The Productive Programmer (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a terrific book for boosting your productivity in two areas: how you work, and how you code.
The first section of the book, Mechanics, focuses on tools you can use to boost your productivity as you're working with your system. Ford launches off into an exploration of lots of little crazy tools that help you automate or ease repetitive tasks. You'll find lots of goodies from virtual desktops to shortcut tips/launchers, to using Ruby to script everything from splitting up SQL to automatically sorting your laundry and washing it for you.[1]
All these little tools and tricks add up to drastic decreases in the amount of friction you're forced to suffer through while doing your daily job. Cutting this friction lets you focus on the job at hand, instead of trying to bend your environment to your will.
The second section of the book, Practice, discusses ways to speed your development. There's an awful lot of goodness in this portion of the book, ranging from re-emphasizing critical aspects of object oriented programming, to object and method composition. Ford walks through a lot of great stories meant to get you to re-evaluate why you do things a certain way. The infamous Angry Monkeys story gets pulled out as an example, and Ford also concisely covers development principles like the Law of Demeter, Occam's Razon, and his Polyglot Programming meme.
The book's concise, amazingly well written, and a definite must-have for your bookshelf.


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Anyone who develops software for a living needs a proven way to produce it better, faster, and cheaper. The Productive Programmer offers critical timesaving and productivity tools that you can adopt right away, no matter what platform you use. Master developer Neal Ford not only offers advice on the mechanics of productivity--how to work smarter, spurn interruptions, get the most out your computer, and avoid repetition--he also details valuable practices that will help you elude common traps, improve your code, and become more valuable to your team. You'll learn to:
Write the test before you write the code
Manage the lifecycle of your objects fastidiously
Build only what you need now, not what you might need later
Apply ancient philosophies to software development
Question authority, rather than blindly adhere to standards
Make hard things easier and impossible things possible through meta-programming
Be sure all code within a method is at the same level of abstraction
Pick the right editor and assemble the best tools for the job

This isn't theory, but the fruits of Ford's real-world experience as an Application Architect at the global IT consultancy ThoughtWorks. Whether you're a beginner or a pro with years of experience, you'll improve your work and your career with the simple and straightforward principles in The Productive Programmer.

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The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting Review

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(More customer reviews)Well written explanations of important subjects, such as how to find essential information in financial statements, how to price products and make profitable bids, legally minimizing taxes for your small business, managing financial risks with options, hedges and derivatives, using your computer for financial analysis, etc. etc. Why spend time and money for an MBA when its all here.

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The most comprehensive and authoritative review of B-School fundamentals—from top accounting and finance professors For years, the Portable MBA series has tracked the core curricula of leading business schools to teach you the fundamentals you need to know about business-without the extreme costs of earning an MBA degree. The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting covers all the core methods and techniques you would learn in business school, using real-life examples to deliver clear, practical guidance on finance and accounting. The new edition also includes free downloadable spreadsheets and web resources.If you're in charge of making decisions at your own or someone else's business, you need the best information and insight on modern finance and accounting practice. This reliable, information-packed resource shows you how to understand the numbers, plan and forecast for the future, and make key strategic decisions. Plus, this new edition covers the effects of Sarbanes-Oxley, applying ethical accounting standards, and offers career advice. • Completely updated with new examples, new topics, and full coverage of topical issues in finance and accounting—fifty percent new material • The most comprehensive and authoritative book in its category • Teaches you virtually everything you'd learn about finance and accounting in today's best business schoolsWhether you're thinking of starting your own business or you already have and just need to brush up on finance and accounting basics, this is the only guide you need.

