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In From Mandate to Blueprint, Thomas Fingar offers a guide for new federal government appointees faced with the complex task of rebuilding institutions and transitioning to a new administration. Synthesizing his own experience implementing the most comprehensive reforms to the national security establishment since 1947, Fingar provides crucial guidance to newly appointed officials.When Fingar was appointed the first Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis in 2005, he discovered the challenges of establishing a new federal agency and implementing sweeping reforms of intelligence procedure and performance. The mandate required prompt action but provided no guidance on how to achieve required and desirable changes. Fingar describes how he defined and prioritized the tasks involved in building and staffing a new organization, integrating and improving the work of sixteen agencies, and contending with pressure from powerful players.For appointees without the luxury of taking command of fully staffed and well-functioning federal agencies, From Mandate to Blueprint is an informed and practical guide for the challenges ahead.

Administrative agencies --- Management. --- Fingar, Thomas. --- United States. --- Intelligence. --- bureaucracy. --- organization. --- reform. --- team-building.

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Sponsored by the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE. This report presents the significant findings of a building performance team that investigated the structural damage sustained by the Pentagon after an airplane was crashed into it on September 11, 2001. The team, which was constituted on the day of the crash, reviewed available information on the structure, crash loading, and eyewitness accounts; the team also drew on focused assessments by others. After performing impact, static and thermal analyses, the team made recommendations for future design and construction and suggestions on areas where research and development is needed. With more than 150 color photographs, diagrams, and tables, this report provides a thorough assessment of the structural system that prevented extensive collapse of the building. From the redundant and alternative load paths of the unique beam and girder framing system, to the ability of the structure to absorb excess energy, the Pentagon withstood both structural and thermal trauma better than would have been expected. Complete with a chronological description of the events leading to impact, the crash and its subsequent effect on the structural system, this report reveals exactly how and why the Pentagon structure performed so well on the morning of the September 11, 2001 attacks. This report will be of interest to structural and forensic engineers, as well as historians and general readers seeking first-hand, technical knowledge of the Pentagon's resistance to progressive collapse.

Buildings --- Building, Bombproof. --- Terrorism --- Buildings --- Government buildings --- Accidents --- Structural systems --- Team building --- Load factors --- Thermal analysis --- Blast effects. --- Pentagon (Va.) --- Evaluation. --- Terrorism --- Buildings --- Government buildings --- Accidents --- Structural systems --- Team building --- Load factors --- Thermal analysis

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Does your project team see you as a leader or a manager? Project teams must be led rather than just managed in order to unleash their full potential, energy and enthusiasm. The Lead Dog Has the Best View examines what it takes to make the crucial transition from project manager to project leader. All too often project managers rely on their technical skills and computer-generated information about project status in their attempts to achieve success, thus confusing management with leadership. Rarely does a project fail due to lack of technical skills. Instead, relationship and communication difficulties play a key role in poor project results. This book provides a person-centered, results-driven approach to project leadership not found elsewhere. It is intended to be a frequently used tool, not just read once and put on a shelf. Each chapter includes practical exercises and checklists that can be used individually or with a project team. A valuable addition to any project manager's toolkit, The Lead Dog Has the Best View will make project work more fulfilling on both professional and personal levels.

Project management. --- Leadership. --- Team building --- Project management --- Managers --- Leadership --- Computing in civil engineering --- Information management --- Client relationships

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Iedereen kent de voorbeelden van echt goed teamwork: bij de Eerste Hulp, het leger, in een orkest... Succesvolle teams zijn goed op elkaar ingespeelde professionals, die hun eigen talenten aanvullen met wat Ken Blanchard 'team skills' noemt: onder meer goede doelen stellen, probleem oplossend denken en besluitvaardigheid. In deze parabel laat Mark Miller zien wat het geheim is van een goed op elkaar ingespeeld team, hoe je dat opbouwt en met welke aspecten je dan rekening houdt. Dat gaat verder dan de juiste mensen bij elkaar zoeken; ze moeten ook aan een sfeer van wederzijds vertrouwen werken en dienend leiderschap ontwikkelen. Het is een inspirerend verhaal, dat recht doet aan de complexiteiten van voortdurende teambuilding

Teams in the workplace --- Teamwerk --- Teambuilding --- Leidinggeven --- AA / International- internationaal --- 650 --- Theorieën en grondbeginselen. Management. --- Theorieën en grondbeginselen. Management --- Leiderschap --- 431 --- team building --- opleiding management --- formation management

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Leadership is a set of abilities with which a lucky few are born. They're the natural relationship builders, master negotiators and persuaders, and agile and strategic thinkers. The good news for the rest of us is that those abilities can be developed. In The Leader's Brain, Wharton Neuroscience Initiative director Michael Platt explains how.

Success in business. --- applied psychology. --- brain science. --- cognitive neuroscience. --- creativity. --- decision making. --- leadership. --- management. --- marketing. --- problem solving. --- psychology of leaders. --- team building.