By and large, cost-effective information technology (IT) management is more about people, personal relationships, and corporate culture than it is about the technology itself. Simply put, IT doesn't work if you are surrounded by bad people and stupid processes in a deranged corporate culture. IT's All about the People: Technology Management That Overcomes Disaffected People, Stupid Processes, and Deranged Corporate Culturesexplains how to achieve dramatic improvements in service and agility by enhancing the people, processes, and culture within your organization. It details the various roles within the technology management process and supplies authoritative insight into the realities of human behavior-including the range of best and worst behaviors from managers, executives, and corporate culture. Industry veteran Stephen J. Andriole explains the reason behind why many business cases fail and includes helpful insights on new governance models, organic transformation, guerilla budgeting, and open source software. Providing a fresh perspective on the old basics of IT management through a twenty-first-century lens, this book arms you with the methods needed to master the soft art of IT management as well as purchasing, deployment, and technological support.
Amanda Jaworski is an astronaut who is destined to be the first person to land on Mars. She is brilliant, beautiful, eccentric and sexy. She owns a strange cat called Schrodinger who is asleep nearly all the time. She is torn between the love of two men, sexy pilot Bronco McCloud, and intense engineer Donald Hoskiss. Very weird things begin to happen in the area, all the Indians disapear from the local reservation, much to the bafflement of Sheriff Eberly, there are bizarre disruptions with the weather, sinsiter robots appear from nowhere, and Schrodinger starts to do some very odd things indeed. Will amanda ever get to Mars? This book is a peculiar but engaging mixture of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, physics, philosophy, and enough touches of humour to stop it getting too pretentious.
From back cover:
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
The Eleven Million Mile High Dancer is a rich and comic blend of science and romance. The case of characters includes the president of the U.S., 10,000 American Indians, a Texas sheriff, and a cat who learns to order off a Chinese menu. As they collide in a satiric melee around the beautiful and brave Amanda Jaworski...America's leading and most troublesome astronaut...atoms, molecules, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, and even the U.S. government are put to unexpected tests. Amanda challenges everything, but her ultimate challenge is the Eleven Million Mile High Dancer. In that encounter, a fairy tale fully grounded in the laws of physics, Amanda's journey become a moving odyssey not only through space and time but through the darkness and potential human mind.
Lots of fun, but maybe a little TOO weird?
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I enjoyed the first half of this book so much, filled as it was with original characters and fresh situations. Who could resist a cat who was comatose 23 hours out of 24, but whose owner loved him madly nevertheless? And a female astronaut who learned faster than anyone else, but who was still prey to love problems? Once I got to the second half, though, somewhere in a star system far far away, the goings-on weren't as much fun for me. I was never the least bit tempted to quit reading, but I wanted to get back to the home planet where the characters were REAL, not giant red and blue robots, a creature named Ooze, something called Rastus, computer consoles that saw and knew all (well, not so unreal after all), and a very smelly overlord, or whatever he was. In other words, the story went from magic realism to total fantasy, even though, I must say, the author makes a good case for the physics of what's happening. The quotes about quantum physics interspersed throughout, by the way, added a lot for me. All in all, a funny, tongue-in-cheek, and sometimes thought-provoking novel.
quite complementary
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This book influenced my adolescent life more than any other. It is wonderfully written and should be mandatory reading for all young females.
A thrilling and unpredictable ride!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
I was truly excited to see this book in paperback, because it meant I could share it with even more people than I did when it was first published years ago! Carol Hill has managed to blend fantasy, sci-fi and thoughtful philosophy into a real character-driven story that never lets up. She displays a unique imagination, and I invite all readers to join in the fun and discover a whole new world.
ThriftBooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. We personally assess every book's quality and offer rare, out-of-print treasures. We deliver the joy of reading in recyclable packaging with free standard shipping on US orders over $15. ThriftBooks.com. Read more. Spend less.