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Perpetual Business Machines: Principles of Success for Technical Professionals	$35.00
"Perpetual Business Machines is a business manual written especially for technical professionals striving to operate in the new economy: a global economic environment marked by knowledge, convergence of technologies, and free markets. Written by the president of Meridian Deployment Corporation in Silicon Valley, Perpetual Business Machines channels the author's personal experience in the high-tech industry during all phases of business cycles. Chapters address the key principles of profit-making, market analysis, product management, business procedure, troubleshooting, and more. Presenting its ideas enumerated point-by-point, Perpetual Business Machines is a "must-have" for anyone in the technology industry looking to strengthen their understanding of how business works and what common errors to avoid in collaborations and other ventures." The MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW Featured in The Bent (Tau Beta Pi The Engineering Honor Society) and IEEE Engineering Management Review This is a book of learning, inspiration, and action that you will use to assess situations and make decisions time and time again. - BOOK INFORMATION - Category: Industrial Management List Price: $48.50 Publication date: 2005 384-page 6 x 9 original trade hardcover Contents, introduction, 29 chapters and 10 appendices of over 100 exhibits and tables, glossary, bibilography, index [ More Information ]

Building Interests In Solar Cells	$15.00
"The best brains in the country are no longer working on the next pharmaceutical drug or the next Silicon Revolution. They want to work on energy." - Vinod Khosla, a top venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. This column article offers a concise overview of the solar cell market for anyone who needs a quick summary of solar cell technologies, market conditions, players, and value chain outlook. Topics include environmental movement enters mainstream, renewable energy from semiconductor, rate race toward low cost manufacturing, PV solar cell technology showcase, solar market at a glance, and market summary and future direction. Product Details: Format: Article PDF (Adobe Reader) File Size: 914 KB Printable: This title can be printed. Mac OS Compatible: Yes Windows Compatible: Yes Handheld Compatible: Yes Digital: 20 pages Publisher: Meridian Deployment Corporation, Fremont, California, U.S.A. Publication date: 2007 Category: Technology; Business [ More Information ]

How to Integrate Career and Caregiving: A Guide for Working Professionals	$15.00
This guidebook offers perspectives to promote a productive, cohesive, and meaningful work-life realization and presents a practical model to understand the multiple drivers that impact the caregiving process, and the essential components for managing the drivers to improve the care outcome for both the care receiver and the caregiver. Product Details Format: e-book PDF (Adobe Reader) File Size: 283KB Printable: This title cannot be printed. Mac OS Compatible: Yes Windows Compatible: Yes Handheld Compatible: Yes Digital: 55 pages Publisher: Meridian Deployment Corporation, Fremont, California, U.S.A. Publication date: 2005 ISBN: 0975448013 Category: Self-help techniques Contents: Introduction, 24 sections of 4 illustrations and tables, references, resources [ More Information ]

Technical Career Planning Tips: Live Your Professional Career	$6.00
The career coach began his presentation by looking back at the tragic event occurred at SiPort on November 14th, 2008. On that fateful day, his close friend and two others were killed by an engineer who was fired earlier for poor performance. As the story is unfolding, a trail of circumstantial reports emerges. It suggests a close linkage to the present financial crisis and recessive job market that eventually pushed the alleged killer off the edge. This tragedy serves as a stern reminder of what do we live for and how we choose to live our career. In the presentation, the career coach explored some common denominators that bond professionals, such as economic environment and career planning, and variations that distinguish each one, like individual’s whole person and career path. On top of the list for planning one’s own career is to understand one’s self as a whole person. What is important to you? Do you have a balanced outlook of life? Are there risk factors that might tip you off balance? What constitutes a rewarding career? Do you take charge of your own career? The new career reality reflects that professionals face less opportunity to obtain advancement in the midst of downsizing, outsourcing, offshoring, restructuring and delayering. A new trend in employment also emphasizes the selection of candidates for the best ‘fit’ (not best ‘qualified’) with a position, boss, team, and company culture. Do you keep an open mind to learn, adapt, take action, and choose the future? The career coach introduced a framework for planning professional career and personal actions. Despite uncertainties, take inventory of your behavioral repertoires and knowledge portfolio in terms of strengths and weaknesses. These competencies are assessable and improvable for desired career results and outcomes. Format: e-book PDF (Adobe Reader) In a workshop presentation format File Size: 856KB Printable: This title can be printed at low resolution (150 dpi). Mac OS Compatible: Yes Windows Compatible: Yes Handheld Compatible: Yes Digital: 34 pages Publisher: Meridian Deployment Corporation, Fremont, California, U.S.A. Publication date: 2009 Category: Career counseling [ More Information ]

