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CCDA Official Exam Certification Guide, Third Edition, is a best-of-breed Cisco? exam study guide that focuses specifically on the topics for the DESGN exam. Senior networking consultants Anthony Bruno and Steve Jordan expertly cover the latest exam content, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve your knowledge of Cisco network design. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.
CCDA Official Exam Certification Guide presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. ��Do I Know This Already?�� quizzes open each chapter and allow you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists and concise Foundation Summary information make referencing easy and give you a quick refresher whenever you need it. Challenging chapter-ending review questions help you assess your knowledge and reinforce key concepts.
The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful testing engine that allows you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a topic-by-topic basis, presenting question-by-question remediation to the text.
Well regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this book helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.
CCDA Official Exam Certification Guide, Third Edition, is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.
A. Anthony Bruno, CCIE? No. 2738, is a senior principal consultant with British Telecom with more than 17 years experience in the internetworking field. He has consulted for many enterprise and service-provider customers in the design, implementation, and optimization of large-scale data and IP telephony networks.
Steve Jordan, CCIE No. 11293, is a senior consultant with British Telecom with more than 11 years of experience in internetworking. He has extensive experience with large-scale data-center environments and has designed and implemented various network solutions in the manufacturing, telecommunication, and transportation industries.
This official study guide helps you master all the topics on the DESGN exam, including
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WAN design
IPv4 and IPv6
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RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, and IS-IS
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Security management, technologies, and design
Voice architectures and IP telephony design
Network management protocols
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The CD-ROM contains an electronic copy of the book and more than 200 practice questions for the DESGN exam, all available in study mode, test mode, and flash card format.
This volume is part of the Exam Certification Guide Series from Cisco Press?. Books in this series provide officially developed exam preparation materials that offer assessment, review, and practice to help Cisco Career Certification candidates identify weaknesses, concentrate their study efforts, and enhance their confidence as exam day nears.
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Linux+ Certification Study Guide (c) by McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
The type of the release is: eBook
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Andrew Radford “English Syntax: An Introduction"
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This abridged version of Radford's Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English offers a concise, accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. Assuming little or no prior grammatical knowledge, it leads students through a range of topics in English syntax, beginning at an elementary level and progressing in stages towards more advanced material. An extensive glossary is included and each chapter contains a workbook section with "helpful hints", exercises, and model answers, suitable for class discussion and self-study.
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Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership and enjoys the reverence of academics, executives, and management consultants. It has been the frequent publishing home for well known scholars and management thinkers, among them Clayton M. Christensen, Peter F. Drucker, Michael E. Porter, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Gary Hamel, C.K. Prahalad, Robert S. Kaplan, Robert H. Schaffer and others. Management and business concepts and terms such as "Balanced scorecard," "Core competence," "Strategic intent," "Reengineering," "Globalization," "Marketing myopia," and "Glass ceiling" were first given prominence in HBR's pages. Its worldwide English-language circulation is 240,000, and there are 11 licensed editions of the magazine, including two Chinese-language editions, a German edition, a Brazilian (Portuguese-language) edition, and an English-language South Asia edition. The magazine is editorially independent of Harvard Business School. It is not peer reviewed.
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Now you can get the most out of your Mac, whether it’s an iMac, MacBook, or Mac mini. How to Do Everything: Mac shows you how to set up and customize your Mac and use all of the built-in tools and applications, such as iTunes, Mail, Safari, and the iLife and iWork suites. The revolutionary new features available in Mac OS X Leopard are also covered, such as Quick Look, Time Machine, and Spaces. Plus, you’ll get details on hardware and peripherals, networking, troubleshooting, and maintenance. This is your must-have Mac guide!
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Put the essential concepts and techniques of digital compositing to work for you without the need of a single mathematicalvocabulary
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Build and maintain a converged multimedia network environment
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Master the Signal Processing Concepts and Techniques Needed to Design and Operate Any Wireless Communications Network Signal Processing for Wireless Communications offers communications engineers an application-focused guide to the essential concepts and techniques of wireless signal processing. This comprehensive reference examines the role that key algorithms and standard migration paths play in the design and day-to-day operations of today’s state-of-the-art wireless networks.