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Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better Review

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(More customer reviews)I will admit to being a sucker for books like this. I love books that offer ways to improve your time management, limit interruptions, and streamline your life. Lifehacker helps you do all that and more. It is the most practical book I have read on this subject, and I promise that it will improve the way you work.
There are a ton of "theory" books out there. Books that will tell you to spend your time more productively, not visit certain site, and get rid of all the extra emails. All great advice, but it can be hard for you to put into place without the right tools. Adam Pash and Gina Trapani give you those tools in Lifehacker. From email reduction to time-wasters to creating doable to-do lists, this is the best resource to turn to.
The book is structured in an easy to read way. At the beginning of each hack, the authors tell you the three most important pieces of information right up front:
Level: How easy is this going to be?
Platform: Where do I use this? Web, Windows, Mac, All?
Cost: How much does it cost?
This is a great way to evaluate the hacks that you will need quickly and will help you to find the information that will benefit you most. Fortunately, most of the hacks offered in this book are both easy and free.
Some of my favorite hacks in the book include:
Hack 1: Empty Your Inbox (and Keep It Empty)
Hack 9: Script and Automate Repetitive Replies
Hack 14: Instantly Recall Any Number of Different Passwords
Hack 24: Design Your Own Planner
Hack 25: Make Your To-Do List Doable
Hack 29: Dash Through Tasks With a Timer
Hack 39: Limit Visits to Time-Wasting Websites
Hack 53: Reduce Repetitive Typing
Hack 59: Become A Scheduling Black-Belt with Google Calendar
Hack 82: Augment Reality With Your Phone
Bottom Line: There is a ton of great information contained in this huge 476 page book. You probably won't use every hack and you probably already follow some of the author's advice, but you will (at least you should) use most of the hacks in this book. Highly Recommended.
BONUS: Lifehacker also has a companion website that has updates, additional information, and more tips and tricks.
BONUS #2: For the best theory book on why you should implement these time-saving tools, read The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content. They complement each other very well.

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A new edition, packed with even more clever tricks and methods that make everyday life easier
Lifehackers redefine personal productivity with creative and clever methods for making life easier and more enjoyable. This new edition of a perennial bestseller boasts new and exciting tips, tricks, and methods that strike a perfect balance between current technology and common sense solutions for getting things done. Exploring the many ways technology has changed since the previous edition, this new edition has been updated to reflect the latest and greatest in technological and personal productivity.

The new "hacks" run the gamut of working with the latest Windows and Mac operating systems for both Windows and Apple, getting more done with smartphones and their operating systems, and dealing with the evolution of the web. Even the most tried-and-true hacks have been updated to reflect the contemporary tech world and the tools it provides us.

Hacks include:

