"Presented in four chapters that each focus on a specific technique, palette, and set of projects, Watercolor Your Way meets artists at their current level so they can enjoy the process as they build skills"--

Describes the life cycle and behavior of sharks.

"Being able to make decisions with the right balance of speed and information is often what separates successful managers from unsuccessful managers. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review looks at the decision-making process and the need for good judgement and decisiveness in a variety of circumstances, including times of crisis, situations in which people are facing information overload, and instances when trust has been eroded."--Resource...

An introduction to spiders.

Presents a miscellany of facts about bats.

Despite the enormous investments of time and money that organizations put into learning initiatives, little attention is paid to putting what is learned into practice. This results in waste, lost opportunities, and frustration. A study done at the BBC, which suspected that learning wasn't being leveraged as much as it could be, examined the reasons why learning is often not put to use.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) promotes the ability to communicate with external enterprises. But what are the issues in creating these Extended Enterprise communications? This IBM IBM Redbooks publication addresses these issues for Web services implementations of SOA, using the Patterns for e-business. The Patterns for e-business are a group of proven, reusable assets that can be used to increase the speed of developing and deploying e-business...

The digital revolution was portending big changes for the practice of leadership when the Internet economy hit a bump in the road. According to leaders surveyed by CCL and Forrester Research, however, this doesn't mean a return to the old ways of doing business. These leaders realize that they face new challenges and must bring new skills to the table to be successful in the networked economy.

Principles of Management: Text and Cases introduces students to the fundamentals of management through a balanced blend of theory and practice. The opening vignettes and cases depict real-world situations and problems that managers face while highlighting the management practices of successful Indian and foreign companies. Samples of a leave policy, a strategy and action plan for human resource management, an application blank, and a code of ethics...

When hackathons are held virtually, people from a variety of circumstances have an opportunity to participate. But facilitating such events entirely online requires an organizational and mindset shift for making the collaboration work, with greater emphasis on steps such as onboarding and building in fun. Recent hackathons around COVID-19 offer insights into how to make remote collaboration succeed with participants who have diverse backgrounds, perspectives,...