Management & Leadership
mobi |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir [Mullainathan, Sendhil]

For tasks where we are far to the left of the peak, more attention is good. For other tasks—free-throw shooting, if you’re a pro—we can find ourselves on the other ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2006-04-08 | Author:Bob Pritchett

Inflation Is a Nasty Monster Every year, inflation raises your costs by at least 2–3% whether you are paying attention or not. Being the greedy, attention-loving monster that it is, ...
( Category: Small Business & Entrepreneurship December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-09-20 | Author:Steven J. Spear

Here is an example from another Toyota supplier, NHK (Nippon Hatsujo Kabushiki Kaisha, or Japan Spring Corporation), which used the same approach to improve processes and to train workers to ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-12-21 | Author:Dave Hitz

Steve Kleiman, our CTO at the time, had a theory about engineers and managers. He divided the world into people who have technical orgasms and people who have management orgasms, ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-09-20 | Author:Karen Kimsey-House & Henry Kimsey-House

6 Co-Active Leader Beside One-dimensional leadership models foster the myth that it is more expedient and efficient to have just one person in each position. Power must be held by ...
( Category: Business Culture December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-09-06 | Author:Steve Farber

18. This didn’t add up. Forget the apparent fact that Garrison knew who I was—but how the hell did he know where I lived? And what about his seeming preternatural ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:James Brooke & Simon Brooke

Evaluate the feedback objectively Feedback is sometimes analogised with medicine: we don’t like it; it tastes nasty; but if we are to get better, we need to swallow it and ...
( Category: Personal Finance December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-09 | Author:Peter Drucker

But also management must not accept “responsibility” if by doing so it harms and impedes what is its first duty: the economic performance of the enterprise. This is equally irresponsible. ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-31 | Author:Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones [Goffee, Rob]

CREATIVE TEAMS These teams consist of individuals who define themselves in terms of their creativity. Like techie teams, creative teams see themselves as distinct from the commercial culture of the ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-05-17 | Author:Jon Gordon

Chapter 21 George Has a Dream That night after one of the most productive days at work George had experienced in years, he had a dream. He was driving a ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2004-09-26 | Author:Barbara Kellerman

The Web Rudolph Giuliani, Leona Helmsley, Howell Raines, and Al Dunlap differ in many ways. One was elected; three were appointed. One was in the public sector, three in the ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Sherry Turkle

“Showing Up to Something Alive” The college junior who spoke about appreciating the in-person classroom as “showing up to something alive” brings me back to an earlier experience studying technology ...
( Category: Social Sciences December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Karen Berman & Joe Knight

18 How Cash Connects with Everything Else Once you’ve learned to read the cash flow statement, you can simply take it the way it comes and inspect it for what ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2002-05-29 | Author:John O. Whitney & Tina Packer [Whitney, John O.]

KING RICHARD III (3.7, 95–98) Buckingham and Richard have set a perfect stage for the appearance of a devout, modest prince. Richard, of course, is a faithless, arrogant monster. But ...
( Category: Small Business & Entrepreneurship December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-04-16 | Author:Kevin Allen [Allen, Kevin]

What’s Your Profile? As a consequence of the differing natures of how each of these types relates to other types, reacts to situations, consumes information, and makes decisions, it is ...
( Category: Skills December 2,2017 )