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Key Buildings from Prehistory to the Present
Author Andrew Ballantyne
The latest in this successful series, this book features around 150 of the most important buildings in the history of world architecture—from the pyramids and the Parthenon to some of the most significant works by recent architects. The buildings are organized by t....
Release Date 2012/10 -
Strategic Human Resource Management and Development, 1e
Author Ekta Sharma
"The book discusses in detail the concepts starting from Strategic Human Resource Acquisition to the development and retention of these assets. The book explores how the traditional theories and practices of Human Resource management are responding to emerging tech....
Release Date 2019/08 -
Author Chad Smith , Debra Smith
Implement demand driven smart metrics to drive and sustain dramatic gains in flow and improve ROI performanceWhat if the objective of minimizing unit product cost that is hard coded into all reporting and measurement systems is simply "bad math" that drives decisio....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Human Recognition in Unconstrained Environments
Author Hugo Pedro Proença , Michele Nappi , Maria De Marsico
Human Recognition in Unconstrained Environments provides a unique picture of the complete ‘in-the-wild’ biometric recognition processing chain; from data acquisition through to detection, segmentation, encoding, and matching reactions against security incidents. Co....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Author Lorena Martin
A PRACTICAL, REAL-WORLD GUIDE TO ANALYTICS FOR THE 5 MAJOR SPORTS:FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL, BASEBALL, SOCCER, AND TENNISGAIN A COMPETITIVE EDGE!This is the first real-world guide to building and using analytical models for measuring and assessing performance in the fiv....
Release Date 2016/02 -
Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
Author Bernard Marr
Performance indicators are essential tools which will tell you if your business is on target or veering off course. Using the right indicators will help you deliver the right results. Key Performance Indicators cuts straight to the 75 + KPIs that matter. It explains....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Powerful Performance Management
Author John Mattone
To survive in today’s hypercompetitive marketplace, leaders must find ways to elevate the performance of their employees. By continuously setting higher goals to strive for, strengthening employee competencies via coaching, and providing feedback to employees,....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Author Tara McMullin
Set and achieve your goals in a brand-new way for a more fulfilling lifeIn What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting, celebrated speaker, coach, and author Tara McMullin shows you how to transform the way you set and achieve your goals to create a gentler and m....
Release Date 2022/11 -
The Rules to Break, 2nd Edition
Author Richard Templar
A personal code for living your life your way. From a very young age you've been inundated with other people's well-intended rules. Whether from teachers, friends or parents, these helpful principles and bits of gracious advice are supposed to help you get on in ....
Release Date 2014/08 -
How to Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers: Building a Crack Development Team
Author Patrick McCuller
Want a great software development team? Look no further. How to Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers: Building a Crack Development Team is a field guide and instruction manual for finding and hiring excellent engineers that fit your team, drive your success, an....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Scenario Planning in Organizations
Author Thomas J. Chermack
Scenario planning helps organization leaders, executives and decision-makers envision and develop strategies for multiple possible futures instead of just one. It enables organizations to become resilient and agile, carefully calibrating their responses and adapting....
Release Date 2011/02 -
Working with Economic Indicators
Author Donald N. Stengel
Executives and managers hear or read headlines about recent economic data nearly every business day. Most important economic statistics are the products of programs designed to collect and analyze data to report summary results at regular intervals. Properly interpr....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Human Resource Management in the Knowledge Economy
Author Cyndy Lengnick-Hall , Mark Lengnick-Hall
Offers a fundamentally new conceptual model for the human resource function to meet the challenges of the knowledge economy Provides concrete suggestions for implementing this model, including numerous examples of effective practices from leading-edge firms Synthes....
