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Author Taggart E. Smith
This book provides practical information on a major business concern—how to manage meetings. It demonstrates how to lead them effectively, in the shortest time frame possible. Three types of meetings are outlined: information-giving, interactive, and problem solving....
Release Date 2000/12 -
Author Gary Walker
The complete "best practices" guide to IT problem resolution!No matter how professional your IT organization, if you can't resolve problems quickly and effectively, you'll lose your stakeholders' confidence—and fail. Nowadays, help desk s aren't enough: companie....
Release Date 2001/03 -
Author Michael Netzley , Mary Munter
This concise, practical book is written for you if you want to assure your meetings will be...Necessary and not just a waste of timeInteresting, coherent, and well-organizedA place for people to share, rather than show off, their ideasConstructive, thoughtful, and c....
Release Date 2001/06 -
From ASICs to SOCs: A Practical Approach
Author Faranak Nekoogar , Farzad Nekoogar
Information you can put straight to work!ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) and SOCs (Systems On a Chip) are among the hottest topics in semiconductor chip design today. If you're a front-end or back-end chip designer looking to learn the latest techn....
Release Date 2003/05 -
E-mail: Communicate Effectively, First Edition
Author Marcia G. Reed , Verna Terminello
Tame the e-mail monster and capture the power of this critical workplace tool!E-mail is the most basic and critical key to building healthy, productive work communities that communicate electronically. With these quick, easy guidelines, business people at all levels....
Release Date 2002/05 -
Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life
Author Linda Elder , Richard W. Paul
Critical Thinking is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, and as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and lover. Discover the core skills of effective thinking; then analyze your own thought processes, identify weaknesses, an....
Release Date 2002/06 -
Infectious Greed: Restoring Confidence in America's Companies
Author Kenneth Kim , John Nofsinger
In Infectious Greed, two leading financial experts offer a powerful new explanation of why the corporate scandals happened—and propose market-driven reforms that don’t just “patch” the system but fix it for generations to come. Discover how the system came to provid....
Release Date 2003/01 -
Author Kathy Levinson , Erica Orloff
"Orloff and Levinson guide us in how to actively take control of what we cancontrol with concrete strategies, mindfulness, and respect for ourselves." --EDMUND C. NEUHAUS, Ph.D., HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND MCLEAN HOSPITALLife out of balance? Stop worrying about it. ....
Release Date 2004/03 -
It's Your Move: Dealing Yourself the Best Cards in Life and Work
Author Jill Bremer , Cyndi Maxey
Life is like a card game... and you have the power to deal yourself the winning hand! In It's Your Move, image and self-improvement specialists Cyndi Maxey and Jill Bremer use the analogy of life as a card game to introduce you to powerful strategies for improving ....
Release Date 2003/09 -
The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business
Author Robert Gunther , Colin Crook , Yoram Wind
This book is about getting better at making sense of the world...so you can make decisions that respond to reality, not some obsolete model of reality. Drawing on the latest neuroscientific research and their experience with corporate transformations, Jerry Wind a....
Release Date 2004/07 -
Author Stuart L. Hart - Johnson Graduate School of Management Cornell University
Capitalism is indeed at a crossroads, facing international terrorism, worldwide environmental change, and an accelerating backlash against globalization. Companies are at crossroads, too: finding new strategies for profitable growth is now more challenging. Both set....
Release Date 2005/02 -
Having It All... and Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First
Author D. Quinn Mills , Sasha K. Mattu , Kirstin R. Horn
Working 24x7? Delaying life until it's too late? You have the ability stop!Having it All ... and Making it Work is a fast-paced, easy-to-use book offering you a new pathway towards managing personal life and professional life--without sacrificing either one of them....
Release Date 2004/01 -
Winning Habits: 4 Secrets that Will Change the Rest of Your Life
Author Dick Lyles
4 Simple Secrets of Success...Make Them Work for You!“In Winning Ways, Dick Lyles showed us how to work well with people. Now, in Winning Habits, he gives us the secrets to a lifetime of fulfillment.”—SPENCER JOHNSON Author of the worldwide best seller Who Moved My ....
Release Date 2004/01 -
Author Bloomy Controls Peter A. Blume - President Inc.
Drawing on the experiences of a world-class LabVIEW development organization, The LabVIEW Style Book is the definitive guide to best practices in LabVIEW development.Leading LabVIEW development manager Peter A. Blume presents practical guidelines or “rules” for opti....
Release Date 2007/02 -
Developing Quality Technical Information: A Handbook for Writers and Editors, Second Edition
Author Elizabeth Wilde , Shannon Rouiller , Deirdre Longo , Polly Hughes , Ann Kilty Hernan
"The examples are excellent--right on target and easy to understand and adapt. Even those who don't adopt the entire procedure can profit from the parts, but the greatest value will flow to those who adopt the whole." --Carolyn Mulford, senior writer and editor of ....
