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- Bi-Polar OCD Boss
- Bi-Polar OCD BossFirst, I've learned - never work for a friend. This man and I have been friends for over 8 yrs., he's been my mentor thru tech school, he begged me to come and work a database project at his new job site.He got his friend, the previous IS...
- Tags: E-mail, StressedAndMad
- Discussion threads 2005-10-21
Additional Resources
- Fiorina book: HP board was 'dysfunctional'
- "much-anticipated new book"You've got to be kidding!
- Tags: fiorina, TmanA37, it management, Hewlett-Packard Co., board
- Discussion threads 2006-10-09
- CARE: Enhancing Denial-of-Service Resilience in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
- This paper proposes an attack-resilient routing architecture, called Cross-layer Active RE-routing (CARE), for Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs). Different from existing solutions, CARE does not focus on a particular type of attack, but instead takes a fundamentally general approach - it achieves resilience against a wide range of routing disruption...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Virginia Tech, Mobile, Network, Attack, Security, Networking
- White papers 2006-07-28
- Space Colony (exe)
- Space the final frontier not anymore. In Space Colony you will explore and colonize new worlds with the same sense of familiarity of popping in your local coffee shop for a skinny decaf latte. Space Colony is best described as a People Sim meets a City Builder. The player manages...
- Tags: Player, Space Colony, Modems, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2004-09-03
- Why Is Traditional Accounting Failing Managers?
- Traditional accounting methods do not provide accurate profit information. Critics have claimed that traditional managerial accounting is at best useless and at worst dysfunctional and misleading. Today's general ledger and budgeted spending systems support departmental and "stovepipe" managerial philosophies that inflict incorrect profit intelligence about customer & product profitability. In...
- Tags: Accounting, Activity Based Costing, Managerial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
- Webcasts
- Real Problems With Virtual Teams: An Analysis of the Factors Leading to dysfunctional Online Collaboration
- In online education, virtual teams play an important role in collaborative and peer learning. Unlike traditional face-to-face teams, the students in a virtual team may be geographically distributed, work in different time zones, and may never physically meet face-to-face. Universitas 21 Global, one of the new breed of online universities,...
- Tags: Virtual Team, Online Collaboration, Analysis
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Surviving dysfunctional 'families': Getting caught between the legislative and executive branches
- I had a very interesting conversation with a colleague theother day who works in a position nearly identical to mine and for anorganization that is very much like the one I work for. We spoke for nearly anhour and after hanging up, I realized that although we shared very similarhopes,...
- Tags: government
- Blog posts 2006-01-29
- Breaking up with problem clients
- You don't have to stay with a dysfunctional consulting client forever. Here's one approach that can help you free up time for the good ones.I've recently had some extraordinary luck in regards to freelance consulting. I successfully "broke up" with a dysfunctional client, and I signed a new, highly focused...
- Tags: Call centers, Jeff Davis, TechMail Jeff Davis, help desk
- Technical articles 2001-04-24
- Avoid support headaches with this program rollout checklist
- Rolling out a new application can introduce chaos among users and support staff if the process isn't handled in an organized way. This comprehensive checklist will help you gather the information you need to manage the rollout and minimize support overhead. A poorly planned rollout of a...
- Tags: Checklist, TechRepublic Inc., Help Desk, Call Centers, Workforce Management, It Operations, Human Resources
- Download resources 2006-02-23
- Sound like Darth Vader while you VoIP
- Did you stand in line 30 times to watch the original Star Wars back in 1977? Then, 22 years later, did you camp outside for a week just for a chance to be among the first to see the first Star Wars prequel in 1999? Crazed fan or no, many...
- Tags: O'Reilly Media Inc., Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Productivity, Networking
- Book chapters 2006-10-18
- Opening e-mail just by thinking about it
- In a recent blog, I ranted about the ability of an upcoming computer that can detect human emotion based on facial movements: "An emotionally aware computer doubles as therapist." I knew it wouldn't be long before sensors were developed that read people's thoughts and not just their expressions. Check out this news...
- Tags: Sensor, E-mail, Computer, Productivity, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2006-07-13
- Help needed - Life saving help
- Hi all. I'm in kenya and there is a serious drought going on here. I'd like to ask if techrepublic members can create a - save a life fund - via any charity of their choice.Life is not only about IT, sometimes its about simple things such as food, water,...
- Tags: j.maina@..., it, help, life, feedback, food, information technology, Kenya
- Discussion threads 2006-02-22
- Fighting the bully in the workplace
- In my years interacting with members of TechRepublic, I heard quite a few stories about dysfunctional workplaces. I've been surprised by some of the stories about how abusive some bosses and co-workers can be. I see a lot of anecdotal evidence of this but there's not much statistical evidence out...
- Tags: Workplace
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Validate whether a project is really in trouble before applying project rescue techniques
- If you believe the statistics, most projects fail. But the definition of "failure" should be something different for each organization. You've all read the stories about the large number of projects that fail. Some reports say that half or more of all projects fail--perhaps as many as...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, Team management, technique, tolerance, Project Management Newsletter, Project, Management
- Technical articles 2005-05-31
- Hackers attack! Are you vulnerable?
- Amazon.com, eBay, CNN—the list goes on. Stable Web sites suddenly brought to their knees by DoS attacks. Should you be worried?What do Yahoo!, CNN, Amazon.com, ZDNet, E*Trade, and Buy.com have in common? They’re all victims of network attacks in a three-day span.What crippled these Net titans? Could the same methods...
- Tags: NETWORKING, SECURITY, James McPherson, distributed computing, network, denial of service, attack
- Technical articles 2000-02-09
- Try this group exercise to improve team effectiveness
- You can complain all you want about a member of your project team, but at the end of the day you need to put your conflicts aside and work towards your project goals. Identify and resolve problems and build team cohesiveness with this method.TechRepublic columnist Tom Mochal receives dozens of...
- Tags: Team management, Tom Mochal, team, facilitator
- Technical articles 2002-07-22
- Management and Leadership Skills for New Managers
- View Available Dates and Locations This course focuses on the interpersonal and management skills you need to be an effective manager. It's an ideal primer for new managers and a helpful refresher for those who have long been in a management role. Discover the difference between...
- Tags: Team, Leadership, Stress Management, Team Management, Management
- Training 2008-01-01
- GUIDE TO A HEALTHIER WORK ENVIRONMENT
- I. ABSTRACT This Paper was initially written in 1995, to help the Nordic-SADC Journalism Center (NSJ Center), a Mozambique-based educational and media development institution geared towards the training of journalists and other media personnel, in Southern Africa. The Paper deals with the use of Scientific Method as...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, docastelo@..., personnel management, job
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- GUIDE TO A HEALTHIER WORK ENVIRONMENT
- I. ABSTRACT This Paper was initially written in 1995, to help the Nordic-SADC Journalism Center (NSJ Center), a Mozambique-based educational and media development institution geared towards the training of journalists and other media personnel, in Southern Africa. The Paper deals with the use of Scientific Method as...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, docastelo@..., personnel management, job
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- People Skills for Project Managers
- View Available Dates and Locations Managing a successful project involves more than schedules, templates, and paperwork-it requires the application of strong interpersonal management skills to work effectively with people in a variety of roles. The skills you'll learn in this course will enable you...
- Tags: Team, Team Management, Management
- Training 2008-01-01
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