Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? After a five-year research project, the author concludes that good to great can and does happen. Here, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organization to make the leap from good to great while other organizations remain only good.

This guide for Unix system administration, covers the fundamental and essential tasks required to run such Unix systems as Solaris, Linux, AIX, IRIX, BSD, and more. This edition covers: DHCP, USB devices, automation tools, SNMP and network management, LDAP, PAM, and security tools and techniques.

Provide options for installing, configuring and managing sendmail's versions and companion programs. This book includes material on SSL and AUTH and a chapter on Mitlers. It is intended for system administrators, programmers, network engineers, and inexperienced users.

Part tutorial and part reference, this book helps you develop new JavaScript skills by building on your basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and the Web in general. It includes scripting Flash with JavaScript, HTTP and Ajax, DOM, SVG, XML, and web services and also serves as a detailed reference for the more experienced web developers.

Covers improvements in best practices and advances in the world of browsers. This work demonstrates how web standards are driving search engine friendliness ( findability ) and Web 2.0 applications that have reinvigorated the medium and the online marketplace. It also includes techniques to make CSS layouts work better across multiple browsers.

A parable that helps you love the work you do - even if you can't always do work that you love.

Provides you with a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a review of the various aspects of CSS 2.1. This book covers Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's improved browser, and also includes content on positioning, lists and generated content, table layout, user interface, paged media, and more.

The bad boy of the restaurant world takes us behind the scenes of the industry and exposes all kind of secret behaviour that will certainly shock and may even appal you.

Intuition is not some magical property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. This book shows us how we can hone our instinctive ability to know in an instant, helping us to bring out the best in our thinking and become better decision-makers in our homes, offices and in everyday life.

Alan Cooper calls for a Software Revolution - his best-selling book now in trade paperback with new foreword and afterword.

Describes how to improve your software development by integrating accountability, transparency and responsibility into your daily development process. This book helps you how to: involve the whole team; increase technical collaboration through pair programming and continuous integration; reduce defects through developer testing; and more.

A moving and honest portrayal of the relationship between two sisters.

Presents the author's quest to find out: how some of the giants of commerce turn thousands of average job applicants into loyal-even fanatical-workers; how do they identify and recruit workers who will best fit their companies; and, how do they indoctrinate employees into their corporate cultures and make them perfect messengers of their brands.

Written for women by women, this practical book will help readers sail through a host of work-based challenges. Informative and inspiring, it is the perfect guide to being a boss, for all leading ladies.

Jenna has a holiday job in a shoe shop and finds that she can sell anybody anything. Unfortunately her personal problems are not so easy to sort out. When the company president, Madeline Gladstone, asks Jenna to drive her across the USA to a vital meeting, Jenna jumps at the chance to get away from her family and hit the road. Together the wise old woman and the sensible young woman teach eather .

A fabulous, funny novel narrated by a multi-talented storyteller

Offers solutions to challenges and conveys the way you need to think in order to get the most out of SQL programming efforts for both correctness and performance. This edition teaches various advanced techniques that can be used with any product, in any SQL environment, whether it is an SQL-92 or SQL-99 environment.

Provides a workable model for creating and managing within the organization of the future. This book shows us that our notions about decentralization and empowerment merely scratch the surface of what will be possible as technological and economic forces render command and control management obsolete.

Mark Sanborn met his postman, Fred, just after he moved to Denver. Fred knocked on his door, introduced himself and welcomed him to the neighbourhood. He also asked Sanborn about himself and how he wanted his mail handled while he was away. Needless to say, Sanborn was shocked. He asked Fred more about his job and how he approached it.

Offering a tutorial to the themes and techniques involved in applying the SQL language, this book includes coverage of versions of major commercial SQL platforms. It also covers MySQL, and PostgreSQL. It contains examples which have been tested against each SQL platform, with incompatibilities or platform distinctives called out and explained.