Daniel Gross

¿Qué tienen en común Bill Gates, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, Mary Kay Ash y Walt Disney? Una visión apasionada, ambición eterna, buena disposición para asumir riesgos y una perspicacia excepcional para los negocios. Estos personajes no solo acumularon inmensas fortunas sino que revolucionaron el mundo de los negocios y ayudaron a forjar la sociedad tal como hoy la conocemos. Aunque la mayoria de nosotros podemos tener una nocion general de estos y otros legendarios personajes, pocos conocemos los detalles de sus extraordinarias carreras. Esta coleccion comparte sus extraordinarios logros, algunos olvidados o poco conocidos: Como Ray Kroc uso una perspicaz estrategia inmobiliaria para convertir un incierto negocio-franquicia de hamburguesas en McDonalds, el imperio del fast-food; como Mary Kay Ash convirtio su empresa de cosmeticos en un negocio de mil millones de dolares predicando un mensaje de implicacion economica hacia las mujeres.

Financial meltdown, a deep recession, and political polarizationcombined with strong growth outside the United Stateshave led to a global bubble of pessimism surrounding Americas economic prospects. Bloated with debt, and outpaced by China and other emerging markets, the United States has been left for dead as an economic force. But in this time of grim predictions, Daniel Gross, Yahoo! financial columnist and author of Dumb Money, offers a refreshingly optimistic take on our nations economic prospects, examining the positive trends that point to a better, stronger future. Widely respected for his Newsweek and Slate coverage of the crash and the recovery, Daniel Gross shows that much of the talk about decline is misplaced. In the wake of the crash, rather than accept the inevitability of a Japan-style lost decade, Americas businesses and institutions tapped into the very strengths that built the nations economy into a global powerhouse in the first place: speed, ingenuity, adaptability, pragmatism, entrepreneurship, and, most significant, an ability to engage with the world. As the United States wallowed in self-pity, the world continued to see promise in what America has to offerbuying exports, investing in the United States, and adopting American companies and business models as their own. Global growth, it turns out, is not a zero-sum game. Better, Stronger, Faster is an account of the remarkable reconstruction and reorientation that started in March 2009, a period that Gross compares to March 1933as both marked the start of unexpected recoveries. As the U.S. public sector undertook aggressive fiscal and monetary actions, the private sector sprang into action. Companies large and small restructured, tapped into long-dormant internal resources, and invested for growth, at home and abroad. Between 2009 and 2011, as Europe struggled with a cascade of crises, the U.S. got back on its feetand began to run. Through stories of innovative solutions devised by policy makers, businesses, investors, and consumers, Gross explains how America has the potential to emerge from this period, not as the unrivaled ruler of the global economy but as a healthier leader and an enabler of sustainable growth.

The financial crisis that has gripped this country since last September has had so many twists and turns, it would make for a great drama -- if it all were not so real and damaging. Companies are shutting down and laying off workers, 401ks are melting away, and the government is spending $700 billion dollars to bail out banks and financial institutions -- and thats only the beginning. The financial services industry, and the many industries that depend on it -- from housing to cars -- is in intensive care. So what happened? How did we get to this point of financial disaster? Is the economy just a huge, Madoff-esque Ponzi scheme? It is a complicated and confusing story -- but Daniel Gross of Newsweek has a special gift for making complicated matters easy to understand and even entertaining. In Dumb Money, he offers a guide to the debacle and to what the future may hold. This is not so much a book about who did what, though thats part of the story. Rather, it pieces together the building blocks of the debt-fueled economy, and distills the theory and personalities behind our late, lamented easy money culture. Dumb Money is a book that finally lays it all out in an engaging way, and might just help people invest their money smartly until the gloom passes.

