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According to Paula Caproni, author of "Management Skills For Everyday Life", there are six universal forms of influence. Reciprocation Committment & consistency Authority Social proof Scarcity Liking Power emanating from these forms of influence can be considered ethical. Founding principles: You should tell people explicitly what you want. Organization's interest and others' interest is at par or above your own. You treat everyone fairly, follow process and do not abuse. You leave yourself reasonably open to be influenced by others. You back your points with valid data. These founding principles and ethical form of influence is in direct contrast to the Robert Greene's "The 48 Laws Of Power" in which he shockingly suffocates any breath of ethics. The book is laced with a dark sense of human power perversion. For instance, #31 Control the options: Get others to play with the cards you deal. #32 Play to people's fantasies and #36 Disdain things yo...

Trust Breakers Here is a list of behaviors & traits you should demonstrate, practice and implement at work in order to break the trust of your employer, employees, co-workers and clients : Advance your own interest at the expense of others. Be blatantly and pompously self-promoting. Use inconsistent standards to evaluate employees. Allow some people to break the rules and expect others to follow them. Do not care about performance problems until the time to rate your employee. Enable poor-performers to stay in your organization unchallenged. Pigeon-hole your employees. Take credit of your employee's work. Withold important information. Be closed minded to diverse ideas. Act disrepectfully towards others. Lie or cover up, rather than admit to mistakes. Break promises, or use words cheaply. Betray confidence by saying one thing and doing another. Spin by communicating selective facts, and by lacing tone to imply a different context. Act inconsistently; be incongruent in body lang...

We have seen more advances in science and technology in the last 60 years than in all of previous history. The rate of technology diffusion has progressively increased as well. According to K.H.Hammond (2001), it took the telephone 35 years to get into 25% of all homes in the United States. It took TV 26 years. It took radio 22 years. It took PCs 16 years. It took Internet 7 years. It probably took cellphones less than 5, DVDs less than 3, and iPod, XBox, PlayStation, less than 2 years. In a hyper-competitive global market, technology will seamlessly cross boundaries quicker than ever before. By the end of 2006, I think that successful technology products will proliferate markets in months, not years.

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 ...