CEO Ready: What You Need to Know to Earn the Job--and Keep the Job

Mark Thompson, Byron Loflin
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Your track record of success isn't enough. Here's what it really takes to be CEO Ready.

You're on the short list for the CEO job, and you have a record of delivering amazing results. You've been told you have the inside track. You're the leader in the clubhouse.

Don't believe it. Remember that no matter what you've heard or what your CV says, you are not alone in the race, and the odds are against your getting the job.

Leadership selection isn't the methodical, objective process we imagine. Decisions aren't made by robotic executives ticking boxes for attributes such as strategic fit, core competencies, or cultural alignment. Instead, the process is deeply personal, emotional, and often unpredictable.

Now, Mark Thompson and Byron Loflin share with you what it really takes to become CEO ready. Thompson has coached thousands of executives and CEO candidates, and Loflin is a boardroom expert and adviser. They've seen firsthand the emotions that sway CEO selections as well as the personal and boardroom dramas that unfold as a company prepares to pass the baton of leadership.

In CEO Ready, Thompson and Loflin reveal what you need to do to maximize your chances of being the one who secures the top spot, including identifying the seven key stakeholders CEO candidates need to understand and work with. Filled with practical advice and compelling and instructive stories from those who've gone through this arduous process, CEO Ready is essential reading for anyone who aspires to the ultimate leadership position.

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我的二十世紀：李歐梵回憶錄

李歐梵
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回顧大半生，我覺得自己畢竟是一個二十世紀人。對於二十一世紀，我沒有期望，只覺得我的二十世紀尚未完結。這本回憶錄，也是我為自己的二十世紀寫的備忘錄。

我在書裡追憶自己的成長過程和漫長的求學經驗，並特別把在普林斯頓、芝加哥、哈佛等美國六間大學任教的經驗也和求學連在一起，美其名曰「遊學」。我跟著「成長小說」的模式，寫我的生命經驗，而不是歷數學術上的成就。最後還冒然加上一章「感情史」，算是我的「感情教育」。

對我而言，回憶錄的結構可以自由一點，像一部尚未剪接的影片。我時常邀請一位虛擬的提問者，像作曲法中的「對位」一樣，向我提問、質詢、駁詰，逼我作自我反省。即使有些章節用的是獨白，我心中還是有一個沉默的對話者。本書的第二部分是我與張歷君的對談，他會進一步引出我對自己學思歷程和閱讀經驗的反思。

想在這個二十一世紀「全球網絡化」的世界中去重尋二十世紀的個人生命意義，作沉靜的反思，幾乎是不可能的事。即便如此，我還是想寫下去，至少要證實自己還存在。

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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again

Johann Hari
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening—and how to get our attention back.

“The book the world needs in order to win the war on distraction.”—Adam Grant, author of Think Again

“Read this book to save your mind.”—Susan Cain, author of Quiet

WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Post, Mashable, Mindful

In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.

We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers’ productivity.

Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus—as individuals, and as a society—if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.

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香港商場的黃金時代

何尚衡
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如欲認識一地之風土人情，常說市集和公園不容錯過。論香港，還該有購物商場。

香港的居住空間普遍狹小，公共與休憩用地規管甚嚴，加上城市規劃等因素，香港商場成為獨特而顯著的多功能消費場所，有大、中、小型者數百。細察香港商場的規劃、功能和設計，猶如觀看一個城市的空間運用、地道消費文化、生活形態及品味的縮影。

香港一直沒有專著論述商場的歷史與發展脈絡，僅有零星的資料和討論散落各處。本書作者研究香港商場逾十年，曾以商場為題撰寫論文，並在社交媒體開設專頁，把研究配上圖片與大眾分享。全書整理自政府和私人機構的官方記錄、報章及雜誌等文獻，亦有從舊照推敲，加上訪問、實地考察，以及歷年的讀者意見，梳理成翔實而圖文並茂的香港商場發展史。

書中先有緒論講解商場的起源和更迭原因，後有對香港商場的綜合分析，並將香港數十個商場以公、私營歸類，各依其落成年份、地理位置編排，詳述其發展與特色，爬梳不同時代的香港商場風格，為研究及理解香港商場歷史與發展的重要著作。

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Handbook of Financial Econometrics, Statistics, Technology, and Risk Management

Cheng-Few Lee, Alice C Lee, and John C Lee (editors)
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The handbook is an authoritative four‑volume reference that captures the latest advances in financial econometrics, statistical modeling, machine learning, and risk management. Drawing on decades of combined experience in industry practice, academic teaching, research, and journal editorship, the editors and contributors present a rigorous yet practical framework that connects theory, methodology, and real‑world application.

Covering a wide range of topics—from asset pricing and derivatives to corporate finance, systemic risk, and big‑data analytics—this handbook offers an integrated and forward‑looking view of modern quantitative finance, with particular emphasis on higher‑moment theory, data‑driven decision‑making, and contemporary risk management challenges.

Volume 1: Foundations and Methodological Innovations
Focuses on the core tools of financial econometrics and quantitative analysis, introducing foundational models alongside innovative methods. Topics include machine learning in risk management, optimal futures hedging, corporate innovation and executive compensation, option bound determination, banking stability, and systemic risk measurement.

Volume 2: Advanced Financial Theory and Machine Learning Applications
Centers on advanced asset pricing and derivative theory, integrating machine learning techniques into financial decision‑making. Key themes include stochastic volatility, implied variance, real and exotic options, international diversification, AI‑driven stock selection, and credit risk assessment.

Volume 3: Corporate Finance, Empirical Analysis, and Risk Applications
Emphasizes practical and empirical issues in corporate finance and investment management. This volume examines international transfer pricing, corporate restructuring, executive incentive schemes, mutual fund performance, market forecasting, and innovative hedging, capital budgeting, and nonlinear modeling approaches.

Volume 4: Big Data, Advanced Econometrics, and Financial Stability
Explores the integration of big data analytics and advanced econometric techniques in financial markets. Topics include corporate governance and earnings management, stock–exchange rate dynamics, survival analysis, deep neural networks for credit risk, and volatility spillovers during financial crises.

Designed for finance, accounting and economics undergraduate students and graduate students; academics in the fields of finance and accounting.

文青經濟學

曾國平
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當文青的世界不能再為我們帶來安慰，當經濟學的計算不能算出答案，我們唯一可以做的，也許是把人生當成一場不容易玩的遊戲。

「經濟學者」與「文青」，很少出現於同一句子。

文青，一身衣著樸素低調，會去逛書店、喝咖啡、聽講座，講究生活品味，追求理想擁抱真善美；經濟學者，穿上西裝一本正經，在電視螢光幕上以專家身份出現，會講股市樓市走勢、評論大小現象，講求實際，斤斤計較。

兩種思維，兩個世界，好像不是無話可說，就是意見不合。

其實文青與經濟學者，不一定只有矛盾，也能互補不足。

經濟學者研究人的行為，而文史哲生活美學中展現的，是數據中看不到的同情之心和人文關懷；文青想法傾向浪漫，有時把人性或世事想得太美好，強調局限、取捨的經濟學，是一種地心吸力，不讓胡思亂想四處飛。

經濟學教授、「經濟3.0」專欄作者曾國平，以文字帶讀者穿梭時間與空間，游走經濟理論與文青情懷。從「鬱悶科學」看文史哲，平衡理想與現實，「玩」出人生意義。

(摘錄自mybookone.com.hk)