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Many Facets of Leadership, The
Author Albert A. Vicere , Marshall Goldsmith , Beverly Kaye , Vijay Govindarajan
In The Many Facets of Leadership, more than 40 top leadership experts share their insights on every aspect of leadership in the 21st century. This book brings together new ideas and techniques for leading change, promoting learning and innovation, handling complexit....
Release Date 2002/09 -
SyncML®: Synchronizing and Managing Your Mobile Data
Author Phillipe Kahn , Peter Thompson , Apratim Purakayastha , Riku Mettälä , Uwe Hansmann
Discover SyncML, the new global standard for synchronizing virtually any mobile deviceCovers both the technical and business issuesCovers personal and enterprise applications, new mobile services, security, device management, and moreIncludes practical guidance for ....
Release Date 2002/09 -
Author Judith Katz , Frederick Miller
Constant, continuing, and cataclysmic change is causing a major crisis within business organizations today. Faced with constantly advancing technology, unpredictable market shifts, intense global competition, and an increasingly independent "free agent" workfor....
Release Date 2002/06 -
Leadership in Action: The Right Start - A Team's First Meeting is key
Author Sonya Prestridge , Kim Kanaga
A well-planned and well-executed first meeting is crucial to team success. It can create a sense of camaraderie, lay the groundwork on which team members build trust, and clarify the team's mission, goals, and processes.
Release Date 2002/06 -
Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World, Second Edition
Author Charlie Kaufman , Radia Perlman , Mike Speciner
The classic guide to network security—now fully updated!"Bob and Alice are back!"Widely regarded as the most comprehensive yet comprehensible guide to network security, the first edition of Network Security received critical acclaim for its lucid and witty explanati....
Release Date 2002/04 -
Selling Project Management to Senior Executives: Framing the Moves that Matter
Author Pamela Buckle , Kam Jugdev , Connie Delisle , Janice Thomas
"Why is it so difficult to sell project management to senior executives?" and "How do you get them on board?" are the main questions being answered in this pertinent book by Thomas, et al. After years of research, the authors report their findings in Phases I and I....
Release Date 2002/02 -
Programming with Qt, 2nd Edition
Author Matthias Kalle Dalheimer
The popular open source KDE desktop environment for Unix was built with Qt, a C++ class library for writing GUI applications that run on Unix, Linux, Windows 95/98, Windows 2000, and Windows NT platforms. Qt emulates the look and feel of Motif, but is much easier t....
Release Date 2002/01 -
Designing Dynamic Organizations
Author Amy Kates , Diane Downey , Jay Galbraith
Which business structures are best suited to the unpredictable 21st century? How can a company, division, or department reconfigure itself with minimum disruption and maximum impact? Every executive grapples with problems of restructuring--and most need hands-on gui....
Release Date 2001/12 -
Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-Driven Approach
Author Bret Pettichord , James Bach , Cem Kaner
Decades of software testing experience condensed into the most important lessons learned.The world's leading software testing experts lend you their wisdom and years of experience to help you avoid the most common mistakes in testing software. Each lesson is an ass....
Release Date 2001/12 -
How to Form a Team: Five Keys to High Performance
Author Michael Kossler , Kim Kanaga
One of the first steps to take toward increasing team effectiveness is to pay attention to how the team is formed. You can head off most of the problems that beset teams during the formation stage by setting a clear direction, building organizational support, creati....
Release Date 2001/07 -
Author David A. Karp
In an ideal world, an operating system is a collection of software that handles a computer's "dirty work" invisibly, quickly, and most of all, painlessly. For many of us, however, Microsoft Windows exists outside this ideal world. We are annoyed by "personalized M....
Release Date 2001/03 -
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Knowledge Management
Author Barbara Kivowitz , Kathleen Foley Curley
Knowledge about customers, markets, core processes, how things get done, who knows what - is a core business asset. You may have heard of knowledge management. No longer a buzz word, it's becoming mainstream in companies large and small who want to strengthen core ....
Release Date 2001/01 -
e-Business 2.0: Roadmap for Success
Author Marcia Robinson , Ravi Kalakota
Revolutions begin with attacks on the language. Today's managers are bombarded with an alphabet soup of technology acronyms such as CRM, ERP, and SCM. Managers must manage in the fog of this technology revolution. Kalakota and Robinson's book provides a lens for m....
Release Date 2000/12 -
Author David P. Norton , Robert Kaplan
The creators of the revolutionary performance management tool called the Balanced Scorecard introduce a new approach that makes strategy a continuous process owned not just by top management, but by everyone. In The Strategy-Focused Organization, Robert Kaplan and D....
Release Date 2000/09 -
Leadership in Action: Leading Transition: A Talk with William Bridges
Author Michael T. Renn , Karen M Dyer
William Bridges visited our CCL's Greensboro campus and met with then CCL president John Alexander to discuss his ideas from a leadership perspective. This interview presents a part of that talk.
Release Date 2000/02 -
Internalizing Strengths: An Overlooked Way of Overcoming Weaknesses in Managers
Author Robert Kaplan
Because executives tend to be problem solvers, they typically focus on weaknesses when they want to improve their performance. This approach can be helpful but there is another that can be just as effective: recognizing strengths. A senior manager whom the author in....
Release Date 1999/06 -
Avionics Navigation Systems, 2nd Edition
Author Walter R. Fried , Myron Kayton
An indispensable resource for all those who design, build, manage, and operate electronic navigation systemsAvionics Navigation Systems, Second Edition, is a complete guide to the art and science of modern electronic navigation, focusing on aircraft. It covers elect....
Release Date 1997/04 -
Forceful Leadership and Enabling Leadership: You Can Do Both
Author Robert Kaplan
Leaders need to be forceful--to assert themselves and their capabilities and to push others to perform. Leaders also need to be enabling--to tap into and bring out the capabilities of others. The problem is that many executives see forceful leadership and enabling ....
Release Date 1996/05 -
The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System
Author John S. Quarterman - Texas Internet Consulting , Michael J. Karels - Berkeley Sof
This book describes the design and implementation of the BSD operating system--previously known as the Berkeley version of UNIX. Today, BSD is found in nearly every variant of UNIX, and is widely used for Internet services and firewalls, timesharing, and multiproces....
Release Date 1996/04 -
Author Charles J. Palus , Robert E. Kaplan
Senior executives, however, sometimes require a richer feedback experience — one which might also include one or more of the following: detailed verbatim descriptions of performance, observations from family members and friends, psychometric measures of perso....
Release Date 1994/02 -
LATEX Notes: Practical Tips for Preparing Technical Documents
Author Kenneth J. Shultis - Department of Nuclear Engineering , Kansas State University
Just a few years ago, LaTeX set TeX users free. LaTeX liberated them from mundane chores such as formatting and equation numbering, allowing writers to concentrate instead on the document content. Now, to help those who wish to take an extra step beyond the structur....
Release Date 1994/01 -
The Charismatic Leader: Behind the Mystique of Exceptional Leadership
Author Rabindra N. Kanungo , Jay A. Conger
Find out what really makes charismatic leaders tick. Here, author Jay Conger analysis the things leaders do that make their subordinates more self-assured, optimistic and productive. He reveals how the charismatic leader's qualities can revitalize organizations dam....
Release Date 1988/08