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Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process: Strategies for Print and New Media Designers
Author Curt Cloninger
Design philosophies can be useful, but inspiration, creative strategies, and efficient work habits are what really get the job done. Designer, instructor, and author Curt Cloninger provides a multitude of strategies, tools, and practices that readers can use to inje....
Release Date 2006/10 -
Adobe Creative Suite 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques
Author George Penston
The fully updated Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium software (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, and Acrobat) is a unified design environment. The Creative Suite 2 enables you to realize your ideas anywhere–in print, on the Web, or on mobile devic....
Release Date 2005/12 -
Author Brian S McWilliams
More than sixty percent of today's email traffic is spam, according to email filtering firm Brightmail. This year alone, five trillion spam messages will clog Internet users in-boxes, costing society an estimated $10-billion in lost productivity, filtering software....
Release Date 2004/10 -
Crystal Reports XI: Official Guide
Author Michael Voloshko , Annette Jonker , James Edkins , Neil FitzGerald
The authorized guide to the latest edition of the #1 business intelligence software product - Crystal Reports. More than 16 million licenses of Crystal Reports have been shipped to date. This book is a reference designed to provide hands-on guidance for the latest ....
Release Date 2006/11 -
Author David West
In OBJECT THINKING, esteemed object technologist David West contends that the mindset makes the programmer—not the tools and techniques. Delving into the history, philosophy, and even politics of object-oriented programming, West reveals how the best programmers rel....
Release Date 2004/02 -
IBM Problem Determination Tools for z/OS
Author Kenichi Yoshimura , Dana Shelton , Vikram Manchala , Rufus Credle
IBM® Problem Determination (PD) Tools consists of a core group of IBM products that are designed to work with compilers and run times to provide a start-to-finish development solution for the IT professional. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides you with an intro....
Release Date 2013/01 -
IBM System Blue Gene Solution: Blue Gene/Q Hardware Installation and Maintenance Guide
Author James Milano , Matt Mattingly
This document is one of a series of IBM® Redbooks® written specifically for the IBM Blue Gene/Q® system. The Blue Gene/Q system is the third generation of massively parallel supercomputers from IBM in the Blue Gene® series. This document explains how to install the ....
Release Date 2013/05 -
How Home Theater and HDTV Work
Author Michael Troller , Michael Miller
Home theater and HDTV are hot, but most consumers know little or nothing about these technologies. You no longer have to rely on sales people to direct you to underpowered and overpriced equipment that doesn't meet your needs and is quickly outdated. Take matters i....
Release Date 2005/11 -
Firefox and Thunderbird: Beyond Browsing and Email
Author Peter D. Hipson
There's a new browser in town: Firefox is quickly becoming a leading alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer. If you are new to Firefox and want to see what all the buzz is about, Firefox and Thunderbird: Beyond Browsing and Email is the guide that you need. By ....
Release Date 2005/10 -
The Lost Art of the Great Speech: How to Write It * How to Deliver It
Author Richard Dowis
Splashy slides, confident body language, and a lot of eye contact are fine and well. But if a speech is rambling, illogical, or just plain boring, the impact will be lost. Now everyone can learn to give powerful, on-target speeches that capture an audience's attent....
Release Date 1999/08 -
The Emotional Intelligence Activity Book
Author Adele B. Lynn
We've all heard of ""IQ""...but what's ""EQ?"" It's ""Emotional Quotient"" (aka Emotional Intelligence), and experts say that EQ is a greater predictor of success at work than IQ. Companies are increasingly looking for ways to motivate and develop their employees....
Release Date 2001/12 -
Author Robert J. Rosania
Presentation Basics is designed to provide the basic training tools to individuals and organizations facing the reality of rapidly changing jobs, roles, and, responsibilities. This book offers a simple, step-by-step approach that guides readers through the entire pr....
Release Date 2003/07 -
Author George Piskurich
Subject matter experts (SMEs) and occasional trainers are increasingly sharing the training burden in organizations. Yet these "instant trainers" often are not familiar with even the basic terminology or practices of the training profession. Trainer Basics is writte....
