Download or read book Management Savvy written by Robert E. Levinson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to become a savvy manager and effective and exciting leader. Robert E. Levinson After completing three years in the U.S. Navy, Robert E. Levinson earned a bachelors degree in business from Miami University, Ohio. Following graduation, he joined his father and brother in their family business, Steelcraft Manufacturing Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company was the largest manufacturer of steel doors and frames in the country. Over the years, he became primary executive of 14 additional family businesses. In 1969, the company was sold to American Standard, Inc., where he became a Group Vice President in charge of 12 companies. During this time he developed, owned and operated three hotels in Broward and Palm Beach Counties, Florida. In 1974, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Miami University of Ohio. After 10 years with American Standard, Levinson joined Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida as Senior Development Officer.
Download or read book Savvy Manager written by Jane Flagello and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Savvy Manager challenges readers to develop the five core strengths all great managers possess. Savvy managers; self-manage (recognize their own core values; reflect (quietly contemplate and think without judgment; act consciously (wisely choose their actions); collaborate (extend respect to all employees); and evolve (constantly grow and learn). Put learning into action with a companion website and dozens of included worksheets and exercises.
Download or read book The Business Savvy Project Manager written by Gary R. Heerkens and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2005-12-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valuable business skills from a leading project management expert To make the leap from average to superior, you must develop the skills to manage each project like a small business. The Business-Savvy Project Manager thoroughly explains key concepts, principles, and tools for project managers to provide organizations with superior return-oninvestment and top performance. From portfolio management and strategic alignment to calculation of economic metrics and effective use of both financial and nonfinancial criteria in project proposals, it gives you the business savvy for top-level performance and certain career success.
Download or read book Climate Savvy written by Lara J. Hansen and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change demands a change in how we envision, prioritize, and implement conservation and management of natural resources. Addressing threats posed by climate change cannot be simply an afterthought or an addendum, but must be integrated into the very framework of how we conceive of and conduct conservation and management. In Climate Savvy, climate change experts Lara Hansen and Jennifer Hoffman offer 18 chapters that consider the implications of climate change for key resource management issues of our time—invasive species, corridors and connectivity, ecological restoration, pollution, and many others. How will strategies need to change to facilitate adaptation to a new climate regime? What steps can we take to promote resilience? Based on collaboration with a wide range of scientists, conservation leaders, and practitioners, the authors present general ideas as well as practical steps and strategies that can help cope with this new reality. While climate change poses real threats, it also provides a chance for creative new thinking. Climate Savvy offers a wide-ranging exploration of how scientists, managers, and policymakers can use the challenge of climate change as an opportunity to build a more holistic and effective philosophy that embraces the inherent uncertainty and variability of the natural world to work toward a more robust future.
Download or read book Grid Computing written by Soha Maad and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grid research, rooted in distributed and high performance computing, started in mid-to-late 1990s. Soon afterwards, national and international research and development authorities realized the importance of the Grid and gave it a primary position on their research and development agenda. The Grid evolved from tackling data and compute-intensive problems, to addressing global-scale scientific projects, connecting businesses across the supply chain, and becoming a World Wide Grid integrated in our daily routine activities. This book tells the story of great potential, continued strength, and widespread international penetration of Grid computing. It overviews latest advances in the field and traces the evolution of selected Grid applications. The book highlights the international widespread coverage and unveils the future potential of the Grid.