Release Date 2004/04 -
No Such Thing as Over-Exposure: Inside the Life and Celebrity of Donald Trump
Author Robert Slater
In the wake of his incredibly successful TV show, The Apprentice, Donald Trump has gone beyond celebrity to become a true legend. He is the billionaire everyone recognizes, one whose name is its own global brand. Slater convinced Trump to give him unprecedented acce....
Release Date 2005/02 -
Writing the Successful Thesis and Dissertation: Entering the Conversation
Author Ph.D. - California State University , Northridge Irene L. Clark
A complete, step-by-step, practical overview of the process of writing successful theses and dissertationsEvery year thousands of graduate students face the daunting–sometimes terrifying– challenge of writing a thesis or dissertation. But most of them have received ....
Release Date 2006/12 -
25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life
Author Richard Paul , Linda Elder
You are what you think! Take control of your thinking...and start living life to the fullest! In just 25 days, you can discover how to cut through lies, gain insight, and make smarter choices in every area of your life—from work and money to your intimate relationsh....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Consumer Gadgets: 50 Ways to Have Fun and Simplify Your Life with Today’s Technology…and Tomorrow’s
Author Nicholas D. Evans
Consumer Gadgets is the easy "how-to" guide to 50 of today's most amazing high-tech innovations -- and tomorrow's. Discover how these breakthrough technologies can enable you to have more fun, simplify your life, and be more productive wherever you are. Nicholas D....
Release Date 2003/03 -
Passion at Work: How to Find Work You Love and Live the Time of Your Life
Author Albion Mark , Kang Lawler
World-renowned speaker and executive Lawler Kang will show how to build a career one can be madly passionate about and create, actualize, and monetize a niche only you can dominate! Kang draws on the profound human stories of those who have followed their passions ....
Release Date 2005/10 -
The Right Decision Every Time: How to Reach Perfect Clarity on Tough Decisions
Author Luda Kopeikina
Drawing on her breakthrough research with 115 CEOs, Luda Kopeikina offers practical, proven techniques for structuring decisions, achieving clarity about the real issues involved, and using that clarity to improve the quality of every decision you make. Kopeikina be....
Release Date 2005/08 -
The Truth About Being a Leader...and Nothing But the Truth
Author Dr. Karen Otazo
When it comes to effective leadership, everyone has an opinion. But you don’t need opinions: you need proven, real-world solutions, based on facts and evidence. That’s what The Truth About Being a Leader delivers: high-power leadership techniques you can use every d....
Release Date 2006/11 -
The Truth About Getting Your Point Across: ...And Nothing but the Truth
Author Lonnie Pacelli
Improving communication skills is the single most powerful step one can take to supercharge a career. What are the best, PROVEN ways to motivate action now, and gain lasting influence in any organization? The Truth About Getting Your Point Across reveals what reall....
Release Date 2006/01 -
Marketing in the Public Sector: A Roadmap for Improved Performance
Author Nancy Lee , Philip Kotler
Praise for Marketing in the Public Sector“Professionally, as an academic turned politician, this book–if published a few years earlier–would have made my life much simpler. This book lays out, in detail with concrete examples, how to conduct a grand plan for change.....
Release Date 2006/10 -
Stress Mastery: The Art of Coping Gracefully
Author Ph.D. LAUREL BRUCATO , Ph.D. DOMINIC BRUCATO , Ph.D. JUAN R. ABASCAL
The creators of a state- of-the-art stress management center combine their decades' of clinical psychology experience to present a complete and concise volume on stress management in the workplace. Their approach incorporates a reader-friendly style with proven exe....
Release Date 2000/10 -
Practical Coach: Management Skills for Everyday Life, The
Author Paula J. Caproni - Ph.D.
Paul Caproni's clearly written, interesting new book will give you ideas, tools, and outstanding practices that can make you a better manager — and improve your life. If you would like to feel more fulfilled with your home life and advance in your career, this insp....
Release Date 2000/11 -
ACE Programmer's Guide, The: Practical Design Patterns for Network and Systems Programming
Author Umar Syyid , James CE Johnson , Stephen D. Huston
If you're designing software and systems that must be portable, flexible, extensible, predictable, reliable, and affordable, this book and the ACE toolkit will enable you to be more effective in all of these areas. Even after spending over a decade developing ACE a....
Release Date 2003/11 -
Real World: Adobe Creative Suite 2
Author Steve Werner , Sandee Cohen
Adobe's Creative Suite offers a powerful unified design environment that includes Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS 2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2 and Acrobat 7.0. Problem is, you've still got to learn the thing, and learn it well: Your job, after all, depends on it. No ....
Release Date 2006/06