A Practical Guide to Successful Interviewing

Hodgson, Philip

Business & Money

McGraw-Hill Book Co Ltd

...the way to high-performance leadership is not to avoid the corporate rapids, but to seek them out and use them to propel oneself into the future. Thankfully the authors provide the much needed paddle in a set of practical tools. --Jon Peters, Executive Vice-President, The Institute for Management Studies

The Future of Leadership: Riding the Corporate Rapids into the 21st Century

White, Randall P.

Crainer, Stuart

Ashridge Management College

Pitman Publishing

In times of uncertainty, the ability to act without fear of failure can be a huge asset. In a world where the only thing you can be certain of is uncertainty, business leaders need to stop trying to control the uncontrollable, and start embracing the unknown. This book will show you how to be comfortable with ambiguity, confident with change, open to discovery and at ease with the new world of business. Then you can lead with confidence and flexibility, whatever the situation. Want to be more confident about the ambiguities that you and your business face? Ask yourself these questions: Am I drawn instinctively to the edge of my knowledge rather than the centre of it? Am I attracted to projects and problems with an element of the unknown in them? Do I have trouble with heated situations? Will I generally take a chance and make a decision? Do I prefer to have a full set of information before deciding? Do I ask penetrating questions about what's going on? Can I decide what are the most important things to do? Can I capture a business strategy in a single sentence? Your answers will reveal some of the essential elements of personal and corporate success in the new economy. Curiosity, risk taking, focus, persuasion and energy are personal skills that you can bring to bear to tackle tough issues, simplify complex topics, gather energy from complex challenges and carry people with you. Relax... will help you decide intuitively, act decisively and lead through ambiguity and change. This inventive and interactive book will help you develop the behaviours lead the way when the way is changing.

Relax, It's Only Uncertainty: Lead the Way When the Way is Changing

Management & Leadership

Pearson FT Press

Writing Successful Undergraduate Dissertations in Social Sciences: A Student’s Handbook

A practical guide for students undertaking their dissertation, Writing Successful Undergraduate Dissertations in Social Sciences uses a mixture of exercises, strategies, case study material and further reading to give hints and tips on beginning and managing a research project and working with supervisors. 
Providing an accessible overview of the essential steps in conducting research and writing dissertations, this fully updated edition contains new sections on: 
• The varied sources of support for students and how to make use of them 
• The use of modern technologies, and digital platforms in data collection, storage and processing 
• The important issues relating to ethnographic and feminist research 
• How to publish through peer review publications or using self-publishing platforms 
• The General Data Protection Regulation and legal issues relating to collection, storage and use of personal data 
• The skills that students have acquired through writing dissertations and how those skills could become useful for future career and employability 
• How students can relate their dissertations to existing theories and concepts in social sciences that relate to their dissertation. 
Packed with proven practical advice from ‘real-life’ data, case studies and examples, Writing Successful Undergraduate Dissertations in Social Sciences is an essential and dependable starting point and guide for any student beginning their dissertation journey in the social sciences.

Writing Successful Undergraduate Dissertations in Social Sciences

Reference

Smith, Karen

Hargreaves, Charlotte

Jegede, Francis

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Routledge

A practical guide for students undertaking their dissertation, Writing Successful Undergraduate Dissertations in Social Sciences uses a mixture of exercises, strategies, case study material and further reading to give hints and tips on beginning and managing a research project and working with supervisors. Providing an accessible overview of the essential steps in conducting research and writing dissertations, this fully updated edition contains new sections on: * The varied sources of support for students and how to make use of them * The use of modern technologies, and digital platforms in data collection, storage and processing * The important issues relating to ethnographic and feminist research * How to publish through peer review publications or using self-publishing platforms * The General Data Protection Regulation and legal issues relating to collection, storage and use of personal data * The skills that students have acquired through writing dissertations and how those skills could become useful for future career and employability * How students can relate their dissertations to existing theories and concepts in social sciences that relate to their dissertation. Packed with proven practical advice from 'real-life' data, case studies and examples, Writing Successful Undergraduate Dissertations in&nbsp;Social Sciences is an essential and dependable starting point and guide for any student beginning their dissertation journey in the social sciences.

TODD, Malcolm

Waldman, Julia

Think Like a UX Researcher

Think Like a UX Researcher will challenge your preconceptions about user experience (UX) research and encourage you to think beyond the obvious. You’ll discover how to plan and conduct UX research, analyze data, persuade teams to take action on the results and build a career in UX. The book will help you take a more strategic view of product design so you can focus on optimizing the user’s experience. UX Researchers, Designers, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts and Marketing Managers will find tools, inspiration and ideas to rejuvenate their thinking, inspire their team and improve their craft. 
In this newly revised Second Edition, the authors have added six new essays that look at how UX research methods have changed in the last few years, why remote methods should not be the only tools you use, what to do about difficult test participants, how to improve your survey questions, how to identify user goals when you can’t directly observe users and how understanding your own epistemological bias will help you become a more persuasive UX researcher. 
Key Features Provides a dive-in-anywhere book that offers practical advice and topical examples. Includes thought triggers, exercises and scenarios to test your knowledge of UX research. Features workshop ideas to build a development team’s UX maturity. Discusses war stories from seasoned researchers to show you how UX research methods can be tailored to your own organization.

Computers & Technology

Travis, David

Computer Science

CRC-Press

Think Like a UX Researcher: How to Observe Users, Influence Design, and Shape Business Strategy

Think Like a UX Researcher will challenge your preconceptions about user experience (UX) research and encourage you to think beyond the obvious. You’ll discover how to plan and conduct UX research, analyze data, persuade teams to take action on the results and build a career in UX. The book will help you take a more strategic view of product design so you can focus on optimizing the user’s experience. UX Researchers, Designers, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts and Marketing Managers will find tools, inspiration and ideas to rejuvenate their thinking, inspire their team and improve their craft. Key Features <li>A dive-in-anywhere book that offers practical advice and topical examples.  </li> <li>Thought triggers, exercises and scenarios to test your knowledge of UX research.  </li> <li>Workshop ideas to build a development team’s UX maturity.  </li> <li>War stories from seasoned researchers to show you how UX research methods can be tailored to your own organization. </li>

Think Like a UX Researcher will challenge your preconceptions about user experience (UX) research and encourage you to think beyond the obvious. You’ll discover how to plan and conduct UX research, analyze data, persuade teams to take action on the results and build a career in UX. The book will help you take a more strategic view of product design so you can focus on optimizing the user’s experience. UX Researchers, Designers, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts and Marketing Managers will find tools, inspiration and ideas to rejuvenate their thinking, inspire their team and improve their craft.   Key Features A dive-in-anywhere book that offers practical advice and topical examples.    Thought triggers, exercises and scenarios to test your knowledge of UX research.     Workshop ideas to build a development team’s UX maturity.     War stories from seasoned researchers to show you how UX research methods can be tailored to your own organization.

Aims to help readers manage change to their advantage and to develop a welcoming attitude to it. The book argues that important changes can be generated within organizations by attention to relatively small matters. It also offers advice on how to overcome resistance to change.

Making Change Work

WILLE, Edgar

Mercury Books

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