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Download or read book Precisely written by Zachary Tumin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bronze Medal Winner, 2024 Axiom Business Book Award, Emerging Trends / AI If you want to win an election, improve the health of a city, or thrill your customers, you’re going to need precision systems—the highly engineered working arrangements of teams, processes, and technologies that put data and AI to work creating the change that leaders want, exactly how they want it. Big Tech firms like Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook have mastered their own precision systems, building trillion-dollar businesses using data-driven tools from mass-market “nudges” to industrial-grade recommendation systems. Precisely is the playbook for the rest of us. Zachary Tumin and Madeleine Want show how leaders in every domain are taking real-time precision systems into the marketplace, the political race, and the fight for health—from New York-Presbyterian Hospital to the New York Times, the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens to BNSF Railroad, the Biden-Harris campaign to the NYPD—to reveal elusive patterns, perform a repetitive task, run a play, or tailor a message, one at a time or by the millions. Precisely provides insight that will help leaders choose the system that’s right for them, decide which problem to tackle first, sell the importance of precision to stakeholders, power-up the people and the technology, and accomplish change that delivers precisely what’s needed every time—and do it all responsibly.
Download or read book Web Services and Service oriented Architectures written by Douglas K. Barry and published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interesting, timely, and above all, useful, Savvy Guides give IT managers the information they need to effectively manage their technologists, as well as conscientiously inform business decision makers, in the midst of technological revolution.
Download or read book The Savvy Manager written by Jane R. Flagello and published by ASTD. This book was released on 2009 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business management.
Download or read book Patent Savvy for Managers written by Kirk Teska and published by . This book was released on 2007-11-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patent Savvy for Managers is a must-have reference for the millions of business people for whom patent law has become an importantand somewhat dauntingpart of everyday working life.Theres no room for mistakes when dealing with patents. Failure to protect patentable innovations or going ahead with a venture that infringes on someone elses patent can have big consequences, including job lossnot to mention millions of dollars in company assets and stockholder share value.Patent Savvy for Managers is an ideal overview for business people who need to recognize, protect and preserve patentable innovations. Respected writer and patent attorney Kirk Teska gives readers the tools they need to: decide when (and when not) to patent, using cost benefit analysis handle patent infringement and claims manage and maintain patents Friendly, informative and straight to the point, this book offers the perfect blend of legal information and real-world examples, including case studies of famous patent lawsuits. Its a concise, no-nonsense guide for anyone who deals with innovation in the workplace.
Download or read book Manager s Toolkit written by and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manager's Toolkit: The 13 Skills Managers Need to Succeed Zeroing in on the specific skills that make great managers stand out from the pack, this comprehensive guide is both an essential primer for new managers and a valuable resource for seasoned executives. From hiring and retaining good people to motivating and developing team members, from understanding key financial statements to delegating work effectively, and from setting goals for others to managing your own career, this actionable guide walks readers through every aspect of managing in a complex business world. Filled with practical tools and tips, this essential toolkit will help managers to stay at the top of their game. The Harvard Business Essentialsseries is for managers at all levels but is especially relevant for new managers. It offers on-the-spot guidance, coaching, and tools on the most relevant topics in business. Each book includes the critical information that managers need on a given topic-from budgeting to hiring to communication to strategy-and offers interactive tools and worksheets that translate advice into action. Providing ready answers to day-to-day issues, these guides make sound, trusted mentoring advice available whenever managers need it. Other Books in the HBE Series: Managing Change and Transition Hiring and Keeping the Best People Finance for Managers Business Communications Innovation Negotiation
Download or read book Management Intelligence written by A. Furnham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrian Furnham takes a sideways glance at management in this book of short essays. The essays are like tablets: to be taken a few at a time. They are designed to cure hangovers, reduce blood pressure and lighten the mood. They are also meant to be prophylactics against managerial madness. Take two, then call Adrian in the morning.
