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Executive Intelligence zeros in on leadership smarts and notes that in all lists compiled by leadership experts, head hunters, and boards of directors the one and only trait that appears in all is intelligence. Obvious? No, because typically leadership savvy regularly trumps smarts. That is unfortunate because it obscures the cultivation and development of how leaders think, speculate, conceive, and problem solve their own firms and the way they lead. Executive intelligence like emotional intelligence acts like an advanced scout sizing up situations, identifying mine fields, creating contingencies, developing last minute ways out, and then acting like the artful dodger. In the process, the leader develops a special kind of intelligence tied to and defining the kind if leader he or she is; and that ultimately generates the leader's edge and comparative advantage. |
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Above the Clouds: Managing Risk in the World of Cloud Computing
Interested in ways to make your business more efficient? Then Cloud Computing may be just what you have been looking for. Cloud Computing can enable you to drive down the costs of your IT function and gives you the ability to focus on your core business, whilst saving energy. The concept of shifting computing to a shared service provider is... | | UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2: Interprocess Communications (2nd Edition)This book describes four different forms of IPC in detail:
- message passing (pipes, FIFOs, and message queues),
- synchronization (mutexes, condition variables, read-write locks, file and record locks, and semaphores),
- shared memory (anonymous and named), and
- remote
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