrive in today's demanding economy.

Extending the themes of Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, his first two books on the dynamics of the high-tech markets, Moore shows why sensitivity to stock price is the single most important lever for managing in the future, both as a leading indicator of shifts in competitive advantage and as an employee motivator for making necessary changes in organizations heretofore impervious to change.

This revised and updated edition includes:

A deeper emphasis on core versus context, which has emerged as the key distinction in allocating resources to improve shareholder value
A new Competitive Advantage Grid that will aid managers in achieving and sustaining competitive advantage, the most important component in managing for shareholder value
An expanded Value Discipline Model as it relates to the Competitive Advantage Grid
Analysis of the powerful new trend toward core/context analysis and outsourcing production duties
Updated models of organizational change for each stage of market development

As disruptive forces continue to buffet the marketplace and rattle the staid practices of the past, Moore offers a brilliant set of navigational tools to help meet today's most compelling management challenges.

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Same message with new insights.......2004-02-25

"Living on the Fault Line" is an extension of Geoffrey Moore's previous books, "Crossing the Chasm" and "Inside the Tornado". It examines the various stages of a business, presents methods for managing shareholder value and creating sustainable competitive advantage, and begins to examine how cultural diversity can be used as a competitive strength. Although Moore does introduce business culture and the importance of culture management, his approach to competitive advantage continues to rely on stock price and information technology, distinguishing core and contextual processes, and understanding the impact of technology in causing market shifts. The book is well written and includes many useful diagrams and charts.

With change increasing exponentially, we are living in an environment where understanding and dealing with change is increasingly difficult. While Moore's approach towards competition is traditional, he does provide tools for understanding the apparent chaos in today's environment.

Accessible business strategy primer for the 21st century.......2002-11-10

I bought Moore's previous incarnation of this book (... in the age of the Internet) in April 02 and read the first chapter with incredulity. It was all about how the dot-coms were blowing away traditional businesses with their "market-share at any price" growth strategies. Then the book started getting interesting.

This revised version has the expected mea culpa in the Preface, deletes and replaces chapter 1 of the previous addition, and focuses on what is really valuable in Moore's work. The new chapter 1 highlights Moore's GAP-CAP distinction. GAP (Competitive-Advantage Gap) is what shows up in the numbers, differential success in the here-and-now marketplace. CAP (Competitive-Advantage Period) is a more subtle concept, referring to the ability of a company to sustain its advantages against competitors over time. It underpins future competitive advantage. The combination of a company's GAP and CAP is the real driver of its share price (discounted future earnings), and therefore of shareholder value. Moore write persuasively and in some detail about how this all works.

Chapter 2 explores the second important idea, the CORE-CONTEXT distinction. Here Core is defined as those activities which are central to the company's marketplace differentiation: effective action here directly impacts the share price. Context activities are those which need to be done, and done well, but which the market gives you little credit for. Administrative HR, for example, in companies which are not HR specialists. Moore argues that these are candidates for outsourcing to companies for whom they ARE core competencies. Again Moore elaborates on these basic distinctions.

Subsequent chapters explain the "Competitive Advantage Grid", which is new in this version. Here, the standard analysis of competitive advantage (product leadership vs. customer-focus vs. price/operational excellence - with a new category for disruptive innovation) is cross-referenced to strategies for marketplace differentiation to create a 4 x 4 matrix on which your company can be placed.

The remaining part of the book returns to Moore's familiar themes of the evolution-model of technology-based markets: early-market, chasm, bowling-alley, tornado, main-street. Moore is looking to integrate some of his ideas from the early part of the book into this framework, with a fair degree of success. He closes by discussing business cultures and "culture management", but here the theoretical framework is noticeably weaker. William Bridge's recently re-issued "The Character of Organizations" is a useful complement to what Moore has to say, here.

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The Fault Line - that dangerous, unstable seam in the economy where the Internet and other powerful innovations meet and create market-shattering tremors. Every company lives on it; no manager can control it. Everyone must learn to deal with it.

Now, Geoffrey Moore, author of The Gorilla Game and Inside the Tornado, two bestselling works that helped guide the high-tech revolution, explores the new management paradigms that will guide business in the 21st century, showing them how to survive and thrive on the fault line.

Moore turns his attention to the most important question for business in the early 21st century: How can companies that rose to prominence prior to the age of the Internet manage for shareholder value now that the Internet is upon us? The old management truths are dead. The dot.coms are overturning established relationships, reengineering markets, and attacking long-standing institutions. What should management do when it is under direct assault from companies no one had ever heard of even a few years ago? He prescribes a new agenda for management teams that include:

New strategies for achieving and sustaining competitive advantage
New metrics to keep management teams on course with these strategies
A specific blueprint for how the blue chip companies can meet the challenge of the dot.coms
Models of organizational change for each stage of market development
The crucial role of declaring a culture to enable swift response to global change

In Living on the Fault Line, Moore once again offers a brilliant set of navigational tools to help meet today's defining management challenge - managing for shareholder value in the Age of the Internet.