Hack 1: Empty Your Inbox (and Keep It Empty). Hack 2: Decrease Your Response Time. Hack 3: Craft Effective Messages. Hack 4: Highlight Messages Sent Directly to You. Hack 5: Use Disposable Email Addresses. Hack 6: Master Message Search. Hack 7: Future-Proof Your Email Address. Hack 8: Consolidate Multiple Email Addresses with Gmail. Hack 9: Script and Automate Repetitive Replies. Hack 10: Filter Low-Priority Messages. Hack 11: Organize Your Documents Folder. Hack 12: Instantly Retrieve Files Stored on Your Computer. Hack 13: Overhaul Your Filing Cabinet. Hack 14: Instantly Recall Any Number of Different Passwords. Hack 15: Securely Track Your Passwords. Hack 16: Tag Your Bookmarks. Hack 17: Organize Your Digital Photos. Hack 18: Corral Media Across Folders and Drives. Hack 19: Create Saved Search Folders. Hack 20: Create a Password-Protected Disk on Your PC. Hack 21: Create a Password-Protected Disk on Your Mac. Hack 22: Encrypt Your Entire Windows Operating System. Hack 23: Set Up 2-Step Verification for Your Google Account. Hack 24: Design Your Own Planner. Hack 25: Make Your To-Do List Doable. Hack 26: Set Up a Morning Dash. Hack 27: Map Your Time. Hack 28: Quick-Log Your Workday. Hack 29: Dash Through Tasks with a Timer. Hack 30: Form New Habits with Jerry Seinfeld's Chain. Hack 31: Control Your Workday. Hack 32: Turn Tasks into Game Play. Hack 33: Send Reminders to Your Future Self. Hack 34: Take Great Notes. Hack 35: Organize Your Life with Remember the Milk. Hack 36: Organize Your Life in Text Files. Hack 37: Set Up a Ubiquitous Note-Taking Inbox Across Devices. Hack 38: Off-Load Your Online Reading to a Distraction-Free Environment. Hack 39: Limit Visits to Time-Wasting Websites. Hack 40: Permanently Block Time-Wasting Websites. Hack 41: Reduce Email Interruptions. Hack 42: Split Your Work Among Multiple Desktops. Hack 43: Build a No-Fly Zone. Hack 44: Set Up Communication Quiet Hours. Hack 45: Clear Your Desktop. Hack 46: Make Your House a Usable Home. Hack 47: Sentence Stuff to Death Row. Hack 48: Drown Out Distracting Sounds with Pink Noise. Hack 49: Search the Web in Three Keystrokes. Hack 50: Command Your Windows PC from the Keyboard. Hack 51: Command Your Mac from the Keyboard. Hack 52: Reduce Repetitive Typing with Texter for Windows. Hack 53: Reduce Repetitive Typing with TextExpander for Mac. Hack 54: Automatically Fill in Repetitive Web Forms. Hack 55: Batch-Resize Photos. Hack 56: Bypass Free Site Registration with BugMeNot. Hack 57: Speed Up Web Pages on a Slow Internet Connection. Hack 58: Securely Save Website Passwords. Hack 59: Become a Scheduling Black Belt with Google Calendar. Hack 60: Set Up an Automated, Bulletproof File Back Up Solution. Hack 61: Automatically Back Up Your Files to an External Hard Drive (Mac). Hack 62: Automatically Clean Up Your PC. Hack 63: Automatically Clean Up Your Mac. Hack 64: Automatically Reboot and Launch Applications. Hack 65: Make Google Search Results Automatically Come to You. Hack 66: Automatically Download Music, Movies, and More. Hack 67: Access Your Most Important Files Anywhere with Dropbox. Hack 68: Manage Your Documents in a Web-Based Office Suite. Hack 69: Carry Your Life on a Flash Drive. Hack 70: Create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) with Hamachi. Hack 71: Run a Home Web Server. Hack 72: Run Full-Fledged Webapps from Your Home Computer. Hack 73: Build Your Personal Wikipedia. Hack 74: Remotely Control Your Home Computer. Hack 75: Give Your Home Computer a Web Address. Hack 76: Optimize Your Laptop. Hack 77: Speed Up Your Touchscreen Typing. Hack 78: Break Down the Barrier Between Your Computer and Mobile Phone. Hack 79: Remote Control Your Computer with Your Phone. Hack 80: Automate Android Functions with Tasker. Hack 81: Set Up One Phone Number to Rule Them All. Hack 82: Augment Reality with Your Phone. Hack 83: Remember Where You've Been Using Location Awareness. Hack 84: Command Your Phone with Your Voice. Hack 85: Use Your Camera Phone as a Scanner. Hack 86: Make Your "Dumbphone" Smarter via Text Message. Hack 87: Connect Your Computer to the Internet via Mobile Phone by "Tethering". Hack 88: Develop Your (Digital) Photographic Memory. Hack 89: Send and Receive Money on Your Mobile Phone with PayPal. Hack 90: Google Like a Pro. Hack 91: Subscribe to Websites with RSS. Hack 92: Quickly Search Within Specific Websites from the Address Bar. Hack 93: Extend Your Web Browser. Hack 94: Supercharge Your Firefox Downloads with DownThemAll! Hack 95: Get 10 Useful Bookmarklets. Hack 96: Find Reusable Media Online. Hack 97: Get Your Data on a Map. Hack 98: Set Multiple Sites as Your Home Page. Hack 99: Access Unavailable Websites via Google. Hack 100: Have a Say in What Google Says About You. Hack 101: Clear Your Web Browsing Tracks. Hack 102: Rescue Your PC from Malware. Hack 103: Protect Your PC from Malware. Hack 104: Clean Up Your Startup. Hack 105: Undo System Configuration Changes. Hack 106: Truly Delete Data from Your Hard Drive. Hack 107: Compare and Merge Files and Folders with WinMerge. Hack 108: Firewall Your Windows PC. Hack 109: Firewall Your Mac. Hack 110: Speed Up Windows with a Thumb Drive. Hack 111: Free Up Hard-Drive Space. Hack 112: Resurrect Deleted Files. Hack 113: Hot Image Your PC for Instant Restoration. Hack 114: Hot Image Your Mac for Instant Restoration. Hack 115: Recover Files from an Unbootable PC. Hack 116: Share Windows Files. Hack 117: Share Mac Files. Hack 118: Keep Your Web Browser in Sync Across Computers. Hack 119: Share a Single Printer Between Computers. Hack 120: Optimize Your Dual Monitors. Hack 121: Control Multiple Computers with a Single Keyboard and Mouse.

