azw3 |eng | 2015-01-22 | Author:Craig S. Fleisher & Bensoussan, Babette E. [Bensoussan, Babette E.]

Weaknesses and Limitations One of the primary criticisms of historiographical analysis is its perceived lack of objectivity. Much of the process involves the individual’s selection of facts designed to support ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Sunstein, Cass R. & Hastie, Reid [Sunstein, Cass R.]

CHAPTER 7 A Framework for Improvement Identifying and Selecting Solutions On some occasions, a decision-making or problem-solving process demands critical thinking—winnowing out the chaff and zeroing in on the nuggets ...

epub |eng | 2015-09-16 | Author:Shlomo Benartzi

THE UPSIDE OF HARD Why does disfluency lead to more learning? Oppenheimer refers to the ugly fonts as a “desirable difficulty,” noting that multiple studies have shown that increasing disfluency ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-09 | Author:Talwalkar, Presh [Talwalkar, Presh]

Credible Threats To win a game of chicken, the strategy is to appear tough, and very importantly, get the other person to believe that. The ability to get other people ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:Frans Johansson [Johansson, Frans]

3. Follow Your Curiosity The Rubik’s Cube burst on to the scene in all of its primary-colors glory in the early 1980s. It was the fad to end all fads. ...

epub, mobi, azw |eng | 2015-07-06 | Author:Jay Samit [Samit, Jay]

Chapter Ten Design: Disruption Through Aesthetics Design is where science and art break even. —Robin Mathew Think you can improve upon something already in existence? You are ready to disrupt ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Douglas W. Hubbard

By now you should have a pretty good idea of what you need to observe and, generally, how to observe it in order to make your measurement. Now we can ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Thompson, Leigh [Thompson, Leigh]

Compared to most of my peers, I consider myself (less happy vs. very happy) Some people are generally very happy. They enjoy life regardless of what is going on, getting ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-13 | Author:Greg Ip [Ip, Greg]

The less familiar an activity or threat and the more dread it inspires, the greater the risk it is perceived to be. (Source: data provided by Paul Slovic) Although hundreds ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-07 | Author:Paul Butler & John Manfredi & Peter Klein

FIGURE 6.1. WHAT CHOICES DO WE MAKE? Aha Moments and Insights Inspire Strategies To generate a list of possible strategies, we have several good approaches for you to pursue. We ...

epub |eng | | Author:Donald Sull

It is helpful to list more than one area for improvement, as some will be more suitable for simple rules than others. Three to five is typically enough to get ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-25 | Author:Seelig, Tina

Greg uses the examples of both Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, both of whom acknowledge that the key to their success is the ability to do both types of focus—noun ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-29 | Author:Sommers, Sam [Sommers, Sam]

ARE YOU LOOKING to be a happier, more productive, more successful person? Are you in the market for self-help? Then stop worrying about how to see yourself for who you ...

epub, mobi, azw |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Marshall Goldsmith & Mark Reiter [Goldsmith, Marshall]

Answering the first question is at the core of my professional life. After that meeting, I significantly increased my exhortations to companies on the importance of follow-up after they train ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:Marks, Howard [Marks, Howard]

• insistence on acting as you should when price diverges from value, • enough conversance with past cycles—gained at first from reading and talking to veteran investors, and later through ...