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Business Intelligence Success Factors: Tools for Aligning Your Business in the Global Economy
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Business Intelligence Success Factors: Tools for Aligning Your Business in the Global EconomyBusiness Intelligence Success Factors: Tools for Aligning Your Business in the Global Economy

Praise for Business Intelligence Success Factors: Tools for Aligning your business in the Global Economy

"Olivia Parr Rud does a remarkable job of weaving together many topics in a strategic way. As 'quants,' we're fascinated with data and fact-based decision-making. But success only comes when you consider the human factor, especially effective communications. Making topics like evolutionary biology, complexity science, and systems thinking relevant for business success is a unique and compelling view. 
 
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The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up
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The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes UpTwo of Inc. magazine’s hugely popular columnists show how small-business people can deal with all kinds of tricky situations.
People starting out in business tend to seek step-by-step formulas or specific rules, but in reality there are no magic bullets. Rather, says veteran entrepreneur Norm Brodsky, there’s a mentality that helps street-smart people solve problems and pursue opportunities as they arise. He calls it “the knack,” and it has made all the difference to the eight successful start-ups of his career.
 
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Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology
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Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and PhonologyVariation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology

This book brings together researchers from sociolinguistics, phonetics, and phonology and provides an overview of current issues in variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology. In this book, variation at every level of phonological representation is addressed. It contributes to the growing interest in gradience and variation in theoretical phonology by combining research on the factors underlying variability and systematic quantitative results with theoretical phonological considerations.
 
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The Big Idea: How to Make Your Entrepreneurial Dreams Come True, From the Aha Moment to Your First Million
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The Big Idea: How to Make Your Entrepreneurial Dreams Come True, From the Aha Moment to Your First Million It's the moment when you say, "There's gotta be a better way." It's the moment when you ask, "How can I solve this problem?" Donny Deutsch's hit CNBC show The Big Idea has put the spotlight on that ordinary moment and the people who have the courage and stamina to make their dreams come true. Some people think a big idea is like a lightning bolt striking out of the blue that slams you in the head. But it's hardly ever like that. The big idea an act of daily life. Simply put, the idea that will make millions starts with an observation.
 
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From Phonology to Syntax: Pronominal Cliticization in Otfrid's Evangelienbuch
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From Phonology to Syntax: Pronominal Cliticization in Otfrid's EvangelienbuchThis monograph is an investigation of cliticization processes attested throughout Otfrid von Weissenburg's Old High German Evangelienbuch. Its central argument may be simply stated: attestations such as meg ih 'I am able to,' theiz  'that it,' and wolt er  'he wanted' comprise a host and clitic and are all manifestations of one unified process of cliticization. Establishing the crucial elements of the argument, however, requires that we reach beyond a phonological and prosodic account of the cliticization process.

 
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