‘‘If there is an office in the future,’’ wrote Charles Handy in a 1995 Harvard Business Review article2 on virtual work, ‘‘it will be more like a clubhouse: a place for meeting, eating, and greeting, with rooms reserved for activities, not for particular people.’’ Admittedly, most organizations...
What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers.
Crowdsourcing is an innovative way of outsourcing tasks, problems or requests to a group or community online. There are lots of ways business can use crowdsourcing to their advantage: be it crowdsourcing product ideas and development, design tasks, market research, testing, capturing or...
Once upon a time, there was a general manager in a downtown high-rise
who had the final say over all new hires at her location. Although she realized
how critical it was to identify and hire the best and the brightest talent
for her firm, she really didn’t like interviewing all that much. First, she felt
fairly...
Your resume may have gotten you the interview, but a career portfolio will get you the job
Employers are interested in actions, not words. And a career portfolio shows them that you have the skills, talent, knowledge, and personality they want. With The Career Portfolio Workbook learn...
"Collins has written a truly encyclopedic work that wonderfully complements books on sound design in film, helping anyone in the audiovisual industry who desires to expand more confidently into teaching, designing, and producing audio in the gaming world. This book provides fascinating insights about how game audio can enhance player...
Three-time Navy SEAL platoon commander and founder of Perfect Fitness reveals how to put together teams that can accomplish any objective—by leveraging an unexpected set of values and priorities.
SEALs and civilians operate in extremely different environments, but what makes both kinds of teams excel comes...
Take control of your global game development team and make successful AAA game titles using the 'Distributed Development' model. Game industry veteran Tim Fields teaches you how to evaluate game deals, how to staff teams for highly distributed game development, and how to maintain challenging relationships in order to get great games...
I first discovered the secrets of getting along with
people during my career as a fashion and advertising
photographer. Whether it was working with a single
model for a page in Vogue or 400 people aboard a ship to
promote a Norwegian cruise line, it was obvious that for
me photography was more about clicking with people...
Network forensics is an evolution of typical digital forensics, where evidence is gathered and analyzed from network traffic. This book will help security and network forensics professionals, as well as network administrators, understand the challenges faced by organizations and individuals investigating network-based criminal cases. The...
Having already outlined in the Introduction the broad content of HRM at Work, we can now move on to explain how the book might be used. We think it is best to work one’s way through the book sequentially, given the first four chapters set the backdrop within which specific areas of HR practice are designed, the next two review the work...
Winning the Knowledge Game provides practical advice on the strategies, tools and systems you need to remain capable and agile in this rapidly changing business world.
To help you meet this challenge, Winning the Knowledge Game explores three questions: * How do we open hearts and minds to smarter learning? * How do we grow...
