Download or read book Cube Farm written by Bill Blunden and published by Apress. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Entertainment value (broader market than pure technical). * Provides "lessons learned" section at end of each chapter. * Offers instruction in corporate self-defense. * Explains business software in simple terms. * Allows reader to peek behind the curtain.
Download or read book Men s Health written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men's Health magazine contains daily tips and articles on fitness, nutrition, relationships, sex, career and lifestyle.
Download or read book Improving Software Development Productivity written by Randall W. Jensen and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2015 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Improving Software Development Productivity, legendary software engineering expert Dr. Randall Jensen introduces a proven quantitative approach to achieving high productivity through management support, the ability to communicate, and technology. Jensen demonstrates how to measure organizational capacity and productivity, and use that information to build more accurate estimates and schedules -- and, more broadly, to improve many facets of developer and team performance. Students will learn to quantitatively predict the productivity impact of management decisions related to personnel and management style, development environment, product constraints, technology, development systems, and more.
Download or read book The Cubicle Survival Guide written by James F. Thompson and published by Villard. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help. . . . Cubicle Life Is Killing Me! Leaving no stone unturned, no ergonomic chair unadjusted, and no leftovers in the communal fridge uneaten, this hilarious guide to cubicle life will be the salvation for the more than forty million Americans stuck in cubicles. By turns uproariously funny and enormously useful, each chapter tackles a different area of cubicle life and includes a “cube tip,” a quiz, illustrations, and examples that will have you laughing out loud. Discover • how not to disturb colleagues with unwanted sounds and smells, such as the crunch-crunch of your sour-cream-and-onion chips and the unmistakable odor of your spicy Thai shrimp • how to knock when visiting other cubicles and how to devise politically correct ways of saying “Do not disturb” • the do’s and definite don’ts of cubicle decoration • how to set up a security system that will rebuff potential thieves The Cubicle Survival Guide could very well change your life and set you climbing the corporate ladder to success!* * Results not guaranteed. Pay raises and promotions are up to your boss, but using this book couldn’t hurt. Praise for The Cubicle Survival Guide: “A spiritual air conditioner for the cubicled soul.” — Turk Regan, author of Pimp My Cubicle: Take Your Workspace from Boring to Bling! "James Thompson’s The Cubicle Survival Guide offers the rare, and definitely appreciated, combination of laugh-out-loud humor and sound advice for surviving the jungle that is Corporate America. On some days, there’s nothing more motivating to fresh air-starved cube dwellers than a book that will simply crack them up. This is that book.” — Alexandra Levit, Author, They Don’t Teach Corporate in College "If you must work (and I don't recommend it), The Cubicle Survival Guide provides a wonderful way to slack off and stay entertained. You can easily kill two weeks with this book." — Josh Aiello, Author, 60 People to Avoid at the Water Cooler “Thompson provides a humorous yet thought-provoking look at what employees in today's large organizations must deal with besides their jobs.” — Malcolm O. Munro, Author, From Cave to Cubicle
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Download or read book The Little Hiptionary written by Ruth Cullen and published by Peter Pauper Press, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you tell a ''blog'' from a ''bleg'' or a ''wanksta'' from a ''gangsta''? Not fluent in the new urban slang, techno-talk, consultobabble, sports jargon, and neo word-blends at every turn? Chillax. This slanguage glossary features more than 300 definitions and usage examples of the hippest new words and expressions, arranged alphabetically in chapters organized by theme.
Download or read book Slang written by Paul Dickson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you want to be privy to the inside banter of the boardroom, backroom or the Washington Beltway, Slang is an indispensable resource, and a lot of fun. Slang is evidence that the spoken language is continually changing to meet new needs for verbal expressions, tailored to changing realities and perceptions. Unlike most slang dictionaries that list entries alphabetically, Slang takes on modern American English one topic at a time, from "auctionese" to "computerese", the drug trade and sports slang. Slang was originally published by Pocket Books in 1990 in paperback and revised in 1998 in hardcover and paperback. The new Slang has 50% new material, including new chapters on slang associated with work cubicles, gaming, hip hop, and coffeehouses. Dickson brings slang into the twenty-first century with such blogger slang as TMPMITW, which stands for "the most powerful man in the world" (the president). Whether you want to be privy to the inside banter of the boardroom, backroom or the Washington Beltway, Slang is an indispensable resource, and a lot of fun.
