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First Among Equals

How To Manage A Group Of Professionals

By: Patrick J. McKenna,David H. Maister

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First Among Equals

How To Manage A Group Of Professionals

By: Patrick J. McKenna,David H. Maister

Managing people when you're not their boss is a challenge, particularly in professional service firms where, increasingly, top professionals are being tapped to lead their peers. Now Patrick McKenna and David Maister provide a 'play book' for professionals trying to be both a team member and coach. In industies ranging from banking and insurance to law and engineering, as well as in research labs and software companies, management responsibility is increasingly delegated - ususally without guidance - to those who head up smaller teams of professionals. FIRST AMONG EQUALS speaks directly to those who have gone from focusing on their own performance to being a group manager in charge of leading others. From understanding the group leader role to setting terms of reference and effectively dealing with talented prima donnas, McKenna and Maister present a thorough introduction to managing and orchestrating talent.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471108694

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Principles of Distributed Database Systems

By: M. Tamer Özsu,Patrick Valduriez

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Principles of Distributed Database Systems

By: M. Tamer Özsu,Patrick Valduriez

This third edition of a classic textbook can be used to teach at the senior undergraduate and graduate levels. The material concentrates on fundamental theories as well as techniques and algorithms. The advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, and, more recently, the emergence of cloud computing and streaming data applications, has forced a renewal of interest in distributed and parallel data management, while, at the same time, requiring a rethinking of some of the traditional techniques. This book covers the breadth and depth of this re-emerging field. The coverage consists of two parts. The first part discusses the fundamental principles of distributed data management and includes distribution design, data integration, distributed query processing and optimization, distributed transaction management, and replication. The second part focuses on more advanced topics and includes discussion of parallel database systems, distributed object management, peer-to-peer data management, web data management, data stream systems, and cloud computing. New in this Edition: • New chapters, covering database replication, database integration, multidatabase query processing, peer-to-peer data management, and web data management. • Coverage of emerging topics such as data streams and cloud computing • Extensive revisions and updates based on years of class testing and feedback Ancillary teaching materials are available.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441988343

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F1rst Among Equals

How to Manage a Group of Professionals

By: Patrick J. McKenna,David H. Maister

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F1rst Among Equals

How to Manage a Group of Professionals

By: Patrick J. McKenna,David H. Maister

In this guide to managing in professional environments, two renowned consultants show professional group managers lacking formal authority how to lead colleagues to peak performance. 15 tables.

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328

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Simon and Schuster

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0743225511

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9780743225519

A Century of Psychology (Psychology Revivals)

Progress, paradigms and prospects for the new millennium

By: Ray Fuller,Patricia Noonan Walsh,Patrick McGinley

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A Century of Psychology (Psychology Revivals)

Progress, paradigms and prospects for the new millennium

By: Ray Fuller,Patricia Noonan Walsh,Patrick McGinley

Psychology has influence in almost every walk of life. Originally published in 1997, A Century of Psychology is a review of where the discipline came from, where it had reached and where the editors anticipated it may go. Ray Fuller, Patricia Noonan Walsh and Patrick McGinley assembled an internationally recognised team of mainly European experts from the major applications and research areas of psychology. They begin with a critical review of methodology and its limitations and plot the course of gender and developmental psychology. They go on to include discussion of learning, intellectual disability, clinical psychology and the emergence of psychotherapy, educational psychology, organizational psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and many other topics, in particular community psychology, perception and alternative medicine. Enlightening, reflective and sometimes provocative, A Century of Psychology is required reading for anyone involved in psychology as a practitioner, researcher or teacher. It is also a lively introduction for those new to the discipline.

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Routledge

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1134091915

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Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation

Resolving Global Environmental and Resource Problems

By: Patrick Moriarty,Damon Honnery

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Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation

Resolving Global Environmental and Resource Problems

By: Patrick Moriarty,Damon Honnery

A vast amount has been written on climate change and what should be our response. Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation suggests that most of this literature takes a far too optimistic position regarding the potential for conventional mitigation solutions to achieve the deep cuts in greenhouse gases necessary in the limited time frame we have available. In addition, global environmental problems, as exemplified by climate change, and global resource problems – such as fossil fuel depletion or fresh water scarcity – have largely been seen as separate issues. Further, proposals for solution of these problems often focus at the national level, when the problems are global. The authors argue that the various challenges the planet faces are both serious and interconnected. Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation takes a global perspective in its treatment of various solutions: • renewable energy; • nuclear energy; • energy efficiency; • carbon sequestration; and • geo-engineering. It also addresses the possibility that realistic solutions cannot be achieved until the fundamentally ethical question of global equity – both across nations today and also inter-generational – is fully addressed. Such an approach will also involve reorienting the global economy away from an emphasis on growth and toward the direct satisfaction of basic human needs for all the Earth’s people. Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation is aimed at the many members of the public with an awareness of climate change, but who wish to find out more about how we need to respond to the challenge. It will also be of interest to technical professionals, as well as postgraduate students and researchers, from the environmental and engineering science sectors.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1849964831

