Smart or Lucky? How Technology Leaders Turn Chance into Success About the Book: An insider’s look at the combination of luck and smarts you need to succeed in today's changing tech world. To be successful in any highly competitive market, you have to be smart, but you also have to be lucky by being at the right place at the right time. The most successful technology entrepreneurs understand the value of the combination of luck and smarts and make it work for them. Those who fail are the ones who may be lucky but get complacent, believe they're the smartest players in the market, and fail to make the changes needed to sustain leadership. Smart or Lucky? is for business leaders who are interested in learning what it takes to be successful in emerging markets and how to sustain success over the long term. It shows entrepreneurs how to recognize a lucky break and have the foresight to take advantage of it. Offers concrete lessons based on well-tested principles that have broad applications for business leaders and entrepreneurs across industries Based on experiences with hundreds of successful and failed companies in the software market over three decades Author’s method has resulted in expanded revenue and increased market success for both large and small companies Informative and highly detailed, this is a must-read for all business leaders and emerging entrepreneurs who want to understand how to stay nimble and succeed in complicated, competitive markets.
From making a monster mask to going on a bike photo safari, 365 Smart Afterschool Activities will let kids' imaginations soar with terrifically fun things to do during those valuable afterschool hours and beyond. 365 Smart Afterschool Activities is perfect for parents, teachers, grandparents, babysitters and youth leaders. Illustrated by children, a terrific variety of adventures await you, including activities for: • Crafts • Dance and movement • Drama • Games • Hobbies • Nature • Self-Esteem • Writing "Engaging and fun-filled activities that are sure to keep kids playing, imagining and creating all year long!"—Brenda Pilson, Creative Classroom magazine
Written with both the bride and the groom in mind, The Smart Couple’s Guide to the Wedding of Your Dreams offers hands-on practical and sound steps for the couple to take together. Filled with first hand accounts, exercises, and helpful evaluation points, The Smart Couple’s Guide to the Wedding of Your Dreams offers romantic, yet reasonable, advice about how readers can “debut their style as a couple” and at the same time honor their family and religious traditions to set the stage for a loving, happy, and long marriage.
An inspiring exercise program created by Judith Sherman-Wolin, exercise specialist at the UCLA Center for Nutrition. You've probably been dieting and exercising—or trying to—your entire life. You lose the weight; you gain it back. Or you lose most of the weight, but can't get those last stubborn 5 to 10 pounds to budge an inch. Or you exercise like mad, but still, the butt's a little saggy, the arm's a little flabby, and the belly's a little droopy. Why don't you have the body you always wanted? You may not know the real secrets of strength training and the magic of dumbbells. Judith Sherman-Wolin, exercise specialist at the UCLA Center for Nutrition, has developed a fast and easy dumbbell program that you can do at home and set up for less than it costs to go to a gym every month. You won't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger (who wants to anyway?) but you will watch your butt shrink, your abs flatten, and your arm muscles lengthen and firm. Say "hello" to your bikini and all those sleeveless tops you dreaded wearing when the weather got too hot to stay covered. All you need is the motivation, and this book will keep you psyched. In Smart Girls Do Dumbbells you'll learn: • the complete 30-minute, 30-day, 30-way, start-to-finish program • how to melt away those stubborn pounds you've been trying to lose your entire adult life • how you can shape a body that burns more calories, even while you're plopped on the couch • inexpensive ways to build your own dumbbell gym • Judith's bonus ab-flattening recipes Work out smarter, not harder. All it takes is 30 minutes for a leaner, healthier, sexier body!
Smart or Lucky? How Technology Leaders Turn Chance into Success About the Book: An insider’s look at the combination of luck and smarts you need to succeed in today's changing tech world. To be successful in any highly competitive market, you have to be smart, but you also have to be lucky by being at the right place at the right time. The most successful technology entrepreneurs understand the value of the combination of luck and smarts and make it work for them. Those who fail are the ones who may be lucky but get complacent, believe they're the smartest players in the market, and fail to make the changes needed to sustain leadership. Smart or Lucky? is for business leaders who are interested in learning what it takes to be successful in emerging markets and how to sustain success over the long term. It shows entrepreneurs how to recognize a lucky break and have the foresight to take advantage of it. Offers concrete lessons based on well-tested principles that have broad applications for business leaders and entrepreneurs across industries Based on experiences with hundreds of successful and failed companies in the software market over three decades Author’s method has resulted in expanded revenue and increased market success for both large and small companies Informative and highly detailed, this is a must-read for all business leaders and emerging entrepreneurs who want to understand how to stay nimble and succeed in complicated, competitive markets.
