Beginning with the Hashemi siblings' first conversations (when the seed of the idea was planted) it follows the progress of Coffee Republic from business plan to the present day. Coffee Republic is now worth around 50m with 90 outlets around the UK. This is a start-up business book for real people. Sahar and Bobby take the reader step by step through every aspect of starting and growing a business from asking 'why?' and writing the plan to hiring staff and letting go. The book is illustrated throughout with inspirational anecdotes from their own experience. It is a very personal story of dreaming, acting and succeeding offering a myriad of lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs and blowing apart the myth that only 'special' people start successful businesses.

    No voice teacher can afford to be without the updated and revised editon of The Private Voice Studio Handbook, a comprehensive and practical guide for beginning or improving the work of any voice teacher. The original edition was released in 2003. The revised edition was released in 2014. The topics addressed include: mission and policy statements; studio equipment and organization; auditioning and accepting new students; practice agenda for students; the importance of teaching music reading; repertoire for beginners; planning recitals; vocal techniques; teaching styles; advising young singers; teaching adult students; teaching voice to children; taxes, insurance and retirement; networking; ethics in the voice studio; and more! The revised edition adds many updates and case studies of students. Beyond being a great guide for private voice teachers, Joan Frey Boytim's groundbreaking book is an excellent resource for college and university voice faculty, and would be a valuable text for vocal pedagogy courses. Joan Frey Boytim has spent over 50 years teaching in her private voice studio. She is a nationally recognized and widely published expert in the training of young singers.

     By the world's foremost authority on intellectual capital The "next knowledge economy -- and the new economics of knowledge. Creating the intelligent organization -- and designing workplaces that attract tomorrow's best knowledge workers. "Intellectual capital" combines human capital -- brains, skills, insights, and human potential -- with the structural capital wrapped up in customers, processes, databases, brands, and systems. Leading-edge companies have discovered that intellectual capital is the one indispensable business asset, and they are seeking new ways to measure and maximize that asset. "Corporate Longitude gives them the compass they're searching for: a practical method for measuring the corporate "intangibles" that increasingly drive the bottom line. Leif Edvinsson, the world's leading intellectual capital "guru, " presents new insights and strategies for every leader seeking competitive advantage in the "next knowledge economy. Edvinsson shows why traditional financial metrics, which measure "corporate latitude, " are no longer enough -- and presents breakthrough techniques for measuring "corporate longitude" -- the subtle interrelationships of human and structural capital that have become your most crucial success factor. For all executives, management consultants, executives, financial and information technology leaders, MBA candidates, and Executive Education students. Leif Edvinsson is widely acknowledged as the guru of intellectual capital. At Skandia, one of Europe's most respected andforward-thinking financial firms, he serves as the world's first Director of Intellectual Capital. The author of the global bestseller "Intellectual Capital: Realizing Your Company's True Value by Finding Its Hidden Roots, Edvinsson is a global knowledge nomad that championed two early moves to measure intellectual capital and reflect it in corporate annual reports. He is a former winner of the Brain of the Year award.

    In this comprehensive guidebook, three experienced entertainment lawyers tell you everything you need to know to produce and market an independent film-from the development process to deal making, financing, setting up the production, hiring directors and actors, distributing and marketing your film.

    Here, Kumari Jayawardena traces the evolution of the bourgeoisie from a feudal society and mercantilist economy, to the age of plantations. She assigns primacy to class over caste, and details the rise of the new-rich Nobodies of many castes, ethnicities and religions into the ranks of the Somebodies. She discusses the links between capital accumulation, religious revivalism, ethnic identity and political movements, and highlights the obsession of the bourgeoisie with land acquisition and social status.

    This volume on Egyptian agriculture and rural society combines new local research with national rural policy analysis. Authored by a team of Egyptian and Western scholars, it examines the agribusiness strategy of the Egyptian Government and its goal of agricultural export-led growth, debates, policies, and conflicts over access to water, and the long history of conflict in Egypt's agricultural sector.

    It provides a model for growing new business in the old business setting, detailing the right way to organize, manage and oversee a corporate venture so that it can flourish.

    Paul has taken his extensive experience in this field and made it available here for the first time. The book connects to a special Internet site where readers can get updates and download specific software that assists users in starting and running a restaurant. There is a CD-ROM available for users that do not wish to access this information via the Internet. The book includes: Professional advice, sample business plan, revenue forecasting, organizational tips, financial advice, location selection, leasing tips, negotiation tips, detailed business checklists, and much more