Download or read book An Elegant Puzzle written by Will Larson and published by Stripe Press. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A human-centric guide to solving complex problems in engineering management, from sizing teams to handling technical debt. There’s a saying that people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part of any organization, yet the discipline is often self-taught and unstructured. Getting to the good solutions for complex management challenges can make the difference between fulfillment and frustration for teams—and, ultimately, between the success and failure of companies. Will Larson’s An Elegant Puzzle focuses on the particular challenges of engineering management—from sizing teams to handling technical debt to performing succession planning—and provides a path to the good solutions. Drawing from his experience at Digg, Uber, and Stripe, Larson has developed a thoughtful approach to engineering management for leaders of all levels at companies of all sizes. An Elegant Puzzle balances structured principles and human-centric thinking to help any leader create more effective and rewarding organizations for engineers to thrive in.
Download or read book Kerzner s Project Management Logic Puzzles written by Harold Kerzner and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2006-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the guru of project management stump you? Harold Kerzner has been a logic puzzle enthusiast for more than twenty years. In that time, he's found that not only do these brainteasers test his intellectual abilities, but they also improve his decision and problem-solving skills on the job. In this challenging new book, Kerzner's Project Management Logic Puzzles, Dr. Kerzner presents 100 logic problems specifically tailored to help project managers not only understand project management but exercise the skills they might use on a day-to-day basis. Included are such helpful features as a problem-solving framework, hints for solving the puzzles, and a complete set of solutions. Unlike other logic puzzle books, Kerzner's Project Management Logic Puzzles gives readers' minds a workout for solving tomorrow's project management problems with today's progressive thinking.
Download or read book Solving Management s Puzzle written by David Korponai and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth look at living and working in a foreign country focuses on two major topics that a manager should be aware of when in this environment: 1. managing people who work in that environment, including local foreign national, third country national and home country staff; and, 2. how a person himself/herself adapts to the foreign country that they are working in. It is broken down into five focus areas: adaptation in a foreign country; the host country environment; work force planning; the general work environment; and special interest areas that one should be aware of.
Download or read book Succession Management the How To Puzzle Solved written by Mark Caruso and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations have risk management strategies and procedures in place for disaster recovery, for employee safety, for computer system outages, and more. But not all organizations have an active succession planning strategy in place, which is a risk management plan for the key talent in the organization. But consider thishow much would it benefit your organization to predict leadership openings, using data and discussions in the same way that you predict other business risks? How much would it reduce your external recruiting costs to address future leadership gaps by proactively developing your top talent, with a sense of urgency to avoid or to lessen the negative impact of a predicted leadership opening when it arrives? The truth is that eventually each employee will leave the organization. Therefore, the risk management function of succession planning is the most critical risk management function for organizational success. Effective succession planning is a process of fitting together the puzzle pieces of organizational talent needs and employee career interests, for the purpose of identifying, retaining and developing talent for business success. This book provides the strategy and the puzzle pieces you will need to plan and to implement an active and effective succession program for your organization. Succession management expert Mark Caruso has created easy-to-use plans and tools you can use to create and implement a succession strategy that achieves results and doesnt sit on a shelf. Use the interview guides and the talent meeting agendas in this book to generate rich talent discussions and to make better talent decisions. Refer to the leadership models and ideas in this book to build leadership programs that address the competency needs of your top talent and successors. Make sure you have an effective succession plan in place for the most critical important asset of your companyyour talent!
Download or read book Solve The People Puzzle written by Kathleen Quinn Votaw and published by Advantage Media Group. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In survey after survey, executives list attracting and retaining top talent as their #1 issue. Is it your top concern? While the people puzzle isn’t easy to solve, this book features compelling research, specific personal and client stories, and key perspectives from top business leaders and experts―all in a format that’s easy to read and prompts readers to act. Kathleen Quinn Votaw has years of experience working with CEOs who understand that traditional staffing methods don’t work for today’s companies, and in this book she offers advice on how to: keep “A Players” engaged, boosting retention and reducing turnover; attract people who will thrive in a demanding, uncertain, entrepreneurial environment; and Always Be Cultivating (ABC) by thinking of recruitment as a sales process.
