A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, 2000: Official Japanese Translation

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A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—2000 Edition is now available in eight additional languages to help project managers around the world.

Each of PMI's official translations includes a bilingual glossary of newly translated and standardized project management terminology. This allows candidates to study the guide in the same language in which they plan to take the Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification exam.

PMI undertook a rigorous, year-long process to ensure the maximum effectiveness of each official translation. Each translation team included qualified bilingual PMPs as well as professional translators and editors.

Official translations: Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Korean, German and Italian.

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Teaching First A Guide for New Mathematicians
Series: MAA Notes

An invaluable guide for new teachers.

In Teaching First, Thomas Rishel draws on his nearly forty years of teaching experience to address the nuts and bolts issues of teaching college mathematics.

The book is written for the mathematics TA or young faculty member who may be wondering just where and how to start. Rishel opens the eyes of the reader to pitfalls they may never have considered, and offers advice to balancing an obligation to the student with an obligation to mathematics. Throughout he provides answers to seemingly daunting questions shared by most new TAs, such as how to keep a classroom active and lively; how to prepare writing assignments, tests, and quizzes; how exactly to write a letter of recommendation; and how to pace, minute by minute, the "mathematical talks" one will be called upon to give.

Teaching First is Rishel's answer to those who may suggest that good teaching is innate and cannot be taught. This he emphatically denies, and he insists that solid teaching starts with often overlooked seeming trivialities that one needs to master before exploring theories of learning. Along the way he also covers the general issues that teachers of all subjects eventually experience: fairness in grading, professionalism among students and colleagues, identifying and understanding student types, and technology in the classroom. All of the subjects in the book are considered within the context of Rishel's experience as a mathematics teacher. All are illustrated with anecdotes and suggestions specific to the teaching of mathematics.

Teaching First is a comprehensive guide for a mathematics TA, from the first semester preparations through the unforeseen challenges of accepting a faculty position. Its aim is to prepare new TAs with clear suggestions for rapidly improving their teaching abilities.

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Sound advice for new teachers of mathematics.......2001-07-08

It is very unfortunate that most teaching assistants (TA's) in mathematics are put in the classroom with little or no training. In my case, I faced my first recitation class after having only a two hour meeting with the instructor and all the TA's for the course. There is so much that is unknown and while you do learn on the job, the students often get shorted, and in this day of legal action run amok, is a potentially hazardous situation.
In this book, Rishel sets down some very sound advice for all mathematicians who are faced with teaching, from the first TA position to finding that first critical job after graduation. Simple things like preparing a resume and how to deal with difficult situations are examined. For example, suppose you know that a particular student has had a difficult time with a family illness or death and so in sympathy, you forgive a couple of points and award a higher grade. However, this act of compassion is not understood by another student who did not have such problems, has earned the same score and now demands equal treatment. What should(could) you do in such cases? Such scenarios can and do happen, so you had better be prepared to deal with them.
Other issues are topics such as the professional distance between student and teacher, which in terms of age and experience may almost be nonexistent. This is one that is very difficult and in many ways is a personal choice. Some people, both teachers and students, are more comfortable with a formal relationship and others find the formal approach uncomfortable and prefer the personal. When I was a TA, the course professor expressed displeasure with a colleague who played racquetball with another TA. In his opinion, such an action violated the principles of professional distance. Easy to dismiss, these are principles that need to be considered, evaluated and planned for.
Setting down policies and learning how to handle difficult situations is often considered to be unnecessary, but serious problems can and do occur, even to the point of violence. New TA's are often the least trained of all teachers, and I would strongly recommend that anyone just starting in that role read this book before facing a class for the first time. Mathematics majors who will be teaching in either middle or high school will also find some sound advice in course management.

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Over the past two decades, not only has supply chain analysis become a strategic focus of leading firms, it has also spawned an impressive array of research that brings together diverse research communities. Adding to this diversity and intellectual energy is the emergence of E-Business. E-Business creates new competitive dimensions that are fast-paced, ever-changing, and risk-prone, dimensions where innovation, speed, and technological savvy often define success. Most importantly, E-Business challenges the premises and expands the scope of supply chain analysis. The Handbook is a comprehensive research reference that is essential for anyone interested in conducting research in supply chain. Unique features include:

-A focus on the intersection of quantitative supply chain analysis and E-Business,
-Unlike other edited volumes in the supply chain area, this is a handbook rather than a collection of research papers. Each chapter was written by one or more leading researchers in the area. These authors were invited on the basis of their scholarly expertise and unique insights in a particular sub-area,
-As much attention is given to looking back as to looking forward. Most chapters discuss at length future research needs and research directions from both theoretical and practical perspectives,
-Most chapters describe in detail the quantitative models used for analysis and the theoretical underpinnings; many examples and case studies are provided to demonstrate how the models and the theoretical insights are relevant to real situations,
-Coverage of most state-of-the-art business practices in supply chain management.

