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... readers can learn by “observing” how to plan a career change, how to pay for it and live while making it, how to anticipate the effects that career change will have on one’s mate and children, how long ... cgreene@kiplinger.com 202-887-6431 cgreene@kiplinger.com switching careers Career Changers Tell How and Why They Did It Learn How You Can, Too Robert K Otterbourg KIPLINGER BOOKS Washington, DC Published by ... Cataloging-in-Publication Data Otterbourg, Robert K Switching careers : career changers tell how and why they did it : learn how you can too / Robert K Otterbourg p cm Includes index ISBN 0-938721-86-0 (pbk.)...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:30

... identify promising practices in many fields [5-7] increases the urgency and relevance of understanding how and why interventions work However, complex community health programs involve a set of highly ... propositions for how and why interventions contribute to positive outcomes The propositions arise from and are organized within a multiple interventions program framework (see Figure and Table 1) ... group and community levels and encompassed a wide range of strategies stimulated by social learning theory, persuasive communications theory and models for the involvement of community leaders and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... in the cells surface-to-volume ratio and maximum growth rate, we showed that our results are consistent with control of the growth rate of one of the fastestgrowing eukaryotes, K marxianus, mainly ... cell to grow faster [80] Therefore, growth rate is probably controlled indirectly by transport processes due to protein crowding and space limitation in the cell membrane However, where growth ... from the Netherlands Organization for Advancement of Research (NWO) and through various grants from the EU-FP6 + (Biosim, NucSys, and Yeast Systems Biology Network) and Biotechnology and Biological...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 04:20

... same basic properties and abilities This is similar to how humans walk, talk, and sneeze (common abilities), but each human's way of doing it is unique ... simply as objects) in Flash, as opposed to the actual class (although this can be done, and you will learn how in Lesson 7, "Creating Custom Classes") A class is often referred to as a blueprint, ... that parameter values can be hard coded as shown, or they can be dynamic values such as variables You can even use other methods as parameters (You'll learn more about parameter values in the next...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 14:15

... include Covitz and Sharpe (2005), Purnandanam (2004), Lin and Smith (2003), Rogers (2002), Graham and Rogers (2002), Géczy, Minton and Schrand (1997), Mian (1996) and Fenn, Post and Sharpe (1996) ... coefficient on profits is negative and significant at the per cent level in Columns and 2, and close to significant (p-value between 10 and 15 per cent) in Columns and The sales growth coefficient is always ... of operational hedging and other non-derivatives decisions for firm risk management outcomes (eg Bartram, Brown and Minton, 2006; Chava and Purnandanam, 2006; Petersen and Thiagarajan, 2000)...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... regionally (Almeida and Kogut, 1997; Baptista and Swann, 1998, 1999; Feldman, 1994; Audretsch and Feldman, 1996; Porter, 1998) However, there is nearly no empirical evidence showing a significant ... see Fritsch and Lukas, 2001 and Fritsch, 2001a,b, 2002b) Figures and show the values of those dummy variables reflecting the propensity to have cooperative relationship with customers and with “other” ... Stockholm, and Vienna, with the latter two cities serving as national capitals Two of the regions in our sample, Saxony and Slovenia, were under socialist See Crevoisier and Maillat (1991) and the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20

... Web design and print design should be different slide 14 We Still Print Textbooks Page How and Why Are Companies Using XML? slide 15 Textbooks May Have Instructor’s Manuals Page How and Why Are ... references live (and linked forward as well) All cross-references are real links Page 15 How and Why Are Companies Using XML? slide 30 For the Printed Journal Page 16 How and Why Are Companies ... XML? slide 31 For the Website Page 17 How and Why Are Companies Using XML? slide 32 For an Abstracting/Indexing Service slide 33 For an RSS Feed Page 18 How and Why Are Companies Using XML? slide...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2014, 17:23

... community would like to understand how people cooperate and socialize with virtual agents of all types, how to design them to be more effective partners [33, 79], how they can make games more enjoyable, ... joint activity, etc? How much does it seem the team-mates it for us, how much we for the others? What is reasonable, how much we expect? how is credit and blame assigned, how team-mates value ... on a list [60]) and exposes the players to a more complex scenario in which they must consider how much they focus on doing only the minimum required tasks and to what extent they help their...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:58

... reviews themselves, we aimed to stay true to the promise of our subtitle, “What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You.” This was an ambitious task in the 500 to 1,000 words we allotted ... on rules and scorekeeping, after which you’ll find sections devoted to management, biographies, and entrepreneurship We close with narratives and books on innovation and creativity and big ideas ... driving to the core of an issue, Drucker quotes studies that show how humans have a poor perception of time and are worse at remembering how they spend their time Because the typical executive is at...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 17:50