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An in-depth guide to creating world-class Business Intelligence solutions
This comprehensive volume covers every aspect of PerformancePoint 2007, the latest in Microsoft’s line of Business Intelligence applications. You will learn to collect and warehouse corporate data, perform fiscal analysis, distribute dynamic reports across the enterprise, and forecast business trends.
Business Intelligence with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint 2007 provides full details on creating scorecards, dashboards, and analytics and shows how to integrate PerformancePoint with Microsoft Office 2007 and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. You will get full coverage of the cutting-edge financial planning, reporting, security, and delivery tools available in PerformancePoint 2007.
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This book provides detailed information on installing, using, and administering openSUSE. You’ll learn how to unleash the vast array of software productsworkstation, or as a powerful server. included in openSUSE so that you can use it as a desktop computer, as a professional
openSUSE Linux Unleashed includes a broad range of coverage: from using software you need everyday–such as email clients, web browsers, and productivity software including the OpenOffice.org productivity suite–to configuring and administering a wide range of network and server products, such as the Apache web server, and MySQL database.
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DC Comics, like most of the comic book industry, owed a great deal of its early success to superheroes. But the long underwear guys were falling out of public favor by the mid-1940s, and DC, which had pioneered in that genre, was, like most other comics publishers, trying various types of comics, hoping for something to replace the costumed characters with. They brought out two new funny animal anthologies in the early part of 1946. Nutsy Squirrel starred in one of them. The other, Animal Antics (first issue dated March-April of that year) introduced The Raccoon Kids.The kids started out in the back pages, with the cover and lead story featuring a rabbit prestidigitator named Presto Pete. The Raccoons replaced Pete for one issue in #3 (July), then took over the cover and lead spot permanently, starting with #6 (January, 1947). The artist who handled them, not just at first but almost exclusively throughout their run, was Otto Feuer (The Dodo & the Frog). The writing credit is less certain, but they're believed to have been co-created by Sy Reit (Casper the Friendly Ghost). The same team (definitely Feuer on the art, probably Reit on the script) was also responsible for Peter Porkchops.Rudy and Rollo Raccoon were typical boys, only raccoons instead of humans, about 8 years old. They were twins, like Heckle & Jeckle or Dover & Clover, but few if any story points were made of their twinhood. They didn't even dress alike. In early stories, their nemesis was Uncle Percy, who frequently played mean tricks on them — but of course, they always managed to avenge themselves with even meaner tricks of their own. Tho supposedly related, Percy didn't look like a raccoon. Maybe he was a short-haired weasel. Later, Percy was dropped from the cast, and the stars were played against a guy closer to their own age, named Muggsy Mole.From the late 1940s to the mid '50s, the DC funny animal anthologies all seemed to follow a similar arc. First, most modified their titles to suggest (without outright claiming) a connection to theatrical animation. Animal Antics became Movietown's Animal Antics with its 24th issue (February, 1950). Then all were re-titled after their lead features. Movietown's Animal Antics became Raccoon Kids with its 52nd issue (October, 1954).Then they all began faltering. Raccoon Kids was published only a couple of times in 1957. Then they all ended. The last issue was #64 (November of that year).After that, it's been as close to oblivion for them as most DC characters ever get. Like the majority of DC's funny animals, the Raccoon Kids appeared in the Funny Stuff Stocking Stuffer special (1985). That, and sporadic reprints are about the extent of their post-series existence.
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Channing C. Ahn “Transmission Electron Energy Loss Spectrometry in Materials Science and the EELS Atlas"
Wiley-VCH | 2005-01-04 | ISBN: 3527405658 | PDF | 472 pages | 11,3 Mb
This book package provides a reference on electron energy loss spectrometry (EELS) with the transmission electron microscope, an established technique for chemical and structural analysis of thin specimens in a transmission electron microscope. Describing the issues of instrumentation, data acquisition, and data analysis, the authors apply this technique to several classes of materials, namely ceramics, metals, polymers, minerals, semiconductors, and magnetic materials.
