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Posted: March 14th, 2008, 12:37pm CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 1578514878
Paperback: 224 pages
Data: February 11, 2002
Format: PDF
Description: When we think of great leaders, it's usually the charismatic, globally influential Churchill, Patton, Jack Welch who spring to mind. But as Harvard Business School professor Badaracco (Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right) correctly points out, everyday leadership is not so dramatic, and daily leadership decisions are rarely carried out at the top of an organization. Badaracco focuses here is on helping the middle- and senior-level managers who make the ordinary decisions that ultimately determine an organization's success. As he puts it: "What usually matters are careful, thoughtful, small, practical efforts by people working far from the limelight. In short, quiet leadership is what moves and changes the world." Out of a four-year study of these real-life leaders, Badaracco describes eight strategies for making effective leadership decisions in murky situations where the "right" thing is far from obvious. The strategies range from the commonsensical (truly examine the question at hand; don't ignore corporate politics) to the counterintuitive (don't expect to be wholly altruistic and accept that some of your motives are self-interested; try not to make important decisions as quickly as possible). Badaracco presents each principle with a brief introduction, followed by a case study and summary of the lessons to be learned. The sum is a useful checklist middle-level managers can put to work immediately.
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Posted: March 14th, 2008, 12:30pm CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: American Management Association; 1st edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0814407579
Paperback: 288 pages
Data: November 2002
Format: PDF
Description: The future of business growth is in the partnerships that companies and their executives form. Partnering explains how critical it is for business leaders to "partner" effectively, and features original contributions from more than 30 thought leaders, including such luminaries as Ken Blanchard, Jim Kouzes and Brian Tracy. Topics cover:
* Ken Blanchard on situational leadership * Beverly Kaye on building, living, and leaving a legacy for the organization * Kevin Cashman's Five Touchstones of Authentic Partnering Leadership * Robert Kaplan on the Balanced Scorecard for leadership * R. Roosevelt Thomas on fostering trust and resonance through diversity * Jim Kouzes on building cultures of collaboration * Brian Tracy on the importance and power of focus * Jon Katzenbach on where team performance fits in the balanced leadership approach
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Posted: March 14th, 2008, 12:26pm CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Kogan Page
Language: English
ISBN: 0749436972
Paperback: 272 pages
Data: May 2002
Format: PDF
Description: Jo Owen is currently leading a business-to-business start-up in financial services, but he has spent 20 years working for some of the best (and worst) companies in the world. These include Andersen Consulting, Apple Computers, Cap Gemini, BT, Barclays, Halifax, and Merrill Lynch. His experience crosses industries and continents, has required working from the boardroom to the mail room and forms the basis for this enlightening book.
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Posted: March 14th, 2008, 12:21pm CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Kogan Page
Language: English
ISBN: 0749444908
Paperback: 304 pages
Data: February 1, 2006
Format: PDF
Description: "Kalff lucidly analyses the fundamental shortcomings of the Anglo-Saxon business culture and sketches the contours of a strongly competitive European alternative. A must-read." -- Fons Trompenaars, CEO Trompenaars/Hampden-Turner and author of Business across Cultures
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Posted: March 14th, 2008, 12:02pm CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Sams
Language: English
ISBN: 0672327910
Paperback: 528 pages
Data: September 2, 2005
Format: CHM
Description: Oracle Database 10g Insider Solutions is a must-have reference guide for all Oracle professionals. It provides much-needed information on best practices, tips, and techniques in debugging, installation, deployment, and tuning of the Oracle 10g database. You can draw upon the experience and knowledge of these authors to find creative ways to put your Oracle database to work. The authors will also address common and not-so-common installation concerns, database administration, development, and tuning. Oracle Database 10g Insider Solutions will bring you the insider information that you can't get anywhere else.
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Posted: March 14th, 2008, 11:56am CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0471623792
Paperback: 294 pages
Data: June 7, 2000
Format: PDF
Description: Object-oriented (OO) technology is an integral part of computer communications and multimedia service provisioning. Covering all areas related to OO programming in telecommunications applications, this book offers both theoretical and practical aspects of OO technology. Readers will find comprehensive coverage is included on broadband, intelligent networks, and machine independent code.
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Posted: March 14th, 2008, 11:50am CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Language: English
ISBN: 0131487876
Paperback: 432 pages
Data: August 1, 2004
Format: PDF
Description: Now that open source software is blossoming around the world, it is crucial to understand how open source licenses work—and their solid legal foundations. Open Source Initiative general counsel Lawrence Rosen presents a plain-English guide to open source law for developers, managers, users, and lawyers. Rosen clearly explains the intellectual property laws that support open source licensing, carefully reviews today’s leading licenses, and helps you make the best choices for your project or organization. Coverage includes:
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Posted: March 14th, 2008, 11:42am CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 2 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0596007973
Paperback: 844 pages
Data: March 18, 2005
Format: CHM
Description: Portable, powerful, and a breeze to use, Python is the popular open source object-oriented programming language used for both standalone programs and scripting applications. It is now being used by an increasing number of major organizations, including NASA and Google. Updated for Python 2.4, The Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition offers a wealth of useful code for all Python programmers, not just advanced practitioners. Like its predecessor, the new edition provides solutions to problems that Python programmers face everyday. It now includes over 200 recipes that range from simple tasks, such as working with dictionaries and list comprehensions, to complex tasks, such as monitoring a network and building a templating system. This revised version also includes new chapters on topics such as time, money, and metaprogramming. Here's a list of additional topics covered:
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Posted: March 14th, 2008, 6:16am CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: O'Reilly; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0596003838
Paperback: 256 pages
Data: April 1, 2003
Format: CHM
Description: RSS is sprouting all over the Web, connecting weblogs and providing news feeds. Originally developed by Netscape in 1999, RSS (which can stand for RDF Site Summary, Rich Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format that allows web developers to describe and syndicate web site content. Using RSS files allows developers to create a data feed that supplies headlines, links, and article summaries from a web site. Other sites can then incorporate them into their pages automatically. Although RSS is in widespread use, people struggle with its confusing and sometimes conflicting documentation and versions. Content Syndication with RSS is the first book to provide a comprehensive reference to the specifications and the tools that make syndication possible.
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Posted: March 14th, 2008, 6:11am CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Language: English
ISBN: 0444500308
Paperback: 662 pages
Data: June 1, 1999
Format: PDF
Description: This book covers applications of computational techniques to biological problems. These techniques are based by an ever-growing number of researchers with different scientific backgrounds - biologists, chemists, and physicists.
The rapid development of molecular biology in recent years has been mirrored by the rapid development of computer hardware and software. This has resulted in the development of sophisticated computational techniques and a wide range of computer simulations involving such methods. Among the areas where progress has been profound is in the modeling of DNA structure and function, the understanding at a molecular level of the role of solvents in biological phenomena, the calculation of the properties of molecular associations in aqueous solutions, computationally assisted drug design, the prediction of protein structure, and protein - DNA recognition, to mention just a few examples. This volume comprises a balanced blend of contributions covering such topics. They reveal the details of computational approaches designed for biomoleucles and provide extensive illustrations of current applications of modern techniques.
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