Audience: This volume is suitable for researchers, faculty, graduate students, and practitioners in the following areas: supply chain management, operations research, management science, decision science, industrial engineering, operations management, civil engineering/transportation, logistics management, risk management, applied mathematics, economics, computer science, industrial management, and other related areas.

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The tariff policies of the 1890-1922 led to the development of tariff rates that launched the United States on a path that led to later trade wars. The Republican Party and Porter McCumber took the lead in promoting these policies, claiming that the tariff would protect new and struggling industries. In many instances, items subjected to high tariffs were not in conflict with industries in the United States. In addition, although the tariff covered agricultural products, it was not sufficient to halt an agricultural decline. This work traces the course of U.S. policy through five tariffs which preceded the Fordney-McCumber tariff of 1922, when the tariff was used for both protection and revenue. McCumber's economic nationalism combined with his internationalism in other areas is detailed in the work.

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The virtual university transforming workplace education.......1998-10-30

Suddenly it all makes sense! Virtual universities get hyped up, but what have been the results? We hear of all sorts of initiatives, yet somehow the educational world hasn't changed that much - or has it?

In 'The Virtual University: an action paradigm and process for workplace learning', Teare, Davies and Sandelands outline a coherent vision of what is possible, backed up by real examples of what they are achieving today.

The book manages to sketch out the big picture of the learning society within the context of a rapidly changing, uncertain world. It presents an inclusive, 'open systems' model of personal and organizational learning. But it's not just a theoretical model, as is ably demonstrated by the creation of Our University for Industry - hospitality worldwide, among other experiences related.

The use of electronic communications media is discussed, but this is not a book for the techno-heads, it's for educationalists and in-company senior training and OD specialists. And it's for everyone seeking to develop themselves on an ongoing, 'lifelong' basis.

It follows on nicely for me in the tradition of 'The Knowledge Game' and 'Our Enterprise School of Management' by Gordon Wills, and all works by Reg Revans e.g. 'The ABC of Action Learning'.

I enjoyed it and feel I have benefitted from finding the time to read it cover to cover!

Claire Huntley Contributing Editor: Technology Strategies Editorial Advisor: Global Anthological Journal of Action Learning

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Richard Teare David Davies Eric Sanderlands Eric Sandelands
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This book increases advertising effectiveness through lessons drawn from the bestselling brands of the world. Analyzing over 500 extremely effective campaigns, the authors extract the underlying strategies and psychological approaches which made them successful and combine them into a proven program for readers to apply to their own brands. The result is a practical toolkit featuring 60 precise techniques which systematically help to build winning brands, achieve growth and solve any brand problem.

* Provides the first ever complete analysis of successful brands to discover what has really driven their success. Enables readers to build for the first time on this global branding experience.
* Identifies the 'growth codes' consistently applied by successful brands, and isolates them to create a global standard tool that anyone can apply them to sell more product at minimum risk.
* Based on a six-year study of 1,045 extremely successful brands from all over the world. Includes international case examples from Nestlé, Siemens, Procter and Gamble and many more.
* Formerly at Procter & Gamble, the authors are among Europe's leading marketers. They run their own agency and have been selected as marketers for the world's first virtual agency.

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Breakthrough in behavioral branding!.......2003-02-03

The whole marketing and advertising world seems to be obsessed by the concept of "benefits", be it rational or emotional.
The authors of this book choose an entirely different approach: the empirical discipline of behavioral science. They show that you come up with compelling and strikingly different kinds of brand strategies, if you forget the "benefit dogma" for a minute and use the broader spectrum of behavioral triggers to drive the sales of your brand. - Simply the best and most scientific book I have ever read on branding.

