Michael Jackson: Before He Was King
Michael Jackson, Before He Was King
Michael Jackson was an incredible entertainer. Some of us are even lucky enough to remember his performance on the 25th Anniversary Celebration of Motown on TV. Jackson’s famous moonwalk stole the show and he received rave reviews for his dancing expertise. As the news of Jackson’s untimely demise spread the world felt a sense of shock and mourning .
Photographer Todd Gray worked with Michael Jackson for several years before Jackson requested that he become his personal photographer, a relationship that would encompass the singer’s performances with the Jacksons through the release of his smash solo albums Off the Wall and Thriller.
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The Snowball, Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
The Snowball - Warren Buffet
In this startlingly frank account of Buffett’s life, Author, Alice Schroeder, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley—and hand picked by Buffett to be his biographer—strips away the mystery that has long cloaked the word’s richest man to reveal a life and fortune erected around lucid and inspired business vision and unimaginable personal complexity. In a book that is dominated by unstinting descriptions of Buffett’s appetites—for profit, women (particularly nurturing maternal types), food (Buffett maintained his and his family’s weight by “dangling money”)—it is refreshing that Schroeder keeps her tone free of judgment or awe; Buffett’s plain-speaking suffuses the book and renders his public and private successes and failures wonderfully human and universal. Schroeder’s sections detailing the genesis of Buffett’s investment strategy, his early mentoring by Benjamin Graham (who imparted the memorable “cigar butt” scheme: purchasing discarded stocks and taking a final puff). Inspiring managerial advice abounds and competes with gossipy tidbits (the married Buffett’s very public relationship with Washington Post editor Katherine Graham) in this rich, surprisingly affecting biography
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Business War Games – Author: Benjamin Gilad
Business War Games
In a global, complex, and competitive world, developing a plan without testing it against market reaction is like walking blind into a minefield.
War gaming is a metal detector for a company. Yet war games run by the large consulting firms are kept secret and cost millions. For the first time, this book makes them accessible to every product and brand manager, every project leader, every marketing professional, and every planner, no matter how small or large the company.
Business War Games will show you in steps and practical detail:
- How to decide if war gaming is right for you
- Which decisions call for war gaming
- How to prepare, organize, and run a realistic and inexpensive war game
- How to predict competitor moves with accuracy and little information
- Why you do not need computers, consultants, software, or a PhD in math to do it well
This book is your bible of how to stay one step ahead of your competitors. Do not leave home without it.
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Too Big To Fail – Andrew Sorkin
Too Big to Fail
A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world’s economy.
“We’ve got to get some foam down on the runway!” a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world’s financial system would experience.
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Recorded Attacks: Max Brooks Radio Interview with The SandBox – WFNX
Audio for this clip was provided by The SandBox / WFNX 101.7 – Boston.
Max Brooks, Zombie Expert and author of The Zombie Survival Guide, returns with his next installment to the Zombie series titled Recorded Attacks.
This time around, Max provides insights to humanities survival against zombies by exploring historical accounts of zombie outbreaks and attacks, and the measures that previous civilizations and cultures took to overcome and survive hoards of undead infected by ”the ancient viral plague”.
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