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Office face-time may always play a critical role in certain corporate settings, but technology and globalization have combined to thrust "virtual meetings" into an increasingly important place on today's overall business stage. With once-rigid boundaries of time, geography, and even organization now rapidly disappearing, members of almost any workplace team can communicate and collaborate regardless of physical location. How to do so most effectively? Deborah L. Duarte, assistant professor at George Washington University, and Nancy Tennant Snyder, chief learning officer for Whirlpool Corporation, outline suggestions applicable to large and small organizations alike in Mastering Virtual Teams. Designed for those who work in--as well as lead--such teams, it is divided into sections that focus on their unique inherent complexities, their creation, and their operation. Real-life examples and the authors' experienced observations are complemented by an abundance of helpful checklists and practical exercises. --Howard Rothman
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This third edition of the best-selling resource Mastering Virtual Teams offers a toolkit for leaders and members of virtual teams. The revised and expanded edition includes a CD-ROM with useful resources that allow virtual teams to access and use the book's checklists, assessments, and other practical tools quickly and easily. Deborah L. Durate and Nancy Tennant Snyder include updated guidelines, strategies, and best practices for working effectively with virtual teams across time and distance to see a project through. The useful tools, exercises, and real-life examples show how anyone can master the unique dynamics of virtual team participation in an environment where the old rules no longer apply.
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This third edition of the best-selling resource Mastering Virtual Teamsoffers a toolkit for leaders and members of virtual teams. Deborah L. Durate and Nancy Tennant Snyder include updated guidelines, strategies, and best practices for working effectively with virtual teams across time and distance to see a project through. The useful tools, exercises, and real-life examples show how anyone can master the unique dynamics of virtual team participation in an environment where the old rules no longer apply.
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Pretty good, but do you really need to read a book to figure this out?.......2007-03-10
This is one of two textbooks assigned for me in my management of engineering teams class. Overall, I would say that this is a good book with a lot of useful information on managing virtual teams. However, I think that managing virtual teams is not too different from managing regular teams. Sure there are some technology issues you have to consider and different team norms, but the delta between managing virtual and conventional teams is really not that large. I do not think you need a book dedicated to explaining this delta. But overall this is a good read.
Another Human Resource Book with no Business case.......2001-11-03
I was disappointed by the lack of real world examples. Most of the examples were "human resource groups". Now, to be sure, there are many really fine checklists for managers included in this book. Although they are basic, most managers find them useful and thought provoking.
Unfortunately, as with most books on virtual teams, the authors have not focused on the critical operations which use virtual teaming: marketing, sales, program/project management. This book also neglects to leave the reader with a future focus --like: what is the new work and how will the businesses have to 'virtually' restructure or lose the "command and control" model of management.
Not great prose, but thorough coverage.......2001-03-27
Duarte and Synder provide thorough coverage of the tools and techniques required for effective use of virtual teams. The writing style is basic, here's-what-to-do stuff, offering 'x' critical success factors, abundant check lists, and tables comparing alternatives, such as video or electronic displays. From my experience, they are right on target for team leaders and team members.
Interspersed are jewels of wisdom. For example: communication and collaboration are the two most important factors in team success; sometimes it's better to wait until team members get to know one another as dependable and competent before initiating in-depth team building; trust depends on performance and competence, integrity, and concern for the well-being of others; information overload can slow down a team's decision-making process. I was pleased to find they documented that video conferencing requires a different skill set than running regular meetings.
I sometimes yearned for more real life stories and persuasive arguments, in other words, a less formulaic style. But that's my bias as a reader and not their intent.
Excellent overview of technology and techniques.......1999-08-03
The authors provide an excellent treatment of the problems associated with starting and maintaining virtual teams. An excellent concise presentation of working with differences in culture is presented. Many technology alternatives to facilitate group interaction and collaboration are also presented. The strengths and weaknesses of each technology are given for several different problem solving situations. I would recommend this book to anyone who must solve problems with others who are off site.
Great balance of high level strategy detailed operations........1999-05-21
The authors do a fantastic job of giving good high level strategy while giving useful detailed operational information.I have already found the content useful in my global virtual teaming.
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Title: Mastering Virtual Teams, Third edition.
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Before Diversity
William H. Truesdell
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Employers, large and small, are feeling pressure these days to join the movement toward managing diversity. Unfortunately, some commercial diversity programs are not very good and others are downright misleading. A few are excellent. How are you to know which is which or begin the implementation of your own program? The answers are to be found in this new book, Before Diversity. In its second edition, the updated questions and answers give you what you need to address the proper building of your own diversity management program. As long as you create a proper foundation for your program it will stand proud and tall for a long while.
