Dividing workers into three specific groups--"Saints," "Sinners," and "Save-ables"--this guide to management explains how to get the full potential from one's employees, and includes practical solutions to common problems, case studies, and real-life lessons learned.[...]
When it was announced in late 2000 that Jeff Immelt would be taking the helm of GE, some skeptics were quick to voice their reservations about the future of the company after Jack Welch. Not only were Welch's shoes particularly large ones to fill, but the economy was dallying with recession, China a[...]
Don't just give them customer service.Give them Super Service! For more than a decade, customer service professionals have turned to SuperService for the very best advice on dealing with demanding, dissatisfied, anddownright difficult customers. Now, it has been completely revised and expanded to a[...]
Spark a passion for sailng and the outdoors in your child From the Moonbeam Children's Book Awardsbronze medal winner! Ever since humankind began seafaring, boats and shoreline adventures have produced sturdy, independent, creative, self-reliant kids. From the author of the bestselling Complete Sai[...]
150 two-sided cards help you develop the critical thinking skills necessary to ace the Anesthesiology Oral Boards Take the stress out of anesthesiology oral board preparation by learning how to analyze a complex situation, formulate an organized plan, and communicate it in a way that impresses the e[...]
This title helps to develop and implement an end-to-end IAM Solution. Maintain a high-performance, fully integrated security foundation across your enterprise using the detailed information in this Oracle Press guide. "Designing an IAM Framework with Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite" expl[...]
Based on proven, rock-solid computer incident response plans The Computer Incident Response Planning Handbook is derived from real-world incident response plans that work and have survived audits and repeated execution during data breaches and due diligence. The book provides an overview of attack a[...]
How to separate the news from the noise: what every investor needs to know. There is no shortage of financial advice these days. From cocky cable pundits to nattering news columnists to off-grid online bloggers, there are more so-called experts than ever before - and the noise can be downright deafe[...]
What's the key to sales success? Boldness. "Jeff Shore shows how to gain the essential confidence that is the first step to a great sales career." (Neil Rackham, bestselling author of SPIN Selling). "This book is loaded with great ideas to educate, inspire, and make you unstoppable in sales." (Brian[...]
Minimal technical jargon, step-by-step discussions, and quizzes at the end of each chapter make this an easy-to-understand guide to C++ programming. Quickly learn what a programming language is and the anatomy of C++, then jump right into creating your own programs with expert guidance. Discover fun[...]
You want to fill your company with smart ideas, fill it with great people. In times of boom or bust, it is the people that provide competitive advantage. "Recruiting Excellence" explains how the dynamics of the modern work place have changed, and how this has impacted on recruiting strategies. Split[...]
Presents an account of the author's referee experience: his dealings with the most controversial and volatile players, and his famous bust-ups with Sir Alex Ferguson, Sam Allardyce and others. This is also the story of how he transformed himself from terrace boot-boy to lawman on the pitch: a journe[...]
Hip-hop is now a global multi-billion pound industry. It has spawned superstars all across the world. There have been tie-in clothing lines, TV stations, film companies, cosmetics lines. It even has its own sports, its own art style, its own dialect. It is an all-encompassing lifestyle. But where di[...]
Presents the intriguing story of laser technology development through interviews with the scientists who made history with their groundbreaking research. This book describes a race for innovative laser technologies that resulted in several Nobel Prizes and one of the most bitter patent fights of the[...]
Is your application or Web site ready for prime time? A major revision of a classic reference, "GUI Bloopers 2.0" looks at user interface design bloopers from commercial software, Web sites, Web applications, and information appliances, explaining how intelligent, well-intentioned professionals make[...]
Offers strategy, process, and tactics for creating or revising content for the web and helps you plan, organize, write, design, and test web content that makes web users come back again and again to your site. This title looks at user interface design bloopers from commercial software, web sites, we[...]
Early user interface (UI) practitioners were trained in cognitive psychology, from which UI design rules were based. But as the field evolves, designers enter the field from many disciplines. Practitioners today have enough experience in UI design that they have been exposed to design rules, but it [...]
You're being asked to quantify usability improvements with statistics. But even with a background in statistics, you are hesitant to statistically analyze the data, as you may be unsure about which statistical tests to use and have trouble defending the use of the small test sample sizes associated [...]
This best-selling text is a useful tool for anyone who needs to better their understanding of fiber optics. The book takes a nontheorectical and nonmathematical approach. It conveys the technical details of fibers, describes the tools used to work with them, illustrates and explains the devices used[...]
Using the simple, robust, Python-based Django framework, you can build powerful Web solutions with remarkably few lines of code. In Python Web Development with Django(R), three experienced Django and Python developers cover all the techniques, tools, and concepts you need to make the most of Django [...]
2012 Jolt Award finalist! Pioneering the Future of Software Test Do you need to get it right, too? Then, learn from Google. Legendary testing expert James Whittaker, until recently a Google testing leader, and two top Google experts reveal exactly how Google tests software, offering brand-[...]
Trade more profitably by exploiting Microsoft Excel's powerful statistical and data mining tools: * Uncover subtle anomalies and distortions that signal profit opportunities * Create powerful new custom indicators, alerts, and trading models * Visualize and analyze huge amounts of trading data with [...]
For anyone who has ever used an iPhone or iPad, you know there is a powerful video camera inside that can shoot phenomenal HD video and is incredibly easy to use . But simply shooting video is only one step to visualizing and digitizing your creative efforts. In iPad and iPhone Video, bestselling [...]
Apple's iPad and iPad Mini tablets has been an incredible success and generated a lot of interest from photographers. Instead of hauling a laptop along on vacation or to a photo shoot, a photographer can bring the lightweight iPad and take advantage of its large screen, third-party software and onli[...]