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Never Too Old to Get Rich: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting a Business Mid-Life

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

Start a successful business mid-life

When you think of someone launching a start-up, the image of a twenty-something techie probably springs to mind. However, Gen Xers and Baby Boomers are just as likely to start businesses and reinvent themselves later in life. Never Too Old to Get Rich is an exciting...

Project Management Demystified

Routledge, 2007

When my old grandfather came back from a long night watching over the local sardine factory he would often say ‘You can never do well as a nightwatchman, my boy’. It took many years of hearing this seven times a week before I realized what he meant. If he did his nightwatchman job perfectly by staying awake all night,...

Virtualization For Dummies

For Dummies, 2007

Virtualization has become a “megatrend”—and forgood reason. Implementing virtualization allows for more efficientutilization of network server capacity, simpler storageadministration, reduced energy costs, and better use of corporatecapital. In other words: virtualization helps you save money,energy, and space. Not bad,...

English Grammar For Dummies

For Dummies, 2010

When you’re a grammarian, people react to you in interesting — and sometimes downright strange — ways. When the first edition of English Grammar For Dummies came out in 2001, an elderly man asked me about something that had puzzled him for eight decades: Why did his church, St. Paul’s, include an...

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

Apress, 2012

The humor and insights in the 2nd Edition of Managing Humans are drawn from Michael Lopp's management experiences at Apple, Netscape, Symantec, and Borland, among others. This book is full of stories based on companies in the Silicon Valley where people have been known to yell at each other and occasionally throw...

Budgeting for Managers

McGraw-Hill, 2003

Iremember the first time I made a budget. I had just started a new job, my first time as a manager. My boss, the dean of the school, said, “Sid, we have $50,000 to spend on computer systems this year. Please prepare a budget.”

Wow! All the exercises in school, all my thinking as I started the job and wrote out a plan for my...

The Executive Guide to E-mail Correspondence: Including Model Letters for Every Situation

Career Press, 2006

Sit down at the keyboard and cinch that deal! Press the send button and get the account!

Writing skills are more important than ever in determining business success. They can make the difference between climbing the corporate ladder and getting stuck on a low rung. An e-mail that's clear, concise, and targeted will get more than just a...

Professional Cross-Platform Mobile Development in C#

Wrox Press, 2012

PEOPLE TAKE UP MOBILE DEVELOPMENT these days for a lot of reasons. For some it is all about learning something new, but for many it comes out of necessity of a job or career. Perhaps you see mobile development as the next big thing, just like client-server development was in the 1990s, or web development became in the 2000s. Maybe...

How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive-- Without Killing Your Boss

Career Press, 2003

For more than two decades, Dr. John Hoover has written books on leadership, creativity, and organizational performance, extolling the virtues of flattened organizations, collaborative leadership, and shared responsibility. His clients welcomed him, praised him...yet (he felt) completely ignored his advice! This book contains the confession of...

The Manager's Guide to Competitive Intelligence

Praeger Publishers, 2003

In The Managers Guide to Competitive Intelligence, McGonagle and Vella offer comprehensive guidelines for CI managers to achieve their goals. They cover the responsibilities and duties, and give strategic direction for managers trying to find their way in this important, but often overlooked, discipline....Get this book and read every...

The Accidental Leader: What to Do When You're Suddenly in Charge

Jossey-Bass, 2003

The Book You Need When You Are Unexpectedly Put in Charge

It could happen today. You are called into the office, and the boss tells you that due to unforeseen circumstances, starting today you will be in charge of a team, a project, an office, a committee, or a business unit. Without any warning (or preparation on your part) you’ve become...

Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers

Apress, 2002

Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers is a comprehensive guide—think of it as a field manual—to the management challenges of supervising and leading programmers. J. Hank Rainwater introduces new and not-so-new managers to concepts that will encourage them and help them become a...

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