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The Dot.com has dot.bombed--and this cipher selection stands as mute testimony to the reality that these two "rang the bell at the top" of the internet bubble by rushing this embarrasing collation into print.

Of their "Top 10" THREE are no longer in business, or are barely able to stay listed on exchanges, and the other 7 are equally ugly.

When Walden wrote his self-aggrandizing review, he stated there would be the potential for a 75% swing DOWN in a stock. HE A) wrote that after the bottom fell out of internet stocks, B) failed to warn that the "upper number" was closer to 98% swing down, not 75%, and C) failed to give eBay its due, a very very successful internet stock "to own."

And they BOTH missed PayPal, the young internet upstart--in business when they wrote this tout, who blew eBay's Billpoint in house payment service plumb off the race track as well.

Those who want to know what to short and when to short should be the only ones to buy Walden's advisory books...he's rung the bell at the top more than once by his cookie cutter, rush to press, just as the "game" is over and the momentum players surge to a new gambit tack. A review of his titles bears out this historic reality.

I agree with Peggy, this book doesn't have much meat even just for surveying the internet stocks landscape. "100 Best Internet Stocks to Own" by Greg Kyle does a much better job in this respect by providing more information on each company's background, major turn points of stock prices in their history, analysis of business challenges as well as opportunities. More informative and more insightful. Put these two books side by side, you'll notice the difference in no time.

Peggy Mannix has completely missed the point (and value) of Walden's latest book, and apparently didn't read his introduction. Yes, many of the stocks have gone down in value due to the correcting marketplace, but the point of the book is to provide guidance for those of us who want to include Internet companies as a part of our portfolios. I found the discussion about the many facets of the Internet marketplace extremely helpful in understanding how the new economy operates. As the title says, these stocks are "for the long run." If you're looking for get rich quick picks, look elsewhere. If you're looking for solid advice about incorporating internet stocks into your portfolio, Walden's book can be of tremendous help.

The only way this book can help you is if you first read the latest list of best places to work published in a business magazine. Compare the that list with this one, and then read about the companies in this volume that appear on both lists. That will give you a sense of where the company's environment was back in the early 1990s. That consistency of being a superior place to work increases the likelihood that you will have located a place that will continue to be a good place to work in the future.

As the authors point out, between 1984 (when they published the original research on this subject) and 1994 (when this paperback edition was published) only 55 of the original 100 companies persisted on the list. I suspect that the fallout since 1994 has been even greater. The list contains many companies that went through dire times in the 1990s like Armstrong, Compaq, Cray, Cummins Engine, Donnelly, DuPont, Hewlett-Packard, Inland Steel, Kellogg, 3M, Motorola, J.C. Penney, Tandem, and Xerox. In fact, companies that are riding for a fall in their business peformance are often the ones that have been great places to work. Before its performance plummeted in the early 1990s, IBM used to be on the list . . . just before it laid off an enormous percentage of the total workforce.

So a weakness of this backward-looking research is that it is not very good at predicting what will be the best companies to work for. The list is obviously dominated by very big companies, and they are the ones that offer the least job stability these days, even though the authors try to make the opposite point. "Job security is not a relic of the past for them."

The more obvious point is that for tens of millions of Americans the best employer is themselves. That point is not considered in this book.

The majority of the organizations and companies that will provide the best pay/benefits, opportunities, job security, pride in work/company, openness/fairness, and camaraderie/friendliness (the criteria for selection by the authors) in the next 10 years either were tiny or did not exist in 1994. So you need more contemporary sources for your search.

A good example of the need for newer information is that many companies now encourage you to work at home, due to the Internet. If you want to do that, this book won't help you find those companies. If you want to avoid doing that, this book won't help you avoid those companies.

My main concern about studies like this is that they focus your attention on what your employer can do for you. I suspect that thinking about your personal life goals would be a better starting point. Then, within those goals, what kind of career works best for the future in light of important future trends? Then, what jobs should you consider to develop that career? Next, should you work for someone else or be on your own? Finally, how should you screen potential employers to meet your personal criteria? After you have finished doing all that thinking, I doubt if this book will be very helpful to you.

Don't let the old paradigm of the employer as the source of paternalism and stability distort your judgment of what's right for you!

Make your life a joy by following the road to health, happiness, peace, and prosperity!

found the research very informative. The book has very elegant style of writingand tons of data. As HR consultant i used the book extensively to educate a number of my colleagues in innovating with hrm policies

found the research very iformative. the book has very elegant style of writing. as Hr professional i used the book extensively to educate anumber of My colleagues in innovating with hrm policies

Mickens names University of Chicago as one of the best work environments for gays. Let the records show that in the early 1990s, people were going around sending death threats to gay students on that campus, particularly gay students of color. I have a friend who transferred from Chicago to Brown specifically for that reason. Therefore, if Chicago does have a gay-friendly policy now, it is only because they were embarrassed into it. This book is written in a rambling personal narrative style. There are several superior books out there about gay men and lesbians in the workplace.