Transmission electron microscopy is a workhorse for characterizing the microstructure of materials that range from polymers to superconductors. Electron energy loss spectrometry is a relatively new addition to the group of diffraction, imaging and spectroscopic techniques available for the study of materials with the transmission electron microscope. Many of themethods that are required to convert from an understanding of electron scattering physics to a new understanding of a material can be daunting. Transmission Electron Energy Loss Spectrometry in Materials Science is the result of a growing demand from materials scientists to combine analytical tools and problem-solving approaches. We hope that this emphasis on applications can help to shorten the learning curve necessary to achieve productive EELS experiments Rapid changes in instrumentation and the associated analytical methods require
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The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
Cambridge University Press | 2005-01-17 | ISBN: 052152069X | 468 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in Arabic philosophy, provides an introduction to the field by way of chapters devoted to individual thinkers (such as al-Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes) or groups, especially during the 'classical' period from the ninth to the twelfth centuries.
The history of philosophy in Arabic goes back almost as far as Islam itself. Philosophically interesting theological disputes were underway within two centuries of the founding of Islam in 622 C.E. At the same time some important scientific, medical, and philosophical texts from the Greek tradition were being studied and used in the Syriac tradition, with Aristotelian logic being employed in theological debates. By the third century of the Muslim calendar (the ninth
century C.E.), a great translation movement centered inBaghdad was in full bloom. In response, Muslim, Christian, and Jewish philosophers writing in Arabic began to make important contributions to a tradition of philosophizing that continues alive to the present day.
Debates and contests on logic, grammar, theology, and philosophy by Muslims, Christians, and Jews took place at the caliphal court.
The structure and foundation of the cosmos, the natures of entities in the physical world, the relation of human beings to the transcendent divine, the principles of metaphysics, the nature of logic and the foundations of epistemology, and the pursuit of the good life in ethics – in sum, the traditional issues of philosophy, old wine, albeit in new skins – were debated with intensity, originality, and penetrating insight.
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Robert Lafore “Data Structures and Algorithms in Java (2nd Edition) "
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Data Structures and Algorithms in Java, Second Edition is designed to be easy to read and understand although the topic itself is complicated. Algorithms are the procedures that software programs use to manipulate data structures. Besides clear and simple example programs, the author includes a workshop as a small demonstration program executable on a Web browser. The programs demonstrate in graphical form what data structures look like and how they operate. In the second edition, the program is rewritten to improve operation and clarify the algorithms, the example programs are revised to work with the latest version of the Java JDK, and questions and exercises will be added at the end of each chapter making the book even more useful.
Educational Supplement
Suggested solutions to the programming projects found at the end of each chapter are made available to instructors at recognized educational institutions. This educational supplement can be found in the Instructor Resource Center.
This section is intended for teachers and others who want a quick overview of the contents of the book. It assumes you’re already familiar with the topics and terms involved in a study of data structures and algorithms.
The first two chapters are intended to ease the reader into data structures and algorithms as painlessly as possible.
Chapter 1, “Overview,” presents an overview of the topics to be discussed and introduces a small number of terms that will be needed later on. For readers unfamiliar with object-oriented programming, it summarizes those aspects of this discipline that will be needed in the balance of the book, and for programmers who know C++ but not Java, the key differences between these languages are reviewed.
Chapter 2, “Arrays,” focuses on arrays. However, there are two subtexts: the use of classes to encapsulate data storage structures and the class interface. Searching, insertion, and deletion in arrays and ordered arrays are covered. Linear searching and binary searching are explained. Workshop applets demonstrate these algorithms with unordered and ordered arrays.
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John J. Amoss, Dan Minoli “Handbook of IPv4 to IPv6 Transition: Methodologies for Institutional and Corporate Networks "
AUERBACH (December 6, 2007) | ISBN: 0849385164 | PDF | 248 pages | 3,5 Mb
In 2005, the U.S. Government Accountability Office recommended that all agencies begin planning a coherent transition to IPv6. IPv6 will solve the problem of limited IP addresses and improve internetworking capabilities. This promising protocol is gaining momentum and it is only a matter of time before the transition will have to occur globally. The problem is that during the three-to-six year transition period, IPv6 and its predecessor, IPv4, will have to successfully coexist in order to ensure service continuity.
Not only federal agencies, but corporations and institutions must start planning the transition to IPv6 now to maintain the operation, security, and interoperability of their networks.
The implementation of IPv6 is essential to the continued growth of the internet and the development of new applications. The Handbook of IPv4 to IPv6 Transition Methodologies provides a wealth of best practices and procedures that will help corporations plan and implement a smooth transition to IPv6.
The Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is now gaining momentum as an improved network layer protocol. There is much commercial interest and activity in Europe and Asia, and as of press time, there also was some traction in the United States. For example, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced that from October 1, 2003, all new developments and procurements needed to be IPv6-capable; the DoD’s goal was to complete the transition to IPv6 for all intra- and internetworking across the agency by 2008. In 2005, the U.S. General Accountability Office
(GAO) recommended that all agencies become proactive in planning a coherent transition to IPv6. The expectation is that in the next few years a transition to this new protocol will occur worldwide.
IPv6 is considered to be the next-generation Internet Protocol [HUI199701], [HAG200201], [MUR200501], [SOL200401], [ITO200401], [MIL199701], [MIL200001], [GRA200001], [DAV200201], [LOS200301], [LEE200501], [GON199801], [DEM200301], [GOS200301], [MIN200601], and [WEG199901]. The current version of the Internet Protocol, IPv4, has been in use for almost 30
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Teresa Torres-Coronas, Mario Arias-Oliva “E-Human Resources Management: Managing Knowledge People "
Idea Group Publishing | 2004-11-01 | ISBN: 1591404355 | PDF | 296 pages | 2,5 Mb
This book provides a deep discussion about e-HRM issues so the reader can have a thoughtful background about the key role played by those who participate in e-HRM activities. A variety of experiences are provided to involve the reader in real problems an
was released. In the first scene of the movie, Ant Z 4195 is talking to his psychoanalyst and saying: “…and my job, don’t get me started on, cause it really annoys me…I feel physically inadequate, I, I, my whole life I’ve never been able to lift 10 times my own body weight and when you get down to it, handling dirt is…yuck, you know is not my idea of a rewarding career. It’s this whole gung-ho super-organism thing that I, I, you know I can’t get, I try but I
can’t get it. I mean you know, what is it, I’m supposed to do everything for the colony, and what about my needs, what about me? I mean I gotta believe there’s someplace out there that’s better than this! Otherwise I’d just curl up in a larva position and weep! The whole system out there just makes me feel...insignificant!”
Z 4195 is striving to reconcile his own individuality with the communal work of the ant colony. Our unhappy and depressed ant is working for a traditional hierarchical organization, where people are not treated as valuable assets and IT systems are not yet implemented. Even worse, he is currently working for an organization that may have neither examined people management practices, nor made a real connection between people and organizational performance.
While this behavior is still prevalent in many of today’s companies, we are presenting a book about e-HRM, about how IT is changing traditional HRM functions, about how e-HRM practices are implemented. Could this be a paradox? We hope so, because as Junipier (1996) pointed out: “Paradox is
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Douglas B. Reeves “The Daily Disciplines of Leadership: How to Improve Student Achievement, Staff Motivation, and Personal Organization"
Jossey-Bass | 2002-11-04 | ISBN: 0787964034 | PDF | 272 pages | 2 Mb
The Daily Disciplines of Leadership is a comprehensive and down-to-earth manual for school leaders that addresses the daunting challenges that today's principals, superintendents, and teacher-leaders face on a daily basis. Written by Douglas Reeves— a leading authority on academic standards, performance assessment, and accountability— the information in this book is based on his extensive experience working with educators, administrators, and school board members from across the country and internationally. Reeves discusses the basic purpose of leadership, presents four key leadership archetypes, and offers practical recommendations for action. Covering a wide range of topics— from accountability systems to personal communications— this book will serve as the 'go to' resource for novice and seasoned school leaders alike
Here is what I know about you. Your time is limited; each day you face competing demands not only for scarce financial resources but also for one of the most important resources of all, the time and attention of leadership. Moreover, your choices are rarely clear-cut
and you must confront the fog of ambiguity regularly. You are weary of the hype and tripe that masquerades as educational policy analysis, and you are intolerant of one more fact-free debate. You know that the worlds of education, business, government, and nonprofit organizatio ns can all contribute wisdom to one another, even while you acknowledge that the challenges of all these sectors differ. Youare frustrated and sometimes angry at the pabulum that passes for
educational research, and you get very, very cranky with the patronizing sophistry of the purveyors of doom as well as with bland reassurances that all is well. You can handle the truth, and you prefer it with unvarnished complexity and ambiguity. You know, in sum, that Einstein was right when he said that things should be made as simple as possible, but not more so.
