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Beyond Generation X

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Can help busy, frustrated managers and supervisors to understand that their views are shared by others in their position.

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Crisp: Building Trust: A Manager's Guide for Business Success (A Fifty-Minute Series Book)

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The concept of trust may, at first glance, seem odd as a component of an effective business strategy. However, trust is at the heart of how we act in many business situations and how we approach trust can be vital to our success. In this book the benefit of trust is explored as is the damage resulting from lack of trust. In addition, you?ll examine the three steps that encourage trust?asking for input and using it; doing what you say you?ll do; and delegating effectively.

Learning Objectives: To explain the concepts of trust, credibility, and mutual understanding. To show the benefits of trust to an organization. To provide strategies for encouraging trust and understanding.

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The Portable MBA in Project Management

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"Unlike most project management books, which focus solely on the nuts and bolts of managing single projects, The Portable MBA in Project Management focuses on the strategy, organization, and processes at work in the three tiers of a successful project-driven organization?the project, the program, and the enterprise. By integrating many critical success factors in this comprehensive guide, Eric Verzuh brings a new vision to the art and science of project management."
?Chris Capossela, General Manager, Microsoft Project

"Verzuh delivers with impact once again. Like his first book, this one is a ?must have? for all professionals in project management. Everyone?from project managers to CEOs of project-based organizations?can?t help but be successful after reading and applying the principles established here. This is truly a significant contribution from a first-rate author."
?Ralph Kliem, author of The Project Manager?s Emergency Kit

"Eric Verzuh has produced another solid, readable book. In the tradition of good project management, he has gone ?cross functional? and added outside expertise to his own impressive knowledge. Project management is about much more than technical tools, and so this book also explains the proper business approaches to running a project-driven organization."
?Dr. Denis F. Cioffi, Director of the Project Management Program at The George Washington University
author of Managing Project Integration

A state-of-the-art education in project management from the leading thinkers in the field:

• Elaine Biech, President and Managing Principal, Ebb Associates
• Robert G. Cooper, President and cofounder, The Product Development Institute
• Denis Couture, President and cofounder, PCI Group
• Deborah L. Duarte, George Washington University
• Randall Englund, Associate, Strategic Management Group
• Robert J. Graham, Senior Associate, Strategic Management Group
• Ned Hamson, strategic innovation consultant
• Samuel J. Mantel Jr., Professor Emeritus, University of Cincinnati
• Jack R. Meredith, Editor in Chief, Journal of Operations Management
• Nancy Tennant Snyder, Vice President for Leadership and Strategic Competency Creation, Whirlpool Corporation
• Eric Verzuh, President, The Versatile Company
• Neal Whitten, President, Neal Whitten Group

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Powerful Project Leadership

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Have you ever worked on a project that ran into serious snags? Or a project that was canceled after significant time and expense? Or one that delivered an acceptable result, yet the people involved would have rather jumped off a cliff than work together again?

How many of these situations were caused, at least in part, by people problems? In Powerful Project Leadership you?ll find innovative approaches to working with people that enable everyone (including you!) to do their best project work. This book will help you acquire a new toolkit for project success. You will find yourself drawing from it often!

Powerful Project Leadership provides:
* An interactive approach ? exercises guide the reader in becoming a powerful project leader.
* Real-life examples that show the reader how to develop and exercise powerful leadership skills
* An effective approach for project managers in identifying and addressing the root causes of problems faced during most work on projects
* A solid integration of hard and soft skills

Use Powerful Project Leadership as a resource to:
* Learn how to pay attention to early signs that something is going wrong on your project
* Develop practical approaches to stubborn, intractable, and utterly predictable problems on projects
* Improve the vital flow of information by addressing human problems and misunderstandings
* Encourage change at a deep level ? within the individual, on the project, and within the organization

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Realizing the Promise of Corporate Portals: Leveraging Knowledge for Business Success

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Thoughtful and provocative, 'Realizing the Promise of Corporate Portals' illustrates the vast potential of corporate portals and what your company can do to implement them for business success. Based on the authors' extensive backgrounds and consulting focused on implementing corporate portals this exciting new book extends IT theory into business strategy.


Terra and Gordon explore the components and architecture of typical corporate portals and fundamental issues in knowledge management. Geared for decision makers at the executive level, this book provides a comprehensive view of the market landscape, powerful and detailed case studies, and collected best practices and lessons learned to help organizations successfully implement corporate portals. The book also includes detailed checklists necessary for selecting and implementing appropriate corporate portal technical solutions.

