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Tabla de Contenidos: “…: The Complex Interplay Between Strengths and High-Performing Leaders -- Chapter 3 Strengths Can Be Developed: Diverse Ways to Take Your Strengths to the Next Level -- Chapter 4 Leadership Cross-Training: The Revolutionary Approach to Developing Leadership Skills -- Chapter 5 Benefits from Developing Strengths: Why Focusing on Weaknesses Doesn't Create Exceptional Leadership -- Part II: How exceptional Strengths are Developed -- Chapter 6 Where to Start: Targeting Strengths to Develop -- Chapter 7 Transitioning from Poor Performance to Good: A Linear Plan for Enhancing Your Skills -- Chapter 8 The Role of Feedback in Developing Leadership Strengths: A Surefire Medicine -- Chapter 9 Building Strengths at Work: Integrating On-the-Job Activities into Your Growth as a Leader -- Chapter 10 Sustaining Strengths: Building Follow-Through into Your Development Plan -- Part III: Special Considerations -- Chapter 11 Individual Contributors: Building on Strengths Is the Foundation of Success at Every Level -- Chapter 12 Getting Out of the Pit: When to Fix Weaknesses and Fatal Flaws -- Chapter 13 Can Strengths Be Taken Too Far?…”

“…Use Dynamic Data components to overcome common real-world user interface development challenges Understand how ASP.NET Dynamic Data builds on strengths of WebForms, Entity Framework, and LINQ Develop simple custom templates to dramatically reduce code duplication Generalize templates to leverage metadata and generate user interfaces dynamically Create web pages for data entry, data filtering, and diverse views of data Use Data Annotations to implement powerful validation logic Write simple, yet effective automated tests to systematically verify the business logic Create complex interaction rules that aren’t limited by single entity objects or types Optimize I/O-bound business logic by implementing it with T-SQL constraints, stored procedures, and triggers Implement role-based security with dynamic UI trimming Generate entire data-driven web applications, complete with CRUD pages, complex business rules, integrated navigation, and security Extend Dynamic Data to support advanced scenarios Decide when Dynamic Data should be used instead of or together with ASP.NET MVC…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.2 A Tool to Assist with Idea Generation: Design Heuristics -- 6.3 How Design Heuristics Were Identified: The Evidence Base -- 6.4 77 Design Heuristics for Idea Generation -- 6.5 How to Use Design Heuristics to Generate Design Concepts -- 6.6 Evidence of the Value of the Design Heuristics Tool -- 6.7 Conclusion -- 6.8 Appendix -- References -- About the Author -- Chapter 7: The Key Roles of Stories and Prototypes in Design Thinking -- Introduction -- 7.1 A Design Thinking Product Development Framework -- 7.2 What Is a Story? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The lowdown on primary keys -- Creating a primary key -- Making Tables Get Along -- Rules of relationships -- Relationship types -- Building Table Relationships -- The Relationships window -- Table relationships -- Indexing for Faster Queries -- Creating your own index -- Adding and removing indexes -- Chapter 6 Remodeling Your Data -- Opening a Table for Editing -- Inserting Records and Fields -- Adding a record -- Inserting a field -- Deleting a field -- Modifying Field Content -- Name-Calling -- Renaming fields -- Renaming a table -- Turn Uh-Oh! …”

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