... fun with new games and puzzles discover strange and interesting animal facts learn how to make a musical instrument and grow an indoor garden find creative art projects to do, and lots more! C ... driveway and lots of imagination to make a very interesting and colorful world Begin by drawing a town Draw streets, traffic lights and houses, rivers and parks and schools Draw the downtown and neighborhood ... improve their mental and physical skills, develop their self-expression and independent thinking, and foster their learning in general Play and just simply having fun—is, and should be, a young...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... ffirs.qxd 5/11/07 2:01 PM Page iii GREAT PEOPLE DECISIONS Why They Matter So Much, Why They Are So Hard, and How You Can Master Them CLAUDIO FERNANDEZ ARAOZ John Wiley & Sons, Inc ffirs.qxd 5/11/07 ... ffirs.qxd 5/11/07 2:01 PM Page iii GREAT PEOPLE DECISIONS Why They Matter So Much, Why They Are So Hard, and How You Can Master Them CLAUDIO FERNANDEZ ARAOZ John Wiley & Sons, Inc ffirs.qxd 5/11/07 ... hire and promote people who have the right stuff built in You have to get the best people on board in the first place, and make sure that they are in positions where they can grow and develop, and...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 21:20

... ffirs.qxd 5/11/07 2:01 PM Page iii GREAT PEOPLE DECISIONS Why They Matter So Much, Why They Are So Hard, and How You Can Master Them CLAUDIO FERNANDEZ ARAOZ John Wiley & Sons, Inc ffirs.qxd 5/11/07 ... ffirs.qxd 5/11/07 2:01 PM Page iii GREAT PEOPLE DECISIONS Why They Matter So Much, Why They Are So Hard, and How You Can Master Them CLAUDIO FERNANDEZ ARAOZ John Wiley & Sons, Inc ffirs.qxd 5/11/07 ... hire and promote people who have the right stuff built in You have to get the best people on board in the first place, and make sure that they are in positions where they can grow and develop, and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... them and train them, and based on this model—we have created an organization that succeeds solely due to its ability to assess people So these are learnable skills I learned them, and you can learn ... from management consulting, or from a hands-on managerial career, on the assumption that they can understand the strategic issues and managerial challenges at hand.23 ccc_people_001-024_ch01.qxd ... its importance and because of the false belief that this skill is not learnable Then, when we’re in a position to learn from experience, we often can’t learn from that experience And to top it...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... context of mergers and acquisitions Based on those and subsequent experiences, I learned that mergers and acquisitions almost always prompt a host of critical people decisions and all too often ... assessment And note how the explicit separation of assessments along two different dimensions—immediate expected managerial contribution and future growth potential—opens a window on both the present and ... (and the data behind it), they quickly determined that Human Resources was not up to the future challenge The future would demand a level of competence at hiring and developing professionals and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... searches Notably, however, when candidates excelled in terms of IQ and relevant experience, but did not have a high level of EI, they failed 25 percent of the time! I found this startling, and illuminating ... point, and it constitutes a major difference between traditional learning and the development of emotional intelligence– based competencies Yes, these competencies can be learned, but they require ... need the ability to learn from experience Morgan McCall and others make this case eloquently.16 Do you seek out opportunities to learn? Do you take risks, seek and use feedback, learn from your mistakes,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... both internal and external candidates for a search Specifically, they found that the candidate pools of companies whose internal selection proved successful contained more external candidates than ... benchmarking internal and external candidates, and knowing when to stop looking The Need to Benchmark As we saw in Chapter 2, the “performance spread” between a good and bad manager grows exponentially ... exponentially with the seniority and complexity of the job One aspect of those efforts is benchmarking Who’s the best out there, and how our candidates stack up against that outstanding individual? Let’s...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... functions, and sectors Where possible, confirm that they have an internal culture of gathering and sharing information about sources, references, and candidates To be of use to you, the knowledge that they ... whether the candidate has the competencies required for the position It means asking the candidate about his experiences and behavior, and yet most interviewers usually just let the candidate tell ... of, and correcting, our unconscious biases and errors Recent developments seem to show that, in addition, we may be able to train ourselves to detect a candidate’s “microexpressions”—small and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... hired candidate confronts the hard reality All too often, the company makes little or no effort to understand the candidate’s circumstances and motivations They prematurely float an offer, and sometimes ... money, and a picture Paint a picture for ccc_people_229-254_ch08.qxd 4/3/07 1:14 PM Page 235 How to Attract and Motivate the Best People 235 them If they are successful, they are the big men And ... what candidates look for, first and foremost, is not more money, but a job where they can their best, with a challenge that perfectly matches their skill level, in a place where they will grow and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21