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier by helping us work more efficiently. Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better, Third Edition is your guide to making that happen!

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Google'lize Your Life Review

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(More customer reviews)With all the technology available today, I get overwhelmed. This book helped me understand what tools are available and how to use these Google tools to my advantage. Without overwhelming me, this book laid out the options in simple, easily readable terms and taught me the basics of what I really need to know to be more productive. Instead of bombarding me with new information, this book focused on teaching me how to make better use of what I already have. For example, it showed me how to be more efficient when checking my email so I don't spend all day sorting through it. The book even offers a "getting started" guide that really helped me put the information to use in my daily life!

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Jeff VanDrimmelen's system is a modern day technology fusion of David Allen's "Getting Things Done" (GTD) and a little bit of good old fashioned Steven Covey. Get your own gProductivity system up and going using Google Tasks, Gmail, and Google Calendar and take control of your personal and professional life. Ultimately, this is a book about teaching you how to manage technology, use it to be productive, and get more done with the precious time that we have. The goal is not simply doing more, but controlling technology so we can focus on what's most important to each of us. * Organize your tasks so you only see what you need to do * Learn to spend no more than 30 minutes a day in your email * Set up your gProductivity system using Google tools * Tips and tricks for being productive on your mobile device * Other googlelized technologies that will save you hundreds of hours

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Getting Organized in the Google Era: How to Stay Efficient, Productive (and Sane) in an Information-Saturated World Review

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(More customer reviews)This book has helped me to consolodate alot of disparate documents and important resources and make them portable. Now I can go to one place and get all my international communications and documents organized. The book has saved me a huge amount of time. I also find the writing style to be personable and witty. The authors make some pretty complex concepts simple enough that my grandmother could understand it. I recommend this book to any who travels or lives in a foreign country with limited cloud computing resources and internet savvy.

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Whether it's a faulty memory, a tendency to multitask, or difficulty managing our time, every one of us has limitations conspiring to keep us from being organized. But, as organizational guru and former Google CIO Douglas C. Merrill points out, it isn't our fault. Our brains simply aren't designed to deal with the pressures and competing demands on our attention in today's fast-paced, information-saturated, digital world. What's more, he says, many of the ways in which our society is structured are outdated, imposing additional chaos that makes us feel stressed, scattered, and disorganized.But it doesn't have to be this way. Luckily, we have a myriad of amazing new digital tools and technologies at our fingertips to help us manage the strains on our brains and on our lives; the trick is knowing when and how to use them. This is why Merrill, who helped spearhead Google's effort to "organize the world's information," offers a wealth of tips and strategies for how to use these new tools to become more organized, efficient, and successful than ever. But if you're looking for traditional, rigid, one-size-fits-all strategies for organization, this isn't the book for you. Instead, Merrill draws on his intimate knowledge of how the brain works to help us develop fresh, innovative, and flexible systems of organization tailored to our individual goals, constraints, and lifestyles. From how to harness the amazing power of search, to how to get the most out of cloud computing, to techniques for filtering through the enormous avalanche of information that assaults us at every turn, to tips for minimizing distractions and better integrating work and life, Getting Organized in the Google Era is chock-full of practical, invaluable, and often counterintuitive advice for anyone who wants to be more organized and productive–and less stressed--in our 21st-century world.From the Hardcover edition.

