The charisma myth is the idea that charisma is a fundamental, inborn qualityyou either have it (Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs, Oprah) or you dont. But thats simply not true, as Olivia Fox Cabane reveals. Charismatic behaviors can be learned and perfected by anyone.
Why is it so difficult to change organizations? What does it really take to make process improvement yield measurable results? For more than 30 years, Donald Riefer has been guiding software teams through the technical, organizational, and people issues that must be managed in order to make meaningful process changesand better products. This practical guide draws from his extensive experience, featuring 11 case studies spanning the public and private sectors and even academia. Each case study illuminates the original conditions; describes options and recommendations; details reactions, outcomes, and lessons learned; and provides essential references and resources.
Set in a Malaysia emerging from the outbreak of racial conflict in 1969, Bitter-Sweet Harvest tells of the difficulties and tensions involved in a marriage between a Malay Muslim and a Chinese Christian. Atmospheric, dramatic, action-packed and intriguing, it is peppered with local flavour evoking the heat, colours and sounds of Southeast Asia. Prepare to be taken on a spell-binding journey through contrasting cultures: from the learned spires of Oxford in England to the east coast of Peninsula Malaysia; from vibrant Singapore to Catholic Rome and developing Indonesia.Bitter-Sweet Harvest is the sequel to the novel Sweet Offerings. The stories can be read in any order and are complete in themselves.
By the end of the Middle Ages, the ius communethe combination of canon and Roman lawhad formed the basis for all law in continental Europe, along with its patriarchal system of categorizing women. Throughout medieval Europe, women regularly found themselves in court, suing or being sued, defending themselves against criminal accusations, or prosecuting others for crimes committed against them or their families. Yet choosing to litigate entailed accepting the conceptual vocabulary of the learned law, thereby reinforcing the very legal and social notions that often subordinated them.
As Chief Inspector Mario Silva has learned, justice is hard to come by in Brazil, so when his niece tells him about a possible genocide deep in the jungle, he agrees to round up his team and charter a plane to Par to check it out.
This volume offers a new, ‘hands-on’ approach to teaching Discrete Mathematics. A simple functional language is used to allow students to experiment with mathematical notations which are traditionally difficult to pick up. This practical approach provides students with instant feedback and also allows lecturers to monitor progress easily. All the material needed to use the book will be available via ftp (the software is freely available and runs on Mac, PC and Unix platforms), including a special module which implements the concepts to be learned. No prior knowledge of Functional Programming is required: apart from List Comprehension (which is comprehensively covered in the text) everything the students need is either provided for them or can be picked up easily as they go along. An Instructors Guide will also be available on the WWW to help lecturers adapt existing courses.
Author Paul Spurgeon, engineer/pump operator with the Denver Fire Department, breaks down into easily learned steps the sometimes difficult-to-understand formulas of hydraulics and pumps, taking care to explain the hows and whys of each formula discussed.
Microeconomics covers core microeconomic principles using a clear and carefully constructed learning framework. The text provides a solid foundation in microeconomic analysis, using mathematical techniques where appropriate. Students also learn how to apply analytical techniques to a range of economic problems. The text introduces the core concepts and techniques in early chapters, and builds upon these fundamentals throughout later chapters. Each chapter contains comprehensive problem sets and exercises, enabling students to put the theories they have learned into practice. In addition, the book is supported by a companion web site containing supplementary resources for lecturers and students. For lecturers these include PowerPoint slides and answers to the book’s many exercises and question sets. Features for students include PowerPoint material designed to aid understanding of graphical arguments used in the text and model answers to some of the exercises.
An expert’s perspective on how competition can make this industry work. There has never been a coherent plan to restructure the electricity industry in the US???until now. Power expert Sally Hunt gets down to the critical lessons learned from the California power crisis and other deregulated markets, in which competition has been introduced properly and successfully.