Outsourcing: New Challenges for the U.S. Scientific and Engineering Community	$10.00
Are you in a situation where outsourcing is under consideration? Do you see an increasing trend of outsourcing of your function or position in your company, region, or industry? Outsourcing: New Challenges for the U.S. Scientific and Engineering Community provides essential perspectives to help analysis, communication, decisions, and actions in your situations. - Product Details - Format: Article PDF (Adobe Reader) File Size: 215KB Printable: This title cannot be printed. Mac OS Compatible: Yes Windows Compatible: Yes Handheld Compatible: Yes Digital: 19 pages Publisher: Meridian Deployment Corporation, Fremont, California, U.S.A. Publication date: 2005 Category: Business & Economics [ More Information ]

Financial Statements and Financial Ratios	$10.00
A concise introduction of corporate finanical statements and financial ratios for technical professionals. Gain basic understanding of how finance influences business decisions and evaluates the value and risk of a business. Topics include balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, liquidity ratios, turnover ratios, leverage ratios, and operating ratios. Product Details Format: Article PDF (Adobe Reader) A digital reprint from the Appendix B of Perpetual Business Machines File Size: 458KB Printable: This title cannot be printed. Mac OS Compatible: Yes Windows Compatible: Yes Handheld Compatible: Yes Digital: 9 pages Publisher: Meridian Deployment Corporation, Fremont, California, U.S.A. Publication date: 2005 Category: Business Finance [ More Information ]

Three Giant Steps for Effective Management: A Manager's First Approach to Most Business Situations	$10.00
Effective management involves optimizing an organization’s mind (e.g., strategy, human resources, innovation), money (e.g., profit, financing, financial control), and market (e.g., products, relationships with customers and suppliers) to achieve organizational goals. A must read for first-time managers or managers new to an organization or project who need to approach management as both a science and an art! Format: Article PDF (Adobe Reader) File Size: 408KB Printable: This title cannot be printed. Mac OS Compatible: Yes Windows Compatible: Yes Handheld Compatible: Yes Digital: 24 pages Publisher: Meridian Deployment Corporation, Fremont, California, U.S.A. Publication date: 2005 Category: Industrial management [ More Information ]

Getting Advice From A Career Forum	$10.00
Today most jobs do not have a clear career path. Companies are no longer employers for life. Career resources now place a greater emphasis on how to find the right job through better self-assessment, job placement, resume writing, or interview and negotiation skills. In addition to these career resources, what you need to know? Learn more about career prospects, challenges, planning and decision making from a unique career forum. Topics include career planning and decision factors, mapping your career path, entrepreneurship is a trajectory, coping with uncertainties and changes, and integrating your work and life in the global economy. Product Details Format: Article PDF (Adobe Reader) File Size: 258KB Printable: This title cannot be printed. Mac OS Compatible: Yes Windows Compatible: Yes Handheld Compatible: Yes Digital: 29 pages Publisher: Meridian Deployment Corporation, Fremont, California, U.S.A. Publication date: 2005 Category: Career [ More Information ]

Technical Career Planning Tips: Resume Writing and Job Interview	$6.00
Essential information to prepare you for resume writing and job interview in today's competitive job market. Tips and checklists for resume writing include items to consider before you begin to put together the right resume, key pointers for resume writing, making things happen, the life cycle of your resume, sample resume, and 131 useful action verbs. For job interview, topics include a to-do list before your interview, what employers are looking for, phone interview, in-person interview, top ten interviewer's questions, rules in answering interview questions, top ten questions to ask during interview, illegal and improper interview questions, selecting references, steps to take after interview, and what to do if you receive an offer. Product Details Format: Article PDF (Adobe Reader) File Size: 248KB Printable: This title can be printed. Mac OS Compatible: Yes Windows Compatible: Yes Handheld Compatible: Yes Digital: 8 pages Publisher: Meridian Deployment Corporation, Fremont, California, U.S.A. Publication date: 2006 Category: Career [ More Information ]

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." - Helen Exley

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot

If any of the topics, paragraphs, or words refresh your motivation, invigorate new energy, impart a new perspective, inspire a new idea, lead to a potential solution, give an additional choice, stimulate a deeper thought, reflect a past experience, apply to your situation, or help in a decision, I will consider this endeavor a success. - Eric T-S. Pan