Download or read book Business Intelligence written by David Loshin and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business Intelligence: The Savvy Managers Guide, Second Edition, discusses the objectives and practices for designing and deploying a business intelligence (BI) program. It looks at the basics of a BI program, from the value of information and the mechanics of planning for success to data model infrastructure, data preparation, data analysis, integration, knowledge discovery, and the actual use of discovered knowledge. Organized into 21 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the kind of knowledge that can be exposed and exploited through the use of BI. It then proceeds with a discussion of information use in the context of how value is created within an organization, how BI can improve the ways of doing business, and organizational preparedness for exploiting the results of a BI program. It also looks at some of the critical factors to be taken into account in the planning and execution of a successful BI program. In addition, the reader is introduced to considerations for developing the BI roadmap, the platforms for analysis such as data warehouses, and the concepts of business metadata. Other chapters focus on data preparation and data discovery, the business rules approach, and data mining techniques and predictive analytics. Finally, emerging technologies such as text analytics and sentiment analysis are considered. This book will be valuable to data management and BI professionals, including senior and middle-level managers, Chief Information Officers and Chief Data Officers, senior business executives and business staff members, database or software engineers, and business analysts. Guides managers through developing, administering, or simply understanding business intelligence technology Keeps pace with the changes in best practices, tools, methods and processes used to transform an organization’s data into actionable knowledge Contains a handy, quick-reference to technologies and terminology
Download or read book Semantics in Business Systems written by Dave McComb and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2004 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book illustrates how this applies to the future of application system development, especially how it informs and affects Web services and business rule-based approaches, and how semantics will play out with XML and the semantic Web. The book also contains a quick reference guide to related terms and technologies.
Download or read book Risk Savvy written by Gerd Gigerenzer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, practical guide to making better decisions with our money, health and personal lives from Gerd Gigerenzer, the author of Reckoning with Risk. Risk-taking is essential for innovation, fun, and the courage to face the uncertainties in life. Yet for many important decisions, we're often presented with statistics and probabilities that we don't really understand and we inevitably rely on experts in the relevant fields - policy makers, financial advisors, doctors - to analyse and choose for us. But what if they don't quite understand the way the information is presented either? How do we make sure we're asking doctors the right questions about proposed treatment? Is there a rule of thumb that could help choose the right partner? This entertaining book shows us how to recognize when we don't have all the information and know what to do about it. Gerd Gigerenzer looks at examples from every aspect of life to identify the reasons for our collective misunderstanding of the risks we face. He shows how we can all use simple rules to avoid being manipulated into unrealistic fears or hopes, to make better-informed decisions, and to learn to understand risk and uncertainty in our own lives. 'Gigerenzer is brilliant and his topic is fabulous' Steven Pinker 'Catchily optimistic and slyly funny' Guardian Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and former Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books on heuristics and decision making, including Reckoning with Risk.
Download or read book The Visible Employee written by Jeffrey M. Stanton and published by Information Today, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The misuse of an organization's information systems by employees, whether through error or by intent, can result in leaked and corrupted data, crippled networks, lost productivity, legal problems, and public embarrassment. As organizations turn to technology to monitor employee use of network resources, they are finding themselves at odds with workers who instinctively feel their privacy is being invaded. The Visible Employee reports the results of an extensive four-year research project, covering a range of security solutions for at-risk organizations as well as the perceptions and attitudes of employees toward monitoring and surveillance. The result is a wake-up call for business owners, managers, and IT staff, as well as an eye-opening dose of reality for employees.
Download or read book The Effective Local Government Manager 3rd Edition written by N. Joseph Cayer and published by ICMA Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Effective Local Government Manager, 3rd Edition, reflects the rich history and modern reinvention of a profession that sprang up at the beginning of the twentieth century. What does it mean to be a local government manager in today’s world? What can a manager accomplish? What internal as well as external resources must the manager harness? What motivates the manager’s employers, colleagues, and employees? For the student contemplating a career as a manager in public service, The Effective Local Government Manager is almost obligatory reading. Many instructors have built introductory courses on local government management around The Effective Local Government Manager. For the young assistant in a city or county, or for the mid-career manager assessing new challenges, The Effective Local Government Manager offers insights on your role and how you can best serve your community. It explores the manager’s many roles and responsibilities—interacting with the community, the governing body, local government employees, and other governments. It offers the most up-to-date theory and practice of local government as well as tools of management. This book is used as a text in ICMA University's Emerging Leaders Development Program.
