Bøger af Bruce Sinclair

After learning of a large inheritance, Todd moves his wife, small child, and adolescent stepdaughter, Alice, from their cramped SOHO apartment to the wisteria-draped Georgian town of Congreve. The heir to a small-town banking fortune, Todd knows all too well the dangerous snare of greed, but the promise of the good life is too much for the struggling artist to resist. However, when the pressures of an industry he doesn't understand become too much for him to bear, he finds comfort in liquid escape. Barely thirteen, Alice does her best to understand the dark flashes of violence creeping into her new life. She tries to ignore her new Aunt who only has eyes for younger half sister, and keeps a watchful eye on her troubled cousin, but the dark secret hidden behind the gabbled upstairs window of the Broderick mansion is about to set fire to her once-fairytale existence. In Athena Alexis' southern gothic tale of greed, incest, and murder, money may be the root of all evil, but truth is the greatest sin of all.

Not Exactly Stealin', the first in the series, is a dark comedy about ancestor worship, rare Southern antiquities, and good old-fashioned greed. It focuses on a 130-year-old diary of a black freedwoman, and features five female characters: Dale Ralston, one-time set designer for the New York fashion industry now married to a corrupt state politician; Rannie Ralston, Dale's sister-in-law, a hard-charging lawyer; Moira, Dale's other sister-in-law, a dreamy, overgrown child who lives in the haze of history; Mary Canty Ralston, Dale's mother-in-law, an avaricious lush; and, Tamzie, their maid who observes, records, and becomes dangerously tangled in theft and murder. These novels describe Charleston before it became totally infested by rich Yankees. Large shabby pockets remained ungentrified-old families lived in old houses and maintained old rituals.

Increase the value of your companies by seizing the true power of smart digital transformationThe Tesla Model S. The Uber aggregator business model. The Amazon bookstore. What do they all have in common? They're all smart. Smart products, smart business models and smart services created by data-driven tech companies that have dominated their industries and produced outsized returns for their investors.Now the high technology of digital transformation has matured to enable any traditional company to increase its competitiveness and growth profile by developing tech-facilitated business models and other intangible assets. A digitally transformed company uses data to increase its sales through innovation and invention, to increase its margins through operational efficiency and to increase its valuation multiple through the digital rerate.Founder and managing partner of today's leading digital operating partners firm, Bruce Sinclair has been helping companies digitally transform for almost a decade, first as an independent consultant and then as an operating partner for a middle-market private equity firm. Whereas his first book, IoT Inc, is the gold standard business book for leadership in enterprises, this book applies those lessons for value creation in private equity.Smart digital transformation is leading to structural changes in all industry sectors, and associated with any such changes are investment opportunities. Not just by betting on smart companies, but by buying companies and making them smart.This is your playbook to seizing the true power of smart digital transformation for your portfolio companies.

In 1980 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers celebrates the centenary of its founding. The occasion has provided an opportunity for the Society to look back and survey its accomplishments, its distinguished members, and its constant dialogue -- among its members and with the American people -- concerning the role of engineering in a technological society. The dynamic tensions within the ASME make a fascinating background to this centennial history. The central role of the Society's headquarters in New York is examined the light of various movements for regional and professional sections within (and occasionally outside) the Society. The technical question of standards is shown to be a constant and creative problem for members -- reflecting their attitudes towards their role in a political system often reluctant to enforce nation-wide standars in business and industry. From the Progressive Era, and its attempts to reform city government and check the power of private utilities, to the 1970s and its renewed concern with ecology and business ethnics, the Society has provided a microcosm of informed debate about technical engineering problems which -- as this book makes clear -- concerns us all.

A timely, essential guide to understanding and monetizing the Internet of Things (IoT) in any industry.