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The Securitization Markets Handbook: Structures and Dynamics of Mortgage-and Asset-Backed Securities
Author Anne Zissu , Charles Austin Stone
In this long-awaited handbook, noted experts Charles Stone and Anne Zissu provide an enlightening overview of how securitization works and explain how future cash flows from various asset classes—from credit card receipts to mortgage payments—can be packaged into bo....
Release Date 2005/01 -
The Starfish Files: One Leader's Account of Insight & Inspiration Under Duress
Author Alexander Hiam
Have you ever wished you could only somehow get your people to tackle their work with a more positive attitude, a little more initiative, a shared feeling of ownership, and personal responsibility for their success? Here is a one-of-a-kind book that will inspire lea....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Author Martyn A. Ould
Businesses need to adapt constantly, but are often held back by static IT systems. The ‘Riva approach to Business Process Management’ is a way of analysing the mass of concurrent, collaborative activity that goes on in an organisation, providing a solid basis for de....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Microsoft® .NET Development for Microsoft Office
Author Andrew Whitechapel
This book delivers real-world strategies and coding techniques for creating Microsoft Office–based solutions that work seamlessly in the .NET environment—information that’s been put to work by Microsoft’s own product support and development teams.
Release Date 2004/12 -
Author Walt Jung
Operational amplifiers play a vital role in modern electronics design. The latest op amps have powerful new features, making them more suitable for use in many products requiring weak signal amplification, such as medical devices, communications technology, op....
Release Date 2004/12 -
Successful Project Management, Second Edition
Author Larry Richman
Project management has emerged as the premier solution to today?s organizational challenges. Project managers deliver success by using a structured approach to project planning, sourcing, decision-making and control. Successful Project Management, Second Edition, i....
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First-Level Leadership: Supervising in the New Organization
Author Vivette Payne
Now more than ever, leadership is the determining factor in successful organizations. Building and sustaining a competitive advantage requires leadership at all levels, not just the top. First-level supervisors are in a unique position to provide this new leadershi....
Release Date 2004/12 -
Life and Health Insurance License Exam Cram™
Author Bisys Educational Services
If you are studying for your life and health insurance licensing exam, we have the ultimate study tool for you. Life and Health Insurance License Exam Cram is a great resource to help you learn the concepts, laws, rate calculations and state and federal regulations ....
Release Date 2004/12 -
The New CIO Leader: Setting the Agenda and Delivering Results
Author Ellen Kitzis , Marianne Broadbent
Two converging factors--the ubiquitous presence of technology in organizations and the recent technology downturn--have brought chief information officers (CIOs) to a critical breaking point. They can seize the moment to leverage their expertise into a larger and mo....
Release Date 2004/12 -
Leadership in Action: Personal Bonds: Whether Serving Rich or Poor, Trust is the Key
Author Joyce Jenkins
Comparing the views of leaders in two major financial institutions in Asia—one serving the very rich, the other the very poor—it seems that despite hugely different client bases, they have many more issues in common than one might think.
Release Date 2004/12 -
Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - Shanghai - A New Vista for Leadership Development
Author Craig Chappelow
CCL plans to examine how Chinese organizations on the verge of going global compare with both their Asian and their Western counterparts in terms of their leadership and management practices.
Release Date 2004/12 -
Your Successful Project Management Career
Author Ronald B. Cagle
Your Successful Project Management Career answers all the questions new project managers typically have, giving them advice and information about entering and excelling in the fieldThe book clarifies important terminology, discusses how project management got starte....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want—Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
Author Brian Tracy
Based on more than 20 years of experience and 40 years of research, this book presents a practical, proven strategy for creating and meeting goals that has been used by more than 1 million people to achieve extraordinary things in life. Author Brian Tracy explains t....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Author Harry E. Chambers
Micromanagement is one of the most widely condemned managerial sins, and one of the most common employee complaints. It contributes to low morale, high turnover, inefficiency, instability, and lack of continuity in an organization. Being perceived as a microman....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Author Ken Jennings , John Stahl-Wert
* The second book in The Ken Blanchard Series-selected and with a foreword by Ken Blanchard * A unique and practical "action approach" to servant leadership-a popular and widely espoused concept that figures prominently in the writings of Ken Blanchard, Peter Se....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Author Oded Shenkar
By 2015, China may well have the world's largest economy. In The Chinese Century, Oded Shenkar shows how China is restoring its imperial glory by infusing modern technology and market economics into a non-democratic system controlled by the Communist party and bure....
