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Introduction An intriguing title for a book! This small book (less than 200 pages) is written by Nicholas Boothman. It covers a pretty broad range of topics. From my perspective, the book did a decent job of bringing body language, communication skills, and behavior together. It covers a lot of ground with everyday examples. One of the acronyms that is fascinating is KFC. Know what you want, Find out what you are getting, Change what you do until you get what you want. The key is the "K" know what you want. Once you know what you want, you can direct your attitude, synchronize appropriately, communicate effectively by using the preferred senses. Attitude The book focuses on achieving rapport when it does not come naturally. Boothman calls his technique "Rapport by Design". In this technique, you the reader, will assume the characteristics of the person you are engaged with temporarily,"The key to establish rapport with strangers is to become like them". He...

An excellent book by Paula J. Caproni. This book covers important topics that will impact your personal and work life. Topics covered by the author include success predictors, self-awareness, trust building, effective communication, ethical power & influence, relationship management, cultural diversity, creating high-performance teams, and crafting a life. Sounds a lot for 459 pages ? It is. The material is covered in sufficient detail. One thing that strikes you while you read the book are the quotes. Famous quotes are printed on the margins, contextualized and related to the content. One of my favorite quotes can be found in the first chapter. "Learn as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow" - Mahatma Gandhi. Every chapter is well researched. The end-notes are documented at the end of each chapter. This book should appeal to all.

Information Technology Timeline 1642 - Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical calculator 1834 - Charles Babbage designed the analytical engine 1890 - Herman Hollerith created the statistical tabulator 1936 - Alan Turing described the universal machine 1947 - Bardeen, Shockley, and Brattain invented the transistor (To Be Continued...)

Abundant articles are available on WebSphere classloaders. Just to reiterate one important point: Several issues in WebSphere version 4.x have been resolved in WebSphere 5.x. For example: If in a WAS5 ear there are multiple WARs and each WAR needs to reuse a utility jar and the reference is given in the manifest, the jar class loader will load up the utility only ONCE. In a project I was working there was debate and almost certainly a hack was planned by delinking wars from their manifests and adding those manifests in a shell EJB projects (!) Here is a sample classloader hierachy: Application is set to Parent First War is set to Parent last. EJB ClassLoaders com.ibm.ws.classloader.ExtJarClassLoader sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader com.ibm.ws.bootstrap.ExtClassLoader com.ibm.ws.classloader.ProtectionClassLoader com.ibm.ws.classloader.CompoundClassLoader WAR Classloaders com.ibm.ws.classloader.CompoundClassLoader com.ibm.ws.classloader.ExtJarClassLoader ...

"Architecture is a set of structuring principles that enables a system to be comprised of a set of simpler systems each with its own local context that is independent of but not inconsistent with the context of the larger system as a whole." This definition can be easly contextualized to information systems.