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Author : Hank Rainwater
Publisher : Apress
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781430208303
This self-help guide is for programmers who need to improve their management and leadership skills.
Author : Geoff Garrett
Publisher : Triarchy Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781908009104
It is well known that in their professional lives most academics and researchers will - like cats - seek to exercise as much independence as possible.In Herding Cats, Geoff Garrett and Graeme Davies combine their top-level experience of leading/managing international academic and research institutions with wisdom gleaned from 50 senior colleagues around the world. They deal with common leadership and management themes, like making tough strategic choices, leading change effectively, dealing with bureaucracy, allocating resources, managing budgets and ensuring effective implementation.Garrett, Davies and their friends paint a picture of the culture of a typical 'cats' environment - replete with remarkable intellects, passion, arguments, politics and prejudice, and where trying to push people to a destination is usually doomed to failure. Herding Cats guides leaders and aspiring leaders in academic and research institutions through the process of learning to accept and embrace the qualities of their 'cats' so they can tempt them to an outcome with agility and success.
Author : Sarah Andersen
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781449493318
". . . author Sarah Andersen uses hilarious (and adorable) comics to illustrate the very specific growing pains that occur on your way to becoming a mature, put-together grownup. Andersen’s spot-on illustrations also show how to navigate this newfound adulthood once you arrive, since maturity is equally as hard to maintain as it is to find … " --The Huffington Post Sarah valiantly struggles with waking up in the morning, being productive, and dealing with social situations. Sarah's Scribbles is the comic strip that follows her life, finding humor in living as an adulting introvert that is at times weird, awkward, and embarrassing. The third collection of Sarah's Scribbles comics includes never-before-published comics and an illustrated essay about struggles with sexism, personal growth, and the rewards and challenges of sharing your creative work with millions of readers online.
Author : Kat Arney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781472910066
The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly or your nose straight. The media tells us that our genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism or Alzheimer's. The cost of DNA sequencing has plummeted from billions of pounds to a few hundred, and gene-based advances in medicine hold huge promise. So we've all heard of genes, but how do they actually work? There are 2.2 metres of DNA inside every one of your cells, encoding roughly 20,000 genes. These are the 'recipes' that tell our cells how to make the building blocks of life, along with myriad control switches ensuring they're turned on and off at the right time and in the right place. But rather than a static string of genetic code, this is a dynamic, writhing biological library. Figuring out how it all works – how your genes build your body – is a major challenge for researchers around the world. And what they're discovering is that far from genes being a fixed, deterministic blueprint, things are much more random and wobbly than anyone expected. Drawing on stories ranging from six toed cats and stickleback hips to Mickey Mouse mice and zombie genes – told by researchers working at the cutting edge of genetics – Kat Arney explores the mysteries in our genomes with clarity, flair and wit, creating a companion reader to the book of life itself.
Author : John Lovett
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472132317
In The Politics of Herding Cats, John Lovett looks at the relationship between media, Congress, and public policy, showing that leaders in Congress under normal circumstances control public policy on issue areas due to their status both within Congress and in the media by and large. When issue coverage on topics increases in media, however, other members seize on the opportunities to engage in the issue and shift public policy away from leader desires. As more members engage and more groups become involved, leaders lose the ability to control the process and are more likely to have problems actually getting public policy enacted. Lovett look at this phenomenon using newspaper coverage in the Washington Post over a 40-year period, both in terms of general analysis as well as individual case studies exploring agricultural subsidies (a low coverage topic), immigration (a changing coverage topic), and health care (a high coverage topic). As coverage increases, the amount leaders can control in the process decreases. Only under extreme circumstances, as seen in the Affordable Care Act, can leaders get anything done at all. The Politics of Herding Cats would be useful for those who wish to better understand the relationship between the media and Congress. It will also be useful to those who want to understand the relationship between actors in government and how the media has influenced American politics, as well as how individual members of Congress can go against party leaders on major issues.
Author : Graeme Davies,Geoff Garrett
Publisher : Triarchy Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781909470552
Herding Professional Cats offers advice and insights to leaders in the professions who find themselves facing the classic ‘cats’ dilemma – how to manage intelligent, opinionated, independent and frequently difficult people without losing the competitive edge a professionalised workforce can bring.
Author : Chester A. Crocker,Fen Osler Hampson,Pamela R. Aall
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1878379925
In each of the 24 cases examined in this volume, mediation was a multiparty effort, involving actors working simultaneously or sequentially. These accounts attest to the crucial importance of coordinating and building upon the efforts of other players.
Author : Warren Bennis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X004420419
Cats of course, won't be herded. And the most successful organizations in the 21st Century won't be managed -- they'll be led. The answer to America's current leadership crisis is leaders (not managers) who recognize that "the only capital that really counts is human capital" And whether readers are looking for a leader or looking to be a better one, Warren knows what it takes. In answer to the leadership crisis, Bennis offers insight into developing leaders and their competencies, by explaining ten traits of dynamic leaders, and how these leaders constantly reinvent themselves. The 21st century will require leaders who can inspire and orchestrate change rather than impose it or simply react to it. The section on "Leading Change" will, in itself, make this a must-have book.
Author : John A. Feudo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : 0899644449
Author : Trent Lott
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780060599317
Carrying readers within the walls of Congress, and the administrations of six presidents, this unsparingly candid and engaging memoir is written by one of the dominant political figures of the last half-century. 16-page photo insert.
Author : C. John McCabe
Publisher : Doubleday UK
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385604440
Tim Power is an advertising specialist whose girlfriend has him on a strict 12-month relationship test. His work involves him in a commercial war between two low-grade meat producers and he learns that failing in a relationship can be far more damaging than offending meat-grinding tyrants.
Author : Rusty George,Jeff Krajewski
Publisher : College Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0899008739
Author : Andrew Rohm,Michael Weiss
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781606498392
One of the top marketing challenges that marketing managers and executives face today is to better understand social media and its promise as a marketing platform. The social media ecosystem, including traditional platforms such as Facebook and Twitter and upstarts such as Instagram and Snapchat, have evolved significantly over the past 10 years; so much so that keeping pace with the latest social media platforms can seem like herding cats. Inside, the authors provide a timeless perspective on how to create, manage, and measure social media content to help you craft a more strategic approach to your social media efforts. They simplify the concept of branding and advertising (fueled by social media) so you can focus on fostering customer engagement; craft your organization’s unique story; tell that story strategically via social media channels; organize, manage, monitor, and measure those efforts; identify key metrics and measure the performance through analytics; and understand the extent of change brought on by digital and social media related to how you engage your customers.
Author : Graeme Davies
Publisher : Triarchy Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781908009128
The book's four sections - Understanding the Culture; Getting the Job done; Managing the People and Leading Strategically - reflect upon the dilemmas, tensions and pressures that face any new - and indeed current - leader in an academic environment
Author : Lucinda Coxon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1848422407
A blackly comic, brutal, and truthful new play that manages to find the dark humor in the loneliness of life.