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Before Diversity: 103 Questions & Answers for Managers and Trainers
William H. Truesdell
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The most commonly asked questions in any organization which undertakes implementation of a diversity program. A complete explanation of sensitive issues ranging from definitions to emotional impact of such programs. The author offers guidance on establishing programs based on equal employment opportunity efforts, dealing with discrimination issues and responses from white males. Examination of recent impact of programs in organizations such as Texaco Corporation.
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This digital document is an article from The Black Collegian, published by iMinorities, Inc. on October 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3501 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The business case for diversity: 65 leading American businesses file an amici curiae brief in the University of Michigan diversity case before the Supreme Court.
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Diversity challenges the legal profession, conference finds. : An article from: Trial
Rebecca Porter
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Title: Diversity challenges the legal profession, conference finds.
Author: Rebecca Porter
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Trial (Magazine/Journal)
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The diversity lie.(in college admissions): An article from: Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
Brian T. Fitzpatrick
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This digital document is an article from Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, published by Harvard Society for Law and Public Policy, Inc. on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 5312 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The diversity lie.(in college admissions)
Author: Brian T. Fitzpatrick
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This digital document is an article from William and Mary Law Review, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 26695 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The diversity rationale for affirmative action in employment after Grutter: the case for containment.
Author: Jared M. Mellott
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This digital document is a journal article from Organisms Diversity & Evolution, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Concatenated SSU (18S) and partial LSU (28S) sequences (~2kb) from 12 ingroup taxa, comprising 2 phoronids, 2 members of each of the craniid, discinid, and lingulid inarticulate brachiopod lineages, and 4 rhynchonellate, articulate brachiopods (2 rhynchonellides, 1 terebratulide and 1 terebratellide) were aligned with homologous sequences from 6 protostome, deuterostome and sponge outgroups (3964 sites). Regions of potentially ambiguous alignment were removed, and the resulting data (3275 sites, of which 377 were parsimony-informative and 635 variable) were analysed by parsimony, and by maximum and Bayesian likelihood using objectively selected models. There was no base composition heterogeneity. Relative rate tests led to the exclusion (from most analyses) of the more distant outgroups, with retention of the closer pectinid and polyplacophoran (chiton). Parsimony and likelihood bootstrap and Bayesian clade support values were generally high, but only likelihood analyses recovered all brachiopod indicator clades designated a priori. All analyses confirmed the monophyly of (brachiopods+phoronids) and identified phoronids as the sister-group of the three inarticulate brachiopod lineages. Consequently, a revised Linnean classification is proposed in which the subphylum Linguliformea comprises three classes: Lingulata, 'Phoronata' (the phoronids), and 'Craniata' (the current subphylum Craniiformea). Divergence times of all nodes were estimated by regression from node depths in non-parametrically rate-smoothed and other chronograms, calibrated against palaeontological data, with probable errors not less than 50My. Only three predicted brachiopod divergence times disagree with palaeontological ages by more than the probable error, and a reasonable explanation exists for at least two. Pruning long-branched ingroups made scant difference to predicted divergence time estimates. The palaeontological age calibration and the existence of Lower Cambrian fossils of both main brachiopod clades together indicate that initial genetic divergence between brachiopod and molluscan (chiton) lineages occurred well before the Lower Cambrian, suggesting that much divergence between metazoan phyla took place in the Proterozoic. See also Electronic Supplement at: http://www.senckenberg.de/odes/05-11.htm
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This digital document is a journal article from Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The trilobite biodiversity curve for Avalonia differs markedly from the global and other regional patterns in having the peak of diversity immediately prior to the Hirnantian extinction event rather than in the Caradoc or even earlier. This reflects both the very wide spectrum of biofacies represented in this part of the succession in Avalonia and the immigration of taxa resulting from the closure of the Iapetus and Tornquist oceans. Detailed analysis of the faunas demonstrates that Avalonia exemplifies the many factors involved in provincial breakdown and their influence on biodiversity. Furthermore, it emphasises the need to understand the palaeoenvironmental context within which such changes took place. Over 90 trilobite genera are known from the mid-Ashgill (Cautleyan and Rawtheyan stages) of Avalonia with half of these making their first appearance on this microcontinent in that interval. The wide environmental spectrum reflected in the rock record not only includes the return of the deepest water (cyclopygid-atheloptic) biofacies but also marks the first recorded development in Avalonia of the pure carbonate illaenid-cheirurid association which was first established in low latitude Laurentia much earlier in the Ordovician. Its appearance in Avalonia may reflect a combination of the drift of the microcontinent towards tropical latitudes and a possible warming event. Recruitment into this and other environments was overwhelmingly from low latitudes with the largest cohort having its earlier history in Laurentia. Setting aside the 'new' pure carbonate environment, the marked rise in diversity and concomitant provincial breakdown resulted from the insinuation of immigrant taxa into existing communities across the shelf and upper slope rather than from any substantial replacement of the established incumbents. The peak of diversity in the mid-Ashgill made the climatically triggered Hirnantian extinction all the more dramatic in Avalonia.