Customer Reviews:

Well worth the read!.......2000-07-17

Geoffrey Moore's latest book should be required reading for all executives in the age of the Internet. Rather than filling out a theoretically weak book with numerous examples, or building a detailed theory which cannot be applied, Moore has produced a brilliant work of practical business theory. Drawing on and extending his work in Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, and The Gorilla Game, Moore looks at various stages in the development of businesses, how to manage for shareholder value, how to create and sustain competitive advantage, and how companies with diverse cultures can effectively overcome the innovator's dilemma. Any executive feeling threatened by the Internet, or wishing to take full advantage of discontinuous innovations, should read this book.

Strategies for tactical leaders.......2000-06-29

"Living on the Fault Line" is like a diorama of a new battlefield. Reading this book, like studying the scale model, should give the experienced leader new perspectives on which troops to deploy and where they should go. It is a tool to show the terrain, the high points and ambush risks that armies face. This market is not lacking in people who can act, and this book shows them where to focus their efforts in a usable, timely and concentrated way.

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Living on the Fault Line: Managing for Shareholder Value in the Age of the Internet

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Same old baloney
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The culmination of Moore's business framework thinking
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Geoffrey Moore's first two books, Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, were gospel to a generation of high-tech managers. The challenge those books addressed was how to market and sell according to what he called the "Technology Adoption Life Cycle." In Living on the Fault Line, Moore takes his message to a very different group of execs, those who have never had to worry about marketing technology but who now face the biggest and most disruptive technology life cycle of all--the Internet.

Moore contends the Internet has changed everything, and he means it. As many companies are now discovering, market share is worth more than earnings; virtual integration trumps vertical integration; and the IT department, once relegated to a stuffy back office, is no longer "about the business--it is the business." The best proxy of a company's success? Try its stock price. Moore writes, "Stock price is in effect an information system about competitive advantage, it can help you sort through which markets to attack, which strategies to pursue, which partners to endorse, and which tactics to execute.... Capital, in other words, flows to competitive advantage and abandons competitive disadvantage."

For some, Moore's prescriptions may seem over the top. But those grappling for a handhold on the Internet economy will find much to ponder here. For example, managers faced with a scarcity of time and resources will find his analysis of core and context a powerful prism to manage by. He defines "core" as activities that differentiate a company in the marketplace and thereby drive its stock price. "Context" is simply everything else the company already does. His suggestion: assign your best people to the core and outsource as much of the context as possible.

If you've enjoyed Moore's previous work, you'll find Living on the Fault Line a must. If you've never read Moore before, get this on your bookshelf before your competition does. Engaging and highly readable, this one's a keeper. --Harry C. Edwards

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The fault line--that dangerous, unstable seam in the economy where the Internet and other powerful innovations meet and create market-shattering tremors. Every company lives on it; no manager can control it. Everyone must learn to deal with it.

Now, Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, two bestselling works that helped guide the high-tech revolution, explores the new management paradigms that will guide businesses in the twenty-first century, showing them how to survive and thrive on the fault line.

In this long-awaited new book, Moore turns his attention to the most important question for businesses: How can companies that rose to prominence prior to the age of the Internet manage for shareholder value now that the Internet is upon us?

The old management truths are dead. Business models that worked admirably until the last decade of the twentieth century must be replaced. The dotcoms are invading every sector of commerce, overturning established relationships, reengineering markets, attacking long-established price points, and disintermediating longstanding institutions.

What should management do when it is under direct assault from companies no one ever heard of even a few years ago?

In a book that will reset the management agenda in the age of the Internet, Moore shows why sensitivity to stock price is the single most important lever for managing in the future, both as a leading indicator of shifts in competitive advantage and as an employee motivator for making necessary changes in organizations heretofore impervious to change. He prescribes a new agenda for management teams that includesNew strategies for achieving and sustaining competitive advantageNew metrics to keep management teams on course with these strategiesA specific blueprint for how the blue-chip companies can meet the challenge of the dotcomsModels of organizational change for each stage of market developmentThe crucial role of declaring a culture inenabling swift response to global change

Today practically every company, whether inside the high-tech sector or not, is living on the fault line. By synthesizing his groundbreaking earlier work on the dynamics of technology-based markets with a new focus on managing publicly held corporations for shareholder value, Geoffrey Moore provides a highly prescriptive guide for any company struggling to manage the disruptive forces of the new economy.

In Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, Moore created a new language for navigating the technology adoption life cycle. In Living on the Fault Line, he once again offers a brilliant set of navigational tools to help meet today's defining management challenge-managing for shareholder value in the age of the Internet.

Customer Reviews:

Same old baloney.......2003-04-27

The author himself clues us in to the value of this work in his own preface. At the top of page xiv his comments about his previous work include a telling sentence, "In sum, much of my celebration of a new economy was just a lot of old baloney". Well most of this new work is more of the same. CAP and GAP are a rehash of old concepts tried and true. Context and core is the 80/20 rule revisited. Rather than buying, or god forbid wasting your precious time reading this volume, wait till the author's next book, where hopefully he'll compliment you in his next preface for not having paid money for just a lot of repackaged baloney.

Some Major Points, A Little Carried Away.......2001-11-25

A good book, while not as important as Gorilla game and Crossing the Chasm.

The significance of it is, i think, on page 96, where the author states the several levels of competition:

1. Competition of New paradigms versus old paradigm (e.g. PC vs. MiniComputers and MainFrames
2. Competition between the new paradigms - Apple value chain vs. PC value chain, for example.
3. Competition for a spot on the value chain - Dell vs. Compaq; MS DOS vs. C/PM vs. Pascal; etc.
4. Competition for a bigger piece of the pie - Intel vs. Microsoft vs. Dell vs. CompUSA etc.

AS you can see, the two first stages involve "collaboration" whereas the 2 latter are concerned with Competition (Michael Porter Style).

There are other significant issues discussed in this book - i just thought i highlight this one as the one that stroke me as most important.

Good Hunting!

The culmination of Moore's business framework thinking.......2001-08-27

Geoffrey's Moore's latest book should be required reading for all executives in the age of the Internet. Rather than filling out a theoretically weak book with numerous examples, or building a detailed theory which cannot be applied, Moore has produced a brilliant work of practical business theory. Drawing on and extending his work in Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, and The Gorilla Game, Moore looks at various stages in the development of businesses, how to manage for shareholder value, how to create and sustain competitive advantage, and how companies with diverse cultures can effectively overcome the innovator's dilemma. Any executive feeling threatened by the Internet, or wishing to take full advantage of discontinuous innovations, should read this book.

High Concept, Limited-Detail Look at Technology Success.......2001-02-10

Living on teh Fault Line will mainly be of value to those who are new to working in technology-based businesses.

This book combines the perspectives of many different books into one. As a result of spanning so much material, the book operates at about 100,000 feet above sea level. Although the view is breathtaking, you can't see most of the details. For managers and executives, that means being left with concepts that they may have trouble implementing. The way to overcome that weakness is to go on to read other books that do address these issues in more detail like Built to Last and The Innovator's Dilemma.

The first part is familiar material about how the Internet is changing business. It goes on to focus on the IT department of a traditional company as the weak link in responding to Internet opportunities and challenges.

The second part repeats Moore's shareholder value perspectives from The Gorilla Game (a book I liked much better than this one). Basically, he feels that management and the board should look at the level and direction of stock price as a litmus test on the company's strategy and implementation.

Part three hits the high points of relating well in the middle of creating a competitive advantage while technology is changing.

Part four discusses how top performance changes at times during a technological wave. This is probably the most interesting part of the book. It is quite well done.

Part five examines the key concept of focusing on what creates competitive advantage internally, and getting rid of everything else by outsourcing and partnering. I thought this was a little too simple. In many cases, your internal perspective may be the worst place to try to do key activities. For example, Wal-Mart reportedly began to do better with Internet development after it did more outsourcing in this core area. Keep in mind though that apparently Wal-Mart is still struggling with the Internet. This section was really addressing The Innovator's Dilemma material and concepts.

Finally, how do you institutionalize the way your company will attack the Internet and future technologies? This is routine material from a variety of books, and you can skip it if you are well read in business.

If you like your business books highly condensed and simplified, you'll rate this book a 5 star. If you like more detail, you'll rate it lower. If you have to have lots of detail, skip this book. It is resistible for you.

After you read this book, I suggest you think about when you may communicate at too high a level of generalization. People need it simple. See the excellent book, Simplicity, more more ideas!

Great Framework for Understanding.......2001-02-01

Geoffrey Moore is the master at taking complex marketing questions and answering them with simple frameworks. These frameworks help you understand the forces at work in the market and help you make decisions about your own business.

In "Living..." he continues this tradition. This book extends the concepts of the "Chasm" and "Tornado" books and uses these new concepts to address real world questions in large companies. He clearly answers questions like "Should this task be outsourced?", and "How should I align my line functions to bring a new product to market?"

An essential read to a high tech marketer or leader.

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