What a great way to make public the companies that really care about their gay employees. It's fun to see which companies are really doing something. However, this book is quite out of date, I wish a new edition was published

Since coming out as queer I have been looking for something olike this, and now I have it. One thing that hasn't happened even though there is a lot more acceptance of the gay lifestyle at the grassroots is more acceptance by institutions. This is a step in the right direction, and gives lots of good info on where to get serviced and so on.

So you've decided you should start a business but aren't sure what kind? Reading this book can help you determine the best kind of business for you.

For each business listed, the authors provide a short description, an explanation of "why" it's a good pick, the skills necessary, the initial investment required, resources for more information and a brief dialog with even more information. This book will guide you to making a wise choice.

You can skim the choices listed in the table of contents and then read the details on those that sound most interesting. Or you can read all of them. Either way, you're sure to find some you'd never thought of and perhaps even eliminate some you'd been considering.

"The 100 Best Businesses for the 21st Century" is excellent! The book is simple and easy-to-read. But each of the businesses has been researched carefully and well-documented for follow-up work. We recommend this book for lots of folks - it's great for a second job, a career change, and retirees looking for additional income. According to the author, "corporate America has squeezed the enthusiasm out of its workers and more people are deciding to break ranks and be in control by starting their own business." "The 100 Best Businesses for the 21st Century" is a wonderful tool for those contemplating "breaking out." But we also suggest that every high school and 2-year college obtain copies of this book - It's THE BEST reference for future careers and a must-have for those counseling younger folks.

Brian Tracy has done it again! This is an encyclopedia for the business person with a desire to succeed! Easy reading, a FANTASTIC reference book! He lays it out very simply for the busy person who doesn't have time to go thru many words to get to the main point! A MUST FOR THE ENTREPRENEUR! That is...if you want an edge on success! GRAB THE BOOK! Pat Chipman, Lifestyle Management Enterprises

For the last four years I have read all of the self-help, business, financial, and psychology books I've come across. Brian Tracy's tape set; The Psychology of Success was the first audio experience I had with this genre of material. From that time on, I've read, or listened to almost all of Mr. Tracy's material. While I can't say that this is a better book than Maximum Achievement, it is every bit as good. Brian Tracy may not use material which he can totally call his own, he portrays it in a way which relates more to us in our time than his predecessors. I loved this book. You will too! Some day I hope to meet him and thank him personally for how much his motivational materials have changed my life.

The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success is 300 pages and 8 chapters of powerpacked information that will help any business.

The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success will show you how to:

* Attract and Keep better people

* Produce and sell more and better products/services

* Control costs more intelligently

* Expand and grow more predictably

* Increase your profits, and much more.

The fourth law in chapter 60 was very beneficial to me. The ideas in this book exploded my business. Nobody does it better than Brian Tracy.

When books about the best 100 Internet stocks to own come out, you know you are near the market peak. Sure enough, as I write this, these stocks are down about 50 percent since the book was published. Yet, you will look in vain in this book for suggestions about selling overpriced Internet stocks short or watching cash levels and cash burn rate to see if companies will survive. By this time next year, many of these companies will be out of business.

Every new industry, every new technology, and every new way of competing enjoys a brief period of euphoria on Wall Street. Usually, the end comes within five years . . . or sooner if major disappointments creep up before then. The surest part of the Internet development was the inevitable cataclysmic fall, which was scheduled for either 2000 or 2001. It looks now like both years will have this characteristic. Again, there is no mention of this phenomenon in this book.

Why then did I give the book two stars, rather than one? Well, it's near Christmas, so I wanted to say something nice. I think you can use this book as a guide to web sites that might be worthwhile visiting, at least until the companies go out of business. I graded it two stars for its web site information. I found a few that had good material that I had not visited before.

If I could, I would rate it a zero or as a negative number for investment advice.

Now, there may be a good day to buy Internet stocks in the future. But this book won't help you figure out when or what to buy.

To the best of my knowledge, there is yet to be a good book written about investing in Internet stocks. So continue to be careful. One thing I can guarantee is that the day when there are 100 good stocks to buy related to the Internet is well into the future.

Avoid overpriced stocks and books about them, unless they are guides to short selling. Buy a lottery ticket instead. You have about the same chance of winning, and you'll lose less money this way.

As a financial advisor it is very often difficult to keep up with all aspects of all stock categories available to my clients. Most especially internet stocks. This is a class of stock that both frightens and excites my clients and often brings the most questions.

It is comforting to know that this book, "100 Best Internet Stocks to Own" by Greg Kyle, is now available so that I can recommend it with confidence to my clients as a very solid tool that will help them to understand and identify the strengths, weaknesses and pitfalls of this market catagory.

It is my belief that this book can be used as one of the key guidebooks when contemplating an investment in internet stocks. The feedback from my clients confirm this.

This is a good introduction to Internet stocks. It contains 40 page explanation of Internet and how to invest in it. The next 210 pages are all company information, with author's opinion on the companies. One thing the book misses is to cover Cisco, Sun Micro, Oracle, EMC, and so forth. The author claims that they don't belong to the new Internet era stocks (not the correlated group), but any investor who would like to invest in the Internet should know about Cisco and Sun Micro too, as the investor probably care less whether they belong to the correlated group than whether they can capture a good Internet-related investment.