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9781849964838

Cycling to Work

An Analysis of the Practice of Utility Cycling

By: Patrick Rérat

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Cycling to Work

An Analysis of the Practice of Utility Cycling

By: Patrick Rérat

This book presents a thorough discussion of utility cycling, cycling in the urban environment, and everyday mobility. It is based on large survey answered by 14,000 participants in the bike to work action in Switzerland, and quantifies the various dimensions of utility cycling. It proposes an innovative theoretical framework to analyse and understand the various dimensions of the uses of bikes and their diversity. It addresses the factors that motivate commuters to get on their bike, and highlights the barriers to this practice between deficient infrastructures and lack of legitimacy. This research makes a diagnosis and discusses the way to develop this sustainable mode of transportation. By combining quantitative results in the form of tables, figures, and maps, and including qualitative results in the form of quotations from survey participants, this book provides a thorough and enjoyable read. It will be of interest to researchers, policy makers, advanced students in the field of urban planning, social sciences, and transportation.

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Springer Nature

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3030622568

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Vote Gun

How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States

By: Patrick J. Charles

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Vote Gun

How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States

By: Patrick J. Charles

Today, gun control is one of the most polarizing topics in American politics. However, before the 1960s, positions on firearms rights did not necessarily map onto partisan affiliation. What explains this drastic shift? Patrick J. Charles charts the rise of gun rights activism from the early twentieth century through the 1980 presidential election, pinpointing the role of the 1968 Gun Control Act. Gun rights advocates including the National Rifle Association had lobbied legislators for decades, but they had cast firearms control as a local issue. After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 spurred congressional proposals to regulate firearms, gun rights advocates found common cause with states’ rights proponents opposed to civil rights legislation. Following the enactment of the Gun Control Act, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle began to stake out firm positions. Politicians including Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan recognized the potential of gun control as a wedge issue, and gun rights became increasingly tied to the Republican Party. Drawing on a vast range of archival evidence, Charles offers new insight into the evolution of the gun rights movement and how politicians responded to anti–gun control hardliners. He examines in detail how the National Rifle Association reinvented itself as well as how other advocacy groups challenged the NRA’s political monopoly. Offering a deep dive into the politicization of gun rights, Vote Gun reveals the origins of the acrimonious divisions that persist to this day.

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Columbia University Press

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0231557655

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9780231557658

Fluid Flow for the Practicing Chemical Engineer

By: James Patrick Abulencia,Louis Theodore

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Fluid Flow for the Practicing Chemical Engineer

By: James Patrick Abulencia,Louis Theodore

This book teaches the fundamentals of fluid flow by including both theory and the applications of fluid flow in chemical engineering. It puts fluid flow in the context of other transport phenomena such as mass transfer and heat transfer, while covering the basics, from elementary flow mechanics to the law of conservation. The book then examines the applications of fluid flow, from laminar flow to filtration and ventilization. It closes with a discussion of special topics related to fluid flow, including environmental concerns and the economic reality of fluid flow applications.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118215710

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First Among Equals

How To Manage A Group Of Professionals

By: Patrick J. McKenna,David H. Maister

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First Among Equals

How To Manage A Group Of Professionals

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Simon and Schuster

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1471108694

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The Changing of the Guard

Selecting Your Next Firm Leader

By: Patrick J. McKenna

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The Changing of the Guard

Selecting Your Next Firm Leader

By: Patrick J. McKenna

Gain valuable advice and knowledge on how to create a competent succession plan for when you need to choose your next firm partner.

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1783581859

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The Lawyer's Guide to Strategic Practice Management

By: Ertel WILLIAMS

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The Lawyer's Guide to Strategic Practice Management

By: Ertel WILLIAMS

This new and updated edition of The Lawyer's Guide to Strategic Practice Management provides law firm leaders with the very latest guidance and market knowledge on how to improve and refine current management strategies in order to thrive and compete in today's legal marketplace.

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Book's by Patrick J. McKenna

First Among Equals

First Among Equals

Principles of Distributed Database Systems

Principles of Distributed Database Systems

F1rst Among Equals

F1rst Among Equals

A Century of Psychology (Psychology Revivals)

A Century of Psychology (Psychology Revivals)

Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation

Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation

Cycling to Work

Cycling to Work

Vote Gun

Vote Gun

Fluid Flow for the Practicing Chemical Engineer

Fluid Flow for the Practicing Chemical Engineer

First Among Equals

First Among Equals

The Changing of the Guard

The Changing of the Guard

The Lawyer's Guide to Strategic Practice Management

The Lawyer's Guide to Strategic Practice Management

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