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Google Powered: Productivity with Online Tools Review

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(More customer reviews)I was looking for something that would serve as a good introduction to the array of Google applications, and this book is well-suited to that task.
What you'll get:
* A good introduction to 12 or 13 of the newer Google applications. Ledford spends a little more time on the applications that are likely to be more popular (mail, docs, spreadsheets) and a little less time on some of the others (Picassa, chat, etc.). Overall, I thought the focus was just about right.
* Ledford explains the basics of each application. He offers some tips and tricks to using each application. He breaks the discussion up around different features, where appropriate (e.g., Google mail vs. the calendaring function within GMail). Along the way, readers will learn why a particular app might be more or less useful to them than competing applications (e.g., Google spreadsheets vs. Microsoft Excel). Ledford points out the most significant advantages AND drawbacks of each Google App, which is quite helpful.
* For my purposes, I was interested in evaluating the whole Google suite of applications so that I could consider whether to move my organization away from Microsoft's Office suite and toward online applications. This book is a great first-effort in helping assemble that sort of information. Undoubtedly, much more will be written about Google's suite of applications. As one of the first (if not the first) to undertake this endeavor, however, Ledford does a commendable job.
What you won't get:
* Extensive details on any one application. For example, if you want to become a GMail power user, then this book is not for you. Consider this a very basic introduction to the variety of Google applications. For an in-depth discussion, you would need to look elsewhere.
* A substitute for playing around with each application itself. It is one thing to read about Google's application suite; it is another to use and practice on the apps themselves. In my opinion, there is no substitute of knowledge gained through trying to use each of these applications. I read this manual while on a vacation in Spain, where I had no internet access. I likely would have found it more useful if I could have used some of the tips and recommendations in real time. That said, Ledford's book still serves its purpose as a good introductory guide.
Overall, I would recommend this to anyone who wants to know more about Google Apps but was afraid to ask, and to anyone who is considering whether to attempt a life without Microsoft Office. There are other alternatives to Office, but Google's Apps probably are the most prominent of them, and Ledford's book serves as a useful introduction to them.

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Everything you need to know to get started using Google's free productivity tools is right in these pages. With a section devoted to each application, finding and using the information is easy. You'll learn to create documents, crunch numbers, e-mail with Gmail, build Web sites, share photos, track calendars, and more. Harness the power of Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, Google Page Creator, Google Calendar, Google Notebook, Google Talk, Gmail, and Picasa and get your life powered!

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Time (3rd Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)I just finished the 3rd edition of MYT, and was quite impressed. I haven't seen the first two editions, but this one certainly fills the bill, if you're looking for solutions to time-pressure problems. That the book is funny, is a real bonus. It makes it easier to get through every chapter. I found the section found "Thinking Your Way Out of Timetraps" to be the best part of the book. After all, much of what we face on a daily basis is self-induced. You can blame your boss, you can blame other people, but when you really get honest with yourself, as you learn in the book, most of the time pressure you feel is a result of your own activities and beliefs. Do yourself a favor and get this book.

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Offers a way to take back what you've got. This friendly, comforting guide is filled with invaluable insight and advice that puts perspective on time and teaches in a stepwise fashion how to regain control over this valuable commodity. Softcover.

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Connect: A Guide to a New Way of Working from GigaOM's Web Worker Daily Review

