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Scrumnastics - 1 book 5 courses.The 5 courses are:1. "Leadernomics: " - How to lead. Before you lead a team, you have to know how to lead one person. As soon as you go from anything as modest as a one-man-band and onto a duo, you need to know how to lead, and do it convincingly. Duos are never self-leading. Besides, better led companies prosper, badly led ones rarely do. Leadership is leadership so this section will be of use whether we go back to work in offices or not.2. "Scrumnastics - Guerrilla Management Not Gorilla Management: " Covers how to get up and running with Agile management, - specifically Scrum. Why? Great management electrifies your people and inspires them to do great thing...
The Crusades shook the world. But why did they happen? Their origins are revealed in a new light. As part of a medieval world war that stretched from Asia to Europe. At its centre was an ancient empire – Byzantium. Told for the first time as a single, linked narrative are three great events that changed history: the fall of Byzantium in the eleventh century, the epic campaign of the First Crusade and the origins of modern Turkey. Nick Holmes not only presents the First Crusade in a wider global context but he also puts forwards new interpretations of the original sources, suggesting that its success was in fact largely accidental, and that the central role of Byzantium in the Crusades has been underestimated.
Agile Data Warehouse Design is a step-by-step guide for capturing data warehousing/business intelligence (DW/BI) requirements and turning them into high performance dimensional models in the most direct way: by modelstorming (data modeling + brainstorming) with BI stakeholders. This book describes BEAM✲, an agile approach to dimensional modeling, for improving communication between data warehouse designers, BI stakeholders and the whole DW/BI development team. BEAM✲ provides tools and techniques that will encourage DW/BI designers and developers to move away from their keyboards and entity relationship based tools and model interactively with their colleagues. The result is everyone thin...
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This is the revealing and inspirational life story of Nick Holmes - a bullied underachiever who left school at 16 with few prospects and went on to make a huge difference in the world. Told with raw honesty, this is one autobiography you will never forget. The author joined the Marines aged 18 but left shortly after to care for his dying father. With little money, prospects and no parents he returned to the military (after a brief interlude in the USA which could have steered him down a very different path). After 5 years' service (3 of which were in N Ireland) he joined the Police and rose rapidly through the ranks and despite the odds and obstacles in his path received national recognition...
This collection of pen-portraits of the renowned public intellectual Isaiah Berlin, published to mark the centenary of his birth, brings him vividly to life from many vantage-points: essential reading for all who seek to understand the full range of his impact. Isaiah Berlin was born a century ago. One of the most celebrated British thinkers of the twentieth century, he was a tireless champion of freedom and diversity against control and conformity. His generous, open vision of life is displayed with special immediacy in his brilliant pen-portraits of contemporaries, Personal Impressions, in which he sees the point of radically differing personalities, enters into their distinctive outlooks,...
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Supplement to the Oxford dictionary of the English language, comprising new words and senses of the period from 1884 to the present day - replaces the earlier (1933) supplement.