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The Truth About Being a Leader

FT Press, 2006

Praise for The Truth About Being a Leader

“If you ever met Dr. Otazo, you certainly would read her new Truth book. She is as she writes—engaging, pithy, memorable. Take ‘Truth 33: Questions Unite; Answers Divide.’ Now ain’t that the truth....

Recent Econometric Techniques for Macroeconomic and Financial Data (Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance, 27)

Springer, 2020

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest econometric methods for studying the dynamics of macroeconomic and financial time series. It examines alternative methodological approaches and concepts, including quantile spectra and co-spectra, and explores topics such as non-linear and non-stationary behavior, stochastic...

Management Consulting In Practice: Award-Winning International Case Studies

Kogan Page, 2004

This important new book explores the relationship between top management consultant teams and their clients. Through a series of case studies, from both the private and public sectors, it presents best practice in consulting at the sharp end of contemporary management across all disciplines including change management, business strategy,...

Oracle 11g For Dummies (Computer/Tech)

For Dummies, 2009

Are you a seasoned system administrator charged with setting up an Oracle database? Or did you suddenly become a DBA by default? If database administration with Oracle is part of your job, you’ll be glad to have Oracle 11g For Dummies in your cubicle.

This nuts-and-bolts guide walks you through the mysteries of Oracle and...

Introduction to Electronic Defense Systems, Second Edition (Artech House Radar Library)

SciTech Publishing, 2006

In my government position I am responsible for military research and technology for the Italian armed forces. During my coordination work with the Western European Armament Group: Panel I1 (Research and Technology), discussions have often been of a highly technical nature. It is certainly easier to make management decisions with an adequate...

Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11

Princeton Press, 2007

In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. Until now, those failures have been attributed largely to individual mistakes. But Zegart shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable.

Zegart argues that after the Cold War...

Managing Government Employees: How to Motivate Your People, Deal with Difficult Issues, and Achieve Tangible Results

AMACOM, 2007

Managing government employees presents unique challenges. Government managers may feel that stringent and convoluted regulations mean they "can’t do that." Some others may use that perception as a crutch. But the truth for all of them is, yes, they can "do that" -- and they’d better. "That" means...

Data Mining Tools for Malware Detection

Auerbach Publications, 2011

Although the use of data mining for security and malware detection is quickly on the rise, most books on the subject provide high-level theoretical discussions to the near exclusion of the practical aspects. Breaking the mold, Data Mining Tools for Malware Detection provides a step-by-step breakdown of how to develop...

The Rise and Decline of the State

Cambridge University Press, 1999

The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all moderninstitutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, either voluntarily or involuntarily, many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. Regardless of whether they fall apart or...

Current Topics in Aritficial Intelligence (Lecture Notes Series)

Springer, 2004

The Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA) was founded in 1983 aiming to encourage the development of artificial intelligence in Spain. AEPIA is a member of the ECCAI (European Co-ordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence) and a founder member of IBERAMIA, the Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Under the...

Network-Centric Service Oriented Enterprise

Springer, 2007

The emergence of Enterprise services has triggered a major paradigm shift in distributed computing: from Object-Oriented Architecture (OOA) to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). As the need grows to incorporate and exchange information across wire-line and wireless networks, so grows the necessity to establish an infrastructure for...

Innovation in Information Technology

National Academy Press, 2003

The health of the computer science field and related disciplines has
been an enduring concern of the National Research Council’s Computer cience and Telecommunications Board (CSTB). From its first reports in the late 1980s, CSTB has examined the nature, conduct, scope, and directions of the research that drives innovation in...

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