Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 5: Build a Unique and Vibrant CultureCulture and the Bottom Line; Culture and the New Corporate Facts of Life; Creating your Unique and Vibrant Culture; Bringing it All Together; Applying the New Corporate Facts of Life; Chapter 6: Lead on the Edge of Change; Creating Great Futures through Bold Leadership; Defining the BOLDEST Leadership Needs; Seeing the BOLDEST Leaders in Action; Developing the BOLDEST Leaders; Applying the New Corporate Facts of Life; Chapter 7: Engage to Excel; Valuing Stakeholder Engagement; Engaging Internal Stakeholders; Engaging External Stakeholders…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Expected Problems in Team ManagementCommunication; Planning; Preparing; Establishing Metrics; Project Roles; Not All Problems Are Expected; No-Drama Project Management; CHAPTER 3 Identify Requirements; Customer Identification; Top-Down Thinking vs. Bottom-Up Thinking; Outside-In Requirements Gathering; The Value of Focus; Communication Strategy; Sign-off; Formal Sign-off; Informal Sign-off; Following up; Summary; CHAPTER 4 Prioritize; The Importance of Prioritization; The True Critical Path; Prioritization Games; Pairwise Prioritization; The Value of Deprioritization; How to Deprioritize…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Autodesk 3ds Max 2013 Essentials; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: The 3ds Max Interface; The Workspace; Transforming Objects Using Gizmos; Graphite Modeling Tools Ribbon; Command Panel; Time Slider and Track Bar; File Management; Chapter 2: Your First 3ds Max Project; Starting to Model a Chest of Drawers; Modeling the Top; I Can See Your Drawers; Modeling the Bottom; Creating the Knobs; Chapter 3: Modeling in 3ds Max: Architectural Model Part I; Units Setup; Importing a CAD Drawing; Creating the Walls; Creating the Doors; Creating the Window…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Canon EOS Rebel T4i/650D Digital Field Guide; About the Author; Credits; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction; Quick Tour; Getting Started; Camera Controls; Choosing Image Quality; Selecting a Focus Mode; Using a Flash; Reviewing Images or Video; Taking Better Photos; Chapter 1: Exploring the Canon EOS Rebel T4i/650D; The Top of the Camera; The Bottom of the Camera; The Front of the Camera; The Back of the Camera; The Sides of the Camera; Lens Controls; The Viewfinder Display; The LCD Touch Screen and Live View Mode; Chapter 2: Setting Up the Canon EOS Rebel T4i/650D…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conflict and competition versus collaboration and planning; Pressures to collaborate or to compete; The impact of public service modernisation: an increasingly competitive context; Conflicting pressures; Alternative approaches: partnerships responsive to community needs developed from the bottom up…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Treasury Securities or Equivalent; Chapter 11: All- Weather Investments for the Best and the Worst of Times; How to Build Your Personal Hedge Program; Chapter 12: How to Profit Directly from a Market Decline; How to Go for Profits in a Down Market; Chapter 13: How to Continue Making Money Even with the Worst Disasters; How to Invest in Foreign Currencies; Chapter 14: When to Buy the Best Bargains of the Century; Basic Principles for Buying at the Bottom…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Systematic competitive intelligenceTypes of competitive intelligence operations; Work smarter with PCMAC; Note; 4 - Plan and prioritise; Why, who, what; The purpose; Plan the work; Allocating resources - a matter of ambition level; The necessary timetable; The business environment map; Case: Bottom-up approach for drawing the business environment map; Case: Top-down approach for drawing the business environment map; Blind spots; Critical success factors; Notes; 5 - and manage; Capture; The sources; Primary sources - tacit information; Case: Networks; Secondary sources - explicit information…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…TOWARDS REAL SOLUTIONS -- CHAPTER 11 FINANCING INNOVATION -- CHALLENGES FOR INNOVATION -- STAYING ON MISSION -- INNOVATION WINDOWS -- FLEXIBLE SOURCES -- FINANCING ROUNDS -- HYBRID STRUCTURES -- CHAPTER 12 A MESSAGE TO FUNDERS -- A NEW RELATIONSHIP -- UNRESTRICTED FUNDING -- TIERED FUNDING -- PAY FOR OUTCOMES -- BLENDED FINANCE -- DONOR COLLABORATION -- A CALL TO ACTION -- CHAPTER 13 MAKING IT STICK -- CULTURAL BARRIERS TO INNOVATION -- CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION -- A WORD ON FAILURE -- CHAPTER 14 A WORLD OF IMPACT -- TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE -- IMPACT INVESTING -- CLOSING THE HYBRID FINANCE GAP -- NEW ENTITIES -- SMARTER GIVING -- IN CONCLUSION -- DISCLOSURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX -- EULA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Indicators of Human Poverty in China Poverty Reduction Strategies in China; Poverty Reduction in India; Income Inequality and Poverty in India; Human Poverty in India; Factors Behind the Poverty Trends in India; Conclusion; References; Notes; Chapter 6: The Bottom of the Pyramid Strategy for Reducing Poverty: A Failed Promise; The Poor as Value-Conscious Consumers; Empirical Evidence; Poverty and Alcohol; Whitening Cream; The Poor as an Attractive Market; The Poor as Entrepreneurs; BOP Proposition Under-Emphasizes the Role of the State; Conclusion; References; Notes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PART VII - RELAPSE PREVENTION APPLIED TO SPECIAL POPULATIONSChapter 20 - Relapse Prevention With Adolescent Sex Offenders; Chapter 21 - Treatment of the Developmentally Disabled Sex Offender; Chapter 22 - Relapse Prevention With Sexual Murderers; Chapter 23 - Replacing the Function of Abusive Behaviors for the Offender: Remaking Relapse Prevention in Working With Women Who Sexually Abuse Children; Chapter 24 - Holism, Wellness, and Spirituality: Moving From Relapse Prevention to Healing; PART VIII - THE BOTTOM LINE…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; A Growing Senseof Administrative Powerlessness in Contracting Organizations; Increased Importance of theAdministrator's Relationships and Personal Contacts; A Shift From Child Care Administrators to Fiscal Bottom-Liners…”

