Provides a set of 3 volume texts designed to provide information to supercharge any XML development project. Paper.

XML Developer's Resource Library

Computers & Technology

Leventhal, Michael

Megginson, David

DuCharme, Robert

Web Development & Design

Prentice Hall PTR

"Most books in this area are either beginners' guides, in-depth reference works to the foundational standards, or guides to using XML in particular environments or application areas. This book takes a broader approach for non-beginners and describes where XML can be used profitably in the real world. Highly recommended." --Dr. Marc J. Hadley, Senior Staff Engineer, Web Technologies and Standards division, Sun Microsystems
"Imperfect XML is a thorough and engaging exploration of the issues XML practitioners are likely to face, with considered advice from one of the trailblazing authorities in the field." --Neil Bradley, XML and Publishing Consultant and author of The XML Companion, The XSL Companion, and The XML Schema Companion
XML projects can fail for all kinds of reasons, from unrealistic overall goals to mishandled low-level technical decisions. Fortunately, one of the world's leading XML experts is ready to show you how to avoid XML pitfalls on your next project.
Since its invention, David Megginson has been helping to drive XML to new levels. He led the team that developed the SAX streaming API now used worldwide, has been a key contributor to the World Wide Web Consortium, and has served as a consultant to many of the world's leading companies, including Boeing, Reuters, and McGraw-Hill. Drawing on this vast experience, Megginson offers in this book expert solutions and problem-solving guidance for virtually any XML project challenge. You'll discover best practices for planning, budgeting, scheduling, and managing any XML project: content management, data interchange, legacy integration, or Web services. And you'll find technical insights that only an expert like Megginson can offer.
Coverage includes <ul>
<li>Setting expectations and planning for extensibility-- key success factors in XML projects</li> <li>Choosing standards, technical approaches, and architecture</li> <li>Overcoming hidden pitfalls in single-source publishing from XML source </li> <li>Intelligent searching with XML: essential design and implementation strategies </li> <li>Using XML in enterprise integration: practical realities and workarounds</li> <li>Scaling smoothly from demo to production system</li> <li>Making XML fast: real help for overcoming XML performance problems</li> <li>Managing the security risks associated with sending XML data across the Internet</li> <li>Recognizing when XML technology is wrong for your project</li> </ul>
From start to finish, Imperfect XML presents a clear-eyed view of XML's advantages and limitations--and technical and management solutions proven to make it work.

Imperfect XML: Rants, Raves, Tips, And Tricks.. From An Insider

Programming Languages

Addison-Wesley Professional

For those ready to plunge into the Brave New World Wide Web of smart data and electronic commerce, Megginson (of Microstar Software Ltd.; Ontario, Canada) provides a tool more powerful than HTML for designing information structures: the eXtensible Markup Language (XML). Not for the clueless about DTDs or SGML, as there is no glossary. Includes a CD-ROM for plug-and-play parsing. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Structuring XML Documents

Successful implementation of a suitable training/human resource development (HRD) programme is crucial for the success of an organisation and the self-development of all managers and employees. In this refreshing new book on the role of HRD in an organisation, the authors show how managers can make best use of the broad range of human resource development approaches available. With detailed, up-to-the-minute coverage of current HRD issues, this book will help both specialist and non-specialist managers understand the vital role HRD plays within any organisation by demonstrating the crucial role of managers in HRD, leading ideas and approaches to HRD, ways of managing learning, the management of change, and world-class HRD.Complete with numerous examples, checklists and cases from the private and public sectors, this book will help all managers ensure they realise the full potential of their human resources through training and development initiatives. It will also serve as a sound introduction to the topic for students of business and management.

Human Resource Development (The Fast-Track MBA)

Business & Money

Banfield, Paul

Joy-Matthews, Jennifer

Management & Leadership

Kogan Page, Ltd.