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Written by a professor/practitioner of landscape architecture, this classic text provides an introduction to the theories, techniques, methods, and history of ecological planning, site planning, and landscape design. Offers a broad perspective on ecological analysis, conservation, landscape planning and environmental impact, site planning and landscape design, human and natural factors, microclimate, planting design, landscape engineering, and a short history of parks, gardens, housing and conservation movements. For students in introductory courses in landscape architecture, architecture, city and regional planning, or landscape horticulture, and for professionals involved in related disciplines.
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The Ecological Cycles that composes the Enviroment.......2000-04-12
This book is the base for the practice and teaching the Enviromental Drawing. There are essays and study cases about the necessity of considering the city health and the ecological processes when planning the Landscape. Taking the man as the principal subject, he tells a little bit about the Lanscape Architecture - since Olmstead, and and earlier intentions of treating the landscape that came from the first civilizations through the time. It's also rich considering the elements of the ecological cýcles that composes the enviroment - like the microclimate, the human and the natural actions, focusing on each important agent of the landscape, and giving examples of "how to feel" each case study, as an example for other situations.
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This comprehensive book provides a thorough scientific foundation on the growth and care of plants common to all horticultural commodities. Continuing in the tradition of the first edition, it incorporates the principles behind the techniques described in other ''how-to'' horticulture texts. By providing readers with a thorough grounding in the science of horticulture, it successfully prepares them for more specialized studies in nursery management, floriculture, landscaping, vegetable and fruit science.
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Most referenced textbook.......2004-08-04
I was fortunate enough to have Dr. Preece as an instructor for the General Horticulture class when I started college. Little did I know that I would be referring to this book when I was preparing for qualification exams for PhD in Botany. This textbook is an invaluable tool for students who want to further their education
Titles are decieving..........2003-08-24
This book is by no means basic as the subtitle "an introductory textbook" states. In fact, this is one of the most detailed, and comprehensive books available on the subject. Covering everything from total plant anatomy all the way to pathology, nutrition, propagation, and beyond, it is an invaluable resource for any hort or botany student. Hobbyists will also find this book invaluably enlightening, as it can help them answer common questions such as why leaves on tomato plants are turning yellow.
Great book invaluable to horticultural students.......2000-11-15
I have recently completed a BSc (HONS) in horticulture and found this book very useful. I used many text during my degree, however this was the one I refered to most. I think that students particularily in the initial stages of a degree or diploma course would find the book most valuable. Many areas of interest are covered e.g. biological control of plant pathogens, irrigation and many other areas that may not be apparent from the books title. There are many good pictures and diagrams and each chapter has useful references. This book will also be of interest to horticultural professionals.
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Introductory Horticulture, seventh edition is a text that has had longstanding success and is a tried and true resource for teachers and students. It is comprehensive and easy to read, and is well thought out and organized. The book provides competencies that make it easy for the teacher to measure a student's progress in an effective and literal way. Key terms are highlighted throughout that allow the reader to focus on exactly what they need to learn and retain, and also a self evaluation at the end of each chapter to help keep the student on track. This new edition boasts all of the latest technology and trends to keep students on the cutting edge. It covers basic horticulture science and practical cultural needs so that the student understands the fundamentals. This well organized text also provides information on finding the right job in the horticulture industry and provides tips on interviewing. With a large amount of full-color illustrations, the reader isn't left to guess what the author is referring to. Students will read and enjoy this text and teachers will appreciate the tools for evaluation and the straightforward approach.
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This competency-based, introductory horticulture book is now in its sixth edition. Written in an easy-to-read, engaging style, it enables users to measure their progress. This book includes numerous illustrations to help reinforce written material. It provides a thorough introduction to the world of horticulture. This latest edition includes new chapters on water gardens, dish gardens, and prairie gardens for the more adventuresome gardener.
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Lab Manual to Accompany Introductory Horticulture
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H. Edward Reiley
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Introductory Horiculture
Ellen Peffley
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Introductory Horticulture
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Testing the AGN Paradigm (AIP Conference Proceedings)
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