Download or read book Solving Management s Puzzle written by David Korponai and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Algorithmic Puzzles written by Anany Levitin and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Algorithmic puzzles are puzzles involving well-defined procedures for solving problems. This book will provide an enjoyable and accessible introduction to algorithmic puzzles that will develop the reader's algorithmic thinking. The first part of this book is a tutorial on algorithm design strategies and analysis techniques. Algorithm design strategies — exhaustive search, backtracking, divide-and-conquer and a few others — are general approaches to designing step-by-step instructions for solving problems. Analysis techniques are methods for investigating such procedures to answer questions about the ultimate result of the procedure or how many steps are executed before the procedure stops. The discussion is an elementary level, with puzzle examples, and requires neither programming nor mathematics beyond a secondary school level. Thus, the tutorial provides a gentle and entertaining introduction to main ideas in high-level algorithmic problem solving. The second and main part of the book contains 150 puzzles, from centuries-old classics to newcomers often asked during job interviews at computing, engineering, and financial companies. The puzzles are divided into three groups by their difficulty levels. The first fifty puzzles in the Easier Puzzles section require only middle school mathematics. The sixty puzzle of average difficulty and forty harder puzzles require just high school mathematics plus a few topics such as binary numbers and simple recurrences, which are reviewed in the tutorial. All the puzzles are provided with hints, detailed solutions, and brief comments. The comments deal with the puzzle origins and design or analysis techniques used in the solution. The book should be of interest to puzzle lovers, students and teachers of algorithm courses, and persons expecting to be given puzzles during job interviews.
Download or read book Solving the People Puzzle written by Gary English and published by Human Resource Development. This book was released on 2001 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solving the People Puzzle is about management control of an organization and its people: How to get it, how to use it, and how to keep it. Real performance management systems may not be easy, but they are absolutely essential.
Download or read book Kerzner s Project Management Logic Puzzles written by Harold R. Kerzner and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2006-03-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the guru of project management stump you? Harold Kerzner has been a logic puzzle enthusiast for more than twenty years. In that time, he's found that not only do these brainteasers test his intellectual abilities, but they also improve his decision and problem-solving skills on the job. In this challenging new book, Kerzner's Project Management Logic Puzzles, Dr. Kerzner presents 100 logic problems specifically tailored to help project managers not only understand project management but exercise the skills they might use on a day-to-day basis. Included are such helpful features as a problem-solving framework, hints for solving the puzzles, and a complete set of solutions. Unlike other logic puzzle books, Kerzner's Project Management Logic Puzzles gives readers' minds a workout for solving tomorrow's project management problems with today's progressive thinking.
Download or read book Programming for the Puzzled written by Srini Devadas and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning programming with one of “the coolest applications around”: algorithmic puzzles ranging from scheduling selfie time to verifying the six degrees of separation hypothesis. This book builds a bridge between the recreational world of algorithmic puzzles (puzzles that can be solved by algorithms) and the pragmatic world of computer programming, teaching readers to program while solving puzzles. Few introductory students want to program for programming's sake. Puzzles are real-world applications that are attention grabbing, intriguing, and easy to describe. Each lesson starts with the description of a puzzle. After a failed attempt or two at solving the puzzle, the reader arrives at an Aha! moment—a search strategy, data structure, or mathematical fact—and the solution presents itself. The solution to the puzzle becomes the specification of the code to be written. Readers will thus know what the code is supposed to do before seeing the code itself. This represents a pedagogical philosophy that decouples understanding the functionality of the code from understanding programming language syntax and semantics. Python syntax and semantics required to understand the code are explained as needed for each puzzle. Readers need only the rudimentary grasp of programming concepts that can be obtained from introductory or AP computer science classes in high school. The book includes more than twenty puzzles and more than seventy programming exercises that vary in difficulty. Many of the puzzles are well known and have appeared in publications and on websites in many variations. They range from scheduling selfie time with celebrities to solving Sudoku problems in seconds to verifying the six degrees of separation hypothesis. The code for selected puzzle solutions is downloadable from the book's website; the code for all puzzle solutions is available to instructors.
Download or read book Solving the Productivity Puzzle written by Tim Ringo and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CATEGORY WINNER: Business Book Awards 2021 - HR & Management Category An engaged and productive workforce is essential for organizational growth and business success. However, record levels of disengaged staff, a lack of motivation and employees feeling that they lack the necessary skills and support to excel at their jobs is putting this in jeopardy. HR practitioners are ideally placed to address these issues and boost productivity at every stage of the employee lifecycle to improve individual performance and drive business results. Solving the Productivity Puzzle is a practical guide for all people management professionals to address the challenge of stagnating people productivity. It covers how to embed learning and development activities to ensure that employees feel equipped with the skills they need to meet their goals, motivate a workforce made up of six generations with competing priorities, develop an effective workforce planning strategy to make sure the right people are in the right place at the right time, with the right motivation in the organization to build a company culture that allows people to thrive. Solving the Productivity Puzzle also includes expert guidance on how implement change to opportunity in the workforce, track and measure productivity and how to leverage new technologies to support employees. Including case studies from global organizations including Accenture, Aetna, Apple, Google, IBM, and SAP. This is essential reading for HR professionals needing to supercharge productivity in their organization for both employee and business success.