Containing numerous case studies from a wide range of international organisations, Mentoring in Action presents a variety of mentoring schemes, pointing out both successes and failures. The book demonstrates the flexibility of mentoring and its application in numerous areas, including business, the public sector, education and the community. It examines, in practical terms, how mentoring can be a valuable element in the effectiveness of the learning organisation, empowerment initiatives, management competencies, personal development plans, performance management, and career management.The book places emphasis on the role of mentoring in encouraging individuals to gain insights into themselves, rather than the mentor taking over for them. The case studies also reveal the mutuality of mentoring, describing how mentors can also gain from those they mentor.This innovative approach to a fascinating subject makes vital reading for HRM professionals and consultants, IPD students, mentors and those they mentor, and people in TECs, schools and other educational establishments.

Mentoring in Action: A Practical Guide for Managers

Clutterbuck, David

Human Resources

* A comprehensive but concise textbook that caters for the needs of business students and professionals

Human Resource Development: MBA Masterclass (MBA Masterclass Series)

Matthews, Jennifer Joy

Surtees, Mark

Kogan Page Business Books

""If you want to find out what mentoring is . . . then this book is the place to find out."" -- Management Training

Mentoring In Action: A Practical Guide for Managers

Stokes, Paul

Garvey, Bob

Garrett-Harris, Ruth

Kogan Page.

Mentoring is one of the fastest growing forms of management development and the strongest growth area in mentoring is at director level. Very little is known about the nature of these relationships and the shutters on director mentoring are opened through a series of structured interviews with directors and their mentors. 'Mentoring Executives and Directors' is a lively, informative read including company and individual cases across a wide spectrum of sector and company size. It will be of considerable interest to Human Resource professionals and academics, headhunters and management consultants as well as senior managers, executives and directors, and their mentors. The only book on mentoring for directors and senior executives Explains how to sustain learning in people at the top Practical and research based

Mentoring Executives & Directors

Routledge

Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring

The aim of this book is to provide the coach or mentor with a wider portfolio of techniques and approaches to helping others than would normally be gained from practical experience or attending a course. In compiling these techniques, the authors have drawn on experience from their coaching and mentoring activities, and added to these with the help of other experienced professionals within the field. They have clustered these into a number of themes, which now make up the framework for the main body of this book. Techniques for Coaching &amp; Mentoring is designed to offer the reader a range of interventions that they can employ when working one-to-one with others. The purpose is to enlarge the range of techniques that you can use in this important work of helping, and thus make it more effective, the book can be used in a number of ways: ·As general preparation - thinking through a range of techniques that you might be faced with in the future and seeing the techniques offered here as extending the range of the possible. ·As specific preparation - if you feel stuck with a particular client, use the contents, index and flicking through the chapters as a means of finding something that may help to unlock possibility for the client. ·As an agenda for a course on coaching or mentoring where the various techniques for different stages can be used as a source for practice. Offers a framework for different techniques employed by coaches and mentors Provides practical approaches to coaching and mentoring Covers a wide range of fundamental topics involved in the coaching and mentoring processes

Taylor&Francis

Burnout is a taboo subject. Admitting you are burning out in your job is tantamount to career suicide for some employees; for their organizations it is like raising a white flag in the war for talent. But suppose that preventing burnout is the worst thing you can do. Suppose for some people, particularly high fliers, it represents a call to deep and urgent learning about themselves and how they relate to the world. Suppose that we need instead to learn to manage burnout and harness the powerful learning potential of the experience, and in so doing build careers aligned with individual meaning and purpose, sustainable in the long term. What would organizations and their people need to do to achieve this? This book: * Explains what burnout is, how it is becoming the 21st-century business equivalent of the 'black death', and how it can derail your career * Highlights the financial, reputational and personal costs to organizations and people * Details how burnout can deliver a killer punch to talent management and the development of the leaders of tomorrow, and risk the retention, growth and productivity of high fliers * Explores why some of us develop a strong sense of our own, personal identity at work, while others find it more difficult * Presents a coaching process to manage burnout and harness its learning potential * Provides a framework for individuals to build careers aligned with individual meaning and purpose. * Explains what burnout is, how it is becoming the 21st-century business equivalent of the 'black death', and how it can derail your career * Highlights the financial, reputational and personal costs to organizations and people * Presents a coaching process to manage burnout and harness its learning potential

Learning from Burnout: Developing Sustainable Leaders and Avoiding Career Derailment

Casserley, Tim

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