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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Questions are the key to change - 1 views

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    It's neither Big Data nor innovation, despite all the business books and management gurus touting the disruptive potential of each. It's the simple question, right there on the tip of your tongue. A new book demonstrates just how far an inquisitive mind can take you. Change usually starts with a question. Inquiry has toppled monarchs and empires throughout history. It's the basis of one of the earliest forms of education - the Socratic Method - used to train young minds in the rigours of critical thinking. Yet, it's a mostly ignored business tool, overlooked by executives trained in the MBA arts that "tend to place more value on answers, pronouncements, and promises," according to author Warren Berger. Questions also overturn business empires.
Aldrey Dyman

Ebooks at Dyman Associates Publishing Inc A Plea: Let Some Ebook Data Flow - 1 views

This content was provided by Aptara. Historically, when all others are concentrating on lowering costs, quality wins. Publishers with a laser focus on improving the reader experience win over th...

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started by Aldrey Dyman on 01 May 14 no follow-up yet
Aldrey Dyman

Risk-Return Analysis: The Theory And Practice Of Rational Investing│Book Revi... - 1 views

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    The Theory and Practice of Rational Investing, Harry M. Markowitz worries about a "great confusion" that reigns in finance - namely, "the confusion between necessary and sufficient conditions for the use of mean-variance analysis." This is a serious matter. Mean-variance analysis has been the cornerstone of portfolio construction since Markowitz's seminal 1952 article. Meanwhile, academics and practitioners have been in constant search of the next holy grail that will guide the allocation of capital. Consider the endless stream of articles proposing enhancements to mean-variance analysis or substitutes for it. Substantial bodies of literature discuss optimizers that incorporate higher moments or attempt to replace variance with alternative risk measures. Another takes account of investors' so-called irrational tendencies. I recall a former colleague saying, "Let's not re-implement Harry Markowitz's PhD thesis for the millionth time. We can do better." But we have not. What are the objections to mean-variance analysis, and are they well grounded? Markowitz has devoted Risk-Return Analysis to these questions, concluding that mean-variance analysis is central to finance for good reason. This book proceeds in unhurried steps from a set of incontrovertible premises to the conclusion that mean-variance analysis is the best tool available for addressing a wide range of portfolio-construction problems.
Aldrey Dyman

Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: 'Unstoppable' by Ralph Nader - 1 views

Ralph Nader wants liberals and conservatives to work together. In his new book, "Unstoppable", he cites many instances in which such cooperation ought to be possible, at least theoretically. But th...

Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc Review: 'Unstoppable' by Ralph Nader

started by Aldrey Dyman on 28 Jul 14 no follow-up yet
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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Book Review on '935 Lies' by Charles Lewis - 1 views

With the founding of the Center for Public Integrity in the 1980s, Charles Lewis probably did more than anyone else to launch institutional nonprofit journalism in America. So it is worth paying at...

Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc Review 935 Lies by Charles Lewis

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candfarquh

Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith - 1 views

''Writing as Robert Galbraith,'' Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has suggested of her recent venture into crime fiction, has been a ''pure joy''. Judging by the bestseller lists, this is a joy sq...

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started by candfarquh on 21 Aug 14 no follow-up yet
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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: 'What Stays in Vegas' by Adam Tanner - 1 views

If you walk through the doors of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, you'll find two ways to play the games. You can take cash from your billfold and gamble anonymously until you've had enough. Or you can...

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started by candfarquh on 15 Sep 14 no follow-up yet
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From the Library: The hesitant traveler heads abroad | Book Reviews Dyman Associates Pu... - 1 views

NORWOOD The world has changed immensely since I took a trip overseas more than a decade ago. My personal world has changed as well. Last time I traveled across the pond, I didn’t have childre...

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