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Power of Performance Management

How Leading Companies Create Sustained Value

By Andre de Waal

Publishers: John Wiley, New York

Price: Rs 2,457.

THERE is a growing conviction among senior corporate financial managers that traditional business planning and performance management methods are flawed and insufficient for keeping competitive in today's technology-driven information age. This book prov ides the framework necessary to develop a strategic performance management process for creating world-class value by examining the practices and case studies of world-class corporations.

The Essential Buffet

Timeless Principles for the New Economy

By Robert G Hagstorm

Publishers: John Wiley, New York

Price: Rs 1,094.

FOR a while, with day traders and speculators driving the stock market to unprecedented heights -- and redefining the concept of investing in real time -- Warren Buffett's measured, buy-and-hold value philosophy seemed as quaint as an old adding machine. In this book, the author, helps one draw on the wisdom and counsel of Warren Buffett to succeed in today's challenging market. He shows you how these techniques can be applied to technology, small-cap, and international stocks -- areas Buffett tradition ally has not explored.

Traditional Industry in the New Market Economy

The Cotton Handlooms of Andhra Pradesh

By Kanakalatha Mukund and B. Shyamasundari

Publishers: Sage, New Delhi

Price: Rs 395.

TRADITIONAL industry in India is widely seen as being out of tune with the demands of a modern economy though respected as the repository of a heritage of skilled craftsmanship and artistic expression. To explore the validity of these arguments, the auth ors chose to study the handloom industry, which is the most important economic sector in India after agriculture. Based on primary and secondary data and extensive fieldwork, this book provides an in-depth study of handloom weaving in Andhra Pradesh, one of the most important handloom weaving regions in the country.

Valuation of Land in India

By A.P. Jayaram

Published by the author

Price: Rs 350.

THE valuation of land, especially in India, presents certain features and problems which are unique, peculiar and varied. There has been a long-felt need to bring out the various aspects concerning the valuation as applied to agriculture and plantations. This book is basically designed to meet the needs of practicing valuers, advocates, bankers, auditors, chartered accountants, insurance surveyors, administrators etc. Specific efforts have been made by the author to present the matter in running form an d free from mathematical formulae.

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