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Novice managers have their work cut out for them: all new skills to learn, different personalities to deal with, and greater responsibilities to fulfill. In The New Manager's Tool Kit, authors Don and Sheryl Grimme provide a fresh, friendly approach to tackling the challenges of management and leveraging your new position to help your organization succeed. This go-to guidebook provides readers with fast, powerful lessons to help them: increase productivity;...
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The United States' education system, especially its universities, is under attack by the ideological Left, dominated by advocates of Wokeism and Critical Race Theory.
Marshall McLuhan was a brilliant thinker best known for his insight that "the medium is the message." Universities, as well as our entire educational "medium" including the K-12 system that feeds its graduates into the university and societal systems, are powerful and overarching...
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Quand les organisations échouent à reconnaître et à traiter les biais, c'est comme si elles innovaient avec des œillères ; leur champ de vision sera limité. Le risque est qu'elles passent à cté des idées plus inventives, plus inclusives et plus ingénieuses.
Nous ne serons jamais débarrassés des biais mais INNOVER SANS OEILLERES explore les pistes à suivre afin que nous puissions devenir des innovateurs plus efficaces en faisant de...
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Sandy Baum is a nonresident senior fellow at the Center on Education Data and Policy at the Urban Institute and professor emerita of economics at Skidmore College. Michael McPherson is president emeritus of the Spencer Foundation and Macalester College. They are the authors of Can College Level the Playing Field? Higher Education in an Unequal Society (Princeton).
An invaluable primer on the role economic reasoning plays in campus debate and decision...
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It is insufficient to focus on protecting the future of your family enterprise, focus instead on creating the family enterprise of the future. As an expert on legacy planning, Nike Anani shows you how to take your family enterprise from lifetime to legacy.
She explores how families can better connect, collaborate and create to encourage diversity of thought so they can co-create the businesses of the future. She clarifies, simplifies and demystifies...
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Gary Saul Morson is the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Northwestern University. Morton Schapiro is the president of Northwestern University and a professor of economics. The authors of many books, Morson and Schapiro are also the coauthors of Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities (Princeton).
A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in...
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How do you know that you are making a product or service that your customers want? How do you ensure that you are improving it over time? How do you guarantee that your team is creating value for your customers in a way that creates value for your business?
In this book, you'll learn a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery that will help you answer each of these questions, giving you the confidence to act while also preparing...
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Basic quality at a size and price that are easy on your pocket!
This pocket guide is designed to be a quick, on-the-job reference for anyone interested in making their workplace more effective and efficient. It will provide a solid initial overview of what "quality" is and how it could impact you and your organization. Use it to compare how you and your organization are doing things, and to see whether what's described in the guide might be useful.
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Becoming a Creative Genius {Again} makes the case that we are all born creative and entrepreneurial geniuses, then shows you how to become the most creatively entrepreneurial version of yourself you can be. And is there a part of your life that won't improve when that happens? Those attending Nordgren's workshops comment that his content prepares them to get the most out of: Agile software development, Design thinking, Lean start-up methodology,...
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School systems nationwide are struggling to excel as they lurch from crisis to crisis-teacher shortages, school shootings, high turnover rates, weak discipline systems, and more. These things can pull the focus of school boards away from why school systems exist: to educate students.
Airick Journey Crabill has a track record of helping school systems improve student literacy, numeracy, and career- and college-readiness rates while simultaneously...
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Let's face it: very few people have studied how to solve problems. Problems knock us down like a tsunami and we don't know what to do about it. We lie awake at night worrying about it and spend our days stressing out over a situation that only seems to get worse. It doesn't have to be that way. Roger Dawson has taught hundreds of thousands of people has to negotiate, persuade, and make decisions, with his lectures, audio programs and books, and now...
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SECOND EDITIONCompeting in a digital future describes an innovation-driven, digital transformation and business agility method for industrial age organizations. The intended audience for the book is business leaders who need to drive the transformation and managers and technical experts who will make transforming the business a reality.The book outlines a simple process that any organization can use to see rapid results, fully becoming a corporate...
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Work with your brain, not against it. Use neuroscience foundations to learn better, faster, and stronger.
All our lives, we've been taught ways to learn that are utterly ineffective and ignorant as to how our brains work. This book will transform your approach to learning.
Scientifically-proven, step-by-step methods for effective learning.
Neuro-Learning is a mini tour of our brains, including its highs and lows. This book will show you the most...
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Regain focus. Select relevant information. Make quick and clear decisions. We are dealing with too many options, too much information, conflicting advice on general choices like what diet to choose, or who to choose as a mate. It's hard to maintain focus and be confident in our decisions under such conditions. “The Systems Thinker —Mental Models” helps you make decisions based on your relevant thought patterns and true values. Finding the most...
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Telling others what to do can be uncomfortable at first. However, delegating is something we need to master if we want to live the laptop life. Having a business that runs itself is part of our multi-pillar approach to a cash flow retirement. So how do you get good at being a leader? First, you learn your job inside and out. The Marine Corps has a solid program for building leaders. When starting your business, consider how much leadership training...
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Get All The Support And Guidance You Need To Be A Success At Expressing Your Love Through Writing!
Is the fact that you would like to communicate through writing but just don't know how making your life difficult... maybe even miserable?
First, you are NOT alone! It may seem like it sometimes, but not knowing how to get started with communicating with writing is far more common.
719) Rational Decisions
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Ken Binmore is a mathematician turned economist and philosopher. He has held chairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science as well as other universities, and is professor emeritus of economics at University College London. His recent books include Natural Justice, Does Game Theory Work?, and A Very Short Introduction to Game Theory.
It is widely held that Bayesian decision theory is the final word on how a rational person should...
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The must-read summary of Ram Charan's book: "Know-How: The 8 Skills that Separate People who Perform from Those Who Don't".
This complete summary of the ideas from Ram Charan's book "Know-How" shows how the concept of "know-how" is defined as what separates leaders who deliver results from those who don't. This is especially important in today's market, where the current magnitude, speed, and depth are unlike what most people have experienced in...
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