- The Technology and Power of Language for Career Consultants, Coaches, and Mentors
- Jun 25, 2013
- Michael Lawrence Faulkner explains that it’s the power of the words selected and the way they are delivered that makes the greatest difference in how people receive and react to words.
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- Working with Excel 2013's Ribbon Menus
- Jun 19, 2013
- In this chapter, you are introduced to Excel’s Ribbon menu and learn the basics of working with workbooks and worksheets.
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- Preface to "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, Third Edition"
- Jun 18, 2013
- Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister describe the evolution of their idea that the solution to many of the problems facing software engineering teams wasn't technological - it was sociological. From its genesis during an overnight flight to Sydney to the latest empirical studies, the third edition of Peopleware continues to expand and build upon their original premise that technology is not always the solution to managerial problems.
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- Situational Influence: A New Marketing Model for a New Era
- Jun 13, 2013
- This chapter lays the foundation for an influence marketing blueprint that demonstrates how the practice of influence marketing may return to driving measurable sales instead of just broad brand awareness.
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- Making Strategy Work: Execution Is the Key
- Jun 12, 2013
- Execution is a key to strategic success. Most managers, however, know a lot more about strategy formulation than execution. They know much more about “planning” than “doing,” which causes major problems with making strategy work.
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- Social Media Is Storytelling, So Tell Stories
- Jun 11, 2013
- This chapter looks at how you can combine your personas with your storytelling to create powerful stories for your social media marketing and community engagement.
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- Power Verbs for Managers and Executives: The Technology and Power of Language
- Jun 5, 2013
- In this introduction to his book, Michael Lawrence Faulkner explains how using power verbs adds color, flavor, spark, enhanced rhythm, and kick to our written and spoken words.
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- The Art of Promoting Your App on the Web: How Blogs Work
- Jun 4, 2013
- This chapter explains how blogs work and what they can do for you. That tiny interval of time when you pass across that blogger’s radar is critical, so the information here can help you make the most of your chances with them.
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- Working with Office 2013 RT Graphics on the Microsoft Surface Tablet
- May 29, 2013
- In this chapter, you’ll learn various techniques for drawing, inserting, and working with graphic objects, such as lines, photos, and clip art.
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- Understanding the Digital Media Landscape
- May 27, 2013
- This chapter identifies the types of digital and online media platforms and tools to help you begin to understand and utilize the data to best market your company/goods on the digital landscape.
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- Building Basic Formulas in Excel 2013
- May 21, 2013
- This chapter takes you through some formula basics, including constructing simple arithmetic and text formulas, understanding the all-important topic of operator precedence, copying and moving worksheet formulas, and making formulas easier to build and read by taking advantage of range names.
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- Managing and Sharing Office 2013 Files
- May 17, 2013
- This chapter looks at the Office file formats used in each of the Office 2013 applications. It also looks at your options for managing and sharing files.
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- Finding Jobs Outside of Job Boards
- May 16, 2013
- Matthew Moran discusses how you can find jobs outside of job boards by using a more direct approach that meets the employer in a more desirable place.
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- How Blogging Can Help Your Career
- May 16, 2013
- Matt Moran tells you why blogging is an effective professional development strategy and offers some insights to help you get started.
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- The Leadership Challenge
- May 16, 2013
- In this introduction to his book, Michael A. Roberto explains that leaders should stay attuned constantly to the social, emotional, and political processes of decision. However, they need to do more than this. They must not simply react passively to the personality clashes and backroom maneuvering that emerges during a decision-making process. Instead, they should actively shape and influence the conditions under which people will interact and deliberate. In short, leaders must “decide how to decide” as they confront complex and ambiguous situations, rather than fixating solely on the intellectual challenge of finding the optimal solution to the organization’s perplexing problems.
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- Using Social Media as a Career Development Tool
- May 16, 2013
- Matthew Moran provides two ideas to help computer professionals use social media more strategically: add value (publish your knowledge in a helpful way) and share opportunities across your network.
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- Getting Data onto a Sheet in Excel 2013
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- May 13, 2013
- This chapter provides tricks for copying down data, fixing entered data, and helping your users enter data correctly by providing a predefined list of entries for Excel 2013 users.
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- Why Use Microsoft Access?
- May 10, 2013
- This chapter explains what a relational database is. It then explores all the types of objects available in Microsoft Access.
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- New Dynamics in Social and Crisis Communications
- May 9, 2013
- This chapter explains how the real-time and mobile nature of social media continues to change the way in which businesses must deal with customers and handle PR situations.
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- Working with Formulas and Functions in Excel 2013
- May 8, 2013
- This chapter explains your options for creating formulas in Excel across the whole spectrum from basic entries to more complex ones.
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