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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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Praise For This Book -- Title Page -- Copyright -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- Foreword for Smarter Data Science -- Epigraph -- Preamble -- Chapter 1 Climbing the AI Ladder -- Readying Data for AI -- Technology Focus Areas -- Taking the Ladder Rung by Rung -- Constantly Adapt to Retain Organizational Relevance -- Data-Based Reasoning Is Part and Parcel in the Modern Business -- Toward the AI-Centric Organization -- Summary -- Chapter 2 Framing Part I: Considerations for Organizations Using AI -- Data-Driven Decision-Making; Using Interrogatives to Gain Insight -- The Trust Matrix -- The Importance of Metrics and Human Insight -- Democratizing Data and Data Science -- Aye, a Prerequisite: Organizing Data Must Be a Forethought -- Preventing Design Pitfalls -- Facilitating the Winds of Change: How Organized Data Facilitates Reaction Time -- Quae Quaestio (Question Everything) -- Summary -- Chapter 3 Framing Part II: Considerations for Working with Data and AI -- Personalizing the Data Experience for Every User -- Context Counts: Choosing the Right Way to Display Data; Ethnography: Improving Understanding Through Specialized Data -- Data Governance and Data Quality -- The Value of Decomposing Data -- Providing Structure Through Data Governance -- Curating Data for Training -- Additional Considerations for Creating Value -- Ontologies: A Means for Encapsulating Knowledge -- Fairness, Trust, and Transparency in AI Outcomes -- Accessible, Accurate, Curated, and Organized -- Summary -- Chapter 4 A Look Back on Analytics: More Than One Hammer -- Been Here Before: Reviewing the Enterprise Data Warehouse -- Drawbacks of the Traditional Data Warehouse -- Paradigm Shift; Modern Analytical Environments: The Data Lake -- By Contrast -- Indigenous Data -- Attributes of Difference -- Elements of the Data Lake -- The New Normal: Big Data Is Now Normal Data -- Liberation from the Rigidity of a Single Data Model -- Streaming Data -- Suitable Tools for the Task -- Easier Accessibility -- Reducing Costs -- Scalability -- Data Management and Data Governance for AI -- Schema-on-Read vs. …”

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“…What you will learn Understand the new C++20 language and library features and the problems they solve Become skilled at using the standard support for threading and concurrency for daily tasks Leverage the standard library and work with containers, algorithms, and iterators Solve text searching and replacement problems using regular expressions Work with different types of strings and learn the various aspects of compilation Take advantage of the file sys..…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part I Overview Financial Markets: Functions, Institutions, and Traded Assets Basic Problems in Quantitative Finance -- Part II Fixed-income assets Elementary Theory of Interest Rates Forward Rate Agreements, Interest Rate Futures, and Vanilla Swaps Fixed-Income Markets Interest Rate Risk Management Part III Equity portfolios Decision-Making under Uncertainty: The Static Case Mean Variance Efficient Portfolios Factor Models Equilibrium Models: CAPM and APT -- Part IV Derivatives -- Modeling Dynamic Uncertainty Forward and Futures Contracts Option Pricing: Complete Markets Option Pricing: Incomplete Markets Part V Advanced optimization models Optimization Model Building Optimization Model Solving…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Disrupting the Individual -- Shooting for the Stars -- The Power of O -- Oprah -- Reinventing Your Business -- Disrupting Your Nation -- Starting Successfully -- (S)-Set a Goal -- (T)-Think About How to Get There and Plan for Success -- Chapter 7: Abandoning Your Comfort Zone -- Risk It -- Comfort Zone Versus Twilight Zone -- Risk-Taking Impacts the World -- Journey to America: In Search of Religious Freedom -- Risky Business -- The L'Amyx Tea Bar -- That's Right, My Sister-in-Law -- Amazon -- Personal Risk, Incredible Growth -- Into the Light -- No One Raised a Hand -- Chapter 8: When the Going Gets Tough -- Pairing Risk with Perseverance Is Necessary for Your Ultimate Success -- Staying the Path, Eyes Ahead -- Insights Help You Reassess Your Goals -- The Blind Man Riding on the Back of a Blind Tiger -- A Cinderella Story -- Insights Help You Persevere -- Taking the Long View and the Long Road -- Coming from Nowhere, Going Somewhere -- Fail Again and Again -- Into the Heart of Darkness -- Then Everything Changed -- Passion Play -- Chapter 9: Verify and Magnify Your Success -- Periodically Check to See If You Are Meeting Goals and Stretching Yourself to Achieve Success -- Verify -- Personal Growth -- But Then the Impossible Happened -- Quantification of Outcomes -- Are You Coasting? …”