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Publisher: Select Books, 2005
Author: Rajesh Setty
Through his work with hundreds of technology professionals, Rajesh Setty has had a bird's eye view of careers that soared and careers that stalled. In the IT arena, Setty noted that while some people succeeded beyond imagination, most people seemed to get stuck about ten or fifteen years into their careers. After careful observation, interviews and insights, Setty realized that the top performers in the IT services industry definitely had a different set of standard practices for distinguishing themselves. To share their secrets, Setty created Beyond Code.
Beyond Code explains how technology professionals can supercharge their careers by winning what Setty calls the Inner Game and Outer Game. Complete with (MindManager Map based) exercises, examples, and insights, Beyond Code provides a recipe for technology professionals to raise above the commodity crowd and become remarkable.
How a journey through leukemia led to software that changed the way how people work
Authors: Mike and Bettina Jetter with Hobart Swan
Sometimes companies spring to life fully formed, engineered down to the rug color by savvy entrepreneurs intent on capturing an untapped market. This is not how a software company called Mindjet came to be. On the contrary, the company's co-founders, Michael and Bettina Jetter, never intended to start their own company. In Germany, where the Jetters were born, raised, and married, the preferred route to success was to get a good job in a stable company and work your way up the ladder. Then unexpected events put the Jetters off of that path for good.
In the winter of 1989, Michael Jetter had just begun his first job as a computer programmer when he was diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. Michael, Bettina, and a close circle of friends spent the next year and a half struggling to save his life-and won. Or so it seemed. Three years later, a relapse sealed him inside the isolation wing of a cancer ward with little chance of survival. An ambitious young man facing his own mortality, Michael resolved to leave his final mark on the world-a new breed of software that would turn ideas into images and images into action.
Published: September, 2005
Authors: Wallace Tait, Arjen ter Hoeve
This work is intended to be received as an information resource for forward thinking information managers.
This e-book has been compiled and presented through research, real world experience and pro-active study into the potential and actual uses of visual mapping software. Information managers who wish to use visual mapping for business improvement purposes shall benefit from this e-book.
An overview of the content of this powerful and practical book:
- Personal use of Visual Mapping
- How to improve your brainstorm sessions
- The use of business standards, the visual way
- More on effective training
- The process approach
- Systems thinking with visuals
- Fast Track improvements
- Visual Mapping, bringing it all together
- Future implications
Learn How to Think Better, Improve your Productivity and Communicate with Greater Impact.
Published: November 2005
Author: Chuck Frey
Power Tips & Strategies for Mind Mapping Software, a new e-book from InnovationTools, is designed to help you to think, learn and communicate with greater clarity, impact and creativity, using mind mapping software.
If you're thinking about investing in mind mapping software, this new e-book will help you to understand the productivity-enhancing benefits it offers to you. You'll be amazed at its many practical and creative applications, as well as the way it can help you to streamline planning, project management and many other common work tasks.
If you're already using a mind mapping software program, you may not be aware of how to get the most out of its many advanced visual mapping capabilities.
How Following Through at Every Level Can Make or Break Your Company
Published: December 2004
Author: Lawrence Haughton
An indispensable management guide to making sure that the long-term strategy and day-to-day goals a company sets are successfully executed — written by the coauthor of the national bestseller "It's Not the Big That Eat the Small…It's the Fast That Eat the Slow."
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., April 2004
Authors: Hugh Cameron, Roger Voight
Exploring all there is to know about the MindManager product, including the Standard, Business, Enterprise, and handheld releases, this book walks readers through the process and techniques in using Mindjet MindManager to communicate ideas.
If you're thinking about investing in mind mapping software, this new e-book will help you to understand the productivity-enhancing benefits it offers to you. You'll be amazed at its many practical and creative applications, as well as the way it can help you to streamline planning, project management and many other common work tasks.
Tools and Strategies for Delivering Your Software
Published: Sybex, April 2004
Author: Mike Gunderloy
Are you ready to take the leap from programmer to proficient developer? Based on the assumption that programmers need to grasp a broad set of core skills in order to develop high-quality software, Coder to Developer teaches you these critical ground rules.
Topics covered include project planning, source code control, error handling strategies, working with and managing teams, documenting the application, developing a build process, and delivering the product. Most of the techniques taught in this unique book are language and platform neutral, and were selected to help you effectively design and develop complex applications.
Using the Tablet PC to Take Total Control of Your Work and Meeting Day
Published: New Academy Publishers, March 2004
Author: Michael Linenberger
Seize the Work Day describes using the Tablet PC with Outlook, FranklinCovey PlanPlus and TabletPlanner, Microsoft OneNote, and other productivity tools, to help the average office work-manager get control of his/her work day and become more productive. It shows how to automate seven key work management tasks on the Tablet PC.
The book was based on the author's experience as a VP using the Tablet PC in an executive setting. It paints a compelling picture of the Tablet PC as a very practical business tool and assists the user in succeeding with the Tablet PC in such a setting.
Published: Pfeiffer, February 2004
Author: Jill Nemiro
Creativity in Virtual Teams offers a well-researched and practical resource that outlines a new model for attaining high levels of creativity in virtual working arrangements to anyone who designs, manages, or participates in virtual teams. Written by Jill E. Nemiro-an expert in building organizations and virtual teams-Creativity in Virtual Teams provides a valuable tool that takes you beyond mere theory. Within these pages, the author leads you through a series of diagnostic tools, questions for reflection, checklists, and exercises that will help you assess and develop the five key components—design, climate, resources, norms and protocols, and continual assessment and learning—that will foster creativity in your virtual teams. In addition, Creativity in Virtual Teams is filled with illustrative lessons learned from nine highly successful and innovative virtual teams.
Published: Que Publishing, December, 2003
Author: Craig Matthews
Whether you use your Tablet PC for work or play, this easy to follow guide gets you going quickly. Using real world scenarios that apply to teachers, students, business professionals, medical professionals, and more, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Tablet PCs shows you how to put Tablet PCs to use in real life. The book shows you the basics for getting your Tablet PCs up and running, then kicks it into high gear and shows you how to put your newfound palmtop power to use. You will also learn how to use Microsoft's new OneNote application to take, store, sort, and share notes with other users.
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Winter 2003
Author: Harold Kertzner
Authoritative strategies for implementing project management. Senior managers at world-class corporations open their office doors to discuss case studies that demonstrate their thought processes and actual strategies that helped them lead their companies to excellence in project management in less than six years.
Published: Wiley Press, October 2003
Author: Bill Dytzel
Covers everything the reader needs to know to organize e-mail, schedules, and other necessary information as conveniently and quickly as possible.
Includes information on sending and saving e-mail messages; managing e-mail with folder and filtering options; storing and viewing contacts and distribution lists; scheduling appointments; creating to-do lists with Outlook’s built-in task feature; using electronic sticky notes; journaling day-to-day activities; and much more.
Outlook is the email client of choice for Office users, especially in business settings.
Learn How to Think Better, Improve your Productivity and Communicate with Greater Impact.
Authors: By John M. Powers, PhD and Ronald L. Sakaguchi, DDS, PhD
This comprehensive exploration of restorative dental materials presents everything readers need to know to correctly use dental materials in the clinic and dental laboratory, from fundamental concepts to advanced skills. The scientific basis for technical procedures and manipulation of materials is provided, and the book's problem-solving approach focuses on applying new information to practical situations. At the end of each chapter, a case-based scenario presents the opportunity to work through problems and verify solutions. Extensive figures and tables of data throughout the book clarify the text.
New to this edition: Mind Maps — key words and images from each chapter - are provided in the appendix and on the accompanying Evolve site to help readers remember and review material.