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build rich, robust , apps that run on smartphones, tablets, and other devices and interact with users in powerful new ways. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master leading-edge practical skills you can use whether you’re developing for the , / , or Android. Discover how to quickly build new mobile apps and upgrade older apps, provide cutting-edge media content, leverage advanced features ranging from geolocation to the semantic web, and even simplify complex back-end development. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll learn how to build complete, professional-quality web solutions with , 4 and , Visual Web Developer 2010. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master the entire process, from site , through data collection, user management through debugging and deployment. Scott Mitchell, editor of top ASP.NET resource site 4GuysFromRolla.com, shows how to use the newest ASP.NET 4 enhancements and make the most of free tools like ASP.NET Ajax and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a strong, practical foundation for success!
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll learn how to build complete, reliable, and modern applications with Visual , 2010. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master the entire process, from navigating , 2010 to deploying finished solutions. You’ll learn how to write efficient object-oriented code; build superior user interfaces; work with graphics, text, and databases; and even control external applications. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a strong, practical foundation for success!
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll learn how to use , to build effective databases, efficiently retrieve your data, and manage everything from , to security! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll learn hands-on through practical examples. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a strong real-world foundation for success. The authors guide you from the absolute basics to advanced techniques – including views, transactions, Web data publishing, and even powerful SQL extensions for , and Microsoft SQL Server!
Demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft Office! Designed to help you practice and prepare for the 2013 PowerPoint , , Specialist (MOS) exam, this all-in-one study guide features: Full, objective-by-objective exam coverage; Easy-to-follow procedures and illustrations to review essential skills; Hands-on practice tasks to apply what you’ve learned; ,
Use the in-depth exam prep, practice, and review to help advance your proficiency with Microsoft Office – and earn the credential that proves it!
Demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft Office! Designed to help you practice and prepare for the 2013 , , , Specialist (MOS) exam, this all-in-one study guide features: Full, objective-by-objective exam coverage; Easy-to-follow procedures and illustrations to review essential skills; Hands-on practice tasks to apply what you’ve learned; Use the in-depth exam prep, practice, and review to help advance your proficiency with Microsoft Office – and earn the credential that proves it!
Demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft Office! Designed to help you practice and prepare for the 2013 , Expert , , Specialist (MOS) exams, this all-in-one study guide features: Full, objective-by-objective exam coverage; Easy-to-follow procedures and illustrations to review essential skills; Hands-on practice tasks to apply what you’ve learned; files included.,
Use the in-depth exam prep, practice, and review to help advance your proficiency with Microsoft Office and earn the credential that proves it!
Understanding your company’s data has never been easier than with Microsoft’s new Power BI package for , 2013. Consisting of four powerful tools – Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query and Power Maps – Power BI makes self-service , intelligence a reality for a wide range of users, bridging the traditional gap between Excel users, business analysts and IT experts and making it easier for everyone to work together to build the data models that can give you game-changing insights into your business.,
Beginning Power BI with Excel 2013 guides you step by step through the process of analyzing and visualizing your data. Daniel R. Clark, an expert in BI training and a regular speaker on these topics, takes you through each tool in turn, using hands-on activities to consolidate what you’ve learned in each chapter.
Startup: An Insider’s Guide to Launching and Running a , is for people who are excellent at something – product or web development, writing code, marketing or selling anything – but who are now toiling for others. Yet they have long had a dream: to take that special skill set and use it, on their own terms, in a startup business. ,
This pattern is romanticized by the , in the form of the ‘tech entrepreneur’ – the guy brainstorming with buddies in a garage who ends up selling his startup for millions. But what is the reality behind stories like that one? For that matter, what mental processes, frames of reference, hard knocks, and lessons learned make up the ‘back story’ behind any startup success? This book not only reveals the actual experience of entrepreneurship, but it provides readers with a set of universal entrepreneurial skills and tools they can use to build a business.
AutoIt is becoming increasingly popular in the system , field as a tool for automating administrative tasks. Although this is one of its more popular uses, you can use AutoIt to automate anything in a , environment. This powerful scripting language can run any program and manipulate keyboard and mouse input. With its RunAs support, administrators can perform unattended installations and configuration changes using embedded administrative privileges.,
This guide teaches you the foundations of the AutoIt v3 language. You will learn about variables and includes, graphical user interfaces, user-defined functions, and conditional and loop statements. You will then apply what you have learned in examples related to the system administration field. The examples in this Short Cut can be used to create anything from a game modification to a logon script that verifies Windows updates.