Release Date 2002/12 -
Corporate Talent Detection and Development
Author Yves Richez
Talent is not a matter of status, nor a sub-component of personality, nor a commodity that can be quantified or measured. This book consists of two parts. The first offers a fertile resource (epistemological and theoretical) to consider the notion of talent, as we....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Learning Science for Instructional Designers
Ensure Your Instructional Design Stands Up to Learning ScienceLearning science is a professional imperative for instructional designers. In fact, instructional design is applied learning science. To create effective learning experiences that engage, we need to know how learning works and what facili.... -
ATD's Handbook for Training and Talent Development
Author Elaine Biech
Start, Build, and Navigate Your Training and TD Career ATD’s Handbook for Training and Talent Development is the premier resource and compendium of everything a training and talent development (TD) professional needs to know to start, build, and navigate a thriving career. Now in its third editio....
Release Date 2022/05 -
Author Gene E. Fusch , Richard C. Gillespie
Imagine your best possible organization: a place where people strive for continuous improvement, communicate clearly and honestly, freely share information, respect their colleagues and leaders, make a difference -- and achieve truly extraordinary levels of performa....
Release Date 2012/05 -
Author Eric Herrenkohl
How to find great employees, make great hires, and take your business to the next levelIt is always easy to find people who want a job, but it's never easy to find and hire A-players. In How to Hire A-Players, consultant Eric Herrenkohl shows owners, executives, an....
Release Date 2010/04 -
Match: A Systematic, Sane Process for Hiring the Right Person Every Time
Author Dan Erling
Hire the right person-every time!Why is it that so many companies accept mediocre hiring results as the norm? The answer is simple. It doesn't occur to them that, in fact, there is a process that virtually guarantees hiring the right person every time. To repeat: t....
Release Date 2010/12 -
Get Things Done: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Can Change
Author Robert Kelsey
Robert Kelsey's What's Stopping You? has become a self-help classic. His What's Stopping You? books have helped thousands of people worldwide overcome their limiting beliefs and bash through their barriers to success. Now Robert is back to help us defeat the obst....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Key Performance Indicators For Dummies
Author Bernard Marr
A complete guide to using KPIs to drive organisational performanceIs your business on track to achieve success? Key Performance Indicators For Dummies covers the essential KPIs that are useful to all kinds of businesses, and includes more than 100 different ways le....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Author Karen Lawson
A ready-to-use toolkit for delivering high-value training in any scenarioThe Trainer's Handbook is a comprehensive manual for designing, developing, and delivering effective and engaging training. Based on the feedback of workshop participants, readers, and instru....
Release Date 2015/12 -
The Truth About Employee Engagement
Author Patrick M. Lencioni
The Truth About Employee Engagement was originally published as The Three Signs of a Miserable Job. A bestselling author and business guru tells how to improve job satisfaction and performance. In his sixth fable, bestselling author Patrick Lencioni takes on a topi....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Albert Einstein, The Human Side
Author Ze'ev Rosenkranz , Banesh Hoffmann , Helen Dukas , Albert Einstein
Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her discovery that scienti....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Author Peter J. Devenyi
A must-read for STEM graduates who aspire to be the technical leaders and executives of our next generation.This book is also for mid-level technical managers who seek to move up the corporate ladder but are not sure how to differentiate themselves from their peers. Pete Devenyi highlights ten capa....
Release Date 2022/03 -
Author N Sun , S Priya , G Srinivasan
Composite Magnetoelectrics: Materials, Structures, and Applications gives the reader a summary of the theory behind magnetoelectric phenomena, later introducing magnetoelectric materials and structures and the techniques used to fabricate and characterize them. Part....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Break the MBA Admissions Barrier, 2nd Edition
Author M. Harindran , Mohit Jain
Break The MBA Admission Barrier: Making It To The World's Best Business Schools provides a simple yet comprehensive approach to coaching in the workplace. It uses a step-by-step process, and in addition, it explains many of the supporting skills su
Release Date 2007/12 -
The Role of the Performance Intervention Specialist—Performance
Author Madelyn R. Callahan
This is the second in a series of four Info-lines looking at the roles involved in the Human Performance Improvement Process. This issue describes the six competencies of the intervention specialist, the types of performance interventions and how to design and devel....
Release Date 1997/12