What makes Apple so valuable as a company? Why is Tesla worth so much? How did Dyson come up with such a great vacuum cleaner? The answer is, at the heart of these companies’ greatness (and, importantly, their enterprise value), is a very strong core asset – an element of strategy that any business, large or small, can create. Using a simple and effective thirty-step process, Thirty Essentials: Strategy will help you define and design the most valuable core asset possible to dramatically increase the value of your business. This successful framework is based on the extensive experience of Andrew Laurie, a top business coach and former-CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company. It is based on the same principles he implemented to grow that company from sales of $50 million to $2 billion in under two years. Where many existing books on strategy tend to be theoretical and complicated, Thirty Essentials: Strategy presents a straightforward process to define a great core asset that can be implemented by everyone from small business owners to senior executives at large corporations.

Get the most out of owning a business with these thirty practical steps to attaining financial and personal freedom and business success. When your business depends on your management to survive, it often means compromising your lifestyle in favour of success. But what business owners don’t often realise is that this dependence not only limits their freedom, but it also limits the growth and development of the business itself. Top business coach and ex-CEO of a multi-billion dollar company, Andrew Laurie, explains how you can release yourself from day-to-day management, so as to reap the benefits of business ownership. A simple and effective guidebook, Thirty Essentials: Sustainable Success outlines the steps of handing over the management of a business and, crucially, guides you through the challenges that will inevitably arise. It also assists you in deciding how to spend your time after stepping back; both in appropriate continuing involvement in the business and in other activities external to it. Thirty Essentials: Sustainable Success is an invaluable guide to attaining the freedom that business ownership offers and to ensuring that your business can truly achieve its potential.

Get the best out of your team with these thirty practical steps for successful people management. Building a strong team is among the most important requirements for any company, and anyone who has managed a great, high-performing team knows how enjoyable and rewarding it is for everyone involved. However, in his years of experience as a top business coach, as CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company and as president of a large charity, Andrew Laurie has seen many teams that are not achieving, and far more managers struggling to get the best from their team. Using thirty steps and activities that Andrew has cultivated over years leading successful teams ranging from a couple of people to thousands of staff, Thirty Essentials: Management is a practical tool that will help managers get better performance from members of their team. This book will also provide clear direction in identifying specific opportunities to develop their leadership and management abilities.

This abridgment of Tryntje Helfferich's acclaimed 2009 anthology The Thirty Years War features an expanded General Introduction and annotation designed to support student readings in swift-moving surveys of European and World history.

The Thirty Years War: A Documentary History fills a gap in recent studies of the great pan-European conflict, providing fresh translations of thirty-eight primary documents for the student and general reader. The selections are drawn from the standard political documents, from the Apology of the Bohemian Estates for the Defenestration of Prague to the text of the Treaty of Westphalia, as well as from imperial edicts, trial records, letters, diary entries, and satirical broadsheets, all directly translated from the Early New High German, French, Swedish, and Latin. The volume contains some ten illustrations and one map . . . and on the whole is well organized and well presented with a judicious amount of footnotes and a slim For Further Reading section. A succinct introduction introduces the four sections, each with its own substantial introduction: (1) Outbreak of the Thirty Years War (1618-1623), (2) The Intervention of Denmark and Sweden (1623-1635), and (3) The Long War (1635-1648). The concluding section (4) Two Wartime Lives (1618-1648), interestingly juxtaposes the journals of a wandering mercenary and a settled townsman. The first is the diary of Peter Hagendorf, kept between the years 1624 and 1649 and only rediscovered in 1993. Hagendorf experienced the war as a common mercenary from the Baltic to Italy, from France to Pomerania. His counterpart is Hans Heberle, a shoemaker from a small town in the territory of the free imperial city of Ulm whose Zeytregister chronicled happenings both in the neighborhood and further afield. The engrossing accounts of their shifting fortunes over the three decades of the war really help to give this collection of texts, and the troublesome period itself, a human face. They are the stuff from which Grimmelshausen would craft his great novel of the war, The Adventuresome Simplicissimus (1668). Tryntje Helfferich is to be applauded for this consistently interesting and eminently useful volume. --Martin W. Walsh, University of Michigan, in Sixteenth Century Journal

The multilateral trading system and the WTO, its principal institution, are currently in crisis. Now more than ever, it is essential to provide a sound understanding of WTO rules and procedures, and their contribution to a secure and predictable framework for trading relations between nations. This book provides a timely and carefully considered overview of the substantive rules and institutional arrangements of the WTO, written in a concise and highly reader-friendly manner. It provides a clear and systematic discussion of key issues of WTO law, and incorporates important case law and current debates. It includes useful pedagogical features such as illustrative examples of the application of the legal framework to practical situations to facilitate understanding, as well as lists of further reading. Co-written by a leading authority in the field, it forms essential reading for anyone who wants to get to grips with this fascinating and challenging field of law.

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