Release Date 2004/10 -
Author Robbie Shell , Sandeep Junnarkar , Susan Warner , Jeffrey Brown , Mukul Pandya
Paths to greatness: Actionable lessons from today's most remarkable business leadersIncisive profiles from Knowledge@Wharton and Nightly Business ReportAndy Grove, Mary Kay Ash, Lou Gerstner, Richard Branson, Herb Kelleher, Charles Schwab... and 19 moreIn this book....
Release Date 2004/10 -
Crystal Clear A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams
Author Alistair Cockburn
"The best thinking in the agile development community brought to street-level in the form of implementable strategy and tactics. Essential reading for anyone who shares the passion for creating quality software."—Eric Olafson, CEO Tomax"Crystal Clear is beyond agile....
Release Date 2004/10 -
The PDMA Handbook of New Product Development
Author Kenneth B. Kahn
The completely revised and updated "bible" of new product development: The PDMA Handbook of New Product Development, Second Edition.The PDMA Handbook of New Product Development, Second Edition provides a comprehensive, updated picture of what you as a manager need t....
Release Date 2004/10 -
Leadership in Action: Morale Victories: How Leaders Can Build Positive Energy
Author Gene Klann
It's not difficult to recognize an organization or team that has strong morale, pride, and spirit as opposed to one that does not. In the former, productivity and creativity are high and relationships are strong; in the latter, negativism, dissatisfaction, and fric....
Release Date 2004/10 -
Leadership in Action - A Question of Leadership - How Do Leaders Acquire Power?
Author Cindy McLaughlin , Barbara Popejoy
Many people view power as the imposition of will to persuade others to do something they wouldn't ordinarily do. A greater quantity of information does not translate into a greater amount of power.
Release Date 2004/10 -
Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - For Lack of Leadership, Airlines are Flying Blind
Author Craig Chappelow
The leaders who make up the current group of airline CEOs have their work cut out. They inherited bloated businesses offering a commodity product in a service industry, yet they seem to have completely lost touch with customer service.
Release Date 2004/10 -
Leadership in Action: Reader Forum - Leaders Can Learn Much from Gandhi
Author Ashok Nalamalapu
Leading by example—an example from which today's leaders in both the public and private sectors can learn much—Gandhi inspired millions of Indians to win independence through a nonviolent movement.
Release Date 2004/10 -
Author Bernard Baumohl
Every day, stocks, bonds, and currencies bounce wildly in response to new economic indicators. Money managers obsess over those statistics, because they provide crucial clues about the future of the economy and the financial markets.Now you can use these indicators ....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Author Jack B. Rochester , John Gantz
Digital piracy. It's a global war -- and it's just begun. Pirates of the Digital Millennium chronicles that war. All of it: media conglomerates vs. teenagers, tech companies vs. content providers, artists battling artists, nations vs. nations, law enforcement vs. ....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Author Andrew Fight
Syndicated Lending aims to increase the readers awareness of the benefits and risks involved in taking part in the Syndicated Loan market.This book covers:*Who the major players in the syndication loan market are*Why syndication loans are used*Syndication loan struc....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
Author Erik A. Roth , Scott Anthony , Clayton Christensen
Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data and lead to costly errors in judgment. Now, internationally renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Chr....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Author Azriel Rosenfeld , Reinhard Klette
Digital geometry is about deriving geometric information from digital pictures. The field emerged from its mathematical roots some forty-years ago through work in computer-based imaging, and it is used today in many fields, such as digital image processing and....
Release Date 2004/09