How can this book help you? You will learn five critical insights that every senior leader and policy maker must have. First, you will learn how to create change even if there is initially no consensus in favor of change. Second, you will create a leadership profile of yourself, using the Leadership and Learning (L2) Matrix. In this way, you systematically analyze the decisions that you and other leaders make so that you focus your energies and those of your organization
on the practices with the greatest impact on success. In this way,
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Organizational and Educational Change
Lawrence Erlbaum | 2002-07-01 | ISBN: 0805834095 | 312 pages | PDF | 16,5 MB
Jean M. Bartunek, the 2001-2002 President of the Academy of Management, has written an excellent scholarly book on organizational and educational change. Using a joint insider/outsider approach, this book tells the story of a change agent group--a group of teachers--that was creating change in its organization setting, a Network of Independent Schools. The group's focus was on empowerment and professional development for teachers in the Network. The book describes virtually everything that happened in the group over its first seven years and summarizes what happened during its final two years. It explores the identity, work, and evolution of change agent groups in organizations, with particular emphasis on teachers and educational change. Through the book's extensive quotations and narrative account, the reader is enabled to enter into the world of the teacher group studied over the course of its nine-year history.
In addition, the book includes analysis of the underlying processes involved in the change, focusing on the change agent group's identity, its actions and relationships with stakeholders as they jointly evolved over time, and their impacts on the vitality of the change effort. It contributes a new understanding of fundamental processes involved in organizational change, especially when viewed from the perspective of change agents. In addition, the book provides practical implications for change agents, specifically change agents in schools. As such, this account will be useful for graduate students and researchers in organizational change, educational leadership, and professional development. It is a part of Lawrence Erlbaum Associates growing series in organization management.
Organizational change initiatives are frequently led by small groups of organization members. In Quality of Work Life and similar organizational involvement initiatives, for example, task forces composed of managers and hourly employees have typically led the change initiative (Moch &
Bartunek, 1990). In schools, small leadership teams help create professional communities and school improvement initiatives (Scribner, Cockrell, Cockrell, & Valentine, 1999). Organizational transformation efforts are typically led by groups of top managers (Nutt & Backoff, 1997). Organizational task forces play a leadership role in reengineering efforts (Hammer & Champy, 1994). In shared governance initiatives in hospitals, groups of nurses typically lead the change project (Rousseau & Tijoriwala, 1999). Small groups lead diversity initiatives in organizations (Alderfer, Tucker, Alderfer, & Tucker, 1988; Friedman, 1996).
Small pilot groups typically lead organizational learning initiatives (Roth & Kleiner, 2000; Senge et al., 1999). Small groups of organization members even lead large group interventions
(Bunker & Alban, 1996). Small groups that initiate and lead organizational change efforts are often in existence for several years, including rotation and replacement of their membership.
The experiences of groups of organizational members leading change efforts, especially groups that endure over several years, have received almost no scholarly attention. Rather, attention typically is paid primarily to the overall outcomes of change efforts, without specific attention to the change agents. This is problematic. Change agent groups' understandings of the
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Dr. Shel Leanne "How to Interview Like a Top MBA: Job-Winning Strategies From Headhunters, Fortune 100 Recruiters, and Career Counselors"
McGraw-Hill (2003-12-26) | ISBN:007141827X | 256 Pages | PDF | 1.6 Mb
The interview strategies that help graduates of the nation's top business schools get the best jobs with the highest salaries
Interviewing for a job is more than answering questions. The most successful candidates are those who've done their homework, who come prepared with polished answers for every question, and who know how to steer the conversation where they want it to go. Now professional career coach Shelly Leanne--a Harvard graduate--teaches job seekers proven interview techniques taught at the nation's top business schools. How to Interview Like a Top MBA arms job seekers with:
* Insights and advice from top corporate executives, headhunters, and MBA program administrators
* Worksheets, charts, diagrams, and other valuable tools for creating a customized interview strategy and plan of action
* Valuable lessons on how to read interviewer signals, take control of an interview, turn weaknesses into strengths, ask the right questions, and much more
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J. C. C. McKinsey “Introduction to the Theory of Games "
Dover Publications | 2003-04-25 | ISBN:0486428117 | PDF | 382 pages | 8,9 Mb
One of the classic early monographs on game theory, this comprehensive overview of the mathematical theory of games illustrates applications to situations involving conflicts of interest, including economic, social, political, and military contexts. Appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses; advanced calculus a prerequisite. Includes 51 figures and 8 tables.1952 edition.