Lincroyable parcours dun jeune Libanais devenu un grand banquier international.Qui était Edmond J. Safra ? " Le plus grand banquier de sa génération ", selon un ancien président de la Banque mondiale. Un philanthrope aussi, et une figure emblematique de la communaute juive sefarade.Daniel Gross, qui a eu acces a une mine darchives privees, retrace au fil des pages lhistoire de la vie dEdmond J. Safra, du Beyrouth de son enfance jusquau sommet dun empire financier.En pres de cinquante ans, les banques quil a creees sur trois continents sont devenues des entreprises denvergure, evitant les pieges qui se sont refermes sur de nombreuses autres institutions. Car ce prodige de la finance sappuyait sur une vision claire de son metier : un banquier doit proteger ses clients et eviter lendettement et les risques excessifs.Parlant couramment six langues, Edmond J. Safra a vecu au Liban, en Italie, en Suisse, en France, au Bresil, aux Etats-Unis, en Angleterre et a Monaco. Il avait un sens aigu des responsabilites et du devoir envers sa famille et sa communaute. Plus de vingt ans apres son deces, son uvre philanthropique perdure a travers sa fondation, qui soutient de nombreux projets dans le monde.Une vie exceptionnelle et inspirante.

¿Qué tienen en común Bill Gates, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, Mary Kay Ash y Walt Disney? Una visión a ultranza, buena disposición para tomar riesgos y una perspicacia excepcional para los negocios. Estos individuos no solo amasaron inmensas fortunas sino que revolucionaron el mundo de los negocios y ayudaron a forjar la sociedad actual. Aunque la mayoria de nosotros tenemos una nocion general de estos y otros legendarios personajes, pocos conocemos los detalles de sus extraordinarias carreras. Daniel Gross y los editores de la revista Forbes, una de las publicaciones de negocios mas destacadas del mundo, presentan dieciseis historias fascinantes. Usted descubrira los personajes ocultos detras de las marcas mas reconocidas en la historia, entre ellas, Merrill Lynch, Xerox, Ford y Walt Disney.

Quince historias fascinantes, en las que se descubren los personajes ocultos detrás de las marcas más reconocidas en la historia y las estrategias que utilizaron en sus inicios para llegar a la situacion que ostentan a dia de hoy.?Se trata de un libro de facil lectura, practico y que contiene historias de empresarios de exito.?Muestra las estrategias que utilizaron los empresarios de estas empresas.?Libro clave para entender como han llegado a ser lo que son a hoy en dia las empresas mas importantes del mundo.¿Que tienen en comun Bill Gates, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, Mary Kay Ash y Walt Disney? Una vision apasionada, ambicion eterna, buena disposicion para asumir riesgos y una perspicacia excepcional para los negocios. Estos personajes no solo acumularon inmensas fortunas sino que revolucionaron el mundo de los negocios y ayudaron a forjar la sociedad tal como hoy la conocemos. Aunque la mayoria de nosotros podemos tener una nocion general de estos y otros legendarios personajes, pocos conocemos los detalles de sus extraordinarias carreras. Esta coleccion comparte sus extraordinarios logros, algunos olvidados o poco conocidos: Como Ray Kroc uso una perspicaz estrategia inmobiliaria para convertir un incierto negocio-franquicia de hamburguesas en McDonald?s, el imperio del fast-food; como Mary Kay Ash convirtio su empresa de cosmeticos en un negocio de mil millones de dolares predicando un mensaje de implicacion economica hacia las mujeres.

Bubblesfrom hot stocks in the 1920s to hot stocks in the 1990sare much-lamented features of contemporary economic life. Time and again, American investors, seduced by the lures of quick money, new technologies, and excessive optimism, have shown a tendency to get carried away. Time and again, they have appeared foolish when the bubble burst. The history of finance is filled with tragic tales of shattered dreams, bankruptcies, and bitter recriminations.But what if the I-told-you-so lectures about bubbles tell only half the story? What if bubbles accomplish something that can only be seen in retrospect? What if the frenzy of irrational economic enthusiasm lays the groundwork for sober-minded opportunities, growth, and innovation? Could it be that bubbles wind up being a competitive advantage for the bubble-prone U.S. economy?In this entertaining and fast-paced bookyoull laugh as much as you cryDaniel Gross convincingly argues that every bubble has a golden lining. From the 19th-century mania for the telegraph to the current craze in alternative energy, from railroads to real estate, Gross takes us on a whirlwind tour of reckless investors and pie-in-the-sky promoters, detailing the mania they createdbut also the lasting good they left behind. In one of the great ironies of history, Gross shows how the bubbles once generally seen as disastrous have actually helped build the commercial infrastructures that have jump-started American growth. If there is a secret to the perennial resilience and exuberance of the American economy, Gross may just have found it in our peculiar capacity to blow financial bubblesand successfully clean up the mess.