Download or read book The Cube Farm Handbook written by Melanie Lee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-29 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since they didn't offer Cubicle Etiquette 101 when you were in college and your employee handbook has no mention whatsoever on what to do if your cubicle mates are stinky, loud & obnoxious, or just plain annoying, The Cube Farm Handbook is here to help! This book provides some great pointers on how to deal with aggravating cubicle coworkers who stress you out. You will also learn how to avoid some of the pitfalls that can lead to becoming a despised cube mate. If you are unfortunate enough to be surrounded by some nutty or annoying cube mates, which you fear is causing you to lose your sanity, then you need to read this book. Not only is it a fun and informative read with lots of graphic depictions, you will find that it will serve as a companion and reference guide throughout your cube farm life. And if you have friends or family members who live a cube farm existence, do them a favor and get them a copy of this book - you will be saving their sanity and they will be forever thankful and indebted to you!
Download or read book Word Spy written by Paul McFedries and published by Crown. This book was released on 2004-02-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language wears many hats, but its most important job is to help us name or describe what's in the world. Words define us, our actions, even our existence. And just when you think that you have all the words you need, you discover new ones, hear new uses for old ones or see them mutate right before your eyes—a neologism is born. Those neologisms are actually one of the best ways of keeping tabs on the way our world and culture are changing. One of the people who's been keeping tabs is Paul McFedries, the president of Logophilia Limited (logophilia is Greek for "the love of words"). His scorecard is Word Spy, a daily newsletter that has been reporting from the neological frontier since 1998 and that has more than 100,000 visitors a month and more than 12 million page views. In Word Spy, McFedries demonstrates how new words both reflect and illuminate not only the subcultures that coin them but also the larger culture in which these groups exist. Neologisms give us insight into the way things are even as they act as linguistic harbingers of what's to come. Each chapter of Word Spy is a cultural snapshot, a slice of the zeitgeist that focuses on a specific idea or sociological phenomenon, with an emphasis on the words and phrases that it has generated. These snapshots cover various aspects of modern life, including relationships, business, technology, war, aging, multiculturalism, and even fast food, all the while introducing us to hybrid words: If your kids can't seem to get away from their computers, they may be addicted to "fritterware" (time-wasting game software). If you're a new mother with a passion for petitioning, you may be a "lactivist" (breast-feeding activist). And if you keep finding yourself staying way later at the office than you ever imagined, you may be suffering from "presenteeism." Word Spy is an exciting and informative travelogue through the evolving landscape of our language and, consequently, the cultures and subcultures that continually mold and shape not just the language but all of us who speak it.
Download or read book The Book of Jobs written by Arlene Bastion and published by Armour Publishing Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Four Keys to Successful Design written by Nathan Todd Cool and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Four Keys to Successful Design is a motivational guide through the elements comprising the heart and soul of creative innovation. The four keys presented in this book--Inspiration, Innovation, Exploration, and Creation--explore human nature and explain why these elements are critical throughout our careers. Author Nathan Cool entertains as well as educates, with numerous references to innovations that made it, those that didn't, and why. He guides you on a journey to not only see what others have done, but to look inside yourself, unlock your potential for engineering excellence, and to constantly gain the momentum to continually improve. Cool illustrates how to avoid pitfalls, using examples of real world designs, practical tools for managing the four keys, and pragmatic yet motivational techniques. Truly an inspiration for those who have the yearning to design, The Four Keys to Successful Design breaks through the walls of procedural development and motivates you to fulfill your potential.