Lesson plans and activities that help students become more informed consumers by recognizing forces that affect their spending and learning how to make wise economic decisions.
This book is a guide for the creation of “Smart Schools. ” Through the use of the “Education Instructional Coaching Model, American students can display the highest levels of academic achievement. This model is based upon a set of core beliefs that include: • the major goal of educators is to inspire students to become critical thinkers and independent learners; • educators must create environments of small learning communities where a major portion of instruction is devoted to problem solving; • teachers must design student directed instruction; • educational reform is comprehensive and involves every member of the educational community; • instructional coaching which requires mutual respect between a coach and teacher is the corner stone for improving classroom instruction.
Dr. Briles has the moves for women to attain the financial "S's"--safety, security, solvency, simplicity, solutions, and smarts. She explains how to create financial freedom by confronting and avoiding the financial pitfalls that often act as obstacles for women. Charts.
Young people need practical answers about money when considering their future, from preparing for the working world to making a budget and staying out of debt. What is a mortgage? Why do people pay taxes? How much does a college education cost-and how can a family afford it? In the wake of a global financial crisis, making smart decisions about money early in life is more important than ever. Book jacket.
An inspiring exercise program created by Judith Sherman-Wolin, exercise specialist at the UCLA Center for Nutrition. You've probably been dieting and exercising—or trying to—your entire life. You lose the weight; you gain it back. Or you lose most of the weight, but can't get those last stubborn 5 to 10 pounds to budge an inch. Or you exercise like mad, but still, the butt's a little saggy, the arm's a little flabby, and the belly's a little droopy. Why don't you have the body you always wanted? You may not know the real secrets of strength training and the magic of dumbbells. Judith Sherman-Wolin, exercise specialist at the UCLA Center for Nutrition, has developed a fast and easy dumbbell program that you can do at home and set up for less than it costs to go to a gym every month. You won't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger (who wants to anyway?) but you will watch your butt shrink, your abs flatten, and your arm muscles lengthen and firm. Say "hello" to your bikini and all those sleeveless tops you dreaded wearing when the weather got too hot to stay covered. All you need is the motivation, and this book will keep you psyched. In Smart Girls Do Dumbbells you'll learn: • the complete 30-minute, 30-day, 30-way, start-to-finish program • how to melt away those stubborn pounds you've been trying to lose your entire adult life • how you can shape a body that burns more calories, even while you're plopped on the couch • inexpensive ways to build your own dumbbell gym • Judith's bonus ab-flattening recipes Work out smarter, not harder. All it takes is 30 minutes for a leaner, healthier, sexier body!
Got a new iPod? Need to master it and iTunes fast? Try a Visual QuickStart! This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with the leading digital audio player and music store/jukebox in no time! In this popular guide, leading technology experts Judith Stern and Robert Lettieri use crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you everything you need to know about getting the most from the latest iPods and iTunes 6. Filled with step-by-step, task-based instructions and loads of visual aids and tips, this book explains how to add music, videos, audiobooks, and podcasts to your iTunes library; synch your iPod to your computer; create and share iMixes; burn custom CDs; watch and make videos for the iPod; show slideshows on your iPod; understand Smart Playlists and AAC encoding; manage a Music Store account; use your iPod as hard drive, address book, and alarm clock; and more!
A delightfully engaging idea book for parents and childcare providers on how to use everyday chores, activities and schedules to stimulate intelligence and creativity and change stressful situations to enjoyable interactions. Includes chapters on brain development; delivery, nursing, feeding and toileting; tuning into tears; the right kind of play; conflicts and resolutions; TV and travel tips; drawing, painting, poetry and song.
