What is "problem solving"? The grat mathematican David Hilberd said that, in essence, probles are the life blood of mathematics, and Paul Halmos added a rider: that the complementary activity - theory building - provides the soul of the subject.
The excellent idea of writing a lightweight book on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) wasn't ours, we admit. This idea originated from Milan's customers. Having taught more than a hundred courses and seminars on omponent approaches to software development and on UML over the past few years, he was repeatedly asked for 'UML made easy' for people...
This open access book explores the amazing similarity between paths taken by people and many other things in life, and its impact on the way we live, teach and learn.
Offering insights into the new scientific field of paths as part of the science of networks, it entertainingly describes the universal nature of paths in...
Game theory—the study of how competitors act, react, and interact in the strategic pursuit of their own self-interest—has become an essential competitive tool in today’s business arena. Game Theory at Work provides examples of how businesspeople can use this time-proven approach to successfully meet competitive...
"Every potential rainmaker and savvy competitor needs Melanie Billings-Yun's GRASP method for negotiation. You'll never have to search for leads again. I highly recommend this book."
—Jeffrey J. Fox, author, How to Be a Rainmaker, Rain, and How to Be a Fierce...
We are all under new pressure to produce more for less money—and in less time. Ultimately, this cannot be done unless bosses are able to—in service of their organization—bring out the best in their people.
That is the essence of servant-leadership, the management philosophy originally outlined by organizational...
How do you make the point that the iPhone has changed the
world? The easy answer is “use statistics”—100 million sold,
500,000 downloadable programs on the iPhone A pp Store, 15
billion downloads…. Trouble is, those statistics get stale almost before
you’ve finished typing them....
"In most cases, the CEO’s perception of a company’s personality is drastically different than what the rest of the organization perceives. In the dynamic read, Companies Are People, Too, you’ll discover how to identify the true personality of your company. With this...
Today, when a security accident occurs, the top three questions security administrators would ask are in essence: What has happened? Why did it happen? What should I do? Answers to the first two questions form the "core" of Cyber Situational Awareness. In addition, whether the last question can be well answered, is greatly dependent...
The two main themes of this book, logic and complexity, are both essential for understanding the main problems about the foundations of mathematics. Logical Foundations of Mathematics and Computational Complexity covers a broad spectrum of results in logic and set theory that are relevant to the foundations, as well as the results in...
Packed with more than eighty new and field-tested tools, this training guide explores the essence of leadership in a team environment, provides methods and strategies to help anyone become an effective team leader.
This self-study training guide puts the power of participative leadership into the hands of every manager, trainer,...
When I started pre-production on the movie that served as the inspiration
for this book, I was, like you, vaguely familiar with Smoke and curious about
what its integrated capabilities could bring to my workfl ow. And like you, I was
new to its ways — just a raw recruit. Over the course of editing my fi lm and
participating...
