epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Megan McArdle [McArdle, Megan]

This fall 4,852 freshmen are expected to enroll at UCLA, but only 96, or 2 percent, are African American—the lowest figure in decades and a growing concern at the Westwood ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Tal Ben-Shahar

49. BE DRIVEN BY GUILT AND DUTY — or — Pursue your passion Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures. —Joseph Campbell When I adhere ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-19 | Author:Nathan Furr & Jeff Dyer [Furr, Nathan]

* * * How to Run a Good Experiment Most people believe they understand experimenting, but when we teach executives and students, 90 percent of the time they get it ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Dawna Jones

* * * * * * Company culture makes a difference in the search for greater efficiency. In companies where you get ahead by stepping on others, employees are less ...

mobi |eng | 2010-07-05 | Author:Watanabe, Ken [Watanabe, Ken]

By staying focused on both these goals, Eggplant and Tofu are making use of the knowledge they gained in the analysis process. If they ignore all that their data tells ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Davenport, Thomas H. [Davenport, Thomas H.]

Retention of Data Scientists Once they are hired or created, companies may also face issues in retaining data scientists. Several of those I interviewed in online firms or small start-ups ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Tom Kelley

(photo/illustration credit 4.5) STORYBOARDING A SERVICE Whereas products can be prototyped with machine tools or 3D printers, new services are prototyped using other methods. One simple approach is to create ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-12 | Author:Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

And so it was that David Lee Roth and King Solomon both engaged in a fruitful bit of game theory—which, narrowly defined, is the art of beating your opponent by ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-09 | Author:Carmine Gallo

THE RECIPE FOR DIGITAL MUSIC Apple did not introduce the iPod in 2001 to start a revolution; it introduced the iPod to solve its customers’ pain. The digital music players ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Boutros, Tristan & Purdie, Tim [Boutros, Tristan]

FIGURE 6-17 Knowledge Management LifeCycle NOTE The KM life cycle is repetitive in nature, as are most Process Improvement methods, and is an ongoing activity. Benefits of Knowledge Management Knowledge ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-08 | Author:Chip Heath & Dan Heath [Heath, Chip & Heath, Dan]

M O T I V A T E T H E E L E P H A N T Over the following year, turnover decreased by 30 percent. And then ...

mobi |eng | 2011-07-06 | Author:Henry, Todd [Henry, Todd]

ISN’T ENERGY “RENEWABLE”? Few of us think much about how our energy level affects our ability to create. Energy consumption is more difficult to measure than time management and other ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Paul Tough [Tough, Paul]

The first day and a half was pretty bad. I was on a complete rampage, going over every game and being a huge bitch all the time: saying things like ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Thomas Sowell [Sowell, Thomas]

ECONOMIC "PLANNING" Economic "planning" is one of many politically misleading expressions. Every economic activity under every conceivable form of society has been planned. What differs are the decision making units ...

epub | | 2006-03-25 | Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nine • IT IS EASIER TO BUY AND SELL THAN FRY AN EGG Some technical extensions of the survivorship bias. On the distribution of “coincidences” in life. It is preferable ...