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The Next Step Beyond the Macro Recorder in VBA Programming
Jan 5, 2016
Don’t rely solely on the macro recorder to teach you VBA programming; it’s meant only as an introduction, and you can’t rely on it for more advanced programming methods. Tracy Syrstad, co-author of Excel 2016 VBA and Macros, provides 10 macro recorder tips that will take your VBA programming skills up a level or two.
Excel 2016 VBA and Macros: Referring to Ranges
Dec 11, 2015
This chapter from Excel 2016 VBA and Macros shows you different ways of referring to ranges, such as specifying a row or column. You’ll also find out how to manipulate cells based on the active cell and how to create a new range from overlapping ranges.
Customizing Excel 2016
Dec 9, 2015
This chapter from Excel 2016 In Depth walks you through examples of customizing the ribbon and discusses some of the important option settings available in Excel.
The Truth About Managing People: The Importance of "People Skills"
Dec 22, 2014
Learn why possession of competent interpersonal skills increasingly plays a major role in deciding who is hired, who is retained, and who is promoted in this chapter from The Truth About Managing People: Proven Insights to Get the Best from Your Team, 4th Edition .
How to Work with Variables, Data Types, and Arithmetic Expressions in the C Programming Language
Aug 21, 2014
C has a rich variety of math operators that you can use to manipulate your data. In this chapter from Programming in C, 4th Edition, Stephen G. Kochan covers the int, float, double, char, and _Bool data types, modifying data types with short, long, and long long, the rules for naming variables, basic math operators and arithmetic expressions, and type casting.
Analytics in Insurance Overview
Jul 23, 2014
Data is the life blood of the insurance industry. In this introduction to her book, Applied Insurance Analytics: A Framework for Driving More Value from Data Assets, Technologies, and Tools, Patricia L Saporito shows how systematically leveraging analytics can improve business performance and customer satisfaction throughout any insurance business.
Introduction to The Truth About Negotiations
Jul 29, 2013
Leigh Thompson explains that negotiation may sound daunting, but if you are informed, practiced, and prepared, even you can do it.
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.
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.
Getting Data onto a Sheet in Excel 2013
By Tracy Syrstad
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.
Customizing an Excel 2013 Pivot Table
Mar 12, 2013
This chapter covers six functional areas in making pivot table customization: Minor Cosmetic Changes, Layout Changes, Major Cosmetic Changes, Summary Calculations, Advanced Calculations, and Other (less common) Options.
FranklinCovey Style Guide: For Business and Technical Communication
Jun 21, 2012
This excerpt from FranklinCovey Style Guide: For Business and Technical Communication covers cliches, colons, color, commas, compound words, conjunctions, contractions, dashes, decimals, editing and proofreading, and electronic mail.
FranklinCovey Style Guide for Business and Technical Communication: Abbreviations
Jun 20, 2012
This Reference Glossary is designed and written to help writers and editors answer routine, yet important, questions about the preparation of business and technical documents. This section covers abbreviations.
The IBM Style Guide: References
Nov 3, 2011
This chapter shows you how to use footnotes, cross-references, and links to point readers to useful, related information.
How to Grow Structure
Jan 27, 2011
This chapter gives you an overview of adaptive principles in organizational design and some ideas on the ways to grow a structure in your own organization.
On Agile Management: An Interview with Jurgen Appelo
Nov 29, 2010
Is there a role for management in Agile organizations? Matt Heusser interviewed Jurgen Appelo, author of Management 3.0, to find out.
Introduction to Helping People Win at Work
May 5, 2009
In this introduction to their book, Ken Blanchard and WD-40 Company leader Garry Ridge reveal how WD-40 has used Blanchard’s techniques of Partnering for Performance with every employee--achieving levels of engagement and commitment that have fortified the bottom line.
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy
Jan 8, 2009
Dev Patnaik tells the story of how companies, and indeed organizations of all kinds, prosper when they tap into a power that every one of us already has: the ability to reach outside ourselves and connect with other people.
Visualization: How to Present Security Data to Get Your Point Across
Dec 21, 2007
Learn how to present security data in a style that truly gets your point across.
The Emotional Intelligence Approach to Coping with Toxic Managers and Subordinates
Oct 12, 2007
The more you know about what motivates people with different styles, the better you will be able to defend yourself and encourage them to cooperate with you and provide the work products you need to do your own job.

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