Download or read book Open Plan written by Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally inspired by a progressive vision of a working environment without walls or hierarchies, the open plan office has since come to be associated with some of the most dehumanizing and alienating aspects of the modern office. Author Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler traces the history and evolution of the American open plan from the brightly-colored office landscapes of the 1960s and 1970s to the monochromatic cubicles of the 1980s and 1990s, analyzing it both as a design concept promoted by architects, designers, and furniture manufacturers, and as a real work space inhabited by organizations and used by workers. The thematically structured chapters each focus on an attribute of the open plan to highlight the ideals embedded in the original design concept and the numerous technical, material, spatial, and social problems that emerged as it became a mainstream office design widely used in public and private organizations across the United States. Kaufmann-Buhler's fascinating new book weaves together a variety of voices, perspectives, and examples to capture the tensions embedded in the open plan concept and to unravel the assumptions, expectations, and inequities at its core.
Download or read book SharePoint 2010 All in One For Dummies written by Emer McKenna and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simplify SharePoint with this comprehensive, understandable guide SharePoint is a Microsoft technology that enables project collaboration through a single portal. It can be complex, but not when approached the Dummies way! This guide offers eight self-contained minibooks that examine each aspect of SharePoint 2010. Whether you're an experienced administrator or developer or you're just getting your feet wet, you'll find it's easy to locate what you need and learn to install, configure, and manage a SharePoint portal. You can dig as deeply into SharePoint as you want or need to. SharePoint 2010 is the newest version of collaboration technology that allows you to aggregate SharePoint sites, information, and applications into a single portal Administrators, page producers, and developers will be able to get SharePoint installed, configured, and running with the advice in this guide Eight minibooks address the Microsoft Office SharePoint system, SharePoint services, collaboration, SharePoint Server, enterprise content management, managing users, architecting SharePoint, and SharePoint deployment Covers planning, installation, configuration, performance, troubleshooting, data structure, and more If you work with SharePoint, you'll find Microsoft SharePoint 2010 All-in-One For Dummies provides what you need to get starting and keep going with SharePoint 2010.
Download or read book A World Scientific Encyclopedia Of Business Storytelling Set 2 Methodologies And Big Data Analysis Of Business Storytelling In 5 Volumes written by and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 1381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of multi-reference works is meant to be read together as the five volumes interlace one another like the laces of a shoe in the famous painting by Vincent van Gogh. The question of who will wear the shoes is long debated in art history and philosophy. If we take these five volumes from different points of view on the theory and practice of business storytelling then we have a crisscrossing, a new and impressive dialogue for the reader. This set is presented as a new way to lace up the laces of business storytelling.Volume 1 aims to help and inspire leaders, business owners, and researchers in creating a commitment to ethical and sustainable changes and ideas, and live in a world of high complexity without getting stressed but experiencing freedom instead.The book combines tools, case studies, and theories about the ethical change-management method of True Storytelling and other perspectives and views on ethics and storytelling. It delves into important topics such as true storytelling sustainability and freedom, storytelling and start-ups in the health industry, storytelling and diversity and culture, storytelling and teams, storytelling, sustainability and the UN Goals, storytelling and well-being, storytelling in higher education, and storytelling and fundraising.Book authors are experienced and successful researchers, business owners, leaders, and consultants from Scandinavia, the USA, Africa, and Europe.Volume 2 is an endeavor into the creation of new concepts for engaging with sustainability. It maintains that storytelling is important for our emplacement in nature and can be important for enacting another relationship between nature and the cultural artifice — our social and material constructions of houses, cities, villages, harbors, streets, and railways, and our use of objects and artifacts to construct our lives.Business storytelling communication is that space for social symbolic work that brings the symbolic objects of the organization, the human, and the natural environment into a dialogical relationship. Volume 3 posits that organizations are arranged as social symbols that are arranged in institutions based on the needs of organics, for example health, food, shelter, mating, leisure, and labor. Organics, as a social symbolic object, specifically humans, have emotions, language, and culture to organize their institutions and organizations. In this book, readers will find that many of the authors attempt to understand the body's exclusion