Putts Law And The Successful Technocrat

Author : Archibald Putt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471714224
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat written by Archibald Putt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-04-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand." —Putt's Law Early Praise for Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat: "This is management writing the way it ought to be. Think Dilbert, but with a very big brain. Read it and weep. Or laugh, depending on your current job situation." —Spectral Lines, IEEE Spectrum, April 2006 "It's a classic. It reads at first like humor, but one eventually realizes that it's all true. The first edition changed my life. I loaned my copy to a subordinate at IBM, and he didn't return it to me until he was my boss." —Dave Thompson, PhD, IBM Fellow (retired), Member National Academy of Engineering, and IEEE Fellow "Putt's humor ranges from sharp to whimsical and is always on target. Readers will be reminded of many personal experiences and of lessons in life they wish they had learned earlier in their careers." —Eric Herz, former IEEE executive director and general manager "Anyone who thinks 'engineering management' is an oxymoron needs to read this terrific book — then they will know." —Norman R. Augustine, author of Augustine's Laws and retired Chairman & CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation Putt's Law is as true today as it was when techno-everyman Archibald Putt first stated it. Now, in Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat: How to Win in the Information Age, Putt is back with the unvarnished truth about success in the modern, technology-driven organization. As you learn the real rules of the technology world, you'll meet such characters as the successful technocrat, Dr. I. M. Sharp. You'll find out how he wrangles career victories from corporate failures, nearly bankrupting the firm with his projects while somehow emerging the hero. You'll also meet such unfortunates as Roger Proofsworthy, top-level perfectionist yet low in the hierarchy, and come to understand how he assiduously preserves his spot near the bottom of the totem pole. Whether you work in business, IT, or are a freelance technocrat, you'll want to study Putt's hard-won wisdom and laugh—all the way to the bank!

Author : Archibald Putt
Publisher : Smithtown, N.Y. : Exposition Press
ISBN 13 : 9780682497022
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat written by Archibald Putt and published by Smithtown, N.Y. : Exposition Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Archibald Putt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471788937
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat written by Archibald Putt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-02-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Technology is dominated by two types of people: those whounderstand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do notunderstand." —Putt's Law Early Praise for Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat: "This is management writing the way it ought to be. ThinkDilbert, but with a very big brain. Read it and weep. Or laugh, depending on yourcurrent job situation." —Spectral Lines, IEEE Spectrum, April 2006 "It's a classic. It reads at first like humor, but oneeventually realizes that it's all true. The first edition changed my life. I loaned mycopy to a subordinate at IBM, and he didn't return it to me until he was myboss." —Dave Thompson, PhD, IBM Fellow (retired), Member NationalAcademy of Engineering, and IEEE Fellow "Putt's humor ranges from sharp to whimsical and is always ontarget. Readers will be reminded of many personal experiences and oflessons in life they wish they had learned earlier in their careers." —Eric Herz, former IEEE executive director and generalmanager "Anyone who thinks 'engineering management' is an oxymoron needsto read this terrific book — then they will know." —Norman R. Augustine, author of Augustine's Laws and retiredChairman & CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation Putt's Law is as true today as it was when techno-everymanArchibald Putt first stated it. Now, in Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat:How to Win in the Information Age, Putt is back with the unvarnished truthabout success in the modern, technology-driven organization. As you learn the real rules of the technology world, you'll meetsuch characters as the successful technocrat, Dr. I. M. Sharp. You'llfind out how he wrangles career victories from corporate failures,nearly bankrupting the firm with his projects while somehow emerging thehero. You'll also meet such unfortunates as Roger Proofsworthy,top-level perfectionist yet low in the hierarchy, and come to understand howhe assiduously preserves his spot near the bottom of the totempole. Whether you work in business, IT, or are a freelance technocrat,you'll want to study Putt's hard-won wisdom and laugh—all the way tothe bank!

Author : J.E. Roeckelein
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080460642
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elsevier's Dictionary of Psychological Theories written by J.E. Roeckelein and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In attempting to understand and explain various behaviour, events, and phenomena in their field, psychologists have developed and enunciated an enormous number of ‘best guesses’ or theories concerning the phenomenon in question. Such theories involve speculations and statements that range on a potency continuum from ‘strong’ to ‘weak’. The term theory, itself, has been conceived of in various ways in the psychological literature. In the present dictionary, the strategy of lumping together all the various traditional descriptive labels regarding psychologists ‘best guesses’ under the single descriptive term theory has been adopted. The descriptive labels of principle, law, theory, model, paradigm, effect, hypothesis and doctrine are attached to many of the entries, and all such descriptive labels are subsumed under the umbrella term theory. The title of this dictionary emphasizes the term theory (implying both strong and weak best guesses) and is a way of indication, overall, the contents of this comprehensive dictionary in a parsimonious and felicitous fashion. The dictionary will contain approximately 2,000 terms covering the origination, development, and evolution of various psychological concepts, as well as the historical definition, analysis, and criticisms of psychological concepts. Terms and definitions are in English. *Contains over 2,000 terms covering the origination, development and evolution of various psychological concepts *Covers a wide span of theories, from auditory, cognitive tactile and visual to humor and imagery *An essential resource for psychologists needing a single-source quick reference