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(More customer reviews)I just finished Connect! A Guide to a New Way of Working by Anne Zelenka. Connect is all about web workers, those people who spend all or part of their time working remotely over the web either as telecommuters, freelancers, or some other online working arrangement. I spent about 6 months working remotely, and I could have used a book like this. Based on what I learned from my experience, this book was right on target and offers great advice to people interested in working over the web with good coverage of both the good and the bad aspects. While the flexibility was great for me, you can go a little stir crazy, and Anne has a lot of ideas to help minimize the issues inherent in working from home.
In addition to the basic information about web working, some of the related ideas in the book really helped define some of what I have been noticing over the past couple years that seem to he changing the way people work. Anne makes a great distinction between knowledge work and web work. With knowledge work, the focus has been on the corporation, proprietary technologies, desktop tools, and knowledge, but in contrast, web work is focused on individuals, open technologies, web tools, and relationships. When I was at Intel, the focus was more on knowledge work, but I am noticing that at my current employer, the focus is on web work as Anne defines it with collaboration, openness, and relationships being of utmost importance. As an community person, I am definitely more suited to the web work model.
Busy vs. bursty is also a common theme throughout the book. Busy work is based on work hours, email, company relationships, inflexible long-term planning, and web surfing as a time waster, while bursty work is about getting the job done regardless of hours worked, collaboration tools instead of email, relationships that are broader than just your company, agile planning, and web surfing as fuel for ideas. This isn't to say that you can replace all of the busy work with bursty work; you still need some amount of busy work to get through the tedious, but necessary tasks. However, bursty work also has a place, and again it is more suited to my personal style of working.
I will admit to skipping over a couple of sections, like technology recommendations for home work systems, since I have an in depth knowledge of some of these topics based on my recent experiences as a web worker. Even if you aren't a telecommuter or freelancer working mostly over the web, I still recommend the book and Web Worker Daily, the companion web site. It has a lot of interesting ideas for how work is changing as we move more and more of our lives online.


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If you use the web to reach out beyond the confines of your office, cubicle, or home to connect and collaborate with others doing the same thing, you're a web worker. In this book you'll learn how to use new web tools, discover sites and services you might want to try, and meet the social web where people are as important as corporations. You'll learn how people are working in new ways because of the web, and how you can too.

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The 30 Day MBA: Your Fast Track Guide to Business Success Review

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(More customer reviews)You will not learn anything. What did you really expect from a book that tells you, you can learn MBA skills in 30 days within 270 pages? I bought into the title.
The book is basically a syllabus. If you want a table of contents of what MBA students learn, without learning anything then buy this book.
Even If you are just curious, what I suggest is to look online at a good college's MBA syllabus, find out what text books are required, rent those text books or reference Wikepedia on the subject and you will learn more from that than from this book.
Every single case study and website mentioned is British. This means the book mentions companies I have never heard of and fails to give background information on the company = missing valuable information.
The verbiage is entirely British, so the terms used in American Business schools are wholly absent in this book.


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The 30 Day MBA covers the essential elements and core disciplines in a top MBA program.The subjects covered include accounting, business history, business law, economics, entrepreneurship, ethics and social responsibility, finance, marketing, operations, organizational behavior, personal development, quantitative and qualitative research and strategy. This second edition includes a thorough explanation and examples of the "break-even analysis," used by MBAs for making cost, volume, pricing and profit decisions. It also adds new case studies as well as analysis of the emergence of brands in developing countries.The 30 Day MBA also incorporates external reading and resources, online library and information sources, case studies and links to online self-assessment tests to help readers keep track of their learning achievements.

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Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a superb book. As a doctor and an entrepreneur I have read many books on time management and being more efficient, and been disappointed by most of them. This book is by far the best I have read.
It has just enough theory to help the reader get the big picture, but nothing more. Unlike a lot of books that are twice as long as they should be, this short book respects the reader by delivering the information in an efficient and easy to digest manner.
I especially appreciate the clear instructions on how to implement the author's suggestions. I gave the book out to all my co-workers and several friends. Recently, our entire team talked about how each of us has implemented the book's ideas. Some of us are using all of them, and some are using a few of them, but no one decided not to use any of them. Given how challenging it is to change human behavior, I think this is amazing.
I give this my highest possible recommendation without any reservations at all.


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"Bit Literacy" is essential reading for anyone who has experienced "digital overload": the daily flood of e-mail, multiple todo lists, a cluttered desktop, documents in various file formats, and the constant distraction of cell phones and other devices. More than a quick fix or another "how-to" guide, the book offers an entirely new way of attaining productivity that users at any level of expertise can put into action right away. This is "bit literacy," a method for working more productively in the digital age, with less stress.Mark Hurst - who has reached hundreds of thousands of readers through his Good Experience e-mail newsletter, Uncle Mark technology guides, thisisbroken.com, and other websites - has revealed the way to survive, and thrive, in the digital age: "Let the bits go."

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