“…Adopting mainly an ethnographic approach as a basis for theorizing, the authors deal with topics including: bureaucratic cultures and practical norms, operational routines in offices, career patterns and modes of appointment; how bureaucrats themselves perceive and deliver goods and services and interact with service users; the accumulation of public administration reforms and how the different bureaucratic corps react to the ‘good governance’ discourse and new public management policies; the consequences of these reforms for the daily working of state bureaucracies and for the civil servants’ identities and modes of accountability; and the space that exists for bottom-up micro-reforms that build on local innovations or informal arrangements…”

“…In particular, the extent to which gun control gets politicized as a policy failure can either result from a bottom-up process (event severity and media pressure) or from a top-down logic (issue ownership and the electoral cycle). …”

“…This anthology contains individual essays by experts and authors with backgrounds in Game Design and Game Studies, who lead the discourse to get to the bottom of game mechanics in video games and the real world - among them Miguel Sicart and Carlo Fabricatore…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- TOP-DOWN FRAGMENTATION AND PARTITIONING -- BOTTOM-UP INTEGRATION -- THE MANAGEMENT OF REPLICATION -- SUMMARY -- 14 BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE -- DATA WAREHOUSING -- THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODEL OF DATA -- STANDARD REPORTING TOOLS -- ONLINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING (OLAP) -- DATA MINING -- A RELATIONAL SCHEMA FOR A DATA WAREHOUSE -- SUMMARY -- 15 OBJECT ORIENTATION -- WHAT IS OBJECT ORIENTATION? …”

“…To find out whether your participants are applying what they’ve learned on the job, you need a good evaluation strategy—one that connects evaluation to performance, program design, and bottom-line value. Each chapter of Evaluation Basics focuses on a critical aspect of developing and implementing an evaluation plan for a face-to-face or virtual training program. …”

