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Fact-filled business compendium for trivia lovers.

If you're one to appreciate the quirky anecdotes and the cold, hard stats of the corporate world, "A Business Miscellany" might just become your new coffee table favorite. Dive into a neatly packaged world of greatest hits and misses in the business sector—perfect for impressing colleagues or sating your dinner party factoid needs.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9781861978660
Related Collections: Personal Development, Economics, Business
Related Topics: Productivity, Personal Development, Business, Communication, How To, Leadership, Management

Description

This title provides everything you could possibly want to know about business - and a lot more. Full of facts and figures about all aspects of business, "The Economist Business Miscellany" is designed to inform, amuse and give you plenty with which to entertain others. Here is just a taste of what is biggest mergers and biggest corporate failures; memorable mission and vision statements; how many accountants and lawyers there are in different countries; and, how the names of different companies came about. This title also famous advertising campaigns and famous PR disasters; biggest business philanthropists and famous business villains; best know business gurus and what they are known for; most appalling business jargon; rules of business etiquette in different parts of the world; most valuable brands and most unsuccessful rebrandings; salaries compared across countries; most popular fringe benefits; stockmarket bubbles and crashes; investment formulas; and, lots and lots of statistics on business and the markets.


Author: The Economist
Publisher: Economist Books
Publication Date: 2006
 

Fact-filled business compendium for trivia lovers.

If you're one to appreciate the quirky anecdotes and the cold, hard stats of the corporate world, "A Business Miscellany" might just become your new coffee table favorite. Dive into a neatly packaged world of greatest hits and misses in the business sector—perfect for impressing colleagues or sating your dinner party factoid needs.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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