Author : Bill Stackpole
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1040070388
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security Strategy written by Bill Stackpole and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarifying the purpose and place of strategy in an information security program, this book explains how to select, develop, and deploy the security strategy best suited to your organization. It focuses on security strategy planning and execution to provide a comprehensive look at the structures and tools needed to build a security program that enables and enhances business processes. Divided into two parts, the first part considers business strategy and the second part details specific tactics that support the implementation of strategic planning initiatives, goals, and objectives.

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Total Pages : 400 pages
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Author : M. S. Sridhar
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788170225638
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Behaviour of Scientists and Engineers written by M. S. Sridhar and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helgi Thor Ingason
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429806248
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Project: Strategy written by Helgi Thor Ingason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic planning is the starting point for projects and often the primary reason for a project’s success or failure. It has the potential to enable every organisation to realise its ideals and actualise its values, whether it be a small start-up business, a large international company or even an entire society. Project leaders and project-orientated organisations need to understand strategic planning to recognise their position and environment, and make rational decisions when selecting and defining their projects and programs. But, those same principles can have broader, more profound, and more ambitious applications too. Project: Strategy is a practical handbook that enables organisations of any size, and employees at all levels within them, to form strategic plans and actively contribute to them throughout a project’s development. Rather than focus on superficial exercises, this book draws from knowledge outside of business and management – humanities, philosophy, psychology, technology, and engineering – to create a holistic view and a depth of understanding you would never achieve with SWOT analysis alone. Taking the reader on a pragmatic journey, it teaches self-reflexion, social responsibility and creative thinking with application to their projects and plans, but also to their working relationships and to their organisations. This book is also an ideal introductory book to progressive programs on strategic planning, with a focus on collaborative work, open strategy, and open strategic planning on a social level. It provides a wealth of learning tools and case studies to demonstrate best practice. This is the ideal guide to project planning for anyone that wants their planning decisions to be as wise as they are savvy.

Author : David Cleden
Publisher : Gower Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780566092145
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bid Writing for Project Managers written by David Cleden and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When do commercial projects go wrong? Conventional management texts only tackle the issues that arise between project startup and closure. Yet some of the worst problems (e.g. unrealistic objectives, faulty assumptions, poorly understood constraints) are 'programmed in' at conception when the bid is written, long before the project manager is brought on board at project startup. If the bid is misconceived, no amount of clever project management is going to recover the situation. Involving the designated project manager at the bidding stage is becoming the norm in many commercial organisations. Some go one step better, making the project manager the bid manager where he or she is thus able to direct all aspects of the project's conception. This is the essence of planning for project success in the bidding stage, the main theme of this book. But many project managers are unfamiliar with the pitfalls of competitive bidding and don't know how to balance the competing demands of a compelling sales messages with a realistic delivery plan. Bid Writing for Project Managers will guide prospective project managers through the bid-writing lifecycle, providing comprehensive guidelines and numerous tips on how to craft a winning bid and how to set the project up with the best possible chance of success.

Author : Huan Liu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 144190056X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Computing and Behavioral Modeling written by Huan Liu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social computing is concerned with the study of social behavior and social c- text based on computational systems. Behavioral modeling reproduces the social behavior, and allows for experimenting, scenario planning, and deep understa- ing of behavior, patterns, and potential outcomes. The pervasive use of computer and Internet technologies provides an unprecedented environment of various - cial activities. Social computing facilitates behavioral modeling in model building, analysis, pattern mining, and prediction. Numerous interdisciplinary and inter- pendent systems are created and used to represent the various social and physical systems for investigating the interactions between groups, communities, or nati- states. This requires joint efforts to take advantage of the state-of-the-art research from multiple disciplines, social computing, and behavioral modeling in order to document lessons learned and develop novel theories, experiments, and methodo- gies in terms of social, physical, psychological, and governmental mechanisms. The goal is to enable us to experiment, create, and recreate an operational environment with a better understanding of the contributions from each individual discipline, forging joint interdisciplinary efforts. This is the second international workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral ModelingandPrediction. The submissions were from Asia, Australia, Europe, and America. Since SBP09 is a single-track workshop, we could not accept all the good submissions. The accepted papers cover a wide range of interesting topics.