Download or read book Solving the Procrastination Puzzle written by Timothy A. Pychyl and published by TarcherPerigee. This book was released on 2013-12-26 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Previously published as The Procrastinator's Digest in Canada by Howling Pines Publishers in 2010."
Download or read book Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles written by Leonid Grinshpan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poorly performing enterprise applications are the weakest links in a corporation's management chain, causing delays and disruptions of critical business functions. This groundbreaking book frames enterprise application performance engineering not as an art but as applied science built on model-based methodological foundation. The book introduces queuing models of enterprise application that visualize, demystify, explain, and solve system performance issues. Analysis of these models will help to discover and clarify unapparent connections and correlations among workloads, hardware architecture, and software parameters.
Download or read book Puzzles for Adults 50 Brain Teasers with Step by Step Solutions written by Atanu Chaudhuri and published by Atanu Chaudhuri . This book was released on with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for the smart and curious mind at any age like yours. It should also go a long way to improve performance of young minds—in higher Schools, Colleges and Work environments. It contains hand-picked 50 brain teasers and the solutions. None of the puzzles are too easy or for that matter too difficult that you won't be able to solve. The puzzles are of mixed variety - intriguing riddles, logic puzzles, river crossing puzzles, and ball weighing puzzles. Most of the puzzles are uncommon but all are interesting. No math puzzles, you don't need any prior knowledge to solve the puzzles. Puzzle solutions are hand-crafted using innovative problem solving techniques. The new methods used for solving the puzzles will surprise and enrich you. To add value to the work, a few of the Innovative problem solving techniques used in solutions, namely, Working backwards, End state analysis, Property change analysis, Question Analysis Answer are collected in brief as Appendix. These are general problem solving techniques you may use for solving not just puzzles, but other types of problems also. It is a book of 50 puzzles that you will enjoy solving. It also is the book that will show you new ways to solve problems.
Download or read book Puzzles of Finance written by Mark P. Kritzman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-08-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mit einigen wichtigen Theorien muß jeder Finanzexperte vertraut sein, wenn er die Grundlagen der Finanzanalyse verstehen will. In der Regel jedoch, werden diese Theorien nur unzureichend verstanden. "Puzzles of Finance" befaßt sich eingehend mit diesen komplizierten Finanzthemen und liefert dem Leser verständliche Erklärungen und Definitionen, die sich auf ein absolutes Minimum an Terminologie und Mathematik beschränken.
Download or read book The Creative Thinking Handbook written by Chris Griffiths and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 82 per cent of companies believe creativity directly impacts results, yet few of us understand how it comes about or how to put it into practice. Some people say that creativity is about thinking outside the box, while others believe it is about being creative inside the box; but what if there is no box? The Creative Thinking Handbook argues that we need to identify and remove the 'box' around our thinking, so we canunlock unlimited streams of creativity for professional and business success. This book offers an integrated system of personalized insights, along with clear, practical tools and strategies - including the tried-and-trusted Solution Finder model. The authors show you how to develop your creative problem-solving skills to make better decisions with an individualized step-by-step strategy. Based on long-term research and testing of the creative thinking process, The Creative Thinking Handbook helps you generate more ideas and find brilliant solutions for any professional challenge.
Download or read book Solving the Benefits Puzzle written by Jed Simms and published by Project-Sponsor. This book was released on 2006 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years organisations have struggled to effectively track and measure the benefits expected from their projects. Management is frustrated at the continuing lack of benefits measurement.But the situation is worse than just poor measurement. Most projects actually leave many of their potential benefits 'on the table' unidentified. They then, inadvertently, lose, destroy or miss many other benefits. Our research has shown that most projects deliver less than half of their potential value. This loss represents billions of dollars a year in lost or missed benefits! Most of this loss goes unmeasured. Traditional approaches to benefits management just haven't worked. They seem workable on paper but, when put to the test, do not effectively identify, quantify, track and measure benefits both during and after the project.The reasons why benefits management has remained a 'lost cause' for so long are numerous, including lack of attention, desires to avoid accountability, confusion, sloppy language and the bad results of previous half-baked attempts.Solving the Benefits Puzzle spells out the problems and the solution. A solution that has already been adopted in numerous organisations with astounding success. The solution is based on the deceptively simple Benefits EquationTM that focuses attention on the five key elements of benefits management and allows all of them to be tracked and measured.