In this new biography, students will follow Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu from her humble Albanian birth to worldwide celebrity as Mother Teresa. The nun who attended to the dying and diseased in Calcutta, India, and established her Missionaries of Charity around the world is revealed to have a singular determination from a young age. As a woman in the patriarchal Catholic system, she had to prove to the hierarchy, even the Vatican, that she was capable of handling each project she proposed. Her vision to live and work among the "poorest of the poor" as one of them led to the founding of a new order that tended to society's outcasts.
This guide by management consultant Cohen and Stanford University Graduate School of Business professor Bradford skillfully demonstrates, with numerous examples, how managers and other employees can achieve their career objectives--as well as those of their companies--by forming mutually advantageous alliances. Urging patient planning of strategies, the authors offer advice on coping with turf rivalries, handling delicate inter-level relations and tips on how to bypass rules and foster managerial flexibility and innovation.
This hands-on, concise guide gives you 24 proven techniques for
communicating clearly and managing conflicts. It features guidelines
for everything from sharing information and gathering input from
employees to handling disagreements to conducting results-driven
meetings and presentations.
Text prepared for the Burroughs Wellcome Fund by Kendall Powell, a freelance science writer based out of Broomfield, Colorado.
Introduction 2
Presentation Matters 4
Structuring Your Talk 8
What Type Of Talk? 14
The Speaker’s Toolbox 22
Handling Questions Gracefully 32
What If Things Go Terribly Wrong? 36
Getting The Most From Your Talk 40
This tutorial takes a different tack. You’ll start off with command-line arguments and parsing, and progress to writing a fully-functional Scheme interpreter that implements a good-sized subset of R5RS Scheme. Along the way, you’ll learn Haskell’s I/O, mutable state, dynamic typing, error handling, and parsing features. By the time you finish, you should be fairly fluent in both Haskell and Scheme.