or attempt to bring the body back into the organization. Business storytelling communication takes aim at the social symbolic work of making space to negotiate the social arrangement of organizations with its organic components.Volume 4 covers a variety of methodological topics from a storytelling perspective. Why a storytelling perspective? Consider that a common business research goal is to convince others that what the researcher has to say matters. If the researcher is a basic researcher who wishes to promote a theory, the goal is to make a convincing case for the value of that theory. If the researcher is an applied researcher who wishes to promote a particular application, intervention, or policy change, the goal is likewise to make a convincing case. Either way, the researcher has a story to tell, and the onus is on the researcher to tell the best possible story; storytelling failures likely will result in a failure to convince others of the value of one's theory or application.Here is where methodological issues come into play. Poor methodology, whether in the form of less-than-optimal study designs or invalid statistical analyses, harms story quality. In contrast, high-quality methods and statistics enhance story quality. Moreover, the larger one's methodological and statistical toolbox, the greater the opportunities for researchers to tell effective stories. The chapters in this book come from a wide variety of perspectives and should enhance researchers' storytelling in the following ways. By opening many different methodological and statistical perspectives, researchers should be more able to think of research stories that otherwise would remain unavailable or inaccessible. Secondly, the present chapters should aid researchers in better executing their research stories. Therefore, researchers and graduate students will find this book an invaluable resource.Volume 5 opens a window into the world of quantum storytelling as an organizational research methodology, providing numerous exemplars of work in this storytelling science that has disrupted qualitative inquiry only with the intention of providing expanded, improved, and generative ways of understanding and knowing the narratives that emerge from qualitative interviews and observations during organizational research studies.
Download or read book Try Catch Finally written by Jem Matzan and published by Jem Matzan. This book was released on 2022-11-20 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago, Halleck "sold out." The fear of poverty drove him to abandon entrepreneurship, and seek shelter in the vast grey cube farms of a "big old dinosaur" technology company. Fear suppressed Halleck's ambition for a decade, and if it weren't for the mass layoff known as Chainsaw Friday, it might have remained that way for the rest of his life. At the first hint that his employer might lay him off at the end of the quarter, Hal immediately started looking for new work, eventually landing a dream job at a tech startup. All he has to do is show up on Chainsaw Friday, get his layoff papers, and chill out until New Job Monday. But against all odds, his current employer doesn't lay him off, and the non-compete agreement he signed long ago prevents him from taking the startup job. Armed with an underused degree in systems theory and his Generation X Survival Skills, Hal has only a few hours to find and defeat the salaried supervillains who blocked his escape from Corporate Hell. But Chainsaw Friday is more than just a mass layoff at a dysfunctional megacorporation; it's Halleck's last chance to reclaim his humanity and commit to a real existence in a world dominated by fakeness and fear.
Download or read book The Silent Partner written by Terrence King and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer, a bold and smart-mouthed angel, has been in isolation for nine-hundred years. She misbehaves and tests the boundaries of God, which was what put her in isolation in the first place. She doesn't like the simpering League of Angels members, especially Gabriel--she has no place for such a goody two-shoes--and she doesn't trust God and cares little what anyone thinks of her. Despite her fussiness and track record of failure, she's sent to Earth to do what needs to be done. Her mission is to help Tom summers, a struggling columnist for an expanding magazine empire in Los Angeles--to Homer, the epicenter of Western egocentrism and inauthenticity. She must help him publish a book that would ultimately change Earth's fate. Unsure how to accomplish her task, she wants more of God's help or for Him to send Tom a sign, but always a stickler for free will, God won't let her interfere with humanity. Still, it's up to her to save the world, she believes God is against her, and time is ticking. No pressure. Left to her own devices, Homer wonders whether humanity is worth saving. She believes humans to be violent, self-centered brats. Earth itself is a trash heap, already polluted by all of God's chosen people. Is there anything left to save? Tom, along with some other eccentric Earth-walkers, might change her perspective, but in the end, the fate of the world rests in Homer's angelic hands.
Download or read book Computerworld written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-03-06 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 40 years, Computerworld has been the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site (Computerworld.com), twice-monthly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest global IT media network.