One of the classic early monographs on game theory, this comprehensive overview of the mathematical theory of games illustrates applications to situations involving conflicts of interest, including economic, social, political, and military contexts. Appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses; advanced calculus a prerequisite. Includes 51 figures and 8 tables.1952 edition.
One of the classic early monographs on game theory, this comprehensive overview of the mathematical theory of games illustrates applications to situations involving conflicts of interest, including economic, social, political, and military contexts. Appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses; advanced calculus a prerequisite. Includes 51 figures and 8 tables.1952 edition.
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Richard Barrett "Building a Values-Driven Organization: A Whole System Approach to Cultural Transformation"
Butterworth-Heinemann (2006-03-15) | ISBN 0750679743 | 280 Pages | PDF | 1.1 Mb
Richard Barrett, author of the best-selling book Liberating the Corporate Soul, presents his new thinking Based on his experience working with over 1,000 organizations in 32 countries on cultural transformation for the values-driven organization. He presents a whole system approach to cultural transformation, showing organizations how they can change their culture to become values-driven organizations that support their employees, their customers, their partners, their leaders, and ultimately drive effectiveness and profit.
*New thinking from best-selling author on the value-driven organization
*Integrates cutting-edge technologies available to companies on the web
*Integrates many methodologies into a whole system approach to cultural transformation
One of the many things that impressed me about Richard’s last book, Liberating the Corporate Soul: Building a Visionary Organization, was the epigraph written by the late Willis Harman, who was co-founder of the World Business Academy.Willis wrote:
Business has become the most powerful institution on the planet. The dominant institution in any society needs to take responsibility for the whole. But business has not had such a tradition. This is a new role, not well understood or accepted. Built on the concept of capitalism and free
enterprise from the beginning was the assumption that the actions of the many units of individual enterprise, responding to market forces and guided by the “invisible hand” of Adam Smith, would somehow add up to desirable outcomes. But in the last decade of the twentieth century, it has become clear that the “invisible hand” is faltering. It depended on a
consensus of overarching meanings and values that is no longer present.
So business now has to adopt a tradition it has never had throughout the entire history of capitalism: to share responsibility for the whole. Every decision that is made, every action that is taken, must be viewed in light
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Linux+ Certification Study Guide
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (August 27, 2007) | 1038 pages | ISBN:007148874X | 17 Mb
The most exam-focused CompTIA Linux+ study guide available This fully integrated study system delivers trusted and up-to-date coverage of the newly revised CompTIA Linux+ certification exam. Featuring more than 200 review questions, step-by-step exercises, and in-depth explanations, this is the only study guide to include platform-independent practice exams. The CD-ROM contains sample questions, video training, and more.
Congratulations on your decision to become Linux+ certified! By purchasing this book, you’ve taken the first step toward earning one of the hottest certifications around.
Being Linux+ certified provides you with a distinct advantage in today’s IT job market.
When you obtain your Linux+ certification, you prove to your employer, your co-workers, and to
yourself that you truly know your stuff with Linux.
This is a big issue. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to interview a number of job applicants for open positions in my organization. I learned early on that you can’t rely on the Skills and Knowledge section of an applicant’s résumé to get an accurate picture of what they can and can’t do. Case in point: Back in the late 1990s my group had a position open that required an exceptionally strong background in computer hardware and networking. The job posting listed “extensive background with computers and networking” as one of the requirements for the position.
One of the candidates I interviewed claimed in her résumé to have an extensive background in these areas. In fact, during the interview she claimed to be an expert in the field. I have to admit, her résumé did look impressive.
However, as the interview progressed I began to have some doubts. This person just didn’t speak or act like a true techie, so I decided to give a little test. I asked her to connect an Iomega Jazz drive to the external SCSI port on a workstation. A pretty easy task for an expert, right? Well, she couldn’t do it. In fact, she didn’t even know where to begin.
To make a long story short, upper management eventually hired this applicant in spite of my objections. It wasn’t a good situatio