Young people need practical answers about money when considering their future, from preparing for the working world to making a budget and staying out of debt. What is a mortgage? Why do people pay taxes? How much does a college education cost-and how can a family afford it? In the wake of a global financial crisis, making smart decisions about money early in life is more important than ever. Book jacket.
Scruples, Judith Krantz's electrifying, world wide bestseller appeared fifteen years ago and made book publishing history. Now that unforgettable story, a story that marks an era, a story that millions of readers wish had never ended . . . continues. Only a single night's sleep seperates the lives of the characters in Scruples from this mesmerizing sequel. Billy Ikehorn is a contemporary woman living on a grand scale. A self-made beauty and the exquisite owner of a fabled Beverley Hills boutique called Scruples and married to the Oscar-winning producer Vito Orsini. To those who only know her from afar, she seems to lead a dream existence, wrapped in all the power of glamout, riches, and success. Then a stranger arrives in Billy's life--Gigi Orsini, Vito's sixteen-year-old daughter by an early marriage. Independent, deeply interesting, street-smart, and enchantingly humorous, Gigi captures Billy's heart and sets in motion a train of utterly unexpected events. Life with Gigi hold both joy and pain for Spider Elliot and Valentine O'Neill, Billy's partners in Scruples. The many new freinds Gigi makes during the next five years will grow important to Billy in ways she could never have forseen. Scruples Two moves swiflty and unexpectadly, filled with breathtaking change, from California to New York to Paris, following two of the most fascinating and touching females in modern fiction, Billy Ikehorn and Gigi Orsini.
Originally published in 1991, at a time when computer messages included letter prompts like “A>” to indicate the source drive, A>LOVERBOY imagines the world as it might be at the start of the 21st century. Lucy Beckwith, a computer whiz, gets messages through her computer from someone who calls himself Loverboy and claims to be crazy about her. His messages are so romantic, she finds herself falling for him. He’s the antithesis of Jim Kazan, her colleague at Access Computer Systems. Voted the Sexiest Felon of 1988 thanks to his illegal hacking, Jim is brilliant, arrogant and egotistical. She fears he’s going to take over her work project, and she resents the way he flirts with every female he sees. Jim may flirt, but Lucy is the woman he wants. That she’s pretty is a bonus, but her intelligence is what really turns him on. Yet he can’t seem to break through her defenses the way Loverboy can. Jim may be a tech genius, but winning Lucy’s affection might be impossible when he’s competing against a mystery lover like Loverboy.
Lesson plans and activities that help students become more informed consumers by recognizing forces that affect their spending and learning how to make wise economic decisions.
In the aftermath of the 2015 Victorian royal commission, billions of dollars of government funds have been committed to improving responses to women and children experiencing domestic violence. Such attention was unimaginable forty years ago when feminists in Victoria and across Australia first established women's refuges. At that time, domestic violence was not publicly acknowledged or tackled in any coherent way at a Commonwealth or state government policy level. While services that provided accommodation to women and children in crisis had certainly existed for a long time, the refuge movement of the 1970s made explicit the link between domestic violence and the need for refuge, framing domestic violence as a manifestation of gender inequality and an imbalance of power between men and women. This book illuminates how the women's domestic violence services movement in Victoria emerged, how members organised amidst diversity and worked towards achieving their goals, made sense of their experiences and dealt with the obstacles they encountered while undertaking action to create significant change for women
Money Smarts delivers a practical guidebook that will equip you with an action plan to build a stronger financial future. It's not a theory book filled with unrealistic concepts and strategies. Rather, it's loaded with uncommon common sense. Readers will embark on a 30-day approach to spending wisely, identifying and eliminating waste, reducing debt building a safety net, resolving credit issues and making sure income stretches as far and works as effectively as it can.Areas covered include debt management, wills and trusts, insurance, scams, managing kids and money, investments, talking about money, creating a viable and realistic plan and so much more!
Answers basic questions students ask about saving money and other financial skills needed for adulthood: strategies for saving for college, a car, a house, and retirement; and ways to save on everyday expenses"--Provided by publisher.
Answers basic questions students ask when learning about financial skills needed for adulthood, including investing money in the stock market, bonds and mutual funds, gold, and collectibles.
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