1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787866103321

Autore

Lawrence David L

Titolo

The efficient practice : transform and optimize your financial advisory practice for greater profits / / David L. Lawrence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-73511-0

1-118-73515-3

1-118-73514-5

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Wiley finance series

Disciplina

332.0240068/4

Soggetti

Financial planners

Management - Technological innovations

Communication in management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Management efficiency -- The efficient management philosophy -- Managing resources -- Managing people and communications -- Technology efficiency -- Client relationship management -- Afterword -- Impact on productivity, profitability, time management, and firm capacity -- Impact on business valuation -- First case study -- Second case study -- About the companion website -- About the author -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

An essential guide to tools and techniques for achieving efficiency, productivity, and profitability in financial advisory firms As a profession, financial advisors have been very well educated on how to be a financial advisor, but the industry does a poor job of preparing financial advisors to be great business owners. This book presents the Profit-Driven Architecture, a visual way of viewing the operational structure of a financial practice. Provides a concrete way of understanding and improving the interrelationship of different parts of the operations of a financial pra



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955699103321

Titolo

Dilemmas of victory : the early years of the People's Republic of China / / edited by Jeremy Brown, Paul G. Pickowicz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-674-72522-0

0-674-03365-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p.)

Classificazione

NQ 9030

Altri autori (Persone)

BrownJeremy <1976->

PickowiczPaul

Disciplina

951.05/5

Soggetti

HISTORY / Asia / China

China History 1949-1976

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-443) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The early years of the People's Republic of China : an introduction / Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz -- ; pt. I : Urban takeover -- "Clean-up" : the new order in Shanghai / Frederic Wakeman, Jr. -- Masters of the country? Shanghai workers in the early People's Republic / Elizabeth J. Perry -- New democracy and the demise of private charity in Shanghai / Nara Dillon -- ; pt. II : Occupying the periphery -- From resisting communists to resisting America : civil war and Korean war in southwest China, 1950-51 / Jeremy Brown -- The Chinese communist "liberation" of Tibet, 1949-51 / Chen Jian -- Big brother is watching : local Sino-Soviet relations and the building of new Dalian, 1945-55 / Christian Hess -- The call of the oases : the "peaceful liberation" of Xinjiang, 1949-53 / James Z. Gao -- ; pt. III : The culture of accommodation -- The crocodile bird : Xiangsheng in the early 1950s / Perry Link -- "The very first lesson" : teaching about human evolution in early 1950s China / Sigrid Schmalzer -- Acting like revolutionaries : Shi Hui, the Wenhua studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-52 / Paul G. Pickowicz -- Creating "New China's first new-style regular university," 1949-50 / Douglas A. Stiffler -- ; pt. IV : Family strategies -- The Ye family in New China / Joseph W. Esherick -- Birthing stories : rural midwives in 1950s China / Gail Hershatter -- Capitalists choosing communist China : the Liu family of Shanghai, 1948-56 / Sherman



Cochran.

Sommario/riassunto

This illuminating work examines the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the Communist takeover of China. Instead of dwelling on elite politics and policy-making processes, Dilemmas of Victory seeks to understand how the 1949-1953 period was experienced by various groups, including industrialists, filmmakers, ethnic minorities, educators, rural midwives, philanthropists, stand-up comics, and scientists. A stellar group of authors that includes Frederic Wakeman, Elizabeth Perry, Sherman Cochran, Perry Link, Joseph Esherick, and Chen Jian shows that the Communists sometimes achieved a remarkably smooth takeover, yet at other times appeared shockingly incompetent. Shanghai and Beijing experienced it in ways that differed dramatically from Xinjiang, Tibet, and Dalian. Out of necessity, the new regime often showed restraint and flexibility, courting the influential and educated. Furthermore, many policies of the old Nationalist regime were quietly embraced by the new Communist rulers. Based on previously unseen archival documents as well as oral histories, these lively, readable essays provide the fullest picture to date of the early years of the People's Republic, which were far more pluralistic, diverse, and hopeful than the Maoist decades that followed.