Teaching the SQL skills that businesses demand when hiring programmers If you′re a SQL beginner, you don′t just want to learn SQL basics, you also want to get some practical SQL skills you can use in the job market. This book gives you both. Covering the basics through intermediate topics with clear explanations, hands–on exercises, and helpful solutions, this book is the perfect introduc…
Leadership development is one of the driving forces behind strong organizational performance. However, when executives look to run their organizations leaner, they view it as a luxury. Now, Measuring Leadership Development gives talent managers a full toolkit for presenting their leadership development programs in terms of identifiable business benefits, including—for the first time—an accu…
An imaginative, witty, original but deadly serious introduction to all the concepts you need in marketing today. Successful executives know that marketing as a process and an orientation is a necessity for understanding where a company needs to go and how to get there. It′s not difficult to spot those organizations that have failed to adopt a marketing approach! In order for managers and stud…
John Adair transformed our understanding of how leadership works with his pioneering book Not Bosses But Leaders. Here he explores the nature of motivation, individual needs and how they relate to the key tasks facing leaders and managers. Positive motivation, he argues, can create, maintain and improve the performance of any team. In Leadership and Motivation John Adair also puts forward his …