Learn from their detailed case studies of hugely successful corporate portal implementations, including:
* ADC Telecommunications Inc.
* Bain & Company
* Bank of Montreal
* Context Integration
* Eli Lilly
* Hill & Knowlton
* Nortel Networks
* SERPRO
* Siemens
* Texaco
* Xerox

* Detailed case studies of hugely successful corporate portals and best practices for implementing corporate portals
* Authors' extensive technical backgrounds extends IT theory into business strategy
* Provides guidance for managers when choosing software, consulting services and developing implementation programs

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Virtual Vintage: The Insider's Guide to Buying and Selling Fashion Online

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Vintage clothing has never been more chic, with everyone from celebrity trendsetters to style-conscious professionals searching for wearable treasures from the past. Virtual Vintage is the first and only guide that helps both the novice and the fashion connoisseur evaluate and confidently participate in the thriving vintage marketplace that exists online. No other book explains how to get it, sell it, fix it, or wear it with flair. Authors Linda Lindroth and Deborah Newell Tornello equip readers from head to toe with

? more than 100 chic sites?rated and evaluated
? instructions on contacting sellers
? smart strategies for bidding in online auctions
? advice about evaluating the size, quality, and colors of a garment
? tips for cleaning and repairing vintage items

Whether you?re looking for a 1960s Rudi Gernreich knit, Gucci hipster trousers, a Claire McCardell for Townley shirtwaist, or a Chanel suit in pink wool with black patent-leather trim, Virtual Vintage will help you build a unique and sensational wardrobe.

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Customers Rule! Why the E-Commerce Honeymoon is over and where Winning Businesses Go From Here

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Customers Rule! The high-tech honeymoon is over and customers are choosing the winners today ? and it doesn't matter to them whether those businesses operate out of a storefront or reach them through a computer screen. Any company that's still debating whether the future belongs to traditional bricks-and-mortar stores or the dot-coms is probably already losing the battle.

Retail executives, consultants, and marketing firms alike have been jumping on the e-commerce bandwagon, proclaiming the end of retail as we know it. The numbers tell a different story. It's become clear that the Internet is not a revolution in retail ? it's an evolutionary force and nothing more. No one can deny that the Internet has changed the way we live, communicate, and work, but the Internet is not where the retail war is being waged.

Today's battles are being fought supply chain against supply chain. The weapons are consumer-savvy sales, marketing and fulfillment organizations, multichannel retail, distribution and marketing operations, and yes, the Internet. The mission is complex and demands new skills and strategies, but the goal is a simple one: solving customers' problems better than their competitors and with better-than-current solutions.

Roger Blackwell and Kristina Stephan have spent years watching, analyzing, and advising the players. In Customers Rule! they offer case studies that reveal the inside story of successful operations like Victoria's Secret, L.L. Bean, Nordstrom's, Sherwin-Williams, and a dozen other corporations ? companies that have created a blended strategy that combines the best of online and offline commerce. They also reveal the flaws that made companies like Boo.com, eToys, and Pets.com road kill on the information superhighway.

In Customers Rule! you'll learn about the crucial operational requirements for success in today's hyperaccelerated, hypercompetitive retail environment, discover how to reach online customers (and keep them once you do), observe successful online and offline branding strategies, and see how successful companies are creating customer satisfaction 24/7, 365 days a year. There's much more, but Blackwell and Stephan's principal message is that a blended strategy which preserves the best of the old and takes the best of the new is the surest way to success.

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Malware: Fighting Malicious Code

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Malicious code is a set of instructions that runs on your computer and makes your system do something that you do not want it to do. For example, it can delete sensitive configuration files from your hard drive, rendering your computer completely inoperable; infect your computer and use it as a jumping-off point to spread to all of your buddies' computers; and steal files from your machine. Malicious code in the hands of a crafty attacker is indeed powerful. It's becoming even more of a problem because many of the very same factors fueling the evolution of the computer industry are making our systems even more vulnerable to malicious code. Specifically, malicious code writers benefit from the trends toward mixing static data and executable instructions, increasingly homogenous computing environments, unprecedented connectivity, an ever-larger clueless user base, and an unfriendly world. Skoudis addressed malicious code in just one chapter of his previous book. Here, a dozen chapters focus on one of the most interesting and rapidly developing areas of computer attacks.*Chapter 11, "Defender's Toolbox," rolls together the defensive strategies described in the book.As a bonus, Skoudis gives recipes for creating your own malicious code analysis laboratory using cheap hardware and software.

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Dynamical Systems with Applications using Maple

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"Dynamical Systems with Applications using MAPLE" covers standard material for an introduction to dynamical systems theory. The text begins with a tutorial guide to MAPLE and thereafter is divided into two main areas: continuous systems using ordinary differential equations and discrete dynamical systems. In the first part of the text, differential equations are used to model examples taken from various disciplines, including mechanical systems, chemical kinetics, electric circuits, interacting species, and economics. In the second half, both real and complex discrete dynamical systems are considered and examples are taken from economics, population dynamics, nonlinear optics, and materials science.

Approximately 200 illustrations, over 250 examples, and exercises with solutions play a key role in the presentation. The book has a hands-on approach, using MAPLE as a tool throughout.Common themes such as bifurcation, bistability, chaos, instability, multistability, and periodicity run through several chapters. Some chapters deal with recently published research articles and provide a useful resource for open problems in nonlinear dynamical systems.

The text is aimed at senior undergraduates, graduate students, and working scientists in various branches of applied mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering.

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File System Forensic Analysis

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This is an advanced cookbook and reference guide for digital forensic practitioners. File System Forensic Analysis focuses on the file system and disk. The file system of a computer is where most files are stored and where most evidence is found; it also the most technically challenging part of forensic analysis. This book offers an overview and detailed knowledge of the file system and disc layout. The overview will allow an investigator to more easily find evidence, recover deleted data, and validate his tools. The cookbook section will show how to use the many open source tools for analysis, many of which Brian Carrier has developed himself.

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