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Some Recommended Readings Doing
Business in 2005: Obstacles to Growth by World Bank. Doing Business in 2005:
Obstacles to Growth is the second in a series of annual reports investigating
the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that
constrain it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement
can be compared across more than 130 countries, and over time. The indicators
are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where
and why. Good
to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins.
Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great
company and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last,
concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins
and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting The
Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance
by Peter S. Pande et al, Robert P. Neuman, Roland R. Cavanagh. Six Sigma
is a data-driven management system with near-perfect-performance objectives that
has been employed to acclaim at leading corporations like General Electric. Its
name is derived from the eye-catching statistical target of operating with no
more than 3.4 defects per one million chances, but... Read more
Franchising:
Pathway to Wealth Creation by Stephen Spinelli, Sue Birley, Robert Rosenberg.
"It's hard to believe that all the key ingredients about franchising can be packedinto
one book, but that's what Steve Spinelli, Sue Birley and Bob Rosenberg havedone
withFranchising: Pathway to Wealth Creation. From the idea stage to thesophisticated
world of IPOs, it's all carefully laid out in fine detail. This is an essential
collection of valuable information that is long overdue."
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