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uncomfortable pause, followed by some qualified statements: “people tell me… I suppose…” This is not a judgement: it does not mean men are arrogant and women are modest; or men are confident and women are not. It’s just a ‘tell’ that explains one of the reasons women don’t get promoted. In many cases, left to their own devices, women typically fail to recognise their strengths, lack confidence in their abilities and don’t push themselves forward within the male paradigms of…

(Twenty plus fifty equals seventy) Mathematical Operations – Operações Matemáticas 100 : 4 = 25 (One hundred divided by four equals twenty-five) 48 : 2 = 24 (Forty-eight divided by two equals twenty-four) 25 x 5 = 125 (Twenty-five times five equals one hundred and twenty-five) 150 x 3 = 450 (One hundred and fifty times three equals four hundred fifty) 1000 – 100 = 900 (One thousand minus one hundred equals nine hundred) 540 – 30 = 510 (Five hundred and forty minus thirty equals…

Project M anage M ent b Log] Can the military teach project managers any lessons? Lynda Bourne, DPM, PMP, posed the question in a recent blog post. She encouraged project managers to use military ideas to build buy-in from project teams. One suggestion: Planning should be participatory and evolutionary. Heather Christian responds: I especially like the idea that team members are given enough leeway in a plan to act with initiative. There is nothing as frustrating as…

life in 1988. He found it, in fact, on the ocean floor. The discovery was made unwittingly by Christian Sommer, a German marine-biology student in his early 20s. He was spending the summer in Rapallo, a small city on the Italian Riviera, where exactly one century earlier Friedrich Nietzsche conceived “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”: “Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again. . . .” Sommer was conducting research on…

interrogativas em que eu quero dizer algo no passado e que eu menciono, mencionei o tempo ou já sei quando a ação, fato ou situação ocorreu. Por isso, é comumente usado com expressões de tempo no passado, como: yesterday, last week, last night, 3 days ago, one year ago, when I was a child, when I called you, etc. Exemplos: Negativas: I did not call you this morning.(Eu não te liguei hoje de manhã.) He did not take vacations last year(Ele não tirou férias ano passado.). Interrogativas:…

I'm sick and tired of this. / I'm fed up with it. Para com isso! - Stop that! / Stop it! / Cut it out! Chega! / Basta! - That's enough! Cai fora! - Get lost! Rua! - Out! Que feio! / Tenha vergonha! - Shame on you! Veja como fala! - Watch your tongue! / Watch your language! Que decepção! - What a disappointment! Que nojo! - How disgusting! / That's gross! Ele furou a fila. - He cut in line. Isto não fica bem. - That's not nice. Não acho graça nisso. - I don't think that's…

telephone. She writes a... Is this a pen? - So... She is a secretary. Ian faz que sim com a cabeça. Ian sorri. É o primeiro ponto do seu time. Virgínia - It’s my turn. Beth Beth - It is easy. They play soccer. They are soccer players. - Ah! Only one! He plays soccer. He is a soccer player. Virgínia aponta para um pé. O jogo continua e acaba empatado. Foi uma noite alegre na casa dos Carters. Virgínia gostou do jogo que conheceu hoje. E você, já conhecia esse jogo?…

The variety of industries and clientele proved an excellent crucible to focus my understanding and appreciation of quality project management tools and techniques. Deepak Vohra is a consultant and a principal member of the NuBean.com software company. Deepak is a Sun certified Java programmer and web component developer, and has worked in the fields of XML and Java programming and J2EE for over five years. Deepak is the co-author of the Apress book Pro XML Development with Java…

Government in the Marketplace 507 Case Study. Challenges at Time Warner 546 Appendix A Answers to Selected End-of-Chapter Problems 582 Appendix B Additional Readings and References 585 Name Index 603 General Index 609 xvii CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE The Fundamentals of Managerial Economics 1 Headline: Amcott Loses $3.5 Million; Manager Fired 1 Introduction 2 The Manager 3 Economics 3 Managerial Economics Defined 3 The Economics of Effective Management 4 Identify Goals and…

Edition To my father, who always wanted me to write a book, My mother, who always made me feel like I could, Melanie, who married me—the greatest stroke of good fortune of my life, and my son Harry, who will surely write books much better than this one whenever he wants to. Second Edition To my big brother, Phil, who was a mensch his whole life. [ iii ] co n t e n t s P R E FAC E About the Second Edition By Roger Black Read me first Throat clearing and disclaimers vi…