Breakthrough in behavioral branding!.......2003-02-03

A blatent attempt to sell advertising consultancy.......2001-12-30

Over the past few months I have received several SPAM emails from the book authors' consulting firm say that this book contains newly discovered principles that can be applied like scientific formulas to solve seemingly "hopeless" brand problems. I bought the book and now I'm writing this review in the hope I save others some time and money. This book contains no scientific principles and no trustworthy findings.

The book's marketing principles were apparently discovered after the authors spent a little more than six years studying 1045 brands who were all in the top fifth percentile of their industry in terms of consistent growth. The research was supposed to identify the characteristics that separate these winning brands from others. Yet the authors did not look at non-winning brands.

Oddly, the book gives almost no information on this major "research" programme and how the winning brands were studied. But it alludes to in-depth development of case studies, and the book is littered with little example case studies. This is rather amazing productivity since simple maths tells us that the authors had little more than two days per brand. Just a few days to uncover the reasons behind each brand's success. Reasons that had apparently previously remained secret for many years, certainly at least to all of these brands many many competitors.

The book presents 26 supposedly universal laws that winning brands are said to adhere to. AIncredibily all of these refer to re-positioning the brand through a change in advertising campaign. Apparently, distribution, pricing and product strategies were not responsible for the growth success of any of the brands the authors' studied. Which reminds me of that old joke about how advertising agencies react to marketing problems (the book's authors work for an advertising agency): "I'm not sure what the problem really is, but the solution is definitely advertising".

None of the so called "principles" are extraordinarily new or radical (as the emails promised). These 26 principles are things like:
The magic principle - capture the `intriguing implausibility' within your brand that makes your competitors look boring.
The spirit principle - add a spirit to your brand that implies superior quality (the `right' spirit) and polarizes your competitors (the `wrong' spirit).

In spite of all the talk of universal laws that are easily applied, these "principles" are not expressed in terms of scientific laws, ie, "if this...then this". Nor are they expressed in terms of normative principles, ie, "in this situation a firm should do x". Just how a manager is supposed to use them is not well described - the hint is obvious, employ the authors, they know how.

It is perhaps not surprising that a book which consists largely of anecdotes and marketing "war stories" would contain many contradictions. Folk-lore often does: "many hands make light work" and yet "too many cooks spoil the broth". In addition to such inconsistencies this book contains faulty logic and out-right errors.

On page one the book begins with a humdinger. It attempts to describe the challenges that modern marketers face including that "low or negative birthrates in the United States, Europe and Japan will reduce the number of consumers by half in the next two generations". That half the population of the developed world is about to disappear should be of great concern, and not just to marketers !

On page two the authors claim that generic brands are experiencing the strongest growth worldwide. Yet the book lists no generic brands amongst its `winners'.

The authors begin by saying you can apply their discovered principles "to any product...in any industry to increase sales and market share reliably". But soon they back away from stating that this book has all the answers: "there are no guarantees in life and none in marketing" (p.13); and yet on the very next page they state that "the growth codes in this book point to sure-fire strategies". The authors seem to have a unique and flexible interpretation of the word "sure-fire".

This book make bold claims and, not surprisingly, it massively under-delivers. At its worst it is nothing more than a blatant attempt to sell the advertising and consulting services of a particular company. It offers no real insight into what makes some brands more successful than others.

What it does offer is a long list, for a short book, of stories about brands that changed their advertising message in an attempt to `cut through' and/or reposition the brand. How reliable these stories are is anyone's guess. Especially the claims of achieved results. Some of the stories are entertaining, but there are too many and even these short cases begin to bore, and there are a surprising number of anecdotes about the Prussian army. So readers beware.

Getting to the top of your market.......2001-01-28

In business, there is rarely a place for silver medals. You're either at the top or you're moving backwards quickly. Andreas Buchholz and Wolfram Wordemann understand this and show how products get to the top quickly and stay there using laws and principles so clear, straightforward, and simple that the book cannot be put down until read cover to cover. After each chapter I found myself asking - "Why didn't I think of that?" I have read numerous books on marketing and would trade them all for this one. Insightful, clearly thought out, direct and without equal. Read it and prosper.

Robert T. Murray

The science of marketing.......2001-01-09

Newton discovered one of the laws of nature, in the book "What makes Winning Brands Different", Adreas Buchholz and Wolfram Wördemann have discovered 23 laws of marketing.

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