“…Instead of ideologically driven 'top-down' calls to revitalize the social contract, it advocates for 'bottom-up' initiatives focused on the demands of the working poor in the informal economy. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Machine generated contents note: Foreword Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Fighting Poverty 1.2 Investing in Financial Infrastructure 1.3 Content Overview Chapter 2: Microfinance - the Concept 2.1 History 2.2 Definition and Goals 2.3 Double Bottom Line 2.4 Financial Inclusion 2.5 Market Participants 2.6 Impact Investing 2.7 Preliminary Conclusions Chapter 3: The Microfinance Value Chain 3.1 The Protagonists and their Tasks 3.2 Regulatory Environment 3.3 Development Finance Institutions 3.4 Market Overview 3.5 Geneva: Birthplace of Modern Microfinance 3.6 Preliminary Conclusions Chapter 4: Micro Entrepreneurs 4.1 Definition 4.2 Needs and Requirements 4.3 Micro Entrepreneurs 4.4 Preliminary Conclusions Chapter 5: Microfinance Institutions 5.1 Definition and Goals 5.2 Types of MFIs 5.3 MFI Funding 5.4 Services 5.5 Regulation 5.6 Preliminary Conclusions Chapter 6: Lending Methodologies 6.1 Traditional Credit Theory and Microfinance 6.2 Lending Methodologies 6.3 Socio-Economic Factors 6.4 Late Payments and Over-Indebtedness of Clients 6.5 Default Prevention and Restructuring 6.6 Occupation: Loan Officer 6.7 Preliminary Conclusions Chapter 7: Loan Pricing 7.1 Interest Rate Components 7.2 Setting Sustainable Interest Rates 7.3 Regional Differences 7.4 Loan Recipients' Willingness to Repay 7.5 Preliminary Conclusions Chapter 8: Social Performance Management 8.1 Social Performance 8.2 Measuring Social Performance 8.3 Measuring the Outcome of Microfinance 8.4 Social Rating Agencies 8.5 Technical Assistance 8.6 Linking Social Performance with Profitability 8.7 Preliminary Conclusions Chapter 9: Beyond the Reach of Microfinance? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- How Franchisors Make Money -- Finding a Responsible Franchisor Who Gets It -- Chapter 2 Special Advice for the First-Time Entrepreneur -- The Path of the 99% -- The Way of the 1% -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 3 Setting Your North Star -- Goal-Setting and Benchmarks -- Identifying Your Skills and Aptitudes -- Summary -- Chapter 4 Matching Your Skills and Aptitudes to Opportunities -- Understanding the Franchisor's Motives -- The KASH Model of Success -- Chapter 5 The Learning Curve and Lifecycle of a Franchisee -- Moving Through the Stages -- Three Modes of Franchisor KASH Distribution -- Stages of the Franchisee Learning Curve and Lifecycle Explained -- Summary -- Chapter 6 What Insiders Want You to Know About Franchising Before You Invest -- Franchising 1.0 -- Franchising 2.0 (Current Era) -- Franchising 3.0: The Era of Responsible Franchising (Evolving Now) -- Success Begins and Ends with Corporate Culture -- Chapter 7 Assessing the Skills and Viability of a Franchisor -- The Common Consumer Value Propositions of a Franchise Brand -- Summary -- Chapter 8 The Franchisor Landscape in the United States -- Dynamics Affecting the US Franchise Market -- Strong Franchise Brands Will Become Stronger -- Why Candidates Should Consider Avoiding Smaller Brands -- Opportunities and Risk Factors -- Chapter 9 Understanding Where Franchisors Are in Their Lifecycle and Learning Curve -- The FPG Franchise Brand Growth Curve -- Key Inflection Points…”

“…It offers users an abundance of new and upgraded features that were more than five years in the making: a gorgeous, glass-like visual overhaul; superior searching and organization tools; a multimedia and collaboration suite; and above all, a massive, top-to-bottom security-shield overhaul. There's scarcely a single feature of the older versions of Windows that hasn't been tweaked, overhauled, or replaced entirely. …”