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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 1 Optimism Christiana Figueres -- Internal Commitment: How Leadership Is Born -- La Lucha Sin Fin or the Endless Struggle -- Overcoming Despondency, Affirming Optimism -- Strong Back, Soft Front -- Planting Forward -- Female Leaders Versus Feminist Leaders -- La Paz Sin Fin -- Chapter 2 Curiosity Gitanjali Rao -- Carving Her Path -- It Starts at School, and It Starts with Kindness -- Leadership Is Not What We Are Taught, Nor What We See -- Looking Up -- The Power of Diversity -- Curiosity: A Way of Life -- Success Is the Capstone to a Pyramid of Failures -- Chapter 3 Consistency Becky Sauerbrunn -- The Power of Role Models -- Comfortable with the Uncomfortable -- Impostors, Even while Leading -- On the Field -- Leading as an Introvert -- Making History, Beyond the Field -- Leadership, Power, Diversity: A Triad for Change -- Dreams in a Drawer -- Doing What Others Can't: The Courage of Leadership -- Chapter 4 Authenticity Diane von Furstenberg -- Life, after Darkness -- A Man's Life in a Woman's Body -- Success Is a Façade -- Authenticity Is the Real Deal -- Design Your Life -- A Chaotic World, in Need of Women's Solutions -- Life as a Conduit -- Then and Now -- Seduction, the Power of Women -- Just Be You -- Chapter 5 Freedom Tawakkol Karman -- Just as Capable: Equality in a Conservative Country -- The Iron Woman -- Perseverance, a Path to Freedom -- What Can You Do for Your Country? …”

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“…Coverage includes Using Adapter to provide consistent interfaces to clients Using Facade to simplify the use of reusable toolkits Understanding the role of Bridge in Java database connectivity The Observer pattern, Model-View-Controller, and GUI behavior Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) and the Proxy pattern Streamlining designs using the Chain of Responsibility pattern Using patterns to go beyond Java's built-in constructor features Implementing Undo capabilities with Memento Using the State pattern to manage state more cleanly and simply Optimizing existing codebases with extension patterns Providing thread-safe iteration with the Iterator pattern Using Visitor to define new operations without changing hierarchy classes If you're a Java programmer wanting to save time while writing better code, this book's techniques, tips, and clear explanations and examples will help you harness the power of patterns to improve every program you write, design, or maintain. …”

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