Herding Cats

Herding Cats
Author: Hank Rainwater
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1430208309

This self-help guide is for programmers who need to improve their management and leadership skills.

The Politics of Herding Cats

The Politics of Herding Cats
Author: John Lovett
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2021-01-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0472132318

In The Politics of Herding Cats, John Lovett looks at the relationship between media, Congress, and public policy, showing that leaders in Congress under normal circumstances control public policy on issue areas due to their status both within Congress and in the media by and large. When issue coverage on topics increases in media, however, other members seize on the opportunities to engage in the issue and shift public policy away from leader desires. As more members engage and more groups become involved, leaders lose the ability to control the process and are more likely to have problems actually getting public policy enacted. Lovett look at this phenomenon using newspaper coverage in the Washington Post over a 40-year period, both in terms of general analysis as well as individual case studies exploring agricultural subsidies (a low coverage topic), immigration (a changing coverage topic), and health care (a high coverage topic). As coverage increases, the amount leaders can control in the process decreases. Only under extreme circumstances, as seen in the Affordable Care Act, can leaders get anything done at all. The Politics of Herding Cats would be useful for those who wish to better understand the relationship between the media and Congress. It will also be useful to those who want to understand the relationship between actors in government and how the media has influenced American politics, as well as how individual members of Congress can go against party leaders on major issues.

Herding Cats

Herding Cats
Author: Sarah Andersen
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2018-03-27
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1449493319

". . . author Sarah Andersen uses hilarious (and adorable) comics to illustrate the very specific growing pains that occur on your way to becoming a mature, put-together grownup. Andersen’s spot-on illustrations also show how to navigate this newfound adulthood once you arrive, since maturity is equally as hard to maintain as it is to find … " --The Huffington Post Sarah valiantly struggles with waking up in the morning, being productive, and dealing with social situations. Sarah's Scribbles is the comic strip that follows her life, finding humor in living as an adulting introvert that is at times weird, awkward, and embarrassing. The third collection of Sarah's Scribbles comics includes never-before-published comics and an illustrated essay about struggles with sexism, personal growth, and the rewards and challenges of sharing your creative work with millions of readers online.

Herding Cats

Herding Cats
Author: Chester A. Crocker
Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press
Total Pages: 764
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781878379924

In each of the 24 cases examined in this volume, mediation was a multiparty effort, involving actors working simultaneously or sequentially. These accounts attest to the crucial importance of coordinating and building upon the efforts of other players.

Herding Cats

Herding Cats
Author: Trent Lott
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2005-08-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0060599316

Carrying readers within the walls of Congress, and the administrations of six presidents, this unsparingly candid and engaging memoir is written by one of the dominant political figures of the last half-century. 16-page photo insert.

Herding Cats

Herding Cats
Author: John A. Feudo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2014-05
Genre: Universities and colleges
ISBN: 9780899644448

Herding Cats

Herding Cats
Author: Geoff Garrett
Publisher: Triarchy Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2010-08-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1908009101

It is well known that in their professional lives most academics and researchers will - like cats - seek to exercise as much independence as possible.In Herding Cats, Geoff Garrett and Graeme Davies combine their top-level experience of leading/managing international academic and research institutions with wisdom gleaned from 50 senior colleagues around the world. They deal with common leadership and management themes, like making tough strategic choices, leading change effectively, dealing with bureaucracy, allocating resources, managing budgets and ensuring effective implementation.Garrett, Davies and their friends paint a picture of the culture of a typical 'cats' environment - replete with remarkable intellects, passion, arguments, politics and prejudice, and where trying to push people to a destination is usually doomed to failure. Herding Cats guides leaders and aspiring leaders in academic and research institutions through the process of learning to accept and embrace the qualities of their 'cats' so they can tempt them to an outcome with agility and success.

Herding Hemingway's Cats

Herding Hemingway's Cats
Author: Kat Arney
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2016-01-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1472910060

The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly or your nose straight. The media tells us that our genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism or Alzheimer's. The cost of DNA sequencing has plummeted from billions of pounds to a few hundred, and gene-based advances in medicine hold huge promise. So we've all heard of genes, but how do they actually work? There are 2.2 metres of DNA inside every one of your cells, encoding roughly 20,000 genes. These are the 'recipes' that tell our cells how to make the building blocks of life, along with myriad control switches ensuring they're turned on and off at the right time and in the right place. But rather than a static string of genetic code, this is a dynamic, writhing biological library. Figuring out how it all works – how your genes build your body – is a major challenge for researchers around the world. And what they're discovering is that far from genes being a fixed, deterministic blueprint, things are much more random and wobbly than anyone expected. Drawing on stories ranging from six toed cats and stickleback hips to Mickey Mouse mice and zombie genes – told by researchers working at the cutting edge of genetics – Kat Arney explores the mysteries in our genomes with clarity, flair and wit, creating a companion reader to the book of life itself.

Herding Professional Cats

Herding Professional Cats
Author: Graeme Davies
Publisher: Triarchy Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2013-06-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1909470554

Herding Professional Cats offers advice and insights to leaders in the professions who find themselves facing the classic ‘cats’ dilemma – how to manage intelligent, opinionated, independent and frequently difficult people without losing the competitive edge a professionalised workforce can bring.