Release Date 2003/12 -
Author Jenni Prisk , Maureen Orey
Communication Skills Training offers all the resources and tools needed to design effective communication skills training. Use this complete guide to design presentation, negotiation, conflict resolution, or assertiveness skills for group or work teams or design int....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Author Norman Walsh
TeX is a powerful tool for creating professional quality typeset text and is unsurpassed at typesetting mathematical equations, scientific text, and multiple languages. Many books describe how you use TeX to construct sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. Until now, ....
Release Date 1994/04 -
Author Janelle Barlow , Dianna Maul
Today's consumers demand not only services and products that are of the highest quality, but also positive, memorable experiences. This essential guide shows how organizations can leapfrog their competitors by learning how to add emotional value -the economic ....
Release Date 2000/04 -
Be Your Own Brand—A Breakthrough Formula for Standing Out from the Crowd
Author Karl D Speak , David McNally
Brands are typically associated with products and businesses, but David McNally and Karl Speak suggest the same concept can be applied to individuals and relationships, with powerful results. Be Your Own Brand shows how personal branding, like product branding, crea....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Writing Information Security Policies
Author Scott Barman
Administrators, more technically savvy than their managers, have started to secure the networks in a way they see as appropriate. When management catches up to the notion that security is important, system administrators have already altered the goals and business p....
Release Date 2001/11 -
Learning From Life: Turning Life's Lessons Into Leadership Experience
Author Patricia Ohlott , Marian Ruderman
If you were to ask managers and executives where they get the most influential and effective developmental training, the answer you're likely to get is "on the job." Too often, those same managers and executives discount what can be learned from experiences outside....
Release Date 2000/07 -
The Problem With Online Ratings
Author Sinan Aral
In the digital age, we are inundated with other people’s opinions. We browse books on Amazon with awareness of how other customers liked (or disliked) a particular tome. On Expedia, we compare hotels based on user ratings. On YouTube, we can check out a v....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Combining Purpose With Profits
Author Julian Birkinshaw , Nicolai J. Foss , Siegwart Lindenberg , Adam M. Grant , Jay Cars
Is it possible for a company to strive for a higher purpose while also delivering solid profits? Some have argued that pursuing goals other than making money means, by definition, spending on things that aren’t profit-maximizing. Others have countered tha....
Release Date 2014/04 -
What Email Reveals About Your Organization
Author Peter A. Gloor
By studying data from email archives and other sources, managers can gain surprising insights about how groups should be organized and led — as well as about optimal participation and communications patterns. Show and hide more
Release Date 2016/01 -
Developing New Products in Emerging Markets
Author Charles Dhanaraj , Rishikesha T. Krishnan , Ishwardutt Parulkar , Srivardhini K. Jh
For more than a decade, multinational enterprises from developed countries have moved a substantial part of their R&D activity to emerging markets such as India and China. The location of R&D in developing countries was initially largely driven by the availability ....
Release Date 2016/04 -
What Makes Work Meaningful -- Or Meaningless
Author Michael G. Pratt , Susan Cartwright , Kara Arnold , Amy Wrzesniewski , Gretchen Spre
Meaningful work is something to which we all aspire, but about which surprisingly little is known. The authors undertook an interview-based study involving 135 individuals in 10 very different occupations to find out which factors foster meaningfulness in work and ....
Release Date 2016/07 -
The Smart Way to Respond to Negative Emotions at Work
Author Christine M. Pearson
It is impossible to block negative emotions from the workplace. Whether provoked by bad decisions, misfortune, or employees’ personal problems, no organization is immune from trouble, and trouble agitates bad feelings. In many organizations, negative emotions....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Saving Money Through Structured Problem-Solving
Author Michael Morales , Don Kieffer , Nelson Repenning
As busy as they are, leaders need to find ways to observe fundamental work processes in their organizations. When they do, they usually discover that there are gaps between theory and reality in how works get done. Michael Morales’ experience — in which....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Author Thomas H Davenport
Most of us view our jobs as specialized or somehow differentiated, but the world of business and management increasingly feels otherwise. For many organizations today, the next big driver of job commoditization is automation driven by smart machines. Simply put, if....
Release Date 2018/01 -
A New Approach to Designing Work
Author James Repenning , Don Kieffer , Nelson Repenning
The goal of this article, according to the authors, is to help managers understand several key work design principles that undergird not only agile practices in software but also Toyota Motor Corp.'s well-known production system. Understanding these underlying wor....
Release Date 2018/01