Quem foi Edmond J. Safra? Nesta biografia sobre o criador de um império financeiro mundial, Daniel Gross conta a história de um dos mais influentes e bem-sucedidos banqueiros do século XX. Edmond J. Safra foi "o maior banqueiro de sua geraço", na avaliaço de James Wolfensohn, ex-presidente do Banco Mundial. Nascido no bairro judeu de Beirute, descendente de uma das mais antigas comunidades judaicas do mundo, foi naturalizado cidado do Brasil e, mais tarde, de Monaco. Na construço de seu imperio financeiro, Edmond fundou quatro grandes instituiçes financeiras em tres continentes, incluindo o Trade Development Bank (Genebra), o Republic National Bank (Nova York), o Safra Republic Holdings (Luxemburgo) e o que se tornou o Banco Safra (So Paulo), entre outras empresas e instituiçes. Em A jornada de um banqueiro, acompanhamos a vida e a carreira de Safra desde os seus 15 anos de idade ate sua ascenso ao topo das finanças globais, alem de desvendarmos as circunstancias de sua precipitada morte.Figura central na globalizaço financeira, Edmond soube aliar as tradiçes do velho mundo bancario as necessidades da nova ordem economica, entre elas a adaptaço, o deslocamento e a constante reinvenço. No inicio dos anos 1950, os conflitos entre arabes e judeus causaram uma nova onda migratoria, e foi no Brasil que a familia Safra encontrou refugio, cidadania e um lugar para criar raizes e desenvolver os negocios. Mais tarde, Edmond se casaria pela primeira e unica vez, aos 43 anos, com a brasileira de ascendencia anglo-judaica Lily Watkins. Em Monaco, um incendio criminoso acabou por encerrar, cedo demais, a jornada do criador do imperio bancario Safra.Em A jornada de um banqueiro, o historiador e jornalista financeiro Daniel Gross elabora uma fascinante combinaço de biografia e historia empresarial, ao reconstruir a vida publica e pessoal de um homem que assumiu no so o protagonismo na expanso dos negocios da familia, mas tambem o papel de liderança na sua comunidade. Filantropo sem reservas e com profundo respeito a tradiço, Edmond deixou um legado de liçes empresariais e humanitarias.

"Talent is what happens when two brilliant and profoundly iconoclastic minds apply their imagination to one of the hardest of all business problems: the search for good people. I loved it."Malcolm GladwellHow do you find talent with a creative spark? To what extent can you predict human creativity, or is human creativity something irreducible before our eyes, perhaps to be spotted or glimpsed by intuition, but unique each time it appears?The art and science of talent search get at exactly those questions. Renowned economist Tyler Cowen and venture capitalist and entrepreneur Daniel Gross guide the reader through the major scientific research areas relevant for talent search, including how to conduct an interview, how much to weight intelligence, how to judge personality and match personality traits to jobs, how to evaluate talent in on-line interactions such as Zoom calls, why talented women are still undervalued and how to spot them, how to understand the special talents in people who have disabilities or supposed disabilities, and how to use delegated scouts to find talent.Identifying underrated, brilliant individuals is one of the simplest ways to give yourself an organizational edge, and this is the book that will show you how to do that. It is both for people searching for talent, and for those being searched and wish to understand how to better stand out.

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