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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Connector Decision: A Closer Look -- How to Make the Connector Decision More Consistently -- Do-Or-Die Teamwork -- 6: Exercise Your Barrier-Breaking Authority -- The Barriers to Success -- Authority: Take It or Leave It -- Teams That Forfeit Their Authority -- Teams That Exercise Their Authority -- Using the Contributor Decision to Break Through Barriers -- Using the Activator Decision to Break Through Barriers -- Using the Connector Decision to Break Through Barriers -- The Path to Doing Big Things Is Open -- 7: Focus on What Matters -- Distracted, Hopelessly Stressed, and Disconnected Teams -- What Matters Most -- How to Focus on What Matters: the 3 Mind Factors -- Mind Factor #1: The Mind Can Only Focus on One Thought at a Time -- Mind Factor #2: The Mind Cannot Avoid a Don't -- Mind Factor #3: The Mind Goes Toward Its Focus -- Collecting Evidence to Prove You Can't Succeed -- The Doofus Principle -- How to End Doofusing -- We Need Each Other -- 8: Energize Around a Shared Reality -- How to Energize the Team Around a Shared Reality: The Energy Map -- Stop Trying to Be So Positive -- Leveraging the Back Side of the Energy Map to Develop the Team's Ability to Move Forward -- Using the Middle of the Energy Map to Create an Emotionally Neutral Space -- Using the Front Side of the Energy Map to Put Values Into Action -- The Energy Map: The Direction Needed to Successfully Innovate -- The Power of a Shared Reality (Dude, What Planet Did You Come From?) -- 9: Mobilize Hearts and Minds Forward -- Leave the Abstract and Make an Impression -- End the Suspense: Make the Unknown Future Known -- How to Mobilize Hearts and Minds Forward -- What Does Your Team Anticipate? …”

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“…USE EXCEL’S STATISTICAL TOOLS TO TRANSFORM YOUR DATA INTO KNOWLEDGE Nationally recognized Excel expert Conrad Carlberg shows you how to use Excel 2016 to perform core statistical tasks every business professional, student, and researcher should master. …”

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“…As with all Classroom in a Book products, online companion files include all the necessary assets you need to complete the projects featured in each lesson. Learn how to create webpages for the modern web; use and customize web frameworks to build responsive designs for a wide variety of desktop computers and mobile devices with a minimum of hand coding; incorporate graphics, text, animation, and video; build rich interactive applications; add links to text and images; add interactive elements to your sites, such as HTML5-compatible video and animation; work with HTML5 and CSS3 code and structures; and publish a finished site to the web. …”

“…Exercises in most chapters provide an opportunity for the hands-on practice that leads to true learning and distinguishes the competent professional. A stand-out feature in this book is that most chapters end with a Thinking About Performance section. …”

“…Key topics covered include: variable selection, identification of the scale of continuous covariates, the role of interactions in the model, assessment of fit and model assumptions, regression diagnostics, recurrent event models, frailty models, additive models, competing risk models, and missing data. Features of the Second Edition include: Expanded coverage of interactions and the covariate-adjusted survival functions The use of the Worchester Heart Attack Study as the main modeling data set for illustrating discussed concepts and techniques New discussion of variable selection with multivariable fractional polynomials Further exploration of time-varying covariates, complex with examples Additional treatment of the exponential, Weibull, and log-logistic parametric regression models Increased emphasis on interpreting and using results as well as utilizing multiple imputation methods to analyze data with missing values New examples and exercises at the end of each chapter Analyses throughout the text are performed using Stata® Version 9, and an accompanying FTP site contains the data sets used in the book. …”

“…Au sommaire Le recrutement équitable dans les TPE/PME : recruter les bons profils La gestion des compétences Utiliser les multiples facettes du levier formation La fidélisation des talents : maintenir la motivation de ses collaborateurs Ajuster sa communication pour donner une âme à son entreprise Le management dans les TPE/PME La politique de rémunération dans les TPE/PME : conduire une politique équitable et pertinente La sécurité dans les TPE/PME : sécuriser son entreprise Note: The ebook version does not provide access to the companion files…”

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