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Author Max Shron
Understanding how to turn numbers into usable insights is a significant challenge for those who work with data on a daily basis. Thinking with Data provides a concise framework and key insights to help data people uncover the real problem to be solved as well as how....
Release Date 2014/01 -
After Action Review: Continuous Improvement Made Easy
Author Artie Mahal
Master the After Action Review (AAR) to improve the outcome of any personal or professional activity. From the beginning of time, humans have survived and thrived by learning from their experiences – both good and bad – and then tweaked their actions for better res....
Release Date 2018/02 -
Author Walid Besbes , Diala Dhouib , Niaz Wassan
Solving Transport Problems establishes fundamental points and good practice in resolving matters regarding green transportation. This is to prompt further research in conveyance issues by providing readers with new knowledge and grounds for integrated models and sol....
Release Date 2020/02 -
Can Your Beliefs Impact Your Health and Well-Being?
Author The Chicago Social Brain Network
This Element is an excerpt from Invisible Forces and Powerful Beliefs: Gravity, Gods, and Minds (9780137075454) by the Chicago Social Brain Network. Available in print and digital formats.The new science of belief: what science is learning about the close interrelat....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work For You
Author Ph.D. Paula Caligiuri
You can design your own career, so you love what you do! You only have one life: why settle for anything less? Whether you’re an entrepreneur or working within a company, Get a Life, Not a Job shows how you can make it happen for yourself. You’ll learn how to move t....
Release Date 2010/03 -
Thinking on the Web: Berners-Lee, Gödel and Turing
Author Craig F. Smith , H. Peter Alesso
What Is Thinking? What is Turing's Test? What is Gödel's Undecidability Theorem? How is Berners-Lee's Semantic Web logic going to overcome paradoxes and complexity to produce machine processing on the Web? Thinking on the Web draws from the contributi....
Release Date 2008/11 -
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The Problem-Solving, Problem-Prevention, and Decision-Making Guide
Author Bob Sproull
Each day, managers and employees are confronted with a plethora of real problems and decisions that are creating issues suchs as lost throughput, poor quality, personnel problems, and material shortages.How they approach these daily quandaries will determine how su....
Release Date 2018/03 -
From Computing to Computational Thinking
Author Paul S. Wang
Computational Thinking (CT) involves fundamental concepts and reasoning, distilled from computer science and other computational sciences, which become powerful general mental tools for solving problems, increasing efficiency, reducing complexity, designing procedur....
Release Date 2017/07 -
The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
“To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves. . . . ‘The body is not an apology' is the mantra we should all embrace.”—Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum Huma.... -
Intrinsic Motivation at Work, 2nd Edition
Author Kenneth W. Thomas
What motivates people to do their best work in any endeavor they undertake? Management theory and practice has traditionally focused on elements that Kenneth Thomas calls 'extrinsic motivators': pay, benefits, status, bonuses, commissions, pension plans, expense b....
Release Date 2009/04 -
Time & Stress Management for Rookies
Author LID Editorial
Everyone, everywhere, needs to get things done. And most of us just about manage it – or most of the time, anyway. But wouldn’t it be great to be one of those people who always seem to be right on top of things – ahead of the game and never in a panic? With Time &am....
Release Date 2014/06 -
The Legacy of Arthur Andersen: A Model for Excellence
Author Francisco López , Carmelo Canales
Most people recognize that Arthur Andersen was a great Firm. For the authors, it was perhaps the greatest. Its fulminating, unexpected and shameful collapse, with the Enron case and ensuing disappearance from the market, leaving a cloud of local professional firms, ....
Release Date 2011/07 -
Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose
Author David B. Wolfe , Rajendra S. Sisodia , Jagdish N. Sheth
Today’s best companies get it. From Costco® to Commerce Bank, Wegmans to Whole Foods®: they’re becoming the ultimate value creators. They’re generating every form of value that matters: emotional, experiential, social, and financial. And they’re doing it for all the....
Release Date 2007/01 -
Building Your I.T. Career: A Complete Toolkit for a Dynamic Career in Any Economy, Second Edition
Author Matthew Moran
Building Your I.T. CareerA Complete Toolkit for a Dynamic Career in Any EconomySecond EditionBreak in. Move up. Earn more. Stay on top.Get the I.T. career edge you need right now!“They” say it’s tougher now to build a great career in I.T. “They” complain about outso....
Release Date 2013/02 -
An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity: Think More, Think Better
Author Joe Y. F. Lau
This book is about the basic principles that underlie critical thinking and creativity. The majority of the content is on critical thinking since more topics are naturally involved and since they can be discussed readily and systematically. The last few chapters are....
Release Date 2011/04 -
Great Answers to Tough Questions at Work
Author Michael Dodd
The essential guide to turning tough questions into positive opportunitiesDifficult questions can be thrown at you from your first job interview through to challenges you get when you’ve made it to the top. If you find yourself on the firing line on a regular or oc....
Release Date 2016/07 -
No Excuses: How You Can Turn Any Workplace into a Great One
Author Michael Burchell , Jennifer Robin
The business leader's guide to creating a great workplace from the Great Place to Work InstituteIn this follow-up guide to The Great Workplace, experts from Great Place to Work® Institute, Inc. reveal the most common excuses managers use for why they can't create ....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Put Happiness to Work: 7 Strategies to Elevate Engagement for Optimal Performance
This game-changing “how-to” shows leaders how to increase engagement by harnessing employees’ motivation for happiness.Our efforts to increase employee engagement are failing because employees simply aren’t motivated to improve their engagement. In this illuminating book from Eric Karpinski, manager.... -
Revitalizing Entrepreneurship Education
Author Karen Verduyn , Karin Berglund
Within mainstream scholarship, it’s assumed without question that entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education are desirable and positive economic activities. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches and political-philosophical perspectives, critical en....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Author Ben Crothers
Do you feel like your thoughts, ideas, and plans are being suffocated by a constant onslaught of information? Do you want to get those great ideas out of your head, onto the whiteboard and into everyone else’s heads, but find it hard to start? No matter what level ....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Author Edgar H. Schein
Communication is essential in a healthy organization. But all too often when we interact with people—especially those who report to us—we simply tell them what we think they need to know. This shuts them down. To generate bold new ideas, to avoid disastrous mistakes....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Author Bradley R. Staats
Keep learning, or risk becoming irrelevant.It's a truism in today's economy: the only constant is change. Technological automation is making jobs less routine and more cognitively challenging. Globalization means you're competing with workers around the world. S....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Personality Style At Work: The Secret to Working with (Almost) Anyone
Author Kate Ward
MAKE EVERY WORKPLACE INTERACTION POSITIVE AND PRODUCTIVENamed a “Best Career Book 2012” by FINS Finance“Personality Style at Work provides you with the insight and tools to understand your style and to adapt it to others’ preferences. Implement the concepts in this ....
Release Date 2012/04 -
Retirement Income Sources: New Models for Your Work and Your Life in the New Economy
Author Linda H. Lewis , James W. Walker
This Element is an excerpt form Work Wanted: Protect Your Retirement Plans in Uncertain Times (ISBN: 9780132354646) by James W. Walker and Linda H. Lewis. Available in print and digital formats.From social security to inheritance: how to objectively assess the retir....
Release Date 2010/02 -
How to Make Money Marketing Your Business on LinkedIn
Author Jamie Turner
Discover powerful, proven LinkedIn social networking techniques for attracting new clients and customers!What if you’re not Apple or Nike? What if you’re a CPA, interior designer, real estate agent, architect, consultant, or insurance agent? What if you don’t have a....
Release Date 2010/11